Ursula Hübner was born in Salzburg, studied stage design at the Mozarteum and painting with Maria Lassnig at the University of Applied Arts. Since 1987, the artist has realized stage designs and exhibitions at home and abroad. Since 1998 Ursula Hübner has been professor of painting and graphic arts at the University of Art in Linz. In addition to international and national awards, she most recently received the Kunstwürdigungspreis of the city of Linz in 2020.

Ursula Hübner's subtle images reflect the inner world and the outer world, make the uncertain that lies behind things perceptible. Not the separating is emphasized, but the dialogue with each other, that which touches and connects to let something new arise. The attempt to represent the invisible, a communication beyond language. A multi-layered composed work opens up to the viewer, in which bodies and figures are staged in different materials. Luminous still lifes, graceful pastel drawings and powerful oil paintings in earthy colors contrast with each other. The darkness in her work points to the end of the obsolete and a new beginning. Hübner works in series of works that over the years address her own life cycles and changing environment. "The Invisible," for example, presents an imagined world and, like the collage series "Vase," was most recently on view at Museum Angerlehner. Many a detail from collage cycles such as "The World of Interiors and Outside" is reminiscent of Ursula Hübner's early stage spaces. Hübner takes up the question of spatial aspects of painting and at the same time represents the concerns of color and painting with her collage technique.

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