Who is UTA?
German artist Uta Geub (Freiburg, 1971) understood at a very early age that art would be her most authentic and personal form of expression. She began painting at the age of six and, already as a teenager, set out on a worldwide search for knowledge and new painting techniques. From 1988 to 1992 she studied Fine Arts and Design in her home country. Soon afterwards she began travelling around Europe, aiming to capture the pictorial essence and character of each place in order to perfect her own personal signature. By the time she settled in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, setting up her studio and her life there, she had already lived in several countries, including Switzerland, the Netherlands, France and the United States; the formative experiences she had in each of them gradually shaped her particular aesthetic vision.
At the end of the last century she began her professional career with exhibitions that showed the influence of great contemporary artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. Among other venues, she exhibited at Mercedes-Benz and at the J.F. Byrnes Institute in Stuttgart (Germany), as well as at Gallery Toktumee, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA). It was in 2003 that Uta Geub’s style began to approach what would come to be called her main hallmark, taking shape under the warholiana The name of Cubismo Pop.
At the same time her name became increasingly well known in her current home town, where she won the poster competition for the Chipiona Carnival in the same year that Rocío Jurado gave its opening speech. The following year, after taking her work back to the United States and Switzerland with solo exhibitions, she found a place at the Jockey Club of the Sanlúcar Horse Racing Association and at its Ducal Palace of Medina Sidonia. She also exhibited at the Caja San Fernando cultural centre, the Fundación Caja Rural, the International Horse Fair of Seville (SICAB) and the Casino de Madrid.
In 2006, with a full order book from private clients and institutions and a fully defined style, Uta Geub showed her paintings inspired by the work of Velázquez at the Ateneo de Sevilla. The warm reception led to an exhibition in August of that same year at the Museo de la Manzanilla of Bodegas Barbadillo, and later at the Pedro Romero winery.
The horses of the Sanlúcar races encouraged her to carry on along that path with other horses and riders: in 2007 the Pineda Racecourse (Seville) commissioned her to design the poster for its races. In 2008 she created that year’s calendar, already a tradition at the Ateneo de Sevilla. SICAB commissioned her poster for 2009, and Seville City Council the poster for that year’s Spring Festival — the same year in which the Andalusian Institute of Technology (IAT), based in La Cartuja (Seville), asked her for a large mural to display at its headquarters.
In 2010 and 2012 she created the poster for the Feria de la Manzanilla in Sanlúcar. She also took her work to the Pedro Romero winery, where she opened the exhibition Southern Divine. In June of that year she exhibited 10 years on land, attended by the Duchess of Alba, who lent a portrait that Uta Geub had painted of her some time before. In 2013 she painted the SICAB poster again.
In 2014 she exhibited Toreo at the Barbadillo wineries in Sanlúcar, and her adopted town awarded her the Gold Badge. That year she presented the poster for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in the Cádiz town. 2015 was to be an important year for the artist’s standing, as she again won the competition for the official Chipiona Carnival poster. She also designed the Official Mascot for the 5th Centenary of the First Circumnavigation of the World (2019-2022). In 2015 she created the bullfighting poster for the Málaga bullring. A retrospective of her career in Munich (Germany) followed, and she rounded off the year with a new exhibition at the Fundación Caja Rural del Sur.
Personal circumstances then forced Uta Geub to slow down her artistic and social activity. A deep period of reflection followed, bringing about a paradigm shift in the German artist’s work. Focused on her new ideas and creations («painting what really moves me»), it was not until the end of 2021 that she returned with a new and transgressive collection, Project 15, who saw the light on AUDI Solera Motor (Jerez de la Frontera) generating admiration and surprise to equal parts by the public and criticism. Faithful to its principles of unwavering personality and to move on a circuit that only herself is in charge of drawing, on many occasions apart from the derivas of contemporary art, is currently focused on making the leap to digital art.
Who is UTA?
German artist Uta Geub (Freiburg, 1971) understood at a very early age that art would be her most authentic and personal form of expression. She began painting at the age of six and, already as a teenager, set out on a worldwide search for knowledge and new painting techniques. From 1988 to 1992 she studied Fine Arts and Design in her home country. Soon afterwards she began travelling around Europe, aiming to capture the pictorial essence and character of each place in order to perfect her own personal signature. By the time she settled in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, setting up her studio and her life there, she had already lived in several countries, including Switzerland, the Netherlands, France and the United States; the formative experiences she had in each of them gradually shaped her particular aesthetic vision.
At the end of the last century she began her professional career with exhibitions that showed the influence of great contemporary artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. Among other venues, she exhibited at Mercedes-Benz and at the J.F. Byrnes Institute in Stuttgart (Germany), as well as at Gallery Toktumee, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA). It was in 2003 that Uta Geub’s style began to approach what would come to be called her main hallmark, taking shape under the warholiana The name of Cubismo Pop.
At the same time her name became increasingly well known in her current home town, where she won the poster competition for the Chipiona Carnival in the same year that Rocío Jurado gave its opening speech. The following year, after taking her work back to the United States and Switzerland with solo exhibitions, she found a place at the Jockey Club of the Sanlúcar Horse Racing Association and at its Ducal Palace of Medina Sidonia. She also exhibited at the Caja San Fernando cultural centre, the Fundación Caja Rural, the International Horse Fair of Seville (SICAB) and the Casino de Madrid.
In 2006, with a full order book from private clients and institutions and a fully defined style, Uta Geub showed her paintings inspired by the work of Velázquez at the Ateneo de Sevilla. The warm reception led to an exhibition in August of that same year at the Museo de la Manzanilla of Bodegas Barbadillo, and later at the Pedro Romero winery.
The horses of the Sanlúcar races encouraged her to carry on along that path with other horses and riders: in 2007 the Pineda Racecourse (Seville) commissioned her to design the poster for its races. In 2008 she created that year’s calendar, already a tradition at the Ateneo de Sevilla. SICAB commissioned her poster for 2009, and Seville City Council the poster for that year’s Spring Festival — the same year in which the Andalusian Institute of Technology (IAT), based in La Cartuja (Seville), asked her for a large mural to display at its headquarters.
In 2010 and 2012 she created the poster for the Feria de la Manzanilla in Sanlúcar. She also took her work to the Pedro Romero winery, where she opened the exhibition Southern Divine. In June of that year she exhibited 10 years on land, attended by the Duchess of Alba, who lent a portrait that Uta Geub had painted of her some time before. In 2013 she painted the SICAB poster again.
In 2014 she exhibited Toreo at the Barbadillo wineries in Sanlúcar, and her adopted town awarded her the Gold Badge. That year she presented the poster for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in the Cádiz town. 2015 was to be an important year for the artist’s standing, as she again won the competition for the official Chipiona Carnival poster. She also designed the Official Mascot for the 5th Centenary of the First Circumnavigation of the World (2019-2022). In 2015 she created the bullfighting poster for the Málaga bullring. A retrospective of her career in Munich (Germany) followed, and she rounded off the year with a new exhibition at the Fundación Caja Rural del Sur.
Personal circumstances then forced Uta Geub to slow down her artistic and social activity. A deep period of reflection followed, bringing about a paradigm shift in the German artist’s work. Focused on her new ideas and creations («painting what really moves me»), it was not until the end of 2021 that she returned with a new and transgressive collection, Project 15, who saw the light on AUDI Solera Motor (Jerez de la Frontera) generating admiration and surprise to equal parts by the public and criticism. Faithful to its principles of unwavering personality and to move on a circuit that only herself is in charge of drawing, on many occasions apart from the derivas of contemporary art, is currently focused on making the leap to digital art.