Ulf Puder Leipzig, Germany, b. 1958

Lives and works in Leipzig and Liemehna, Germany. 

He studied at The Maleriei and Grafik of the Hochschule for Grafik and Buchkunst, Leipzig, and was Fellow of Gloucestershire College of Art and Technology in Cheltenham, England. Puder is co-founder of the Artist Group PIG (1982). 

Puder’s paintings of architectural structures dangle between abstraction and representation. He places chaos and quietude side by side. Symbols of human creation, industrialization and desolation are rendered in extreme perspectives, in front of dimly hued skies.

Puder has had numerous international solo and group exhibitions at Marc Straus, New York; Galerie Moeller Witt, Aarhus, Denmark; Galerie Jochen Hempel, Leipzig, Germany; Essl Museum, Klosterneuberg, Austria; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York; Camden Art Centre, London; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Berlin; Ludwig Museum, Budapest; the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Stockholm; and Galerie Berggruen, San Francisco, CA, among others.

Puder’s works are part of major public and private collections, such as The Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Hildebrand Collection, Leipzig; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig; and Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Stockholm.