Entstehung und Untergang

Ali Johannes Ülker lives and works in Berlin, but travels much of the time. His career started with graffiti, so streetart features still permeate his oeuvre. Half human, half mythical, the characters of his paintings seem to come from their own different worlds and find themselves exposed to a post human reality. The world appears as an exile. Nativeness plays an important role in terms of both content and materials. Ülker works with wood, paper, paperboard, canvases and walls. On different levels he addresses themes like origins and belongings, the fall from paradise, but also the genesis of new worlds. The paintings work with a sensual physicality but without false exoticisms; with elemental powers, sometimes ritual sceneries.