Sabine Moritz

Sabine Moritz (b. 1969) creates paintings and drawings that move fluidly between memory and abstraction, balancing personal history with broader cultural narratives. Born in Quedlinburg in former East Germany, she experienced the division and reunification of Germany firsthand, an experience that continues to inform her work. After immigrating to West Germany in 1985, she studied at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach and later at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Moritz first gained recognition for her Lobeda series of finely rendered pencil drawings reconstructing her childhood environment from memory. Across her practice, she works in oil, charcoal, and pastel, building surfaces through layered marks, soft blurs, and subtle shifts in tone. Her figurative works often begin with photographs and archival images, which she simplifies into calm, atmospheric compositions. In contrast, her abstract “mental landscapes” are created without preparatory sketches, allowing gesture, color, and rhythm to unfold intuitively across the canvas. Through this interplay of control and spontaneity, Moritz aims to combat the fading of memories, imbuing them with new symbolic meanings.

Moritz’s art has been widely exhibited in both group and solo exhibitions across Düsseldorf, Brussels, Paris, and London, and is part of several prestigious collections, including the Aïshti Foundation in Jal El Dib, LVMH in Paris, and Tate Modern in London.