About Me
The artist Gabriela Rudolph, born in 1986 and based in Berlin, has been developing her artistic work under the pseudonym Claire Uff since 2019.
People, everyday objects and the seemingly insignificant moments of daily life are at the centre of her work.
Claire Uff translates these observations into clear forms, carefully composed scenes and a distinctive visual language. Her paintings are never loud or overstated. Their intensity emerges through a finely layered application of colour, developed over years, and through the particular balance between playfulness, precision and emotional immediacy.
Rather than following cool, academic calculations, Claire Uff’s work is rooted in the joy of making. Painting becomes an expression of vitality, individuality and the uniqueness of human experience. Her work is unafraid of beauty. In doing so, it consciously offers an alternative to a contemporary art landscape increasingly shaped by polished design, conceptual distance and dystopian visions.
This artistic approach extends far beyond the canvas. Under the term Total Uff, Claire Uff describes the idea of a fully designed personal environment in which art, design and everyday life merge into a coherent whole. She creates and surrounds herself with clothing, ceramics, tableware, lamps and other functional objects that carry the same aesthetic vocabulary as her paintings.
Entering her studio means entering a complete visual world. Colours, forms, materials and objects are not arranged by coincidence; they belong to one interconnected system. Nothing exists in isolation. Each element reflects the same artistic sensibility and contributes to the recognisability of the whole.
Total Uff is therefore not simply a style. It is a way of thinking and living: the ambition to shape one’s surroundings independently and to carry an artistic signature into every aspect of daily life.
“Beauty lies in the captured, inconspicuous moment and in the splendour of colour with which it illuminates the room.”
— Claire Uff
Artist statement
The hallmark of my work lies in its simplicity, balanced richness, and a clarity that resonates through my preferred subjects—portraiture and the portrayal of everyday small pleasures. I take the exploration of these small pleasures as an opportunity to embark on the search for an emotional intelligence. Color embodies emotion. My aspiration is to illuminate colors in a manner where, harmoniously composed, they unfurl their positive spectrum of effects on people.The objective is to engage the viewer with my work, leaving an imprint on their consciousness for a moment of contemplation and to have the Courage to smile a little.
