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
My work begins with the unnoticed: a gesture, an everyday object, a moment of closeness or a small pleasure that might otherwise disappear. I translate these observations into clear forms and layered fields of colour. Colour is not a descriptive element in my work. It carries emotion, creates atmosphere and gives physical presence to the figures and objects I depict. Through glazing, collage, embroidery and different painted surfaces, I explore how colour can become tangible. My work is unafraid of beauty. I understand beauty not as decoration, but as a form of attention — a way of recognising vitality, individuality and emotional complexity in everyday life. This approach extends beyond painting. Through Total Uff, clothing, ceramics, lighting and functional objects become part of the same artistic language. My aim is to create a world in which art is not separated from life, but lived through it.
