Chie Marquart-Tabel:

Speaking of simultaneity through reds, blues and cardboard

I picture of Chie Marquart-Tabel, a Berlin-based, Black and trans*, multidisciplinary artist working on simultaneity and connection through large scale cardboard sculptures and expressive, often monochromatic oil paintings.
Chie's Symbol consisting of a Circle with two lines that are parallel but not intersecting. Chie is a Berlin-based, Black, queer artist working on connection and simultaneity through cardboard and painting.
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Chie Marquart-Tabel (they/them), is a Berlin-and London based, Black visual artist working on simultaneity and connection through large scale cardboard sculptures and expressive, often monochromatic oil paintings. Chie’s work is permeated by a search for connection, not just with loved ones but community and ancestry, posing questions of belonging and care in a world scattered by colonialism and capitalism.

Chie's Symbol consisting of a Circle with two lines that are parallel but not intersecting. Chie is a Berlin-based, Black, queer artist working on connection and simultaneity through cardboard and painting.

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b. 1993, Lich (Germany)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Chie Marquart-Tabel: They didn’t know - Queer Everexistence in Motion, OYA Bar, Berlin, Germany

2023 Chie Marquart-Tabel: One day they will find you and know, that you were all here together, SóLaura Studio, Berlin, Germany

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 The Land Remembers, GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany

2026 (Supposedly Like) Oil and Water, Gewölbekeller, Berlin, Germany

2025 Playsure Networks, Lewisham Art House, London, UK

2025 Joy, Battersea Art Centre, London, UK 

2025 Activist Choreographies of Care, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), Berlin, Germany 

2024 Rundhalle, Galerie Wedding, Berlin, Germany

2024 Riptide, Wiesenburg, Berlin, Germany 

2023 The Mirrors of Creation Studio Visits, Ulme35, Berlin, Germany

2023‍ ‍Sonic Mirage, 90mil, Berlin, Germany

2023 THAW 2023, Fortuna Wetten, Berlin, Germany


RESIDENCIES

2025 Artist in Resideny Leopolplatz, Berlin, Germany

2023 *foundationClass, Kunstschule Weissensee, Berlin, Germany

2023 Mirrors of Creation Artist Residency, Berlin, Germany

2023 THAW Artist Residency, Cöthen/Berlin, Germany

EDUCATION

2025 Drawing Intensive, Royal Drawing School, London, UK

2020 MSc Business Development and Entrepreneurship (Cum Laude)

2017 BA Philosophy & Economics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

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Return to the act of looking, move with your attention

I create works that invite you to spend time looking, that make you ask „What do I see?“ An exercise that brings you back to the act of looking itself, letting your attention linger in a quiet moment of equilibrium like a hanging mobile. How does attention move? What calls it, what holds it tight, what makes it float, loosely? I create spaces within spaces, images within images, for eye and attention to fixate on and travel through. 


Material surrounding as enabler and testimony of daily life

I believe material and spatial conditions drive much of our experience and behaviour. As such I’m interested in the interplay of everyday life and everyday space: In how both private and public spaces reflect, accompany, enable and hold our everyday endeavors and longings. The neighbours house we stare at, the table we dine at, the traffic light we wait at, day by day. I use these physical conditions to expand the experience depicted in my images, blurring the lines between subject, body and space. In my sculptural work, reused objects become testimonies of former lives. Here, it's the work itself that becomes part of the material, spatial surrounding of the viewer, shaping their experience and behaviour.


Play, inbetweenness and freedom: Telling multidimensional stories

Moving between emergence and dissolution, my figuration remains hard to grasp: There is no single story, no single truth, no fact to present to an audience as an objective discovery. My work speaks to the simultaneity of experiences that make up an interaction; of everyone and everything present in, necessary for and resulting from an encounter. A moving equilibrium called play. Play as in interplay, as in das Spiel der Angel in der Tür, as the antics of a trickster god, handing you questions where you asked for answers. 

“The compositions of Chie’s paintings are intimate and can have a mysterious quality. The figures are often depicted as if in a state of suspension, the aftermath of some unknown action. Vulnerability and sovereignty emanate from both the figures and the paintings.”

– Nadira Husain

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To acquire a work or commission a piece, to ask for a cooperation or learn more about my work – shoot me a message. I’m looking forward to reading from you.

Stay in touch

A few exhibition shots from The Land Remembers at @glogauair, curated by @daddy.berlin (& 1 Bild davon wie ich mir ins Fäustchen lache)
Defining Survival (Queer Everexistence in Motion) An installation on queer existence and resistance across time and space. Installation shots from the “(Supposedly like) Oil and Water” group show at Gewölbekeller, curated by @nick
The Line (wind): Pop up exhibition on an Italian roof top with @samevernon and @bodipoetry Grateful for these weeks of silence and pause in the winter sun
My new cardboard installation „Die Hände im Spiel“ is currently on view at Lewisham Art House as part of the @135homestudio exhibition Playsure Networks This work plays with the idea of fugitivity, especially Black fugitivity, as a
‼️💥 PLAYSURE NETWORKS OPENING OCTOBER 30TH 6 PM @lewishamarthouse 💥‼️ The first @135homestudio group exhibition: Playsure Networks – Experiments Within Resistance Our Artist & Curators: Ariel Collier (Founder, Artist & Curator) Bil
Drawings, happy faces and some gay station art I spent a few days hiking by the coast & drawing, experiencing the timeless power of nature in times of genocides and the rise of fascism - sometimes surreal, sometimes soothing. Drawing: I recent
„Written in Blue” is a series drawn from real-life moments, capturing people in honest, everyday scenes. It focuses on moments of connection, where individuals can reveal their true selves—showing their strength and beauty. Written
Revisit your seedling library Knowing comes from feeling - from: Seedling Library by Bodi Babatola (@bodipoetry ) View from below the mobile that is part of the installation „Defining Survival (Queer Everexistence in Motion)“
„Written in Blue” is a series drawn from real-life moments, capturing people in honest, everyday scenes. It focuses on moments of connection, where individuals can reveal their true selves—showing their strength and beauty. Written
I am lucky enough to spend a few days in the countryside outside Berlin, at @myzeliumprojekt , surrounded by more different plants and insects in one day than I see in a year in the city. “Nature creates the most magnificent sculptures”
Days out of the city, my body remembers the sound of silence and a different sense of time, measured only by the slow change of light. I am currently working on the design of two murals for @myzeliumprojekt , one on the entrance to the sauna pictur
Put to rest on a fabric of ancestry a tapestry with you anointed From: Seedling Library by Bodi Babatola (@bodipoetry ) Exhibition view of the installation „Defining Survival“ at @ngbk_berlin
Moments from Friday‘s pop up exhibition „Blooming Beeings“ in our studio where I showed my new series „Written in Blue“.
Until Sunday, June 1st, you can see „Defining Survival (Queer Everexistence in Motion“ as part of our group show „Activist Choreographies of Care“ at @ngbk_berlin. „Defining Survival“ considers survival as connect
Pop up exhibition at L41 in Berlin Wedding this Friday, May 30th. I will show a few new blue paintings that speak of the beauty of living a life you love. Also @bodipoetry will share their poetry with you. Curated by Lara Shirinyants, Blooming Being

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Chie's Symbol consisting of a Circle with two lines that are parallel but not intersecting. Chie is a Berlin-based, Black, queer artist working on connection and simultaneity through cardboard and painting.