Chie Marquart-Tabel:
Speaking of connection through reds, blues and cardboard
Artist
Biography
Chie Marquart-Tabel (they/them), is 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 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.
CV
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
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
2023 *foundationClass, Kunstschule Weissensee, Berlin, Germany
2023 Mirrors of Creation Artist Residency, Berlin, Germany
2023 THAW Artist Residency, Cöthen/Berlin, Germany
EDUCATION
2017 BA Philosophy & Economics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
2020 MSc Business Development and Entrepreneurship (Cum Laude)
Artist
Statement
My art is an act of documentation and memory, capturing the intimacy of shared moments, a testament to our existence while questioning the objectivity of what we see and remember.
Living as a non-binary, neurodiverse person and a child from many divorces from mixed racial backgrounds—Black in West Europe and white in West Africa—has taught me to embrace the idea of simultaneity: of stories, opposites, truths, identities, sensations, thoughts.
Through emotionally charged, large-scale oil and acrylic paintings, I frame bodies within architectural spaces — windows, mirrors, and walls — and create intersecting compositions that reveal intertwined simultaneous truths. In-betweenness and intersection: In the same spirit, my cardboard sculptures speak of human and spiritual experience through ambiguous compositions of body parts in varying degrees of abstraction.
Ultimately, connection and belonging are at the heart of my work, reflecting not only my relationships with loved ones but also a connection to the deeply human experiences of those whose humanity is often dismissed, as well as my quest for ancestral knowledge and spirituality in a world fragmented by colonialism.
By painting quiet moments of connection, particularly featuring non-white bodies in repose, I want to grant dignity and present these figures as precious, deserving of the time and effort to archive their existence, capturing the essence of togetherness while balancing vulnerability and respect, proximity and distance.
I aspire for my art to be a source of healing and pause, an expressive archive of connection and multi-layered truths, inviting you to rest your eyes like a view from a train window.
“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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