„The best thing about making art? Every subject opens up a new world for me. I virtually slip through the canvas into another space, context and time and construct a new reality. That is rebellion, transformation – and monstrous fun.“ (Ute Hamelmann)

„Das beste an Kunst? Durch jedes meiner Sujets erschließt sich eine neue Welt. Ich schlüpfe quasi durch die Leinwand in einen anderen Raum, Kontext und Zeit und konstruiere eine neue, andere Wirklichkeit. Das ist Rebellion, Transformation und monströse Freude!“ (Ute Hamelmann)

„Wenn die Realität aber schließlich das Paradox brutaler trifft, als ich es mit Kunst beschreiben könnte, versiegt die Quelle meiner Kreativität aus Scham vor der Banalität.“ (Ute Hamelmann)

„But when reality finally hits the paradox more brutally than I could describe it with art, the source of my creativity dries up out of shame of banality.“ Ute Hamelmann

„Ich mache Kunst aus einer Not heraus, welche überlasse ich dem Betrachter.“ U.H.

„My art comes from distress, which one I leave it to the viewer.“ U.H.

„How to survive as an artist: either you’re fully integrated in the art establishment at age 40, a 50k Instagram star, or have a bread job that makes you completely independent of everything.“

„My whole life is a quite simple and quite linear process of emancipation from patriarchal systems.“

Ute Hamelmann

„I am not restless, I just hate doing the same shit over and over.
I’m a human not a machine.“

Ute Hamelmann

„A Negroni is like a love affair, sticky sweet at the beginning, quite bitter on the finish.“

Ute Hamelmann

„At least at some point of your career as an artist you have to realize being mediocre – in order to step ahead into something really new.“

Ute Hamelmann

„I have always been interested in being good in doing something from within myself and not being good in fulfilling the expectations of others.“