Sabine Mortiz

In Lobeda, first published in 2010, Sabine Moritz (born 1969) remembers her childhood in a prefab housing estate near Jena in 95 pencil drawings.
The Neulobeda district is a densely populated area characterised by high-rise concrete buildings and modernist urban planning. This urban landscape was to have a profound effect on the young Moritz, which would later manifest itself in her work. While studying at the Offenbach University of Art and Design, Moritz began drawing her memories of Lobeda. The first body of her drawings from the early 1990s is published here.
The pencil drawings show a gentle sense of detachment matched by an unrelenting formal curiosity into qualities such as line, shape, form, perspective and space. Moritz captures a harmonious balance of geometric shapes with an emphasis on functionality that echoes a bygone era through intimate reminiscences of her past.

In Jena Dusseldorf, first published in 2011, the artistic development of Sabine Moritz (born 1969) unfolds, from early drawings to vibrant works in a variety of mediums including oil, acrylic, charcoal and pencil. The book also features a conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist in which Moritz talks about her personal life, her memories and makes reference to specific works. The modest and compact book, packed with over 150 color illustrations, shows by way of example her search for an artistic position on her route from Jena to Du?sseldorf.

This catalog documents the exhibition of works by German painter Sabine Moritz (born 1969) at the Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst in Bremen, including installation photographs of Berlin, color lithographs from Sea Kings (2014–17), Ghost Town (2016) and her 2017 series Neuland.

Sabine Moritz: Sea King is published in conjunction with the book launch of Sabine Moritz’s Helicopter at Serpentine Galleries and as a catalog to a companion exhibition of the Sea King series. Originally derived from a simple black-and-white sketch, reproduced and painted over, the series comprises 41 individual works focussing on the global presence of the Sea King anti-submarine warfare helicopter, giving the series its name.
Previously explored in HENI Publishing’s title Helicopter, Moritz’s fascination with these aircraft has arisen from an awareness of a shift in the symbolic meaning of air travel since 9/11. Her highly evocative paintings and drawings are interpretations of images from newspapers and television that range from objective depictions to more poetic compositions.
Sabine Moritz (born 1969) is a German artist based in Cologne. Her work is a manifestation of indelible memory and its release, creating works that portray personal and collective histories and a passing of a period in time. She lives with her partner Gerhard Richter.

Memory as a dynamic process has been the underlying theme of Sabine Moritz’s (born 1969) drawings and paintings since the early 1990s. In her work, the Cologne-based artist has captured remembered images from her childhood in the GDR; drawn flower compositions; and in recent years has engaged with the motif of war. This publication presents Moritz’s latest work: a collection of drawings and paintings of helicopters created between 2002 and 2013.
The Helicopter series has arisen from Moritz’s interest in the shift in their symbolic meaning. They are based on images of helicopters from newspapers and television that the artist transferred into her own language. The outcome is a series of beautiful drawings and paintings that range from objective depictions of helicopters to more poetic compositions. The works are accompanied by poems by Adam Zagajewski and Friedrich Holderlin, and a text by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Following her 2010 publication dedicated to roses, Cologne-based artist Sabine Moritz (born 1969) here turns her attention to lilies, which she first began depicting in the mid 1990s. Working on paper to produce fifty-nine charcoal, pastel and oil pastel drawings, similiarly she often approaches works as studies or exercises in observation and representation.
During the development of this publication, which was originally conceived as a collection of Moritz’s drawings of lilies, the artist had the idea to introduce another ongoing body of work—drawings of objects—alongside the lilies. These objects are primarily statues, statuettes and figurines—handmade works of art from different periods in history such as a classical torso, an African figurine and a Buddhist head.
Moritz’s drawings of objects reflect a range of ideas and registers, moods and sentiments. Together with the objects alongside, the lilies open up questions of time, life, death, belief, truth, human psychology and the very process of making art. What drives us to make art and what does it tell us about ourselves and the civilizations we create?

This publication presents 37 charcoal, pastel and oil pastel drawings of roses created by Cologne-based artist Sabine Moritz (born 1969) between 2004 and 2009. The drawings are accompanied by poems by Adam Zagajewski and William Blake.
With a regularity that approaches an everyday activity, Moritz makes studies of flowers in her home and studio: in part as a discipline to practice and explore observation and techniques of representation, in part a way to reflect, contemplate and simply enjoy the flowers.These studies are an important aspect of Moritz’s wider practice, which addresses themes such as man and nature, man and machine, and the military and the landscape.