Having had a career as a biologist, Ulrike Behrendt started her formal education in art in 2019. One of her main subjects has been the artist’s and the object’s place in the rural landscape of Norfolk. Her work plays on the idea of meaning and significance in objects and images.

Growing up in a socialist dictatorship heightened the power of words for her and the messages found between the lines. Fluent in several languages, she explores context and connection of words in an often ironic way in a wide range of 2D and 3D processes and techniques.

In 2022, Ulrike’s art was shortlisted for the New Contempories, reached the final in the British Art Medal Society’s student project, and was shown in group exhibitions in Norfolk. As an emerging artist, she took part in Love Light Norwich 2022 with the interactive display ‘one word’. With her project ‘unspoken’, she is going to be part of next year’s festival. In 2023, she took part in iTeams developing a marketing strategy for disease-resitant trees.

During her studies for an MA in Fine Art she focussed on the interaction between images and words, especially on the theme of body dysmorphia. For her Master’s project, she challenged herself to a completely new medium: moving images. Her short film ‘one day’ blended her art into the landscape of her home and combined it with an soundscape of daily background noises.