OUBEY

OUBEY attended the University of Karlsruhe from 1979 to 1983, where he studied architecture. Parallel to his studies, he developed his early works at this time.

Inspired by Prof. Fritz Haller, who gained popularity by developing the modular furniture system USM Haller, OUBEY came into contact with visionary projects such as the planning of prototypical space colonies and the futuristic concept of a global city planning, named Integral Urban. The findings of these projects, along with his thinking, and his early-on interest for science, mathematics, philosophy, poetry, science fiction and arts form the mental background for OUBEYs artistic works.

Before attending university, OUBEY already had begun to study space exploration, Newtons, Einsteins and Heisenbergs works in physics, the metaphysics of Leibniz, ancient Greek science, philosophy and arts, the geometric and musical theory of harmony, the poetry of Rilke, Celan and Trakl, as well as science fiction literature from Stansilaw Lem to Perry Rhodan. While studying the scientific work of Ilya Prigogine and his pioneering discoveries about complexity, irreversibility, chaos, order, and entropy, OUBEY found confirmation of his holistic view of the world and the cosmos.

In 1983, OUBEY decided to live and work as a freelance artist.

From 1987 to 2001, he worked in the former studio of Markus Lüpertz, where he created, amongst other works, his avant-garde computer paintings on the Amiga 500. He called them “PhotonPaintings”, and presented them 1992 in his first and very successful sales exhibition. Soon thereafter, he decided to retreat from the public, in order to work on his art independently for an indefinite period of time, as free as possible, far from any outside influence, and to only make a comeback when he thought the right time to do so had come.

After moving to a new studio, OUBEY was able to consider a new public appearance for the first time again. When OUBEY died in a traffic accident in 2004, he was in the midst of preparing for this.

During the limited time spent on his artistry, OUBEY had created a multifaceted portfolio of works, which includes over 1200 pieces of art. Through the MINDKISS project, initiated and directed by OUBEYs partner Dagmar Woyde-Koehler, these works are now posthumously made accessible to the public, step by step.

• 1992: Mindkiss – The Photopainting, catalogue, ed. by Atelier O.U.B.E.Y (dt. and engl.).
• 2010: OUBEY Mindkiss, Deutscher Kunstverlag Berlin, ed. by Dagmar Woyde-Koehler, conception: Stefan Sagmeister, Dagmar Woyde-Koehler, ISBN 978-3-422-06797-4.
• 2011: OUBEY 2011, ed. by Engelhardt & Bauer, conception and design: MAGMA Design.
• 2012: we and the arts, ed. by we_magazine.
• 2014: Wir haben uns erkannt, in: brand eins, No. 01/2014 Schwerpunkt: Originalität, p. 100 - 106.
• 2014: Dagmar Woyde-Koehler - „Es geht darum, das Universum, vielleicht auch die vielen Universen, zu erforschen.“, by Raphael Rusitzka, May 13, 2014, on: Galore Interviews[10]

OUBEY Mindkiss

• 2010 red dot Design Award
• 2010 AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) New York: 50 Books/50 Covers Award
• 2010 Communication Art: Award of Excellence

OUBEY

• 2011 Gregor Calendar Award: Hauptpreis Gregor Award[11]
• 2011 Type Directors Club New York: Certificate of Typographic Excellence

• Koehler, Wendelin (1992), Atelier O.U.B.E.Y (ed.), MINDKISS THE PHOTONPAINTING; Ausstellungskatalog (in German), Karlsruhe{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Dagmar Woyde-Koehler, ed. (2010), Mindkiss (in German), Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, ISBN 978-3-422-06797-4
• Oubey, 2011: von der Entdeckung eines verborgenen Schatzes; E & B Kunstkalender (in German), Karlsruhe: Engelhardt & Bauer Verlag, 2010

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