Prof. Dr.
Isabella Woldt

Artist · Curator · Art Historian · Ethicist – Woldt concept Woldt concept

"Where memory meets gesture, the image emerges"

— Woldt concept

Biography

Prof. Dr. Isabella Woldt works under the name Woldt concept at the intersection of art-historical research, curatorial practice, and multidisciplinary artistic production. Her practice spans painting, photography, video, and concept art — bound together by a sustained inquiry into memory, perception, and the ethics of the image.

Rooted in iconological analysis and shaped by a longstanding engagement with questions of space, identity, and cultural transformation, Woldt concept does not separate thinking from making. Each medium becomes a different mode of the same essential question: how do images form, persist, and act upon us?

As founding director of the Woldt Gallery in London and Hamburg, she has since 2019 built a platform where artistic autonomy, curatorial research, and societal responsibility are held in dynamic tension — a laboratory as much as a gallery.

Painting Photography Video art Concept art Memory & space Informel AI & image Bio-Mind Memory Iconology

Practice overview

Gestural paintingGouache & acrylic
Photography essayssince 2018
Video works & AI video2023–2026
Concept art & installationsite-specific
Curatorial researchWoldt Gallery

Artistic practice

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Photography

Essay series exploring nature, memory, and identity — from seascapes to urban environments and the theatre of the forest. Works that frame perception itself as subject.

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Video & AI video

A video trilogy on gaze, time, and transience; alongside AI-generated film works that engage technology as both medium and critical subject of inquiry.

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Concept art

Living plant installations, curatorial interventions, and research-driven works that dissolve the boundary between art object, thought, and institutional critique.

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Painting

Gestural works in gouache and acrylic — layered, energetic, in dialogue with the tradition of Informel and post-war gestural abstraction.

selected paintings

(all art works unique / collector enquiry via E-Mail: info@woldtgallery.com)

works on canvas and linen

Les Feux

Isabella Woldt (Woldt concept)
Acrylic on linen
60 × 80 cm
2026
Signed and dated
Price: €32,000
Unique (Reserved for Exhibition / Collector Enquiries)

Templum II

Isabella Woldt (Woldt concept)
Acrylic on canvas
40 × 50 cm
2026
Signed and dated
Price: €15,000
Unique (Reserved for Exhibition / Collector Enquiries)

Whale

Isabella Woldt (Woldt concept)
Acrylic & gouache on canvas
40 × 60 cm
2026
Signed and dated
Price: €13,500
Unique

Mount Ever

Isabella Woldt (Woldt concept)
Acrylic on canvas
40 × 60 cm
2026
Signed and dated
Price: €13,500
Unique

Sea-Roses

Isabella Woldt (Woldt concept)
Acrylic on canvas
60 × 40 cm
2026
Signed and dated
Price: €13,500
Unique

works on paper

eTemplum, acrylic & gouache on Hahnemühle paper 310g, 30x40cm, 2026, signed and dated, Price: €15,000, Unique (reserved for Exhibition / Collector enquiries)