Woldt concept

Woldt concept — Prof. Dr. Isabella Woldt | Woldt Gallery
Artist Profile

Prof. Dr.
Isabella Woldt

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

"Where memory meets gesture, the image emerges"
— Woldt concept

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
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.

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.

Concept art

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

Painting

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

selected paintings


Order 3, Gouache & acrylic on Hahnemühle paper, 310g, 30x40cm, 2026

Order 2, Gouache & acrylic on Hahnemühle paper, 310g, 30x40cm, 2026

Order 1, Gouache & acrylic on Hahnemühle paper, 310g, 30x40cm, 2026

Truth, Gouache & acrylic on Hahnemühle paper, 310g, 30x40cm, 2026

14. February 2026, Gouache & acrylic on Hahnemühle paper, 310g, 30x40cm, 2026

Erzähl mir nicht, du hast davon nichts gewußt, Gouache & acrylic on Hahnemühle paper, 310g, 30x40cm, 2026