Ursula Dekassian M.A
Ursula Dekassian is a contemporary artist based between Austria and Germany. She studied Media Education at the Free University of Berlin, specializing in documentary film and photography, and developed artistic projects in Berlin, Recife (Brazil), and South India. She later completed a Master's degree in Art Therapy at the Berlin-Weißensee Academy of Art, an experience that broadened her understanding of perception and creative processes while remaining distinct from her artistic practice.
Since 2014, Dekassian has devoted herself to painting as her primary medium. Her work explores the intersection of abstraction and lived experience, translating memory, movement, and emotional states into layered visual compositions. Through expressive colour, textured surfaces, and an intuitive process, she creates works that balance spontaneity with structural depth.
Working across painting and sculpture, she investigates materiality as a carrier of memory and transformation. Documentary observation, personal experience, and abstraction converge in works that invite contemplation rather than narration.
Her work has been exhibited in Germany, Austria, and Spain. Alongside her artistic practice, she lectures in Visual Arts at a vocational academy for social education.
Ursula Dekassian lives and works in Austria and Germany.
Selected Exhibitions
2026 Barcelona Contemporary 9th, Group Exhibition, HUB /Art Space, Barcelona, Spain
2026 Seminar, Barcelona, Spain
2026 Group Exhibition / Inntöne – International Jazz Festival, Diersbach, Austria
2026 Catalogue Presentation, Galerie Dialog, Kufstein, Austria
2026 Bavarian State Music Exhibition, Freyung – Resonances – Galerie im Europahaus Freyung, Germany
2025 Driftwood Rootwork, Group Exhibition, Galerie Dialog, Kufstein, Austria
2025 Solo Exhibition, Stoasag, Kiefersfelden, Germany
2024 Water, Group Exhibition, Galerie Dialog, Kufstein, Austria
2024 Art from the Twin Cities – Creative Series, Cultural Program of the City of Kufstein
Representative of the City of Kufstein, Austria
2023 Joined Stoasag and established own studio
2023 Wa(h)re Held:innen (True/Commodity Heroes), Stadtgalerie Dialog, Kufstein, Austria
2022 Art Showcase #2, Grenzlandhalle Kössen, Netzwerk Kultur, Austria
2021 The Small Format, Galerie Dialog, Kufstein, Austria
2020 #3 Days of Art – Renaissance, Art and Cultural Program of the City of Kufstein, Austria
2018 #3 Days of Art – War and Peace, Art and Cultural Program of the City of Kufstein, Austria
2014 Sublime, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, Germany
2014 Corridor, Parkklinik Berlin (Weißensee), Germany
2009 Documentary Film – People in South India, Free University of Berlin, Germany
2009 Photographic Documentation, South India, Free University of Berlin
2004 Latin America Institute, Long Night of Museums, Berlin: Documentary Film about Quilombo Tímbó, Brazil
2004 Scholarship: International Training and Development gGmbH (InWEnt), now GIZ – Recife, Brazil