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ATELIER
By appointment
Lerchenstraße 16e
Courtyard gate 5
22767 Hamburg

GALLERY
Opening soon
Bornstraße 22
20146 Hamburg

ABOUT
Maurice Schilling (born 1987) is a German artist, painter, artisan and designer. He lives and works in his native city of Hamburg. With over a decade and a half of experience as a creative polymath he applies his well-known sense for aesthetic across a variety of disciplines in both visual and applied arts. His multifaceted work covers the areas of painting, graphic, object, furniture and architecture. In his Hamburg-based atelier he creates unique collectible paintings, objects and limited fine-art editions.

PRESENT
Since the end of 2022 Maurice is in a state of change and has been focusing on his artistic work with currently deepening his practice in painting in his new atelier in Hamburg-St. Pauli. At the same time, he transformed his former office in the Hamburg-based district Rotherbaum into an exhibition space and is preparing the opening of his gallery.

BIOGRAPHY
Born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, Maurice grew up with a family background in craftsmanship, with his parents running a construction company grounded in a long-standing family history of masons, carpenters, painters and fashion designers. With this, Maurice came in touch with manifesting his ideas and visions into physical existence at an early age, which became a major part of his identity and enhanced his visually sensitive personality. The playful exploration of materials in his family’s warehouse during his childhood and his on-site support of construction projects throughout his youth resulted in a particular interest in various forms of self-expression and set the foundation of his multifaceted nature.

Originally intended to study architecture, Maurice graduated in graphic design and communication in 2012. He felt a background in design provides a broader perspective and a more flexible starting point for his professional future, backing his early interest in visual and applied arts. Alongside his studies, Maurice already started working as an independent art and creative director and designer with clients, brands and agencies on both a local and global scale. From designing identities for companies, brands and products to spatial communication, furniture, fashion and experiences, as well as creative directing his design studio NobleNorse from 2011 to 2018 with its eponymous retail concept store in Hamburg from 2016 to 2018. Maurice has realized countless self-initiated and collaborative projects at the intersections of art, design and architecture and contributed to internationally-awarded commercial work.

Over the years he established a design language known for a reduced, minimal yet bold and sometimes brutalist approach, with a strong focus on geometric rigour. Not limited by discipline, scale or context he applied modernist design principles to graphic, form and color. His output has been published in several on and offline publications such as The Huffington Post and The Vice Magazine, to name a few. Within the past decade and a half, Maurice developed an extensive expertise in the industry with a remarkable body of work in multidisciplinary design, still he felt off-track with his personal work and was accompanied with dissatisfaction and even boredom in recent years.

Throughout early 2022, Maurice took a break from his professional design career to reflect, reset and fundamentally change the status quo. He felt an urge to prioritize his artistic practice, calling back to his origin and identity from many years ago. At the beginning of 2023, he decided to adjust and rebuild the foundation for his self-initiated work. As a result Maurice developed a new Hamburg-based atelier that officially opened in early 2024. The space is now dedicated to his ever-evolving, irrepressible mind and artisan-driven practice.