Vernissage and Anniversary 🥳

We cordially invite you to our upcoming opening at Galerie
JULE PLATE · FINE ART!

We present new arrivals alongside current positions by our artists, including works shown in our gallery for the first time. At the same time, we celebrate with you our successful first year in List. An occasion to encounter new and engaging works, to engage in conversation and to spend time in a distinct atmosphere.
Our gallery presents contemporary works on a daily basis, characterized by independence, technical precision and a dynamic visual language. Painting, collage, photography and sculpture enter into a considered dialogue.
Several of our artists will be present on Saturday and will join us for the opening.

We look forward to welcoming you!

Jule Plate and the team of JULE PLATE ̇ FINE ART Gallery for Contemporary Art on Sylt

Alexander Carsten

What are we looking at here?

Alexander Carsten is our newest addition. His paintings meet the viewer’s attentive gaze and present surfaces that seem quietly absorbed in themselves: silvery grounds in which grooves and overlays condense, vertical traces that give rhythm to the pictorial space, layers that reveal what came before them. Paint has been applied and reopened, condensed and uncovered. What remains visible is the process itself.

Carsten, born in 1968 and based in Berlin for many years, has taken an unusual path to this form of painting. Competitive sports, time abroad, academic studies, building his own company – a life marked by shifts in direction that sharpen the eye for what matters. Painting accompanies him throughout and eventually moves to the center of his work. This biography does not present itself directly in the images, yet a certain attitude is perceptible, shaped by lived experience.

Those familiar with the tradition of Informel will recognize connections – to the charged surfaces of Antoni Tàpies, where material itself becomes language, or to the reduced stillness in the later works of Gerhard Richter, where surface and blur operate as a field of thought. Carsten follows his own path. His approach to Informel is more precise, more controlled, and distinctly contemporary. It also introduces something less present in those references: the figure.

These works are now on view in our gallery, and we look forward to welcoming you. Take the time to look closely, to step back, to move through the space. The paintings reward each of these moments.

We look forward to seeing you!

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Februar-Kravchenko

Ach ja? Ach so!

Unsere jüngste Künstlerin: Yuliia Kravchenko

Sie nutzt Überzeichnung. Sie treibt Formen an ihre Grenze. Proportionen verschieben sich. Sie überlasst die Führung der Farbe. Das Bild entsteht mal langsam, mal schnell und bleibt dabei klar.
Yuliia Kravchenko arbeitet mit Energie, die im Bild bleibt und sich nicht beruhigt.

Ihre Motive kommen aus der Welt der Ikonen, der Popkultur, der Mode. Gesichter erscheinen, kippen, lösen sich in Farbe auf und setzen sich neu zusammen. Lippen leuchten, Augen fixieren den Raum, Konturen verlaufen und ziehen sich wieder zusammen. Das Bild hält diesen Zustand für uns wie in einer Momentaufnahme fest. Auch bei Schwarzlicht!
In der Galerie zeigen wir diese Arbeiten mit großer Begeisterung und freuen uns auf Ihren Besuch!

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Frohes Neues Jahr auf Sylt!

Dear friends of the gallery,

The year begins with a strong sense of momentum at Galerie JULE PLATE · FINE ART. The past months since our opening in May have established a solid foundation. New positions, growing visibility and an active exchange with visitors, clients and collectors shape the start of the upcoming season.

From March, we expand our program with Alexander Carsten, whose work brings material, surface and figure into a precise relationship. His paintings open new perspectives on the connection between process and appearance. At the same time, we continue to present works by Yuliia Kravchenko, Alexander Carsten, Brendan Murphy, Isjay Asher, Malte v. Schuckmann, Devin Miles, Sabina Bockemühl, Mel Thomson, Axel Crieger, Thomas Düwer and Albrecht Behmel.

The year is shaped by new encounters. Additional artists will join, along with our celebration in May. Painting, collage, photography and sculpture will continue to develop in changing constellations. We look forward to what defines strong contemporary art!

Sincerely, Jule Plate

Das Meer

There are days when the sea seems quieter than usual. The air is clear, the colors subdued, and yet everything feels more alive. You stand on the shore, watch the waves come and go, and think about how long the sea has been here – longer than any life, longer than any memory. One wave meets another; they seem to play, dissolve, and take shape again. An endless rhythm of foaming motion and shimmering calm.

Malte von Schuckmann captures exactly these moments. In his oil paintings, he depicts the sea both as a landscape and as a state of being – something that is constantly changing and yet always the same. The surface shimmers, the wind draws fine lines across the water, light and depth merge, the sun shines through and infuses it with color.

Especially now, in this season, these paintings feel particularly profound. Standing before them in our gallery, you can almost sense the salty air, hear the distant roar that never ceases! Stop by for a visit!

The latest oil paintings by Malte von Schuckmann are now on view at JULE PLATE ˙ FINE ART.

Isyah Asher

Late summer on Sylt reveals its final, vivid greens—in the water, on land, and in the air—an energy Isyah Asher captures with striking precision in Vivamus.

Born in Hamburg in 1998, the artist ventures into a color he once considered unattainable: green. From luminous lime to deep moss, he unfolds a palette that echoes his musical roots. Calligraphic lines meet soft spray; Pop Art elements merge with expressionist abstraction. Vivamus “Let us live” marks Asher’s bold engagement with color and a widening of his artistic voice. The painting vibrates between structure and improvisation like a newly discovered, untamed sound. A work to return to, again and again.

Visit us to experience this late-summer vitality firsthand in a selection of new pieces by this promising young talent.

Harbor Anniversary in List ☀️

Germany’s northernmost harbor has always lain at the heart of the island — a place of arrival and departure, shaped by the rhythm of the tides, by wind and wide horizons, and by the people who live, work, dock, and move on from here.

We are looking foreward to the party — and join the celebration.

As Germany’s northernmost gallery, we are part of this place. Just beyond the dyke, we present contemporary art that enters into dialogue with its surroundings — with the island, the sea, and the present moment.

Jule Plate Fine Art, located on Hafenstraße, invites new perspectives and discoveries. A visit is always worthwhile — whether you arrive on a steady course or are simply carried in by the breeze of this never-starting summer of 2025.

JULE PLATE FINE ART · Hafenstraße 4 · 25992 List auf Sylt

Mel Thomsen

Mel Thomsen lives and works on the island of Sylt. Her works combine an urban visual language with expressive techniques, vivid colours, and a porous formal vocabulary where control and impulse merge. Her artistic signature is unmistakable – somewhere between street art, pop, and raw emotion, between rebellion and intuition.

A defining element of her work is a bold use of colour – often luminous, at times furious, but never arbitrary. The surface glows, while beneath it lies a dense subtext: signs, symbols, fragments. Many of her motifs arise from internal images and unfold with a directness that is neither decorative nor aloof. Her art seeks closeness – and sometimes friction.

»I paint emotions,« she says. »My paintings are encounters. I reveal what normally remains hidden – and transform it.«

The work shown here (under blacklight) is a striking example: Thomsen depicts the Statue of Liberty not as a global symbol of hope, but as a wounded, weeping monument. Her eruptive brushwork, thick application of paint and intense palette fuse into a vision of disquiet – a glowing red fissure cuts through the face, as if the statue were breaking open, questioning, fractured, yet majestic in its detachment.

This work is part of a small showcase at Jule Plate Fine Art, featuring selected paintings by the artist, born in 1976. Her treatment of iconic imagery is direct, forceful, and powerfully confrontational. We warmly invite you to visit and experience these works up close!

14. Juli – Liberté, Couleur, Klimt

On July 14, Bastille Day and the birthday of Gustav Klimt, Jule Plate Fine Art launches its new digital presence.

A date that stands for artistic revolution and the breaking of traditional boundaries. Gustav Klimt, born on July 14, 1862, embodied this spirit: his work fused ornament and sensuality, surface and body – creating entirely new visual worlds.

This is the spirit that guides our work as a gallery. We present contemporary positions that navigate between formal clarity and poetic openness. Pop Art that transforms the everyday into visual statements. Works that use color, light and digital media to shape new spatial experiences.

Our new website reflects this philosophy – clearly structured, yet open for discovery. You’ll find our artists, current exhibitions, detailed views of selected works, and the stories behind them. The revolutionary energy of July 14 and Klimt’s visual radicalism continue to shape our identity.

We represent art that is both precise in form and rich in sensuality – positions that rethink the act of seeing through line, rhythm and surface.

The new website of Jule Plate Fine Art on Sylt is a digital curatorial space – one that brings clarity and depth together. We look forward to welcoming you online in this new realm, and of course, in person at our gallery on Sylt.

Warm regards,
Jule Plate
Director, Jule Plate Fine Art