The Art of
Yvette Endrijautzki
Yvette Endrijautzki
Early on, artistic creation became a way for Yvette Endrijautzki to connect inner and outer worlds. Her work emerges from a profound fascination with the transformative processes of life—ruptures, transitions, and the human capacity for continual reinvention. She understands art as a space of transformation, where experience becomes visible and the invisible can be felt.
Born in Wuppertal, Germany, Yvette Endrijautzki emigrated to the United States in 2006. In 2009, she founded Nautilus Studio in Seattle’s culturally vibrant Georgetown district—an independently conceived art space that functioned simultaneously as a working studio, exhibition venue, gallery, and creative gathering place.
Alongside exhibiting her own work, Nautilus Studio provided a platform for both emerging and established artists from the region. Through its distinctive concept and the interior architecture designed and built by Endrijautzki herself, the gallery gained recognition beyond the local art scene. In 2012, Nautilus Studio was featured by Houzz and received recognition for its innovative spatial design.
Parallel to her own exhibition practice, Endrijautzki became deeply involved in Washington State’s arts community. As part of the city's monthly art events, she curated exhibitions at various venues and worked for several years as an art organizer and curator for Cloud Gallery. In this role, she collaborated with local and national artists, curators, and event organizers, realizing exhibition projects in a variety of cultural settings.
Since 2013, Endrijautzki has regularly organized exhibitions as Assistant Curator at Krab Jab Studio in Seattle, participating in Georgetown’s monthly “Art Attack” art walk. Earlier, in 2010 and 2011, she led assemblage workshops at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle.
She is also the founder and principal organizer of the “Cabinet of Enlightenment,” a mobile exhibition concept dedicated to themes of the bizarre, mystical, and macabre. Her curatorial approach is characterized by a deliberate independence. Rather than following cultural trends, she creates spaces for diverse modes of thought, artistic positions, and philosophical perspectives that challenge viewers and invite reflection.
In 2016, Endrijautzki was commissioned by Dark Dune Productions to create a temple prop for the feature film Yamasong, produced by Sam Koji Hale and Heather Henson in collaboration with Ibex Puppetry and The Jim Henson Company. She has also designed and fabricated numerous props for theater productions as well as short and independent films.
Her interest in costume and mask design dates back to her youth. An important formative experience came in 1988 during an internship at the Wuppertal Opera, while Pina Bausch and her Tanztheater Wuppertal were still active there. Between 2005 and 2007, she worked as a costume and prop builder for the internationally acclaimed Theater Titanick in Leipzig and Münster.
Her artistic and cinematic development was influenced early on by Medienprojekt Wuppertal. Between 1990 and 1995, she participated in numerous short film productions alongside other young filmmakers, several of which received regional and national awards.
At the same time, she completed a two-and-a-half-year apprenticeship as a sign painter and illuminated signage maker, acquiring a broad range of traditional craft skills, including typography, gilding, hand lettering, and commercial design.
From 1997 to 2001, Endrijautzki lived in France and worked as a pyro-performance artist in various alternative music and theater projects, including Anima and Tromatism, whose members were partly connected to the legendary French subversive punk band Bérurier Noir.
Her understanding of movement, physical expression, and staging is further rooted in ten years of professional training in rhythmic gymnastics. In 1986, she was selected for the German Junior National Team.
Between 1999 and 2000, Endrijautzki studied the art of bookbinding and traditional papier-mâché techniques under a private instructor in Saint-Dalmas, France. This was followed by an internship at the Leipzig bookbinding workshop Papp-o-Mania, where she later conducted papermaking workshops.
After many years of traveling throughout Europe and North Africa—sometimes with theater companies, music projects, and often alone—she ultimately chose Seattle as her adopted home.
Beginning in 2009, she further expanded her practice through studies in metal arts, patina and classes in jewelry design at the Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle. This exploration led to the creation of Prima Materia Jewelry, a collection of wearable artworks, sculptural jewelry, and artistic adornments.
In recent years, the focus of her work has increasingly shifted toward sculpture. Found objects, recycled materials, and fragmented artifacts form the basis of a creative process centered on transformation, reconstruction, and reinvention.
In 2015, an artist’s book featuring a selection of her works was published.
Since 2015, Endrijautzki has collaborated with various musical projects, including the Pacific Northwest rock band Into the Cold, featuring vocalist Katy Cornell (sister of Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell), as well as the Seattle-based progressive rock band Feeds on Majesty.
Since 2016, Yvette Endrijautzki has been a member of the Society for Art of Imagination, an international artists’ association whose honorary president was once Ernst Fuchs.
Since 2018, Endrijautzki has lived and worked once again in her hometown of Wuppertal, Germany, where Nautilus Studio continues to evolve as a growing center of her artistic practice.
Yvette's Curated Exhibitions
Yvette's Exhibitions
'HOME', a group show at Modern Eden Gallery , SF, CA
with Keegan O'Rourke, and Mark Walker
2014
2014, group show at KrabJabStudio
with Keegan O'Rourke, and Mark Walker
E X H I B I T I O N H I S T O R Y
"Art Connects", Gruppenausstellung, Grafschafter Museum und Schloss, Moers, 2023
"Vision-Group Exhibition", NAIA Museum Rochefort-enTerre, France, 2022
"Convergence" Online Gallery of visionary artists, wwworldwide, 2022
"Kunst Ostermarkt" Schloss Burg mit EXCIT3D, Solingen, 2022
"Mater Dei-Group Exhibition", NAIA Museum Rochefort-enTerre, France, 2022
"WOGA" Yvette Endrijautzki, Nautilus Studio, Wuppertal, 2022
"Vergessene Tochter der Stadt", international exhibition and homage to Sulamith Wülfing, Amann Studio, Güterhalle, Solingen 2021
"VISIONARY ART GALLERY", online, by Otto Rapp, Wien, 2021
"Viertel Leuchtet" duo-exhibit - Elisabeth Mader und Yvette Endrijautzki, Nautilus Studio, Wuppertal, 2021
"WOGA" Yvette Endrijautzki, Nautilus Studio, Wuppertal, 2021
"It doesn't matter where you take things from but it matters where you take them to" exhibit at Nautilus Gallery, Wuppertal, 2020
"Lichternacht", exhibit with EXCIT3D, Güterhallen, Solingen, 2019
"Biowoman-Ritual-P.S." international exhibit, QuARTier 8, 2019, Düsseldorf
"The new Nautilus Studio", Opening of Y. Endrijautzki's new Gallery, 2019, Wuppertal
"Biowoman#12", international group exhibit, 2019, Düsseldorf
"Half Past Selber Schuld-Fimlfestival", Yamasong film presentation, Theater Museum, 2018, Düsseldorf
"Ölberger Kunstmarkt", regional group exhibit and market, 2018 Wuppertal, Germany
"Tremendum Fascinans", 2016/17, international group exhibit, True Love Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Yvette Endrijautzki", 2017, solo exhibit, Ballyhoo, Seattle
"the Art of Tarot", 2016, regional group show, Ghost Gallery, Seattle, Wa
"The Art of Yvette Endrijautzki", 2016, duo exhibit with Elijah Evenson, City Hall, Normandy Park, Seattle, WA
"Im'ago Primordialis", 2016, international visionairy art exhibit with the Society for Art Of Imagination, KJSt, Seattle, WA
"Shadow & Light", 2016, regional group show, Confluence Gallery, Twisp, WA
"Arboreal Dreams", 2016, group exhibit, KrabJab Studio, Seattle, WA
"Shadow and Light", 2016, group exhibit, Confluence Gallery, Twisp, WA
"Open House Proletariats Yacht Club", 2016, group exhibit, ProletariYachtClub Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Between the Devil and the Deep", 2015, duo exhibit with Javier Ortega (Spain), Axis Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Sacred and Divine", 2015, solo exhibit, Krab Jab Studio, Seattle
"Japon", 2015, international group show at Alice and Beanstalks Gallery, Tokyo
"Pain - An artistic vision", 2014, ANT Gallery, Seattle,WA
"Grotesque", 2014, international group exhibit, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Conjoined IV", 2014, international group exhibit, Copro Nason Gallery, Santa Monica
"Amusement: private collection of an artist's muse", 2014, national group show, GACC, Seattle
"Panoptic", group show, Alexis Era Gallery, St. Louis
"Quoth the Raven", 2014, international group exhibit, Krab Jab Studio, Seattle
"Home", group exhibit, Modern Eden, San Francisco
"Constellation", 2014, international group exhibit, Fulcrum Gallery, Tacoma and True Love Gallery, Seattle
"9 year Hive Gallery", 2014, international group show, Hive Gallery, Los Angeles
"Illustrated Man", 2014, national group show, True Love Gallery, Seattle
"Master Blaster of Sculpture", 2013, international group exhibit, Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Chamber of Wonders", 2013, international group exhibit, Krab Jab Studio, Seattle, WA
"RAW - Expressions", 2013, regional art fair, Seattle, WA
"Divinity", 2013, international group show, Krab Jab Studio, Seattle, WA
"Reanimated Remains - The Beauty in Old Things", 2013, duo exhibit, Gargoyles, Seattle, WA
"Conjoined III", 2013, international group exhibit, Copro Nason Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Myths, Legends and Fables", 2013, regional group exhibit, Piranha Shop & Studio, Seattle, WA
"Twisted Love", 2013, regional group exhibit, Art not Terminal Gallery, Seattle,WA
"Brenda's Caravan", 2013, regional exhibit, SXSW music and art festival, Austin, Texas
"Masters of Sculpture", 2013, international group show, Krab Jab Studio, Seattle, WA
"Yvette Endrijautzki & Jethaniel Peterka", 2012, duo exhibit, Belfry, Seattle, WA
"The Art of Yvette Endrijautzki", 2012, solo exhibit, Cloud Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Summer Shivers", 2012, trio exhibit, Otherworlds, Edmonds, WA
"Apocalypse", 2012, national group exhibit, Piranha Shop/ Hive Gallery (L.A.), Seattle, WA
"Wunderkabinet", 2012, national group exhibit, True Love Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Ouija", 2012, international group show, Krab Jab Studio, Seattle, WA
"Scartist", 2012, regional group exhibit, Caravan Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Between Heaven and Hell", 2012, regional group exhibit, Urban Lights Studios, Seattle, WA
"Tarot 5", 2012, international group exhibit, Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Forgotten Saints", 2012, national group exhibit, Congregation Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Vestige", 2012, solo exhibit, Apocalypse Tattoo, Seattle, WA
"Askew", 2012, national group show, Bherd Studios, Seattle, WA
"A Cascade of Vision", 2012, national group exhibit, Old Crow Gallery, Oakland, CA
"Rock the Terminal", 2012, regional group exhibit, Art not Terminal Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Salvaged Art", 2011, local group exhibit and contest, Second Use, Seattle, WA
STMB Festival and art fair, 2011, NW group exhibit, North Bend, WA
"De-Vice", 2011, duo exhibit with Brandon Bowman, Nautilus Studio, Seattle, WA
"Instructors Exhibit", 2010, local group exhibit, Gage Academy, Seattle, WA
"Group Show 2010", 2010, regional group exhibit, InArtsNW, Seattle, WA
"Salvaged Art", 2010, local group exhibit and contest, Second Use, Seattle, WA
"Assemblages by Yvette Endrijautzki", 2009, solo exhibit, Georgetown Art Center, Seattle, WA
"Art Crawl", 2008, regional & national art fair, Rossmor Art Center, Saint Paul
"Woman '08", 2008, regional group exhibit, Bedlam Theater and Gallery, Minneapolis
"Summer Art Fest", 2008, regional group exhibit and fair, Fallout Gallery, Minneapolis
"Animal Art" 2007, national art exhibit, Altered Aesthetic Gallery, Minneapolis
Selected Reviews and Publications
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Kulturrucksack: Trash to Treasure
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Catapult Magazine, Issue #29 page 53-54