About

Sabin Aell

Sabin Aell was born and raised in Austria. Her work was shown in in Berlin, London, Seoul, Adelaide, Stockholm, Vienna and the US. Her use of media has no limits and ranges from photography to mixed media to film.

After living in Vienna and Frankfurt, Sabin moved to Denver in 2006. Two years later, in 2008, she opened HINTERLAND, an art space, which has become a significant hub for local and national emerging artists. 2012 HINTERLAND was awarded with the Mastermind Award by Westword a local news paper, which is a grant given yearly to five artists or organizations who change the cultural landscape of Denver.

Sabin’s work reaches back to an intense career as a multimedia designer. She worked for Ogilvy & Mather, a large New York based advertising agency in Frankfurt. Her work included building online experiences for some of the world’s most recognized companies that included Mercedes-Benz, Daimler Chrysler and IBM.

During the last 12 years Aell has grown her experience into product, jewelry and interior design. One design for a restaurant she cocreated with her husband, included a line of custom made fiberoptic light sculptures. One of them, a 10.5 foot long chandelier, was the the spectacular highlight and has been featured in various magazines. With the launch of “UBUNTU . unspoken trust” in 2013, a collaborative art-dance performance intersecting with the work of three multi-disciplinary artists, Aell branched out into another creative field: set and costume design. 2016 Sabin was invited to exhibit at the Milwaukee Institute for Art & Design – MIAD and later that year asked by Michael Paglia to participate in the ”Colorado Women of Abstraction” exhibition at the Center For Visual Arts – Metropolitan State University of Denver. Since then Aell was commissioned for several public and private art projects.