Profile

Uwe Juergen Bauer 
Chief Joy Officer

Uwe is an autodidact artist and entrepreneur born in 1964 in the Black-Forest in Germany. Uwe worked for more than  30 years in the watch and in the solar industry in various management positions in Germany, USA, Hong Kong and Singapore and holds two MBAs in State Economics and in Organization and Planning.
Since 2015 he is living in Berlin. Uwe is dedicated to bringing more joy into the business world, with his paintings, the ManekiNeko Creativity Events and his artistic projects blending Arts, Politics and History.
He is currently also researching the impact of the Arts in business as DBA candidate, Doctorate in Business Administration, at the Ecole des Ponts in Paris.

Solo Exhibitions

  • ‘I love Europe’ – Art Exhibition: Arts, Culture & Politics, European Commission, Representation in Luxemburg, Luxemburg, 2019
  • Art 4 Joy – Farbe & Freude mit ManekiNeko, Hochschule Harz, Wernigerode, Germany, 2018
  • ManekiNeko, PV Magazin Group, Berlin, Germany, 2016
  • Freude & Farbe – ManekiNeko in Pop Art, Business School Alb-Schwarzwald, Rottweil, Germany, 2016
  • ManekiNeko in PopArt, Gallery Helios, Singapore, 2015

Group Exhibitions

  • Künstlergruppe Palette, Gewerbepark HAU, Schramberg, Germany, 2017 – 2020
  • Brückenkunst,Musée du Chai de Lardimalie, St Pierre de Chignac, France, 2017
  • Brückenkunst 5.0 RE-Form, Café RE, Berlin, Germany, 2017
  • Art for Arts’ Sake, Volvo Art Centre, Singapore, 2015