Anke Schäfer

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Anke Schäfer (* 1962 in Krefeld ) is a German video and performance artist and filmmaker .

Life

Anke Schäfer studied art at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in the video class of Nam June Paik and Nan Hoover , then in the postgraduate program at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht , Netherlands . In 1997 she was nominated for the Prix ​​de Rome "Art and public space" in the Netherlands for her art project "Candy TV and Anna Key" . In 1999 she initiated and curated the international art project "SmokkelSchmuggelSmuggle 19992000" and in 2006 the "Videopool Körperinsatz", a traveling video library with video performance works from the 1970s to the present day.

During an artist-in-residence in Johannesburg in 2007 , she developed the slapstick-like video work "Rehearsal Last Supper" with young actors. A video installation on violence in language that was last presented in 2008 at the European Media Art Festival in the exhibition "Young Identities - Global Youth".

From 2008 to 2010 she accompanied over a hundred young people from 14 African countries on behalf of the Goethe Institute during a theater education project to Namibia , Ghana , Togo , Uganda , Kenya and South Africa . This resulted in u. a. the film documentary "Sprachfluss" and the video "Loreley in Afrika".

From 2008 to 2011 she trained as a system-oriented drama and theater therapist at the DGfT (German Society for Theater Therapy).

In 2010 the Foundation Monument to the Murdered Jews of Europe nominated its video concept "Happy for no Reason" for the "Monument to the Homosexuals Persecuted Under National Socialism".

For 2010 and 2011 she was selected by the Dutch Fund for Fine Arts with her artistic, performative study "Looking & Seeing" for an artist-in-residence at the art and studio center Kuona Trust in Nairobi . The concluding solo exhibition "Move Slowly - To avoid accidents" took place in collaboration with the Kenyan artist Kota Otieno. It comprised recordings from over 25 workshop hours, sketches of the study carried out together with other Kuona artists on the different ways of dealing with one's own gaze. For the first time, Anke Schäfer combined methods from system-oriented drama therapy with her artistic approaches.

At the end of 2011, she continued this way of working in collaboration with Bea Matthys Crepain, the widow of the well-known architect Jo Crepain. For 5 days the hostess and art collector undertook to leave the house built by her husband only for the bare minimum and to examine the relationship between her body, her daily movements and the space around her together with the artist from morning to evening. Finally, the joint performance "I AM WALL, I AM FLOOR, I AM DOOR" took place in front of invited guests.

Awards and grants (selection)

  • 1995 Nomination for the Prix de Rome "art & public space", Netherlands
  • 1996 Basic grant from the Netherlands
  • 1996 Imaginary Reality, Grand Prize World Wide Video Center, The Hague
  • 1997 Atelier of the Ministry, Vienna, grant with artist-in-residence
  • 2001 Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, grant with artist-in-residence
  • 2002 nomination for the video art award of the city of Marl
  • 2004 Nomination for the "German Short Film Award for Animation" by EMAF (European Media Art Festival), Osnabrück
  • 2006 nomination for video art prize of the city of Marl
  • 2007 Bagfactory Johannesburg, grant with artist-in-residence
  • 2010 nomination by the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin
  • 2010 Kuona Trust Art Center (in conjunction with the BKVB fund), grant with artist-in-residence

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1996 MO - Met Ondertitel, Museum Koenig, Bonn
  • 1997 Sylvia Plaid & Jane Blond, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
  • 1998 Entropy at home, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen
  • 1999 Jane Blond in Hotel New York, PS1 Museum, New York
  • 2002 10th Marl Video Art Prize, Sculpture Museum Glaskasten
  • 2002 Candy TV / The Always Invited Guest Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
  • 2003 Museum-Kunst-Palast Düsseldorf
  • 2006 "Video pool body use", Municipal Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
  • 2006 "VideoDictionary", Impakt Festival and Gemeentemuseum Utrecht
  • 2007 “Being Here” (solo), Bag Factory Johannesburg, “Armed Response II”, Goethe-Institut Johannesburg
  • 2008 “Be Welcome” (solo), Kunsthalle Lophem, Belgium, “Young Identities - Global Youth”, EMAF 2008
  • 2009 "ILUSIONISMO", curator: Jorge Bravo, Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona / Madrid / Lleida / Palma de Mallorca
  • 2010 “Fear has big eyes”, Werkleitz 2010; Art film day "Un_schärfen the documentary", Düsseldorf
  • 2011 “Move Slowly - To Avoid Accidents” (solo), Kuona Trust Art Center, Nairobi
  • 2011 “I AM WALL, I AM FLOOR, I AM DOOR”, performance, at Bea Crepain, Antwerp
  • 2012 "Pas de deux - A tribute to Yvonne Rainer", Smokkel-Performance, Museum Ludwig, Cologne

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personal data
SURNAME Schäfer, Anke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German video and performance artist and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld