Ines Schaber

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Ines Schaber (* 1969 in Reutlingen , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German photographer , installation artist , architectural theorist and author . Ines Schaber lives in Berlin .

life and work

Ines Schaber studied fine arts from 1990 to 1997 at the Berlin University of the Arts , from 1998 to 1999 architectural theory at Princeton University and received her doctorate in 2006 from Goldsmiths, University of London . She received several awards, in 2009 she received a scholarship from the Villa Romana , Florence. Schaber held several visiting professorships, including at the California Institute of the Arts .

Her projects deal with site inspections and fixations, individuality and urban space and the socio-political relevance of images.

Well-known exhibition projects are Culture Is Our Business (2004), Picture Mining (2006), Unnamed Series (with Stefan Pente , since 2008), and Dear Jadwa (2009).

Ines Schaber has been pursuing the idea of ​​an archive since 2004.

“Based on the assumption that the archive is not just a place of storage, but also a place of production, where our relationship to the past is materialized and where our present is inscribed in the future, I understand the archive as a place of negotiating and writing. ... Real democratization is always measured by this essential criterion: participation in and access to the archive, its constitution and its interpretation "

- Ines Schaber

Exhibitions (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. Ines Schaber's women's salon , accessed on November 27, 2018.
  2. Art Aspects Ines Schaber , accessed on November 27, 2018.
  3. Villa Romana Ines Schaber , accessed on November 27, 2018.
  4. calarts Ines Schaber accessed on November 26, 2018 (English)
  5. Medienkunstnetz Ines Schaber's biography , accessed on November 26, 2018.
  6. ^ Architektur Steiermark Ines Schaber: Notes on Archives , accessed on November 27, 2018.