Katja Schenker

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Katja Schenker (born November 23, 1968 in St. Gallen , resident in Dänikon and St. Gallen) is a Swiss performance artist who also works sculpturally and makes installations .

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Katja Schenker is the daughter of the artist Lucie Schenker and sister of the artist Anina Schenker . She lives and works in Zurich .

After an internship at the Zurich University of Art and Design , now ZHDK, she studied at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris until 1996 and comparative literature , art history and philosophy at the University of Zurich until 1997 .

In addition to her artistic activities, she also worked as a co-curator at the Kunsthalle St. Gallen , wrote articles on contemporary art and had lectureships in Zurich.

Katja Schenker works with a wide variety of media in a performative, conceptual, sculptural, installative and graphic manner and has been particularly known as a performer since 1999. Her work is described as a silent, receptive - transformative process with materials, at the limits of physical possibilities and physical resilience, but which can be felt in contact with the audience and space.

She also works in public space and with art in architecture : and combines organic materials and procedural processes with ideas of history and eternity, of stability and vulnerability.

Various compression and transformation processes often play a central role in Katja Schenker's works and performances: in her artistic reworking of materials, materials or even everyday objects, she uses strange procedures, which she often develops based on a physical impulse.

In 2018 Schenker completed her largest sculpture to date. As art in architecture, she created an eleven-meter-high stele made of concrete , wood , stone and metal for the new campus of the Northwestern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences in Muttenz .

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Schenker won the Swiss Art Awards three times , in 2015 the Performance Prize Switzerland and the Prix Visarte . Grants for her work came from both the canton of Zurich and St. Gallen, and in 2005 she received the “Goldener Hase” award for her work swisstopo as the best landscape in 2005 from the mezzanine floor and Kulturplatz , SRF Swiss radio and television .

literature

  • Sibylle Omlin (Ed.): Smoky Pokership - Space, Art, Exhibition, Transformation, Performance. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86984-413-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jochen Hesse: Schenker, Lucie. In: Sikart .
  2. ↑ Nadine Franci: Schenker, Anina. In: Sikart .
  3. ↑ Schenker, Katja - SIKART Lexicon on Art in Switzerland. Retrieved March 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Christina Genova: Art in architecture: nougat from condensed time. In: St. Galler Tagblatt . June 3, 2017, accessed November 15, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Christina Genova, Christina Genova: KUNST AM BAU: Nougat from condensed time. Retrieved March 2, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Ulrich Meinherz: Katja Schenker - guest artist in the Sitterwerk. Summer 2009 - artificial sediments. Sitterwerk St. Gallen, accessed on November 15, 2018 .
  7. ↑ FHNW campus in Muttenz. Canton of Basel-Landschaft , accessed on November 15, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Performance Prize Switzerland. Kunstmuseum Luzern , October 16, 2015, accessed on November 15, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Paulina Szczesniak: "Make yourself available with skin and hair". In: Tages-Anzeiger . October 15, 2015, accessed on November 15, 2018 (interview).
personal data
SURNAME Schenker, Katja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen