Nicola Schrudde

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Nicola Schrudde (* 1962 in Bensberg ) is a German sculptor .

Life

Nicola Schrudde studied from 1981 to 1988 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . She received important additional impulses and encouraging criticism from Bernd Minnich around the academy . She is a master student of Klaus Rinke . In 1985 Nicola Schrudde lived in Cairo as part of a study visit , where she came into close contact with the art and culture of the Arab world . After studying art, she developed an intensive international exhibition activity. The artist's works can be found in these public collections and museums, among others: Arp Museum ( Bahnhof Rolandseck ), Remagen, Kunsthaus Nordrhein-Westfalen , Aachen, Kunstmuseum Bonn , Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf, City Museum Schloss Salder , Salzgitter, Victoria and Albert Museum , London, Villa Massimo , Rome. Since 1995 Nicola Schrudde has also been active in artistic university teaching, with lectureships and teaching assignments at the Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), the Free Academy of Fine Arts Essen (fadbk), the Technical University of Dortmund and the University of Cologne .

Nicola Schrudde is a member of the German Association of Artists . She lives and works in Düsseldorf .

plant

Where Ocher Turns to Violet (1997)
Caledonian Hall at Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
(Photo: Nicola Schrudde)

At the center of Nicola Schrudde's work are site-specific installations or interventions in the interior and exterior. These are essentially made up of sculptural elements and videos that enter into complex spatial relationships with one another and with the surrounding environment. Against the background of observing nature, these constellative room installations develop a tendency towards contemplation. In this context, the artist herself speaks of »Depots of Silence«. In the context of the sculptural work process, works from the fields of photography and painting are also created .

Ellipsoid plastic

[House / Silver / for # 7] (2013)
Sculpture Park Cologne
(Photo: Nicola Schrudde)

After her return from Egypt in the mid-1980s, Nicola Schrudde began to work with the traditional material clay . As a result, she is one of the first in the context of contemporary visual arts to recognize this material, which has been "frowned upon" for a long time, an important role again. A special feature of Nicola Schrudde's oeuvre is that in certain groups of works, even with larger sculptural volumes, she does not burn the clay, but rather lets it harden through drying. In analogy to clay as the substantial basis for the plastic work of Nicola Schrudde, there is also a basic form in this , from which almost all of the artist's plastic works are constituted as an elementary form principle. This elementary form is a kind of irregular ellipsoid ; which is why Nicola Schrudde's plastic oeuvre can be called an ellipsoid sculpture . The individual sculptures designed according to this basic form are often associated with natural phenomena due to their moving surfaces and their color values, which vary between different groups of works.

Internal terrain

Shine of the Night (2012)
Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
(Photo: Dejan Sarić / Nicola Schrudde)

In Nicola Schrudde's plastic-installation works, clusters of individual ellipsoidal sculptures are often combined into complex constellations. With the end of the 1990s, Nicola Schrudde expanded her basic installation concept to include the dimension of targeted illumination . At the same time, there is an integration of sculptural-spatial projections onto light-modifying materials such as glass or aluminum plates. The visual material for these projections comes from her »Collection of Leaves«, which she began around the same time; These are filmed leaves or leaf formations that refer to the human visual perception process through their continually jerky, saccade-like movement . Nicola Schrudde's installations leave the overall impression of “internal landscapes” that show conceptual parallels to the Japanese rock garden or, in terms of their systematic visual axes, to the English landscape garden .

Awards (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schrudde, Nicola in the directory of members on the website of the German Association of Artists , accessed on March 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ Biographical data: Nicola Schrudde - information on the artist's website, accessed on March 4, 2016.
  3. ^ Nicola Schrudde: Distance. Statement , in: artist's statements on the artist's website, accessed September 29, 2016.
  4. ^ German press agency: Artists are rediscovering ceramics , in: Focus Online from December 18, 2013, Munich; Retrieved April 22, 2016.
  5. ^ Ellipsoid sculpture : conceptual regeneration within the scope of this article. Derived from »ellipsoid« (Greek), »ellipsoid« (adj.) In the sense of: »having the shape or shape of an ellipsoid, similar to an ellipsoid«.
  6. ↑ Exhibition directory: Nicola Schrudde - Info on the artist's website, accessed on May 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Schrudde, Nicola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bensberg