Silke Schatz

Silke Schatz (* 1967 in Celle ) is a German artist.

Life

From 1987 to 1995 she attended the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig , interrupted by a stay in Chicago (1991/92), where she studied at the School of Art Institute . In 1995 she was a master class student with Thomas Huber . From 2006 to 2007 she worked as a mentor in the fine arts department at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences .

Silke Schatz creates drawings, sculptures and installations. Her internationally exhibited works include Manifesta 5 ( San Sebastien ), Drawing on Space ( Project Arts Center in Dublin ), International Paper ( UCLA Hammer Museum) and A Nova Geometria (Galeria Fortes Vilaca in São Paulo ). She is represented by Meyer Riegger in Karlsruhe and the Wilkinson Gallery in London .

She currently lives in Cologne with her husband and three daughters .

Exhibitions and projects (selection)

Tattooed oak , sculpture by Silke Schatz in the project Art Landscape Springhornhof (2005)

• 1999: Time Turns Outlook , Kunstmuseum Bonn
• 2000: Time Turns Outlook , Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna
• 2001: Come in , Institute for Foreign Relations e. V.
• 2002: Personal plans , Kunsthalle Basel
• 2003: Peter Friedl, Claudia and Julia Müller, Peter Pommerer, Silke Schatz. Drawings , Heilbronn Art Association
• 2003: Come-in , Center of Contemporary Art Kiev
• 2003: International Paper - Drawings by Emerging Artists , UCLA Hammer Museum
• 2004: Manifesta 5th European Biennial of Contemporary Art , International Foundation Manifesta, Public Space Donostia - San Sebastián
• 2005: oak tattooed , Neuenkirchen near Soltau, Kunstverein and Foundation Springhornhof (dance floor, outdoor sculpture at Stichter See )
• 2005: Interior View. Artists explore the language of architecture , Carinthia Museum of Modern Art , De Zonnehof Amersfoort - Center for Modern Art, First Site Colchester, Fri Art - Center d'art contemporain
• 2005: post_modellismus , Krinzinger projects
• 2006: One person alone in a room with Coca-Cola-colored walls , Grazer Kunstverein
• 2006: Radical Self - Wurzelkind , Bomann Museum Celle
• 2007: Models for Tomorrow: Cologne, Public Space Cologne , European Art Gallery Cologne
• 2008: Recollecting. Robbery and Restitution , Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna)
• 2008: Presentation Wilkinson , Wilkinson Gallery, Viennafair 2008
• 2009: MYTH Varus Battle , Lippisches Landesmuseum
• 2012: Caroline Bayer | Silke Schatz , Mülheim an der Ruhr Art Museum
• 2013: City scene , Mülheim an der Ruhr art museum
• 2013: Paper , Saatchi Gallery

Awards

• 2000: HAP Grieshaber Prize
• 2001: Sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists
• 2003: Scholarship holder of the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo

literature

• Carmela Thiele: Silke Schatz. In: Artists - Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art . Issue 87, issue 20, ZEIT Kunstverlag, Munich 2009 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Silke Schatz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Silke Schatz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Silke Schatz in the artist database of the Institute for Foreign Relations
• Silke Schatz in the basis wien database
• Silke Schatz - Meyer Riegger
• Silke Schatz - Saatchi Gallery