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SELECTED WORKS BY Silke Schatz


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Silke Schatz

Mothership

2003
Mixed Media

140 cm diameter height variable

 Mothership

Silke Schatz’s sculptures and drawings reflect her interest in architecture as both public and private space. A large portion of work in this collection revolves around an investigative description of her home town of Celle, Germany. Borrowing her aesthetics from Neues Bauen architect Otto Haesler, who was working in Celle in the 1930s, these works combine the bold colours and futuristic design of that period, as well as their associations with civic progress and optimism. In pieces such as Mothership, Schatz’s concentric orb is suspended as a mobile, its varying layers suggesting a balanced microcosm or engineering model. Finished on the exterior with the buoyant shades of 20th century idealism, the calculated façade conceals layers of images and text belying its authoritarian construction.



Drawing parallels between the social function of architecture and its impact on the individuals engaged with it, pieces such as Wurzelkind feature structural design as backdrop to Schatz’s own family biography. Her grandfather was an SS officer charged with war crimes; he committed suicide in the 1960s, leaving many questions unanswered. This piece features effigies of her grandparents, posed in front of a mural of Thears Gardenhouse, the officers’ barracks where they lived in 1942. The lamp was taken from this building, no longer in use. Schatz’s installation is both homage and spectacle: a haunting stage play confronting horror, reconciliation, and discomfort of identity.



Schatz’s drawings merge this inbetweeness of imposed structure and intimate negotiation. Based on Haesler’s own sketches, Elephantenhaus and Celle, Siedlung Georgsgarten appear as both architectural blueprint and ephemeral fantasy. Altering the original subjects to reflect her own sense of invention, Schatz’s drawings illustrate concrete space as a malleable construct, both directing and being informed by the viewer’s own memories and experiences.

Silke Schatz

Engel

2005
Mixed Media

187 x 51 x 43 cm

 Engel

Silke Schatz

Wurzelkind

2006
Lagerfeuer 1950s found lamp with eight coloured lightbulbs 71 cm Diameter, approx 100 cm from floor Figures: Martha und Erich Schatz Clothing, Shoes, Wig, Wood, Cardboard, Photocopies on Fabric, Filling Material, hains, Screws, Lamp, Wire 190 x 102

Wurzelkind

Wurzelkind

Wurzelkind

Wurzelkind

Silke Schatz

Elephantenhaus

2003
Pencil and colourpencil on paper

240 x 290 cm

 Elephantenhaus

Silke Schatz

Celle, Siedlung Georgsgarten Block I and Wall Mural, 2006 after otto haesler 1927

2006
Leadpencil and Colorpencil on Paper

2 parts; 230 x 165 cm, 230 x 82.5 cm

 Celle, Siedlung Georgsgarten Block I and Wall Mural, 2006 after otto haesler 1927

Silke Schatz

Mataré – Study I

2007
Ink and photocopies on paper

47 x 68.5 cm

 Mataré – Study I


ARTIST INFORMATION



Silke Schatz's BIOGRAPHY




Silke Schatz

Born in 1967, Celle, Germany
Lives and works in Cologne, Germany



SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2009
St John For Augsburg, Wilkinson Gallery, London

2006
Public/Private, Wilkinson Gallery, London
Radical Self / Wurzelkind, Bomann-Museum und Kunstverein Celle
beloved, Experimental Space, Le Plateau, FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris

2005
Terezín 2005, Kunstverein und Stiftung Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen
Terezín 2005, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe

2003
The Kleinfamilie, Wilkinson Gallery, London

2002
Exhibition with Johannes Wohnsiefer, Kornelimünster, Aachen, Germany

2001
Ich merkte, dass was passiert war, denn ich bin ja nicht dumm, Borgmann & Nathusius, Cologne
verorten, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe
Art Unlimited, Art 32 Basel

2000
Transmission, Wilkinson Gallery, London

1999
Open Eyed Daydream, Brent Sikkema, New York
Schnitt Ausstellungsraum, Köln mit Hartwig Schwarz
Hellwacher Tagtraum, Kunstverein Braunschweig

1998
HE IM AT, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe

1997
The Meinersen-Show, Künstlerhaus Meinersen


GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2009
Imperium Konflikt Mythos, 2000 Jahre Varusschlacht, Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold (with
Anselm Kiefer)

2008
Aesthetic Complex, Kunstverein Augsburg, Germany
Re-collecting, Raub- und Restitution, Museum fuer Angewandte Kunst (MAK) , Wien (cat.)
Wessen Geschichte, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
On Interchange, Zwischenspiele einer Sammlung, Museum Kurhaus Kleve und Sammlung Mataré, Germany

2008
Vertrautes Terrain, ZKM, Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (cat.)
Deutschland, Deutschland, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo NL

2007
Um-kehrungen, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (cat.)
Modelle fur Morgen: Köln, curated by Vanessa J. Muller and Nikolaus Schafhausen, European Kunsthalle, Cologne
Reality Bites, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum St Louis, USA; opelville Ruesselsheim (cat.)
Walden- oder das Kind als Medium, Kunsthaus Dresden

2006
Archipeinture, Le Plateau, FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris; Camden Arts Centre, London
Eine Person allein in einem Raum mit Coca-Cola-farbenen Wäenden, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz

2005
Time Lines, Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
MARTa zeigt Stücke der Sammlung, MARTa Herford (cat.)
post_modellismus, Galerie Krinzinger Projekte, Wien (cat.)
farsite, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexiko; in site 05, San Diego- Tijuana (cat.)
Der Kunst ihre Räume, Bonner Kunstverein

2004
Interiour View, Artist explore the language of architecture, De Zonnehof, Amersfoort; First Site, Colchester,
GB; Fri-Art.
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Fribourg, CH; Museum Moderner Kunst, Klagenfurt, Austria (cat.)
Rear View Mirror, Kettle’s yard, Cambridge (cat.)
Contemporary Art from Cologne, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Manifesta 5, San Sebastian, Spain
doku/fiction - Mouse on Mars - reviewed and remixed, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (cat.)
mengenbüro, The Changing Room, Stirling

2003
Zeichnungen, Kunstverein Heilbronn, Germany
A Nova Geometria, Galeria Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil
International Paper, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (cat.)
Ausland, domoBaal contemporary art, London (cat.)

2002
Domestic, Apexart, curated by Jan Hoet, New York,
Drawing On Space, Project Arts Center, Dublin
Drawing Book of Space, fa projects, London
Die Kraft der Negation, Theater der Welt, Schauspielhaus, Koeln
Persönliche Pläne, Kunsthalle, Basel (cat.)

2001
A Sport And A Pasttime, Greene Naftali, New York

2001
New Settlements, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen
Come In, 5 year touring exhibition of Institut fuer Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), Stuttgart;
Museum for Contemporary Art and Art Galerie L-ART Kiew, Ukraine (cat.)
Playing Amongst the Ruins, MA curating course, Royal College of Art, London (cat.)

2000
Turning into a Loop, Gió Marconi, Milan
Kabinett der Zeichnung, touring exhibition of Kunstfonds Bonn (cat.)
ZeitWenden Ausblick, Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig Wien und Künstlerhaus Wien (cat.)
Include me out, invited by K.Kartscher and J.Chilver, London
escape_space, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany (cat.)
German Art in Moscow, Central House of Artist, Moscow curated by INIT Kunsthalle Berlin/Cologne
Hallöchen, Hallöchen, Galerie De Lege Ruimte, Gent, Belgium

1999
ZeitWenden Ausblick, Kunstmuseum Bonn (cat.)
Lokalzeit/Lokal Time, 1.Biennale Niedersachsen, Kunstverein Hannover, Schloss Agathenburg, Stade (cat.)
Invite par Eric Hattan, Silke Schatz et Olivier Dollinger a SKOPIA Art contemporain, Geneve
Private Werte, Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringer Strasse, Munich
bildung, Grazer Kunstverein, steirischer herbst ‘99

1998
Songs from a Room,, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe
Surfacing – Contemporary Drawing, ICA, London
Inglenook ll, University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal Illinois, USA
Osygus, Produzentengalerie Hamburg

1997
Junger Westen, Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, Germany (cat.)
3.Niedersächsische Medientage, Kunstverein Wolfsburg
Eröffnung-Opening-Opnun, with D. Gordon, H. Hallson, P. Kaltenmorgen, Villa Minimo, Hannover
Space-Living-Dimensions. Zollhaus Leer, Germany
Wiedersehen, 79. Herbstausstellung, Kunstverein Hannover (cat.)
1996 Schlaglicht-Kunstpreis 1996, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Zeichnen, Jahresausstellung des Deutschen Künstlerbundes, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuernberg

1995
Schlaglicht, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (cat.)
Fruhlingserwachen, 78. Herbstausstellung, Kunstverein Hannover (cat.)