The work of Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld jestingly deals with spiritual and scientific imagination. It reflects on different kinds of knowledge-, control- and truth-production, constituting and reproducing the human „self“ in the world.
Her method is an appropriation and recomposing of concepts. In order to create new meanings and perspectives, common structures are sliced up, analysed and put back together in a different way, using oracular technics and alchemical experiments.
© Photo : Adrien Missika
Website : www.sarahschoenfeld.de
She includes approaches from various fields in her practice, like natural science, religion, archeology, mythology, magic and technology. The work includes a wide range of mediums like photography, print, sculpture, installation and performance.
Exhibitions selected and awards
Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld (*1979) graduated from UDK (Universität der Künste Berlin) in 2006. She has had solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Galleria Marso Mexico City, Goethe Institut St. Petersburg and Kunstverein Augsburg amongst others. Her work has also been exibited in many group exhibitions including Hamburger Kunsthalle, Centre Pompidou, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Hamburger Bahnhof, Fotomuseum Winterthur and Muzeum Ludwig.
She won and the FOAM Talents Award of the Fotomuseum Amsterdam in 2014, recieved the Kunstfonds Stipendium Germany in 2012, has been a resident at Villa Aurora Los Angeles in 2011 and recieved a DAAD travel grant in 2006. She lives and works in Berlin.
Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld at the Strasbourg Biennale
- 4 works presented
- 1 workshop
- Venue : Hôtel des Postes