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Sarah Spitzer

Artist statement

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Der Hauptfokus meiner künstlerischen Arbeit liegt auf Fotografie, Druckgrafik, Installation und performativen Praktiken. Experimentelle wie auch konzeptuelle Annäherungen an Thematiken wie das Erinnern und Bewahren oder das Erkunden von Beziehungsverhältnissen im Bereich Natur – Mensch sind kennzeichnend. Dabei eigne ich mir oft gefunde Materialien wie alte Fotografien oder Naturobjekte an und kombiniere sie, um sie schließlich in wechselseitige Beziehung zueinander zu stellen. Diese Arrangements implizieren häufig eine Verbindung von Fakten und Fiktion. Neue Sinnzusammenhänge mit narrativen Zügen werden evoziert. 
Aktuell interessiere ich mich vor allem für (Re)konstruktionsprozesse des menschlichen Bildes von Natur in Verbindung mit Identität und dem Erzählen persönlicher und kollektiver Geschichten der Entfremdung von und Vertrautheit zur Natur.

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My artistic work explores subjects such as memory and preservation as well as different kinds of relationships like human's interconnectedness and interaction with nature in the view of the current affairs in the age of Anthropocene.

I'm interested in (re)construction processes of human images in connection with identity and the telling of personal and collective stories in a combination of facts and fiction.

My artistic approaches range from experimental to performative strategies and conceptual methods in an interdisciplinary work including photography, moving image, installation and printmaking.

I often work with found materials such as old photographs or natural objects, appropriates and combines them to create new contexts of meaning with narrative traits.


*1995, currently lives and works in Leipzig (DE)

Education

2022-
2024

2nd State Examination of Teaching Art Education 

2015-

2022

Diploma of Fine Arts (with honor) and
1st State Examination of Teaching Art Education 
at the Bauhaus-University Weimar (DE)

2022

Erasmus at Aalto University, Programme of Visual Culture, Curating and

Contemporary Art, Espoo (FI)

2021

Erasmus at LUCA School of Arts, Department of Photography Ghent (BE)

2017

Eramus at University of the Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki (FI)

Exhibitions (selected)

2026

2025

2025

'Tracing Nature', Galerie Haus zum bunten Löwen, Erfurt (solo)

'Embodied Morphologies', SÍM Korpúlfsstaðir, Reykjavík (IS)

'In Between', Serlachius Residenssin galleria, Mänttä (FI), (solo)

2022

'Green Heritage Stories', Kulturen Östarp, Skåne (SE) 

in the context of the Biosphere Festival and ARNA artist residency

2022

'INTRAWELTEN', in the context of the Lyonel Art Award, NOVA art space, Weimar

2022

'Insights from the Outside – Betweeen Visions of Nature and Sensory Polarities', Aalto gallery space, Espoo (FI)

2022

'In Between and Deep under: Artistic Processes in Vuosaari Ecologies', Villa Lill Kallvik, Helsinki (FI)

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2022

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'Re:place', Kalasaataman Vapaakaupungin Olohuone, Helsinki (FI) (cuarted)
 

2022

'Die Entfremdung des Vertrauten', NOVA art space, Weimar (solo exhibition) 

'Die Idee der Pflanzen –  Von Ordnungssystemen und Gewächsfragmenten',

Der Laden, Weimar (solo exhibition)

2021

2021

'PHOTO EXPO', BROEI Gent (BE)

'4WARD 4WHAT 4 Openings' , Tasku gallery Helsinki

2017

'Bauhaus Essentials', Weimar

2017

Awards, artist residencies, artist features  and collections (selection)

2026

DER GREIF - Artist Feature and online exhibition 'Earthly Fabulations'

2025

Award of the Ulla and Eberhard Jung foundation

2025

SíM Residency, Reykjavik (IS)

2025

Haihatus Residency, Joutsa (FI)

2025

Serlachius Residency, Mänttä (FI)

2022

ARNA (Art and Nature) artist residency, Skåne (SE)

Lyonel Art Award  2022 (nominated)

2022

2020

Stipend ‘Kreativfonds‘ of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Award ‘Bauhaus-Essentials‘, Weimar

2017

Publications

2026

2026

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2026

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2021

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2021

Collect Art Magazine, Issue 'Forgotten'

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UNSTAGED Anthology: 'Relational Ecology'

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Photo Trouvée Magazine, Issue 20

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Photonews magazine 06/2021

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PORT magazine No. 19

Collections

Archiv der Moderne + University Library Weimar + private collection + Klassik Stiftung Weimar

contact:

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 © 2026 Sarah Spitzer

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