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Sarah Spitzer

Artist statement

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.

The main focus of my artistic practice is on photography, printmaking, installation and performative studies. 

Experimental as well as conceptual approaches to subjects such as remembering and preserving or exploring relationships in the field of human and nature are characteristic for my work. In doing so, I often appropriate found materials such as old photographs or natural objects, combine and finally place them in arrangements which imply a combination of facts and fiction. New contexts of meaning with narrative traits are evoked.

Currently I'm particulary interested in (re)construction processes of human's image of nature in connection with identity and telling personal and collective stories of alienation from and familarity with nature.


currently lives and works in Weimar (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)

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)

2022

'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

2015-21

'summaery' at the Bauhaus-University, Weimar

Awards, artist residencies and collections

2022

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

nominated for Lyonel Art Award  2022

2022

2020

stipend ‘Kreativfonds‘ of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

award ‘Bauhaus-Essentials‘, Weimar

2017

collections: Archiv der Moderne + University Library Weimar

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