Spitzer
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.
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)
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
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
2026
2021
2021
Collect Art Magazine, Issue 'Forgotten'
UNSTAGED Anthology: 'Relational Ecology'
Photo Trouvée Magazine, Issue 20
Photonews magazine 06/2021
PORT magazine No. 19