12
2019
 
Newsletter Search Facebook Vimeo Twitter YouTube Instagram Deutsch

News 2019

01.12.2019

Winner of the SpallArt Prize 2020: Luise Schröder

Sponsor: Sammlung SpallArt
Administered by the Salzburger Kunstverein


The Salzburger Kunstverein announces the winner of the 2020 SpallArt International Prize Salzburg. This international award for excellence in contemporary art is a rotating prize. For the years 2019 to 2021, the focus will be on contemporary photography.

Luise Schröder Winner of the 2020 SpallArt Prize Salzburg
There were 118 applicants received for the jury to review. After an intensive review and an established shortlist, it was decided that the inaugural winner is Potsdam/Paris/Leipzig-based , German photographer Luise Schröder. Sponsored by SpallArt, the SpallArt Prize Salzburg consists of €4,000 and a one month artist residency at the Salzburger Kunstverein.

The Jury consisted of Adrian Paci (Artist, Albania/Italy), Karin Peyker (Artist-Photographer, Board Member, Salzburger Kunstverein), and Christiane Kuhlmann (Curator Photography and Media Art, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg).

Jury Statement
In her artwork, the German photographer and media artist Luise Schröder combines artistic and political research, especially on historical subjects.

In 2014 C/O Berlin featured her show Arbeit am Mythos (Working on the Myth) as part of its series Talents, a visual search for traces within the historical, cultural and political layers of the city of Dresden between the bomb raids of 1945 and the epochal floods of 2002. Her focus was on the manner in which the images of destruction formed a continuous, repetitive myth reaching well into the present time.

In 2015 Arts Space in Tel Aviv showed an installation of hers on the representation of women in Israeli kibbutzim between 1920 and 1970.

In 2018 she created UNAMERICA Relocating Memories. In this work, Luise Schröder deals with the commemoration of the internment of Japanese citizens in the former War Relocation Center in Manzanar in the USA during World War II and the commemoration rituals of subsequent generations today. In her video installation she draws comparisons with photographs by Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange.

In all her projects, the photographer has proved herself an outstanding analyst, transforming the results of her research into independent photographic works which she often stages herself. The jury was impressed by the consequence with which she has pursued her own independent photographic idiom for historical and social contexts since her studies with Prof. Heidi Specker and Prof. Günther Selichar at the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts in 2009.

For her artistic stay in Salzburg, the jury wishes Luise Schröder new impulses and inspiration, so that she may continue on her chosen path.

Luise Schröder
Born 1982 in Potsdam, Germany
2001 - 2003 Studies of German Literature, Art History and Arabic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
2004 - 2011 Studies of Photography and Media Arts at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig
since 2007 Art Mediator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig
2011 Diploma Fine Arts Photography / Media Arts with distinction
2013 Post Graduate Degree Media Arts
Class for Mass Media Research and Art in Public Media Space
Lives and works in Potsdam, Leipzig and Paris

Selected solo shows:
2018 UNAMERICA Relocating Memories, Galerie EIGEN+ART, Leipzig, Germany
2016 She Takes a Hand Herself in History, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
2015 Traces, Art Space Tel Aviv, Israel
2014 Figures of Remembrance, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Germany

Selected group shows:
2019 FLUCA Austrian Cultural Pavilion, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2018 Photo Israel, International Photography Festival #6, Tel Aviv, Israel
Gute Aussichten Deluxe, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
2017 A Romance with Revolution, Pushkinskaya 10, St. Petersburg, Russia
2016 Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Germany

About Spallart
The private art collection SpallArt arose from Andra Spallart’s enthusiasm for the diversity of possibilities that photography uses to obstruct, deny and challenge our perception. Andra Spallart first acquired contemporary photography and video in the end1980s. The collection commenced with a focus on contemporary Austrian photography and has broadened to a European and international focus. Since 2011, the collection has increased its presence in the public eye through various publications and exhibitions; for example, Andra Spallart has presented curated exhibitions at the Foto-Raum (www.foto-raum.at) in Vienna. After moving to Salzburg the collection thrives to this day. Temporary pop-up exhibitions at the Foto-Raum’s depot are shown under the title “Open Space,” regularly conveying a sense of the collection’s breadth of photographic themes. The entire collection is also presented online. www.sammlung-spallart.at

About the Salzburger Kunstverein
The SpallArt Prize Salzburg is administered by the Salzburger Kunstverein. Founded in 1844, the Salzburger Kunstverein is a long-running and leading contemporary art organisation specialising in contemporary art. It is located is Salzburg, Austria, and is housed in the Künstlerhaus, built in 1885. The Salzburger Kunstverein organises about twelve exhibitions of international and Austrian artists annually, and generates discourse and other relevant programming through its lectures, residencies and screening programs. The Director since January 2014 is Séamus Kealy.

Luise Schröder, Arbeit am Mythos, 2011, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Haus der Photographie 2012, photo: Franziska Zacharias

Luise Schröder, Arbeit am Mythos, 2011, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Haus der Photographie 2012, photo: Franziska Zacharias

Luise Schröder, Arbeit am Mythos, 2011, Archival print, 70 x 100 cm, courtesy of the artistLuise Schröder, Arbeit am Mythos, 2011, Archival print, 70 x 100 cm, courtesy of the artistLuise Schröder, Arbeit am Mythos, 2011, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Haus der Photographie 2012, photo: Franziska ZachariasLuise Schröder, She Takes a Hand Herself in History, 2015, Art Space Tel Aviv 2015, © Luise SchröderLuise Schröder, She Takes a Hand Herself in History, 2015, HD-video, (Adela Yawitz), 11 min, © Luise SchröderLuise Schröder, She Takes a Hand Herself in History, 2015, HD-Video, (Liran, Aviv & Shani Hadashi), 1 min, © Luise SchröderLuise Schröder, UNAMERICA Relocating Memories, 2018, HD-Video, 18 min, courtesy of the artistLuise Schröder, UNAMERICA Relocating Memories, 2018, HD-video, 18 min, courtesy of the artistLuise Schröder, UNAMERICA Relocating Memories, 2018, HD-video, 18 min, courtesy of the artist