AIR Talk
Artist Talk
by Sarah Schoderer
I was born in the south of Germany, but i am raised near Frankfurt and in Frankfurt- then i have studied fine arts at the art academies in Frankfurt and Mainz/Germany until 2011. Since then i am working as a freelancer and i have done art projects in Germany, Kenya, Belgium, Croatia and Tunisia. I am working mainly in the field of painting, but i am also making sculpture as well as a few movies. I see myself as a conceptual working artist but with a strong focus on visual forms and especially painting. In my paintings as well as in my sculpture i have been reflecting on different aspects of contemporary society: formerly i have criticised the culture of consume in the western society but i also have been interested in beauty ideals as well as latest i have reflected on the process of painting and creating as such: I have made sculptures out of paintings and then i have created paintings and these objects became the motives/subjects of these paintings.
Specifically about my paintings: i wanted to create a relief-like surface when i use colors. So my works are at the same time paintings but also sculptures „plastics“. Very often the space in the „background“ is dissolved within structures of colors: only the objects create a space or plasticity somehow.
I am not dealing with the „reality“ as such but much more with processes of translations which take place between art and reality. I am not sure whether it is more relevant as to relate directly to reality; to question reality or to document it is not what concerns me too much. I rather deal with reflexions of connections between history and present, between forms of art and life itself, phenomenons of the present which can only be expressed freely through art. I would say i have the ability to really see spaces within colors. i m very much keen to get to know sociological knowledge about people and places i have been or i will be able to visit.
Bio
Sarah Schoderer studied Fine Arts in Frankfurt am Main until 2011. Since then she has been working as a freelancer, implementing art projects in various countries i.e. Kenya, Belgium, Croatia, Tunisia and of course Germany. She mainly works in painting but also makes sculptures for film and out of paintings. She sees herself as a conceptual working artist with a strong focus on visual forms that reflects different aspects of contemporary society. In her previous works, she criticized the consumerism culture in the western society.
Kuala Lumpur / Frankfurt AIR Exchange Program 2019
Collaboration
Goethe-Institut Malaysia
Lostgens’ contemporary Art Space
Basis Frankfurt
Date
21st Jul 2019
Time
4.00pm
Venue
Lostgens’ Contemporary Art Space
