KARSHAN - SCHLITZ: IN DIALOGUE
Opening Sunday September 17, 2017, 3 - 5 PMArtist Talk: GLENN KURTZ in conversation with Linda Karshan and Frauke Schlitz, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 4 - 5 PM
September 13 - October 29, 2017
(German, b. 1962, lives and works in Stuttgart, Germany)
Frauke Schlitz’ work has been exhibited in solo and group shows at museums, galleries and art institutions nationally and internationally. Her solo and two person shows include Silas von Morisse Gallery Brooklyn, NY (2017), Galerie Oberwelt Stuttgart (2017), Galerie im Kornhaus Kirchheim Teck (2017) and Galerie im Flüchttor, Brackenheim (2018). Upcoming is the show at SmudaJeschek Gallery in Munich (2021). She recently participated in group exhibitions at venues including AKKU Stuttgart (2020), MMCA Changdong, Seoul (2019), Shiva Gallery, NYC (2017), Galerie oqbo Berlin (2016), Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (2016), Staedtische Galerie Karlsruhe (2015), Konschthaus am Engel Luxembourg (2015), International Drawing Biennial Pilsen Czech Republic (2014).
In 2019 she participated the Changdong International Artist residency program of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Seoul, Korea. Schlitz has been awarded grants and residencies including the John Hargraves and Nancy Newcomb Fellowship at The MacDowell Colony, NH, USA (2017); Visiting Artist Residency Trestle Gallery, NYC (2016), USA; Millay Colony of the Arts, NY, USA (2016); Art Omi International Art Center, NY, USA (2014); Villa Serpentara Residency, Olevano Romano, awarded from Akademie der Künste Berlin; DAAD-Residency for Sardegna. She received several grants among them German federal government grant NEUSTART KULTUR 2020 Stiftung Kulturfonds Bonn, grant from Gisela und Erwin von Steiner- Stiftung, München; Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft Berlin studio-grant; Berlin Senate project-grant. Her work is in private and public collections (e.g. Collection of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Museum Spendhaus Reutlingen).
Schlitz graduated from University of Arts Berlin (MFA). She has taught art at several German and European art schools. She was an Assistant Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (2000-2006) and taught as lecturer of fine arts at the University of Educational Science Weingarten (2012-2015), as Visiting Artist at the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera in Milano (2006) and at Haute Ecole des Arts et de Design in Geneve (2008).
ARTIST STATEMENT
Starting point of Frauke Schlitz’ practice is questioning the space we inhabit. Her work deals with urban structures, buildings and rooms that possess distinct features. Thereby her work reflects the “signs of space”. Frauke Schlitz’ first tool is the line, while using a flexible way to move through drawing: from paper to wall to ceiling to maneuverable boards and three dimensional constructions. No matter through which approach, her focus is on the poetical qualities of space beyond pure physicality. Tectonics, rhythm, equilibrium, continuity, disruption and questions of symmetry become metaphors pointing to both the inner personal mindscape and the outside social world.
Frauke Schlitz, 2020
