Sabine Schirdewahn
Artistic work
Curated exhibitions
Commissioned photography
About
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At the age of 15, I lived alone in my parents' apartment, who had separated, in the remaining furniture and things. It was during this time that I discovered the world of photography and started developing films and photos in the darkroom. Immediately after leaving school, I completed a three-year traineeship as a theater sculptor in the sculpting and laminating workshop of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and worked on the productions. From 1987 to 1994 I studied art at the Berlin University of the Arts and have been a member of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes since 1991.
Since my student days, I have been working on the phenomena of personal memory, the aura of places and things as well as the emergence of personality cults and identity - those of boundaries and deviations from 'normality'. I work with various media such as installation, film, photography and photo books.
Contact:
Sabine Schirdewahn
info(at)sabineschirdewahn(dot)de
Exhibitions and projects
RE::VISION 20 Jahre Kunstverein Tiergarten 2004–2024
Residency, Akureyri Art Museum, for Hidden Deviations
Zärtliche Gespenster, photo book, self-publish (in realisation)
Since 2021
Hidden Deviations, photo book (ongoing)
2019
Interior III. Goethe's study, installation at the exhibition GOETHE. VERWANDLUNG DER WELT,
Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
2016
Of Love & Care, photo book, publication (supported by the Kulturfonds Bonn), Revolver publisher, Berlin
2015
Stories of Love and Care / The Promise. Interior II within the exhibition DIE ZIMMER DER NOMADEN,
Galerie Nord, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
2010 and 2012
Residency, Herhúsid, Siglufjörður, Iceland, for the photography project Of Love & Care
2009
Elisabeth’s Will. Reconstructed Sequences, film installation, within the exhibition NIETZSCHE. VOM WAHREN LEBEN UND LETZTEN MENSCHEN, Galerie im Park, cultural ensemble, Bremen
2005
For an Open Country with Free People, draft memorial concept for German unity in Leipzig
Elisabeth’s Wille. Reconstructed Sequences, film installation/ Revision of a Sculpture,
installation, within the exhibition ORIGINS & NATIONS, Galerie Nord, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
2004
Missing Memory, within the exhibition BELIEVE IT OR NOT, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2003
Searching for Memory. Encounter in Svendborg, film installation, within the exhibition SCHRIFT BILDER DENKEN – WALTER BENJAMIN UND DIE KUNST DER GEGENWART, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
Missing Memory, Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin
2002
The Famous in Us, audiovisual lecture within the conference: MADONNA – EIN GESAMTKUNSTWERK?
Evangelical Academy Tutzing
The Famous in Us, Stars – Annäherungen an ein Phänomen, publication, S. Fischer publisher
2000
Elisabeth’s Will. Reconstructed Sequences, film installation, Schiller-Museum Weimar within the exhibition FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE – LEBEN UND WERK / at the 17th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival / within the exhibition ARTISTENMETAPHYSIK – FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE IN DER KUNST DER NACHMODERNE, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
1998
Common Room, room installation within the exhibition Untersicht, Galerie Weißer Elefant, Berlin
Fiction and Authenticity, draft memorial concept for June 17, 1953, competition, purchase Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Revision of a Sculpture, installation, within the exhibition UTA UND DIE NACHWELT, Nietzsche Haus, Naumburg
1997
Philologie of a Room, Casa di Goethe, Rom
The Return, installation, Chapel Weitendorf, Wismar
Interior III. Goethe's study, installation, Casa di Goethe, Rom
1996
Sabine Schirdewahn und Linda Schwarz, Guardini-Stiftung Berlin
Fremderinnerungen, photography, Gallery Burg, Musberg
1995
Philology of a Room, Interior III. Goethe's study, photography and installation, Goethehaus am Frauenplan, Weimar
1994
Within the exhibition GEDOK im Pelz, Parochialkirche, Berlin
Interior III. Goethe's study, installation, Kunststudenten stellen aus, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
Curated exhibitions
The White, The Green, And The Dark, contemporary art of Norway, Felleshus of the Nordic Embassies
2019
House of Norway, Museum Angewandte Kunst (idea and concept/ film-island within the exhibition)
2016
New Nordic. Fashion. Food. Design, Felleshus of the Nordic Embassies
2011
Flagships of Culture, Felleshus of the Nordic Embassies, Berlin
2008–2011
Island::Film, Felleshus of the Nordic Embassies (Berlin), Nordatlantens Brygge (Copenhagen), Þjóðmenningarhúsið/ The Culture House, National Centre for Cultural Heritage (Reykjavík)
2005
Licht – die Magie des Bühnenraums, Remscheid
2003
Licht und Verführung, Zentrum for International Light Art, Unna)
House of Norway, Sabine Schirdewahn, Matthias Wagner K (Eds.), Kehrer Publisher Heidelberg
Nietzsche research, Friedrich Nietzsche in contemporary art: themes, positions, media, text from Barbara Straka, De Gruyter Publisher
2021
Ideologien, Sabine Schirdewahn, Sabine Seitz (Eds.), RAY 2021, Kehrer Publisher Heidelberg
2019
Goethe. Verwandlung der Welt, Prestel Publisher, München
2016
schneider + schumacher, Edition Cantz, Esslingen
Of Love & Care (photo book), Sabine Schirdewahn (Eds.), Revolver Publisher, Berlin
2014
Hellweg – ein Lichtweg. Light Art in Urban Spaces, Revolver Publisher, Berlin
2010
1. Biennial of international light art – open light in private spaces, Revolver Publisher, Berlin
2009
Nietzsche research, volume 16: Nietzsche in the movies - Projektionen und Götzendämmerungen, text from Renate Reschke: Vom Schein der Authentizität – „Elisabeth’s Wille“ von Sabine Schirdewahn im Kontext früher Nietzsche-Fotografien
2005
Schrift Bilder Denken. The art of the present and Walter Benjamin, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
2003
Weiß 01 – 10, in: "Weiß", S. Fischer Publisher Frankfurt am Main
2002
Das Berühmte in uns, within: Stars – Annäherungen an ein Phänomen, Wolfgang Ullrich, Sabine Schirdewahn (Eds.), S. Fischer Publisher Frankfurt am Main
2001
Artistenmetaphysik - Friedrich Nietzsche in der Kunst der Nachmoderne, Jovis Publisher, Berlin
1997
Goethe in Rom, Publisher Philipp von Zabern, Mainz
1994
Kunststudenten stellen aus, 12. Bundeswettbewerb, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn