Schirin Kretschmann’s work oscillates between painting as installation art and its liminal convergences with process-based practices. Her artistic work is situational and processual in that it takes an artistic gesture as a point of departure and initiates developments or fluctuating processes, in which the viewers themselves usually play an active role and perception is understood to be a multifaceted, synaesthetic, constantly changing and thus unfinished process. The intervention of a material in a specific exhibition context is always a direct reaction to the conditions of the respective context and its material components.
Organised by Doctoral Programme in Fine Arts [FBAUP]
Schirin Kretschmann (*1980 in Karlsruhe, Germany) is an artist based in Berlin and professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. She studied Fine Arts at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, at the ENPEG La Esmeralda, Mexico City, and Philologies the University of Freiburg and the Basel University. Her PhD project entitled Painting in an Expanded Structure of Actions in Reference to Barnett Newman and Hélio Oiticica will be published this year at Bauhaus-University Weimar. She has realized public art projects and presentations in international galleries and institutions (Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Kunstverein Hannover, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur/CH, CAC Quito/EC, Kunsthaus Baselland/CH, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts/VRC, Kunstverein Freiburg, Kunstverein Salzburg/AU, CAPC Coimbra/Pt, CRAC Alsace/F, MAC Santiago de Chile/CHL et al.). In artistic and curatorial research projects (Praeparat Bergsturz, Bern University of the Arts/CH, six memos for the next… Magazin4, Bregenz Kunstverein, DFG Center Imaginativ of Force, Hamburg University) she was working on transdisciplinary methods of knowledge and iconic research.