Painting.
Sculpture.
Art that asks questions.
Sylvia Schwenk, multidisciplinary visual artist
Sylvia is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist. She looks at the world and then represents it differently, in ways that are simple, playful and quietly humorous. Her work is held in public and private collections including the Museum für Sepulkralkultur in Kassel, the Gold Coast City Art Gallery in Queensland and Stanford University in California.
Featured Projects
your thoughts become your world
An ongoing series of abstract paintings organised around seasonal palettes and temporal rhythms. Through repeated shapes, inversions and subtle variations, connections unfold across the works. Colour and form shift gradually, making perception an active, meditative process.
absurdity
absurdity is based on true events from Sylvia’s six-month attachment to a Federal Government Taskforce when she was a Financial Controller. Working across ceramic sculptures, paintings, drawings and an illustrated book, this ongoing project is set in a world Sylvia calls the City of Beige, tracing the tension between individuals and the faceless bureaucracy. The work is comical and unsettling in equal measure.
Films · Performance art
Sylvia’s films and performance works share a single impulse and that is to build on the connection that already exists between people and make it visible. Her performances have drawn over 2,000 people into shared moments in streets, prisons, naval bases and cathedrals. Her films take you inside worlds that are ordinarily closed. Together they form a body of work spanning more than two decades and four continents.
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Works across all mediums and scales are available to collect. Individual works start from €700.
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