About
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Sarah Schrof’s artistic practice conceives of material as a living system shaped through the interplay of observation, time, and transformation. Textile processes intertwine with organic, self-evolving movements in which repetition, layering, and physical transformation operate with equal agency. Repetitive gestures and subtle motions create an unstable boundary between object and living form.
Pigments are derived from plants; time becomes subjectively perceptible, while material unfolds its own dynamics through processes of flux. Drawing on conceptual, scientific, and experimental approaches, the traces of the working process are meticulously deconstructed and translated into material constellations. The resulting works evoke states of temporality and presence, revealing a symbolic reality.
Vita
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Sarah Schrof lives and works in Stuttgart
since 2022 Lecturer for Theory of Colours, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
2017-2019 Lecturer at the Institute for Knitwear Design, State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart
since 2015 Exhibitions in galleries and museums, participation in fairs, competitions and awards
2015 Diploma, State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart
Selected Exhibitions
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2024 „Connected IV/Die Zuversicht“, BBK-Galerie im Glaspalast, Augsburg
2024 „Éphémère“ Wunderkammer – Naturalia I Artificialia, Stuttgart (solo)
2023 „CMO 2“ Direktorenhaus Museum, Berlin
2022 „Call me Ornament“ Direktorenhaus Museum, Berlin
2022 „AKKU„ Projektraum Künstlerbund BaWü, Task Force Textiles, Stuttgart
2021 „Task Force Textiles“, Graben, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
2021 „Agility in Norm“, werkraum18, Stuttgart (solo)
2021 „Radical Craft 3“ Direktorenhaus Museum, Berlin
2021 „Colorscope“ Performance, Room installation, with Stuttgart Ballet Louis Stiens & Shaked Heller, VITRINE, werkraum18, Stuttgart (solo)
2021 „The art of Teasing“, Performance, room installation, with mexican burlesque artist Violetta Poison, VITRINE, werkraum18, Stuttgart (solo)
2019 “entdeckt!” Designcenter Stuttgart
2017 „fürs Haus“, Kettenhaus, Galerie Sonnenberg, Stuttgart
2016 „Lange Nacht der Museen“ Schickareal, Stuttgart
2015 „Animalie – Memories of being an animal“ diploma exhibition, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
2015 “AKA 24/7” Ministry of Finance and Economy Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
2014-2015 “Weiss – Aspekte einer Farbe in Moderne und Gegenwart” Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg
2014 “Twin Stories” stage design and costume, Heusteigtheater Stuttgart
2013 Group exhibition of State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
2012 “Pitti Filati” Zegna Baruffa Lane Borgosesia, Florence
2012 “Spin Expo” and Stoll Showroom, New York
2011 “6 jours 6 nuits”Group exhibition, au Réfectoire des Nonnes École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
Lectures / Workshops
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since 2022 Lecture for Colour Theory, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
2023 UNESCO certificate Membership of the UNESCO sevengardens network
2017 – 2019 Lecture at the Institut for Knitwear Design at State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
2019 „be-ein-druckend stricken“, the project was awared the Academy Award, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
2017 – 2018 „Netzwerk“ Interdisciplinary project of the State Academy of Fine Arts, the „ifa-Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen“ and the „ILEK-Institut für Leichtbau Entwerfen und Konstruieren“ University Stuttgart. Exhibited 12.07. – 16.09. 2018 at the „ifa – Gallery“ Stuttgart
2012 Dyeing workshop with the Nature Conservation Youth NAJU, Listhof Environmental Education Centre, Reutlingen
Awards / Grants
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2022 Fellow Direktorenhaus, Berlin
2021 Fellowship “Task Force Textiles”, supported by the Innovations Fund Art – Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg and the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, DE
2021 Group projekt funding „Kunst trotz Abstand – Vitrine“, supported by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg
2020 Admission to the German Craft Council Berlin
2018 German Design Award Nominee
2017 Fellowship Mathilde-Planck-Lectureship Program (MPL), Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg
2015 „Competence in Knitwear Design” awarded by Stoll-Knitting GmbH,
2014 „Shoe Organism – Mysticism and Modernity“ Academy Award, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
Publication / Press
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2026 „Raum ohne Zeit”, doc. short, dir. Alessandra Coronato – Kasseler Dokfest; European Film Market (EFM) during Berlinale, Berlin – featured
2025 „le fil dans l`art contemporain”,Charlotte Vannier, Pyramyd Éditions, Paris, ISBN-13. 978-2350176093
2024 Magazine Ateliers d’Art (février – mars 2024) Dossier « L’art textile sur les cimaises », Virginie Chuimer-Layen
2021 Interview in swr-Kunst, Andrea Langen about the project „Agility in Norm“
2015 „Weiß – Aspekte einer Farbe in der Moderne und Gegenwart“ Stadt Würzburg Museum im Kulturspeicher, von Marlene Lauter/, ISBN: 978-3-928155-62-5