About
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In my artistic practice, I explore intertwined relationships between invisible and visible worlds. Organic and compliant materials, which have their origins in the textile context, give my work sensuality and agility. This adaptability emphasises the constant change that is in the nature of life. It serves as a medium for me to enter into dialogue with inside and outside, made and given.
My modelings of colour and form are interpretations of natural systems such as cloud formations, landscape phenomena or lichen organisms. I apply alchemical principles by preparing pigments, dyes as well as extracting and preserving substances of living and non-living origin with their intrinsic properties.
After my studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, my work as an artist focuses on the processual translation of emotional reactions to nature. Growing up on the Swabian Alb, surrounded by nature, I developed an almost pantheistic awareness of the landscape that continues to shape my artistic thinking and fuels my fascination with the material traces of time and transformation.
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
2009-2015 Studies Textile Design, State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart
2008-2009 Costume hospitance, “Hamlet”, dir. Volker Lösch, Stuttgart State Theatre
2005-2008 Master Class Women´s and Men´s Tailoring, Metzingen
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
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
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
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