Anne Schülke
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Anne Schülke is a media artist with curatorial and publishing practices, living in Düsseldorf. She studied literary studies and philosophy and completed her doctoral thesis on autofiction. Her interdisciplinary artistic work combines text, video, scans, installation, artist books, and audio. Her works are presented in exhibitions and public spaces. In addition to her artistic practice, she is deeply involved in teaching and mediation. She enjoys initiating independent processes and regularly collaborates with others, including in international contexts.
Following numerous exhibition and project grants, she was awarded the Visual Arts Prize by the City of Düsseldorf in 2022. The award recognises her ability to develop a relevant body of work as an individual artist while also creating interdisciplinary platforms that foster encounters, collaboration, and solidarity.
ARTISTIC METHOD
Her artistic method is based on an exploration of bodily presence and its mediation through sound, voice, language, and digital image. She works with scripted and improvised gestures, choreographed sequences and repetition, engaging with questions of visibility, identity, and space. Her work creates situations where artistic practice becomes a form of thinking, remembering, or unlearning.
PROJECT DURING BR-2025/26
During the Borderland Residency, Anne Schülke worked in the studio of the PROJEKTRAUM KRANENBURG, located in the house where Joseph Beuys lived temporarily in the 1950s. In the studio, Schülke developed a new performance for the camera based on mirrored movement sequences, performed by herself wearing a full-body suit. The resulting material was presented in the PROJEKTRAUM KRANENBURG and in public spaces in Kranenburg.
Detailed information and exhibition shots: https://www.anneschuelke.de/