About

Born:                       1968

Lives and works:  Germany

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Silke Schoener is a contemporary realist painter, famous for her serene, yet poetical landscapes, inspired from North Hesse's nature.

Silke studied in Dresden soon after the 'fall of the Berlin Wall', where she was influenced by the Leipzig School. This influence can be detected in her confident drawing, her strong compositional sense and her freedom from false gestures.

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The empty white spaces on her oil paintings are her visual signature, an ability which a few artists managed to master. Her creation process is an ongoing one, where she constantly searches for visual inspirations in nature, in her everyday surroundings and foreign places. She uses her camera to capture the moment which then takes back to her studio.

In an intuitive selection process, she composes the picture by only painting what she feels is essential and necessary, leaving out the other parts.

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Thus by means of extraction and the use of white space she attempts to represent a mental and spiritual world. By creating these empty spaces on her canvas she gives room to the real objects to expand, and the opportunity to the viewer to fill in these blank areas.

The powerful balance of white space and the landscape on Silke’s canvases, brings clarity and serenity to the viewer, in a way that only Silke can apply in her unique way.  

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Silke Schoener has exhibited in countries such as USA, France, Japan, and Germany, and she has regular participations in international art fairs around the world.

'In my attempt to capture the WHOLE within a painting, I use the concept of combining a naturalistic painting style with the white space. My interest is centered on making the unreal perceivable on the white surface of the picture by means of virtualized reality.’

Silke Schoener

Medium: Oil paint on canvas.

Selected Permanent Collections

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Silke Schoener artworks are part of important private and corporate collections around the world.

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EDUCATION

Masters in Fine Arts, Kassel Art School   1994

           Germany           

Bachelor in Fine Arts, Dresden Art School   1991

 Germany           

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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Silke Schoener had over 30 solo exhibitions around the world.

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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Participated in multiple group exhibitions and art fairs world wide. This is a list of the galleries where Silke's artworks are permanently on exhibition.

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PUBLICATIONS

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Silke's work has been published in many different distributed material. 

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    ARTWORKS AVAILABLE for SALE by SILKE SCHOENER    

    PAST SHOWS of SILKE SCHOENER    

Selected Solo Exhibitions 

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2019        Galerie Freitag 18.30, Aachen, Germany

2019        Galerie Artmundi, Paris, France

2019        Claire Carino Contemporary, Boston, USA

2018        Galerie Freitag 18.30, Aachen, Germany

2018         Affordable art Fair, Hamburg, Germany

2017         Claire Carino Contemporary, Boston, USA

2017         Galerie Freitag 18.30, Aachen, Germany

2017         NORDSTROOSS, Luxemburg

2017         Wirtschaftsforum der SPD, Berlin, Germany

2017         Galerie Artmundi, Paris, France

2016         Galerie Freitag 18.30, Aachen, Germany

2016         Art Fair Köln, Galerie Freitag 18.30, Cologne, Germany

2016         Galerie Ahlers, Göttingen, Germany

2015         Claire Carino Contemporary, Boston, USA

2015         Galerie Freitag 18.30, Aachen, Germany

2015          Aachen Art.Fair Köln, Cologne, Germany

2015          Galerie Freitag 18.30 Galerie Maurer, Germany

2015          Frankfurt Art Karlsruhe, Germany

2015          Galerie Maurer, Frankfurt, Germany

2015          Ostrale, Dresden, Germany

2014          Ostrale, Dresden, Germany                                                                                                                                                         

2014          Dillon Gallery, New York, USA   

2014          Dillon Gallery NY, Chelsea Musik Festival, artist in residence                                                                                     

2014          Gallery Freitag 18.30, Aachen, Germany

2014          Gallery Maurer, Frankfurt, Germany

2013          Dillon Gallery, New York, USA

2012          Dillon Gallery, New York, USA

2012          State Theater lobby during the documenta 13, Kassel, Germany

2012           Galerie Freitag 18.30, Aachen, Germany

2012           Art Gallery, Wiesbaden, Germany

2012           AU Gallery, Boston, USA

2011           Color in White, Dillion Gallery, New York, USA

2011           Oliver Ahlers Gallery, Goettingen, Germany

2009          New Paintings, Dillon Gallery, New York, USA

2009          White, Gallery Strenger, Tokyo, Japan

2008          White, Gallery Strenger, Tokyo, Japan

2007          New Paintings, Dillon Gallery, New York, USA

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Permanently on Exhibition

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Claire Carino Contemporary, Boston, USA
Galerie Artmundi, Paris, FRA
Galerie Freitag 18.30, Aachen, DE
Galerie Ahlers, Göttingen, DE

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Publications

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2018          Catalog "Silke Schoener" by Galerie Freitag 18.30, DE

2015          OSTRALE - Biennial of Contemporary Art, DE

2014          OSTRALE - Biennial of Contemporary Art, DE

2014          Mentioned as a recognized artist by Jean-Christophe Ammann, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Frankfurt, DE

2014          Mentioned as a recognized artist by Sabine Russ, BOMB Magazine New York, USA

2014          Chelsea Musik Festival, "artist in residence", N.Y., USA

2014          Catalog "Paintings" by Galerie Freitag 18.30, DE

2012          State Theater Kassel during the documenta 13, DE

2012          Artist portrait in KulturMagazin, Kassel, DE

2012          Catalog "Weisser Raum" by Galerie Ahlers, DE

2011          Harper's Magazine, USA

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