Germany
Sandra Schäfer’s artistic practice deals with the production of urban, rural and trans-geographical spaces, history and visual politics. She is interested in the margins, gaps and discontinuities of our perception of history, political struggles, urban and geopolitical spaces. She works with film and video installations including stills/photography. Therein she puts a particular focus on the role of the camera and the visual regimes that are implicated in these visual technologies as well as their social role.
In 2018, she completed her doctorate focusing on on situated militancy in visual and spatial politics at HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg. Sandra Schäfer also is professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and an associated member of the feminist film distributor Cinenova in London.
Her works were shown worldwide with recent exhibitions at the Berlin Berlinale Forum Expanded (2016, 2017); Depo, Istanbul; La Virreina, Barcelona; National Gallery of Art, Vilnius; Camera Austria, Graz; House of World Cultures, Berlin; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin; Center for Art and Media (ZKM), Karlsruhe; etc. Furthermore, she is an She also has an extensive repertoire in public speaking at various conferences and events.
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