METAPHYSICS OF CORE MATTER | ONLINE & STUDIO EXHIBITION
BERLIN | NOVEMBER 2021
This exhibition in digital space refers to a physical place that is very special to me: my studio in Berlin. Over the last few months I have been both developing the space and working on the new and still ongoing body of work Metaphysics of Core Matter, which is now being presented to the public with the first images made for the exhibition context...
NEUSTART KULTUR GRANT | VG BILD KUNST STIFTUNG KULTURWERK
BERLIN | AUGUST 2021
Overjoyed and grateful to receive one of the NEUSTART KULTUR stipends for artists.
Thank you very much!
EUROPEAN MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY
LUXEMBOURG| JUNE 2021
Public presentation at Révélation(s) Portfolio - Platforme - Luxembourg
2nd June 2021, 12:30 - 14:30
Organisators : Café-Crème asbl,
on a proposal by Cristina Dias de Magalhães
With the suppport of Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain
The fourth edition of Révélation (s) / Portfolio – Plateforme – Luxembourg took place as part of the 8th European Month of Photography in Luxembourg on June 2nd, 2021 at Casino Luxembourg, contemporary art forum.
Selected artists were:Bruno Baltzer & Leonora Bisagno, Justine Blau, Marie Capesius, Lisa Kohl, Lucas Leffler, Elshan Rozafa, Caecilia Tripp, Silja Yvette.
The experts invited for this 2021 edition are: Delphine Dumont (director of Hangar, Bruxelles and Photo Brussels Festival), Christian Gattinoni (art critic and editor-in-chief of the online review www.lacritique.org), Emmanuelle Halkin (exhibition curator and head of the Circulations festival; Paris), Verena Kaspar-Eisert (curator at the KunstHaus in Vienna), Bettina Leidl ( director of Kunst Haus Vienne ), Rui Prata (director of Imagao Lisboa), Claartje van Dijk (head curator at Foam Amsterdam) as well as Anouk Wies (chief manager at Cercle Cité and exhibition curator).
Streaming : https://www.casino-luxembourg.lu/fr/Agenda/Revelation-s-Portfolio-Plateforme
SKYLINE SPACE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
FRANKFURT | MAI 2021 - OPEN END
Skyline Plaza in Frankfurt is launching a partnership with Wiesbaden-based gallery Rubrecht Contemporary to bring color and life back into the center after these challenging months. The goal is to create a place to linger and be filled with inspiration, while supporting the local cultural scene by bringing contemporary artists from the region and elsewhere to a wider audience...
Skyline Plaza Frankfurt
Europa-Allee 6
60327 Frankfurt
DOUBLE TROUBLE | GALERIE MANSART
PARIS | DECEMBER - March 2020
An exhibition about the mandatory duality of our existence, the need to focus and act from our individual standpoint in the here and the now, yet also be present and dispersed and generous in and with our surrounding all the while looking towards future.
It is an exhibition about being (required to be) present in multiple places or circumstances at the same time. About the need to wear different hats, or shoes, or whatever clothing item you prefer. It is an exhibition about both: presence and projection, the dichotomy of human existence, the need to under-and-over-estimate ourselves on a constant basis.
Curated by Gabriela Anco
12th December 2020 - 31th January 2021, prolonged until 28th March 2021
Opening 12th and 13th December 2020
BLICKRICHTUNG | RUBRECHT CONTEMPORARY
WIESBADEN | DECEMBER - JANUARY 2020
Annual review and preview exhibition 2020 and 2021
5th December 2020 – 8th January 2021
Opening 5th December 2020
Introduction by Prof. Rüdiger Pichler, Hochschule RheinMain, Wiesbaden
Kevin Clarke, Sabine Dehnel, EL EGO, Lena Krashevka, Hendrina Krawinkel, Rüdiger Pichler, Marc Prat, Manfred Maria Rubrecht, Stefan Stichler, Nina Stoelting, Christine Straszewski, Oriol Texidor, Gábor Török and Silja Yvette
SPECIAL GRANT | BERLIN'S SENATE DEPARTMENT FOR CULTURE AND EUROPE
BERLIN | NOVEMBER 2020
Overjoyed and grateful to receive one of the special stipends for professional and independent Berlin-based artists. Thank you very much!
COLLECTIVE CREATURES @ FK MAGAZINE
RIGA LATVIA | OCTOBER 2020
FK is a web-based magazine writing on Latvian and international photography with the main interest area in contemporary photography in East and North Europe. They now published a wonderful photostory about my body of work Collective Creatures...
IMAGO LISBOA PHOTO FESTIVAL
LISBON PORTUGAL | OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2020
1st October - 15th November 2020
Festival exhibition
VISUALIZED VOLTAGE
Silja Yvette
Festival curated by Rui Prata
Exhibition curated by Paul di Felice
Programmation of the festival featuring Todd Hido, Marco Godinho, Pasha Rafiy, Patrick Galbats, Silja Yvette, Cristina Dias de Magalhaes, Maxim Ivanov, Paola Paredes, Adél Koleszár, Éva Szombat, Krisztina Erdei, Arko Datto, Mariya Koshanova, Sophia Ioannou Gjeding, Catarina Osório de Castro, Paulo Catrica.
MNAC | PLATAFORMA REVÓLVER | MERCADO DE SANTA CLARA | CARPINTARIAS DE SAO LÁZARO
https://carpintariasdesaolazaro.org/
Photo by Hugo David
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE | MARAIS PARIS
PARIS | SEPTEMBER + OCTOBER 2020
Creative immersion into the French metropole.
Working on temporary sculptures: "This falling away from the things we desire will be staged, piled up, crowned by me. It is the fiction of a rising material, but it also shows its transience and the rational hubris of its inventor. My work as an artist is a temporary arrangement of a chaotic environmental condition and a joke with presentation forms in the context of art exhibitions, of the white cube and the pedestal culture, so to say of what needs to be viewed in a concentrated and contemplative sideline. A subtle play with the assumptions regarding myth and progress, practical solutions and their ecological downsides."
DEUTSCHER FOTOBUCHPREIS 19|20 EXHIBITION TOUR
GERMANY | ASIA 2019|20
The German Photobook Award 19|20 will be presented at the following exhibitions, my book Collective Creatures will go on tour:
Stuttgarter Buchwochen: 14th November - 1st December 2019
C.A.R. Essen: 6th - 8th March 2020
Fotoforum Köln: 14th March - 24th April 2020
Galerie Goethe Institut Hong Kong: 11th June - 25th July 2020
Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe: 10th July - 28th August 2020
Hong Kong International Book Fair: 15th - 21st July 2020
Frankfurter Buchmesse: 14.th - 18th October 2020
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE @ BUDAPEST ART FACTORY
BUDAPEST | APRIL 2020 (postponed to 2021 due to Corona)
BAF International Artist Residency Program
"Budapest Art Factory (BAF) is a contemporary visual arts center, seated in a former industrial building in the capital of Hungary. Formed by several artistic studios and an exhibition program, BAF welcomes visitors all year round, providing a platform for the dialogue of contemporary art. BAF runs an International Artist Residency Program, and welcomes established artists as well as up-and-coming young talents for a one-month artistic practice.
BAF holds exhibitions, panel discussions and studio visits with the aim of connecting national and international art professionals." (Budapest Art Factory)
WILDGEHEGE
WIESBADEN | FEBRUARY 2020
Exhibition
Christine Straszewski und Silja Yvette
Opening: 29th February 2020 | 6 p.m.
Duration: 1st March - 10th April 2020
Ein WILDGEHEGE ist ein KÜNSTLICH geschaffener Freiraum, der dazu dient, den ursprünglichen, unangepassten Teil der ART zu schützen. Dort kann sich dieser Teil entwickeln und gedeihen, genährt und getragen vom Gesamtorganismus, um damit die Spezies insgesamt überlebensfähig zu erhalten. Dabei fungiert Kunst als Spiegel, als Ventil und nicht zuletzt als Netz der Gesellschaft. Ein Raum und Labor, in dem einiges gefühlt, gedacht und geäußert werden kann, wo Narrenfreiheit herrscht, um neue Synapsenverbindungen zu schaffen, um Geist und Seele Flügel zu verleihen, um noch nie Gedachtes zu erdenken und noch nie Geschaffenes zu erschaffen.
Das Wilde, das Ungebremste in der Mythologie und im Märchen korrespondiert mit dem Tierischen, dem Wald, der Wildnis. Bereiche aus Traum, Phantasie und dem kollektiven Unbewussten zeigen Zügelloses, Formloses, Unkultiviertes, das unter Kontrolle zu bringen und zu sublimieren ist. Der Basilisk beispielsweise gilt in der Alchemie als Stein der Weisen – und wer sucht nicht nach ihm?
Der Titel der Ausstellung WILDGEHEGE ist zugleich ein Oxymoron: das Wilde mit Freiraum einhegen. Doch was geschieht, wenn das gehegte Wilde ausgewildert wird? Das wird in der Gesamtinstallation der Konzeptkünstlerinnen Silja Yvette und Christine Straszewski erfahrbar. Erweitert durch Verspiegelung, Bespiegelung und paraboler Spiegelung verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen Jäger und Gejagtem. Hier gerät jedoch nicht das Kunstsystem ins Visier, sondern sein Pendant: der Eindringling, die Hybridisierung und der Synkretismus. Bezugssysteme unterschiedlicher Ebenen werden miteinander verknüpft. In der Rauminstallation trifft Formendes auf Geformtes, auf Verformtes, ob Naturkreatur oder Kunstagentur. Wesen mit ungleichen Augen beobachten und nehmen Blickkontakt auf. Malerei, Fotografie, Plastik und Konzept bilden einen Spannungsbogen, in dem die Betrachter*innen Zugang zu Mysterium und universellen Erfahrungen haben.
Die Ausstellung WILDGEHEGE ist der Auftakt der Themenreihe "Selbstreferenzialität in der Bildenden Kunst", die in der Galerie RubrechtContemporary in Wiesbaden ab Februar 2020 zu sehen sein wird. Die Konzeptkünstlerinnen Silja Yvette und Christine Straszewski sind eingeladen, das Kunstsystem nicht nur zu hinterfragen, vielmehr werden sie die Kunst als gesellschaftssprengendes Element, als Störfaktor des Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftssystems in den Mittelpunkt stellen. Mit scharfem Geschütz gehen sie auf die Jagd und gehen bei dieser Ausstellung nicht zum ersten Mal eine künstlerische Symbiose ein: DRAG ON FLOW (Peking), HIGGSTEDDY (Wiesbaden), KLEIDET MICH IN SEIDE (Bonn) und HAI:P (Wiesbaden) sind vielversprechende Ausstellungstitel, bei denen die beiden ihre Seelenverwandtschaft bereits erprobten.
Rubrecht Contemporary
Büdingenstrasse 4-6
65183 Wiesbaden
Opening hours without tour: Wednesday + Friday 2 – 6 pm. Personal tours at any time by appointment: Monday to Saturday between 10 am and 10 pm. Please contact Leander Rubrecht: +49 611 205 211 5 or +49 176 816 650 31
COLLECTIVE CREATURES | DEUTSCHER FOTOBUCHPREIS 19|20 WINNER OF SILVER
STUTTGART | NOVEMBER
My recent art book Collective Creatures - A Dialogue of Dichotomous Hybrids was awarded silver in the category photographer / monograph by Deutsche Fotobuchpreis. After the current exhibition in Stuttgart at the Stuttgarter Buchwochen until 1st December 2019, the books will go on an exhibition tour in Germany. Highly appreciated recognition and all my gratitude to the jury as well as to everybody who was involved in creating the book!
COLLECTIVE CREATURES | H.W.FICHTER KUNSTHANDEL
FRANKFURT | SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2019
Exhibition with Book Launch
Opening 19th September 2019, 7 pm
Duration 20th September - 26th October 2019
Introduction: Aurelio Fichter, Charlotte Lindenberg
Galerie H. W. Fichter Kunsthandel
Arndtstraße. 51, 60325 Frankfurt
+49 (0)69 743 890 30
Opening Hours: Monday - Friday 9am -5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
COLLECTIVE CREATURES | WITH H.W. FICHTER KUNSTHANDEL @ PAPER POSITIONS
FRANKFURT | SEPTEMBER 2019
From 5 – 8 September 2019, during the newly established culture and art event Frankfurt Art Experience, 40 galleries will present outstanding artistic positions on drawing and the medium of paper on the ground floor of the centrally located Flare of Frankfurt...
GOSEE LOVES | COLLECTIVE CREATURES
ONLINE PRESS | AUGUST 2019
Was auf den ersten Blick nach einem Sammelsurium nicht zu einander passender fotografischer Beobachtungen aussieht, ergibt nach mehrmaligem Betrachten ein wunderschönes Ganzes. So ging es uns in der Redaktion bei dem Vorgänger 'SEASON OF ADMIN', der Anfang 2018 im Kerber Verag erschien. Nun verlegt Hatje Cantz mit 'Collective Creatures' das neue Fotobuch von Silja Yvette. Und wieder ziehen uns die Bilder ganz langsam in ihren Bann...
SEASON OF ADMIN | FINALIST @ ATHENS PHOTO FESTIVAL
ATHENS | JUNE 2019
Happy to inform that my book SEASON OF ADMIN is one of the finalists of the photo book exhibition at Athens Photo Festival 2019. The selected books will be displayed during the festival at the Benaki Museum / Pireos 138 in Athens from 13 June until 28 July.
COLLECTIVE CREATURES @ ART BASEL WITH HATJE CANTZ
BASEL
Join Hatje Cantz at Art Basel and have a look at my beautiful new book!
Hall 2.0, foyer.
COLLECTIVE CREATURES
COLLECTOR'S EDITION | MAY 2019
The special Collector's Edition of the publication Collective Creatures is now available!
It comprises one signed book Collective Creatures and two photographic prints chosen out of the body of work, limited to an edition run of twelve pieces : Klunker and Sympathikus Parasympathikus
COLLECTIVE CREATURES | A dialogue of dichotomous hybrids
BOOK RELEASE MAY 2019 @ HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
In Collective Creatures, Silja Yvette draws attention to artificial and natural materials, as well as to the effects of mass and energy in space and time. In her photographs objects and places—from caves and abandoned buildings, to quarries, shop windows, found pieces, volcanos, and atomic events—become “collective creatures,” which make it possible to understand forces that are difficult to visualize, such as transformation, expansion, and omnipresence. There is something inherently mythical about these things that opposes the calculability desired by humans. With her strongly compositional images freed from their cultural context, Silja Yvette’s artistic process takes aim at associative contexts. Critically, and with sensitivity, she shows their relationship to the subtle permeation of microparticles and radiation on the one hand, and to the massive upheaval of the earth’s materials perpetrated by human-led corporations and human inventions.
GOSEE LOVES...
PRESS RELEASE
SEASON OF ADMIN is the first book by Frankfurt-based artist Silja Yvette (* 1986) and was recently published by Kerber Verlag. Not only the name made us curious but also the captivating cover. The lovingly designed book, elaborately produced with different paper qualities, contains exciting photographic tableaus. The subjects of Silja Yvette emanate an air of tranquility, inviting the beholder to continue looking and to linger....
FRANKFURTER ELEGIEN
EXHIBITION + BOOK LAUNCH
Thursday, 23th November 2017 8 pm - 12 pm
Saturday, 25th November 2017 11 am - 16 pm
Book presentation and introduction by Charlotte Lindenberg
The exhibition will show works of the series SEASON OF ADMIN and new works from COLLECTIVE CREATURES
Booksigning
Accompanied by drinks & light food
*Special from 10 pm
Music by .∆IM33 | Visionary Refinement (Wien/Frankfurt/Imperia)
https://www.mixcloud.com/aim33/
https://soundcloud.com/mnmlplus
SEASON OF ADMIN @ Kerber Verlag
RELEASE SEPTEMBER 2017
Subtle, uncanny and at the same time perceptive – the photographs of Silja Yvette »evoke associations ranging from ironic reflection to elegiac allusion, from the fragility of being to a certain longing for the elementary« (Annekathrin Müller, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation). At the origin of »Season of Admin« is an unease regarding any socially organised and administered relationship to nature and things. The images deal with issues related to the self-description of a subject that considers itself autonomous and on the other hand with the agency of things, assuming an understanding of hybrid forms of actions.
The new publication contains remarkable full size photographic tableaus and an artist book like rich choice of different papers.
SEASON OF ADMIN
FRANKFURT
Book Launch Event for Special Collector's Edition | with exhibition
Project supported by Thomas Duhnkrack.
Friday, 19. May 2017 from 6 pm and
Saturday, 20. May 2017 from 11am to 4 pm.
Registration requested, please use the following button.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE @ SHEN SHAOMINS STUDIO IN BEIJING
BEIJING
Guest artist for the residency program in China
at the studio of renowned Chinese-Australian artist
Shen Shaomin in Beijing.
September - Oktober 2016
HIGGSTEDDY
WIESBADEN
Silja Yvette & Christine Straszewski
Ausstellungseröffnung am Freitag, 1. April 2016 um 20 Uhr.
Ausstellungsdauer: 2.-24. April 2016
Öffnungszeiten: Mi-Fr 16-18 Uhr und nach persönlicher Vereinbarung
Kuratiert von Juan Xu und Leander Rubrecht
PROGRAMM IM APRIL:
HIGGSTEDDY_TALK
Samstag, 16.04.2016, Beginn 21 Uhr
(zur KURZEN NACHT DER GALERIEN UND MUSEEN WIESBADEN)
II PERFORMANCE DAY 2016, WIESBADEN
in Zusammenarbeit mit I O Cultural Network e. V.
Sonntag, 24.04.2016 von 14 - 20 Uhr
ADRESSE
KAISER&CREAM. ART DISTRICT
Büdingenstraße 4-6, 65183 Wiesbaden
T +49 - 611 - 205 211 5
C +49 - 176 - 816 650 31
www.kaiser-cream.com
KLEIDET MICH IN SEIDE - YOUNG CONTEMPORARY ART
BONN
VERONIKA BURGER, JANA HARTMANN, BERND METZ, ANSELM SCHENKLUHN,
SARAH SCHODERER, CHRISTINE STRASZEWSKI, SILJA YVETTE
Junge, zeitgenössische KünstlerInnen aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum zeigen eine besondere Ausstellung in der Kunst- und Kulturhalle Fabrik45 im Bonner Macke Viertel. Kleidet mich in Seide bildet eine ironische Klammer um die Herausforderungen des künstlerischen Schaffens, von Zweifel bis Behauptung. Die Schau protegiert aufstrebende bildende KünstlerInnen, die bereits eine ausgeprägte künstlerische Sprache entwickelt haben, im Sinne einer großräumigen und selbstbestimmten Präsentation. Ob Malerei, Fotografie, Skulptur, Installation oder Performance, die gezeigten Arbeiten jonglieren mit Mediengrenzen und bewegen sich im Feld der Interdisziplinarität.
Ein Ausstellungsprojekt von Silja Yvette mit Unterstützung von Natascia Cuschié und Cristof Domrowe.
Vernissage Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2016 ab 19 Uhr
Ausstellungsdauer 19. bis 28. Februar 2016
Öffnungszeiten: Do-Fr 16-20 Uhr, Sa und So 16-19 Uhr, Mo bis Mi geschlossen
Kunstbummel am Samstag, den 20. Februar 2016 mit Dr. Nicole Birnfeld (Kunst- und Kulturvermittlerin)
Führung durch die Ausstellung: 12-13:30 Uhr, Gebühr 5€
Fabrik45 Hochstadenring 45
53119 Bonn
0228 / 53448677
www.fabrik45.de
SEASON OF ADMIN
FRANKFURT
Fotografien von Silja Yvette
Ein Ausstellungsprojekt kuratiert von Sarah Schoderer, mit Unterstützung von Natalie Vu und Marc Oswald
Ausstellungseröffnung am Samstag, 30. Januar 2016 um 20 Uhr.
REZEPTION
• fine arts & #1 Jeans •
Rechneigrabenstraße 1
(Nähe Konstablerwache)
60311 Frankfurt
Ausstellungsdauer: 6 Wochen
Öffnungszeiten: Di, Do-Sa 10-18 Uhr, Mi 10-15 Uhr, Mo und So geschlossen