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Silja Yvette is a German artist who lives and works in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main (Germany). She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Städelschule, Frankfurt in 2011 and added studies in architecture until 2010 and philosophy until 2018. She has been exhibiting works in individual and group shows in Germany since 2006, since 2011 in other European countries and in 2016 in Beijing. Most recently, in 2020, she was featured in a gallery exhibitions in Paris and at the Imago Lisboa Photo Festival. 2017 her first monograph Season of Admin was published at Kerber Verlag and was selected for „Longlist of Most Beautiful German Books 2018“ of Stiftung Buchkunst (Frankfurt/ Leipzig). With Collective Creatures her second monograph followed and was published 2019 by Hatje Cantz Verlag which won silver at the renowned Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 19/20 (German Photobook Award). In 2019, she was nominated for the prestigious Edward Steichen Award in Luxembourg. 2022 she has been nominated for the Art Award of Haus am Kleistpark Berlin 2022 and has been part of the nominee exhibition.

Silja Yvette’s artistic work deals with a tradition of dialectic of enlightenment focusing in a todays context on ecological aspects and on the relationship between human beings and the world of natural and artificial things. One could also say her practice is at the intersection of nature and human ventures and inventions. Her work frequently approaches the absurdity of a well restricted and administrated nature with a captivated eye pointing on the influence and the social interactiveness of things. Her interest arouses where the separation of the social and what we describe as nature, between society and technology as well as the distinction between subject and object are no further tenable. Maybe because they are already so interwoven today and it might become more and more clear how much these were only categories of the mind. She artistically enjoys the ridiculousness of the dichotomy that the human mind constantly tries to establish. In doing so, she seeks ways of visualizing the tussle between myth and progress.

 

since 2017    Studio in Berlin

2011 - 2018  Studies in philosophy, University of Hagen
2014 - 2017  Freelancer at Fotografie Forum Frankfurt

2009 - 2010  Studies of architecture, University of Applied Science Frankfurt

2005 - 2011  Master of Fine Arts, Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule, Frankfurt

since 2008   Studio in Frankfurt
 

Grants | Awards | Artist in Residence

2022  Goldrausch project for women artists fellowship 2023, Berlin

2022  Nomination Art Award Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin

2022  Grant Neustart Kultur Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn

2022  Lucy Artist in Residency, Greece, longlisted

2022  Athens Photo Festival, shortlisted

2022  Grant International Culture Exchange, Senat für Kultur und Europa, Berlin

2021  Grant Neustart Kultur of Stiftung Kulturwerk VG Bild Kunst 

2021  Greif Magazine, Preselection for Edition Sylvie Fleury "Yes to all" 

2021  Belfast Photo Festival, shortlisted 

2021  Lajone Art Residency, Monferrato (upcoming, postponed to 2022) 

2021  BAF Budapest Art Factory International Artist Residency Program, Budapest (upcoming, postponed to 2022)

2020  Special Grant Senat für Kultur und Europa Berlin

2020  Athens Photo Festival Finalist, Athens

2020  COLLECTIVE CREATURES Preselection at Fedrigoni Top Award

2020  Artist in Residency Beautreillis Marais, Paris

2019  Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 19/20 Silver for COLLECTIVE CREATURES in category photographer (monograph), Stuttgart

2019  Nomination for Edward Steichen Award 2019, Luxembourg

2019  SEASON OF ADMIN finalist Athens Photo Festival, Athens

2018  Publication grant Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main

2018  SEASON OF ADMIN longlisted “Best Books from Germany 2018” by Stiftung Buchkunst, Frankfurt/ Leipzig

2017  Publication grant Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Wiesbaden

2017  Publication grant Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main

2016  Artist in Residence Shen Shaomin, Beijing 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2023  METAPHYSICS OF CORE MATTER, Galerie Arimont, European Month of Photography, Berlin (upcoming)

2021  METAPHYSICS OF CORE MATTER, OVR und Atelierausstellung, Berlin

2020  WILDGEHEGE mit Christine Straszewski, Rubrecht Contemporary, Wiesbaden

2019  COLLECTIVE CREATURES, H.W.Fichter Galerie und Kunsthandel, Frankfurt 

2017  FRANKFURTER ELEGIEN, Atelier Silja Yvette, Frankfurt

2017  SEASON OF ADMIN, Atelier Silja Yvette, Frankfurt 

2016  DRAG ON FLOW with Christine Straszewski, 798 Art District, Beijing

2016  HIGGSTEDDY with Christine Straszewski, Kaiser&Cream, Wiesbaden
2016  SEASON OF ADMIN, Rezeption, Frankfurt
2013  KATEGOR HYBRIDOR, Fabrik45, Bonn
2013  ICH UND DIE GEISTER, with Bernd Metz und Anselm Schenkluhn, Die Fabrik, Frankfurt
2012  NETZ-WERKE, Projektraum Bäckerei Wimmer, Wien
2011  DIE CHOREOGRAPHIE DES AMORPHEN, Saint Charles Complementary, Wien
2011  UNCANNYUNCANDY, Spazio PWC-Experience, Mailand
2011  MELTING BORDERS, Centro Culturale Polivalente and Palazzina Liberty, Imperia
2010  LIBERTY CALLS, Galerie Saint Gabriel Interieur, Frankfurt
2008  ZUGEFLÜSTER with Sarah Schoderer, Kultureller Förderverein, Dreieich

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2022  IMAGO LISBOA PHOTO FESTIVAL, Lisbon, Portugal

2022  ART AWARD HAUS AM KLEISTPARK Nominee Exhibition, Berlin

2022  BIENNALE FÜR AKTUELLE FOTOGRAFIE, PORT25, presentation + workshop, Mannheim

2022  OFFENE ATELIERS BRANDENBURG in the spaces of RECOM ART, Brandenburg, Jühnsdorf

2021  SKYLINE SPACE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Frankfurt

2020/21  DOUBLE TROUBLE, Galerie Mansart, Paris

2020  BLICKRICHTUNG, Rubrecht Contemporary, Wiesbaden 

2020  VISUALIZED VOLTAGES, Imago Photo Festival Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

2020  DFBP Frankfurter Buchmesse, Frankfurt (cancelled/postponed due to Corona)

2020  DFBP Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe

2020  DFBP Fotoforum Köln, Köln

2020  DFBP Contemporary Art Ruhr, Essen

2019  DFBP Stuttgarter Buchwochen, Stuttgart

2019  PAPER POSITIONS, Frankfurt

2019  Athens Photo Festival, Athens 

2018  Stiftung Buchkunst "Schönste Deutsche Bücher", Frankfurter Buchmesse, Frankfurt

2016  KLEIDET MICH IN SEIDE, Fabrik45, Bonn
2015  Art Cologne, Booth of Bonner Kunstverein, Köln
2014  JAHRESGABEN, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
2014  SUMMER SENSATIONS, Rue de Montenegro, Brüssel
2013  [HAI:P], Kaiser&Cream Galerie, Wiesbaden                     
2013  DIE GOLDENE BOMBE, Bergerstraße 6, Frankfurt
2013  AKTUELLE FORMATIONEN, Neue Studiogalerie, Frankfurt
2013  THE MERGE OF DUALITY, Saint Charles Complementary, Wien
2013  ICH UND DIE GEISTER, Die Fabrik, Frankfurt
2011  Encore, Absolventenausstellung Städelschule, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Zollamt, Frankfurt
2011  Gallus Calling, Go West Festival, Tevesgelände, Frankfurt
2011  Nacht der Museen, Junge Kunst mit Zukunft, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt
2011  Im Kunstlabor, Atelier Frankfurt
2009  Lebenslust, Metzlersaal Städelmuseum Frankfurt und Raum 121 – Verein für Kunst und Kultur, Frankfurt
2009/10  My Corridor ist your workspace, McKinsey, Japantower Frankfurt
2008  bodenlos,  Skulpturen- und Installationenausstellung, Kunstcoma, U.F.O.-Gebäude Frankfurt
2008  Schlittschuhlaufen auf Canal Grande, Leonhardi Kulturprojekte, Karben
2006  Nacht der Museen, Junge Kunst mit Zukunft, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt

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