Ani Shulze

Ani Schulze (born 1982 in Frankenberg, Germany) studied at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Glasgow School of Arts, at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and Kunstakademie Karlsruhe (2009-2014). Her practice moves seamlessly between film, painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. In her work she sensitively processes, merges and let collide various materials (such as ceramics, textiles, smell, metal, video, sound, etc.), hence the craft process plays a major role. The artist creates visual worlds in which history and stories are encircled in dreamlike images, fusing reality and imagination, mythological and scientific references, personal and collective experiences. She explores the mutual relationship and the porous boundaries between the human body and its environment, as well as the effects of advancing digitalisation and capitalism on these. Ani Schulze's works unbalance our handling with power structures, norms and regulations. In doing so, they play with familiar and at the same time arouse suspicion.