Natascha Schoenaich
Natascha Schoenaich’s vivid compositions are set as theatrical plays in a liminal space between the spiritual and the terrestrial. The artist expresses the vulnerability and darkness of human nature through subjective imageries and mundane references. Human bodies emerge from the oil colours and engage with the viewer’s mind and gaze always in a subjective and subconscious dialogue. The mundane element of each painting opens on to other post-human experiences suggested by distorted and contrasting colour choices, unknown life forms or simply recognisable human bodies in the liminality of emotions and spiritual dimensions. Schoenaich effectively channels the contemporary human condition, not without some melancholy and black humour which make her works dynamic and ever-evolving under the viewer’s eyes.
Schoenaich lives and works in Berlin. She is a self-taught visual artist who mainly expresses herself through oil painting and watercolours. She was part of the collaborative project Algoist, where she experimented with sound installations and conceptual art, and has widely exhibited in group and solo shows around Berlin and in Porto (Portugal) since 2014.
Artworks
Vita
Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Studies and Art and Visual History | Humboldt University Berlin (GER)
Assistance of Ashkan Sahihi
Algoist II | six-week convivium with installations, lectures, discussions and interventions on immersion and Oskar Hansen's Open Form | conceptualization and organization | Erratum Gallery | Berlin (GER)
El Refugio | art project with socially disadvantaged people | conceptualization and organization | Oaxaca (MEX)
Exhibitions (selection)
Hot Mess | Kühlhaus Berlin (GER) (Group show)
Inside Out | WoMA - The Window of Modern Art | Berlin (GER) (Solo show)
Arsenic | Studio Artukovic | Berlin (GER) (Solo show)
Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind | exhibition with Lovro Artukovic | Studio Artukovic | Berlin (GER)
Malerei | Galerie Kairos | Berlin (Group show)
Sorgen N° 5 | Performance with si (Sorgen International) | Bar Babette | Berlin (GER)
Sonic Therapy System II- Botanics | immersive sound-installation with Roman Gebhardt | Erratum Galerie | Berlin (GER)
The Analogue Immersive Tour to Eternia | immersive installation with Götz Schramm and Pourea Alimirzae | Erratum Galerie | Berlin (GER)
Sonic Therapy System I- Finance | immersive sound-installation with Roman Gebhardt | Morphin | Berlin (GER)
ALGOIST I interventions, performance und exhibition | Maus Hábitos | Porto (POR)
WHAT SIDE ARE YOU ON? | Project Space Mikrokosmos | Berlin (GER) (Solo show)
48h Neukölln | exhibition with Alana Richards | Bitches Brew | Berlin (GER)
UTA – ART WEISSENSEE | Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz | Berlin (GER) (Group show)
UGMAPLAST | Studio Schramm | Berlin (GER) (Group show)
Artini Bar | Art fair Art Karlsruhe | Karlsruhe (GER)