Sylvia Schwenk |  |
Lives and works in Sydney
M: +61 (0) 403 262 691
W: www.schwenk.com.au
EDUCATION
2011 Doctor of Philosophy, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, AU2008 Köln International School of Design, DE
2007 Bachelor of Visual Arts 1st Class Honours, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, AU
2006 Universität der Künste Berlin, DE
PERFORMANCES
2011 In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, AU
Along white lines, during half time at the NTFA Grand Final, Aurora Stadium, Launceston, AU
birds and clouds from one life to another, MSC Bad Bentheim, border DE and NL
In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people, on the lawns of the
MCA, Sydney, AU
2010 Life takes place on foot, Elizabeth and Market Streets, Sydney, AU
Boots for Rising Waters, Artereal Gallery, Sydney, AU
2009 One day, I think I'll lend a hand, but right now I need a new plasma TV, Art Sydney 09, Sydney, AU
Remember the importance of SELF, Schöppingen, DE
One day I think I'll lend a hand, K+K carpark, Schöppingen, DE
X Performance Dunedin, The Octagon Dunedin NZ
Red, blue or green?, Bondi, Sydney, AU
2008 Each in their own time, the Hub Newtown, Sydney, AU
X Performance Köln, Altstadt Cologne, DE
Life Preservers, Südstadt, Cologne, DE
Boots for Rising Waters, on the stairs of the Dom Cathedral, Cologne, DE
2007 X Performance outside TNT Building, Redfern, Sydney, AU
Under Surveillance, Martin Place, and St Leonards Train Station, Sydney, AU
X Performance Le Loi Saigon, Saigon, VN
X Performance George Street Sydney, Sydney, AU
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 birds and clouds from one life to another, Dynamo Expo, Enschede, NL (upcoming)
birds and clouds from one life to another, Perron 1, Delden, NL (upcoming)
Along white lines, Dianne Tanzer, Melbourne, AU (upcoming)
2011 The workers' lift, Albury Library Museum, Albury, AU
Life takes place of foot, Gallery 2, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, AU
2010 The workers' lift, Oxford Art Factory, Sydney, AU
Love and Loss, Art2Muse Gallery, Sydney, AU
The world is made up of unfinished stories, Artereal Gallery, Sydney , AU
2009 One day I think I'll lend a hand, but right now I need a new plasma TV,
Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Forum für Kunstvermittlung, DE
They paved paradise put up a parking lot, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, NZ
2006 Eternal Return, Zapp Live Galerie, Berlin, DE
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2012 Figure and Landscape, QVMAG, Launceston, AU (upcoming)
Dialogue with Tasmania, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, AU (upcoming)
2011 Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre, AU
Homegrown, COFAspace, Sydney, AU
Body Language, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, AU
David Harold Tribe Sculpture Award, SCA Gallery, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, AU
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre, AU
Albury Digital Art Outdoor Gallery, Albury Library Museum, AU
Art Month, Artereal Gallery, Sydney, AU
2010 Postgraduate Degree Show 2010, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, AU
Art and About, City of Sydney, Sydney, AU
Lethbridge 10000, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, AU
Linden Postcards, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, AU
2009 Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Gold Coast, AU
Art Sydney 09 - Off the Wall, RHI Pavilion, Sydney, AU
Think Pink, Artereal Gallery, Sydney, AU
Climate Camp 09, Mori Gallery, Sydney, AU
Someone draws a flower on the wall beside their bed, Gallery of Arts and Aesthetics,
Jawarhalal Nehru University, Delhi, IN
climate emergency, At the Vanishing Point Gallery, Newtown, AU
Thesis, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne, AU
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Gold Coast, AU
Altered States of Reality, Agora Gallery, New York, US
Dunedin Fringe Festival, NZ
Go Figure, Artereal Gallery, Sydney, AU
Wilson National Art Prize, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, AU
2008 Watch this space … Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, AU
Globetrotters, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, CA
Go North!, Halifax, CA
Red Cross Summer Exhibition, Nutshuis Gallery, The Hague, NL
Newtown Flicks Short Film Festival, Newtown, Sydney, AU
Moran Prize – semifinalist, Sydney, AU
Night Markets, Performance Space, Sydney, AU
2007 Degree Shows 2007, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, AU
Sydney Underground Film Festival, The Factory Theatre, Sydney, AUThe Howard Years, At the Vanishing Point Gallery, Sydney, AU
Trajectories of Dissent, Mori Gallery, Tooth Studios, and Little Fish Gallery, Sydney, AU
Enviro-Collective Art Show, Exit Gallery, Sydney, AU
Beautiful paper, beautiful design, albb, Saigon, VN
2006 Degree Shows 2006, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, AU
berliner-fotoalbum, Linienstrasse Berlin, DE
Szpilman Awards 2006, Berlin, DE
Australia right now, Newspace Gallery, Sydney, AU
Rundgang, UdK, Berlin, DE
Sommerwende International Arts Festival, Gallery 24, Berlin, DE
2005 On the Same Page, Greig and Hinde Gallery, Sydney, AU
… about, china heights gallery, Sydney, AU
Art Sydney 05 - Off the Wall Emerging Artist Showcase,Sydney, AU
MCQ International Art Prize, Chifley Tower, Sydney, AU
… it's the economy, stupid, Newspace Gallery, Sydney, AU
Subculture, Newspace Gallery, Sydney, AU
COMMISSIONS, AWARDS AND PRIZES
2011 Commission European Union, GrensWerte Program
Finalist Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, The Arts Centre, Gold Coast, AU
Finalist David Harold Tribe Sculpture Award, SCA Gallery, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, AU
Finalist Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Gold Coast, AU
Grant Arts NSW, AU
2010 ACUADs Scholarship, Conference presentation, AU
Kickstart Grant, USU, AU
Highly Commended Art Monthly Australia Emerging Writer Award, AU
Postgraduate Research Support Scheme Grant, University of Sydney, AU
2009 Work acquired and finalist Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre, AU
Grant and Fellow, Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, DE
James Kentley Memorial Scholarship, University of Sydney, AU
Finalist Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre, AU
Finalist Wilson National Art Prize, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, AU
Postgraduate Research Support Scheme Grant, University of Sydney, AU
2008 University of Sydney Postgraduate Award (3 year grant), AU
2008 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Exchange Scholarship, AU
2006 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Exchange Scholarship, AU
2005 Finalist MCQ International Art Prize, Chifley Tower, Sydney, AU
RESIDENCIES
2011 School of Visual and Performing Arts University of Tasmania, AU
2009 Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, DE
2007 albb, Saigon, VN
PUBLICATIONS, MEDIA, AND REVIEWS
2011 Bourne, P, Sylvia Schwenk: In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people,
Interview:Radio Station 2SER, 17 March 2011
Denneman, A, Tanzende Flugzeuge vor wolkenverhangenem Himmel (Dancing aircraft against an overcast
sky), Grafschafter Nachrichten, Germany, 4 July, p5
Fortescue, E, Let's hear it for tradies, Daily Telegraph, 12 March 2011, p9
Frost, A, Open Gallery, Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, 8–9 September 2011
McShane, B, Don’t move the goalposts, become one instead, The Examiner, 15 September 2011, p5
Venterink, GL, Vanuit het ene leven in het andere cliegen (Flying from one life to another), De Twente
Courant Tubantia, Holland, 2 July 2011, p3
2010 Bourne, P, Sylvia Schwenk: Life takes place on foot, Interview: Radio Station 2SER, 14 October 2010
Bourne, P and McGregor C, Sylvia Schwenk: The world is made up of unfinished stories,
Inteview: Radio Station 2SER, 25 March 2010
Dowse, B, Sylvia Schwenk: The world is made up of unfinished stories, Catalogue essay, 2010,
Artereal Gallery, Sydney
Pavlich, C, Height of Fashion, mX, 23 March, 2010, Front cover
Art Heroes, Trouble magazine, October 2010: unpaged
2009 Benson, N, Traffic brought to a standstill, Otago Daily Times, 28-29 March, 2009: 10
G.bert, Interview with Sylvia Schwenk, Radio One 91FM Dunedin, 28 March 2009
Gezcy A, Social Exchange and Life, Appliance, Issue 97, (May - March 2009), Artists Alliance,
Auckland
Gezcy A, Social Exchange and Life, Catalogue essay, 2009, Blue Oyster Gallery, New Zealand
Locksmith Project, Issue 1, June 2009, 48-51
Meisel-Kemper, E, Jeder einzelne Mensch hat Bedeutung, Westfaelische Nachrichten,
21 July 2009, 33
Meisel-Kemper, E, Wildfremde Menschen kommen in Kontakt, Westfaelische Nachrichten,
13 July 2009, 24
Pariat, J, Bedroom becomes a drawing room, Time Out Delhi, Vol No 3, Issue 10
(7-20 August 2009): 43
Pavlich, C, Sleeping on the job is working for Sylvia, Mx, 2 February, 2009: 4
Taplinger, M, Altered States of Contemporary Photography in Chelsea, NY. Gallery & Studio,
February/March 2009: 14, 23
Todd, J, The Interactive Audience, Old, New Borrowed, Blue: 10 Years at the Blue Oyster: 33-39,
Blue Oyster Project Space, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2009
2008 Finnegan, A, Hyperplexic, desalinated but not scary, Artlink, Vol 28, No 1 (March 2008): 47-51
2007 Hopcroft, H, Review Sydney College of the Arts Degree Show, 2007
http://www.artshub.com.au/au/news.asp?sc=&sId=168293&sType=review
Hunt, A, What do our bodies do in Public Spaces?, Interview: Radio Station 2SER, 10 May 2007
University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, SCAfold, August 2007, The University of Sydney,
Sydney
COLLECTIONS
Public: Gold Coast City Art Gallery, AU
Corporate and Private: Sydney, Berlin, Saigon, Cologne, The Hague, Dunedin, New York
SELECTED WRITINGS
2012 In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people, in Emergency INDEX, (New York: Ugly
Duckling Presse, 2012) (upcoming)
Sylvia Schwenk - In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people, in ‘Practical tests. Projects
which communicate art to the public’, (Schöppingen, Schöppinger Forum für Kunstvermittlung, 2012)
(upcoming)
2011 'Performosis' and the expanded field of performance art, Thesis, University of Sydney
2010 'Performosis' and participatory performance art, Art Monthly Australia Australia, Vol 234, October
2010: 22-23
CONFERENCES & LECTURES
2011 AAANZ Conference - ‘Contact’, Hosted by Art History, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ (upcoming
December)
Panelist on public art organised by Savannah College of Art and Design, at the Conference for
American Anthropological Association, Montréal, CA
Artforum, School of Visual and Performing Art, University of Tasmania, AU
Artist talk, Photography Studio, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, AU
Referee of Papers for ACUADs Conference, Canberra, AU
2010 ACUAD's Conference, University of Tasmania, AU
Referee of Papers for ACUADs Conference, Tasmania, AU
Graduate Forum, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, AU
2009 Graduate Forum, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, AU
Sculpture, Performance and Installation Studio, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, AU
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Artereal Gallery in Sydney, AU
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