About the German photo artist, Angela SCHWANK (b. 1967 in Sindelfingen)

After studying physics (diploma 1996, Univ. Heidelberg) and philosophy, Angela SCHWANK has been a freelance artist since 1997. She has published one photo book so far. Angela SCHWANK lives and works in Vienna.

Photo books by Angela SCHWANK

'Memories in Photographs' (2008, compendium); 'Spaces of the Self' (2010, by Karin MACK, essay); 'Me, Myself and Them' (2012, essay); 'CIRREN' (2021).

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'Cirren' by Angela SCHWANK contains photos showing the diversity of cirrus clouds and other high-altitude cloud forms and man-made changes in their appearance caused by air traffic. The negatives were taken over Vienna & surroundings and the Netherlands.
64,00 € Weight 0.6 kg
Curatorial activities

'ex sampling' (2006, together with Brigitte Konyen, Künstlerhaus Wien); 'traces-Memories in photographs' (2008, together with Brigitte Konyen, Künstlerhaus Wien); 'Taming the gaze' (2011, together with Sophia Panteliadou, the art foundation, Athens & MIET, Thessaloniki); 'Angle du hasard I - V' "017-2020, nomadic offspace project); 'Nightwatch - a visual interplay of art and astronomy' (2019, Natural History Museum Vienna); 'Nightwatch' (2020, Salon Sophie Charlotte, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions

2004 'pupil change blue to green' (Echoraum, Vienna)
2006 'the red line, the green stripe' (Geyling Gallery, Vienna)
2017 'time cuts' (Spektakel, Vienna)
2021 'CIRREN' (AnzenbergerGallery Vienna)

Group exhibitions

1999 'Young Art: Painting to Multimedia - 50 Years Great Art Exhibition Munich' (Haus der Kunst, Munich)
2000 'Spaces for Art - Positions' (House of Art, Munich)
2006 'ex sampling' (Künstlerhaus, Vienna)
2008 'Traces' (Künstlerhaus, Vienna)
2011 'ON - Positions of Silence' (Galerie in der Schmiede, Linz); 'Taming the Gaze' (taf, Athens & MIET, Thessaloniki); 'concrete - not concrete' (Galerie Artmark, Vienna)
2012 'MA - in praise of the space in between' (Gallery Artmark, Vienna).
2013 'MA - from the world of silence' (Shiwory gallery, Okayama); 'theRED' (project space MAG2, Vienna).
2014 'KO_OP Salon 69' (basement, Vienna); 'best of artmark collection I' (Galerie Artmark); '2014 2nd' (Markhof 2, Vienna); 'A day and an hour in Urbokune' (panel drawing live at Wienmuseum, Vienna)
2015 'Transitions - of the slow flow of images' (Gallery Artmark).
2016 'Transitions' (Gallery Lattemann, Darmstadt)
2017 'l'angle du hasard I' (Mitterberggasse, Vienna)
2018 'l'angle du hasard II' (ARCHITEKTURKANTINE, Vienna); 'l'angle du hasard III' (modena artlab, Vienna)
2019 'Nightwatch - a visual interplay of art and astronomy' (Museum of Natural History, Vienna)
2020 'Nightwatch' (Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin; 'l'angle du hasard V' (Albrechtsberg Castle on the Pielach River); 'Kunst im Setzkasten' (Forum Art Rottweil)
2021 'AiR MillstART konZENTRATION_performance and retreat' (hotelpupik)