• Anja Dornieden • Viviana Druga • Ximena Ferrer Pizarro • Janne Höltermann • Tiziana Krüger • Daniela Medina Poch • Lillian Morrissey • Shira Orion • Amelie Plümpe • Wagehe Raufi • Marie Rief • Hara Shin • Bea Targosz • Emma Wilson • Silja Yvette •

Opening: 29 September 2023, 6-10 pm
Duration: 30.09.-26.11.2023, extended until January 21, 2024 due to high demand. 

galerie weisser elefant
Auguststraße 21
10117 Berlin

Goldrausch 2023 – on the edge of

"From September 30 to November 26, 2023, the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt will present recent works by 15 Berlin-based, international women* artists at galerie weisser elefant. With Goldrausch 2023 – on the edge of, the professionalization programme presents the final exhibition of its 33rd year. The group exhibition is a cooperation with the Department of Art, Culture and History of the Berlin-Mitte district and is curated by Laure Catugier and Hannah Kruse.

Under the title Goldrausch 2023 – on the edge of the 15 participants of the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt present excerpts from their current production. Analogue experimental film, video and sound installations, conceptual photography, painting, tapestries, performance, and sculptures.

In their works, the artists negotiate feminist perspectives on history and popular culture, changes in our environment in the age of the Anthropocene, and multi-perspectival narratives of everyday rituals and economics. Conceptually, they explore media and content boundaries – edges – and reveal in-between spaces and transformation processes. Along these edges, the artists’ works invite reflection: On social or ecological changes, artistic genres and materials. In this way, the exhibition Goldrausch 2023 – on the edge of encourages us to question existing systems and to develop possibilities for transformation.

As a one-year professionalization course, the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt promotes outstanding artistic positions by women*. During the course, the participants focus on their professional development in a supportive community and, at the same time, show their work across different platforms to the public. Since 1989, this renowned professional development project – one of a kind in Germany – has been supporting women* artists in opening up their individual career paths and presenting their work to a wide-ranging audience.

The exhibition is curated by Laure Catugier (Goldrausch alumna 2017) and Hannah Kruse.

Programme

In the context of the exhibition several accompanying events, such as guided exhibition tours and performances will take place. More info coming soon!" (Website Goldrausch) 

www.goldrausch.org

Concept, photographs and text sculptures : Silja Yvette 
Essay: Katharina Arimont
Design: Delia Keller | Gestaltung Berlin
16 pages, 13 photographs

'Metaphysics of Core Matter' is a foundational interrogation of contemporary materials at the intersection of art, research and industry. Artist Silja Yvette explores packaging bodies in their problematic dimensions and expansion for the environment. In the social context, packaging bodies are to be understood as archetypes of consumption - mass-produced articles made of foam, Styrofoam, aluminum, which are already worthless at the moment of their destination. These materials, which are quickly disposed of in everyday life, are taken care of by Silja Yvette and raised to a symbolic pedestal. A new value is ascribed to them with a reference to what they actually stand for: an image of the contemporary reality of accelerated life. A construction kit of modernity. With a sensual aesthetic and iconic staging that provokes the foreign in the familiar, Silja Yvette invites the viewers of her works to come into closer contact with their motifs. In this way, the foreign in the familiar leads to a confrontation with the everyday in an extraordinary dimension of perception and resistance at the same time, a being touched as an impetus for reflections on sustainability and feelings about our earth, world and our own actions.

Pop-up Exhibition by Galerie Arimont

Opening: 2 March 2023 - 5 pm
Duration: 2 -31 March 2023

Auguststraße 83
10117 Berlin - Mitte
www.galerie-arimont.de

Part of European Month of Photography Berlin
In cooperation with Kulturprojekte Berlin

Excited to share that I was chosen as a Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt fellow for 2023.

"The Goldrausch project for women artists promotes the careers of outstanding, emerging women artists. It is an independent professional training programme for visual women artists; a one-year postgraduate professional development course, an exhibition and public events take place within its framework..." (Goldrausch Website)

Artists 2023:
Anja Dornieden, Viviana Druga, Ximena Ferrer Pizarro, Janne Höltermann, Tiziana Krüger, Daniela Medina Poch, Lillian Morrissey, Shira Orion, Amelie Plümpe, Wagehe Raufi, Marie Rief, Hara Shin, Bea Targosz, Emma Wilson, Silja Yvette

www.goldrausch.org

"The IMAGO LISBOA Photo Festival is a landmark event in the national and international photography panorama.
In 2022 in this 4th edition, Disturbances are the concept of aggregation of the festival.
 

The current society has lived, cyclically, disturbing moments of different intensities and types. Of course, the current pandemic was probably the repeal of the biggest post-World War II disturbance. Its dimension had a globality never before existing, revealing many of the weaknesses of political and economic systems, but also revealing the capacity of the international scientific community to respond. But in addition to this pandemic, there are many other disturbances facing the planet. Pollution and recurrent ecological disasters have been on the agenda of several summits; social and domestic violence have made several headlines; mental and physical disorders have increased; migrations resulting from flight from wars and shortages of livelihoods; financial scandals, there are many examples of possible approach, study and reflection. ..." (Imago Lisboa Photo Festival) 

Opening: 9th September 2022 - 6 pm
Duration: 10th September - 8th October 2022

Pedro Lobo :: Alexandre Delmar :: Silja Yvette :: Lisa Kohl

Rua Barata Salgueiro 36
1250-044 Lisboa, Portugal

https://imagolisboa.pt/
https://snba.pt/

From 26th August to 2nd October 2022
Opening and award ceremony: 25th August l 7 - 9 p.m.

As part of the promotion of professionally working Berlin artists, the municipal gallery Haus am Kleistpark shows works of the nominees for the 19th Art Award of the Haus am Kleistpark 2022 in the group exhibition "HaK Lab". The laboratory concept opens the big exhibition hall as a space for artistic experimentation and artistic experience.

The winner will be chosen by an independent jury of experts, this year consisting of Prof. Dr. Eugen Blume (art historian/chair), Barbara Esch Marowski (gallery director), Julia Rosenbaum (art historian and freelance curator), Marike Schuurman (winner of the 2021 Art Award) and Steven Thelen (artist).

The nominees are: Yasmin Alt, Felix Baxmann, Nils Blau, Ab van Hanegem, Ulrike Hannemann, Bob Jones (Elisabeth Eichler), Ingar Krauss, Nina Maria Küchler, Una H. Moehrke, Christian Pilz, Hannah Rath, Sonya Schönberger, Christina Stark, Johannes Vogl, Johannes Weilandt, Silja Yvette

www.hausamkleistpark.de

From Where I Stand - Photographic explorations in times of urgent change

19. März bis 22. Mai 2022
Saturday 21st May, 2-4 pm

"Sustainable use of materials"

1-day workshop for photographers and (media) artists
In cooperation with RECOM ART

Together with representatives of different material producers (Ilford, IGEPA), the cultural scientist Hildegard Kurt, who locates the topic of sustainability in the context of the social responsibility of the arts, as well as the artist Silja Yvette, who dedicates herself to the topic of sustainability both in terms of content and the use of materials, different methods and approaches will be presented as to how art production can be designed sustainably - without aesthetic compromises.

Presentation of new studios of Recom Art in Jühnsdorf with exhibition of established and young positions of photography and installation art. 

Sebastian Riemer, Luzia Simons, Thomas Struth, Sophie Thun, Silja Yvette a.o.

7th May 2022 - 8th May 2022

Saturday from 14 to 19 | Sunday 11 to 18
Dorfstraße 21C, 15831 Blankenfelde-Mahlow 
info@recom-art.de
Recom Art
Program

I am fortunate to receive the grant of Stiftung Kunstfonds for the development of my new book project. I am very grateful for the funding and energized for the project. 

Stiftung Kunstfonds

The war in Ukraine has put artists in Ukraine and neighbouring countries at high risk. In response an informal group of international artists has come together to support the non-profit organization ARTISTS AT RISK who since 2013 has been collaborating with arts non-profits and government funders to assist artists who are at risk politically and fleeing oppression and war.

Each artist has donated an artwork for sale as an open edition print. I contribute with my photograph ERECT REJECT from 2021, shot in the spaces of Recom Art Berlin. All proceeds from sales will help provide emergency resources, travel aid, and shelter for artists and art workers fleeing Ukraine and other crises.

Participating artists:

Hito Steyerl, Pierre Huyghe, Nan Goldin, Isaac Julien, Thomas Struth, Tacita Dean, Gabriel Orozco, Rosemarie Trockel, Luc Tuymans, Elizabeth Peyton, Thomas Demand, Matthew Barney, Jeremy Deller, Laure Prouvost, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lisa Brice, Julian Schnabel, Bae Bien-U, Camille Henrot, Subodh Guptah, Sam Durant, Fiona Banner, Jim Hodges, Miranda July, Anne Imhof, Cyprien Gaillard, Thomas Hirschorn, Klara Liden, James Welling, Ketuta Alexei Meskhishvili, Doug Aitken, Julietta Aranda, Thea Djordjadze, Andro Wekua, Allison Katz, Kon Trubkovich, Lynne Tillman, Francesco Clemente, Sanya Kantarovsky, Nedko Solakov, CAConrad, Ives Maes, Celine Condorelli, Jonas Staal, Yves Mettler, Rafaella Crispino, Slavs & Tartars, Tai Shani, Olga Balm, Amy Sillman, Ben Rivers, Luiza Simons, Frank Thiel, Ida Ekblad, Nastio Mosquito, Sarah Entwistle, Marc Siebenhüner, Eliza Douglas, Lisa Oppenheim, Peter Puklus, Sophie Thun, Silja Yvette, Luigi Ontani, Johannes Geccelli Estate, Carmen Winant, Sebastian Riemer, Paul Knight. 

Solidarity Prints for Artists at Risk (AR) is a charity product, which is being sold by recom ART GmbH & Co. KG. The profit will be donated to Artists at Risk (AR) / Perpetuum Mobile (PM).

Prints are €200 each. THE PRINT SALE STARTED ONLINE!!!

First round closes on 30th April 2022.

Discover

This exhibition in digital space refers to a physical place that is very special to me: my studio in Berlin. Over the last few months I have been both developing the space and working on the new and still ongoing body of work Metaphysics of Core Matter, which is now being presented to the public with the first images made for the exhibition context...

Discover ONLINE VIEWING ROOM or BOOK A VISIT

Overjoyed and grateful to receive one of the NEUSTART KULTUR stipends for artists. Thank you very much!  

Stiftung Kulturwerk

Public presentation at Révélation(s) Portfolio - Platforme - Luxembourg

2nd June 2021, 12:30 - 14:30 

Organisators : Café-Crème asbl, on a proposal by Cristina Dias de Magalhães

With the suppport of Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain

The fourth edition of Révélation (s) / Portfolio – Plateforme – Luxembourg took place as part of the 8th European Month of Photography in Luxembourg on June 2nd, 2021 at Casino Luxembourg, contemporary art forum.
Selected artists were:Bruno Baltzer & Leonora Bisagno, Justine Blau, Marie Capesius, Lisa Kohl, Lucas Leffler, Elshan Rozafa, Caecilia Tripp, Silja Yvette.
The experts invited for this 2021 edition are: Delphine Dumont (director of Hangar, Bruxelles and Photo Brussels Festival), Christian Gattinoni (art critic and editor-in-chief of the online review www.lacritique.org), Emmanuelle Halkin (exhibition curator and head of the Circulations festival; Paris), Verena Kaspar-Eisert (curator at the KunstHaus in Vienna), Bettina Leidl ( director of Kunst Haus Vienne ), Rui Prata (director of Imagao Lisboa), Claartje van Dijk (head curator at Foam Amsterdam) as well as Anouk Wies (chief manager at Cercle Cité and exhibition curator).

Streaming : https://www.casino-luxembourg.lu/fr/Agenda/Revelation-s-Portfolio-Plateforme

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Casino Luxembourg

Skyline Plaza in Frankfurt is launching a partnership with Wiesbaden-based gallery Rubrecht Contemporary to bring color and life back into the center after these challenging months. The goal is to create a place to linger and be filled with inspiration, while supporting the local cultural scene by bringing contemporary artists from the region and elsewhere to a wider audience...

Skyline Plaza Frankfurt 
Europa-Allee 6
60327 Frankfurt

www.rubrecht-contemporary.com

An exhibition about the mandatory duality of our existence, the need to focus and act from our individual standpoint in the here and the now, yet also be present and dispersed and generous in and with our surrounding all the while looking towards future.

It is an exhibition about being (required to be) present in multiple places or circumstances at the same time. About the need to wear different hats, or shoes, or whatever clothing item you prefer. It is an exhibition about both: presence and projection, the dichotomy of human existence, the need to under-and-over-estimate ourselves on a constant basis.

Daniela Baldelli, Cécile Bicler, Jonathan Binet, Naomi B. Cook, Jagna Ciuchta, Odyssée Dao, Florence Gourier, Adrien Lamm, Markus Lichti, Antoine Petel, Justine Ponthieux, Patricia Reinhart, Chiharu Shiota, Jeanne Susplugas, Motoko Tachikawa, Rada Tzankova, Silja Yvette

Curated by Gabriela Anco

12th December 2020 - 31th January 2021, prolonged until 28th March 2021
Opening 12th and 13th December 2020

Galerie Mansart

Annual review and preview exhibition 2020 and 2021
5th December 2020 – 8th January 2021

Opening 5th December 2020

Introduction by Prof. Rüdiger Pichler, Hochschule RheinMain, Wiesbaden

Kevin Clarke, Sabine Dehnel, EL EGO, Lena Krashevka, Hendrina Krawinkel, Rüdiger Pichler, Marc Prat, Manfred Maria Rubrecht, Stefan Stichler, Nina Stoelting, Christine Straszewski, Oriol Texidor, Gábor Török and Silja Yvette

Rubrecht Contemporary

Overjoyed and grateful to receive one of the special stipends for professional and independent Berlin-based artists. Thank you very much!  

Kultur Projekte Berlin

FK is a web-based magazine writing on Latvian and international photography with the main interest area in contemporary photography in East and North Europe. They now published a wonderful photostory about my body of work Collective Creatures...

Read Photostory

1st October - 15th November 2020 

Festival exhibition

VISUALIZED VOLTAGE
Silja Yvette 

Festival curated by Rui Prata
Exhibition curated by Paul di Felice

Programmation of the festival featuring Todd Hido, Marco Godinho, Pasha Rafiy, Patrick Galbats, Silja Yvette, Cristina Dias de Magalhaes, Maxim Ivanov, Paola Paredes, Adél Koleszár, Éva Szombat, Krisztina Erdei, Arko Datto, Mariya Koshanova, Sophia Ioannou Gjeding, Catarina Osório de Castro, Paulo Catrica.

MNAC | PLATAFORMA REVÓLVER | MERCADO DE SANTA CLARA | CARPINTARIAS DE SAO LÁZARO 

Photo by Hugo David 

https://imagolisboa.pt/
https://carpintariasdesaolazaro.org/

Working on temporary sculptures: "This falling away from the things we desire will be staged, piled up, crowned by me. It is the fiction of a rising material, but it also shows its transience and the rational hubris of its inventor. My work as an artist is a temporary arrangement of a chaotic environmental condition and a joke with presentation forms in the context of art exhibitions, of the white cube and the pedestal culture, so to say of what needs to be viewed in a concentrated and contemplative sideline. A subtle play with the assumptions regarding myth and progress, practical solutions and their ecological downsides."

The German Photobook Award 19|20 will be presented at the following exhibitions, my book Collective Creatures will go on tour:

Stuttgarter Buchwochen: 14th November - 1st December 2019

C.A.R. Essen: 6th - 8th March 2020

Fotoforum Köln: 14th March - 24th April 2020

Galerie Goethe Institut Hong Kong: 11th June - 25th July 2020

Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe: 10th July - 28th August 2020

Hong Kong International Book Fair: 15th - 21st July 2020

Frankfurter Buchmesse: 14.th - 18th October 2020

BAF International Artist Residency Program

"Budapest Art Factory (BAF) is a contemporary visual arts center, seated in a former industrial building in the capital of Hungary. Formed by several artistic studios and an exhibition program, BAF welcomes visitors all year round, providing a platform for the dialogue of contemporary art. BAF runs an International Artist Residency Program, and welcomes established artists as well as up-and-coming young talents for a one-month artistic practice.

BAF holds exhibitions, panel discussions and studio visits with the aim of connecting national and international art professionals." (Budapest Art Factory) 

Opening: 29th February 2020  | 6 p.m.
Duration: 1st March - 10th April 2020

Ein WILDGEHEGE ist ein KÜNSTLICH geschaffener Freiraum, der dazu dient, den ursprünglichen, unangepassten Teil der ART zu schützen. Dort kann sich dieser Teil entwickeln und gedeihen, genährt und getragen vom Gesamtorganismus, um damit die Spezies insgesamt überlebensfähig zu erhalten. Dabei fungiert Kunst als Spiegel, als Ventil und nicht zuletzt als Netz der Gesellschaft. Ein Raum und Labor, in dem einiges gefühlt, gedacht und geäußert werden kann, wo Narrenfreiheit herrscht, um neue Synapsenverbindungen zu schaffen, um Geist und Seele Flügel zu verleihen, um noch nie Gedachtes zu erdenken und noch nie Geschaffenes zu erschaffen.

Das Wilde, das Ungebremste in der Mythologie und im Märchen korrespondiert mit dem Tierischen, dem Wald, der Wildnis. Bereiche aus Traum, Phantasie und dem kollektiven Unbewussten zeigen Zügelloses, Formloses, Unkultiviertes, das unter Kontrolle zu bringen und zu sublimieren ist. Der Basilisk beispielsweise gilt in der Alchemie als Stein der Weisen – und wer sucht nicht nach ihm?

Der Titel der Ausstellung WILDGEHEGE ist zugleich ein Oxymoron: das Wilde mit Freiraum einhegen. Doch was geschieht, wenn das gehegte Wilde ausgewildert wird? Das wird in der Gesamtinstallation der Konzeptkünstlerinnen Silja Yvette und Christine Straszewski erfahrbar. Erweitert durch Verspiegelung, Bespiegelung und paraboler Spiegelung verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen Jäger und Gejagtem. Hier gerät jedoch nicht das Kunstsystem ins Visier, sondern sein Pendant: der Eindringling, die Hybridisierung und der Synkretismus. Bezugssysteme unterschiedlicher Ebenen werden miteinander verknüpft. In der Rauminstallation trifft Formendes auf Geformtes, auf Verformtes, ob Naturkreatur oder Kunstagentur. Wesen mit ungleichen Augen beobachten und nehmen Blickkontakt auf. Malerei, Fotografie, Plastik und Konzept bilden einen Spannungsbogen, in dem die Betrachter*innen Zugang zu Mysterium und universellen Erfahrungen haben.

Die Ausstellung WILDGEHEGE ist der Auftakt der Themenreihe "Selbstreferenzialität in der Bildenden Kunst", die in der Galerie RubrechtContemporary in Wiesbaden ab Februar 2020 zu sehen sein wird. Die Konzeptkünstlerinnen Silja Yvette und Christine Straszewski sind eingeladen, das Kunstsystem nicht nur zu hinterfragen, vielmehr werden sie die Kunst als gesellschaftssprengendes Element, als Störfaktor des Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftssystems in den Mittelpunkt stellen. Mit scharfem Geschütz gehen sie auf die Jagd und gehen bei dieser Ausstellung nicht zum ersten Mal eine künstlerische Symbiose ein: DRAG ON FLOW (Peking), HIGGSTEDDY (Wiesbaden), KLEIDET MICH IN SEIDE (Bonn) und HAI:P (Wiesbaden) sind vielversprechende Ausstellungstitel, bei denen die beiden ihre Seelenverwandtschaft bereits erprobten.

Rubrecht Contemporary
Büdingenstrasse 4-6
65183 Wiesbaden

Opening hours without tour: Wednesday + Friday 2 – 6 pm. Personal tours at any time by appointment: Monday to Saturday between 10 am and 10 pm. Please contact Leander Rubrecht: +49 611 205 211 5  or +49 176 816 650 31 

My recent art book Collective Creatures - A Dialogue of Dichotomous Hybrids was awarded silver in the category photographer / monograph by Deutsche Fotobuchpreis. After the current exhibition in Stuttgart at the Stuttgarter Buchwochen until 1st December 2019, the books will go on an exhibition tour in Germany. Highly appreciated recognition and all my gratitude to the jury as well as to everybody who was involved in creating the book!  

Always worth a visit - Paris Photo at the beautiful Grand Palais in Paris. Collective Creatures with Hatje Cantz is awaiting you with pleasure.  

Exhibition with Book Launch 

Opening 19th September 2019, 7 pm
Duration 20th September - 26th October 2019

Introduction: Aurelio Fichter, Charlotte Lindenberg

Galerie H. W. Fichter Kunsthandel 
Arndtstraße. 51,  60325 Frankfurt
+49 (0)69 743 890 30

Opening Hours: Monday - Friday 9am -5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm 

Join Hatje Cantz Verlag at the tremendous Frankfurt Book Fair (booth 3.0 D20) and experience sensual and thrilling art books. Collective Creatures, my newest publication is present.  16th to 20th October 2019.

From 5 – 8 September 2019, during the newly established culture and art event Frankfurt Art Experience, 40 galleries will present outstanding artistic positions on drawing and the medium of paper on the ground floor of the centrally located Flare of Frankfurt...

Was auf den ersten Blick nach einem Sammelsurium nicht zu einander passender fotografischer Beobachtungen aussieht, ergibt nach mehrmaligem Betrachten ein wunderschönes Ganzes. So ging es uns in der Redaktion bei dem Vorgänger 'SEASON OF ADMIN', der Anfang 2018 im Kerber Verag erschien. Nun verlegt Hatje Cantz mit 'Collective Creatures' das neue Fotobuch von Silja Yvette. Und wieder ziehen uns die Bilder ganz langsam in ihren Bann...

Happy to inform that my book SEASON OF ADMIN is one of the finalists of the photo book exhibition at Athens Photo Festival 2019. The selected books will be displayed during the festival at the Benaki Museum / Pireos 138 in Athens from 13 June until 28 July.

Join Hatje Cantz at Art Basel and have a look at my beautiful new book!
Hall 2.0, foyer.

Honored to me nominated for the prestigious Edward Steichen Award. 

The special Collector's Edition of the publication Collective Creatures is now available!

It comprises one signed book Collective Creatures and two photographic prints chosen out of the body of work, limited to an edition run of twelve pieces : Klunker and Sympathikus Parasympathikus

In Collective Creatures, Silja Yvette draws attention to artificial and natural materials, as well as to the effects of mass and energy in space and time. In her photographs objects and places—from caves and abandoned buildings, to quarries, shop windows, found pieces, volcanos, and atomic events—become “collective creatures,” which make it possible to understand forces that are difficult to visualize, such as transformation, expansion, and omnipresence. There is something inherently mythical about these things that opposes the calculability desired by humans. With her strongly compositional images freed from their cultural context, Silja Yvette’s artistic process takes aim at associative contexts. Critically, and with sensitivity, she shows their relationship to the subtle permeation of microparticles and radiation on the one hand, and to the massive upheaval of the earth’s materials perpetrated by human-led corporations and human inventions.

SEASON OF ADMIN is longlisted by the jury at the annual book design competition“Best Books from Germany” by Stiftung Buchkunst. Hurray!

SEASON OF ADMIN is the first book by Frankfurt-based artist Silja Yvette (* 1986) and was recently published by Kerber Verlag. Not only the name made us curious but also the captivating cover. The lovingly designed book, elaborately produced with different paper qualities, contains exciting photographic tableaus. The subjects of Silja Yvette emanate an air of tranquility, inviting the beholder to continue looking and to linger....

Thursday, 23th November 2017    8 pm - 12 pm
Saturday, 25th November 2017    11 am - 16 pm

Book presentation and introduction by Charlotte Lindenberg 
The exhibition will show works of the series SEASON OF ADMIN and new works from COLLECTIVE CREATURES. 

Booksigning

Accompanied by drinks & light food

*Special from 10 pm 
Music by .∆IM33 | Visionary Refinement (Wien/Frankfurt/Imperia)
https://www.mixcloud.com/aim33/
https://soundcloud.com/mnmlplus

Subtle, uncanny and at the same time perceptive – the photographs of Silja Yvette »evoke associations ranging from ironic reflection to elegiac allusion, from the fragility of being to a certain longing for the elementary« (Annekathrin Müller, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation). At the origin of »Season of Admin« is an unease regarding any socially organised and administered relationship to nature and things. The images deal with issues related to the self-description of a subject that considers itself autonomous and on the other hand with the agency of things, assuming an understanding of hybrid forms of actions. 

The new publication contains remarkable full size photographic tableaus and an artist book like rich choice of different papers.

SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION

handmade photobook + extra size print in extra linen folder
limited edition of 24 books in 6 different colors 

Book Launch Event for Special Collector's Edition | with exhibition

Project supported by Thomas Duhnkrack. 

Friday, 19. May 2017 from 6 pm and 
Saturday, 20. May 2017 from 11am to 4 pm.

Registration requested, please use the following button. 

SILJA YVETTE und CHRISTINE STRASZEWSKI

Opening: 28. September 2016 at 4 pm.
29. September 2016 - 7th October 2016

798 Art District, No. 2 Jiuxianqiao Road

Guest artist for the residency program in China at the studio of renowned Chinese-Australian artist Shen Shaomin in Beijing. 

Ausstellungseröffnung am Freitag, 1. April 2016 um 20 Uhr.
Ausstellungsdauer: 2.-24. April 2016 

Öffnungszeiten: Mi-Fr 16-18 Uhr und nach persönlicher Vereinbarung 

Kuratiert von Juan Xu und Leander Rubrecht 

PROGRAMM IM APRIL:

HIGGSTEDDY_TALK 
Samstag, 16.04.2016, Beginn 21 Uhr 
(zur KURZEN NACHT DER GALERIEN UND MUSEEN WIESBADEN)  

II PERFORMANCE DAY 2016, WIESBADEN 
in Zusammenarbeit mit I O Cultural Network e. V. 
Sonntag, 24.04.2016 von 14 - 20 Uhr 

ADRESSE
KAISER&CREAM. ART DISTRICT

Büdingenstraße 4-6, 65183 Wiesbaden
T +49 - 611 - 205 211 5
C +49 - 176 - 816 650 31
www.kaiser-cream.com

VERONIKA BURGER, JANA HARTMANN, BERND METZ, ANSELM SCHENKLUHN, SARAH SCHODERER, CHRISTINE STRASZEWSKI, SILJA YVETTE

Junge, zeitgenössische KünstlerInnen aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum zeigen eine besondere Ausstellung in der Kunst- und Kulturhalle Fabrik45 im Bonner Macke Viertel. Kleidet mich in Seide bildet eine ironische Klammer um die Herausforderungen des künstlerischen Schaffens, von Zweifel bis Behauptung. Die Schau protegiert aufstrebende bildende KünstlerInnen, die bereits eine ausgeprägte künstlerische Sprache entwickelt haben, im Sinne einer großräumigen und selbstbestimmten Präsentation. Ob Malerei, Fotografie, Skulptur, Installation oder Performance, die gezeigten Arbeiten jonglieren mit Mediengrenzen und bewegen sich im Feld der Interdisziplinarität.

Ein Ausstellungsprojekt von Silja Yvette mit Unterstützung von Natascia Cuschié und Cristof Domrowe.

Vernissage Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2016 ab 19 Uhr
Ausstellungsdauer 19. bis 28. Februar 2016
Öffnungszeiten: Do-Fr 16-20 Uhr, Sa und So 16-19 Uhr, Mo bis Mi geschlossen

Kunstbummel am Samstag, den 20. Februar 2016 mit Dr. Nicole Birnfeld (Kunst- und Kulturvermittlerin)
Führung durch die Ausstellung: 12-13:30 Uhr, Gebühr 5€

Fabrik45 Hochstadenring 45
53119 Bonn
0228 / 53448677
www.fabrik45.de

Fotografien von Silja Yvette aus der Serie SEASON OF ADMIN.

Ein Ausstellungsprojekt kuratiert von Sarah Schoderer, mit Unterstützung von Natalie Vu und Marc Oswald

Ausstellungseröffnung am Samstag, 30. Januar 2016 um 20 Uhr.

REZEPTION 

fine arts & #1 Jeans
Rechneigrabenstraße 1 
(Nähe Konstablerwache) 
60311 Frankfurt

Ausstellungsdauer: 6 Wochen 
Öffnungszeiten: Di, Do-Sa 10-18 Uhr, Mi 10-15 Uhr, Mo und So geschlossen  

'Metaphysics of Core Matter' is a foundational interrogation of contemporary materials at the intersection of art, research and industry. Artist Silja Yvette explores packaging bodies in their problematic dimensions and expansion for the environment. In the social context, packaging bodies are to be understood as archetypes of consumption - mass-produced articles made of foam, Styrofoam, aluminum, which are already worthless at the moment of their destination. These materials, which are quickly disposed of in everyday life, are taken care of by Silja Yvette and raised to a symbolic pedestal. A new value is ascribed to them with a reference to what they actually stand for: an image of the contemporary reality of accelerated life. A construction kit of modernity. With a sensual aesthetic and iconic staging that provokes the foreign in the familiar, Silja Yvette invites the viewers of her works to come into closer contact with their motifs. In this way, the foreign in the familiar leads to a confrontation with the everyday in an extraordinary dimension of perception and resistance at the same time, a being touched as an impetus for reflections on sustainability and feelings about our earth, world and our own actions.

Pop-up Exhibition by Galerie Arimont

Opening: 2 March 2023 - 5 pm
Duration: 2 -31 March 2023

Auguststraße 83
10117 Berlin - Mitte
www.galerie-arimont.de

Part of European Month of Photography Berlin
In cooperation with Kulturprojekte Berlin

Excited to share that I was chosen as a Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt fellow for 2023.

"The Goldrausch project for women artists promotes the careers of outstanding, emerging women artists. It is an independent professional training programme for visual women artists; a one-year postgraduate professional development course, an exhibition and public events take place within its framework..." (Goldrausch Website)

Artists 2023:
Anja Dornieden, Viviana Druga, Ximena Ferrer Pizarro, Janne Höltermann, Tiziana Krüger, Daniela Medina Poch, Lillian Morrissey, Shira Orion, Amelie Plümpe, Wagehe Raufi, Marie Rief, Hara Shin, Bea Targosz, Emma Wilson, Silja Yvette

www.goldrausch.org

"The IMAGO LISBOA Photo Festival is a landmark event in the national and international photography panorama.
In 2022 in this 4th edition, Disturbances are the concept of aggregation of the festival.
 

The current society has lived, cyclically, disturbing moments of different intensities and types. Of course, the current pandemic was probably the repeal of the biggest post-World War II disturbance. Its dimension had a globality never before existing, revealing many of the weaknesses of political and economic systems, but also revealing the capacity of the international scientific community to respond. But in addition to this pandemic, there are many other disturbances facing the planet. Pollution and recurrent ecological disasters have been on the agenda of several summits; social and domestic violence have made several headlines; mental and physical disorders have increased; migrations resulting from flight from wars and shortages of livelihoods; financial scandals, there are many examples of possible approach, study and reflection. ..." (Imago Lisboa Photo Festival) 

Opening: 9th September 2022 - 6 pm
Duration: 10th September - 8th October 2022

Pedro Lobo :: Alexandre Delmar :: Silja Yvette :: Lisa Kohl

Rua Barata Salgueiro 36
1250-044 Lisboa, Portugal

https://imagolisboa.pt/
https://snba.pt/

From 26th August to 2nd October 2022
Opening and award ceremony: 25th August l 7 - 9 p.m.

As part of the promotion of professionally working Berlin artists, the municipal gallery Haus am Kleistpark shows works of the nominees for the 19th Art Award of the Haus am Kleistpark 2022 in the group exhibition "HaK Lab". The laboratory concept opens the big exhibition hall as a space for artistic experimentation and artistic experience.

The winner will be chosen by an independent jury of experts, this year consisting of Prof. Dr. Eugen Blume (art historian/chair), Barbara Esch Marowski (gallery director), Julia Rosenbaum (art historian and freelance curator), Marike Schuurman (winner of the 2021 Art Award) and Steven Thelen (artist).

The nominees are: Yasmin Alt, Felix Baxmann, Nils Blau, Ab van Hanegem, Ulrike Hannemann, Bob Jones (Elisabeth Eichler), Ingar Krauss, Nina Maria Küchler, Una H. Moehrke, Christian Pilz, Hannah Rath, Sonya Schönberger, Christina Stark, Johannes Vogl, Johannes Weilandt, Silja Yvette

www.hausamkleistpark.de

From Where I Stand - Photographic explorations in times of urgent change

19. März bis 22. Mai 2022
Saturday 21st May, 2-4 pm

"Sustainable use of materials"

1-day workshop for photographers and (media) artists
In cooperation with RECOM ART

Together with representatives of different material producers (Ilford, IGEPA), the cultural scientist Hildegard Kurt, who locates the topic of sustainability in the context of the social responsibility of the arts, as well as the artist Silja Yvette, who dedicates herself to the topic of sustainability both in terms of content and the use of materials, different methods and approaches will be presented as to how art production can be designed sustainably - without aesthetic compromises.

Presentation of new studios of Recom Art in Jühnsdorf with exhibition of established and young positions of photography and installation art. 

Sebastian Riemer, Luzia Simons, Thomas Struth, Sophie Thun, Silja Yvette a.o.

7th May 2022 - 8th May 2022

Saturday from 14 to 19 | Sunday 11 to 18
Dorfstraße 21C, 15831 Blankenfelde-Mahlow 
info@recom-art.de
Recom Art
Program

I am fortunate to receive the grant of Stiftung Kunstfonds for the development of my new book project. I am very grateful for the funding and energized for the project. 

Stiftung Kunstfonds

The war in Ukraine has put artists in Ukraine and neighbouring countries at high risk. In response an informal group of international artists has come together to support the non-profit organization ARTISTS AT RISK who since 2013 has been collaborating with arts non-profits and government funders to assist artists who are at risk politically and fleeing oppression and war.

Each artist has donated an artwork for sale as an open edition print. I contribute with my photograph ERECT REJECT from 2021, shot in the spaces of Recom Art Berlin. All proceeds from sales will help provide emergency resources, travel aid, and shelter for artists and art workers fleeing Ukraine and other crises.

Participating artists:

Hito Steyerl, Pierre Huyghe, Nan Goldin, Isaac Julien, Thomas Struth, Tacita Dean, Gabriel Orozco, Rosemarie Trockel, Luc Tuymans, Elizabeth Peyton, Thomas Demand, Matthew Barney, Jeremy Deller, Laure Prouvost, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lisa Brice, Julian Schnabel, Bae Bien-U, Camille Henrot, Subodh Guptah, Sam Durant, Fiona Banner, Jim Hodges, Miranda July, Anne Imhof, Cyprien Gaillard, Thomas Hirschorn, Klara Liden, James Welling, Ketuta Alexei Meskhishvili, Doug Aitken, Julietta Aranda, Thea Djordjadze, Andro Wekua, Allison Katz, Kon Trubkovich, Lynne Tillman, Francesco Clemente, Sanya Kantarovsky, Nedko Solakov, CAConrad, Ives Maes, Celine Condorelli, Jonas Staal, Yves Mettler, Rafaella Crispino, Slavs & Tartars, Tai Shani, Olga Balm, Amy Sillman, Ben Rivers, Luiza Simons, Frank Thiel, Ida Ekblad, Nastio Mosquito, Sarah Entwistle, Marc Siebenhüner, Eliza Douglas, Lisa Oppenheim, Peter Puklus, Sophie Thun, Silja Yvette, Luigi Ontani, Johannes Geccelli Estate, Carmen Winant, Sebastian Riemer, Paul Knight. 

Solidarity Prints for Artists at Risk (AR) is a charity product, which is being sold by recom ART GmbH & Co. KG. The profit will be donated to Artists at Risk (AR) / Perpetuum Mobile (PM).

Prints are €200 each. THE PRINT SALE STARTED ONLINE!!!

First round closes on 30th April 2022.

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This exhibition in digital space refers to a physical place that is very special to me: my studio in Berlin. Over the last few months I have been both developing the space and working on the new and still ongoing body of work Metaphysics of Core Matter, which is now being presented to the public with the first images made for the exhibition context...

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Overjoyed and grateful to receive one of the NEUSTART KULTUR stipends for artists. Thank you very much!  

Stiftung Kulturwerk

Public presentation at Révélation(s) Portfolio - Platforme - Luxembourg

2nd June 2021, 12:30 - 14:30 

Organisators : Café-Crème asbl, on a proposal by Cristina Dias de Magalhães

With the suppport of Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain

The fourth edition of Révélation (s) / Portfolio – Plateforme – Luxembourg took place as part of the 8th European Month of Photography in Luxembourg on June 2nd, 2021 at Casino Luxembourg, contemporary art forum.
Selected artists were:Bruno Baltzer & Leonora Bisagno, Justine Blau, Marie Capesius, Lisa Kohl, Lucas Leffler, Elshan Rozafa, Caecilia Tripp, Silja Yvette.
The experts invited for this 2021 edition are: Delphine Dumont (director of Hangar, Bruxelles and Photo Brussels Festival), Christian Gattinoni (art critic and editor-in-chief of the online review www.lacritique.org), Emmanuelle Halkin (exhibition curator and head of the Circulations festival; Paris), Verena Kaspar-Eisert (curator at the KunstHaus in Vienna), Bettina Leidl ( director of Kunst Haus Vienne ), Rui Prata (director of Imagao Lisboa), Claartje van Dijk (head curator at Foam Amsterdam) as well as Anouk Wies (chief manager at Cercle Cité and exhibition curator).

Streaming : https://www.casino-luxembourg.lu/fr/Agenda/Revelation-s-Portfolio-Plateforme

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Casino Luxembourg

Skyline Plaza in Frankfurt is launching a partnership with Wiesbaden-based gallery Rubrecht Contemporary to bring color and life back into the center after these challenging months. The goal is to create a place to linger and be filled with inspiration, while supporting the local cultural scene by bringing contemporary artists from the region and elsewhere to a wider audience...

Skyline Plaza Frankfurt 
Europa-Allee 6
60327 Frankfurt

www.rubrecht-contemporary.com

An exhibition about the mandatory duality of our existence, the need to focus and act from our individual standpoint in the here and the now, yet also be present and dispersed and generous in and with our surrounding all the while looking towards future.

It is an exhibition about being (required to be) present in multiple places or circumstances at the same time. About the need to wear different hats, or shoes, or whatever clothing item you prefer. It is an exhibition about both: presence and projection, the dichotomy of human existence, the need to under-and-over-estimate ourselves on a constant basis.

Daniela Baldelli, Cécile Bicler, Jonathan Binet, Naomi B. Cook, Jagna Ciuchta, Odyssée Dao, Florence Gourier, Adrien Lamm, Markus Lichti, Antoine Petel, Justine Ponthieux, Patricia Reinhart, Chiharu Shiota, Jeanne Susplugas, Motoko Tachikawa, Rada Tzankova, Silja Yvette

Curated by Gabriela Anco

12th December 2020 - 31th January 2021, prolonged until 28th March 2021
Opening 12th and 13th December 2020

Galerie Mansart

Annual review and preview exhibition 2020 and 2021
5th December 2020 – 8th January 2021

Opening 5th December 2020

Introduction by Prof. Rüdiger Pichler, Hochschule RheinMain, Wiesbaden

Kevin Clarke, Sabine Dehnel, EL EGO, Lena Krashevka, Hendrina Krawinkel, Rüdiger Pichler, Marc Prat, Manfred Maria Rubrecht, Stefan Stichler, Nina Stoelting, Christine Straszewski, Oriol Texidor, Gábor Török and Silja Yvette

Rubrecht Contemporary

Overjoyed and grateful to receive one of the special stipends for professional and independent Berlin-based artists. Thank you very much!  

Kultur Projekte Berlin

FK is a web-based magazine writing on Latvian and international photography with the main interest area in contemporary photography in East and North Europe. They now published a wonderful photostory about my body of work Collective Creatures...

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1st October - 15th November 2020 

Festival exhibition

VISUALIZED VOLTAGE
Silja Yvette 

Festival curated by Rui Prata
Exhibition curated by Paul di Felice

Programmation of the festival featuring Todd Hido, Marco Godinho, Pasha Rafiy, Patrick Galbats, Silja Yvette, Cristina Dias de Magalhaes, Maxim Ivanov, Paola Paredes, Adél Koleszár, Éva Szombat, Krisztina Erdei, Arko Datto, Mariya Koshanova, Sophia Ioannou Gjeding, Catarina Osório de Castro, Paulo Catrica.

MNAC | PLATAFORMA REVÓLVER | MERCADO DE SANTA CLARA | CARPINTARIAS DE SAO LÁZARO 

Photo by Hugo David 

https://imagolisboa.pt/
https://carpintariasdesaolazaro.org/

Working on temporary sculptures: "This falling away from the things we desire will be staged, piled up, crowned by me. It is the fiction of a rising material, but it also shows its transience and the rational hubris of its inventor. My work as an artist is a temporary arrangement of a chaotic environmental condition and a joke with presentation forms in the context of art exhibitions, of the white cube and the pedestal culture, so to say of what needs to be viewed in a concentrated and contemplative sideline. A subtle play with the assumptions regarding myth and progress, practical solutions and their ecological downsides."

The German Photobook Award 19|20 will be presented at the following exhibitions, my book Collective Creatures will go on tour:

Stuttgarter Buchwochen: 14th November - 1st December 2019

C.A.R. Essen: 6th - 8th March 2020

Fotoforum Köln: 14th March - 24th April 2020

Galerie Goethe Institut Hong Kong: 11th June - 25th July 2020

Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe: 10th July - 28th August 2020

Hong Kong International Book Fair: 15th - 21st July 2020

Frankfurter Buchmesse: 14.th - 18th October 2020

BAF International Artist Residency Program

"Budapest Art Factory (BAF) is a contemporary visual arts center, seated in a former industrial building in the capital of Hungary. Formed by several artistic studios and an exhibition program, BAF welcomes visitors all year round, providing a platform for the dialogue of contemporary art. BAF runs an International Artist Residency Program, and welcomes established artists as well as up-and-coming young talents for a one-month artistic practice.

BAF holds exhibitions, panel discussions and studio visits with the aim of connecting national and international art professionals." (Budapest Art Factory) 

Opening: 29th February 2020  | 6 p.m.
Duration: 1st March - 10th April 2020

Ein WILDGEHEGE ist ein KÜNSTLICH geschaffener Freiraum, der dazu dient, den ursprünglichen, unangepassten Teil der ART zu schützen. Dort kann sich dieser Teil entwickeln und gedeihen, genährt und getragen vom Gesamtorganismus, um damit die Spezies insgesamt überlebensfähig zu erhalten. Dabei fungiert Kunst als Spiegel, als Ventil und nicht zuletzt als Netz der Gesellschaft. Ein Raum und Labor, in dem einiges gefühlt, gedacht und geäußert werden kann, wo Narrenfreiheit herrscht, um neue Synapsenverbindungen zu schaffen, um Geist und Seele Flügel zu verleihen, um noch nie Gedachtes zu erdenken und noch nie Geschaffenes zu erschaffen.

Das Wilde, das Ungebremste in der Mythologie und im Märchen korrespondiert mit dem Tierischen, dem Wald, der Wildnis. Bereiche aus Traum, Phantasie und dem kollektiven Unbewussten zeigen Zügelloses, Formloses, Unkultiviertes, das unter Kontrolle zu bringen und zu sublimieren ist. Der Basilisk beispielsweise gilt in der Alchemie als Stein der Weisen – und wer sucht nicht nach ihm?

Der Titel der Ausstellung WILDGEHEGE ist zugleich ein Oxymoron: das Wilde mit Freiraum einhegen. Doch was geschieht, wenn das gehegte Wilde ausgewildert wird? Das wird in der Gesamtinstallation der Konzeptkünstlerinnen Silja Yvette und Christine Straszewski erfahrbar. Erweitert durch Verspiegelung, Bespiegelung und paraboler Spiegelung verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen Jäger und Gejagtem. Hier gerät jedoch nicht das Kunstsystem ins Visier, sondern sein Pendant: der Eindringling, die Hybridisierung und der Synkretismus. Bezugssysteme unterschiedlicher Ebenen werden miteinander verknüpft. In der Rauminstallation trifft Formendes auf Geformtes, auf Verformtes, ob Naturkreatur oder Kunstagentur. Wesen mit ungleichen Augen beobachten und nehmen Blickkontakt auf. Malerei, Fotografie, Plastik und Konzept bilden einen Spannungsbogen, in dem die Betrachter*innen Zugang zu Mysterium und universellen Erfahrungen haben.

Die Ausstellung WILDGEHEGE ist der Auftakt der Themenreihe "Selbstreferenzialität in der Bildenden Kunst", die in der Galerie RubrechtContemporary in Wiesbaden ab Februar 2020 zu sehen sein wird. Die Konzeptkünstlerinnen Silja Yvette und Christine Straszewski sind eingeladen, das Kunstsystem nicht nur zu hinterfragen, vielmehr werden sie die Kunst als gesellschaftssprengendes Element, als Störfaktor des Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftssystems in den Mittelpunkt stellen. Mit scharfem Geschütz gehen sie auf die Jagd und gehen bei dieser Ausstellung nicht zum ersten Mal eine künstlerische Symbiose ein: DRAG ON FLOW (Peking), HIGGSTEDDY (Wiesbaden), KLEIDET MICH IN SEIDE (Bonn) und HAI:P (Wiesbaden) sind vielversprechende Ausstellungstitel, bei denen die beiden ihre Seelenverwandtschaft bereits erprobten.

Rubrecht Contemporary
Büdingenstrasse 4-6
65183 Wiesbaden

Opening hours without tour: Wednesday + Friday 2 – 6 pm. Personal tours at any time by appointment: Monday to Saturday between 10 am and 10 pm. Please contact Leander Rubrecht: +49 611 205 211 5  or +49 176 816 650 31 

My recent art book Collective Creatures - A Dialogue of Dichotomous Hybrids was awarded silver in the category photographer / monograph by Deutsche Fotobuchpreis. After the current exhibition in Stuttgart at the Stuttgarter Buchwochen until 1st December 2019, the books will go on an exhibition tour in Germany. Highly appreciated recognition and all my gratitude to the jury as well as to everybody who was involved in creating the book!  

Always worth a visit - Paris Photo at the beautiful Grand Palais in Paris. Collective Creatures with Hatje Cantz is awaiting you with pleasure.  

Exhibition with Book Launch 

Opening 19th September 2019, 7 pm
Duration 20th September - 26th October 2019

Introduction: Aurelio Fichter, Charlotte Lindenberg

Galerie H. W. Fichter Kunsthandel 
Arndtstraße. 51,  60325 Frankfurt
+49 (0)69 743 890 30

Opening Hours: Monday - Friday 9am -5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm 

Join Hatje Cantz Verlag at the tremendous Frankfurt Book Fair (booth 3.0 D20) and experience sensual and thrilling art books. Collective Creatures, my newest publication is present.  16th to 20th October 2019.

From 5 – 8 September 2019, during the newly established culture and art event Frankfurt Art Experience, 40 galleries will present outstanding artistic positions on drawing and the medium of paper on the ground floor of the centrally located Flare of Frankfurt...

Was auf den ersten Blick nach einem Sammelsurium nicht zu einander passender fotografischer Beobachtungen aussieht, ergibt nach mehrmaligem Betrachten ein wunderschönes Ganzes. So ging es uns in der Redaktion bei dem Vorgänger 'SEASON OF ADMIN', der Anfang 2018 im Kerber Verag erschien. Nun verlegt Hatje Cantz mit 'Collective Creatures' das neue Fotobuch von Silja Yvette. Und wieder ziehen uns die Bilder ganz langsam in ihren Bann...

Happy to inform that my book SEASON OF ADMIN is one of the finalists of the photo book exhibition at Athens Photo Festival 2019. The selected books will be displayed during the festival at the Benaki Museum / Pireos 138 in Athens from 13 June until 28 July.

Join Hatje Cantz at Art Basel and have a look at my beautiful new book!
Hall 2.0, foyer.

Honored to me nominated for the prestigious Edward Steichen Award. 

The special Collector's Edition of the publication Collective Creatures is now available!

It comprises one signed book Collective Creatures and two photographic prints chosen out of the body of work, limited to an edition run of twelve pieces : Klunker and Sympathikus Parasympathikus

In Collective Creatures, Silja Yvette draws attention to artificial and natural materials, as well as to the effects of mass and energy in space and time. In her photographs objects and places—from caves and abandoned buildings, to quarries, shop windows, found pieces, volcanos, and atomic events—become “collective creatures,” which make it possible to understand forces that are difficult to visualize, such as transformation, expansion, and omnipresence. There is something inherently mythical about these things that opposes the calculability desired by humans. With her strongly compositional images freed from their cultural context, Silja Yvette’s artistic process takes aim at associative contexts. Critically, and with sensitivity, she shows their relationship to the subtle permeation of microparticles and radiation on the one hand, and to the massive upheaval of the earth’s materials perpetrated by human-led corporations and human inventions.

SEASON OF ADMIN is longlisted by the jury at the annual book design competition“Best Books from Germany” by Stiftung Buchkunst. Hurray!

SEASON OF ADMIN is the first book by Frankfurt-based artist Silja Yvette (* 1986) and was recently published by Kerber Verlag. Not only the name made us curious but also the captivating cover. The lovingly designed book, elaborately produced with different paper qualities, contains exciting photographic tableaus. The subjects of Silja Yvette emanate an air of tranquility, inviting the beholder to continue looking and to linger....

Thursday, 23th November 2017    8 pm - 12 pm
Saturday, 25th November 2017    11 am - 16 pm

Book presentation and introduction by Charlotte Lindenberg 
The exhibition will show works of the series SEASON OF ADMIN and new works from COLLECTIVE CREATURES. 

Booksigning

Accompanied by drinks & light food

*Special from 10 pm 
Music by .∆IM33 | Visionary Refinement (Wien/Frankfurt/Imperia)
https://www.mixcloud.com/aim33/
https://soundcloud.com/mnmlplus

Subtle, uncanny and at the same time perceptive – the photographs of Silja Yvette »evoke associations ranging from ironic reflection to elegiac allusion, from the fragility of being to a certain longing for the elementary« (Annekathrin Müller, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation). At the origin of »Season of Admin« is an unease regarding any socially organised and administered relationship to nature and things. The images deal with issues related to the self-description of a subject that considers itself autonomous and on the other hand with the agency of things, assuming an understanding of hybrid forms of actions. 

The new publication contains remarkable full size photographic tableaus and an artist book like rich choice of different papers.

SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION

handmade photobook + extra size print in extra linen folder
limited edition of 24 books in 6 different colors 

Book Launch Event for Special Collector's Edition | with exhibition

Project supported by Thomas Duhnkrack. 

Friday, 19. May 2017 from 6 pm and 
Saturday, 20. May 2017 from 11am to 4 pm.

Registration requested, please use the following button. 

SILJA YVETTE und CHRISTINE STRASZEWSKI

Opening: 28. September 2016 at 4 pm.
29. September 2016 - 7th October 2016

798 Art District, No. 2 Jiuxianqiao Road

Guest artist for the residency program in China at the studio of renowned Chinese-Australian artist Shen Shaomin in Beijing. 

Ausstellungseröffnung am Freitag, 1. April 2016 um 20 Uhr.
Ausstellungsdauer: 2.-24. April 2016 

Öffnungszeiten: Mi-Fr 16-18 Uhr und nach persönlicher Vereinbarung 

Kuratiert von Juan Xu und Leander Rubrecht 

PROGRAMM IM APRIL:

HIGGSTEDDY_TALK 
Samstag, 16.04.2016, Beginn 21 Uhr 
(zur KURZEN NACHT DER GALERIEN UND MUSEEN WIESBADEN)  

II PERFORMANCE DAY 2016, WIESBADEN 
in Zusammenarbeit mit I O Cultural Network e. V. 
Sonntag, 24.04.2016 von 14 - 20 Uhr 

ADRESSE
KAISER&CREAM. ART DISTRICT

Büdingenstraße 4-6, 65183 Wiesbaden
T +49 - 611 - 205 211 5
C +49 - 176 - 816 650 31
www.kaiser-cream.com

VERONIKA BURGER, JANA HARTMANN, BERND METZ, ANSELM SCHENKLUHN, SARAH SCHODERER, CHRISTINE STRASZEWSKI, SILJA YVETTE

Junge, zeitgenössische KünstlerInnen aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum zeigen eine besondere Ausstellung in der Kunst- und Kulturhalle Fabrik45 im Bonner Macke Viertel. Kleidet mich in Seide bildet eine ironische Klammer um die Herausforderungen des künstlerischen Schaffens, von Zweifel bis Behauptung. Die Schau protegiert aufstrebende bildende KünstlerInnen, die bereits eine ausgeprägte künstlerische Sprache entwickelt haben, im Sinne einer großräumigen und selbstbestimmten Präsentation. Ob Malerei, Fotografie, Skulptur, Installation oder Performance, die gezeigten Arbeiten jonglieren mit Mediengrenzen und bewegen sich im Feld der Interdisziplinarität.

Ein Ausstellungsprojekt von Silja Yvette mit Unterstützung von Natascia Cuschié und Cristof Domrowe.

Vernissage Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2016 ab 19 Uhr
Ausstellungsdauer 19. bis 28. Februar 2016
Öffnungszeiten: Do-Fr 16-20 Uhr, Sa und So 16-19 Uhr, Mo bis Mi geschlossen

Kunstbummel am Samstag, den 20. Februar 2016 mit Dr. Nicole Birnfeld (Kunst- und Kulturvermittlerin)
Führung durch die Ausstellung: 12-13:30 Uhr, Gebühr 5€

Fabrik45 Hochstadenring 45
53119 Bonn
0228 / 53448677
www.fabrik45.de

Fotografien von Silja Yvette aus der Serie SEASON OF ADMIN.

Ein Ausstellungsprojekt kuratiert von Sarah Schoderer, mit Unterstützung von Natalie Vu und Marc Oswald

Ausstellungseröffnung am Samstag, 30. Januar 2016 um 20 Uhr.

REZEPTION 

fine arts & #1 Jeans
Rechneigrabenstraße 1 
(Nähe Konstablerwache) 
60311 Frankfurt

Ausstellungsdauer: 6 Wochen 
Öffnungszeiten: Di, Do-Sa 10-18 Uhr, Mi 10-15 Uhr, Mo und So geschlossen