Frances Scholz
*1962 in Washington D.C. (US)
lives and works in Cologne (DE)
1982 – 1988
University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin (DE)
1988
master student of Prof. Kuno Gonschior
2002 – today
Professor at University of Art, HBK, Braunschweig (DE)
SCHOLARSHIPS / PRIZES
2019
Grant, Berlin Childhood, Arts Foundation NRW, Dusseldorf (DE)
Grant, Research, Braunschweig University of Art, Braunschweig (DE)
Grant, Gender Studies, Berlin Childhood, Braunschweig (DE)
University of Art, Braunschweig (DE)
2016
Artist Residency, Chinati Foundation, Marfa (US)
Grant for vinyl record „Songs of Amboy“, Braunschweig University of Art (DE)
2015
Grant for „Amboy“, Arts Foundation NRW, Dusseldorf (DE)
2014
Grant for „Amboy“, Braunschweig University of Art (DE)
2011
Grant, Gender Studies, Starlite, Braunschweig University of Art (DE)
2002
Grant, Los Angeles, Kultusministerium NRW, Dusseldorf (DE)
1999
Artist Residency, Villa Massimo, Rome (IT)
1996
Kunstfonds, Bonn (DE)
1995
Grant, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Bonn (DE)
1993
Grant, Peter-Mertes, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (DE)
1992
Junger Künstler Nordrhein-Westfalen Award, Dusseldorf (DE)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2024
„Wave Painting Particle Structure“, Clages, Cologne (DE)
2021
„The Traveler“, Clages, Cologne (DE)
2020
“Episodes of Starlite”, ORTVI, New York (US)
2019
„The Chicken Truck“, 3A Gallery, New York (US)
„Berlin Childhood”, University of Bern (CH)
“Berlin Childhood”, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK)
2018
„AMBOY“, screening and talk with Mark von Schlegell and Richard Burkett, ICA, London (UK)
„Frances Scholz“, 3A Gallery, New York (US)
2017
„ungekämmt“, Clages, Cologne (DE)
„Hugging machine (T.G. Throne)“, ak Raum, Cologne (DE)
„AMBOY“, The Kitchen, New York (US)
„Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: monads, bodies, and the nature of perception“, Tif Sigfrids, Los Angeles (US)
2016
„Orange, you glad you can read“, Tif Sigfrids, Los Angeles (US)
„AMBOY“, premiere at Museum Ludwig, Cologne (DE)
open studio and screening of „AMBOY“, Locker Plant and Crowley Theatre, hosted by the Chinati Foundation, Marfa (US)
„Starlite „, screening and talk, The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York (US)
„AMBOY“ and „Episodes of Statlite“, Scala Programmkino, Lüneburg (DE)
„AMBOY – the European Premiere“, Filmforum Museum Ludvig, Cologne (DE)
2015
„Frances Scholz & Mark von Schlegell: AMBOY“, The Wattis Institute, San Francisco (US)
„Moves#91“, Image Movement, Berlin (DE)
„Starlite I-V at A.M“, A.M All Hallows Church, London, (UK)
„Filmscreeenings, Frances Scholz and Mark von Schlegell“, Etablissemnt d’en Face, Brussels, (BE)
2014
„AMBOY“, Tif Sigfrids, Los Angeles (US)
„Starlite V and Epilogue of Starlite as part of Horologics“, New York (US)
GROUP SHOWS (selected)
2024
„There’s a skeleton.“, Suchi, Seoul (KOR)
„L´odore delle cose“, Lore Deutz, Cologne (DE)
„KölnSkulptur #11“, Skulpturenpark, Cologne (DE)
2022
„Berlin Childhood + The Angel of History“, RL16, Berlin (DE)
2021
„PLACE, SPACE, VOID“, 3A Gallery, New York (US)
„COSMOS 1939: Georges Salles/Walter Benjamin“, Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin (DE)
2020
“Footnote 14: Angel of History”, Cas Sao Roque, Porto (PT)
“Paradise Libraries: Episode 1”, Clages, Cologne (DE)
“The Memorial Differential”, curated by Amanda Schmitt, ORTVI, New York (US)
2019
„Tender Buttons“, Künstlerhaus Bremen (DE)
„Nico – Wie kann die Luft so schwer sein an einem Tag an dem der Himmel so blau ist“, Atelier- und Galeriehaus Defet, Nuremberg (DE)
„Wer kann, der soll…“, Kunstgruppe, Cologne (DE)
2018
„AHHHHH! REAL MONSTERS!“ curated by Lena Albers and Haris Giannouras, Clages, Cologne (DE)
„The Same as Ever, but more so.“ curated by Miriam Bettin, Braunsfelder, Cologne (DE)
2017
films by Frances Scholz and Aura Rosenberg as part of a collaboration on „Berlin Childhood around 1900 „, Summer School Walter Benjamin 2017, Portbou (ES)
„paperfile“, Positions Berlin art fair (DE)
„Wahnsinn“, Kunstgruppe, Cologne (DE)
films by Frances Scholz and Aura Rosenberg as part of a collaboration on „Berlin Childhood around 1900“, Galleria Studio, Warsaw (PL)
2016
„Mary and Aura Rosenberg: The Pop-Up Postcard Project“, Joan, Los Angeles (US)
„Fantasie“ (catalogue), Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg (DE)
„The Snoring princess“, Kunstgruppe, Cologne (DE)
2015
Artists Against AIDS, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (DE)
„Early Riser“, screening at Woman under Surveillance, Symposium at KHM, Cologne (DE)
„paperfile“, Positions Berlin art fair (DE)
group show with Heike-Karin Föll, Caitlin Lonegan, R.H.Quaytman, Tif Sigfrids, Los Angeles (US)
„Raumstationen-87“, Kunstverein Hannover (DE)
„20 Jahre Halle für Kunst“, Lüneburg (DE)
2014
„Works on Paper“, Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel (CH)
„LADIES FIRST“ Künstlerinnnen aus der Sammlung Schaufler“, SCHAUWERK, Sindelfingen (DE)
„on&on&on“, Kunstgruppe, Cologne (DE)
„Stock on“, Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel (CH)
„Schikimicki–Double Feature“, with Harun Farocki, Satellite Space, Santa Monica (US)
„Michaela Eichwald, Barry Johston, Mathias Kryger, Frances Scholz, Jill Spector“, Tif Sigfrids, Los Angeles (US)
VIDEOGRAPHY
2020
The Moon, color, 17:03 min
Awakening, color, 14:03 min
2018
Arena, Farbe, Loop, 1:47 min
The Swimmer/RED, Farbe, 4:40 min
2017
Holy Shit, color, 4:50 min
Wintermorgen, color, 5:19 min
Portbou, color, 8:15 min
2016
The Sock, color, 4:22 min
Kaiserpanorama, color, 5:13 min
Fall Again, color, 4:40 min
2015
Zwei Blechkapellen (Trailer), with Aura Rosenberg, color, 3:23 min
Amboy, b&w/color, 82 min
2012
Our Future, color,1 min. 3 sec.
Starlite V, The Manse of Manor Tril, color, 14 min. 43 sec.
2011
Starlite IV, Everline, color, 9 min. 1 sec.
Starlite III, Tarth, color, 10 min. 32 sec.
Starlite II, Little Hood Mountain, color, 9 min. 12 sec.
2010
Starlite I, Mellynthe, color, 7 min. 11 sec.
Where did you sleep last night, with Ilka Becker, color, 2 min. 38 sec.
Birthplace. Trailer, color, 2 min. 36 sec
China City, screenplay Mark von Schlegell, starring Kasper König and Julia Scher, b&w/color, 60 min. 51 sec.
2008
Lucius, color, 4 min.
2007
Panorama, color, 7 min. 10 sec
2006
Ich geb der Welt die Abstraktion zurück/I give the world abstraction back, color, 9 min. 40 sec.
2005
My Dinner with Merlin, with Mark von Schlegell, color, 28 min.
2004
Year of the writer , color, 17 min. 35 sec.
2003
Early Riser, b&w/color, 13 min.
2002
Interview with a tree, 11 min. 40 sec.
2001
ROLLEN, b&w 8 min.
2000
Steht mir doch zu, color, 4 min. 50 sec.
1999
P.P.P. Ostia am Meer, with Andreas Neumeister, color, 8 min. 20 sec.
1998
Wir kennen uns übrigens/We know each other by the way, b&w/color, 4 min.
Oriental girl/Western boy desires romance, color, 4 min.
Ballonfahrt, with John Kelsey, color, 8 min.
Foxmovement, with John Kelsey, 2 min. 30 sec.
Was ist denn mit dir los?, with John Kelsey, color, 6 min.
1996
Purpose, with Hella Berent, b&w/color, 19 min.25 sec.,
1995
Krönung, b&w/color, 4 min.
PUBLICATIONS
2017
Strzelecki-books (eds.): Record-Release, Amboy, Cologne
2015
Frances Scholz, Mark von Schlegell, Amboy- Fragments and Screenplay, Wattis Institute, Los Angeles
2012
stop/the/bus Productions (eds.): CD-Release Songs for Starlite, Cologne
2011
Scholz, Frances and HBK Braunschweig (eds.): Nomadische Unschärfen, Exhibition Publication,
Klasse Frances Scholz,Temporary Gallery, Cologne
2007
Scholz, Frances and HBK Braunschweig (eds.): Daily Dross, Exhibition Publication, Klasse
Frances Scholz in HBK Gallery, Braunschweig, Hochschule für Bildende Künste
2005
Scholz, Frances/Vahrson, Viola (eds.): Es lebt- Sie werden sehen, wie es eine Stadt durcheinanderbringt, Exhibition Publication, Klasse Frances Scholz, KunstRaum, Hüll
2002-07
Scholz, Frances/von Schlegell, Mark/Mesler, Joel and many others (eds.): The Rambler 1-9, Los Angeles
MONOGRAPHS
2009
Sprüth, Monika/Magers, Philomene (eds.): Frances Scholz (text by Catrin Lorch, Mark von Schlegell, Marcus Steinweg, Dumont Kunstbuchverlag, Cologne
2003
Frances Scholz . Basel: Tony Wuethrich Gallery
2002
Frances Scholz (text by Konrad Bitterli). Basel: Tony Wuethrich Gallery
2001 Frances Scholz (texts by Annelie Pohlen, John Kelsey) Basel: Tony Wuethrich Gallery
1999
Gerade noch (texts by John Kelsey, Andreas Neumeister, Sebastian Egenhofer). Rome: Villa Massimo
1998
Steinweg, Christoph (ed.): Egenhofer, Sebastian – Auswaschung. Zur Malerei von Frances Scholz, Koblenz: Verlag Dietmar Fölbach
Frances Scholz (text by Marcus Steinweg), Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff-Stipendium. Düsseldorf: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
1997
Frances Scholz (text by Yilmaz Dziewior). Berlin: Galerie Fahnemann
Frances Scholz (text by Wilfried Dickhoff). Frankfurt: Galerie Trotha
1994
Frances Scholz (texts by Walter Dahn, Jinno Kimio and Noemi Smolik). Nagoya: Gallery HAM, Nürnberg: Albrecht Dürer-Gesellschaft
1993
Frances Scholz (text by Uta M. Reindl) Bremen: Kunsthalle Bremen
Frances Scholz (text by Lu Mettelsiefen) Peter-Mertes-Stipendium, Bonn: Bonner Kunstverein
1990
Frances Scholz (text by Hannelore Kersting) Mönchengladbach: Museum Abteiberg