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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)

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)

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

„Tif Sigfrids Group Show, Euclid Gallery, Santa Monica (US)

„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