Daniele Schönemann
Born 1981 in Halle/Saelle, Germany. Lives and works in Halle.
EDUCATION
2011: Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, Sculpture/Metal - professor Zaumseil
2005: Final Degree , Berlin University of Arts Berufsfachschule für Holzbildhauer, Bischofsheim/Rhön
2000: Volunteer Service in Eco Village Sólheimar í Grímsnesi, Iceland
SCHOLARSHIPS
2018
Sparkassen-Kunststipendium “Wilhelm von Kügelgen”, Bernburg
2019
Arbeitsstipendium, gefördert durch die Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt und die Kloster Bergesche Stiftung
EXHIBITIONS
2023
WAOU 2023, Galleri NB, Viborg, Denmark (Group)
Herbstgäste, Ibbenbüren, Kulturspeicher Dörenthe und Mettingen (Group)
Kuboshow, Herne (Messe)
Galerie Hannahconda, Großropperhausen (Group)
2022
EIN HAUS VOLL KUNST, Kunsthandlung Huber & Treff, Jena (Group)
Poesie und Verstand - Eine Widmung an Novalis, Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Group)WAOU 2022, Galleri NB, Viborg, Denmark (Group)
Poesie und Verstand - Eine Widmung an Novalis, villa p., Magdeburg (Group)
ART Vilnius with Galleri NB, Viborg, Denmark (Messe)
2021
WAOU 2021, Galleri NB, Viborg, Denmark (Group)
Kuboshow, online (Messe)
generell frisch, neue Mitglieder des Berufsverbandes Bildender Künstler*innen, Dessau (Group)
2020
Contemporary Human, Galleri NB, Viborg, Denmark (Group)
Galerie Artherb, Wetzlar (Group)
Waou 2020, Galleri NB, Viborg, Denmark (Group)
Dorndorfer Kunstgarten 2020, Dorndorf bei Jena (Group)
VERWANDELT, Stipendiatenausstellung der Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Group)
Kuboshow, Herne (Messe)
2019
Dozent*innenausstellung der 22. Internationalen Dresdner Sommerakademie, Dresden (Group)
Kleinmachnower Kunstwoche 2019, Kleinmachnow (Group)
Ricarda Hoop & Daniela Schönemann, Zeichnungen & Skulpturen, Galerie art Kapella, Schkeuditz (Solo)
20 Jahre Kunsthandlung Huber und Treff, Jena (Group)
Kuboshow, Herne (Messe)
winwinwin, Kunstauktion im Pögehaus, Leipzig (Group)
2018
Kunstausstellung der Salzlandsparkasse, Bernburg (Group)
KUBOSHOW, Herne (Messe)
Kunstsalon 2018: Fiktion und Fakten, München (Group)
winwinwin, Kunstauktion im Pögehaus, Leipzig (Group)
2017
WILDER, Kunsthandlung Huber & Treff, Jena (Solo)
KUBOSHOW, Herne (Messe)
ortung X, Teilnahme an den Schwabacher Kunsttagen mit der Gruppe Grund Genug, Stadtmuseum Schwabach (Group)
2016
Creatures and Creators, Galerie Neurotitan, Berlin (Group)
Kuboshow, Herne (Messe)
GRUND GENUG - acht Künstler*innen, acht Positionen, Stadtgalerie Lauenburg (Group)
In der Wildnis mach ich es mir schön, Glashaus im Volkspark Oberaue, Jena (Solo)
Dorndorfer Kunstgarten, Pfarrgarten Dorndorf/Saale (Group)
2015
Grund Genug, Basiskultirfabrik, Neustrelitz, Germany (Group)
Schramberg aus Sicht der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Schramberg , Germany (Group)
Ostrale, Dresden, Germany (Group)
Gartenstücke, Jena, Germany (Group)
Kunst und Krise, AG Dollz, Jena, Germany (Group)
2014
Grund Genug, Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle, Germany (Group)
Wild, Rathaus, Halle, Germany (Group)
Kunstdünger »Für Menschen und Tiere«, Hofgeismar, Germany (Group)
2013
ArtLeipzig, Leipzig, Germany (Group)
schluss mit roten fäden, giessen, Germany (Group)
2012
Goldener Pflug, Halle, Germany (Group)
RaumPaar, Lüchow, Germany (Group)
Romantik 2.0, Magdeburg, Germany (Group)
RAUMinbetrieb, Halle, Germany (Group)
2011
Resistenzen, Galerie Kontrapost, Leipzig, Germany (Solo)
2010
F-Gebilde, Merseburg, Germany (Group)
kein WET DOWN, Ausstellungsprojekt der Klasse Zaumseil in Kooperation mit Dr. Heiderose Langer, Kunststiftung Erich Hauser, Rottweil
5th International Student Triennal, Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey (Group)
SATT, 37. Kunsttage Detmold, Germany (Group)
2009
Jeden Tag, den ganzen Tag - Ausstellung der Klasse Zaumseil im Kunsthaus Essen, Germany (Group)
Art-Figura, Schwarzenberg, Germany (Group)
2008
Artbreit, Martkbreit, Germany (Group)
2007
Halle von der Saale, Skulpturenweg am Fluss, Germany (Group)
2005
Artbreit, Marktbreit, Germany (Group)
SYMPOSIUM
2021
Bildhauersymposium, Skulpturen für den Kunstweg Battenberg, Battenberg, (Germany)
2017
Bildhauersymposium EINschlag trifft Katechismus, Skulpturen für den Katechimuspfad des Kirchenkreis Ziegenhain, Frielendorf, (Germany)
2016
Bildhauerinnensymposium HolzART, Braunwald, (Switzerland)
International Wood Sculpture Symposium, Sønderborg, (Denmark)
2015
1. Höfner Skulpturensymposium, Pfäffikon, (Switzerland)
internationales Bildhauersymposium, Højer, (Denmark)
2014
internationales Bildhauersymposium, St. Blasien, (Germany)
2013
Bildhauersymposium EINSCHLAG, Willingshausen, (Germany)
2010
Bildhauersymposium, Lemgo, (Germany)
2009
internationales Holzbildhauersymposium, Ossana, (Italy)
Spreewaldatelier 2009, Lübbenau, (Germany)
2008
Montagn'Art - 2. Symposium sur bois, Thyon-Les Collons, (Switzerland)
2006
Holzbildhauersymposium, Empfertshausen, (Germany)
GRANTS | AWARDS | NOMINATIONS
2009
1. Jury Prize, 12th International Symposium of Sculptor (Simposio di scultura su legno svoltosi, Ossana Val di Sole, Italy
Becoming bewildered:
The American writer Henry David Thoreau wrote in his last essay "Walking" in 1862: »Life is wildness. The wildest is the liveliest.«
Wilderness is the necessary antithesis to ordering culture. The wilderness is both a place of longing and a place of terror for the civilized. In the wilderness man hopes to find himself and inspiration for his actions.
The series of figures named Wild made by the young Hallenser-based artist Daniela Schönemann, has been growing for several years. The mostly small-format wooden sculptures seem to have sprung from unknown stories. With fantastic hybrid creatures and outrageous deformations, the artist sends the viewer off on a humorous journey of discovery into the inner and outer wilderness. It's getting wilder.
Art traders Huber & Treff, about the sculptures by the sculptress Daniela Schönemann:
Daniela Schönemann's sculptures assert themselves in space. They want to be noticed, arouse curiosity, although they have shrunk from life size to small format - maybe that's why.
Two or three protagonists in wood, some in PU foam, some installed on a tabletop, with titles like Uprising, Dogville or Resistance. It's always women, without color, without glamour, without accessories to spice things up, but with a neatly arranged hairstyle. Usually dressed simply in sweaters and skirts or pants, some also wear coats - identifiable as fur by the intricately cut surface. Their girth is strong, constantly increasing, until finally there is nothing left of body structure, curves are leveled by fat mass and limbs degenerate into ridiculous appendages. The hands, clenched into fists, in a defensive position and often raised, remain as a sure sign that these ladies are not to be trifled with.
They are ready for battle and determined to defend themselves exposed in their bodies, their possessions, their position, their posture, their order, their view of the world, which is just defined by the armchair, the sofa and the carpet. They are bulky, they defy our notion of woman as beauty, as a desirable being. They wear hazmat suits and resist anyone who challenges their principles. At least they try.
They challenge us! Provoke us, these obese women who probably negate medical instructions, any slimming diet and body ideals that are always conveyed in the media! Some not even able to stand on their own feet! Like a beetle on its back, completely dependent on outside help - with so much energy rolling into the void...
Resistance as the title of Daniela Schönemann's first solo exhibition. The first thing that comes to mind is intestinal bacteria and surrendering antibiotics.
Resistance as the ability to withstand negative but also positive influences. Resistance - a difficult word, at least for East Germans: it was used in an inflationary manner in the GDR era in the forced learning and reading material of anti-fascist heroic stories. It designates diverse types of personal or social refusal based on intellectual, moral or political convictions.
Nonconforming action!
Resistance can be active, passive and even non-violent, silent or loud, small or large, on the street or in the corner of the living room, from risk-free to sacrificing one's existence. There is a right to resist and an obligation to resist. And according to Hannah Arendt, "no one has ... the right to obey."
Art is resistance. Art gets in the way, irritates, questions, protests. Art is not a plush sofa. And so, alongside the countless smoothly polished, naked, lolling female sculptures in art history, there are the figures of Daniela Schönemann, who address the complexity of the concept of resistance and question it in its ambivalent form - with wit and irony, a sharp observation of contemporary behavioral patterns and made in a very own artistic language, in which the attention to detail and the sense for the big picture are balanced.
Living room revolutions - possibly as a reflection of our affluent society, whose citizens mutate into oversatiated consumers, so that shape and content are replaced by mass - immobile, incapable of action, but full of potential energy in the defense of private systems of order: There are fists lying on the shelf like precisely folded towels or threatening made of pedantically wrapped sofa cushions in imitation leopard skin - like a detailed view of the artist's small scenarios, which are transferred to the realm of reality and are far removed from the Biedermeier dollhouse idyll ...
By Susanne Ulbrich
