Barbara Schober


Barbara Schober is a German visual artist. Her work covers a broad range of various media in which the term "Internet Awareness" plays an important role. With ancient techniques and material experiments, she sets a counterpoint to the pervasive digital world. Schober uses photography and freeze-frames, creates digital and analog collages and digitizes, paints over, or applies material objects to them. She integrates intentionally or randomly created structures elsewhere in her work. A major topic in Schober's work is a dynamic play with perspective and dimensions which continuously destabilizes the position of the viewer. The spontaneous, the accidental and art-trouvé is as important as the artist's personal involvement with the object or the topic. The focus is on liminal areas, precarious balances and pivotal moments in photography, sculpture, film and painting.

Education

Barbara Schober studied intermedial design at the State Academy of Visual Arts in Stuttgart in the class of Sotiros Michou and Moritz Baumgartl. Her work there focused on the topic of the "Imaginary Museum“. She also studied media practice at the Institute of Media Sciences at the University of Tübingen.

Exhibitions and projects

International
National
1987: ideas competition "Wallberg", work of art acquired by the city of Pforzheim
1990: "Model III vertikal", work of art acquired by the Ministry for Science, Research and Art of Baden-Wuerttemberg
1991: "Verrücken" Hölderlinturm, sculpturing project, acquired by the city of Tübingen
1995: Work of art acquired by the city of Chemnitz as part of sculpturing competition
2002: Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for economic journalism, project: "Macchina X - Fabrik der Zukunft", with Jaron Lanier and Stanislaw Lem
2002: Prix Europa, Internet Exploration Award, project: "Macchina X - Fabrik der Zukunft", SWR3, ARD-online
2002: Prix Italia, category: digital communication
2018: Donau-Kunstpreis
2018: Prize Art Biennale Salerno, Italy, category: painting

Published work