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 (re-)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
"Boundaries", Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (1990): International invitation to tender "Oxford Photography", curated by Trevor Ashby "Menas Be Sienų. Art Without Borders", Urban galleries of Šiauliai und Panevėžys, Lithuania (1992): Together with Lithuanian and Danish artists, it was the first international exchange project planned by artists in Lithuania since the Soviet era when only exhibitions organised by the state were allowed. "NowHere", Louisiana Museum of Modern Art In 1996 in Humlebaek, Denmark, as a visiting editor together with Bettina Lehmann of the Fanzine project Network Orange for the section of curator Ute Meta Bauer, she collaborated on "NowHere", a large-scale presentation of international contemporary art. The exhibition was organized in collaboration with four guest curators: Ute Meta Bauer, Iwona Blazwick, Laura Cottingham and Bruce Ferguson. "Durban meets Stuttgart. Stuttgart meets Durban", cultural exchange, Germany/South Africa, (1997): Project of the Association of Fine Artist, with Ingrid Hartlieb and Wolfgang Thiel SEA(S) International Conference (group exhibition), curated by Haytham Nawar, Ionian Center, Cephalonia, Greece, (2018) Society of Women Artists (SWA) 157th Annual Exhibition, selected for participation, Mall Galleries London, private view with HRH Princess Michael of Kent, curated by The Arts Society (2018) Biennale d'Arte Contemporanea, Terza Edizione, selected for participation in the Art Biennale Salerno, Italy (2018) "Herland - In Search of a Female Utopia", curated by Freya Black, group exhibition at the Women's Library, Sydney, Australia (2019)