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Ann Schomburg was born in Northeim, Germany in 1984. She lives and works in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Kassel and Hattorf am Harz.
Since 2005, she studied fine arts in the classes of Joel Baumann (new media), Urs Lüthi (Being and Fiction) and Bjørn Melhus (virtual reality) at the Acadmy of Fine Arts Kassel. In April 2012 she graduated with honors. In the same year she was appointed master student of Urs Lüthi.
Schomburg’s origins started in parliamentary politics, but she decided to switch her career to fine arts, to formulate observations of society in an artistic expression using the real life experience.
Using her own person as an example of real life, where art and life are in a symbiotic relationship. The consistent comparison of the various reactions to the “reality performance” and her art are a relevant focus of research. Schomburg’s interest is undermining ways using a very own system of logic to reinterpret settled systems. Her research and work is primarily influenced by national and
international workshops and residencies; 2007-2009 she had a free research stay in New York, in 2008 residency in Taiwan, 2010 in Berlin, 2011 in China and in Tours, France.
During her studies Ann Schomburg was awarded for her photographic work Northeim, sculptures. by the Unternehmenspark Kassel (category best student work). In 2012 she was promoted by the management of Preview Berlin Artfair as an emerging artist. In the same year Schomburg traveled with a delegation of five German artists at the invitation of the Tennessee State University in
Nashville, US. There, she presented with a delegation of German artists her work on various art academies and realized an exhibition with Students from the TSU. 2013 Schomburg was awarded with the Kassler Art Prize of the Wolfgang Zippel Foundation, who bought the photo series Northeim, sculptures. for their collection the year after.
In the Spring of 2014, Ann Schomburg called “idling mobile” to life, a mobile artist in residence project. The residency is a hybrid between an interactive sculpture and a residency program. In this constellation Schomburg invites other artists to participate into the residencies and exhibitions she gets invited to, to redesign the common structures of the institutional art support. For 2015
Ann Schomburg plans a residency tour through Germany and France in cooperation with project spaces and a crowd founding campaign.Since the summer of 2014, the project is connected to the “idling gallery”an art laboratory in which thematic exhibitions open the dialog between emerging
and established artist. A place for art and artistic networking.