SYLVIA SCHWENK CV

 

 

EDUCATION

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Doctorate of Philosophy, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney

08

Köln International School of Design, Germany

07

Bachelor of Visual Arts 1st Class Honours, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney NSW Australia

06

Üniversität der Künste Berlin, Germany

 

 

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

13

Sylvia Schwenk, Selected works, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne

12

Sometimes awful things have their own kind of beauty, Dianne Tanzer Gallery + Projects, Melbourne

 

Along white lines, Dianne Tanzer, Melbourne

 

five Prison stories, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

 

birds and clouds from one life to another, Dynamo Expo, Enschede, Netherlands

 

birds and clouds from one life to another, Perron 1, Delden, Netherlands

 

birds and clouds from one life to another, Kulturbüro Münsterland, Münster, Germany

11

The workers’ lift, Albury Library Museum

 

Life takes place on foot, Gallery 2, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney

10

The workers’ lift, Oxford Art Factory, Sydney

 

Love and Loss, Art2Muse Gallery, Sydney

 

The world is made up of unfinished stories, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

09

One day, I think I’ll lend a hand, but right now I need a new plasma TV, Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Forum für Kunstvermittlung, Germany

 

They paved paradise put up a parking lot, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand

 

Anything you can see in person, you can see better on TV, Bondi, Sydney

06

Eternal Return, Zapp Live Galerie, Berlin

 

 

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

14

Multiples, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

 

Is this Art?, presented by dLux MediaArts, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

 

12th In the Palace International Short Film Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria

 

38th Alice Prize, Araleun Arts Centre, Alice Springs

 

GrensWerteWeltAusstellung, the Kloster Bentlage, Rheine

13

Art Fair, Contemporary Art Ruhr -‘CAR’, Essen, DE

 

Middle Head: 33° 50’ S, 151°14’ E, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

 

Collaborateurs, Artereal Gallery, Sydney, AU

 

The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge Festival, Berlin, DE

12

Insider/Outsider, Lincoln Arts Project, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA

 

Going Gaga with Dada, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

 

Figure and Landscape, QVMAG, Launceston

 

Dialogue with Tasmania, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart

 

The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge Festival, Berlin, Germany

11

Homegrown, COFAspace, Sydney

 

Body Language, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

 

Body Language, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

 

David Harold Tribe Sculpture Award, SCA Gallery, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney

 

Albury Digital Art Outdoor Gallery, Albury Library Museum

 

Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre

 

Art Month, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

10

Lethbridge 10000, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane

 

Linden Postcards, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

 

Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre

 

Art Sydney 09 – Off the Wall, RHI Pavilion, Sydney

 

Tickled Pink, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

 

Climate Camp 09, Mori Gallery, Sydney

09

Someone draws a flower on a wall beside a bed, School of Arts and Aesthetics Galleries, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

 

Climate Emergency, At the Vanishing Point Gallery, Newtown

 

Thesis, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery Melbourne

 

Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre

 

Altered States of Reality, Agora Gallery, New York

 

Dunedin Fringe Festival, New Zealand

 

Go Figure, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

 

Wilson National Art Prize, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane

08

Watch this space … Brenda May Gallery, Sydney NSW

 

Lobetrotters, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Canada

 

Go North!, Halifax, Canada

 

Red Cross Summer Exhibition, Nutshuis Gallery, The Hague, The Netherlands

 

Newtown Flicks Short Film Festival, Newtown, Sydney NSW

 

Moran Prize – semifinalist

 

Night Markets, Performance Space, Sydney NSW

07

Degree Shows 2007, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney NSW

 

Sydney Underground Film Festival, The Factory Theatre, Sydney NSW

 

The Howard Years, At the Vanishing Point Gallery, Sydney NSW

 

Trajectories of Dissent, Mori Gallery, Tooth Studios, and Little Fish Gallery Sydney NSW

 

Enviro-Collective Art Show, Exit Gallery, Sydney

 

Beautiful paper, beautiful design, albb, Saigon, Vietnam

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Degree Shows 2006, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney NSW

 

berliner-fotoalbum, Linienstrasse Berlin, Germany

 

Szpilman Awards 2006, Berlin, Germany

 

Australia right now, Newspace Gallery, Sydney NSW

 

Rundgang, UdK, Berlin, Germany

 

Sommerwende International Arts Festival, Gallery 24, Berlin, Germany

05

On the Same Page, Greig and Hinde Gallery, Sydney NSW

 

… about, China Heights Gallery, Sydney NSW

 

Art Sydney 05 – Off the Wall Emerging Artist Showcase, RHI & Hordern Pavilion NSW

 

MCQ International Art Prize, Chifley Tower, Sydney NSW

 

… it’s the economy, stupid, Newspace Gallery, Sydney NSW

 

Subculture, Newspace Gallery, Sydney NSW

 

 

 

 

PERFORMANCES

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The bubble, Circular Quay, Sydney

14

Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

 

World Domination, various locations around Sydney

13

Study for Dazzle, HMAS Penguin, Sydney

12

dada – when up is down, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

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Along white lines, during half time at the NTFL Grand Final, Aurora Stadium, Launceston

 

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

 

birds and clouds from one life to another, Bad Bentheim, border Germany and Holland

 

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people, on the lawns of the MCA, Sydney

10

Boots for Rising Waters, Artereal Gallery, Sydney

 

Life takes place on foot, Elizabeth & Market St, Sydney

09

One day, I think I’ll lend a hand, but right now I need a new plasma TV, Artfair Sydney 09, RHI Pavilion, Moore Park, Sydney

Remember the importance of SELF, Schöppingen, Germany

One day I think I’ll lend a hand, K+K carpark, Schöppingen Germany

X Performance Dunedin,The Octagon, Dunedin, New Zealand

Red, blue or green? Bondi, Sydney

08

Each in their own time, the Hub Newtown, Sydney NSW

X Performance Köln, Altstadt Cologne, Germany NSW

Life Preservers, Südstadt, Cologne, Germany

Boots for Rising Waters, on the stairs of the Dom Cathedral, Cologne, Germany

07

X Performance outside TNT Building, Redfern, Sydney NSW

Under Surveillance, Martin Place, and St Leonards Train Station, Sydney

X Performance Le Loi Saigon, Saigon, Vietnam

X Performance George Street Sydney, Sydney

 

 

 

 

RESIDENCIES

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HMAS Penguin and Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

11

School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania

09

Kuntstledorf Schoppingen, Germany

07

Residency albb Saigon, Vietnam

 

 

 

 

AWARDS & PRIZES

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Finalist, 38th Alice Art Prize at the Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs

 

Finalist, Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre

13

Commission, Federation Square, Melbourne

 

Commission, Mosman Art Gallery and HMAS Penguin, Sydney

12

Australia Council – Artstart Grant

11

Finalist, Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, The Arts Centre, Gold Coast

 

Commission European Union, GrensWerte Program

 

Finalist, Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre

10

ACUADs Scholarship, Conference presentation

 

Highly Commended, Art Monthly Australia Emerging Writer Award

 

Kickstart Grant, USU, New works Grant

09

Stan + Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery

 

Grant, Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany James Kentley Memorial Scholarship, University of Sydney

 

Finalist, Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre

 

Finalist, Wilson National Art Prize, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane

 

Postgraduate Research Support Scheme Grant, University of Sydney

08

University of Sydney Postgraduate Award, 3 year grant

 

Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Exchange Scholarship

06

Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Exchange Scholarship

05

Finalist, MCQ International Art Prize, Chifley Tower Sydney

 

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

13

Fitzgerald, M, Bullseye as art reveals hidden gems, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 September 2013, p. 9

 

Middle Head 33° 50’ S, 151° 14E’ Catalog, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

12

Artwiki, 7th Berlin Biennale

 

Fortescue, E, Poking fun, Daily Telegraph, 25 August 2012, p. 8

 

Frost, A, Engage, explore and evolve, Catalog essay, dianne tanzer gallery + projects, Melbourne

 

Waldvogel, F, birds and clouds from one life to another: a project by Sylvia Schwenk and Nikola

 

Dicke, in ‘birds and clouds from one life to another , (Munich: Euregio-Programm Grenswerte, 2012)

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Bourne, P, Sylvia Schwenk In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people, Inteview: Radio Station 2SER, 17 March 2011

 

Dennemann A, Tanzende Flugzeuge vor wolkenverhangenem Himmel (Dancing aircraft and an overcast sky), Grafschafter Nachrichten, 4 July p. 5

 

Fortescue, E, Let’s hear it for tradies, Daily Telegraph, 12 March 2011, p. 9

 

Venterink, GL, Vanuit het ene leven in het andere vliegen (Flying from one life to another), De Twente Courant Tubantia, Holland, 2 July 2011, p. 3

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Bourne, P, Sylvia Schwnek Life takes place on foot, Inteview: Radio Station 2SER, October

 

Bourne, P and McGregor C, Sylvia Schwenk: The world is made up of unfinished stories, Inteview: Radio Station 2SER, March

 

Pavlich, C, Height of Fashion, mX, 23 March, 2010, Front cover

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Benson, N, Traffic brought to a standstill, Otago Daily Times, March

 

G.bert, Interview with Sylvia Schwenk, Radio One 91FM Dunedin, March

 

Locksmith Project, Issue I,  June

 

Meisel-Kemper, E, Jeder einzelne Mensch hat Bedeutung, Westfälische Nachrichten, July

 

Pariat, J, Bedroom becomes a drawing room, Time Out Delhi, Vol No 3, Issue 10, August

 

Taplinger, M, Altered States of Contemporary Photography in Chelsea, NY. Gallery&Studio, Feb/March, pp. 14-23

 

Todd, J, The Interactive Audience, Old, New, Borrowed, Blue Oyster Project Space, Dunedin, New Zealand

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Finnegan, A, Hyperplexic, desalinated but not scary,   Artlink, Vol 28, No 1, March, pp. 47-51

07

Hunt, A, What do our bodies do in Public Spaces?, Inteview: Radio Station 2SER, May

 

University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, SCAfold, August 2007, The University of Sydney, Sydney

 

 

 

 

COLLECTIONS

Gold Coast City Art Gallery

Harris Freidman Hyde Page, Lawyers

Insight Project Pty Ltd

Sydney Adult & Children’s Ear Nose Throat Centre Sydney

The Ent Centre, Sydney

Private Collections in Sydney, Berlin, Saigon, Cologne and The Hague