NowHere

2014 NowHere, 12-hours participatory performance in public space of San Francisco, in

         cooperation with drama therapists and activists from the Living Arts Counseling Center 

 Pas De Deux

2012 Pas De Deux – a tribute to Yvonne Rainer, subversive performance within the

         exhibition „Yvonne Rainer“, in Museum Ludwig Cologne, 5 july 2012

 Move slowly to avoid accidents

2011 Move slowly - to avoid accidents, solo exhibition and performance in collab. with Kota Otieno, Kuona Trust Art Center, Nairobi, Kenya; with support of the Mondriaan Art Foundation (NL)

 Sprachfluss

2010  Sprachfluss, film presentation Filmhaus Köln, Cologne

Documentary (80 min.), portraying the theatre training project 'Sprachfluss' and participating adolescents of fourteen African Countries, who are learning German in the hope to gain better perspectives for their future; realized in Namibia, Togo, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa and Germany, commissioned by the Goethe-Institut South Africa, from august 2008 to july 2010

Be Welcome

2008  Be Welcome, solo exhibition, Kunsthalle Lophem, Loppem, Belgium

Being Here

2007 Being Here, solo exhibition,  Bag Factory Artists’ Studios, Johannesburg, in collab. with Market Theatre Laboratory and the WITS University Johannesburg, South Africa; with support of the Goethe-Institut and the Ford Foundation.

Videopool Körpereinsatz

2006 Videopool Körperein/satz, solo installation,  Museum Mönchengladbach, Germany

Candy TV & The Always Invited Guest

2002 Candy TV & The Always Invited Guest, solo exhibition, Schnitt-Ausstellungsraum, Cologne

The Always Invited Guest Tour 

2002 The Always Invited Guest Club, solo exhibition, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna

2002 The Always Invited Guest Club, Weserburg Museum Bremen, Germany

2002 The Always Invited Guest Tour, Casino Luxembourg Forum d'art contemporain

2002 The Always Invited Guest Tour, SCCA – Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art

… and more places

Tatort Schmuggel

2000 Tatort Schmuggel, live performative film shooting as co-creative art intervention in public space of

         as part of the program “SmokkelSchmuggelSmuggle 19992000”, Cologne 

Candy TV & Sando-itchi-Do

1999  Anke Schäfer: Candy TV & Sando-itchi-Do, solo exhbition, CAS – Center for Arts, Osaka, Japan;

with support of the Mondriaan foundation, the Fonds voor Beeldende Kunsten en Stichting Duende Rotterdam.

PingPongPublic

1999  PingPongPublic, together with Boris Kremer, a 12-hours performative live event between & in 

          cooperation of Marres Art Center Maastricht and Casino Luxemburg - Forum d’Art Contemporain

          (the first interactive online live art event in Europe, supported by heimat e.V. and Wolfgang Knauff) 

Désirée Palmen – Anke Schäfer

1999  Désirée Palmen – Anke Schäfer, solo exhibitions, Provinciaal Museum, Begijnhof Hasselt, Belgium

DoUble U

1998  DoUble U, solo’s together with Desiree Palmen, Hedah Center for contemporary art, Maastricht

Sylvia Plaid and Jane Blond in Vienna

1997  Sylvia Plaid and Jane Blond in Vienna, solo’s together with Desiree Palmen, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna

Skopische Kolleraturen

1997  Skopische Kolleraturen, a music theatre piece, director, author and composer Anke Schäfer, Theater Am Marienplatz, Krefeld (Germany) 

Candy TV 

1996  Candy TV video installation, Internationales Frauenfilmfestival Cologne

Sweet TV showroom

1995  Sweet TV showroom, solo exhibition, Kunstkabinett, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen

O – O 

1995  O – O (about the observing view), solo exhibition, frontspace, W139 art space, Amsterdam

Oper für N

1992  Oper für N - Inszenierung frei nach einer Komposition von Tzie M. Elgna, concept, set design and director Anke Schäfer, performer Gerda Van San, singer Pit Therre, Theater Am Marienplatz, Krefeld, Germany

 Fall of Icarus

1991  Fall of Icarus - a live media performance in times of war, Art Academy Düsseldorf Open Days

Gi-oh-Tine

1990 Gi-oh-tine, a theatrical installation with five performers and five scaffolds, performance within the program “Frauen setzen Zeichen”, Cologne, Germany; supported by the City of Cologne and the NRW ministery of culture

Eine Kuh muht nicht umsonst

1989 Eine Kuh muht nicht umsonst, film screening, by support of WDR Köln and the Short Flm Program of Filmhaus Köln, Filmhaus Köln, Cologne, Germany

…

Gestentanz und Stäbetanz

1979  Gestentanz nach Oskar Schlemmer, director Pit Therre, performer: Anke Schäfer, Carola Bauckholt, u.a., Theater Am Marienplatz, Krefeld, Germany
 

GROUP exhibitions

2024  I'm glad the world is ending, Eyes on Art's Research, Leiden University, Eye Film

2023  Ways of Seeing, Eyes on Art's Research, University of Amsterdam, Eye Film Amsterdam 

2010 Angst hat große Augen, Exhibition of Werkleitz Festival, Halle (Germany)

2010 Illusionismo, curator: Jorge Bravo, (e.a.) Foundation La Caixa, Barcelona

2010  Sample 3 – animation in video art, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin

2008  Young Identities - Global Youth, Dominikaner Church, EMAF - European Media Art Festival,    

          Osnabrück

2007 Armed Response, Goethe-Institut South Africa, Johannesburg

2007 If I can’t dance...- Video Speech Corner, Open Air, MuhkA, Antwerp

2006 Collisions, Gemeentemuseum Utrecht, Impakt Festival Utrecht

2006 Drawing Lust, Kunsthalle Lophem, Loppem (B)

2006 12. Videokunstpreis Marl, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl (Germany)

2005  Look what you made me do, Filmbank Tour Amsterdam

2005  Transcuerpos, CCEBA – Centro Cultural del España, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2005  Between Skin and Orgasm, Museum Halles des Belforts, Brugge

2004  Reverse, within the exhibition “Lichtkunstpreis Lux.us”, Museum am Sauerfeld, Lüdenscheid

2002  Deutsche Videokunst – German Video Art, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen

2002  25hrs, Video Art Foundation, Barcelona, Spain

2002  euroscreen, Fournos Art Center Athen; Museum Kunst Palast Düsseldorf

2002 Strictly Public - artworks, videos on infoscreens in 28 German railway stations, 'Strictly Public' (Düsseldorf) in cooperation with the BVDG – Union of German galleries

2001  art:screen, 'Strictly public' in Underground-stations of Cologne and Düsseldorf 

2000  SmokkelSchmuggelSmuggle, Casino Luxembourg – d'art contemporain e.a.

1999  Schnittstelle Produktion, Shedhalle, Zürich, Swiss

1999  Hotel New York – HNY PS1 - with Jane Blond, hosted by Jeanne van Heeswijk, MoMa PS 1, NY

 1999  Supposed to thrill, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt

1999  ideal - eine Videothek von Karin Frei und Florian Wüst, Luzerner Ausstellungsraum, Luzern

1999  Breektaal, within the program ‘10 dagen Avenue Ceramique 100’, cooperation of art space Hedah & 

         Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht 

1999  AiR - Artist in Residence Vienna, curated by Karin Zimmer, Arthotek des Bundes - Kunstsektion, Wien

 1998  project: [ security], curated by Christina della Giustina & Jürgen X. Albrecht, Jan van Eyck Akademie

1998  Vision, Optics and Eye-rotics, (together with Karel Doing), cinema de Balie, Amsterdam

1998  Entropie zu Hause, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen

1998  Mehr nicht, Tent. Center for contemporary art, Rotterdam,the Netherlands 

JANE BLOND in Vienna

1997 Sylvia Plaid and Jane Blond in Vienna, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Austria

M.O. - Met Ondertitel

1996  M.O. - Met Ondertitel, Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany

1996  M.O. - Met Ondertitel, Natural History Museum, Maastricht

1995  Opening Hedah Art Space Maastricht, curated by Mique Eggermont, installation "Magnetic Tape #18"

1995 "043", Landbouwbelang Maastricht, curated by Johan Deumens

1994 Open Studios, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht

1992 Mini - Art, Galerie Ulla Zenner, Cologne

Further activities

 2021 – 2025: director and co-founder of the Research Institute for Theatre Therapy (R-ITT)

since 2011  drama therapist and counselor, part-time and freelanced (mostly online)

2013   Particpatory Film Project with juvenile inmates of the prison JVA Adelsheim in Germany, in cooperation with the filmmaker Lisa Glahn

2006  Foundation & curating of the  'Videopool Körperein/satz in collaboration with art space Hedah and the art foundation Stichting Smokkel

1999   Initiator & co-curator of the international art project “SmokkelSchmuggelSmuggle 1999-2000“ in cooperation with Mique Eggermont from the centre of contemporary art Hedah in Maastricht, Susanne Titz that time director from the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Anna Geukens that time from the Provinciaal Museum Hasselt, Frederique Bergholtz that time director from Marres Maastricht and Enrico Lunghi from Casino Luxembourg-Forum d’art contemporain Luxembourg