CO-CREATIVE PROJECT’s

NowHere

2014   NowHere, 12-hours participatory performance in public space of San Francisco, in co-creative collaboration with drama therapists and activists from the Living Arts Counseling Center Brooklyn

The Hero’s Journey 

2013  & 2014  The Hero’s Journey - participatory film projects with juvenile inmates of the prison JVA Adelsheim in Germany, in collaboration with the filmmaker Lisa Glahn, JVA Adelsheim, Germany

 Move slowly to avoid accidents

2011    Move slowly - to avoid accidents, solo exhibition and performance in co-creative collaboration with  the artist Kota Otieno, during an artist-in-residence at the Kuona Trust Art Center, Nairobi, Kenya; with support of the Mondriaan Art Foundation (NL)

Sprachfluss

2010  Sprachfluss,  film presentation Filmhaus Köln, Cologne

Artistic Documentary (80 min.), portraying the theatre training project 'Sprachfluss' in co-creative interaction with the participating adolescents of fourteen African Countries during workshops in Namibia, Togo, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa and Germany, commissioned by the Goethe-Institut South Africa, from August 2008 to July 2010

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 

PingPongPublic

1999  PingPongPublic, co-curated with Boris Kremer, a 12-hours performative live event between & in cooperation of Marres Art Center Maastricht and Casino Luxemburg - Forum d’Art Contemporain;  one of the first interactive online live art event in Europe, supported by heimat e.V. and Wolfgang Knauff

Skopische Kolleraturen

1997  Skopische Kolleraturen, a music theatre piece at the windows and balcony’s around the Marienplatz in Krefeld, director, author and composer Anke Schäfer,  co-creative artists as actors:  Ines Den Rooijen, Mique Eggermont, Petra Kaiser (singing), Desiree Palmen, Roger Palmen (clarinet and singing);  commissioned by  the TAM - Theater Am Marienplatz, Krefeld (Germany) 

Gertrude Stein 120th birthday party

1994   Gertrude Stein 120th birthday party, a theatrical installation of dresses,  socks, shoes and special gifts in collaboration with the  Jan van Eyck artists and staff, and a 12-hour reading and performing in collaboration with Michael Curran, Susanne Loehr and Harma Staal , Jan Van Eyck Academy Maastricht on 3 february 1994

Gi-oh-Tine

1990   Gi-oh-tine, a theatrical installation with five female performers and five scaffolds, performance within the program “Frauen setzen Zeichen” in Cologne; concept, script, installation, foto’s composer, director: Anke Schäfer; supported by the Werkladen Köln, commissioned by the City of Cologne and the NRW ministery of culture.

SOLO’s

 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 co-creative collaboration with Kota Otieno, Kuona Trust Art Center, Nairobi, Kenya; with support of the Mondriaan Art Foundation (NL); solo & co-creative

Be Welcome

2008  Be Welcome, solo exhibition, a kind of restrospective , 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; solo

Videopool Körpereinsatz

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

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 / see “The Always Invited Guest Club”-project (under construction)

Jane Blond in New York

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

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

Jane Blond in Vienna

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

Candy TV 

1996  Candy TV video installation, International Women Filmfestival / Internationales Frauenfilmfest Köln.Dortmund, 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 - Performance through an art installation (after a composition of Tzie M. / pseudonym), concept, script, 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

Eine Kuh muht nicht umsonst

1989  Eine Kuh muht nicht umsonst, a somehow experimental film with or without some cow, 10 min., supported by the WDR Köln and the Short Flm Program of Filmhaus Köln, Filmhaus Köln, Cologne, Germany

DUO’s 

Désirée Palmen – Anke Schäfer

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

 DoUble U

1998  DoUble U, 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, together with Desiree Palmen, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna

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 in Osnabrück, Germany

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  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’,  a cooperation of art space Hedah  with the 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 

1996  M.O. - Met Ondertitel,  together with Desiree Palmen and Karin Peulen, Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany

1995  M.O. - Met Ondertitel,  together with Desiree Palmen and Karin Peulen,  Natural History Museum, Maastricht

1995   Magnetic Tape #18, video installation, in the frame of the opening of the new  Hedah Art Space in Maastricht, curated by Mique Eggermont, founder of Hedah Maastricht

1995   Magnetic Tape #18, video installation, in the frame of an artist-in-residence, open days Künstlerhaus Schöppingen, Germany

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

1994 Open Studios, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht

1992 Mini - Art, Galerie Ulla Zenner, Cologne

PERFORMANCE’s in TAM Theater Krefeld (selection / will be updated)

Das Glashaus

1982   “Das Glashaus”, composition and script Urs Peter Schneider, director: Carola Bauckholt, performer:  Carola Bauckholt, Anke Schäfer,  Pit Therre, Manos Tsangaris (percussion),  a.o.., Theater Am Marienplatz, Krefeld, Germany
 

Szenen des italienischen und russischen Futurismus / Scenes of the Italian and Russian Futurism

1981   “Szenen des italienischen und russischen Futurismus”, director’s: Carola Bauckholt & Pit Therre, performer:  Carola Bauckholt, Suchan Kinoshita, Anke Schäfer, Manos Tsangaris,  a.o., Theater Am Marienplatz, Krefeld, Germany

Gestentanz und Stäbetanz

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

FURTHER ACTIVITIES

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

since 2011   own practice as drama therapist, coach and counselor

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

2000   Initiator of the international art project “The Always Invited Guest Club“ 

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