Untitled - EMAF

AUSSTELLUNG // EXHIBITION
A slowly perpetuating camera revolves around its own electric-powered axis in the middle of a pedantically tidy middle-class living
room. Nothing seems to disturb the sunny peacefulness of this ambience until the room slowly becomes populated with pets. At the pets'
eye level, the camera follows the events with precise regularity, giving the beholder an unusual perspective amidst the increasing disorder.
With stoic instinct, the four-legged creatures seize the humans' territory and gradually turn it into an absolute chaos. The living room,
completely devoid of humans, becomes a revolving stage on which a showpiece on the species' behavioural patterns can be studied, sometimes
appearing comical and sometimes absurd, especially when they seem so ›human‹.
As in her earlier works, Corinna Schnitt also investigates the limits of artificiality and absurdity of the standard worlds of civilisation
in this film, combining an almost academic meticulousness in her camera work with humorous details in the story. (Katja Albers)
Corinna Schnitt, *1968 in Duisburg. She studied fine art and film at Offenbach University for Visual Communications and at
Düsseldorf Academy of Arts. . C. Schnitt has received awards like scholarships of Casa Baldi, Rome, of the Chinati-Foundation, Marfa,
Texas, of North-Rhine Westphalia or of Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. She was awarded the HAP-Grieshaber Award; Bonn, the 3-sat Award
at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival and the Prize of German Film Critics at EMAF Osnabrück. She lives and works in Berlin and
Cologne.
Solo Exhibitions
2005 Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin (D); O.K, Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz (A); Fluctuating Images, Stuttgart (D);
2004 Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas (USA); Galerie Fricke, Düsseldorf (D);
2003 Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin (D); Kunstverein Bochum, Haus Kemnade (D);
2002 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (D);
2001 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (D);
1999 Kunstraum Düsseldorf (D);
1999 Galerie in der Brotfabrik, Berlin (D).
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2006 ›40 Jahre Videokunst in Deutschland‹ ZKM Karlsruhe/ Kunsthalle Bremen/ K21-Kunstsammlung Düsseldorf/
Museum für Bildende Künste, Leipzig/ Lenbachhaus, München (D); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (D);
2005 Galerie Rober Miller, New York (USA);
2004 Kunstraum Baden (CH), Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, (USA); Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, (NL); Kunsthalle
Hamburg (D); Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien (A); Videochroniques, Marseille (F); ZKM Karlsruhe (D);
2003 Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (D); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (D)
2002 Ujazdowski Castle, Warschau (PL); Naussauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden (D);
2001 Kampnagel, Hamburg (D); NGBK, Berlin (D); ZKM Karlsruhe (D)
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