http://www.reneschaeffer.de/

René Schäffer

experimental photography


Work

Figur, die in Dunkel schaut

Light painting

Light painting is a term for my pictures. It is derived from photography, which means light graphics. However, as my pictures are not graphic, but rather painterly, I don’t call them light graphics (photography), but light painting. For me, light is a subtle description of matter. My pictures are a materialized photographic examination of classical painting. I am not referring to specific pictures by individual painters, but rather to entire movements. It is important to me that I grasp the essence of an entire system and show myself as an understanding person. Through my formal proximity to the “old masters”, I understand my relationship to and distinction from them. It is an excursion into art history without time or names. They are pictures.

Aspergillus Signs

„Autonome, photographische wie antiphotographische Bilder
– Pilzfraß als Mittel der Bildgenerierung, vorgegeben die Grundformen Kreis, Quadrat und Kreuz (Malewitsch läßt grüßen),
erhalten die Störung und Überlagerung der Formen
durch den lebendigen Prozess ihre Gestalt als Überraschung.“

text: T.O. Immisch Kurator der photgraphischen Sammlung der staatlichen Galerie Moritzburg Halle


Vita

1975 born in Zwickau (Saxony)

1999-2006 Diploma in Fine Arts Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle

since 2007 freelance photographer and artist

2008 Graduate scholarship Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle

2009 Project funding from the state of Saxony-Anhalt for the further development of photography

2011-2014 Lectureship in print technology, Hof University of Applied Sciences

2014 Book sponsorship from the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung

2015 Scholarship from the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation and the Bergische Kloster Foundation

2018 Scholarship as local participant Pilotenkueche Leipzig

from 2018 Chairman of the Board of BBK-Saxony-Anhalt

Moods
Viva el Vino, Zwickau
1996

Fashion backstage
Café Nöö, Halle
2004

Light painting
Diploma defense + exhibition Händelstraße 16, Halle
2006

Light painting
Gallery Domplatz, Halle
2007

Slide positive
Light red room, hall
2007

Slide positive
Creperie Yechet Mad, Nuremberg
2008

Flower greeting
Fast Bill, Halle 2008 “Light Painting” – Gallery Domplatz, Zwickau
2009

Mem and Aspergillus
artist-in-run-space Koloni, Dresden
2009

EJC 2008
Encerrado para Obras, Penela Portugal
2009

aspergillus in St. Petersburg
Oktogon, IHK Training Center, Magdeburg
2010

Building site
Oktogon, IHK Training Center, Magdeburg
2011

Light paintings – old and new“, Chocolate Museum Halle
2011

Fragmentation
Graseweg Gallery, Hall
2012

The walk-in catalog
Art Foundation of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Halle
2015

Staccato – light research
Westpol A.I.R. space, Leipzig
2016

analog mania!
Galeria Sala Vega, Timisoara, Romania
2016

light research
Villa Kobe, Halle (Saale)
2016/2017

Light painting
Gallery North, Halle (Saale)
2017/2018

Aspergillus
PingPong, Leipzig
2018

Troublemakers
H&P Halle/Burg Giebichenstein, with Claudia Steinert, Halle
2006

Alice in Las Vegas
Burg Giebichenstein, with Andrea Farack, Halle
2006

Two walk down the street
A16, with A. Bobb, Halle
2006

philographic
Gallery North, with Regina Stiegeler, Halle
2010

Leipzig Book Fair
as RS-quadrat, with Regina Stiegeler, Leipzig
2010/2013-2015

appetitzing//now
Graseweg Gallery, with Simon Horn, Halle
2011

Mischief and smoke
Graseweg Gallery, with Simon Horn, Halle
2013

Traces of the present
Catholic Academy of Bavaria, with Regina Stiegeler, Munich
2015

Photography
Municipal Gallery in the Old Building, with Nikolaus Brade, Geislingen an der Steige
2015

picture : beautiful
Feininger Gallery, with Sebastian Gerstengarbe, Quedlinburg
2015- 2016

analog mania!
Timisoara, with Regina Stiegeler, Galeria Adetim, Romania
2016

The illusion of matter
Room content/flying gallery, with Andrey
Bobb, Halle (Saale)
2018

Museum
Volkspark Halle

Black Hole
Bunker Uniplatz, Halle
2001

Manual operation
old Hühnermanhatten, hall
2003

The Unknown Immigrant
Volkspark, Halle
2004

The unknown immigrant
World Peace Gallery new Hühnermanhatten, Halle
2005

Students for students
Monastery, Bernburg
2006

Mafia party
Atelier 55, Halle
2007

Sztuka Na Granicy
Lebus (Germany) / Kostrzyn, Poland
2007

Opening
Innercity-Gallery, Halle
2007

Public enemy no. 2
Instantaneous water heater, hall
2007

Everything fresh
Temporary gallery, Halle
2007/2008

Student Media Days

University, Chemnitz
2008

Forum for Young Art
Hypo Vereinsbank, Halle
2008

Best Off
Instantaneous water heater, hall
2008

Annual exhibition
Burg Giebichenstein Halle – 4 participations
2007-2010

Memory II
Room light red, hall
2008

Time Comrades
Flying Gallery, Halle
2008

Excellent
Contemporary Art Gallery, Halle
2008-2009

graduated!
Volkspark, Halle
2009

Spring Academy
Youth education center, Berlin
2009

Hall in Halle
municipal gallery “Alte Lederfabrik”, Halle Westfalen
2009

Art is not enough
Instantaneous water heater, hall
2009

Beautiful living
Gallery Salonfähg, Halle
2009

Art in operation II
Rudolf-Ernst-Weise-Straße, Halle
2009

Wild growth
Rosenburg, Hall
2009

Nice wait
Practice Dr. Köhler Schnürer, Heinemann, Halle
2009

Memory III
Room light red, hall
2009

Merseburg Film Festival
Kunsthaus Tiefer Keller, Merseburg
2010

Information 450
– Community center gallery, Zella-Mehlis
2010

Works from Halle
Salus GmbH, Magedeburg
2010

Hall
Law firm, Hildesheim
2010

Painting on bowls
Grassimesse, Leipzig
2010

Encounters
Horschik Gallery, Dresden
2010

To be announced
Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw
2010

human
Romy Kraft, Halle
2010

Crisis whispers
orange, hall
2010

Memory IV
room bright red, hall
2010

from photogram to Polaroid
Moritzburg State Gallery, Halle
2010/2011

Longing for food
Plankstetten Monastery
2011

wanted!
Two Window Project, Berlin
2011

falling in love
pony pedro, Berlin
2011

Profiles
Clubhouse gallery, Leuna
2011

Communication
Art Forum, Halle
2011

hunger drives the beast out of the forrest
Gallery Die schöne Stadt, Halle
2011

Memory V
room bright red, hall
2011

Human zoo Europe
Gallery gerngroß, Halle
2011

Aspergillus sign
Chambers of Wonder, Toad
2012

Fragmentation – work samples
RAUMinbetrieb, Hall
2012

Art open
Old School Gallery, Warnkenhagen
2013

generally fresh
City Museum, Halle
2013

Portrait á la carte
Graseweg Gallery, Hall
2013

Portraits
Brighter than the light, Leipzig
2013

TheHALLE file
Gallery North, Halle
2013

Scholarship holder exhibition
as RS-quadrat Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop
2013

The HALLE file
Gallery on Ratswall, Bitterfeld-Wolfen
2014

O.T. – Love …
with Susanne Hopmann Volkspark Gallery, Halle
2014

The couch
Gallery North, Halle
2014

The Halle file
German Museum of Photography, Markleeberg
2015

Schnongs on Hitsche
Schlossgartensalon, Merseburg 2015

Felix Schöller Photo Award 2015
Museum of Cultural History, Osnabrück
2015

The black square
Cyriakushaus, Grefrath
2015

The transformation
Gallery North, Halle (Saale)
2015-2016

Stay a while #2
Art Foundation of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale)
2016

Cabinet exhibition
Gallery North, Halle (Saale)
2016

analogueNOW!
Siegfriedstrasse, Berlin
2016

swap network culture
Geiststraße, Halle (Saale)
2016

Boheme to heme
Robert-Blum-Str., Halle (Saale)
2017

analog weekend – show and tell
Kaskelstr., Berlin
2017

analog mania – workshop and happening
Timisoara, Romania
2017

shaping light
Florence, Italy
2017

Kaleidoscopes Ltd.
PingPong, Leipzig
2018

uncanny
Old Commercial School, Leipzig
2018

Trajectory
Pilot kitchen, Leipzig
2018

show&tell
Ida nowhere, Berlin
2018

when I see the darkness
PingPong, Leipzig
2018

kindness
Ass. Culturale Comunita’ Dzogchen – Merigar, Italy
2018

fake
KrudeBude, Leipzig
2018