Reni Scholz
Reni Scholz sees her work as sculptural action. It ranges from sculptural drawing, to the storage of time in relief, to interactive, site-specific sculptural events in space. Video films and photos are also part of this work.
Studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Tony Cragg, Bernd Minnich, Michael Buthe, 1986 master student. After her 5-month study visit to Marrakech, Morocco, she became a founding member of Galerie 68elf, Cologne. 2002 nomination for the Marler Videopreis. Member of Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen and Kunstverein Rhein-Sieg. 2020 Winner of the Tagore international film festival with the video Sculptural Event No. 10, a collaboration with Britta Lieberknecht and Beate Gördes. 2020 MKW grant for the development of the Response-art project, exhibitions and more: Stadtmuseum Siegburg (sculptural event); Kunsthaus, Essen (solo show) – Kunstverein Ruhr, Alte Synogoge, Essen (ROT); Zollverein Essen (CAR/Energy I), Kommunale Galerie Berlin (Energy II); Kunstverein Rheinland-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (Perspektiven 3). In 2020, she created the large-scale project Call and Response-art. In response to coronavirus, she commissioned 66 artist colleagues to respond creatively to a question she posed. Presented in several exhibitions and benefit sales. Purchases from the artotheques Kunstverein Bonn, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Städtisches Museum Siegburg.
commissioned
- Krisenhocker at the opening of her exhibition
- Missing Lola as a performance for her work of the same name in the programme of the Galerie im Wiesengrund
developed
- the film Skulpturales Ereignis Nr. 10 together with Britta Lieberknecht, prize of the Tagore Film Festival