Stefanie Schroeder
area: Photography, Media Art
Key Facts
nationality
Germanyarea
Photography, Media Artresidence
Leipzigrecommending institution
frei_raum Q21 exhibition spacetime period
August 2018 - August 20181981 born in Weimar
2015/2016 participant in PMMC LAB for experimental media art, Werkleitz Centre for Media Art
2015 joining media art collective FILZ film and media art collective FILZ working together on films, organizing lectures, screenings and talks (www.filmischeinitiative.de)
2014 Professional Media Master Class, Werkleitz Centre for Media Art,
2012-2016 supervisor and teacher for digital photography and image editing, photographic workshop of Kulturbahnhof e.V. Markkleeber
2006-2014 Studies in Photography, class of Joachim Brohm, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
2010 Exchange Student at École Nationale Supérieure Villa Arson, Nice, France
2005 Guest Auditor Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design
2003-2006 Co-organizer of the independent cultural center WBS70 Greifswald, self-run space for local exhibitions, film-screenings, readings, concerts
2003 participant of art squat project prora.allinclusive, 30 European art students live and work for one month in the ruins of the former KDF Building Prora
2001-2006 Studies in History of Art, Communication Sciences and Art Education University Greifswald
Exhibitions / Festivals (Selection)
2018
transmediale festival face value, film & video program
gute aussichten deluxe, Haus der Photographie Deichtorhallen Hamburg
25. Videokunst Förderpreis Bremen
Journées photographiques de Bienne
2017
gute aussichten GRANT, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf
34. Kassel Documentary Film und Video Festival
60. DOK Leipzig
gute aussichten GRANT, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin
Plastik Festival, Dublin, Ireland
2016
Festival Internacional de Curtas de Belo Horizonte, Brazil
November Film Festival, London
Moscow International Experimental Film Festival
Golden Reel International Underground Filmfestival, Ulaan Baator, Mongolia
Les Rencontres Internationales - nouveau cinéma et art contemporain, Paris/Berlin
post-bank (AT), script development
During my studies I applied for a position as a mystery shopper on a database as part of my job search. Years later I got a call where I was asked to test a post office on their consultations regarding private pension plans in a small town near Leipzig. Thereafter, I should fill out a question sheet to help grade the quality of the conversation. I agreed to it out of curiosity. I should make up a fake identity, with an address, profession and life story which I had forgotten by the time I got there, due to the excitement. I answered the questions during the consultation truthfully as myself. Here I found out that a pension gap of € 903 was waiting for me but that the only possible risk of the offered conservative product “Future Security” would be the downfall of the global capital system.
I later staged this talk with an actress. On that basis I would like to create a script for an anthology film or a video series which centres on the culture of evaluation: Ranking, Rating, Mystery Shopping, Evaluation Portals, Symbols of Evaluation… Which symbolism and what language is used here, how do discussed and addressed topics influence the speaker. Part of this script is also the issue of money. In Vienna I would like to work on this script.