Ursa Schoepper
Biography
Ursa Schoepper first completed her studies in Natural Science with state examination. In addition she completed a study in cultural management, state examinaten, with a concentration in fine arts, new media at Prof. Dr. Eckart Pankoke, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Krempel, Prof Dr. Michael Bockemühl.
In her Agentur für Virtuelle Denkraeume she was working as a cultural manager. This was followed by concepts and realizations of various projects in the field of cultural education systems in the function of cultural manager. She received in this regard the Media Promotion Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia for her Museum of Absent Images, a conception and realization as a social network.
Since 2003 Ursa Schöpper has been working primarily as a photographic artist. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally and she is the recipient of notable awards and they are in interesting collections, for example in the European Art Museum Frederiksvaerk, Denmark, the Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori ex Granai de Villa Mimbelli and Fortezza Vecchia, Livorno, or the Helmholtz Zentrum für Materialien und Energie Berlin, Berlin - Wannsee und Berlin Adlershof.
Artist Statement
A digital photography is a light picture and a data image, an icon, a foil of a pictorial perception. Photography is material of different substances. That always means something provisional. In order to arrive at new points of view, it sometimes helps to destroy familiar ways of seeing in the figurative sense. For me as an artist, for example, I am destroying a previously recorded photographic image through transformation, that is, through a new algorithmic order structure, in order to arrive at a new order of sight and perspective after a new order.
I am developing autonomous artworks that exist as a virtual reality in a realistic photography. It is a transformation of real objects into abstract objects, the transformation of the concrete image into an abstract artwork, an abstract autonomous photographic artwork. The possibilities are inexhaustible. My guiding principle is the seeing eye in harmony with vibrating soul.
In this case there are the appearances in nature. Nature cares for spirit and soul, let's care for the nature, let's protect it. Nature does not need to make an effort to be significant. She is it. Robert Walser. And also Einstein already stated, look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
The changing of the seasons also symbolizes changes in human existence.There are times when your soul freezes. On the other hand, we also know times of new beginnings and energy. Everything is in process and constantly changing.
Country Germany
