Regine Schumann

Background

Regine Schumann was born on February 23, 1961 in Goslar, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Education

From 1982 to 1989 Regine studied at the University of Visual Arts in Braunschweig. In 1989 she was acknowledged as a master student of Roland Dörfler. Moreover, Regine has won many scholarships with different institutions, such as the DAAD, The Heitland Foundation, the federal states of Niedersachsen and Westphalia, as well as with the Ministry of Education and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Career

Regine Schumann developed her career as a Light artist, creating bright installations. Even during her education, she created the artist group Freiraum. Throughout her artistic career, Regine constructs simple boxes and tubes from industrial materials. Ranging from series of simple acrylic boxes to amalgamations of coiling tubes that spiral down from the ceiling, her sculptures are greatly influenced by architecture in their graceful forms and geometric precision. While the individual surfaces, shapes, and bodies seem to preserve a constancy, their colors convey a fluctuating character, a kind of physically tangible resonance experience, confusing the senses with the radiant intensities as a color echo in the room. Tiny boxes jutting out from the wall, groups of parallel panels, and monumental slabs work together to create an altogether harmonious and graceful effect.

In 2002 Regine was appointed a lecturer at the Hochschule Niederrhein in Krefeld and held that position for a year. Schumann has had numerous solo exhibitions in Europe, Canada, and the US. Her work is included in a number of permanent collections such as the Kunstmuseum Celle in Germany, the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn, Germany, and Stroom Stiftung Den Haag in the Netherlands, among others, and in several important private collections worldwide. Regine currently lives and works in Cologne, Germany.

Achievements

• Regine Schumann is recognized for her artworks in which light, and its transformative powers, in particular, plays a key in the experience and exploration of color and form.

Works

More photos

• painting

  • Touch Me

  • Colormirror Chelsea Seven

  • Fächern

  • Lollipop

  • Colormirror Maisach Blue

  • Colormirror Glow Open B - C

  • Mandorla (Iris I, Iris II)

  • Telescope I

  • Swings

  • Colormirror Bielefeld 1 & 2

Views

Central to Schumann artistic work is the investigation of the relationship between color, light, and form. She uses natural daylight as well as the artificial light of the night to produce changes in the object they touch. Schumann transforms the light to the transcendence of the objects that change our perception of the space in which they are.

Membership

From 1986 to 1994 Regine was a member of the Freiraum group, where her colleagues were Frank Fuhrmann and Dieter Hinz.

Interests

• architecture

• Artists

  Henri Matisse, Paul Cezanne, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Sol Lewitt

Connections

colleague:

Frank Fuhrmann

colleague:

Dieter Hinz

teacher:

Roland Dörfler

References

• Tag und Nacht - Regine Schumann: Fluoreszierende Arbeiten. Dt. /Engl. (Livre en allemand)
• Black Box - Regine Schumann
• LICHT, GLAS, TRANSPARENZ / Light, Glass, Transparency: CHRISTOPH DAHLHAUSEN, SPENCER FINCH, DAN FLAVIN, DAN GRAHAM, BRIGITTE KOWANZ, REGINE SCHUMANN, DAVID THOMAS
  2007
• Recall Byblos: Die Kunst der Mitteilung : Künstler aus Köln und Zagreb : Petar Barišić, Gunther Demnig, Vladimir Gudac, Tina Haase, Anita Kontrec, ... Pinsdorf, Regine Schumann (German Edition)
  1993