Eske Schlüters

Eske SchlÃÂ¼ters (born 1970, Leer, East Frisia) is a German visual, writing and video artist. She graduated from Hochschule fÃÂ¼r bildende KÃÂ¼nste Hamburg in 2004. She lives and works in Hamburg.

Eske SchlÃÂ¼ters (1997Ã¢ÂÂ2004 at HfbK Hamburg with ) uses the relationship between narratives, images and imagination as a recurring element in her (audiovisual) installations and photographs. In examining found and researched footage her attention aims primarily at phenomena of vision, perception, the manufacturing of images as well as the emergence of images of past and witnessed events. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at Bundeskunsthalle Bonn , Museum fÃÂ¼r Gegenwartskunst Siegen, and Frankfurter Kunstverein as well as in solo shows at (with Katrin Mayer), Kunstverein fÃÂ¼r die Rheinlande und Westfalen, DÃÂ¼sseldorf and Museum fÃÂ¼r Gegenwartskunst Siegen and in the public space.

In 2024, together with Tillmann Terbuyken, she realized the project Untitled History for the public space. The work consists of an artificial ruin and an augmented reality with binaural sound.

Career

Eske SchlÃÂ¼ters studied at Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main from 1990 to 1996, initially majoring in chemistry and French before applying to the Hochschule fÃÂ¼r bildende KÃÂ¼nste, Hamburg in 1997, where she studied until 2004 with Helke Sander, Gisela Bullacher, Eran Schaerf, and Willem Oorebeek.

In 2020, she received her doctorate from the Hochschule fÃÂ¼r bildende KÃÂ¼nste Hamburg with her thesis Alles kann ein Bild von allem sein ("Everything Can Be an Image of Everything"), , 2021.

Awards, Grants, Residencies

2025/26 Scholarship for artists, arts-based researchers, and curators at the VALIE EXPORT Center Linz
2025 (2022) Edwin-Scharff prize
2020 Stiftung Kunstfonds Kultur
2019 Grant ZEIT Stiftung Bucerius
2016 Kunstbeutel Hamburg
time to sync or swim has been mentioned as Eva Birkenstocks "Best of 2016" in Artforum Magazine
2014 Pro Exzellenzia Scholarship
2009 Villa Romana prize.
2008 Grant, Arthur-Boskamp Stiftung
2007 Grant

2007 Residency, KÃÂ¼nstlerstÃÂ¤tte Bleckede
2005 Golden Cube,

Solo exhibitions

2024 Untitled History (art in public space together with Tillmann Terbuyken),
2023 Unpredictable Journeys into the Interior of Time (with Tillmann Terbuyken), reading room of the K.B.W., Warburg-Haus Hamburg.
2027 time to sync or swim (with Katrin Mayer), M1, Hohenlockstedt

2016 time to sync or swim (with Katrin Mayer), Kunsthalle Lingen
2011 La double distance (with Matthias Meyer), Galerie Eva Winkeler, KÃÂ¶ln
2009 4 weeks Ã¢ÂÂ 4 sights, Mikael Andersen Gallery, Berlin
2008 ÃÂhnliches und MÃÂ¶gliches Ã¢ÂÂ levels of enactment, Kunstverein fÃÂ¼r die Rheinlande und Westfalen, DÃÂ¼sseldorf
2007 Mismatch, Pudelkollektion, Pudel Club Hamburg
2006 Sehen als Denken sehen, Museum fÃÂ¼r Gegenwartskunst, Siegen; Viper, Basel
2003 True to You, Gold, Hamburg

Group exhibitions (Selected)

2026 Regards sensibles [Sensitive Gazes] Ã¢ÂÂ Video works from the LemaÃÂ®tre Collection, MusÃÂ©e dÃ¢ÂÂArt contemporain, Lyon (F), (upcoming)
2025 The Mirror Effect Ã¢ÂÂ 60 years of Art & Language, as part of Katrin MayerÃ¢ÂÂs project c0da, ChÃÂ¢teau de Montsoreau, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Art & Language collective, curated by Lara Pan.
2025 From the Cosmos to the Commons, project of city curator Joanna Warsza, Planetarium Hamburg
2024 contribution to the exhibition #c0da comptoir #fanny carolsruh of Katrin Mayer, , Karlsruhe
2022 Editionen, deutschlandweit
2021 AudioResources, exhibiton of the Berliner FÃÂ¶rderprogramm KÃÂ¼nstlerische Forschung, Haus der Statistik, Berlin
2019 Supplica per unÃ¢ÂÂ appendice, with , Anna MÃÂ¶ller, Ketty la Rocca, , Kunstraum MÃÂ¼nchen
2019 Fuzzy Dark Spot, Sammlung Falckenberg, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
2016 FÃÂ¼hle deinen KÃÂ¶rper sich von meinem KÃÂ¶rper entfernen, Kunstverein Heidelberg
2016 Screening, Les Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2016 Screening, Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris, F
2015 All tomorrowÃ¢ÂÂs Past, Kunsthaus Hamburg (with Vincent Meessen, Otolith Group, Sharon Hayes, Maya Schweizer, Oliver Laric et al.)
2014 Agora & Gabe Ã¢ÂÂ Gespenster der Gastfreundschaft, MIET, Thessaloniki, GR
2013 Villa Romana 1905-2013, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
2012 Lieber Aby Warburg Ã¢ÂÂ Was tun mit Bildern?, Museum fÃÂ¼r Gegenwartskunst Siegen (Katalog)
2012 Supplica per unÃ¢ÂÂ Appendice, (with Anna MÃÂ¶ller, Henrik Olesen, Jacopo Milani, Ketty la Rocca), Villa Romana, Florenz, IT
2012 Demonstrationen. Vom Werden normativer Ordnungen, Kunstverein Frankfurt (catalogue)
2010 Insert Ã¢ÂÂ Never The Same Colour, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg
2010 Seams and Notches, Flo Gaertner, Heiko Karn, Katrin Mayer, Eske SchlÃÂ¼ters, Reception, Berlin
2010 Alloro, Villa Romana PreistrÃÂ¤gerInnen, 2009/10, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
2009 Videonale 12, Bonn
2008 To Show is to Preserve, Halle fÃÂ¼r Kunst, LÃÂ¼neburg
2008 Stile der Stadt: Videopanel 2008 Ã¢ÂÂ Videoform Filmform, Hamburg (curated by Dirck MÃÂ¶llmann)
2007 Kronacher Videopreis, Kronach
2007 ZwischenFiguren Ã¢ÂÂ remember after all: there are such things! (with Katrin Mayer), rraum, Hamburg
2007 ZwischenFiguren or dependency is a marvelous thing (with Katrin Mayer), White Space, ZÃÂ¼rich, CH
2007 Frozen Cirrostratus, SAEKKERS Gallery, Eindhoven, NL
2006 Academy/Akademie Ã¢ÂÂ Learning from Art, (Modulator update), MuHKA, Antwerpen (catalogue)
2005 Akademie, (Modulator), Kunstverein Hamburg
2004 Deutschland suchtÃ¢ÂÂ¦, KÃÂ¶lnischer Kunstverein, KÃÂ¶ln (catalogue)

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