Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld

Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld (Berlin, Germany, 1979) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Based on the assumption that our Western liberal understanding of the world is not sufficient to cope with the ever-increasing global mess, Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld continuously designs various mysterious laboratories and treatments, in which solutions, healing, and meaning are attempted to be generated anew with the most diverse interdisciplinary methods. Schönfeld is jestingly looking for relevant updates of so-called folk wisdom. Her labs materialize through installations, performances, sculptures, instruments, photographs, and collages.

Her works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions including Art Geneve Musique (2022) HKW Berlin (2021) Belo Campo Lisbon (2021) Berghain (2020), Strasbourg Biennale (2019) Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden- Baden (2018), MAK Wien/ Vienna Biennale (2017), Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (2017), Kunstverein Wolfsburg (2016), Fotomuseum Winterthur (2014), Hamburger Kunsthalle (2012) and Berlinische Galerie (2010/2011). Schönfeld was granted a travel scholarship by the DAAD to Siberia in 2005, was a resident at Villa Aurora Los Angeles in 2011, received the FOAM Talents Award of the Foto-Museum Amsterdam in 2014, and a grant of Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn in 2012 and 2020. She was commissioned a public sculpture by the New Mexico State University in 2020.