In August and September Skaftfell is hosting two residencies granted by the Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt. The recipients of these residencies are Sarah Deibele and Emanuel Schulze. On Friday the 11th of September they will open their studios in the Netfactory to the public to introduce their respective practices. We welcome you to join us for an afternoon of impressions and conversation with drinks and refreshments at 4 pm.

About the artists:
Sarah Deibele is a German artist, lecturer and illustrator based in Halle (Saale). In her drawings and prints, she portrays remembered landscapes dissected into their individual parts and reassembled as multiple traces on paper. Sometimes she feels as if her drawing is like writing. Sarah’s style finds abstraction in the dancing variety of lines. The play with surfaces, line, tilted perspective, sequence and rhythm nourishes her playful creative freedom on paper. Sometimes she feels as if her drawing is a choreography, so to speak.

During her stay at Skaftfell Art Center – funded through the Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt – Sarah will draw the mystic landscape. The impressions of the journey rotates in her inner photographic memory, till the landscape is translated into her handwriting. People are an important part of a country. For the first time the artist wants to integrate traces / pictorial elements from others – former artists, tourists und locals. She collects and asks for doodles / scribbles / sketches of graffitis in bar tables.

Emanuel Schulze is a German artist, born in Bad Saarow and living in Halle (Saale). He is a visual artist and stage designer. He is studying at the „Hochschule für Bildende Künste“ Dresden ( Dresden Akademie of Fine Arts) from 2001-2008.

As a visual artist, he has spent most of the last few years working primarily in painting. Emanuel has received various grants for his painting. His residency at Skaftfell Art Center was made possible with a grant from the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation (Germany). Emanuel is also a set and costume designer. Since 2007, he has regularly designed sets and costumes for a wide variety of theatres in Germany and Switzerland.

In his paintings, he likes to explore the tension between artistic freedom and technical precision. The landscapes emerge as chance-driven painterly processes, which he contrasts with technically constructed elements. This has often resulted in landscapes featuring architecture-like structures. He also produces more free-form paintings. His works evoke contemplative atmospheres that lie between emptiness and abstraction.