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Ani Schulze will present her new video piece ‘Fecund Soil’, filmed in a natural reserve next to one of the biggest chemical clusters in the world in the harbor of Antwerp. The piece will be discussed as part of her growing installation project ‘Vacant Lands’, a research that questions mobility and production and how our relation to both has evolved along with the shift from natural to synthetic production and from material to immaterial labor.

‘A weary search

through partly submerged forest,

knee-deep,

waist-deep,

in foetid swamp

for the accursed juice of the vine.’

(Excerpt from ‘Fecund Soil’, Ani Schulze, 2016)

Schulze’s work concerns histories of failed utopias, abandoned places and unfinished stories. Her investigations foster characters and patterns to inhabit narratives, making them visible through different media such as moving images, works on paper and installations. She merges into the history of architectural constructions, technological and industrial devices and playfully engages with modernity’s after and underworlds.

Ani Schulze (b.1982, Germany) is an artist based in Cologne, Germany. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include ‘State of the City’, Basis, Frankfurt, 2016; ‘It’s There But It’s Not There’, Kunstverein Scotty, Berlin, 2016; ‘From Aerial Vortices’, CEAAC- Centre Européen d’Actions Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg, 2015; ‘Eating Out’, Roberta Gallery, Frankfurt, 2015; ‘Open House’, Kunstverein, Braunschweig, 2015; ‘Sneaking Home’, Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, 2015; ‘Poltroneria’, Museo Apparente, Napels, 2014.

She studied at the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Glasgow School of Arts, Düsseldorf Kunstakademie and Karlsruhe Kunstakademie.

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