Tiergarten, Berlin
Sarah Schumann
Collages and Paintings from 1954 to 1982
Meyer RieggerOn the occasion of Berlin Art Week, Meyer Riegger is pleased to present a solo show by Sarah Schumann, curated by Christoph Keller. The Berlin painter Sarah Schumann (1933–2019) was one of the leading artistic figures of the German post-war period. She saw herself as a painter, but her work as a graphic designer, essayist, filmmaker, actress and curator – not to mention her status as one of the most visible protagonists of the Neue Frauenbewegung (New Women’s Movement) in the 1970s and beyond – also made a profound impact on the social consciousness. In 2015, her long-time partner Silvia Bovenschen dedicated an impressive and insightful literary memorial to her with her 2015 book Sarahs Gesetz (Sarah’s Law), following Harun Farocki’s equally fascinating cinematic tribute Ein Bild von Sarah Schumann (An Image by Sarah Schumann) from 1976. The show features loans from private collections, most of which have never before been shown in public. This includes around sixty Schockcollagen and approximately fifteen paintings from the late 1950s, which were recently rediscovered by chance; they have since been restored and can now be presented together in an exhibition for the first time. Parallel to the exhibition, the book Sarah Schumann: Schockcollagen 1957–1964 (Sarah Schumann: Shock Collages 1957–1964), edited by Christoph Keller and featuring contributions by Christoph Keller, Klaus Reichert and Vojin Saša Vukadinović, is being published by Spector Books, Leipzig.