Ursa Schoepper — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

May 5

May 5 Ursa Schoepper

Biography

Ursa Schoepper first completed her studies in Natural Science with state examination. In addition she completed a study in cultural management, state examinaten, with a concentration in fine arts, new media at Prof. Dr. Eckart Pankoke, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Krempel, Prof Dr. Michael Bockemühl.
In her Agentur für Virtuelle Denkraeume she was working as a cultural manager. In 2001 she was awarded the Media Promotion Prize of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia for „Das Museum der abwesenden Bilder“. Since 2003 Ursa Schöpper has been working primarily as a photographic artist. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally and she is the recipient of notable awards.

Artist Statement

A digital photography is a light picture and a data image, an icon, a foil of pictorial perception. Photography is a material of different substances. That always means something provisional. In order to arrive at new points of view, it sometimes helps to destroy familiar ways of seeing in the figurative sense. For me as an artist, for example, I am destroying a previously recorded photographic image through transformation, that is, through a new algorithmic order structure, in order to arrive at a new order of sight and perspective after a new order. I am developing autonomous artworks that exist as a virtual reality in realistic photography. It is a transformation of real objects into abstract objects, the transformation of the concrete image into abstract artwork, an abstract autonomous photographic artwork. The possibilities are inexhaustible. My guiding principle is the seeing eye in harmony with the vibrating soul.

What first prompted you to think of becoming an artist?

I've always been a creative mind. As a cultural manager, I produced innovative projects for the cultural education system, https://www.virtuelledenkraeume.de/seite2.html. During this project work, I was discovered as an experimental photo artist.

What kind of an artist do you ultimately see yourself?

I see myself as an experimental, curious artist. I try to track things down a little scientifically and philosophically.

What are you hoping to communicate to the viewer through your work?

I try to convey to the viewer that things are not always the way we perceive them at first sight. The world is in a constant process. And if we want innovative progress, it sometimes helps to destroy the previous state, to transform it in order to arrive at new perspectives.

Can you explain the process of creating your work?

I am moving as a world in an environment. My eye scans my surroundings. In doing so, I discover interesting shapes, structures that fit topics that inspire me. The camera and the computer are just my tools.

What is your favourite part of the creative process?

It is the process itself, expressing an idea, a vision. I love to question what I perceive and to expose the possibilities that lie in it.

Can you give us an insight into current projects and inspiration, or what we can look forward to from you in the near future?

Most recently, I discovered that my artworks depict images of cities and landscapes that represent unhealthy processes in our society. For example, strong densification of our big cities or major changes in the landscape. I can do it artistically and aesthetically without being politically co-opted as an artist. However, despite all the problems, I don't want to lose sight of the beauty of the environment, too.

Website https://www.virtuelledenkraeume.de/