Was ist verloren?

In his multimedia works, which combine computer animation, sculpture, and installation, Wieland Schönfelder dissolves the boundaries between visual and performing arts, between moving and still images. He creates strange, artificially staged figures that intertwine the stage and the exhibition space and reflect ideas from political theory, aesthetics, and metaphysics. The scenes and characters Schönfelder designs are created on the computer and realized as 3D prints. They establish connections to both art and theater history as well as to the structure of everyday life by referencing modernist avant-garde movements, puppet theater, and fairy-tale characters, with models and rehearsal stages often serving as vehicles of meaning.

Wieland Schönfelder (b. 1985, Berlin) studied acting at the Vienna Conservatory and has participated in numerous theater and film projects as an actor and set designer. He completed his studies in Fine Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2018 as a master’s student in Manfred Pernice’s class. He lives and works in Berlin.

This book is part of the exhibition Was ist verloren? Wienand Schönfelder.