In her works, Silke Panknin deals with selected places that she prefers to find in nature. In addition to photography, which has been the focus of Panknin's work since 2012, she mixes various media and genres in space-related installations. The artist approaches spaces through site- and situation-related analyses and cultural cross-references that she finds or associates in her research. Silke Panknin's interventions in existing social and spatial orders are enormous in terms of the use of materials, consistent in their execution - and often connected with a participatory action.
In her analog black-and-white photographs developed in traditional handwork in the darkroom, she is not interested in depicting reality in the sense of a document. Her interest is rather in the idea of translating reality into another medium, which always changes reality as well.
Silke Panknin currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
EDUCATION
1993 Academy of Fine Art Stuttgart
1996 ENSAV (École nationale supérieure des arts visuels la Cambre) Brussels
1998 Diploma fine arts
GRANTS /RESIDENCIES
Stiftung Kunstfonds Grant Neustart Kultur 2022
Gastspielförderung, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, 2021
Artist in Residence, Brig, Switzerland, 2021
Grant Senatsverwaltung Berlin für Kultur und Europa 2020/21
Artist in Residence, Brig, Switzerland, 2019
Artist in Residence, Kunstnarhuset Messen, Norway, 2019
Artist in Residence, Kökar, Åland Island, 2017
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022
Neubesetzung KV Neuhausen
tabula rasa world in a room Berlin
2021
group show Rückschau 2021, Projektraum world in a room
group show Little piece of, Galerie intershop Leipzig
group show fast forward, Kurt-Kurt Berlin
Graustufen II Galerie intershop Leipzig
Graustufen Kunstverein Oberwallis Galerie zur Matze Brig; Switzerland
2020
group show Can`t touch this, Galerie intershop Leipzig
tabula rasa Galerie intershop Leipzig
2019
group show capsule # 2 - et voilà la réalité, galerie intershop Leipzig
group show neu gesichtet! Interpretations of Albert Nyfeler's works, Alter Werkhof Brig; Switzerland
voglio vedere lei mie montagne Kunstverein Oberwallis Visp; Switzerland
borders world in a room Berlin
2018
group show Die Menge des Lichts bestimmt den Grad der Schwärzung, Druckwerkstatt des bbk Berlin
2016
group show photo::vienna, MAK Wien; Austria
group show superurbanvillage, Kunstverein Tiergarten Galerie Nord Berlin
2012
Lines – borders, ongoing project in different forests (Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, Brandenburg)
2010
Parasit Shedhalle Tübingen
415 laufende Meter Peripherie Sudhaus Tübingen
aufrecht und quer Peripherie Sudhaus Tübingen
2009
Steine Plätze Zeugen Karl-Marx-Allee Berlin - intervention in the city space
2008
group show, Tübingen - Rottenburg
2007
group show Maßnahme - Maßnehmen, Künstlerbund Tübingen
group show Zeichnung, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
Kunstvorort Jahresausstellung Künstlerbund Tübingen e.V.
2006
group show Zeitlupe, Kulturhalle Tübingen
group show Ortswechsel, Kulturverein Zehntscheuer e.V. Rottenburg
2005
nicht mehr und doch schon Künstlerbund Tübingen
2004
weißer taubedeckter Pfad Gedok Stuttgart
2003
group show Fotosommer Stuttgart, Galerie Hoss und Wollmann Stuttgart
Behausung Galerie im Künstlertreff Stuttgart
group show Nonfinito, Shedhalle Tübingen e.V.
group show Junge Kunst, Städtische Galerie Reutlingen
group show Licht Raum Europa, Reithalle im Klenzepark Ingolstadt
group show Künstlerbund Tübingen e.V., Kulturhalle Tübingen
group show Paarweise, Jahresausstellung Künstlerbund Tübingen e.V.
2002
group show Flurstück 1408 / Der Kunstgarten, Markgröningen, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg
2001
Visionen_2001 town hall Stuttgart
group show Perplex - 75 Jahre Gedok, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle Bonn
Fernsicht BBK Stuttgart Eugensplatz
1999
group show Heidelberger Bahnhof, Kunstverein Heidelberg
group show Fliegende Galerien, Stuttgart
L´intimité Galerie The flying cow Brussels; Belgium
Passage 26 European stations, work in progress
1998
group show Villa Eksternest, Roeselare; Belgium
1997
una spirale Tergu Sardinia
group show Ithaca, Leuven; Belgium