Silke Schönfeld

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Silke Schönfeld – born 1988, Idar-Oberstein. Silke Schönfeld is a visual artist and filmmaker. She studied at the art academies in Düsseldorf and Münster. From 2020 to 2022, she was an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. Her works have been presented internationally in numerous exhibitions and at film festivals, including CAN Foundation (Seoul), Garage (Rotterdam), Internationalen Filmfestspiele von Cannes, Building Bridges Art Exchange (Santa Monica, USA), Goethe Institut (Paris), and Raindance Festival (London, United Kingdom). She has received various awards and grants for her work, including the Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis (2023) and the Förderpreis des Landes NRW, Visuelle Kunst (2021). Her solo exhibitions include, among others, “You Can’t Make This Up” (2024) at HMKV, Dortmund, and “Über alles vernünftige Maß hinaus” (2021) at KIT, Düsseldorf.