Petra Spielhagen is a Berlin-based artist who focuses on the interwoven moments between everyday life and the staged. Her output spans three main areas:

Installations Photography Digital

Petra Spielhagen is occupied with images of everyday situations in public space, in the landscape and on travels. In particular, she is interested in how sets and scenes for a possible event are emerging in our increasingly staged reality.

She uses photographs and typical resources of the theater to isolate an element from a spatial or temporal context and insert it as a photograph or painted backdrop in another place.

For presentation, she adopts formats and displays of everyday contexts such as advertising. In participatory actions, passers-by are involved. They get a photo of themselves in front of a backdrop or exchange a story for a photo of a place.

Petra lives and works in Berlin, studied free art and stage design at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee. Among other things, she exhibited at the Festival of Regions, Linz, Austria, in the NGBK, Berlin; at the DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in Marseille, France, at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin.

She has received the following prizes and grants, among others: research grant, global grant from the Berlin Senate for Rotterdam, Otte 1 künstlerhaus Eckernförde, Schöppingen Artists’ Village Foundation, Goldrausch female artists’ project, Berlin; Project grant, DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst; Artist Residency, Cannes, France; Hotel Neustadt, Festival, Halle-Neustadt, project funding from the Senate for Science, Research and Culture, Berlin; First prize in the art competition of the Max Planck Society/realization of the Wandering Light Field for the Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin.

Contact

p.spielhagen@web.de

Credits
Website design: Null Zero
Development: Virgile Janssen

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Impressum

Index

Selected works Archive

Media

Installations Photography Texts

Theme

art in architecture Illumination landscape mise en scène participatory public space

Years

1999 - 2009 2010 – 2019 2020 onwards

Wolkenkuckucksheim

Berlin, 2020
Proposal for an Invited competition, awarding authority: Bezirksamt Treptow-Köpenick.

Scaffolding, plywood, slats, pigments, acrylic paint.
500x300x100 cm.

Installations art in architecture public space 2020 onwards

The painted backdrop shows the motif of a postcard from the Berlin Trade Exhibition of 1896 in Treptower Park. The major event was presented as a Gesamtkunstwerk and was intended to show, inform and entertain technical progress with exhibition halls, pavilions and large backdrop streets such as Spandauer Straße in Alt Berlin or the Straße von Kairo. In the special exhibitions Alt Berlin, Cairo and the Colonial Exhibition, Exoticism was presented at great expense. More than a thousand people, some of them from Africa, were employed to recreate the customs and traditions according to the ideas of the exhibition organisers or to recreate them in medieval Old Berlin.

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Proposal Temporäre Kunst im Rosengarten, Treptower Park

postcard

Advertising postcard of the Berlin Gasglühlicht with significant attractions of the trade exhibition 1896

Gewerbeausstellung

From: „Pracht-Album der Berliner Gewerbe-Ausstellung 1896, Kolonialausstellung, Alt Berlin, Kairo“

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