Reading Performance & Ambient Set @ [kuʃ] Kollektiv Gelsenkirchen

60min


Working conditions of being a »Hustler« are challenging the discourse on conditions of labor society thinks of as “acceptable“.
„Trophy Girl“ examines the dynamics of Western horse riding competitions and calls into question how notions of success and talent are applicable to the s3x work industry.
The Cowgirl becomes the protagonist in a deconstructed narrative about sisterhood, transexualism & seeking familiarity in the obscure.



"A Clinic of One's Own" @ The Epilogue of Alchemy @TTTT, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig

80 x 60 cm
transparent paper on wood plates

D.I.Y. estrogen recipes found online, a secret trans-owned orchiectomy clinic in Washington operating in the early 2000s, herbology during the witch hunts in early modern Europe - A visual collection recontextualizing narratives of civil obedience through autonomous Healthcare.



"Premiere" @ "Living Under the Rock" Group exhibition w/ Klasse Blank @ Internationales Kunstzentrum Petersburg

UV-Print on acrylic glass

"Premiere" is a tribute to Heiner Carows feature film „Coming Out“ which premiere took place on the same evening as the fall of the Berlin Wall. The only queer visibility on the big screen during the GDR shown for the first time (in a cinema called „Kino International“) on the very same day the destruction of the Iron Curtain begun. The work examines the intertwined history of censorship in political systems and access to autonomous image production.

Based on research at the archive of Schwules Museum Berlin.



Klasse Simon Denny @ HFBK - University of Fine Arts Hamburg

Angeliq
125x60x60cm
Angeliq displays data visualization of the international distribution of "homebrew" sex-hormonal medication used in Transgender* Healthcare through online blackmarkets. A fictional delivery is reimagining the future of care apart from the discreet nature of illegal imports.



Girls on Hooves @Lace Collective, Live Art & Performance Night, Berlin

30min Performative Reading



She-Wolf @"Loose Bolt Humming", Rundfunkmuseum Fürth

120x65cm
UV-Print on aluminium



Verbundenheit (03:31min)



Video collage, Performative digital drawing
Footage from personal family archive

A short visual journey following a continued dialogue of letters exchanged before and during WW2.

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/683031040



Perfect Skin, Video Essay (04:11min)

Perfect Skin is a abstract video interpretation of Ursula K. Le Guins essay „The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction“ transfering personal connections between the text and motifs of Queer Storytelling from text to video.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/k9i8vcRKxow



Perfect Skin was selected for the first edition of FEEVA - Forum for Experimental and Emancipatory Video Art curated by Haus of Xhaos.



About



Ria Schöneberger (she/her) is a trans*feminine artist & writer living in Berlin Charlottenburg.


Exhibitions / Readings / Performances (excerpt):

Memoranda @Galerie 23, Hamburg

Chrysalis Graduate Show @Kunstverein Ingelheim

Bedingungslose Grunderöffnung @Peng!, Mainz

HYBRIS Group Show @Peng!, Mainz

New Bodies New Spaces @the wrong biennale

Yearly Edition of Millerntor Gallery, Hamburg

Public screening (@Screenshots) @Zeise Kino, Hamburg

Open Studio Day @Atelier11, Hamburg

Simulacrum 24/7 @Frappant Gallerie, Hamburg

FEEVA - Forum for Experimental and Emancipatorial Video Art, hosted by Haus of Xhaos @Makroscope, Mühlheim an der Ruhr / Galerie Clowns & Pferde Essen
Loose Bolt Humming, Rundfunkmuseum Fürth

HFBK Annual Exhibition 2024, Klasse Simon Denny, Hamburg

The Epilogue of Alchemy, TTTT (HGB Leipzig)

Living Under The Rock, Internationales Kunstzentrum Petersburg

Trophy Girl @ [kuʃ] Kollektiv, Gelsenkirchen





Contact:

riaschoeneberger@gmail.com


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