LAURA SCHAWELKA

Lives and works in Berlin

EDUCATION 
2015 Master of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2013 Meisterschüler, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITONS
2024 Disclosure, FILIALE, Frankfurt (catalog)
2024 A Sticky Thought, fiebach, minninger, Cologne
2024 Close, STORAGE, Bangkok
2024 All Beauty Must Die, Luise Marchand and Laura Schawelka, Villa Heike, Berlin
2024 [Das Interieur, Die Spur], Cabanon, Paris
2023 Mistrust. Laura Schawelka and Hong Zeiss, Zeller van Almsick, Vienna
2022 Permanent Set, FILIALE, Frankfurt (catalog)
2022 Again, fiebach, minninger, Cologne
2022 Volatile, Zeller van Almsick, Vienna
2021 A Fallen Type, The Fulcrum, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Vicarious, EIKON Schauraum, Vienna
2020 Portal, FILIALE, Frankfurt (catalog)
2019 Tender, fiebach, minninger, Cologne
2019 A Clumsy if Furtive Hand, FILIALE, Frankfurt
2018 Double Issues, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen (catalog)
2018 Derniers Jours, Goethe-Institut, Paris
2017 Double, fiebach, minninger, Cologne
2017 Sundries, FILIALE, Frankfurt (catalog)
2016 Useless Twin, Garden, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Ornamentation, The Tip, Frankfurt
2016 Coconut Point, Calarts REEF Residency, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Muscle Crystal Glamourcon, The Tip, Frankfurt

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Stadt der Fotografinnen. Frankfurt 1844-2024, Historisches Museum Frankfurt (catalog)
2024 hobbykeller powertool, curated by Dana Rabea Jäger und Friederike Goebbels, Berlin
2024 Mortal Maps, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf
2024 Grit, curated by Markus Proschek, Zeller van Almsick, Vienna
2023 Ever. Present. Past. Geschichte als Inspiration, Hessen Kassel Heritage, Kassel
2023 Video Hybrid, B74 Raum für Kunst, Luzern
2023 Control & Coincidence, Villa M, Berlin
2023 Befunde & Befindlichkeiten, Kunstgarten Graz
2022 I got you covered, Kaiserdamm 102, Berlin
2022 Von nun an ging’s bergab, Haus Amilcar, Lantsch / Lenz
2022 Angels on Horseback, Lobe Block, Berlin
2022 New Anatomies, FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph, Berlin
2021 Jetzt oder nie – 50 Jahre Sammlung LBBW, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (catalog)
2021 The Longing of the Spirit, Casandra Hermann Collection, Vienna
2021 Wiedersehen, Diskurs, Berlin
2021 Künstler*innen der Galerie, FILALE, Frankfurt
2021 After Afterlife, The Fulcrum, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Ein Museum auf Probe, Villa Merkel, Esslingen
2020 Orbit, Messeturm, Frankfurt
2020 THE AND, Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse 2020, Kunsthaus L6, Freiburg
2020 Future Forms Fiction, Schau Fenster, Berlin
2019 In zwei oder dreihundert Jahren wird das Leben auf der Erde unvorstellbar schön sein, Espace Nalon, Esslingen
2019 Miniaturen, FILIALE, Frankfurt
2019 Modern Baroque, Villa Streccius, Landau
2018 Anywhere on Earth, Haus am Gleis, Schaan
2018 Group Show, fiebach, minninger, Cologne
2018 Silver Spoon, TheTip, Frankfurt
2018 I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, Basis, Frankfurt
2018 Berlin Masters 2018, Berlin
2018 Verortung, Parallel Vienna, Vienna
2018 Silver Spoon, TheTip Bangkok, Bangkok Biennial 2018
2018 WORKS ON PAPER, Gussglashalle, Berlin
2018 UNLUST PRINZIP, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel
2017 Imaginary Interieurs, KdeWe, Esslingen
2017 Ausstellungsprojekt 72-Stunden, bunker k101, Cologne
2017 The Hamptons #4 - a day on the beach, Westerland, Sylt
2017 L.A. should die vor Glück, just married, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Bandini International Film Festival, Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Soft Remove, Random Access, Syracuse University, NY
2016 Calarts Exhibition at the Bel-Air, Los Angeles, CA
2015 9800, 9800 S Sepulveda Blvd, curated by Shyan Rahimi, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Fragment, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
2015 How’s it Going, organized by P.E.S., New York, NY
2015 Art, MFA, ’15. The 2015 CalArts MFA Show, Cooper Design Space, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
2015 Suite 44.06, wwww, Frankfurt Marriot Hotel, Frankfurt
2015 Placebo Home, Part I, Cologne
2015 Everything Speaks Twice, Vacancy, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Better than your Neighbour, Kunstverein Wiesen
2014 I Never Read, LA Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA (edition)
2013 say my name, say my name, Museum of Modern Art (MMK Zollamt), Frankfurt (catalog)
2013 Jagoda Bednarsky, Laura Schawelka, Giovanni Sortino, Galerie Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt
2012 Ray 2012 projects, RAY Fotografieprojekte and Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2022 Artist-in-Residence, CCA Andratx
2021 Travel Grant, Berlin Senate
2021 Research Stipend Fine Art, Berlin Senate
2019 Q21 viennacontemporary Artist-in-Residence Prize, Vienna
2017 Atelierstipendium Paris, Hessische Kulturstiftung
2016 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Community Engagement Grant
2014 Dean’s Grant, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2013 One-Year Fulbright Scholarship for Graduates
2008 Preis der Landwirtschaftlichen Rentenbank zum Rundgang der Städelschule