Eske Schlüters

Eske Schlüters Eske Schlüters (D, 1970) collects images from films by various directors for her videos and video installations, for example, Francois Ozon, Hal Hartley, or Michelangelo Antonioni, as well as others who remain unnamed. Drawing from a repertory of image and text sequences, she edits narrations that do not follow a stringent narrative plot, but instead attempt to reveal the symbolic value of different image moments. Schlüters thus creates images that do not merely adhere to the level of citation but allow and aim at creating an openness for new and different interpretations. The rhythm and speed of these images, the noises and sounds, as well as the tone of the used and re-staged language go beyond the form of description and make use of their potential as a means that is quite varied in narrative terms. In the video installation conceived as a trilogy, "Sehen Als Denken Sehen- Knowing Is Not Enough", Schlüters examines the themes of truth, love, beauty, and death. Does a linguistic and pictorial symbol exist that with simple means can represent love, death, or truth in their entire complexity? The path seems to lie in detecting the narrative in-between: a cautious approach, a fleeting touch, can be sensed in Schlüters' video installations. Yet the invented statements and pictures do not serve to underlie these themes, they instead appear to illustrate themselves, with the editing serving as a connecting element. Subtitles are added to pictures, they are accompanied by melodies, or what is spoken is translated into another language. So, upon closer examination, one can deduce that it is precisely the omitted image, the silent sound, the as yet unuttered word, which make death, truth, beauty, and love, as well as their respective symbolic content, experienceable from the inside, transferring them to an aesthetic level without defining them in a fixed way.

Eske Schlüters, Knowing as much as the Man in the Moon - Soviel verstehen wie ein Blinder von Farben, 2004, Ausstellungsansicht Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen (2006)
Curriculum vitae
1970	born in Leer/Ostfriesland
1990-1996	Studium Chemie und Französisch für das Lehramt an Gymnasien
1996	1. Staatsexamen
1997-2004	Studium an der Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg
2004	Diplom
	lives and works in Hamburg

Eske Schlüters, True to You, 2005, Ausstellungsansicht Gold, Hamburg

Eske Schlüters, Límite Meanwhile (mit Axel Gaertner), 2005, Ausstellungsansicht, Galerie der HfbK, Hamburg
exhibitions, festivals (selection)
solo exhibitions
2006	"Sehen als Denken sehen", Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen
2005	"True to You", Gold, Hamburg
group exhibitions
2007	"Dazwischen" (Arbeitstitel eines Projekts von Elke Bippus und Frank Hesse zu "Kunst des Forschens"), Zürich
	"BewerberInnen" für das Arbeitsstipendium der FH Hamburg, Kunsthaus, Hamburg
2006	"Academy/Akademie", (Gruppenprojekt Modulator update), MuHKA, Antwerpen
2005	"Monitoring", Ausstellung zum Dokumentarfilm- und Videofestival, Kulturbahnhof Kassel
	"Límite Meanwhile" (mit Axel Gaertner), Galerie der HfbK, Hamburg"Akademie-Kunst lehren und lernen", (Gruppenprojekt Modulator), Kunstverein Hamburg
2004	"Deutschland sucht...", Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln
	"Not in my name - Group Show", KX, Hamburg
publications (selection)
2006	"Sehen als Denken sehen", mit einem Text von Hanne Loreck, Frankfurt 2006, Revolver Verlag
	"Erzähltes Erzählen", Kombinator #3, mit Texten von Hanne Loreck, Eva Meyer, Eske Schlüters, Material-Verlag, Hamburg 2006
	Martin Beck, Max Hinderer, Eske Schlüters: "Sehen als Denken sehen", in: Springerin 4/06
2004	"Subject practice fear belvedere", Publikation zu NOT IN MY NAME, KX
awards and grants
2007	Stipendium Künstlerstätte Bleckede, Lüneburg
2006	Stipendiatin des hochschulübergreifenden Studienkollegs "Dekonstruktion und Gestaltung", Hamburg
2005	Golden Cube der Marli-Hoppe-Ritter Kunststiftung und der Sparkasse Hessen-Thüringen für die beste Videoinstallation der Ausstellung Monitoring im Rahmen des Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofestivals
2004	Förderung durch die Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn zur Realisierung einer ersten institutionellen Einzelausstellung (in Kooperation mit Dr. Eva Schmidt, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen)