Biography Silke Wagner (Göppingen, Germany, 1968)
Silke Wagner lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. Silke Wagner’s works often refer to skateboard culture. Wagner uses this urban activity as a metaphor for social engagement in the public realm, questioning the increasing laws intended to bring order and security into the city. She has had solo exhibitions at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k) Berlin (2008); Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt (2007); Beyond, Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht (2006); and Kunstraum München, Munich (2004). Group exhibitions include Frankfurter Positionen 2001, Frankfurt (2001); Arbeit Essen Angst, Kokerei Zollverein | Zeitgenössische Kunst und Kritik, Essen (2001); Das Neue Europa, Generali Foundation, Wien (2005); Das Große Rasenstück, Nuremberg (2006); Street: behind the cliché, Witte de With, Rotterdam (2006); Skulptur Projekte Münster 07, Münster (2007); L’Europe en devenir (partie 2), Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2007); Vertrautes Terrain – Aktuelle Kunst in/über Deutschland, ZKM, Karlsruhe (2008); and the 1st Brussels Biennial, Brussels (2008). In 2009 her work will be shown in the group exhibitions Islands and Ghettos, NGBK, Berlin and Playing the City, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt.
Witte de With is pleased to present the thematic group exhibitionStreet: behind the cliché. Open from 9 September until 19 November 2006, it features work in a range of media by 28 international artists. In a city, the street can …Read more
Witte de With and de Appel arts centre (Amsterdam) jointly present Two in One, a benefit auction of 100 works by internationally acclaimed contemporary artists to benefit new projects. You are invited to participate in this fundraising adventure, to be held …Read more
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