Ursula SCHERRER
The poetic quality of Scherrer's work reminds one of moving paintings, drawing the viewer into the images, leaving the viewer with their own stories, transforming a landscape into a serene, abstract portrait of rhythm, color and light, where the images have less to do with what we see then the feeling they leave behind.
Ursula Scherrer is a swiss video artist and photographer living in New York City. Her work has been shown in festivals, galleries and museums internationally.
She has worked with composers/musicians such as Shelley Hirsch, Michelle Nagai, Flo Kaufmann, Kato Hideki, Domenico Sciajno, Monya Pletsch, Michael J. Schumacher, Marina Rosenfeld, Andrea Valle, Tetsu Inoue among others, in the creation of video and sound installations, live performances and single channel videos.
She has collaborated with the choreographer Liz Gerring, including a live video projection for the piece Tonight Clearing, Tomorrow Clear performed at the Connelly Theatre in New York.
Scherrer has exhibited her photographs in galleries, including solo exhibitions at the Kentler International Drawing Space and at Studio Five Beekman.
In 2003 she was part of the SwissSpeaks Festival in New York with the exhibition 'Looking into the Dark' and a live video performance with Michael J. Schumacher.
Together with Michael J. Schumacher, Scherrer received a CEC ArtsLink Grant for a residency and outdoor installation at the Polli Talu Arts Center in Estonia in 2005 as well as the multi projection video installation 'Imagescape Estonia - New York' at the Green Oasis Community Garden in New York.
In the fall of 2007 Scherrer was invited for a residency and installation at O’artoteca in Milan where she created the installation ‘Glades’, a video installation with text based on e-mail conversations.
Scherrer is part of the international artist group BIWAK which meets annually in isolated locations to focus on art - BIWAK's first public appearances with 'BIWAK kocht' at the Kunstraum Engländerbau, Vaduz/Liechtenstein, and the Kunsthalle Wattwil in 2007.
Together with Katherine Liberovskaya, Scherrer organizes OptoSonic Tea, a series dedicated to the convergence of live visuals with live sounds. Summer 07 they toured in Europe with OptoSonic Tea on the Road, performing live video themselves with local musicians at Kunstraum im Walcheturm, Zürich, Hotel Pupik, Schrattenberg and at the Letne Dielne 07 in Bratislava as well as in the fall in Milan.
Scherrer’s work has been shown at the New York Video Festival 2004, BAC 36th International Film and Video Festival, Brooklyn Museum of Art, at the Chelsea Art Museum, the d.u.m.b.o art festival 2005 and 2008, Experimental Intermedia, Diapason, Roulette, Issue Project Room and Engine 27 in New York, at Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Dissonanze Festival in Rome, Live!iXem 2007 in Palermo, O'artoteca, Milan, 9e Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement, Saint-Gervais Geneve, Tesla, Berlin, Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Cologne, Tresor, Raum für flüchtige Kunst, Stuttgart, Kunstraum im Walcheturm, Zürich, Plug-in, Basel, video_tank, Zürich, Point Jaune Museum, St. Gallen, 8 Gallery Cafe de Asis, Panama City, The Red House, Center for Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria, at the Media Test Wall / MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Strange Attractors II, 2nd International Festival of Experimental Intermedia Art, St. Paul, Virginia Film Fest, GAIe Gates etal., Brooklyn, Red Room, Baltimore, Silk Mill in Union City, Experimental Intermedia Gent, among others.
Scherrer was born in Switzerland and came to New York as a dancer in 1988. Her choreographies have been shown widely in New York City, including the Fiorello Dance Festival, the Washington Square Church, Cunningham Dance Studio, RAPP Arts Center and Dance Space.
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