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Artist to watch: Mona Schulzek (*1992) @mona_schulzek is a Berlin-based artist who studied at the Art Academy Düsseldorf in Germany. Her practice is situated in the dialogue between art and science, with a particular focus on astronomy. Driven by a profound interest in the relationship between human existence and the infinite dimensions of time and space, she understands art as a cosmic language – a form of knowledge that transcends formulas and words. Schulzek engages with the universe as something we are inherently part of – as thinking matter seeking to understand itself. Her practice weaves together rational knowledge and poetic intuition to connect the known with the unknown.

Photo credits:
1): Portrait: Albrecht Fuchs, 2024
📸:@fuchsalbrecht
2): Organic Matter (pill millipede), Sculpture, 2025
📸: @atelier.tacke
3): Ottomane I, Photography, 2016
📸: @mona_schulzek
4): Outer Space Transmitter, Sculpture, 2021. 📸: @monaschulzek
5): Atmosphere ≠ Totality, Sculpture, 2024. 📸:@atelier.tacke by @mona_schulzek

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Happy to share this documentary of my solo show at @kunsthalle_recklinghausen on the occasion of receiving the art award junger westen. I’m deeply grateful.

Film production by @stifter.studio taken in Kunsthalle Recklinghausen by @mona_schulzek

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No stories, no mirrors is opening today 4-8PM @3caberlin
Mona Schulzek, Tatjana Vall, Justin Urbach, Maxine Weiss, Milena Wojhan

Opening hours 8.-13.9.26 :
thu, fr 4-8PM, sat 7PM-12AM, sun 1-7PM
 

No stories, no mirrors brings together works by Mona Schulzek, Tatjana Vall, Justin Urbach and Maxine Weiss in a spatial constellation shaped by darkness, partial illumination and shifting perception. Sound, light, video and sculpture unfold across the hall, creating an atmospheric environment in which individual works appear, disappear and connect. Milena Wohjan extends this atmosphere through the body, introducing a performative layer shaped by ritual, symbolism and the subconscious.

📸 Milena Wojhan

@mona_schulzek @tat.vall @justin_urbach @maxine_weiss_ @milena.wojhan taken in Berlin, Germany by @mona_schulzek

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Im @arpmuseum zeige ich derzeit die Installation Chamber VI – eine Versuchsanordnung in Form einer Weltraumkapsel.

Im Inneren der Kapsel befindet sich ein sphärischer Spiegel, dessen Form an eine Pupille erinnert. Für mich öffnet sich darin die Frage, was Wahrnehmung eigentlich bedeutet.

Mich beschäftigt die Vorstellung, dass das Universum sich durch die menschlichen Augen selbst betrachten kann. Dass in dem Moment, in dem wir sehen und reflektieren, das Universum ein Bewusstsein seiner eigenen Existenz entwickelt. Ich frage mich, ob in unserem Blick also der Moment liegt, in dem das Universum sich seiner selbst bewusst wird. taken in Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck by @mona_schulzek

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Was ist uns fremder: das Weltall oder die Tiefsee?

In Mona Schulzeks Arbeiten „Outer Space Transmitter“ und „Chamber VI“ treffen beide aufeinander. Eine selbst gebaute Funkstation sendet Botschaften ins All. Ein verzerrter Spiegel führt zu Point Nemo im Südpazifik, dem abgelegensten Punkt der Weltmeere. Dort versinken die Überreste ausgedienter Raumfahrzeuge im Ozean.

Zu den Sternen!
Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck
10.7.2026–10.1.2027

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What is more alien to us: outer space or the deep sea?
Both come together in Mona Schulzek’s works “Outer Space Transmitter” and “Chamber Six.” A self-built radio station sends messages into space. A distorted mirror leads to Point Nemo in the South Pacific—the point in the world’s oceans farthest from land. There, the remains of decommissioned spacecraft sink into the ocean.

To the Stars!
Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck
10 July 2026–10 January 2027

Mona Schulzek Chamber VI, 2026 Courtesy Mona Schulzek
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026
Mona Schulzek Outer Space Transmitter, ab 2021 Courtesy Mona Schulzek
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

Video: @benjaminwesthoff taken in Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck by @mona_schulzek

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Vor rund fünf Jahren habe ich meine Ausbildung zur Funkamateurin absolviert und sende seither mit meinem Outer Space Transmitter Radiowellen ins All. Neben Orten wie Krakau, Alicante und Graz, war ich vor wenigen Wochen zusammen mit Urbane Künste Ruhr in Breckerfeld, dem höchstgelegenen Ort im Ruhrgebiet.   Vielleicht durchqueren die Signale von diesem Tag längst die dunklen Räume zwischen den Umlaufbahnen. Vielleicht begegnen sie bereits einer fernen Atmosphäre, einer unbekannten Oberfläche, einem anderen Denken. Wo keine Sprache der Erde mehr trägt, bleiben Frequenzen als Spuren unserer Existenz: eine Botschaft in die Tiefen des Alls, gerichtet an das Unbekannte, an mögliche Zivilisationen jenseits unseres Vorstellungsraums.  Der Funktag in Breckerfeld ist Teil der Grand Snail Tour von Urbane Künste Ruhr und fand am 12. März 2026 statt.
 @urbanekuensteruhr
 #grandsnailtour
📷 @daniel.sadrowski by @mona_schulzek

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I am very pleased to announce that I will be part of the exhibition “Zu den Sternen! Weltraum und Weltflucht seit der Moderne” at @arpmuseum — The exhibition opens next friday and I hope to see many of you there.

Curated by @j.ulia.wallner and @helenesaldern the group exhibition brings together works from the past 150 years alongside contemporary works by:

Yael Bartana
Sylvie Fleury
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Bjørn Melhus
Mariko Mori
Thomas Ruff
Mona Schulzek
Katharina Sieverding
Klaus Staeck
Emma Talbot
John Wood & Paul Harrison

I am delighted to present the large-scale installations „Outer Space Transmitter“ and „Chamber VI“.

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ARP MUSEUM
Zu den Sternen! Weltraum und Weltflucht seit der Moderne

July 10 2026 — January 10 2027

Opening: July 10, 7 pm
Artist Talk: July 10, 7:30 pm taken in Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck by @mona_schulzek

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Extraterrestrial stone (27°39’25.3“S 61°38’48.0“W) 2024
Meteorite, stainless steel, acryl glass
23,5 x 19 x 11 cm by @mona_schulzek

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I am very pleased to share some views of my exhibition at @galeriethoman along with the wonderful text by @evvaoberhofer – I am grateful for the opportunity to present two new bodies of work in this beautiful gallery space. The exhibition has just opened and will be on view until May 30. Hope to see you there!

📸 Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman / WEST.Fotostudio by @mona_schulzek

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7 months ago

Chamber VI
@galeriethoman

2026
Installation
Aircraft parts, drag parachutes, spherical mirror, circular glass, stainless steel laser-cuts, steel structure
200 x 155 x 210 cm

The metallic object [..] consists of ring-shaped components that are wedged into one another. The artist assembled them from both used and new materials that she herself has worked on. Tapering conically, these rings form central openings which [..] Schulzek seals with a round window and a semi-transparent, spherical mirror, condensing the structure into a capsule-like form. While the interior of the sculpture contains emptiness, the layering of the curved glass creates the optical effect of a human eye. The viewer is thus met with a gaze-complete with iris, pupil, and the upside-down reflection of their own image. Two drogue parachutes, attached to the capsule by a thick rope, lie slack on the tloor of the exhibition space. They evoke the impression ot a space capsule that has just come to rest shortly after touching down on Earth.

Text by @evvaoberhofer

Many thanks to @bernd_euler and @lamilux_tageslichtsysteme for their kind support and collaboration.

📸 Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman / WEST.Fotostudio by @mona_schulzek

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Last two weeks of Mona Schulzek’s exhibition "Birds Sing at a Higher Pitch in Urban Landscapes" at our gallery in Innsbruck.
If you’re in Tyrol, come by and visit. 🪐

In her new photographic series In Sphären (engl. in sphere, 2026), Mona Schulzek takes up the seconds immediately before landing—the fading moment of weightlessness in the transition to touchdown. Once again, she combines her own photographs with found imagery, including pictures of space debris that is deliberately brought down over Point Nemo, the most remote point from land in the Pacific Ocean. Through digital manipulation, she stages these motifs as high-contrast light images. Referencing the bioluminescence of certain living organisms, particularly jellyfish, illuminated parachutes appear to dance over a black, shimmering ground. The violent transfer of force upon impact and its effect on the shape of the parachutes are translated into concentrated and tranquil images. They evoke both the stillness of constellations and photographs from the deep sea.

MONA SCHULZEK
In Sphären II, 2026
Pigment ink print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth
50 × 40 cm
1/3 + API

MONA SCHULZEK
In Sphären III, 2026
Pigment ink print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth
50 × 40 cm
1/3 + API

Photos © Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman / WEST.Fotostudio

@mona_schulzek #monaschulzek #birds #sing #at #a #higher #pitch #in #urban #landscapes #exhibition #innsbruck taken in Innsbruck, Austria by @mona_schulzek

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