Collage Art & Visual Theatre
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In addition to her theatre productions, which have taken her to guest performances and festivals in 45 countries worldwide, Karin Schäfer has focused increasingly on her visual arts work in recent years.
While her plays have always been situated at the intersection of performing and visual arts, she is now taking her stories off the stage and bringing them directly onto and into her pictures—combining her passion for travel with her love for maps, atlases, patterns, and shapes.
The central approach in her work (both in theatre and in her visual pieces) is always the technique of collage—the disassembly, assembly, and combination of elements from other contexts and their integration into new perspectives, scenes, actions—and images.
Her current series, SEAmaps, SEAcrets, and SEAngles, are based on world maps and marine cartography from the historical age to the present. They combine a love for the sea and a fascination with ships, containers, and ports with a wanderlust and the joy of "getting lost"—in foreign regions, past times, somewhere between cities, countries, islands, and oceans.
Karin Schäfer's work has been featured in a number of solo and group exhibitions and at various art fairs since 2018. Her works have been sold to Germany, Austria, and the USA; among other acquisitions, three of her pieces were purchased for the permanent art collection on the cruise ship Sun Princess.
Works by Karin Schäfer in the Kunst und Meer ° Catalogue
