SCHAUM: Selbstoptimierung / Self-Optimisation

Since 2009, the artist collective SCHAUM operates in lieu of the average person, upon which the experimental set-ups for the current processes of self-optimising are imposed. In photographic series, sculptures, installations, and performances the test subjects as well as simple found objects are alienated, conceptually abused , and fused with old-masterly allegories and Christian iconography. SCHAUM are already on their way to a post-human variation of the defective human being, from which eventually an artificial creature, an artefact of itself (Jean-Pierre Wils) shall arise.
The artist collective SCHAUM works conceptually with photography, painting, graphic art, object, installation and performance. Since 2009, numerous awards, institutional exhibitions, and works in public collections. Text in English and German.
60 colour illustrations