I see myself as an image creator.
All art projects deal with the understanding of the human in art. How is knowledge conveyed in the image, how does image-based knowledge change or influence ways of life and cultures? Yet only as an offering in the artistic field, sensitizing and questioning, not explaining, but ideally clarifying. In the exhibition series, different perspectives of perception intersect. There are images that have emerged from an occasion of general or individual importance but allow an open interpretation. Also, the color scheme and composition are to be attributed to the artificial rather than a message. Another position involves images that have arisen as documents. These are digital recordings from webcams projected on a monitor and, from there, captured by a digital camera in a relatively random manner, including images from the living environment. These images are documents that present themselves as a seemingly on-site experience to people. Since 2002, all work steps, except for the final process, have been in the digital work environment. The Finnish has landed in the ancient technique of encaustic after many experiments with waxes, adhesives, and oils.
- 1948 Born in Bad Reichenhall.
- 1970 - 72 Studied design at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences.
- 1973 - 76 Attended the School of Wood Sculpture in Oberammergau.
- 1977 - 82 Studied at the University of the Arts, Berlin.
- 1981 Was a master student under Bernhard Heiliger.
- 1981 Founded the sculptor group "Odious".
- 1982 - 84 Received a studio scholarship from the Karl Hofer Society.
- 1984 Moved to Berchtesgaden.
- 1990 Relocated to Bonn.
- 1991 - 2003 Was a guest lecturer at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences in Alfter, specializing in sculpture.
- 1992 Son Jan-Moritz Schnackenberg was born. Years of childcare.
- 1996 - 2000 Explored various thought structures and new means of expression in the visual arts.
- 2005 Appointed as a professor of sculpture at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences.
- 2010 Founded the Linz am Rhein Art Association.
- 2014 Opened Kunst Faktor 20/21, an exhibition space for art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries