Still from Image Part 2

Still from Image Part 1

Still from Image Part 1

Frauensehnsucht is the second edition of a triptych about gender. The exhibition will take you on a journey through a mysterious space along video installations with theatrical images, music and poetry. The main theme is the woman, who is longing to escape from her image and and fixed gender roles.

Bianca du Mortier, curator of the Rijksmuseum: “Ellen Schippers does not fear to play with taboos and fantasies, either. This play with feelings and physical appearance is what makes her work so powerful”

Impression of the exhibition Image & I-magic, the first edition

Ellen Schippers creates Live Performances and Video Performances. Her work is expressive and compelling because she makes use of theatrical resources. Schippers work relates to gender, stereotypical male/female images, ideals of beauty and about the contradiction between image versus authenticity. Schippers strips images: by inflating and deconstructing them, she is revealing the emotions that are hidden behind these selfmade images. She is a multi-disciplinary artist and creates a fantasy world that is continually bursting at the seams.

Till  2007 Schippers has presented her Live Performances on location in galleries, in theatres, at cultural institutions and festivals like:  The Melkweg, Maison Descartes (Franch Cultural Embassy) and the Vondelpark Open Air Theatre in Amsterdam, the Hippodrome Theatre in Londen, the World Science Fiction Congress and the Wiener Sommer Symposion in Vienna. Seducing visitors with powerful images and plunging them into a suggestive atmosphere.

Since 2008 Schippers is exhibiting Video Performances and Installations.

Latest exhibitions and presentations

2010 Frauensehnsucht, opening by Heleen Mees, solo exhibition in Loods 6 Amsterdam. Second edition of a triptych about gender

2010 Mosse Lecture about Art & Gender at the University of Amsterdam

2010 Women Inc. Festival in Amsterdam

2010 Silent Cry,  Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam

2009 The Salon, Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam

2009 Guest lectures about Art & Gender at the University of Amsterdam

2009 Video Art & Gender of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam with artists like Pipilotti Rist, Bill Viola, Tracey Emin and Marina Abramovitz

2008 Image & I-magic, solo exhibition (opening by Bianca du Mortier, curator of the Rijksmuseum and Ellen ten Damme) First edition of a triptych about gender

Bianca du Mortier, curator of the Rijksmuseum, about Image & I-magic: “Ellen Schippers does not fear to play with taboos and fantasies, either. This play with feelings and physical appearance is what makes her work so powerful”

Background
Ellen Schippers was educated in textile art in Amsterdam, in performance-art, textile art and object-project at the Vrije Academie of The Hague and in video at Open Studio in Amsterdam.

Since 2009 Schippers is a member of the Artist Society Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam

Collaboration
Schippers has collaborated in projects with various artists such as Penck, Mirko Krabbé and Peter Giele; the poets George Moorman and Arthur Lava; the composers Bo van de Graaf (I-Compani) and Hans Asselbergs.
Her work was photographed among others by Erwin Olaf, Angèle Etoundi Essamba, Wim van de Hulst and Cindy Marler.

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The Dutch television shows Het Klokhuis, Backstage, Special Report, and Rok&Rol broadcasted specials portraying Ellen Schippers. Her work have appeared on Dutch television as well as abroad: Tineke, Catherine, Spijkers, Breakfast, TV Club, Firma Onrust (VPRO), Studio NL, Union Libre (France 2), German Nightshow, NDR 3 and Klim Op (BRT).

Metamorfose was an item in the Dutch RTL news show and Seven Faces of Women embellished the cover of the Uitkrant.

In the past few years, Ellen Schippers has been interviewed by daily newspapers and monthlies such as Volkskrant, Parool, Trouw, Nieuws van de Dag, Algemeen Dagblad, Spits and HP/De Tijd. Articles and photo reports also appeared in magazines like Uitkrant, Avantgarde, Cosmopolitan, Viva, Gaykrant, Oor and Roof.

And Italian Marie Claire, Donna and Dove, the English Skin and Two and the American Mondo 2000 featured Ellen Schippers’ work.