Regine Schumann
Goslar 1961. Lives and works in Cologne.
From 1982 to 1989, Regine Schumann studied art at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. In 1989, she became a Masters student of Roland Dörfler. From 1986 to 1994, she was a member of the artist group Freiraum, consisting in Frank Fuhrmann, Dieter Hinz, and herself. In addition to numerous scholarships, including a DAAD scholarship for Italy in 1990, and a grant from the state of North Rhine Westphalia for Japan in 2000, and commissions for public artworks, she received the Leo Breuer Prize in 2006.
In her research, Regine Schumann focuses on the effects of light caused by fluorescent
materials. Some of the materials she uses are colored polylight cords, and different
colored acrylic panels, which she assembles into complex color spaces in accordance with Goethe's theory of colors. The artist also uses blacklight to complement other colors. The emphasis of her room specific installaHons is the extension of the exisHng architecture into a dimension of vibration and as she calls it the configuration of a room temperature.
The inclusion of sculptural principles as hanging, laying, arranging, conjointing, jacketing is characteristic of the work of Regine Schumann, and leads towards a thinking in colors and color spaces in a spatially experiential plasticity.
Regine Schumann describes her method of operation thusly: "It's the material of the
colored and fluorescent acrylic glass that takes an important role in my work. The
material used illuminates when light energy is supplied to it, whether in the form of
natural daylight or arHficial light. Differently colored plates depending on the location
lead towards a candling, laying, blending, and selecHon of the light itself."