Rea Schenk

“still focusing on the blurry”

Rea Schenk’s works move in an in-between. They play with what is depicted and with its reconstruction through process, and they resist the categories that usually order images – photograph or painting, digital or analogue, document or invention.

In a world that demands clarity, she deliberately focuses on the blurred, the unfinished and the dissolving. Blur is not a flaw in the system but a conscious act: the moment the diffuse is given space and the image stops being a mere document.

Her work touches on questions of perception, memory and identity. Reality appears not as a fixed state but as something fragile – a construct formed in the ongoing interplay of experience, projection, inner and outer images. The same holds for language: no system is stable, meanings keep shifting.

PHOTO CONSTRUCT and PHYSICAL CONSTRUCT offer a provisional order – one the works themselves constantly undermine. Fragments migrate from one into the other, are “digested” and return in a different form. Fractures are not hidden but become part of the form, as in kintsugi. The in-between itself becomes the structure.

Rea Schenk lives and works in Berlin.

Diploma in Engineering (Dipl.-Ing. FH), 1992, Germany
Self-directed artistic path: engineering became the bridge to construction as an artistic method.

2026 Bildräume der Solidarität – group exhibition, Kunstverein Villa Heike, Berlin, Germany
2026 Eine Zukunft aus Silber und Beton – group exhibition, Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Germany
2023 Dreams and Nightmares – First Edition, Boomer Gallery, London, UK
2005 Zehlendorfer Thielecksiedlung – photo exhibition, Heimatmuseum Zehlendorf, Berlin, Germany