Regine Schumann

Regine Schumann (born February 23, 1961) is a German artist who is classified as a light artist, contemporary art painter and installation artist. Schumann lives and works in Cologne.

Life and work Regine Schumann studied from 1982 to 1989 at the Hochschule für Bildene Künste Braunschweig art. In 1989 she was acknowledged as a master student of Roland Dörfler. From 1986 to 1994 she was a member of the artist group Freiraum, consisting of Frank Fuhrmann, Dieter Hinz and Schumann. In addition to scholarships including a DAAD-scholarship for Italy in 1990, a grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for Japan in 2000 and contracts for public art, she received the Leo Breuer Prize in 2006.

In her work Regine Schumann focuses on light effects caused by fluorescent materials. Some of the materials she uses are colored polylight-cords and different colored acrylic panels, which she composes into complex colour spaces in accordance to Goethe's theory of colours. The artist also uses blacklight to complement the other colours.

The emphasis of her room-specific installations is the extension of the existing architecture to a dimension of vibration and - as she calls it - the configuration of a room temperature: "Der Einbezug bildhauerischer Prinzipien wie Hängen, Legen, Arrangieren, Verspannen, Umhüllen ist charakteristisch für die Arbeit Regine Schumanns und führt das Denken in Farben und Farbräumen in eine räumlich erfahrbare Plastizität über." ("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 in this way: "Das Material des farbigen und fluoreszierenden Acrylglases spielt hierbei eine wichtige Rolle. Der von mir verwendete Werkstoff leuchtet, sobald ihm Lichtenergie zugeführt wird, sei es in Form von natürlichem Tageslicht oder von Kunstlicht. Durch die unterschiedlich farbigen Platten ergibt sich je nach Standort ein Durchleuchten, Schichten, Mischen und Selektieren." ("The material of the colored and fluorescent acrylic glass plays an important role here. The material I use glows as soon as it receives light energy, be it in the form of natural daylight or artificial light. Depending on the location, the different colored panels result in a transmission, merging, mixing and selection.")

The constant changes and effects of light is what fascinates the artist and what she focuses her room-specific installations and works on.

Collections Kunstmuseum Celle, Germany Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Germany Centrum Kunstlicht in de Kunst, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Stadtmuseum Oldenburg, Germany Stroom Foundation, The Hague, The Netherlands Städtisches Museum Engen, Engen, Germany Kulturstiftung Annelies und Gerhard Derriks, Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Germany Museum Ritter, Germany Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln Kunstmuseum Ahlen

Art installations outside museums

2001: Transparent und Spiegelung, InnSide Hotel, Düsseldorf, Germany 2006: Lightline and Flying Circles, Wateringse Veld College, Kommission Stroom, The Hague, The Netherlands 2007: Soft Colourmirrors, Herzzentrum der Universitätsklinik Köln (Heart Unit of the University Clinic, Cologne), Germany 2009: Thoughts, Multinational Law Firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hamburg, Germany 2010: Die Fuge, Artinstallation at the outside facade of the Headquarter of the Sparkasse Gütersloh–Rietberg, Gütersloh Gütersloh, Germany 2012: Leuchtwerke (Luminous Works), Hotel Barceló, Hamburg, Germany 2020: Design of the interior of the Erlöserkirche, Bad Godesberg, Germany 2023: Innerlight, Light installation in the compressor room of the adit Santa Bárbara, Turón, Mieres, Spain 2023:Light installation in the redesigned building of the AEW Capital Management company, Boston, United States

Solo exhibitions 2000: Regine Schumann: Spring: Roominstallation, Artothek Cologne, Germany 2001: Nachtschwärmer (Night revellers), Stadtmuseum Oldenburg, Germany 2003: Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany 2003: Reiseluft, Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen, Germany 2006: Candela, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany 2010: Black Box, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany 2012: Jump, Kunstverein Heidenheim, Germany 2014: Moving picture, Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany

Group exhibitions 2006: Lichtkunst, Kunstmuseum Celle, Germany 2007: Licht, Glas, Transparenz, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany 2010: Gruppenausstellung Gabriele-Münter-Preis, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Frauenmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany 2011: Streng geometrisch, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria 2013: Scheinwerfer – European Light Art , Kunstmuseum Celle, Germany 2013: Licht. Kunst. Kinetik, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany 2015: Enlight my Space, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany 2015: ¡dark!, Unna, Centre for International Light Art, Germany 2015: Lichtungen. Internationales Lichtkunstfestival (Lightings. International Light art Festival), Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany 2015: Wege zum Licht (Paths to the Light), Goethe-Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany 2017: Signal. Lichtkunst aus der Sammlung Robert Simon, Kunstmuseum Celle, Germany 2017: Rot kommt vor Rot, Collection presentation Museum Ritter Waldenbuch, Germany 2018: Labyrinth konkret ... mit Nebenwegen (Labyrinth concrete ... with side paths), Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, Germany 2019: Premio Lissone, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Lissone, Italy 2019: Goethe. Verwandlung der Welt, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany 2025: Konkrete Frauen. Neue Räume, (The exhibition is part of the III Hellweg Konkret exhibition project) , Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany

Videography (selection) 2021: Regine Schumann: Chromasophia, 03′ 19″ 2024: Regine Schumann: Iris, 01′ 13″