a collaboration with Susan Cianciolo

presented in the context of "Strike a Pose: Festival für Kunst, Mode und Style"

This cluster of nature, fabric, film, and language, includes camera and performance by Scholz and Cianciolo, a dress by Cianciolo, printed fabrics by Scholz, the voice of trained actor Mary Manning, and words of poet William Butler Yeats. Items of clothing, and textiles are set free in a forest. Filmed live in nature, the footage depends on the collaboration of the artists with each other, the living forest, and the shared cultural inheritance.

The textiles respond to ghostly poetry readings, dressing the romantic articulations in their own abstraction, becoming characters in their own narration. Yeats' "Aedh wishes for the cloths of heaven" and "The song of Wandering Aengus" speak of a time when nature, art, humankind and life will weave into each other, describing the precarity that comes with facing the battlefield. "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams". 

 It is on the edge of this magic absence that this catwalk through sound, film, and fabric appears.

Fallen (Silver Arm), 2022 

Edition on the occasion of: 120 years Museumsverein: 50 years Jahresgaben / 40 years Museum Abteiberg 

Sonntag, 8. Mai 2022, 11:00 – 20:00 Uhr
Ludwig Forum, Aachen
Jülicher Straße 97-109, 52070 Aachen

screening YEAR OF THE WRITER, a time-capsule/fragmentary portrait of a sci-fi writer and the musical environment surrounding, in Los Angeles, 2004.

A selection of poets and dreamers reading one of their poems gently transformed into musical pieces by A REIHSE. 

Reading The Alien Finger 

Architecture, Environment, Natural History / Architektur, Umwelt, Naturgeschichte

Film screening and Artist talk: Chantal Benjamin, Lais Benjamin Campos, Aura Rosenberg and Frances Scholz discuss with Maria Teresa Costa and Toni Hildebrandt

Showing works from Berlin Childhood by Aura Rosenberg and Frances Scholz 

Artist Talk with Frances Scholz, Aura Rosenberg and Chantal Benjamin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2psDA8QCi3I

Press Release 

Solo Exhibition 

On the surface this might look like a wry science-fiction joke: a beaming platform (Docking Station) in a corner to stand on, a glass plaque (not quite ball) (The Traveler) held up by delicate metal tendrils that transform white light into shades of variable color. Frances Scholz has been interested in the dangerous straights of science-fiction and the plausibility of the implausible for a long time. But this is not about an easy escape from global warming, by beaming ourselves out to the moon, say. And yet it is about beaming, and the qualities of light, and it is about solutions, somehow. These objects ask about transparency, transmission, and doubling. They ponder the rift that opens between truth and fiction, sense and non-sense, reality and representation, and settle into the operations of those limits. They are mobile or porous membranes if you’d prefer.

So how do I beam you through this? There are so many ways.

Group Show with Anne Daems & Kate Harding 

Group Show at Casa São Roque Centro de Arte, Porto

 curated by Amanda Schmitt | ORTVI

 “Carousel” and “Imperial Panorama”, by Aura Rosenberg and Frances Scholz are part of the exhibition and examine the private histories embedded in world history. The videos are part of their larger collaborative project Berlin Childhood  based on Walter Benjamin’s seminal writings, Berlin Childhood around 1900.

»Amboy« at Euclid Gallery

Tif Sigfrids’ Group Show

with Gracie DeVito, Marten Elder, Andy Giannakakis, Jasmine Little, Albert Merz, Frances Scholz, Joe Sola, Lisa Williamson, Rosha Yaghmal

Ausstellung, kuratiert von Toni Hildebrandt im Auftrag des Walter Benjamin Kollegs Künstlerische Beiträge von Florian Zeyfang, Ariane Müller & Martin Ebner Screenings mit Kurzfilmen von Aura Rosenberg und Frances Scholz featuring Chantal & Lais Benjamin.

CHASE - funded screening event - co-organised by Federica Mure

Gruppenausstellung mit

Eröffnung: 6. April 2019, 19 Uhr

Dauer: 7. April 2019 bis 6. Juli 2019
Samstags und Sonntags von 12.00 bis 17.00 Uhr

Publikation: »Nico - Wie kann die Luft so schwer sein an einem Tag an dem der Himmel so blau ist« 

as part of MOVES #200-202

Aura Rosenberg's & Frances Scholz' series "Berlin Childhood around 1900"

Screenings: 
MOVES #200 February 15, 6 – 9 pm
MOVES #201 February 16, 5 – 8 pm
MOVES #202 February 17, 5 – 9 pm

Admission is free.

Under The Stairs #30

Aura Rosenberg's & Frances Scholz' series "Berlin Childhood around 1900"

Videos on Hantarex

Screening 
AMBOY by Frances Scholz: Tuesday, October 30, 8.30 pm

Crew members will be present. Admission is free.

Screening + Drinks
AMBOY by Frances Scholz: Saturday, October 13, 7.30 pm

“It must have something to do with like keeping this balance between male and female artists up. So I can't really explain it any other way. Have you noticed? The female artists are being killed off to kind of balance out the natural death of the male artists.” — Sophie von Olfers in Frances Scholz' AMBOY

Followed by a Q&A with artist Frances Scholz and writer Mark von Schlegell

London ICA, 6:30 PM

The ICA presents the UK premiere of Amboy (2015), a feature-length film by artist Frances Scholz, co-written and produced by science fiction writer Mark von Schlegell.

Opening: Sunday February 11, 2018, 6–8pm
Gallery Hours: Sunday 2–5pm and by appointment

Screening „Amboy“

Filmpalette, 18:00 Uhr

Starring: Paul Giamatti, Lydia van Vogt, Chris Kraus a. m. o., USA, 2015, 82 min.

Eintritt: 6 Eur (4 Eur erm.)

Record Release by StrzeleckiBooks,

King Georg, 20:00 Uhr

(Kath Bloom, Cross, Milkblood, Holy Shit, Stephen Malkmus, a. o.) and: Psychic Cherry Daiquiri, a star of the film, will appear as hologram & free offer private telepathic and psyonic consultations, Mark von Schlegell and special guests.

Eintritt frei!

Opening: 2 November, 7 pm

Fall Again, 2016
as part of the exhibition Ungekämmt by Frances Scholz

Presentation of films from Berlin Childhood. A larger proproject in process and collaboration between Aura Rosenberg & Frances Scholz. Comments by Chantal Benjamin & Lais Chaioko Benjamin, granddaughter and great-granddaughter of Walter Benjamin.

stop/the/bus productions presents: Frances Scholz’s Amboy Special New York 3d premiere and soundtrack release event.

Starring Paul Giamatti, Chris Kraus, Penny Arcade and various special guests.

May 8, 7pm
Tickets $15

AMBOY occupies the boundaries between art and film, script and improvisation, horror and fantasy, cinema and theater, reality and deception, sparkling with homemade music and numerous vivid cameos. AMBOY promotes not bourgeois, patriarchal individualism but collaborated creation from within community. This collective approach, wide open to the input of the outside world, wraps principles of inclusion, indie rock, collaboration and experimentation in the liberating potential of narrative fiction.  AMBOY is a film by Frances Scholz based on a screenplay co-written and co-produced by Frances Scholz and Mark von Schlegell. First premiering at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts as an exhibition in 2015, the cinematic-theatrical performance at The Kitchen was organized by Alaina Claire Feldman.

Angel of History is the first solo show in Poland by Aura Rosenberg, an American artist living and working in New York and Berlin. It follows a central theme in her work: private histories embedded in world history.

The exhibition, which includes photographs, sculptural installations and films, presents interpretations of two of Walter Benjamin’s seminal writings: Thesis on the Philosophy of History and Berlin Childhood around 1900.

Angel of History is a long-term ongoing project that includes an animated film (2013), a series of black/white prints Black Noise (2008), and a series of prints from the front page of The New York Times. In a form that plays with camp and kitsch and evokes computer games, the film proposes an interpretation of Benjamin’s well known allegory of “the angel of history”. Compressed into five minutes, the film animates the progress of history as a pile of rubble, from the creation of the world to the present. This scrapheap, culled from an online pictorial archive, depicts Benjamin’s single catastrophe. A flash of original paradise interrupts the cataclysmic momentum and reminds the viewer of the dialectic of history in which the past can be recalled only in relation to the demands of the present.

In the photo series Berlin Childhood, shot entirely in Berlin, Rosenberg found that the daily routine of raising her daughter Carmen brought her in contact with the spaces and experiences Benjamin describes in his chronicle Berlin Childhood around 1900. Unexpectedly, this coincided with the history of her own family, which fled Germany in 1939. Her goal became to produce photos to match each entry in Benjamin’s book. What emerged was a retrospective look into the origins of modernity through the lens of contemporary Berlin.

Galeria Studio is also premiering a collaborative series of short films based on the forty-two texts from Berlin Childhood by Rosenberg and Frances Scholz. It features Chantal Benjamin, the granddaughter of Walter Benjamin, and her daughter Lais. In addition, it documents the commemoration of Benjamin’s tragic suicide at Portbou on the 75th anniversary of his death. It features Chantal and Lais Benjamin, Wim Wenders and Mark von Schlegell. Now the story of Benjamin and his descendants resonates especially with the global refugee crisis, and makes his forewarnings more timely than ever.

Curator: Barbara Piwowarska

The exhibition was generously supported by Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant and US Embassy in Warsaw. Special acknowledgements to Frances Scholz, Chantal Benjamin, and Lais Benjamin Campos, as well as Adam Lipszyc and Franz Kafka University of Muri.

In honor of the closing of Frances Scholz' exhibition Orange You Glad You Can Read, please join us for a lecture by Karl Schafer entitled Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Monads, bodies, and the nature of perception. Leibniz’s recasting of the rationalist vision of reality as a perfectly intelligible system yields a metaphysics on which the fundamental nature of reality is composed of an infinity of simple mind-like substances (monads) and physical reality is merely phenomenal. In this lecture, Schafer will consider the basic elements of this metaphysical system, with a particular eye towards the difficulties in developing a satisfactory conception of sense perception within its constraints. The lecture will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Noura Wedell in which she will discuss the relevance of Leibniz's work to the painting practice of Frances Scholz.

The talk is open to the public and will be held at the gallery and begin at 5 PM on Saturday, January 21st.

Saturday, September 17, 2016

Locker Plant, 6:00 - 8:00 PM: Open Studios
Crowley Theatre, 8:00 PM: Screening of Amboy

Doors open at 2:30pm,

2:50pm, introduction from Alaina Claire Feldman, 3pm, Screening "Starlite", 4pm Talk; Frances Scholz, Mark von Schlegell and Dan Graham, Moderator; Alaina Claire Feldman

Before you become an interesting individual, you need many good friends in your life.

In my opinion the most impressive art scene was a group of artists and friends centered around the gallery, 47 Canal. They started at a building located at 179 Canal; they were all artist tenants and friends. Many wonderful shows were thrown at this building before the group moved. When they moved to the new location, it was the ideal space for an artists’ gallery. Again, the gallery owner and the artists were all friends. Now, 47 Canal is one of the most interesting figures of the New York art scene. They were able to make it due to their strong friendships.

I know another interesting group of artists who live in Köln, Frances Scholz and Mark von Schlegell. They occasionally come to New York to converse with Dan Graham. Also Dan occasionally visits Köln. Their conversations are fragmentary but continued.

France’s paintings are dynamic and organic and have a very human touch. At the same time, her intention is very deliberate, and her work often shows the amazing power of nature. Mark is a science fiction writer who includes sexuality in his novels. Young Dan wished to be a writer once but he is an artist now. His passion for reading keeps him connected with Mark. These three artists love and respect each other and are all interesting individuals. Frances made a film based on Mark’s story, “Starlite” (2010 - 2012), The writing and filming took place simultaneously, the processes mutually-influencing one another.

The screening of the film will be followed by a conversation with the couple, and Dan will offer his edgy opinion.

Science fiction enthusiast, Alaina Claire Feldman, will moderate the talk.

Screening at Scala Programmkino
Amboy (2015) & Episodes of Starlite (2010 – 2012) by Frances Scholz

Wednesday, June 01th 2016, 7pm
Venue: Scala Programmkino, Apothekenstraße 17, 21335 Lueneburg
Admission free

In conjunction with the "Fantasie" exhibition, the Halle für Kunst Lueneburg presents two films by the US-American artist and filmmaker Frances Scholz. Episodes of Starlite (2010 – 2012) relates the history, consisting of five episodes, of an imaginary continent on which male dominance has been demolished and an alternative society based on matriarchy has evolved. However, Episodes of Starlite is not only an attempt at a new gender historiography beyond the usual norms and attributions, it additionally breaks with the cinematic conventions of the classical fantasy genre. In Amboy (2015), on the other hand, a filmmaker searches for traces of the artist Amboy who died in Los Angeles and encounters mysterious figures and real persons from the world of art, music, and literature. Amboy is not only the filmic documentation of the search for a – as it turns out – fictitious artist figure, but also the name of a remote town in the Mojave Desert. With a vocabulary drawing from documentary, feature and amateur film, as well as from B-movies, the film condenses different narrative threads to a no longer distinct hybrid between fiction and reality. Episodes of Starlite is based on a text by Mark von Schlegell. The script of Amboy was written by Mark von Schlegell and Frances Scholz. Frances Scholz will be present at the film screening.

Gruppenausstellung mit Arbeiten von u.a. Nicola Brunnhuber, Stephan Dillemuth, Isabelle Fein, Jutta Koether, Frances Scholz, Anne Speier und Raphaela Vogel

14. Mai – 18. Juni 2016

Eröffnung: Freitag, 13. Mai 2016, 19.00 Uhr

Ausstellung und Kunstauktion für die Deutsche AIDS-Stiftung

Ausstellung in der Ostgalerie:
11. bis 25. November 2015

Eröffnung: 
Dienstag, 10. November 2015
19 Uhr 

Auktion:
Mittwoch, 25. November 2015
19 Uhr

a.m. invites you to a screening of Starlite I-V, a five-film series directed by the artist Frances Scholz, adapted from a 2011 cycle of stories by Mark von Schlegell. These episodes invert archetypes of the fantasy genre and art history, showing it ‘as a fantasy of pure light, pure filmic art, and painting’ free of gender roles and idealised pictures.

The films feature an ensemble cast, with appearances by Leslie Allison, Paul Giamatti, Susan Howe, Sergej Jensen, Kaspar Koenig, and Julia Scher among others.

Sample Trailer

(Total Running time - 50mins)

Trailer 01 + 02, 2014 als Teil von Frances Scholz: Amboy at Tif Sigrids.

Opening Reception: Saturday November 15, 4-6PM

Lecture by Chris Kraus, Amboy: American Artist, November 25th, 7PM

1507 Wilcox Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90028
+1 (323) 907-9200

Press:

Harun Farocki
(How to Live in the FRG, 01:18:00)

Frances Scholz
(China City, 01:00:56)

Saturday, May 17th / 8pm

1625 17th STREET UNIT 3
SANTA MONICA, CA 90404

Screening has originally been rescheduled.

Screening of Episodes of Starlite during the 3. Festival at Kunsthaus Rhenania.

Opening September 5th 19:00

Kunsthaus Rhenania im Rheinauhafen
Bayenstraße 28
50678 Köln

Screening of Our Future as part of The Filmballad of Mamadada on August 8th at 8pm at Roulette.

Screening of Our Future as part of Preview Screening of The Filmballad of MAMADADA.

On Saturday June 15, 7pm, there will be a potluck and rough cut screening of the assembled film (working title is The Filmballad of MAMADADA). This is also part of the Whitney ISP exhibition.

Please join for a rather long night and participate in the discussion afterward. Please RSVP for the event so we that can figure out seating (see full announcement).

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57 Walker St.
New York, NY 10013

MOCA invites you to a screening of Episodes of Starlite, a five-film series directed by artist Frances Scholz, adapted from a 2011 cycle of stories by Mark von Schlegell. Episodes of Starlite inverts archetypes of the fantasy genre and art history, from the points of view of gender, art, and pure film-making.

A conversation with Frances Scholz, Mark von Schlegell, and Julia Scher, moderated by MOCA Curator Bennett Simpson, will follow the screening.

Sunday May 19, 2013, 3PM

MOCA Grand Avenue
Ahmanson Auditorium
250 SOUTH Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
USA

My Dinner with Merlin and Our Future on view as part of A Short History of Cologne. An exhibition by Julia Scher, Mark von Schlegell and Frances Scholz

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Los Angeles, CA 90046
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Episodes of Starlite will screen during the Video Forever Edition 11 – Contemporary Baroque at Frank Perrin's Studio, Paris May 14th 7pm. Details below and in the full announcement.

22 rue Visconti
Paris 7ème
door code : "P"

In the context of the exhibition

the film PANORAMA will be on view.

19 April 19:00 PM Museum Ludwig

Complete Starlite to be screened, with premiere of Episode The Fifth and Epilogue of Starlite.

Screening followed by podium-discussion with Frances Scholz, Mark von Schlegell, Kasper König, and then a SONGS OF STARLITE CD release Concert and Party at King Georg at 21:00 (see next event).

Eine Veranstaltung des Museum Ludwig, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Internationalen Frauenfilmfestival Dortmund | Köln 2012, anlässlich der Art Cologne.

19. April 2012
Einlass 20h
Beginn 21h pünktlich.

Fiona Connor, Hany Armanious, Joshua Petherick, Simon Denny, Helen Johnson, Matt Hinkley, James Deutsher, Marco Fusinato, Raimundas Malašauskas, Tahi Moore, Leah Jackson, Damiano Bertoli, A Constructed World, Frances Scholz and Mark von Schlegell, curator Liv Barrett installing from Saturday 4 February opening Saturday 11 February 2012

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