Regine Schumann German, b. 1961

Regine Schumann‘s work oscillates at various thresholds between installation, painting, sculpture, and relief. Schumann‘s artistic practice connects opposites, or rather: draws connecting lines between antipodes that are curiously incapable of being connected. Schumann moves primarily in the medium of light and devotes herself to its distinctive manifestation: colours. 

Following Goethe‘s theory of colours, Regine Schumann explores the interaction of light, colour, and space by means of fluorescent materials - such as acrylic panels of various tones, coloured Polylight cords and pigments. Boxes, cubes and spheres are created - austere geometric shapes and bodies that light-footedly and colourfully intensify the everyday perception of light and space through exhilarating radiance. Through site-specific arrangements and Schumann‘s characteristic use of black light, her works and installations seem like indirect light sources in an extraterrestrial environment. Places in which the physical laws of the perception of light disappear. Moving through an installation by the artist visually congrues with the feeling of appearing on the screen of a thermal imaging camera. Regine Schumann calls this transformative energy the „configuration of room temperature“.

Born in 1961 in Goslar, Schumann studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig, finally as a prize student of Roland Dörfler. Between 1986 and 1994 she was a member of the artists‘ group Freiraum alongside Frank Fuhrmann and Dieter Hinz. In addition to numerous scholarships (including the DAAD scholarship for Italy in 1990 and a residency programme of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for Japan in 2000) and commissions for artworks in public space, Regine Schumann was awarded the Leo Breuer Prize in 2006.

Her works are represented in numerous international collections as well as in public space, and her extensive exhibition history spans Germany, Spain, the USA, Belgium, England, Japan, Canada, Italy, Colombia, Austria, France, and the Netherlands, among others.

Regine Schumann lives and works in Cologne.

Exhibitions (Selection)

2025

• Regine Schumann – you make my day, Galerie Watson, Hamburg (Solo)

• Hidden Gems, PASSAGEN Köln, Machwerkhaus, Cologne, Germany (Solo)

• Konkrete Frauen. Neue Räume, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany (Group)

2024

• Regine Schumann – Occhio culture of light, Occhio store Cologne, Germany (Solo)

• Paper / Elements. Kunst aus Papier und die vier Elemente, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany (Group)

2023

• innerlight, Pozu Santa Barbara, Mieres, Spain (Solo)

• Regine Schumann – Space for Light, Galerie Watson, Hamburg (Solo)

• Light and Space, Fondation Villa Datris pour la sculpture contemporaine, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France (Group)

• silent change, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan (Solo)

2022

• Regine Schumann + Yoichi Ochiai + Nami Yokoyama, Kojin Kyoto, Japan (Solo)

• Lichtkunst, Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel am Kaiserstuhl, Germany (Group)

2021

• immersion in fluorescent light miami, 5oz, Miami, USA (Solo)

• push borders, Rafael Pérez Hernando, Madrid, Spain (Solo)

• Frequenze in superficie, Palazzo Montemirto, Alessandria, Italy (Group)

• purple rain: a group exhibition, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, USA (Group)

2020

• Transition (with John Niesche), Collectors Agenda, Vienna, Austria (Solo)

• Examination of a case. Pop and Politics in Contemporary Textile Arts, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany (Group)

• Lichtbild, Orangerie Stiftung Schloss & Park Benrath, Düsseldorf, Germany (Group)

2019

• Goethe – Verwandlung der Welt, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany (Group)

• Premio Lissone, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone, Italy (Group)

• feel color, Galerie Judith Andreae, Bonn, Germany (Solo)

2018

• Labyrinth, Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, Germany (Group)

• Lucid Haze, Sketch, London, UK (Group)

• extended mind, L.U.C.E., Alte Münze Berlin, Berlin (Group)

2017

• Signal, Lichtkunst Sammlung Robert Simon, Kunstmuseum Celle, Germany (Group)

2016

• color rainbows, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, USA (Solo)

2015

• ¡dark!, Unna, Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst, Unna, Germany (Group)

• Enlight my Space, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany (Group)

Other

• 2014 — moving picture, Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany (Solo)

• 2013 — Lumino City, Galería Impakto, Lima, Peru (Group)

• 2009 — leuchtstücke, DA-Kunsthaus, Kloster Gravenhorst, Hörstel, Germany (Solo)

• 2001 — Regine Schumann, Stadtmuseum Oldenburg, Germany (Solo)