Rainer Beßling
Im Tiefenraum der Oberfläche

Den Anfang soll die Wirkung machen. Und ein Wort, das verpönt ist. Marina Schulzes Malerei fasziniert - augenblicklich, unmittelbar. Der Begriff Faszination führt zu aufschlussreichen sprachlichen Verwandtschaften. En face spielt ebenso hinein wie Fassade. Das Gesicht als Schnittstelle mit dem Gegenüber wird benannt und der Gesichtssinn ist aufgerufen ...

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Marina Schulze
Hüllreste
20 Jahre Falkenberg • Galerie für neue Kunst, Hannover, 2021


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»Rainer Beßling – Im Tiefenraum der Oberfläche

Nicole Giese-Kroner
Shallow Depth

Marina Schulze has developed into one of the great realists of her generation in her more than twenty-year career as a painter. Often her paintings are subsumed under the term “photorealism.” However, when “looking at them [...] we don’t just look at what can actually be seen in the paintings, but at the same time imagine what could potentially be there [...] Which is all the more astonishing, since her works are all highly representational in their origin.” ...

Translation: Suzanne Edredge


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Marina Schulze
Shallow Depth
Syker Vorwerk – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, 2021
ISBN 978-3-9819692-7-6


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»Nicole Giese-Kroner – Shallow Depth

Karin Seinsoth
Marina Schulze’s photographic gaze
or the infinite complexity of simple things

I came across Marina Schulze’s paintings for the first time in the 2007 exhibition Rauhe Fasern (Rough Fibers) in the Galerie Beim Steinernen Kreuz. I was particularly taken with Untitled (SB VII) from the pantyhose legs series. Everything about this picture appealed to me: color scheme, image detail, subject. What was depicted was immediately recognizable in its seemingly photographic accuracy, and at the same time it seemed so wonderfully puzzling. The intimacy of the motif was almost a little uncomfortable, the precision of the painting almost uncanny: the large-format and strongly zoomed-in section of large-meshed fashionable fishnet tights, under which the naked skin of its wearer peeked out. You could literally feel the suppleness and sensuality of the skin. ...

Translation: Suzanne Edredge


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Marina Schulze
Shallow Depth
Syker Vorwerk – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, 2021
ISBN 978-3-9819692-7-6


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»Karin Seinsoth – Marina Schulze’s photographic gaze

Karin Seinsoth
Chronological and Biographical Information
on Marina Schulze

Marina Schulze grew up on a farm, an environment that gave her both an economic and ecological interest, as well as an appreciation for nature, flora, and fauna. ...

Translation: Suzanne Edredge


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Marina Schulze
Shallow Depth
Syker Vorwerk – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, 2021
ISBN 978-3-9819692-7-6


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»Karin Seinsoth – Chronological and Biographical Information on Marina Schulze