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SILKE WEIßBACH
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Silke Weißbach (b. 1984, Germany) is a London-based artist whose practice moves between painting, sculpture and material experimentation. Her work explores ecological systems, collective intelligence and the relationship between human and non-human forms of perception, often using unconventional and bio-responsive materials to question how matter carries memory, agency and transformation.
Weißbach studied Sculpture at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg before completing an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2020. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Paul Smith Foundation, Spinnerei Leipzig and Hauser & Wirth London. In 2025, she received the Winsor & Newton and Paul Smith Foundation Art Prize and completed the Imagination Fellowship at Arizona State University.
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Silke Weißbach (1984, Germany, lives and works between Cornwall and London) creates abstract paintings that operate as living systems. Her work moves toward an embodied ecology that understands transformation as both chemical and affective — grounded in the conviction that our connection to the living world is a form of knowledge we are learning to remember. Each surface becomes a meeting point between body and land, where organism, material, and environment act upon one another. Materials enter the work as active agents. Living close to natural environments allows her to source biological matter directly—through foraging and gathering—which she combines with synthetic ingredients from consumer and cosmetic industries. This pairing of foraged and manufactured materials embodies the core tension in her practice: the entanglement of natural and synthetic systems.
Weißbach grew up in northern Germany near the Baltic Sea. She studied Illustration and Graphic Design at the University of Applied Arts and Sculpture at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg before completing her MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London (2020), where she now lives and works. Past exhibitions include P.O.V., Paul Smith Foundation, London (2025); Landscapes of Time and Memory, Fred Levine Gallery, Bruton (2025); Ember, Spinnerei Leipzig (2024); Kooperation, Nizza Gallery, Berlin (2024); Taking the Light out of the Prism, Duplex Gallery, Lisbon Art Weekend (2023); Pass Your Tongue Over, Kanister, Hamburg (2023); Homegrown, Hauser & Wirth London (2020); and 50/50, Fold Gallery (2020).
She was awarded the Winsor & Newton and Paul Smith Foundation Art Prize in 2025 and completed the Imagination Fellowship at Arizona State University in the same year. In recent years, she was shortlisted for the London Bronze Sculpture Fellowship (2023), the Cob Award (2024) for an interdisciplinary project on collective intelligence, bioacoustics, and ecological consciousness, and the Somerset House digital residency programme (2023). Her Correspondence (Sugar) series, initiated in 2020, was added to the Jan van Eyck Future Materials Bank in 2022. In 2024, she undertook residencies at Xenia in North Hampshire and Porthmeor Studios in Cornwall.
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