Gabi Schillig studied Architecture and completed her postgraduate studies in Conceptual Design at the Städelschule Frankfurt am Main before founding her ‚Studio for Dialogical Spaces’ in Berlin. She teaches as a Professor at the Berlin University of the Arts.

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She has exhibited internationally and received several fellowships and prizes: Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart, Van Alen Institute New York, Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale, KHOJ  New Delhi. Largo das Artes Rio de Janeiro. Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of the Arts. Most recent projects have been 'bodies without organs*' for Liebling Haus in Tel Aviv (with Lila Chitayat) or Accento – The City in the Piano VI (in collaboration with dancer and choreographer Yui Kawaguchi and jazz pianist and composer Aki Takase, silent green Berlin).

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​In Japan, Gabi was an artist-in-residence at Saiko Neon and a guest artist at ACAC – Aomori Contemporary Art Center to explore the potentials of 'soft matters – spaces of ephemerality'. She held her first solo exhibition in Japan at Kobo Chika Gallery in Tokyo in 2023. Furthermore, she gave lectures at Tama Art University, Musashino Art University, Tamagawa University, and Tokyo University of Art – Geidai. For spring 2024 she was invited to join ダイロッカン 2024 Residency Art Festival initiated by 6okken. 

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During her residency at Space Department Nara she will continue her artistic research on 'topologies of softness', exploring "what it means to be inside of something?" and the relationship between 'soft architectures' and 'interiority'; she will experiment with notions of fragility working with skins, bodies, clouds, (atmo-)spheres, metamorphoses, (im)materialities, the sensual, intimacy in relation to proximity & distance – gently dissolving the dualities between between inside and outside and from the self to the world. Goethe Institut Tokyo supports her stay in Japan in 2025.

 https://www.gabischillig.de/