Sara Förster

Vita

Sara Förster, born 1984, studied Fine Arts, at the class of concept photography, mentored by Prof. Rosa Barba, and in the time-based media studio with Prof. Jean-François Guiton, at the University of the Arts Bremen. This time was characterised by international projects, a cooperative residency in Tunisia and a stay in Japan.

Her work has been shown in exhibitions in Bremen, Tunis and Ystad, among others.

Statement

In her artistic work, Sara Foerster questions the permanence of photographic image units and their perception. In the increasingly rapid viewing of photographs in our everyday lives, she makes the original material visible and encourage a decelerated viewing. Through manual alteration of the analog photo material, the material is transformed and the underlying carrier material is made visible. In her works, the material becomes the content of the image and raises questions that go beyond the original motif.

Sara Förster has been working with a wide range of analogue photographic materials for many years. Always in search of what is hidden within. And how she can transform the material to make it visible in its own diversity. The artworks are often transformed into installations that interact with the space.

For her artworks she uses found slides, Polaroids as a material, cyanotype for explorations with light, paper and textiles, photograms and luminograms to explore the material in a new way.

Education

07/2019

master-class degree

10/2018

master-class student of fine arts, class of concept photography,mentored by Prof. Rosa Barba, University of the Arts Bremen

07/2018

diploma at the University of the Arts Bremen

10/2012

student of fine arts, class of concept photography, mentored by Prof. Rosa Barba, University of the Arts Bremen and timebased media studio, mentored by Prof. Jean-François Guiton

Apprenticeship

2006–09

apprenticeship as a photographer at Bildarchiv Foto Marburg

Grants and Awards

2023

Stiftung Kunstfonds / NEUSTART KULTURplus
Polaroid Challenge / PolaCon New York

2022

Stiftung Kunstfonds / NEUSTART KULTUR-Stipendien
Alexander Tutsek Stiftung

2021

Stiftung Kunstfonds: Sonderförderprogramm Absolvent:innen
scholarship / Bremischen Evangelischen Kirche

2020

scholarship / Senator für Kultur Bremen
Projectfunding / Senator für Kultur Bremen

2017

scholarship / summer academy at Homburg am Main
St. Moritz Art Acadamy by Peter Zimmermann / Schweiz

2016

DAAD-Promos scholarship / Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts

Miscellanous

seit 2023

university lecture at University at Bremen

2023

Initiator of the project “KUKUK - Kunst Kuchen Kommunikation”, funded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education

seit 2022

Member of the Board at Kuenstler:innenhaus Bremen

seit 2005

Co-Skipper at Imagon e.V.