Stih & Schnock

Stih & Schnock is a Berlin-based artist duo, formed by Renata Stih, Professor at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and curator at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, and Frieder Schnock, PhD in Art History. Their works, which often have caused debate in German society, deal primarily with collective memory in society. The Holocaust is also a recurring reference for their artistic interventions. Their works have been exhibited in Berlin, at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, the Jewish Museum of New York and at Washington University, St. Louis.

Andreas Huyssen, Professor at Columbia University, and James E. Young, Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have given critical attention to Stih & Schnock's works as examples of the 'counter-monument'.

Select list of works

* 2006-7: "The City as Text - Jewish Munich"
* 2005: "Rosa I, Rosa II, Rosa III" (Rosa Luxemburg Memorial Project, Berlin-Mitte)
* 1994-95: "Bus Stop" (unrealized project for the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin)
* 1992-93: "Places of Remembrance" (Memorial in the Bavarian Quarter, Berlin-Schöneberg)

References

* James E. Young, "At Memory's Edge: After-images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture" (Yale University Press, 2000)

External links

* [http://www.stih-schnock.de Website of Stih & Schnock]
* [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/10/27/031027ta_talk_kramer Mention in The New Yorker]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9802E6DC1738F93AA25752C1A9669C8B63 Mention of 'Bus Stop' in the New York Times]