Girl To Know: Ju Schnee
photo: @svenja_trierscheid
Interdisciplinary artist Ju Schnee creates extremely energetic, loud and dreamy works ranging from oil painting to sculptures to digital media art and even Augmented Reality. The Berlin based artist works abstractly and formalistically, combining her signature forms with various media.
Like A Virgin
Schnee started out as an illustrator back in 2016 and after studying Communication Design, she wanted to earn money and art was never on her list. During that time art was still a hobby and a way to express herself. With focus on finding work, illustration is what really began her creative career and soon enough she began to make a name for herself with brand commissions.
However, even with some commercial success, it wasn’t enough for Schnee. In 2020, she took the plunge and founded her own studio in Berlin Mitte. Now with a creative home base, Schnee has been painting, making sculptures and working with new technologies.
Untamed
"I love organic shapes, colors and textures. For me, it's not about telling a story through representational elements, but triggering an emotion through abstraction." - Ju Schnee
Trapped in Self Reflection
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🍍 In Ju's world, reality blurs with the virtual world. She brings the digital, three-dimensional objects into the real world - be it with Face Filters or Augumented Reality Artworks.
This mixing of dimensions is an important part of her art. Ju deals with topics such as new technologies, social media and the psychological suffering associated with them in her art. The balance between the real world and the virtual. The artist exploits the fine line between inspiration and obsession with new media and brings it into her kinetic sculptures and hyperrealistic paintings.
virtual sculptures
If you’re in Los Angeles, you can view Ju Schnee’s newest works at group show “Crossing”, which opened on January 14th at Lorin Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles.
