Daniela Bergschneider was born in 1986 in Paderborn, Germany, and currently lives and works in Bergen. He graduated from Bergen University School of Arts in 2020 and has since worked as a lecturer at Bergen Academy of Arts and Paderborn University. Daniela Bergschneider’s artistic practice aims to challenge human perception through sculptural elements. She’s interested in evoking ambiguous feelings in the viewer and to find an expression for the many contradictions in life. The works attract and repel at the same time.

In Daniela Bergschneider’s recent sculptures spiky hand moulded ceramic shapes are worked into pre-dyed Polyamid fabric, two materials that oppose each other in texture, softness and visual appearance. It is in this duality that her artistic practice lingers between the organic and the synthetic, the animate and the inanimate.

Daniela Bergschneider uses synthetic fabrics, created for industrial use and with a high plastic percentage. Therefore, the artist can heat them up, mold them, elongate them, burn them, cut them, fold them; she transforms them and changes the way we understand them. Coming across as creatures or even viruses, Daniela Bergschneider sculptures are made to achieve the expression she calls Visual Tactility. This quest is characterized by using her studio as a laboratory to develop forms and surfaces that are charged with enough tactile and visual information to trigger the imagination into evoking an emotional response.