About - Gabi Schillig

Gabi Schillig (born 1977 in Coburg) studied Architecture and Conceptual Design in Coburg and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt (Class Prof. Ben van Berkel). She worked for several architectural studios in Berlin, Sydney, Frankfurt and Coburg before establishing her own research and artistic practice in Berlin. She is teaching at the Berlin University of the Arts / Institute for Transmedia Design where she is currently preparing her dissertation. Gabi Schillig has lectured and taught internationally and received numerous fellowships - amongst others, fellowships at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Van Alen Institute New York and the Nordic Artists´ Centre in Dalsåsen, Norway. In 2010, she was awarded the Weissenhof-Architekturförderpreis 4 for Young Architects. Besides other own publications, Mediating Space. soft geometries - textile structures - body architecture, a monographic catalog on her recent work has been published by merz & solitude in 2009.

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