Die Schimmelreiterin (work in progress)

Luise Flügge and Katharina Maister

Project description

The mythical image of the centauress is taken up and gets located within a dystopian future scenery. Characterized by time-shaping, swinging tails and their sensual bodies, a game of manipulation and submission emerges.

The concept of Die Schimmelreiterin and the collaboration between Luise Flügge and Katharina Maister emerged in the context of Calm Your Horses. In Calm Your Horses Katharina Maister explores choreographic working methods in which the works of visual and performing arts are equally brought together. Luise Flügge accompanied the research with her camera and photographed the rehearsal. It is important to her to see herself as part of the performance and to accompany Katharina through the process.  The photographs stand for themselves both as independent works and as evidence of the process.

Calm Your Horses was funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR, aid program DIS-TANZEN by the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.

Short bios 

Luise Flügge has been studying for her Diploma II at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne since 2019. She mainly works with photography and video art. Shaped by her studies at the Folkwang University of the Arts from 2014 to 2019, which she completed with a Bachelor of Arts in Photography, she feels very connected to other forms of performing arts. From 2019 on, she mainly works with self-portraits and acts as a performer in front of the camera. Since 2022 she increasingly has been working with performance artists and documented e.g. the series „Open a Door a Window“ in the Kulturbunker Mülheim photographically. In 2020, Luise was awarded the Young Art Prize of the Friends and Sponsors of the Academy of Media Arts for her self-portrait series „Inner Life“. She lives and works in Cologne.
www.instagram.com/luise_fluegge

After completing her bachelor’s degree in musicology and ethnology with a focus on aesthetic research, Katharina Maister received her master’s degree (V.I.E.W.) in dance at the German Sport University in Cologne in 2017. Since then she has worked as a dancer, performer, choreographer and dance mediator.
Her dance work is significantly influenced and shaped by her many years of research into fine motor skills and numerous years of further education in somatic practices.
Katharina Maister’s productions are primarily characterized by a slightly morbid, emphatically sensual, finely differentiated aesthetic. They have a feminist drive, are looking for alternative stage formats and possible interfaces between visual and performing arts.
Her current artistic interests are set in rural areas, community participation and sustainability issues.
www.katharina-maister.com , www.instagram.com/katharina_maister