Jürgen Schneider

Jürgen Schneider (born 24 May 1976) is a German visual artist. A member of the Frankfurt visual Arts Club since 1999, he has contributed to many of its monthly exhibitions. He later ventured into different plastic artforms, and in recent years has been recognized for his work in digital art.

Schneider was the second of five children of Birgit Schneider, famous german painter and Khan Demir, a Turkish immigrant based in Frankfurt. He attended the public school in his hometown, and in his home she received an open and free education, in which art was encouraged. His sister Stefanie Schneider has had a distinguished career in music and poetry.

He received artistic training with Romualdo Hütter at School of Fine Arts in Berlin between 1997 and 2002. Later he took Videoart courses with Duncan Flür and screen printing with Jean Headson.

In 2002, he took a postgraduate course in Art applied to new technologies at the National Academy of Visual Arts, taught by David Yarn of the State University of New York.

Schneider’s work is known for blending the natural world with the artificial world. He is interested in the combination of aspects of human life that have been invaded and prolonged by technology. He has participated in countless exhibitions in Europe and the United States and his most outstanding works are those made during the period 2000-2004, especially those dedicated to photographs of tribes to which he applied gigital treatment, such as the series “Digital Indians” (see below), as well as those made in collaboration with Julie Prats, dedicated to the anthropological study of the Mexican ethnic groups, in a series of computer retouched photographs that show the contrast between modern life and our ancestors.