I met Nike Schröder in front of a café in Kreuzberg, Berlin, where she is already waiting for me. Nike is as an artist and she wanted to become an artist since she painted her mother´s floor white with cream in the age of three. Today she is doing embroideries and developed her very own style to work with needle and thread. Attracted by materials, and different textiles she started to work with fabrics and changed step by step her subject to a rather artistic background.
Nike Schröders embroideries show human faces, figures, bodies and body parts. Thread on canvas, sometimes mixed with paint merges to a symbiosis of material and structure. The mixture of her works and the viewers personal associations is bringing her figures alive. Maybe that is why the people on her works seem to look straight at me from her walls when she spontaneously takes me with her to her studio. Her studio is her center of living and working and it is also where she met many of her friends. During summertime her door is always open and so her studio became a meeting point for new and old friends, gathering in her beautiful little kitchen to chat and enjoy a few beers together.
Nike´s inspiration is her everyday life and everything that surrounds her. A lot of her friends are photographs, providing material that reflects her life and becomes the basis for her work. Nike shows me a project she is currently working on. It is some kind of map made of thread on paper and I am fascinated of how she moves the needle with a natural accuracy and an impressive dexterity. Today Nike is living on two continents, commuting between Berlin and LA and is planning to move to LA permanently.
Text & pictures by Caroline Kurze
Jun 19, 2012 · 18:08
wow!!!
Jun 20, 2012 · 18:29
die Atmosphäre ist ganz perfekt eingefangen. Man möchte Nike unbedingt persönlich kennenlernen.
Jun 21, 2012 · 10:36
Vielen Dank. Es war auch ein schöner Nachmittag mit Nike. Vielleicht hast du ja Glück und schlenderst an einem Sommertag am Atelier vorbei, wenn ihre Türe offen steht.
Jul 06, 2012 · 14:41
really awesome space! (i'm kinda green with envy)
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Jul 06, 2012 · 17:50
Nike Schröder is fine art. » Kunst » ABGESCHIRMT
Oct 08, 2012 · 15:02
Kunstner Nike Schroeder bruger nål og tråd som medie
Apr 28, 2013 · 12:54
Great ! really awesome ! I just love it . and want to say "Hi Nike Schröder just keep it ON"
Apr 30, 2013 · 09:00
My sister is very familiar Nike, especially that my sister is a tailor, making custom-made dresses and clothes for plus size women. I recall that she has her studio decorated with cloth and threads, even her screen door that separates her studio and the area where she receives her clients. I am particularly amazed by the way she designed and made her wall decorations, which I could see the resemblance from Nike’s work. I believe that my sister has made Nike her inspiration, since I have heard about Nike for a while already. My sister has made a large wall installation at the receiving area, with the use of textile of varied textures.
May 18, 2013 · 20:58
that creativity and this art cool