Visual Art | Natural Science
Selected Projects
"Crystal Vibrations" | Artstripe No21 2025, Accenture DACH Vienna
Crystal Vibrations (2025)
Series of Colored Pigment Prints I – IX,
Individually Enhanced with Graphite and Colored Pencil
For Denise Schellmann, everything is drawing.
In the Crystal Vibrations series, she explores ways to synthesize science, technology, and art. She engages with the central contradiction between scientific progress and artistic freedom. Her work seeks to dissolve tension and complexity into a dynamic harmony of form and color.
This transmedia process—combining microscopy, photography, digital image processing, printing, and traditional graphite and colored pencil drawing—renders the invisible visible. Tiny, highly magnified quartz crystals spontaneously expand into an entire universe.
Quartz is a fundamental raw material in technological development. In this work, Schellmann artistically interprets what Accenture stands for today: the synergy of technology and human creativity.
The creative process: from quartz sand in a microscope to Artstripe No21 ‘Crystal Vibrations’ 2025
74tharts presents:
"The Window and the Couch"
June 2024
Bibliothek WEST, Wien
Group exhibition curated by Simon Rees
Diptych „Freud und Leid“
2024
Graphite, coloured pencil, red chalk on paper
168,0 x 103,0 cm
Freud und Leid: a play on words as the name “Freud” echoes the German word for joy, “Freude”.
In the diptych, it is dialectically juxtaposed with
suffering – “Leid”.
Iconic, spontaneous forms visualise the colours of life. It is only in the cohesive whole that stability and joie de vivre emerge from the order of cell-
like, biomorphic forms. Harmony in colours and surfaces, surprising in their outcomes and not plannable, like life itself. A fragile bond on the brownwomb of Mother Earth.
The fault lines, fatefully inscribed in black from the very beginning: dark spaces of decay or illness.
Black lines separate. They overwrite what was once orderly. Uncoordinated and boundless suffering grows. The disease that takes possession of our intactness. In the disintegration of formal harmony, black space gains its autonomous identity. It leaves us searching for joy in suffering.
"Traces of the Invisibles (2017, 2023)
HUMAN_NATURE
Group exhibition, Künstlerhaus Wien
June – September 2023
Visualising the becoming and withering of life in drops of water.
Several live performances at the Künstlerhaus in Vienna.
Traces of the Invisibles, HUMAN _NATURE, performative installation, Künstlerhaus Wien, 2023
KRAFTRAUM: Contemporary music & particle physics
Cooperation Denise Schellmann with Klangforum Wien & CERN, 2018
Thematic suggestions for an event poster at KRAFTRAUM, Klangforum Wien, 2018
"Reality", CERN 2017
„Reality“, CERN 2017
As part of the exhibition:
Circuit Training - A Foray Into The World Of The Large Hadron Collider
University of Applied Arts Vienna in cooperation with CERN, HEPHY & Art@CMS
@ das weisse haus, Vienna
June 2017
Reality, mirror installation, CERN 2017
How real is the real?
The mirror installation Reality presents CERN’s data filtering system as a metaphor for our self-created perceptions of reality.
In the proton collision events at CERN, the amount of data created in just fractions of a second are so large that they cannot be stored anywhere in
the world.
The data is therefore filtered in advance – which means that only a fraction of it actually remains left over for use in the search for the origins of the
universe.
In the mirror installation, the real image is no longer distinguishable from the replicated image.
Reality, mirror installation, CERN 2017