Selected Projects
"Crystal Vibrations" | Artstripe No21 2025, Accenture DACH Vienna
Crystal Vibrations, 2025. Series I–IX, pigment print reworked with graphite and coloured pencil, each 21.9 × 38 cm.
Commissioned by Accenture DACH, Vienna.
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
Reality 2017 | CERN | das weisse haus, Vienna
„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, 2017. Mirror installation, 63 × 63 × 175 cm.
Photo: Brishty Alram
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, 2017. Mirror installation, 63 × 63 × 175 cm.
Photo: Brishty Alram
Danube Dash I | Open Art 2025, Summerstage U4 Rossauerlände
Schellmann explores the “Donau Kanal Wien” biotope directly in front of the Summerstage. She grants elements of the constantly fluid biomass a lasting moment of visibility.
Through a transmedial process involving microscopy, photography, digital image editing, printing, and analog graphite and colored pencil drawing, she merges science and art in a site-specific way. The work evolves in creative dialogue with highly magnified algae structures.
In drawing, her strokes express a sense of delight at this revealed microcosm. Nature sets the framework for the selection of colors and forms—while art expands upon them spontaneously.
Danube Dash I, 2025. Pigment print reworked with graphite and coloured pencil, 34 × 11 cm (original print).
Open Art Summerstage 2025, U4 Rossauerlände, Vienna.
Photo: Milisa Prod
The Arscientic Andism – my romantic manifesto
Short film, 17 min, 2020
Master’s thesis, Art & Science, University of Applied Arts Vienna, in cooperation with CERN
"The Arscientic Andism - my romantic manifesto", is Schellmann's master's thesis in the Art & Science programme (Virgil Widrich) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, made in cooperation with CERN.
The short film from 2020, seventeen minutes, brings together a video performance and a manifesto in thirteen principles. It grew out of many conversations with physicists at CERN about living and working in the space-in-between art and science. Film, trailer and the full manifesto are here.
The Arscientic Andism – my romantic manifesto, 2020. Official film poster.
Photo: Petra Rautenstrauch.