About
Unpacking the wonder of being alive, Melanie Schoeniger explores themes such as perception and interconnectedness and contemplates our place in the larger scheme of things. The German artist uses a philosophical yet intuitive approach to reveal the beauty and essence of nature as a means to create awe and wonder and to uncover mysteries beyond all stardust.
To honor a sustainable process, Melanie experiments with alternative printing techniques and materials; she also creates handmade artist books. She perceives all her work as fundamentally being climate work contributing to a life-sustaining future.*
Longlisted for Aesthetica Art Prize 2024, her work was awarded with Julia Margaret Cameron, Pollux and Chromatic first places, Tifa Silver, and more. It has been on view internationally. Her images are featured in publications such as Lenscratch, All About Photo Magazine, ArtDoc Magazine and the WWF Climate Challenge Compendium.
*She is a member of Eco Echo Art Collective
Selections from my CV
Artist Book
2024 TO PARADISE | handmade artist photobook,
Selfpublished, Edition of 50
Exhibition & on Display
2024 Head On Photo Festival | semi-finalist landscape, Group Exhibition Sydney, Australia
2024 Our Place in the Scheme of Things | Eco.Echo Art Collective,
Group Show at St. Lawrence University, NY, USA
2024 Der Greiff & Kammerspiele Muenchen | Off to Elsewhere,
Group Show at Therese-Giehse Halle, Munich
2023 Fresh Eyes Talent | Haute Photographie, Group Exhibition, Amsterdam
2022 Foto Biennale | FotoNostrum Gallery, Group Exhibition, Barcelona
2022 Solo Exhibition at PEAM Showroom, Starnberg, Germany
2025 Float Magazine | Whispering Shadows, Online
2024 Aeonian Magazine, issue 11
2024 F-Stop Magazine | Color, Online
2023
A. Smith Gallery | Imagined, curated by Susan Burnstine, Online
2022 A. Smith Gallery | Botanicals, curated by Wendi Schneider, Online
2023, Analog Forever Magazine | Elemental, Online
2023 + 2022, Art Doc Photography Magazine
Alternative Process + Enigma of Life + Colors, Online
2022 Float Magazine |
If it makes you happy, Online
2022 Fraction Magazine |
Issue 157, Online
2021, The Curator’s Salon | Intrinsic Nature, Online
Awards & Recognition
2024 Aesthetica Art Prize Longlisted
2024 Belfast Photo Festival Shortlisted
2024 Color Awards + B&W Spider Awards Nominee Fine Art
2023 Julia Margaret Cameron Awards Winner
| Series Cell Phone
2022 TIFA Awards
Silver | Fine Art
2022 Photolucida
Critical Mass Top 200 Finalist
2022 + 2021 Chromatic Awards
Winner Environmental
2022 Pollux Awards Winner Cell phone
Numerous Honorable Mentions at awards such as:
IPA, ND, FAPA, PX3, Monochrome, Minimalist…
Publication & Press
2025 Anarchy #2 | Ephemère , Tokyo | curated monochrome publication
2025 Fabien Ribéry reviews To Paradise at l’intervalle.blog
2024 Overlapse: Stir the Pot | collaborative photography publication
2024 Der Greif | Article featuring my Artist Book To Paradise
2024 Aoenian Magazine | issue 11, Online
2023 Lenscratch | photographers on photographers:
Sarah Knobel in Conversation with Melanie Schoeniger
2023 Fresh Eyes Talent Book by GUP |
Selected with TO PARADISE
2023 All About Photo Magazine | #35 COLORS
2023 Art Doc Magazine | Enigma of life
Feature
2023 Climate Creatives Challenge Compendium | Ecologial Change, Shortlisted
2023 Shots Magazine |
My Muse
2022 – 2024 The Hand Magazine, published in issue 36, 39, 42 + 45
2022 Stop Ecocide International
Contribution to the curated Calendar
2022 Anthotypes Emulsions 1 book by Alternative Photography.com
2022 Humana Obscura Magazine featured Cover Artist issue 04
2022 Pearl Press Magazine | Grayscale Issue featured Cover Artist
2022 A. Smith Gallery |
Botanical ’27, a Fine Art Limited Edition Book
Writing
2024 Lenscratch.com | European week: March 4-8 presenting Kacper Kowalski, Rogier Houwen, Steffen Diemer, Jaume Llorens and Sayuri Ichida
Curation
2024 Our Place in the Scheme of Things | Eco.Echo Art Collective: Group Show at Richard F. Brush Gallery, St. Lawrence University, NY, USA – co-curated together with Sarah Knobel, Leonor Jurado and Areca Roe
Teaching
2023 Workshop | Cyanotype Basics + Toning, Vienna, Austria
2022 Workshop | Creative Photography, Vienna, Austria