22/04/2025
The collector and founder of the foundation passed away on April 16, 2025, at the age of 90.
Christiane Schaufler-Münch shared a passion for art with her husband, Peter Schaufler. Since the late 1970s, they built their collection of contemporary art together, which now comprises more than 3,500 works and is displayed in changing exhibitions at SCHAUWERK. After her husband's death in 2015, Christiane Schaufler-Münch continued to acquire many important works, including pieces by Georg Baselitz, Doug Aitken, Brigitte Kowanz, and Antony Gormley. Most of the art collection was transferred to THE SCHAUFLER FOUNDATION, which the couple founded in 2005. The foundation aims to bring together entrepreneurship, science, research, and art.
The foundation and museum are jointly committed to Christiane Schaufler-Münch and her husband Peter Schaufler, their wishes, values, and visions now and in the future. As a place for engaging with contemporary art, SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen will maintain, preserve, and develop the Schaufler collection, continuing to make it accessible to the public through diverse exhibitions. We will gratefully honor and preserve her life's work of responsible entrepreneurship, passionate interest in art and culture, and charitable engagement.
15/04/2025
The internationally renowned artist and filmmaker Mario Pfeifer was nominated for the Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden 2025. From 77 high-calibre applications from artists from 38 countries, the selection committee chose Pfeifer, whose socio-political film installations have been shown in highly acclaimed national and international exhibitions. The artist has also been honoured with prestigious awards and scholarships. Most recently, he received the German Human Rights Film Award in Nuremberg in December 2024.
Between April and September 2025, Mario Pfeifer will be working artistically at the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden at the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) on the central theme of the second funding phase ‘Data Worlds. Socio-technical and cultural syntheses of new realities’. With his film project ‘Beyond the Binaries’, Mario Pfeifer plans to develop an AI-driven, dynamic video installation that focuses on the complex relationship between humans and artificial intelligence (AI). The focus is on the question of how data creates its own realities and how reality is constantly transformed by data.
‘In my work, I am particularly interested in social fractures that are equally reflected in technological developments. We live in an increasingly data-driven world. (Self-)optimisation and the pursuit of perfection play a key role in this. In cooperation with scientists at TUD, I would like to conduct research at the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden on the relationship between human(ity), AI and data worlds. I am particularly interested in how dynamic data and information can create constantly changing narratives in a cinematic work.’ (Mario Pfeifer, 2025).
Mario Pfeifer (*1981 in Dresden, lives and works in Berlin and Dresden) is a visual artist and filmmaker. In his work, he deals with current discourses and social disruptions. He places the understanding of democracy, racism, technology and artistic research into the socio-political, ecological, technological and economic realities of our time at the centre of his work. In autumn 2025, Pfeifer will present the first results of his collaborative research at the TUD in the Gallery of the Custody in the Görges Building of the TUD.
Photo: © Mario Pfeifer Studio
05/12/2024
Together with the Technical University of Dresden and the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences (HKA), TSF is organising the ART OF COMPRESSION colloquium on 1 April 2025. The specialist conference takes place every two years - this time under the motto ‘Some like it hot’.
The event will focus on the topic of ‘Heating and cooling’ with three thematic blocks: compressors, heat pumps and artificial intelligence. Experts from science and industry will be speaking.
