GOLDEN BOYS

In Golden Boys, Jana Schulz observes young men who want to free themselves from societal fringes, subordinate demands and everyday banalities by boxing and focus their energy on achieving the greatest possible recognition in the boxing ring.

Jana Schulz (* 1984) lives and works in Leipzig and Berlin. Earlier this year, she received a six-week residency in the Villa Aurora awarded by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes in cooperation with Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e. V. During her stay in L.A., Schulz filmed Golden Boys.

Schulz's work will be shown this year at the Kunsthalle Wien and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig. In her cross-media work Schulz deals with forms of interpersonal communication. In a procedural way of working, she observes structures and dynamics within social groups, restages individual scenes and expands her documentary approach with fictitious elements.