Gabi Schillig (*1977 in Coburg) studied Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences Coburg and completed her postgraduate studies in Conceptual Design with distinction at the Städelschule in Frankfurt (Class of Prof. Ben van Berkel).  She worked for several architectural studios in Berlin, Sydney, Frankfurt and Coburg before establishing her own research and artistic practice in Berlin. She received numerous fellowships and prizes - amongst others, a HWP Fellowship by the Bavarian Ministry of Research, Science and the Arts,  a resident fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart, selected by Stan Allen, Princeton, the New York Prize Fellowship 2008-09 by Van Alen Institute New York and an Artist-in-Residency Fellowship by the Nordic Artists´ Centre in Dalsåsen, Norway. Gabi Schillig´s work aims to create temporary situations by developing material and textile interfaces that establish subversive - and often absurd - relationships between the body and its environment. Her ongoing research is exploring the re-appropriation of the physical by using material strategies as a cultural technique for architectural production, negotiating the boundaries between bodies, the non-constructed and the constructed. Her textile processes are dependent on structure, while the work folds open and back upon a series of situations, provoking a constant re-organization of the object-subject-environment relation.