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Starting her career 1983 in the German branch of the “Dia Art Foundation” Brigitte Schenk worked with Joseph Beuys and A.R. Penck, and as a private curator until she launched her own art gallery in Cologne in 1992.

Focus of the gallery is mainly contemporary art – painting and new media (see artists listed below). In the first years the gallery published Editons with Roseamarie Trockel, A.R. Penck, Walter Dahn and Maria Zerres.

Since 1999 a main focus became the art transfer between the Arab world and Western society. As a pioneer worker in this region Galerie Brigitte Schenk has organized various exhibitions in this region (see projects listed under the website www.galerieschenk.de) and participated several times at the Biennal in Sharjah (with Rosemarie Trockel, Candida Höfer, Klaus Fritze and Marcel Odenbach and 2009 with Doug Henders). The Andy Warhol Tour through Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah in 2002 was the most popular exhibition that introduced the work of Andy Warhol mainly in this region.

Since 2003 Brigitte Schenk is curating the Royal collection of H.H. Sheikha Hoor bint Sultan Al Qasimi from Sharjah, the director of the Sharjah Biennial. In 2006 a major sculpture project with Ilya and Emila Kabakov was realized in Sharjah.

In 2008 Brigitte Schenk curated the exhibition “Focus Orient” of the Thomas Walter collection showing orientalist photographs of the 19th and early 20th Centuries in the Sharjah Art Museum. Simultaneously while Brigitte Schenk explores the dialogue with the east and the west bringing contemporary work to the east (Andy Warhol, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov), the Galerie was equally committed to exposing the work discovered while in the Emirates to a western audience (Abdullah Al Saadi 2005, Shahram Karimi 2008, Tarek Al-Ghoussein 2009).

In 2010 an exhibition focusing on contemporary Arabian art will be curated by Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi (dierctor of the Sharjah Biennial) and Brigitte Schenk at PS 1 in New York.

Brigitte Schenk is also invited by the Sevilla Biennial 2011 to curate an exhibition on contemporary Arabian art.