Exhibition
>> June | 2013
The Girl behind the White Picket Fence
Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris
Untitled, 2013, Edition of 5, analog C-Print, 40x50cm
Stefanie Schneider aime jouer avec les hasards qu’offrent les pellicules Polaroid périmées, dont les réactions chimiques sont imprévisibles. Les aberrations chromatiques et les halos fantomatiques qui résultent de leur instabilité se superposent de façon aléatoire aux mises en scène que l’artiste compose avec soin. Ils don-nent à ses clichés la texture incertaine des rêves et des souvenirs qui s’effacent. Stefanie Schneider s’est ainsi peu à peu forgé un univers qui évoque tout autant les road-movies que les séries B, Jack Kerouac que David Lynch, avec son mobil-home rutilant posé dans l’immensité désertique, ses chemins qui ne mènent nulle part, ses personnages échoués, tiraillés entre amour et désillusion, érotisme et solitude, désirs et vacuité.
“The Girl behind the white Picket Fence” met en scène une jeune femme meurtrie par un fiasco sentimental, qui prend conscience de son attirance pour l’éboueur qu’elle aperçoit par la fenêtre de son mobil home. Il lui faudra, pour l’accepter, surmonter ses démons intérieurs, grâce à l’aide d’un animateur radio et d’un étrange chaman.
Chacune des photographies exposées fait partie intégrante du film et est traversée par son histoire.
Informations pratiques: Vernissage 13 juin 2013 de 16h à 20h, Exposition du 13 juin au 20 juillet 2013 { Galerie Catherine et André Hug, 2, rue de l’échaudé / 40, rue de Seine, 75006 Paris } Horaires mardi au samedi de 11h00 à 13h00 14h30 à 19h00 | Contact: Catherine Hug -Telephone 06.07.13.48.00 et sur rendez vous! | E-mail c.hug@orange.fr | Site www.galeriehug.com
>> more information: download pdf
Film
>> May | 2013
Heather's Dream
has been selected for the
German Competition in the
International Shortfilm Festival Oberhausen in May 2013
Screening at the Lichtburg, Sunday, May 5th, 12.30pm
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Tanja Trittmann (Writer) and Caroline Haertel (Producer)
"Heather's Dream" has been accepted in the competition at the Short Film Festival Oberhausen in May 2013!
Heather (Heather Megan Christie) lies on her bed and narrates off screen: "One morning I didn´t wake up. I had a fever". And then finds herself in a dazzling desert landscape. Here a magic doctor (Udo Kier) pursues his work in his office. Something is going on. Everything seems to be prepared. The atmosphere in his office, open to all directions is hypnotic. The patient is waiting for her mysterious treatment. Dried up plants are sitting on the table. A flip book, a suitcase, a broken heart.... Enchanted examinations begin. The bizarre, charismatic doctor continues his evaluation assisted by a fairy-like nurse (Camille Waldorf). The process follows a secret logic and Heather understands that there is hope to be healed. Heather's Dream has not been filmed in a classical way but Udo Kier's and Heather Megan Christie's acting has been photographed action by action, step by step with thousands of Polaroids and edited into sequence, combined with Super-8 footage. The bright light of California, the forsaken abandoned landscapes around 29 Palms and the faded colors of the Polaroid film contribute to the poetic and surreal atmosphere of he film.
cast: Udo Kier, Heather Megan Christie, Camille Waldorf, music: Adam Weiss, script: Tanja Trittmann, directed, photographed and edited by Stefanie Schneider, production micafilm, Berlin, co-produced by Arte, supported by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
www.heatherdreams.net
>> April | 2013
Multimedia Presentation with Artist Stefanie Schneider follows CAC Annual Meeting
Palms Springs Art Museum, Annenberg Theater, 101 Museum Drive ( April 11th, 10.30 am )
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Untitled, Edition of 5, 125x250cm, 2013
The Contemporary Art Council invites you and your guests to a season finale — a surreal presentation by multimedia artist Stefanie Schneider.
Schneider works in photography and video on the High Desert landscape. Situated on the verge of an elusive super-reality, her photographic sequences provide the ambience for loosely woven storylines and a cast of phantasmic characters. She works with the largely uncontrollable chemical mutations of expired Polaroid film stock. Chemical explosions of color spreading across the surfaces undermine Schneider’s commitment to reality and induce her characters into trance-like dreamscapes. Like flicker-ing sequences of old road movies Schneider's images seem to evaporate before conclusions can be made — their ephemeral reality manifesting in subtle gestures and mysterious motives. Schneider's images refuse to succumb to reality; they keep alive the confusions of dream, desire, fact, and fiction.
>> April | 2013
The Girl behind the White Picket Fence / Heather's Dream
>> www.heatherdreams.com
>> May 30, 2012, 6.30 pm | 2012
Biennial Art Auction 2012
Museum of Modern Art San Diego
curated by Hugh Davies
Artworks on view May 21 until May 29
Untitled (Oilfields), lot#64, c-print, 24x 24inches, Courtesy of Scott White Contemporary Art, $2,000.00 - $4,000.00
The 2012 Biennial Art Auction is one of MCASD’s most popular and exciting events. This year's auction will feature a live and silent auction of artworks donated by internationally recognized artists and emerging contemporary artists. Lydia Fenet, senior vice president and director of strategic partnerships for Christie’s New York, will preside as auctioneer.
The silent auction begins at 6:30 PM and includes informal curatorial tours as well as cocktails and heavy hors d’oeuvres. The live auction begins at 8 PM and will include coffee and desserts. A live closing of select silent auction works will conclude the evening.
Guests at this year’s auction will be delighted to have exclusive access to special-edition auction paddles created by artist Ryan McGinness. These limited quantity paddles are available to Gold Circle ticket purchasers, and to general ticket holders should quantities last. Gold Circle ticket holders will also enjoy preferred seating, recognition in the program, advance curatorial tours (by appointment), and a VIP Preview Reception on Thursday, May 24.
All funds raised through the 2012 Biennial Art Auction will support MCASD’s art acquisitions, exhibitions, and education programs.
This year’s impressive roster of contemporary artists whose works will be available for purchase include Ai Weiwei, David Adey, Peter Alexander, John Baldessari, Tim Bavington, Barry Bell, Larry Bell, Mike Berg, Tim Bessell, Ross Bleckner, Mel Bochner, Kelsey Brookes, Christo, Lael Corbin, Mary Corse, Mara de Luca, Roman de Salvo, Lewis deSoto, Spencer Finch, Charles Gaines, Steve Gibson, Thomas Glassford, Mike Glier, Joe Goode, Iva Gueorguieva, Stephen Hannock, James Hayward, Jim Hodges, Jay Johnson, Isaac Julien, John Oliver Lewis, Margie Livingston, Jean Lowe, Luce et Studio Architects, Shana Lutker, Kim MacConnel, Heather Gwen Martin, Jessica McCambly, Ryan McGinness, Richard Allen Morris, Enrico Natali, Helen Pashgian, Marcos Ramirez ERRE, David Reed, Philipp Scholz Rittermann, Ed Ruscha, Christopher Russell, Stefanie Schneider, Andrew Schoultz, Jennifer Steinkamp, Ryan Taber, John Valadez, Perry Vasquez, Feodor Voronov, Stephanie Washburn, Barbara Weldon, and Jack Whitten.
Selected by MCASD curator Hugh Davies, the artworks will be on view in the galleries at MCASD La Jolla from Monday, May 21 to Tuesday, May 29.
EXHIBITION
>> March 22 - June 01 | 2012
presents Selling Sex
a group exhibition with Alidra Alic, Cortney Andrews, Una Burke, Liz Cohen, Inge Jacobsen, Charlotte Kingsnorth, Atsuko Kudo, Sarah Lucas, Kim McCarty, Malerie Marder, Marianne Maric, Lisa Z. Morgan, Ione Rucquoi, Stefanie Schneider, Suzannah Sinclair, Christiana Soulou, Vahge, Shiri Zinn, and others. And as always, the exhibition will be accompanied by a series of live streams, projects and performances.
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It is a well known fact that the majority of images we consume are created by men, and too often is feminism an easy target for commodification in the wider context of contemporary culture. SHOWstudio has decided to examine this 'self-other' relationship and curate an exhibition about sex, as seen exclusively from a female perspective. The exhibition opens 22nd March 2012.
We all like to hope that times have changed and the war of the sexes is less like a war and more like a sophisticated dialogue. And yet, when you consider that only 5% of all the artists in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection in 1989 were women, while the Louvre today still has no female artists in their collection of over 35,000 artworks, it's a pretty shocking state of affairs. The facts suggest that the war still needs to happen.
At the Museum of Modern Art, only 8% of the work exhibited are created by women. The Tate's female holdings? A whopping 15%. Meanwhile it's just as bleak in commercial galleries. In 2010, an average of 23% of gallery shows in NY and London featured female artists. What's more, is that this imbalance doesn't only exist in fine art. It's in Fashion, with the leading fashion photographers creating the leading fashion campaigns mostly being men. And it's in Film, where women hold only 33% of all speaking roles and 7% of all Directors in Hollywood are women. And, the real kicker? There are still ONLY three industries in which women earn more money than men - Pornography, Prostitution and Modelling. What does that tell us?
Well, for one, the statistics don't lie. We live in a world where man's version of the world is more prevalent than woman's which in turn means that the majority of images we see of women are created by men.So, for this exhibition at SHOWstudio Shop we decided to take a look exclusively at what a woman's version of a woman looks like. Is it different? Is it the same as a man's? Is an image of a nude woman somehow empowered in the hand's of a female artist? Does it resist all those traditionally constructed gender roles? Does it mock an unavoidably voyeuristic male gaze? Do the women confront? Or, do we see yet more examples of the female constantly diverting her own eye, facilitating her status as the object to be looked at verses ever being the subject doing the looking, as Laura Mulvey writes in her classic essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema?" And is John Berger still right? Though also some 20 years old, in his often-referenced "Ways of Seeing" he contends that "men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.The surveyor of women in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight." Does all this still hold true? And if a woman creates an image of a woman, is the male perspective so engrained that she still creates a to-be-looked-at female?
We are aware of the potential short fallings of such a exhibition.We know we're tipping the imbalance right back the other way. We know we are ghettoizing work by women in their own unique female grotto. And we know we're not launching the major survey show that this should be in our Mayfair gallery. But, we feel, it's a start. It's a conversation. And one that we hope helps us all emerge just a little more aware of just how male gendered our visual culture really is and a little less willing to put up with it.
Gallery Information
contact phone: +44 207 399 4299 // fax: +44 207 499 8225
EXHIBITION
>> July 11 - August 26 | 2012
ROAD ATLAS
Straßenfotografie aus der DZ BANK Kunstsammlung
KUNSTMUSEUM DIESELKRAFTWERK COTTBUS
Die Straße als Schauplatz des Alltags und urbanes Merkmal übt von jeher eine besondere Faszination auf Fotografinnen und Fotografen aus. "Road Atlas" vereint erstmals rund 150 Fotografien aus der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung zum Thema Straße: 26 Positionen und 70 Jahre Straßenfotografie.
Das Spektrum der von Dr. Beate Kemfert, Kuratorin und Stiftungsvorstand der Opelvillen, und Dr. Christina Leber, Leiterin der DZ BANK Kunstsammlung, ausgewählten Fotografien zeigt Straßen rund um den Globus in der Zeitspanne der Nachkriegsfotografie bis heute. Die Fotografien halten Gebäudeansichten, Alltagssituationen sowie radikale Veränderungen im Bild fest und dokumentieren so Zeiten des Wohlstands, der Stagnation und Spuren des Verschwindens städtischer Räume. Darüber hinaus zeigen sie Menschen des urbanen Raums.
Bis heute hat die Straße in der Fotografie eine besondere Bedeutung. Neben kulturellen Phänomenen üben formale Kriterien und lineare Qualitäten dauerhaft Anziehungskraft aus.
Der Reigen der vorgestellten Fotografinnen und Fotografen beginnt bei Helen Levitt (1913-2009), der Klassikerin der Street Photography, und endet bei Zeitgenossen wie Pieter Hugo (*1976).
Mit über 6000 fotografischen Werken von mehr als 550 Künstlerinnen und Künst- lern zählt die DZ BANK Kunstsammlung zu den bedeutendsten Sammlungen, die sich mit dem fotografischen Bild auseinandersetzt.
Die Ausstellung ist nach den Opelvillen vom 11. Juli bis zum 26. August 2012 im Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus zu sehen www.museum-dkw.de, im Frühjahr 2013 in der Kunsthalle Erfurt www.kunsthalle-erfurt.de und im Sommer 2013 in der DZ Bank, Frankfurt www.dzbank-kunstsammlung.de.
Fotografinnen und Fotografen: Nobuyoshi Araki, Ursula Arnold, René Burri, Gregory Crewdson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Pietro Donzelli, Valie Export, Arno Fischer, Robert Häusser, Naoya Hatakeyama, Pieter Hugo, Gerd Kittel, Barbara Klemm, Helen Levitt, Will McBride, Aernout Mik, John Miller, Ryuji Miyamoto, Jean-Luc Moulène, Marcel Odenbach, Arnold Odermatt, Stefanie Schneider, Stephen Shore, Anatolij Shuravlev, Beat Streuli, Thomas Struth.
Information
{ KUNSTMUSEUM DIESELKRAFTWERK COTTBUS }
Brandenburgische Kulturstiftung Cottbus | Uferstraße / Am Amtsteich 15 | 03046 Cottbus | info@museum-dkw.de
TV
>> March 31, 22.00h | 2012
“Ich-Udo” – Der Schauspieler Udo Kier on ARTE TV
A documentary by Jeremy Fekete
P R E M I E R E / Broadcast “ICH-UDO” starring Udo Kier, Sender ARTE, am 31.03.2012,22:00 Uhr, Wdhlg Sender ARTE am 03.04.2012, 14:15 Uhr,Wdhlg Sender ARTE am 12.04.2012, 04:00 Uhr, Autor und Regisseur Jeremy Fekete
filmstill: Udo Kier documentary shoot at Stefanie Schneider's set "The Girl behind the White Picket Fence".
>> view online:
http://videos.arte.tv/en/videos/_moi_je_udo_kier_comedien_-6569640.html
EXHIBITION
7655 Girard Ave Suite 101 La Jolla, CA 92037 phone 858.255.8574 info@scottwhiteart.com www.scottwhiteart.com
>> Drawing January 13, 2012, 7 pm | 2012
Kunst zu verlosen ! // Art to raffle off !
Zur Unterstützung der Arbeit der KW Institute for Contemporary Art haben die KW Freunde dem Haus nahe stehende Künstler, Galeristen und Sammler gewinnen können, 60 Werke für eine außergewöhnliche Kunstlotterie zur Verfügung zu stellen. Die Lose zu je 100 Euro können an der Kasse der KW sowie über die Website der KW Freunde www.kw-freunde.de erworben werden.
Art to raffle off! KW Freunde initiates art lottery in support of KW Institute for Contemporary Art
To support the work of KW Institute for Contemporary Art, KW Freunde (Friends of KW) has been able to convince artists, gallery owners and collectors close to the institution to provide 60 works for an extraordinary art lottery. The lots cost 100 € each and can be acquired at the KW ticket office and at the KW Freunde website: www.kw-freunde.de.
The official drawing will take place at KW on January 13, 2012.
From the December 3, works by Fritz Balthaus, Heike Baranowsky, Oliver van den Berg, Monika Brandmeier, Monica Bonvicini, Clara Brörmann, Marcel Bühler, Angela Bulloch, Patty Chang, Martin Creed, Mariechen Danz, Kate Davis, Michele Di Menna, Wim Delvoye, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Martin Eder, Tim Eitel, Olafur Eliasson,
KW Freunde was founded in 1996 to support the cultural program of KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Every year they support an exhibition as well as a series of other initiatives by the institute. KW Freunde members receive free admission to KW, the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, and international partner institutions including the Kunsthalle in Vienna, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and the MoMA PS1 in New York. Membership also includes exclusive previews of KW exhibitions with the curators and artists, invitations to special organized studio tours and art trips, as well as to openings, artist talks and other KW events.
KW Institute for Contemporary Art + KW Freunde
Auguststraße 69
10117 Berlin
www.kw-freunde.de
Viewing of the works included in the lottery:
December 3 – 18, 2011, every Sat + Sun, 12 – 7 pm
January 7 – 8, 2012, 12 – 7 pm
Drawing: January 13, 2012, 7 pm
KW Freunde
Sabine Bärenklau, Tel. 030. 24345948, sb@kw-feunde.de
Press contact:
BUREAU N cultural communications
Silke Neumann, Tel. 030. 30874085, silke.neumann@bureau-n.de
WANTED
>> January | 2012
PROGRAMMER NEEDED FOR THE 29 PALMS, CA PROJECT
WWW.TWENTYNINEPALMS.CA >>
Stefanie Schneider's independent film / art project is looking for a programmer. Skills needed:
- Python (Turbogears, Pylons)
- HTML
- Javascript (Mochikit, Mootools)
- Linuxserver (Debian)
- MySQL
Please send vita to lance.waterman@instantdreams.net
>> December 01, 21.00h | 2011
GELD ODER LEBEN KUNST UND ERFOLG
A documentary by Gerd Scobel
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Trotz Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrisen boomt der Kunstmarkt. Zwar sind Ölfarben und Installationen keine harte Währung, aber sie geben dem Käufer ein Lebensgefühl und ein Image, das durch andere Medien nicht zu bekommen ist. Aber welche Kunst ist erfolgreich und was bedeutet überhaupt Erfolg? Gert Scobel spricht mit Künstlern, Kuratoren und Kunstexperten darüber, was Erfolg ausmacht.
>> http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play&obj=28295
EXHIBITION
>> November 04 - November 30 | 2011
HITCHHIKER
Festival Saint Germain des Près
Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris
Vernissage Thursday, November 3 
Margarita Smoke Rings, 1/5, 2009 (125x150cm)
The participating galleries will show projects in relation with this theme.
We will present Stefanie Schneider and Laurent Chalumeau for they share an obvious and great common link.
Stefanie Schneider's pictorial narratives mostly shot in the South West of the United States will to be shown in the gallery and we'll have readings and talks about Laurent Chalumeau's book "Moi & «Bobby Mc Gee". The book is a study of a song "Me and Bobby Mc Gee" by Chris Kristofferson sung by Janis
Joplin (among others). The novel is just like Stefanie Schneider's work, a story of a wandering and careless youth and passionate love. It is a roadmovie taking place in America, a rosebud, a sign of tribal and generational connivance. This book and Stefanie Schneider's work speaks to everyone who believes in the endless power of this magic song and even more to those who don't.
Informations pratiques
{ Galerie Catherine et André Hug, 2, rue de l’échaudé / 40, rue de Seine, 75006 Paris } Horaires mardi au samedi de 11h00 à 13h00 14h30 à 19h00 | Contact: Catherine Hug -Telephone 06.07.13.48.00 et sur rendez vous! | E-mail c.hug@orange.fr | Site www.galeriehug.com
EXHIBITION
>> July 6 - September 2 | 2011 CALIFORNIA DREAMING
ROLLO CONTEMPORARY ART, LONDON
Press Launch and Private View, Tuesday, July 5, 5pm
Stefanie Schneider, Radha Mind Screen, 1999, Analog C-Print,128 x 125 cm
Taking the American West as her inspiration, Schneider’s alluring female characters are placed within the vast, sun drenched landscapes of California. Often in wigs and colourful dress Schneider’s images evoke ideas of masquerade and play, however the intense gazes of Schneider’s female characters undermine their playful edge suggesting an unnerving or tragic quality beneath the surface of these glossy women. Together her photographs evoke love, pain, loneliness, alienation and re-discovery and collectively can be seen to suggest a social commentary on America; pointing to the cracks beneath the surface of the glitz and glamour of Western American and the ‘American Dream’. Using expired Polaroid film which is then enlarged, Schneider’s images both emphasise the sun drenched light of California and embody the cinematographic quality of the films of Quentin Taratino and Oliver Stone. Although carefully staged, Schneider’s works are reminiscent of forgotten memories, dreams and chance encounters. The blemishes of the flawed Polaroid film, further add to Schneider’s intent to represent an imperfect narrative, whereby the viewer is left questioning. Schneider has commented on the relationship between her bleached out Californian dreamscapes and the disintegration of a faded Hollywood dream, “Hollywood is the quintessential dream factory, everyone goes there in search of their dreams, and many dreams are shattered there.” As a European living in Los Angeles, her work highlights aspects of melancholy and loss that lie beneath the gloss and glamour of today’s America. Stefanie Schneider was born in Germany in 1968. She received her MFA in Communication Design at the Folkwang Schule Essen, Germany. Currently she divides her time between her two studios in Berlin and Los Angles.
ROLLO Contemporary Art, London launched in 2005. The principle concern of the gallery is to present exhibitions which create a dialogue between innovative contemporary art and its theoretical contexts in the exhibition space. As well as holding solo exhibitions of gallery artists, the program at ROLLO focuses on thematic group exhibitions exploring trends in current art practice. A major focus at the gallery is the representation of women artists. From 2009 to 2011 the gallery curated a three part touring exhibition The Body in Women’s Art Now, which travelled to the New Hall Art Collection, University of Cambridge.
Gallery Information
{ ROLLO Contemporary, 51 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4JH } Contact Phone +44 (0)207 580 0020 | E-mail emily@rolloart.com | Site www.rolloart.com
EXHIBITION
>> June 16 - August 21 | 2011 POLAROID [IM]POSSIBLE / THE WESTLICHT COLLECTION
WESTLICHT. SCHAUPLATZ FüR FOTOGRAFIE
Reception Thursday, June 16, 19.00h
»Untitled«, 2011, PX 680 Colorshade Push, 9x11cm (Original)
Eröffnet anlässlich der Feier von 10 Jahren WestLicht und 20 Jahren Leica Shop.
Gallery Information
{ WestLicht. Schauplatz für Fotografie, Westbahnstrße 40,1070 Vienna } Contact Phone + 43 (0)1 522 66 36 | E-mailinfo@westlicht.com | Site www.westlicht.com