>> AUGUST 29 | 2009
Exhibition series curated by KARLA BRAUN
ART BREAKS WAVES
launches with Dreaming Awake
on Saturday, August 29 from 5:00pm until midnight at Malibu Market and Design
25001 Pacific Coast Highway | Malibu, CA | 90265
You are cordially invited to "reinforce the randomness of life" and immerse your senses into the surreal wonderland of Stefanie Schneider's photographs...
The exhibition is sponsored by Malibu Magazine & Green Truck (organic food delivery) for more information >>
EXHIBITION
>> MARCH 20 - JUNE 14 | 2009
29 PALMS, CA
The Moravian Gallery in Brno / Museum of Applied Arts CZECH REPUBLIC
curator Jirí Pátek,
Vernissage March 19 / 17.00h
Not limiting herself to static images her domain is installations combining photography, video, sound and text. Straddled between Berlin and Los Angeles, Schneider enjoys an increasing international reputation, although she is virtually unknown to the Czech art-loving public.
EXHIBITION
>> MARCH 06 - APRIL 19 | 2009
TRUE LIES
Kunsthaus Essen, Essen, Germany
>> JANUARY 24 - FEBRUARY 24 | 2009
artHAUS 2009
OPENING NIGHT Januar 24 / 5pm
curated by Thomas Schirmboeck, Zephyr, Mannheim
ArtHAUS is an international exhibition that integrates contemporary art and architecture by engaging world class curators to showcase cutting edge artwork - photography, video, sculpture and painting - in newly renovated residences that celebrate the best new local architecture of the host city. This year’s artHAUS is curated by Thomas Schirmboeck of the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum in Manheim, Germany and features twenty five artists from Los Angeles to Berlin at Dogtown Station in Venice, California. Artists include noted photographers Stefanie Schneider, Al Weber, painters Chuck Arnoldi, Kimberly Brooks, Myriam Holme and sculptors Gwynn Murrill and Tom Chapin. ArtHAUS 2009 is installed across seven Manhattan-Style lofts in the heart of Venice at the newly renovated “DogTown Station” at 700 Main Street. THOMAS SCHIRMBOECK, curator Thomas Schirmboeck is currently the associate curator of the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum and director of the Zephyr Gallery in Manheim, Germany. Mr. Schirmboeck has produced eighty four shows internationally ranging from photography, painting and installation. From 1996 to 2004 he was founding manager of "Fotogalerie Alte Feuerwache", a public space for photography and related media as one of the leading art spaces for contemporary media in Southern Germany. Before this he lectured in art history at the Manheim University. He is a member of public commissions including Germaine-Krull-Foundation, Wetzlar, Germany, Welde Kunst Preis Schwetzingen, and senior member of the board City Gallery of Mannheim. He received degrees in art history, archaeology and political sciences at Heidelberg University. As an editor he has published numerous catalogues and written essays for book publishers.
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EXHIBITION
>> NOVEMBER 15 - DECEMBER 20 | 2008EINBLICKE
GALERIE SUPPER, KARLSRUHE
Group Exhibition with Monika Thiele, KEHL, Stefanie Schneider
Vernissage November 15 / 18.30 - 20.30
speech by Regina M. Fischer M.A., Kunsthistorikerin Pforzheim
opening hours: Tuesday - Friday 14.00 - 19.00, Saturday 12.00 - 16.00 and upon
appointment. Ebertstrasse 14. 76137 Karlsruhe. phone / fax: ++49-721-5695577
EXHIBITION
>> SEPTEMBER 20 - NOVEMBER 1 | 2008SIDEWINDER / 29 PALMS, CA
Vernissage Friday 19 / 19.30 - 22.30
c.art-Galerie, Dornbirn, Austria
Marktstraße 45 | 6851 Dornbirn
Tue-Fri 9-12 am & 3-6 pm | Sat 10-12 am
EXHIBITION
>> JULY - SEPTEMBER | 2008SIDEWINDER
Cover SALZBURGER FESTSPIELE 2008
Zu den Salzburger Sommerfestspielen lieferte Stefanie Schneider Motive aus der Serie „Sidewinder“ als Bildvorlagen für das Festspielplakat und das Programmheft, um hiermit das Motto der Festspiele „Denn stark wie die Liebe ist der Tod“ zu veranschaulichen. Dies ist Anlass für die Galerie Robert Drees, ab 16. Juli eine Ausstellung in Salzburg in der Galerie am Mozartplatz durchzuführen. In Kooperation mit den Salzburger Festspielen und dem Kulturamt der Stadt Salzburg zeigen wir dort bis zum 29. August einige Werkgruppen von Stefanie Schneider.
EXHIBITION
>> MAY 4 - APRIL 30 | 2008
SIDEWINDER
Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover
SEITWÄRTS by Gusztáv Hámos, 04. April 2008
Zur Einführung Stefanie Schneiders Ausstellung „Sidewinder“
EXHIBITION
>> FEBRUARY 12 - MARCH 15 | 2008
29 palms, ca
first viewing 01 / 08
opening reception february 11 18.00 h - 22.00 h
GALERIE SPESSHARDT & KLEIN, 10969 BERLIN (kochstrasse 55 - 58)
for information please contact: info@twentyninepalms.ca
also note: 29 Palms, CA @ the atrium
filmhaus potsdamer strasse 2 selected by BERLINALE / FORUM
february 7 - february 17 2008
press text
29 Palms, CA is a project positioned between film and art. In this project the German photo artist, Stefanie Schneider, explores and documents the dreams and fantasies of a group of people living in a trailer park community in the California desert.
An essential part of this project is the artistic, conceptual and filmic collaboration between actors, musicians, photo artists, directors etc. Udo kier is not only a performer, but also a producer. Marc Forster is responsible for directing the dialogues, and special effects in the post production. Radha Mitchell is writing the script. Sophie Huber, Max Sharam, Daisy McCrackin, JD Rudometkin, Zoe Bicat and Camille Waldorf are all writing the music, developing their characters and acting as performers. All participants are developing and acting out their characters. Steve Marshall is a performer as well as the DJ of the “Lonely Hearts Radio Show”. Sabine Dehnel will build the DJ booth of the radio station as a model, which will then be emulated as the DJ room for the film.
The vision of a feature-length film is just as important in this as all the single, small stages or fragments, which are necessary for this film: Just as life and the circumstances of our social reality, the project 29 Palms, CA is in a state of constant change and development. The film is a biography and a social commentary, whose characters act as the alter egos of those individuals who portray them. In the course of the art project the different performers have contributed ideas, stories, scenes, monologues, poems, music and films, so that the basic principle of the concept, namely a collaboration of different perspectives and the pooling of different fragments and depictions, bestows a lively rhythm upon the film. Each character will introduce his or her character in the form of a fictional or semi-fictional diary on the website, which was specially developed for this project. The website hereby plays the role of an independent world from which the film project and the radio show emerge. The characters take influence on what will be seen in the film through their descriptions. Through the radio show connections between the individual performers will be established.
The whole film is generated from Polaroid pictures, which Stefanie Schneider is editing into the film. The fact that the films are expired leads to the surreal distortions and colorings. The pictures appear fleeting and taut, blurry. Stefanie Schneider paints with her Polaroid films. She clearly alludes to the ambivalence between imagination and portrayal, between fiction and reality, and leaves it to the viewer to form his/her own picture, to remain in a surreal or real space. The motive of the desert also supports the dichotomy between imagination and reality, at any moment breaking the clearness of a definite ascription, which is definitely not found in her work. All the more clear it becomes that the characters are living in their own lost world, but that life itself can change their perspective on their world. The place in which the performers of 29 Palms, CA are living, is more an idea or a reflection of a place than a place per definition itself. The light and the desert landscape are painting an imaginary reality, which the characters find themselves exposed to. Memories, fantasies and reality merge.
The project can be seen at the Berlinale / Forum in the Atrium of the Gossip Bar (Filmhaus Potsdamer Platz) and the gallery Spesshardt & Klein. For the first time the complexity of this grand art project, which positioned between film and fine arts, as well as a link or interface in between various media, will be exhibited.
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EXHIBITION
>> SEPTEMBER 21 - SEPTEMBER 27 | 2006
STAY / STRANGER THAN PARADISE
private party, 21. september 2006
nd-projects { GALERIE SEE, Seefeldstrasse 301a, CH-8008 zürich }
Der erfolgreiche Schweizer Hollywood-Regisseur Marc Forster („Monster’s Ball“, „Finding Neverland“, "Quantum of Solace"), hat sich für seinen Film „Stay“ von Stefanie Schneiders Bildern nicht nur inspirieren lassen, sondern sie spielen – neben Ewan McGregor und Naomi Watts - eine Hauptrolle: sowohl als „Kunst im Film“, als auch als Look einer Traum- und Gegenwelt.
Bei Stefanie Schneider erinnere ich mich nie an Details des Bildes, sondern
nur an das Ganze. Zwischen Wirklichkeit und Traum wird bei Ihr ein dritter Weg
beschritten, der beides vereint und mich wahrhaftig von künstlerischer, visueller
Freiheit beflügelt.
EXHIBITION
>> JULY 7 - NOVEMBER 26 | 2006
ARTWALK AMSTERDAM
SYNC! – The Cinematic Eye
A summer’s evening... You’re taking a stroll through your own neighbour- hood, lost in thought. Suddenly you spot a back-lit photo filling a display window; it seems oddly familiar. As you approach it, you realize that it’s a life-size still taken from a famous film scene. You’re engrossed. A humdrum spot down the road has been lit up too. What’s happening, you think, what have I missed? Every single detail impresses itself upon your retina, until your attention shifts to another illuminated image in the distance...
An international visual arts project.
SYNC! The trailer - Between the 7th of July and the 26th of November 2006, the SYNC! team organized the exhibition SIDEWINDER, a solo by rising star Stefanie
Schneider, who will also participate in the larger, 2007 edition of SYNC!. It served to put the concept to the test, and to work on business connections. The exhibition was much appreciated by the audience.
EXHIBITION
>> MARCH 02 - APRIL 06 | 2002
Solo Exhibition Stefanie Schneider in der Galerie Michael Zink
Die Sequenzen in Schneiders Fotoserien münden aber nicht in linearen, nachvollziehbaren Erzählungen: Mit einzelnen Bildern deutet sie eine Geschichte lediglich an; deren Gehalt überläßt sie der Imagination des Betrachters. Die einzelnen Aufnahmen wirken seltsam entrückt, emotional aufgeladen, bisweilen surreal, die Sphären von Realität, Fiktion und Traum lassen sich in ihnen nicht mehr eindeutig differenzieren. Diese Atmosphäre resultiert auch aus dem Einsatz von überlagertem Polaroidmaterial. Der gestörte fotochemische Prozeß des Ausgangsmaterials führt zu überzeichneten Farben, Unschärfen und Fehlstellen auf den Bildern, einem Effekt, der durch das anschließende nochmalige Abfotografieren und Vergrößern der Polaroidaufnahmen zusätzlich gesteigert wird. Diese zwar kalkulierbaren, aber im einzelnen weitgehend unkontrollierten Vorgänge setzt Stefanie Schneider im Sinne kreativen Zufalls bewußt ein; einen Teil der Bildgestaltung gibt so damit willentlich aus der Hand.
Stefanie Schneiders Fotoarbeiten setzen der aktuell dominierenden perfektionistischen, sachlich-kühlen Ästhetik der Becher-Schule eine assoziative, emotional besetzte, malerische Qualitäten entwickelnde Fotografie entgegen und stellen damit das sinnliche Erleben vor die konzeptuelle Strategie.
EXHIBITION
>> JULY 10 - AUGUST 04 | 2001
ROUGH CUTS
SUSANNE VIELMETTER
LOS ANGELES PROJECTS
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phone 323.933-2117, fax 323.933-3997
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—Christopher Miles
>> APRIL 01 - MAY 20 | 2001
Night on Earth - Fotografie und Videokunst
Photographs and videoworks by: Henry Bond, Adam Chodzko, Alain Declercq, David Deutsch, Serge de Waha, Willie Doherty, Alicia Framis, Hatty Lee, Seamus Nicolson, Matthew McCaslin, Sophy Rickett, Stefanie Schneider
The night, the time of darkness, is the topic of exhibition Night on Earth. Curated by Ralf Christofori, curator of the internationally acclaimed exhibition Colour Me Blind!, Night on Earth triggers memories of Jim Jarmusch’s unforgettable homage to night in the 20th Century.