Stefan Micheel

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Stefan Micheel (born January 14, 1955 in Bochum ) is a German artist. He works in public space between urban and natural space in the areas of action art , concept , street art , photography and video.

Life

Stefan Micheel began his artistic training in 1977/78 as a trainee at the Schauspielhaus Bochum in the painter's hall with the artist and stage painter Heinz Clemens, where he came into contact with stage painting , sculpture and illusionism on the stage. After graduating in 1984 in Design for Visual Communication at the Fachhochschule Dortmund studies followed from 1984 to 1989 at the University of Bochum in art history and philosophy and later at the Technical University of Berlin in astrophysics .

Micheel became known through the artist duo pttred together with Hans Hs Winkler with the urban space installations Goldener Schnitt durch Berlin (1987) and the “ Red Shift ” 1990 as well as ursa in orbit 1993. and the project “statue of liberty” 1996. After the separation of the working group pttred Micheel worked mainly in the field of art in public spaces. This resulted in a series of video works that deal with the reality check in the city and in the natural environment, such as B. Terra Nullus - where the birds fly backwards .

He was involved in memorial graffiti for Rosa Luxemburg on Potsdamer Platz Berlin. In 1999 he was the curator of the exhibition project berg-äther in Italy at the Brenner on the Sattelalm in the hermit's library (pttred). a. the artists Thomas Demand , Wolfgang Müller (Die Tödliche Doris) participated.

In 2010 he curated the West Wall and Shamans with the participating artist Christian Hasucha .

Work (selection)

  • Video "terra nullus - where the birds fly backwards" 2001.
  • Acoustic installation "fortissimo" U2 Berlin Alexanderplatz 2004.
  • "Valkyrie" campaign at the Berlin Ministry of Finance 2007.
  • Action "escape over the remaining wall" Berlin Wall Memorial 2001
  • at the >> open grave << of ulrike meinhof 2009 in the Hamburg art gallery “MAN SON - From the horror of the situation”.
  • Project "Terra Nullus Watzmann" 2002–2011.
  • Action "Faust" Frankfurt a. M. Commerzbank 2011.
  • Project "IeRM Indifference of a Renaissance Madonna" Berlin 2017.
  • Project "EiHd M. Expedition into the head of Medusa" Berlin 2018.
  • Project "Medusalauf" Berlin 2019

honors and awards

  • 1988 Project funding, Senate Department for Cultural Affairs, Berlin
  • 1990 Project funding, Senate Department for Cultural Affairs, Berlin
  • 1995/96 PS1 scholarship New York
  • Nomination and participation in the artistic competition Transitions, Berlin
  • 1997 Art Fund A2 Bonn
  • 1998 work grant Berlin
  • 2000 Akademie Schloss Solitude scholarship
  • 2002 nomination for the international media / art award 2002, ZKM Karlsruhe
  • 2003 Winner of the Alexanderplatz U2 NGBK competition with fortissimo

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.institutberlin.de/pttred_katalog_weiss.html ZBL: Berlin Studies / University Library: HU
  2. ^ Street-Art Berlin - Art in Public Space , Berlin 1999, pttred , p. 231 ISBN 3-89602-191-5
  3. ↑ Street Art Berlin - Art in Public Space , Berlin 1999, pttred , p. 235 ISBN 3-89602-191-5
  4. ↑ on site - Langenhagen 1997 Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler, pttred, ISBN 3-931441-04-0
  5. ↑ a b http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/IMKP50/6
  6. ↑ Memorial graffiti
  7. ↑ http://www.stefanmicheel.de/bergath.html
  8. ↑ READ: Holderlin in No Man's Land . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1998 ( online - Sept. 7, 1998 ).
  9. ↑ http://westmauerundschamanen.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/ausstellung-im-institutberlin/
  10. ↑ http://www.kunstaspekte.de/u2-stefan-micheel-2004-10/
  11. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ISBN 978-3-938515-26-6 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ngbk.de
  12. ↑ STEFAN MICHEEL | BORDERLAND BERLIN. Retrieved May 15, 2020 (German).
  13. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de
  14. ↑ http://www.deutschlandkultur.de/ Zwischen-utopie-und-gewalt.1013.de.html?dram:article_id=168760 /
  15. ↑ Kunstforum International Vol. 191 2008, Place of pure beauty, pp. 140–143 Jürgen Raab
  16. ↑ Actions & Projects. Retrieved May 13, 2020 (German).
  17. ↑ http://www.institutberlin.de/info63
  18. ↑ http://www.institutberlin.de/Medusa_lab.html
  19. ↑ Medusalauf, Berlin, st.eel, Stefan Micheel. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Micheel, Stefan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES st.eel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum