Stefan Strumbel

Stefan Strumbel (2011)

Stefan Strumbel (born May 17, 1979 in Offenburg ) is a German artist . In his art he makes use of traditional motifs that are associated with his own homeland, the Rhine Valley . On an abstract level, Strumbel deals with the paradigms of “ home ” and at the same time questions the term. Stefan Strumbel lives and works in Offenburg.

Life

Stefan Strumbel was born in 1979 as the son of the former Yugoslav judoka Toni Strumbel (born August 19, 1941 in Ljubljana ; † November 11, 2014 in Offenburg ), who emigrated to Germany as an electrician in 1962. In 1993 Strumbel discovered his passion for graffiti / murals. He sprayed walls and trains, which caused him to have trouble with the judiciary for the first time in 1996 and had to negotiate for property damage. From 2001 Stefan Strumbel decided to work as a freelance artist and in 2007 was awarded the Hohenkarpfen Art Foundation scholarship and a Montana scholarship.

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In his works, Stefan Strumbel exaggerates cultural and cult objects such as cuckoo clocks , wooden masks from Alemannic Carnival or crucifixes with style elements from Street Art and Pop Art and places them in a new, sometimes provocative context, for example replacing significant elements of the cuckoo clock such as carvings by original symbols of home through motifs associated with violence, pornography and death. At first glance, the external shape of the objects does not reveal anything of the disturbing content - always solid and meticulous wood carvings, which, with their brightly colored varnish, have the impression of superficial pop culture .

Stefan Strumbel initiates a change in values: In his transformational art, traditional values, a transfigured sense of home and the reality of individual origins disappear behind an aesthetic that becomes a symbol of social status symbols . He unmasks the mechanisms of a society that succumbs to the ubiquitous stimuli of the media in its striving for status and consumption. With his objects, the artist creates an illusory world that serves as a mirror for social reality.

The construct of home becomes a metaphor for existential questions about identity : How do I define home? How is my self-perception? What does reflect me outwardly? How and how do I define myself?

Stefan Strumbel's collectors include Karl Lagerfeld and Hubert Burda .

Goldscheuer Church

The interior church in Goldscheuer with a view of the Madonna and the artist at work

Strumbel designed in 2011 the interior of the Catholic Church of Mary Help of Christians of the place Goldscheuer . After initial skepticism about modern art in the village church, the community was completely behind him.

A six meter tall Madonna in traditional Hanau costume with the baby Jesus is enthroned on a gallery above the entrance . Comic speech bubbles above the intercession candles provide space for the prayers and wishes of the faithful. It is the first graffiti church in Germany.

Weeping Mary

The Marien statue

In 2011, together with the youth organization Jugend gegen AIDS , Stefan Strumbel designed a statue of the Virgin Mary, who cried tears live by liking the Facebook page. The tears were symbolically shed over the suffering that comes with the strict condom policy of the Catholic Church. The action quickly spread on social networks and was one of the first of its kind.

Stage design

In 2013 Stefan Strumbel was commissioned by the Stuttgart State Opera to design the stage design for the production of Puccini's opera “ La Boheme ” by Andrea Moses . According to the artist, the stage design will be three-dimensional. The premiere took place on May 30, 2014.

Karlsruhe chair

On the occasion of the 300th city anniversary of Karlsruhe , Strumbel created a bronze sculpture on behalf of the House of Baden , which shows an upholstered chair that rests on a tree stump instead of on legs. Anyone can take a seat on the chair near the castle and give it to the founder of Karlsruhe, Karl III. Wilhelm (Baden-Durlach) do the same and indulge in his dreams. This is also symbolized by a comic book thought bubble on the back of the chair. By scanning a QR code at the monument, smartphone users can find out interesting facts about Karl Wilhelm, the founding of the city and the artist.

pinecone

2016 he presents the Rothaus brewery in Grafenhausen two 15 m high pine cones with chain links made of steel on the name of the artwork is "Understanding is a feeling of home" . This 6-ton work of art, exactly 1000 m above sea level, represents the weights of a cuckoo clock, which are supposed to symbolize the Black Forest region . The two pine cones are the largest in the world and currently the largest work of art by Stefan Srumbel. The sculpture with its rusty (brown) surface can be walked on; according to the artist's wishes, it should be touched, crossed and experienced and not just looked at. The work corresponds to his new style, which is no longer garish and provocative, but instead focuses on the content, said Strumbel in an interview with the German press agency .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Cuckoo clocks

Cuckoo clock by Stefan Strumbel as decoration on the facade of the Karlsruhe Palace during the Baden State Exhibition ! 900 years in 2012

Karl Lagerfeld with a spray paint clock by Stefan Strumbel

The chair for the 300th anniversary of the city at Karlsruhe Palace, donated by Haus Baden

• 2003: Street inc, Hall 02, Heidelberg
• 2006: your home, Vail, Colorado (US)
• 2006: Sculpture project strumbel trees, Franz Volk Park, Offenburg
• 2006: your home, art association, Offenburg
• 2009: Stefan Strumbel - Heimat, ufoArtgallery, Hong Kong (HK)
• 2009: One Man Show, Galerie Springmann, Freiburg
• 2010: Stefan Strumbel, Circleculture Gallery, Berlin
• 2011: makes home, Galerie Springmann, Düsseldorf
• 2012: Holy Heimat, Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Museum am Markt
• 2012: Exhibition in Neuenbürg Castle near Pforzheim from the beginning of August
• 2012: Kunstverein Hamburg
• 2014: What the fuck is Heimat ?, Circleculture Gallery, Berlin
• 2015: Handle with care, Kunstverein Göppingen
• 2015: Stefan Strumbel, Municipal Gallery Offenburg    
• 2018: Stefan Strumbel, Osthaus Museum Hagen
• 2018: Stefan Strumbel, Museum Art Plus

Group exhibitions

• 2007: It's about to blow up !, UAMO art festival, Munich
• 2007: Art Bridge, Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej BWA, Olsztyn (PL)
• 2007: The walls belong to us, Brooklyn / New York (US)
• 2007: 2nd Hand Smoke, Modart, Cologne
• 2008: Creative Clash / Long Night of Museums, krauts gallery, Mannheim
• 2008: Total Femininity, Galerie Springmann, Freiburg
• 2008: Young Blood, Forum Kunst, Rottweil
• 2008: Diverse Chorus, Galerie Neurotitan, Berlin
• 2010: Le salon du cercle de la culture a Berlin, Circleculture Gallery, Berlin
• 2008: Landscape, Galerie KUB, Leipzig
• 2010: ESCAPE 2010 - Escape the Golden Cage, Vienna (AT)
• 2010: Freiburg Green City, EXPO 2010, Shanghai (CN)
• 2010: Polo Jeans Co. Art Stars auction, Phillips de Pury, London (UK)
• 2011: New Art - formerly known as: New Art, Circleculture Gallery, Berlin
• 2011: The Urban Artist, Circleculture Gallery, Soho House Berlin
• 2011: The Urban Artist - Hamburg, Circleculture Gallery, Hamburg
• 2013: art Karlsruhe - Karlsruhe
• 2013: 1st Art Days Offenburg
• 2013: macht Heimat !, Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen
• 2014: All well and good, Herbert-Gerisch Foundation, Neumünster
• 2014: Knock! Knock !, Galeria Javier López, Madrid (ES)
• 2014: Neon - On the glow of art | Saarbrücken City Gallery 
• 2015: 20 years of art group, Salon Schmitz, Cologne
• 2016: Wertical 01, Michael Horbach Foundation, Cologne
• 2016: La Rosa by Aaron Rose, Los Angeles Project Space
• 2016: The Snoring Princess, Salon Schmitz, Cologne   
• 2017: Garden Show / Gallery Weekend Berlin, Galerie Johann König Berlin
• 2018: Ruttkowski; 68 / Grand Opening / Paris
• 2019: mixed pickles / Gallery Weekend Berlin / Ruttkowski; 68

Projects

• 2011: Maria, Hilfe der Christisten, design of the church interior / Church Interior Design, Goldscheuer
• 2013: Skywalkers, Art Karlsruhe 
• 2014: La Bohème stage design / La Bohème stage design, Stuttgart Opera
• 2015: Donation blood, DRK & Art Association Göppingen
• 2015: Monument to Charles III. Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach / Monument for Karl III. Wilhelm of Baden-Durlach, Karlsruhe Palace Garden
• 2016: Art in Architecture, Rothaus State Brewery
• 2016: Public Sculpture, Göppingen Oberhofen-Park
• 2016: Art in architecture, Offenburg University of Applied Sciences
• 2016: Art in architecture, Sparkasse Offenburg
• 2017: Sculpture Triennale, Bingen am Rhein
• 2017: Garden Show / Gallery Weekend Berlin, Johann König Galerie Berlin

Publications

• 2007: Rocking your Homeland, Modart Magazine, No. 15
• 2007: Squatting the white cube, Modart Magazine, No. 16
• 2010: The Clockmaker's Retreat , The New York Times, February 3, 2010
• 2010: My idea for Germany, Berlin Verlag ISBN 3-8270-1009-8 , September 2010
• 2011: "T" -Artwork , The New York Times Style Magazine, May 1, 2011
• 2012: Jacqueline Maltzahn-Redling: Welcome home! In: Stefan Strumbel: Holy Heimat. Info Verlag, Karlsruhe 2012, ISBN 978-3-88190-695-1 .
• 2014: Stefan Strumbel. Transformation of folk clichés, monograph, German / English, Distance Verlag, September 2014, ISBN 978-3-95476-087-9 .
• 2015: Stefan Strumbel, Ed. Städtische Galerie Offenburg, modo Verlag, Freiburg 2015.
• 2016: Stefan Strumbel, Ed. Kunstverein Göppingen, Verlag Kunsthalle, Göppingen 2016

Web links

Commons : Stefan Strumbel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Stefan Strumbel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Our founder , accessed on February 17, 2020
2. ↑ Birger Menke: Cuckoo clocks with hand grenades. Spiegel Online, March 5, 2009, accessed June 19, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Folklore with grenades: The cuckoo clock is back (paid item). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 7, 2010, accessed on June 19, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Birger Menke: A blessing, this sprayer. Spiegel Online, June 9, 2011, accessed June 19, 2017 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Ralf Burgmaier: Stefan Strumbel designs sets for the Stuttgart State Opera. Badische Zeitung, June 7, 2013, accessed on June 16, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Charlotte Theile : Holy Mary weeps on World AIDS Day about the condom policy of the church. The West, December 1, 2011, accessed June 19, 2017 . 
7. ↑ THANK GOD - CONDOMS PROTECT! // CASE , Deepblue Network
8. ↑ Ralf Burgmaier: Premiere for Stefan Strumbel: “Just hold the press”. Badische Zeitung, May 30, 2014, accessed on June 16, 2016 . 
9. ^ Ralf Burgmaier: Bronze sculpture by Stefan Strumbel unveiled. Badische Zeitung, June 17, 2015, accessed on June 18, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Strumbel unveils mega-pine cones made of steel in Rothaus. Badische Zeitung, June 16, 2016, accessed on June 17, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Stefan Strumbel: "Now comes the break". Badische Zeitung, July 24, 2015, accessed on June 17, 2016 . 
12. ^ Ralf Burgmaier: Bronze sculpture by Stefan Strumbel unveiled. Badische Zeitung, June 17, 2015, accessed on July 25, 2015 . 
13. ↑ iGNAN.TV special - Stefan Strumbel x Circleculture Gallery ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , vimeo 
14. ↑ Stefan Strumbel - "macht heimat" - Düsseldorf 2011 ( memento of the original from August 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. vimeo 
15. ↑ ^{a b} Holy Heimat: Badisches Landesmuseum honors artist Strumbel. Badische Zeitung, July 27, 2012, accessed on June 19, 2017 . 
16. ↑ LE SALON DU CERCLE DE LA CULTURE A BERLIN Circleculture Gallery, 2010
17. ↑ NEW ART - FORMERLY KNOWN AS: NEW ART NEW ART - FORMERLY KNOWN AS: NEW ART Circleculture Magazine, Johann, January 11, 2011
18. ↑ The Urban Artist | A homage to the street ( Memento of the original from August 25, 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. , StyleMag.Net 
19. ↑ The special edition by Stefan Strumbel ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2013 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. , art-karlsruhe.de 
20. ↑ makes home! an experimental artist and exhibition project ( memento of the original from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Draiflessen Collection