Stefanie Unruh

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Stefanie Unruh (born April 9, 1959 in Hamburg ) is a German artist .

Life

Stefanie Unruh studied art history from 1983 to 1985 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich a . a. with Uwe M. Schneede , from 1985 to 1990 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Horst Sauerbruch and from 1990 to 1991 as a DAAD scholarship holder at the School of Visual Arts in New York with Jacqueline Winsor , Izhar Patkin , Gary Stephan and Lucio Pozzi . She lives and works in Munich. 2000–2005 she was a member of the Quivid municipal art commission for art in architecture and art in public spaces in the building department of the city of Munich.

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haunted, 2010/2011, video, still image
Lines, 2010, drawing

Stefanie Unruh works in the field of drawing, drawn video, object, installation and photography. She deals with traces and memories of places, with everyday actions and situations. She often alienates everyday reality and creates surreal situations. The preoccupation with specific myths of everyday life is based on one's own life situation, personal memories and insights, that is, on your self-image in a society that is influenced by media phenomena. "In large, thematically related work complexes, Stefanie Unruh deals with a classic question of artistic existence, ie its position within its respective history."

She often develops long-term, project-related work, such as artistic remembrance work on the memorials of former concentration camps or the conversion of language into symbols based on Wittgenstein's texts. In recent years video works have been created, such as "haunted" based on the ghost photographs by Albert von Schrenck-Notzing or the video image "Kugelblitz". Larger works such as the temporary lamp installation “Home Lights” in Munich or the multi-layered photo work “Picture Collection” in Nuremberg were created in public spaces.

Awards and grants

Solo and group exhibitions (selection)

Works in public space

  • 2016 home lighting , temporary installation, Munich, Ratzingerplatz, cultural department of the state capital Munich
  • 2015 picture collection , permanent installation in the regional church archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, Nuremberg
  • 2014 bird lamp , permanent sculpture in the Herterichstrasse daycare center, Munich-Solln
  • 1998 Butterflies , permanent sculpture in the cooperation facility - Lucia-Popp-Bogen, Munich
  • 1993 Brother in exile, model Hofgarten , temporary installation, Marienhof , Munich

literature

  • Stefanie Unruh , exhib.-cat. Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, 1993, with texts by Sabine Dylla, Helmuth Kronthaler, Carla Schulz-Hoffmann
  • Dorothea von Stetten Art Prize , exhibition cat. Kunstmuseum Bonn, 1994, with a text by Carla Schulz-Hoffmann
  • Detlef Hoffmann : From life in history - before and after her death , in: The memory of art. History and memory in contemporary art, Frankfurt am Main 2000, pp. 48–49 ISBN 3-7757-0996-7
  • Happiness sought , in: epart, the art magazine of the European Patent Office, 2002, with texts by Birgit Sonna, Bernhart Schwenk and an interview between Michel Houellebecq , Birgit Sonna and Stefanie Unruh
  • German video installation art 2002–2004 , exhib.cat. Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl, 2004, with text by Stefanie Unruh. ISBN 3-924790-69-8
  • GOOD + BÖSE, politics, art, society. , Exhibition cat. Municipal Gallery Lüdenscheid, 2006,
  • ART | FABRIC. , Exhibition cat. TIM; Textile and Industry Museum, Augsburg, 2015, with text by Karl Borromäus Murr. ISBN 978-3-7774-2457-6
  • Stefanie Unruh, picture collection. , The regional church archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, Munich 2016, with texts by Helmut Braun, Andrea Schwarz. ISBN 978-3-00-053200-9
  • Helmut Braun: Spatia Historiae - spaces of history. in: Kirche Kunst, Heft 2, Nürnberg 2016. ISSN 0932-6502

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carla Schulz-Hoffmann: Stefanie Unruh, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, 1993; Nordhorn, p. 8
  2. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung : Colors and Stories
  3. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung : Home lights of the wasteland
  4. ^ Exhibition page on muenchen.de
personal data
SURNAME Unruh, Stefanie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg