Stefanie Schneider

Stefanie Schneider

Berlin, Germany

About Stefanie Schneider

Stefanie Schneider lives and works in Los Angeles and Berlin. Stefanie Schneider's scintillating situations take place in the American West. Situated on the verge of an elusive super-reality, her photographic sequences provide the ambience for loosely woven story lines and a cast of phantasmic characters. Schneider works with the chemical mutations of expired polaroid film stock. Chemical explosions of color spreading across the surfaces undermine the photograph's commitment to reality and induce her characters into trance-like dreamscapes. Like flickering 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. She is currently working on the 29 PALMS, CA. 29 PALMS, CA is a feature film / art piece that explores and chronicles the dreams and fantasies of a group of individuals who live in a trailer community in the Californian desert. A defining feature of the film is the use of still images and the use of voice over. Characters talk to us / themselves / you about their ambitions, memories, hopes, fears and dreams. The film is to be shot using a mix of super 8 and 16mm film stock and Polaroid images. Certain computer-generated effects will also be used to enhance the films surreal mood and to animate its dark humor. Radha Mitchell, Marc Forster, Udo Kier, Max Sharam among others are participating in the project. Stefanie Schneider received her MFA in Communication Design at the Folkwang Schule Essen, Germany. Her work has been shown at the Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, the Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Museum für Moderne Kunst Passau, Les Rencontres d'Arles. www.twentyninepalms.ca or www.instantdreams.net

Education:

Stefanie Schneider received her MFA in Communication Design at the Folkwang Schule Essen, Germany.

Events:

Current:
Rosegallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica (G) (6/17 - 8/19/2017)

Upcoming:

2017
Blickfeld - analoge Fotografie, Kommunale Galerie Berlin-Zehlendorf (G) 5/10-12/31/2017
Kunstverein Bad Homburg Artlantis, Polaroid Groupshow
Photography and Media Art Biennale in Kyiv, Ukraine

Other:

2012 THE GIRL BEHIND THE WHITE FENCE (60min) Director / Artist - starring Heather Christie, Udo Kier, Steve Marshall, Kyle Larson, Jeff Leaf, Camille Waldorf, produced by MICA Film, co-produced by ARTE, supported by Medienboard Brandenburg

2012 HEATHER'S DREAM (15min.) Director / Artist - starring Heather Christie, Udo Kier, Camille Waldorf, produced by MICA Film, co-produced by ARTE, supported by Medienboard Brandenburg

Exhibitions:

2016-2011 (Sel.)
Instantdreams, Instantdreantdreams Gallery, Berlin (S)
Desert Voices, De Re Gallery, LA (G)
Stranger Than Paradise, Lumas Openings, Wiesbaden, Amsterdam, Brussels, Mannheim, Bielefeld, Dortmund, Hannover
Motion Photography, 6 Finalists, Saatchi Gallery London (G)
Images For Images (Artists fir Tichy), GASK - Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutná Hora, Czech Republic, (G)
The Girl..., Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (S)
Heather's Dream, Short, German Competition Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Road Atlas - Straßenfotografie, DZ Bank Collection: Kunsthalle Erfurt, Art Foyer DZ Bank, Frankfurt/Main, (G)
Polaroid (IM)POSSIBLE - THE WESTLICHT COLLECTION, NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf (G)
Road Atlas - Straßenfotografie, DZ Bank Collection: Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus, (G)
Studio Scholorship, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca
Selling Sex, ShowStudio Gallery, London (G)
Stranger Than Paradise, Scott White Contemporary, San Diego
New Works by Rollo Artists, ROLLO Contemporary, London, GB
Mirrror of broken Dreams, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover
California Dreaming, ROLLO Contemporary, London, GB (S)
THE WESTLICHT COLLECTION, Westlicht - Schauplatz für Fotografie, (G), (catalog)
"Renées Dream", Photo Filmfeest Dresden (G), (catalog)

2010-2005 (Sel.)
Stefanie Schneider, Galerie Walter Keller, Zurich (S)
Instant Dreams, Frank Picture Gallery, Santa Monica (S)
Women Only, Show Off, Paris with Galerie Hug, Paris, France (S)
Instant Dreams, 30 Works, Cologne (S)
Mapping Worlds: Welten verstehen – Aufbruch in die Gegenwart, 8. Internationale Foto -Triennale Esslingen
True Lies, Kunsthaus Essen, Essen, Germany (G)
29 Palms, CA, Moravian Gallery, (Museum of Applied Arts), Brno,
Czech Republic (S)
Sidewinder / 29 Palms, CA, c.art-Galerie, Dornbirn, Austria (S)
Love, Städt. Galerie im Palazzo Ducale, Pavullo, Italy (G)
29 Palms, CA, International Filmfestival Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Sidewinder, Galerie Thierry Librati, Paris, France (S)
Les Rencontres d'Arles - Photo Festival South of France, curated by Christian Lacroix (G), nominated for the Discovery Award
Sidewinder, Städtische Galerie am Mozartplatz, Salzburg
Wastelands, Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Germany (S)
Infinite Polar Bear Party, Galerie Amber Abbas, Vienna
Sidewinder, Scalo | Guye, Los Angeles, USA (S)
Artists for Tichy - Tichy for Artists, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Passau, Germany, The East Bohemian Gallery in Pardubice, Czech Republic (G)
Out of the Camera: Analoge Fotografie im digitalen Zeitalter, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (G)
Artists for Tichy - Tichy for Artists, Moravská Galerie, Brno, Czech Republic,Salon Lessing, Zürich, Switzerland, (G) (catalog)
Stefanie Schneider, c.art-Galerie, Bregenz, Austria (S)
Stranger Than Paradise, Galerie Drees, Hannover, Germany (S)
Wastelands, Städtische Galerie, Waldkraiburg, Germany (S)
Wastelands, Zephyr, Mannheim, Germany (S) (catalog)
Land in Translation, Riverside Museum, Riverside,CA, USA (G)
Zaunwelten, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, Germany (G) Polaroid als Geste, Museum for Photography, Braunschweig
A Warlike People: Victims or Perpetrators?, Monorchid Gallery, Phoenix

1998-2004 (Sel.)
Stefanie Schneider, Colectivo Fotográfico UFCA, Algecira, Spain (S)
Stefanie Schneider, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany (S)
OilFields, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, LA, USA (S)
DreamGirl, Marvelli Gallery, NY, USA (S)
Realities and Histoires d´amour, Kunstverein Ulm (G)
Stefanie Schneider, Galerie Michael Zink, München (S)
Projekte mit Fotografie - Kunststiftung Poll, Berlin (G)
Night On Earth, Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Münster
LISTE 01, Basel, Switzerland, with Susanne Vielmetter, LA Projects
Rough Cuts, Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects, Los Angeles (S)
Stefanie Schneider, Kunststiftung Poll, Berlin, Germany (S)
Instant Dreams, Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects, LA, USA (S)         
Film und Fotografie im Dialog, Museum Wiesbaden
Californian Consolidation, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany (S)