Stefanie Schneider

Stefanie Schneider lives and works in the High Desert of California.

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 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 dream-scapes. 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, me...

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

Nominated for the Discovery Award (Les Rencontres d'Arles)
Nominated for the German editing Award (Deutscher Kamerapreis)

Publications Monographs:
INSTANTDREAMS, Avenso, Berlin, 2014

29 PALMS, CA, Pocket Polaroid Series #004, published by SCHWARZERFREITAG, Berlin, 2007

WASTELANDS published by edition braus, Wachter Verlag, Heidelberg, 2006

STRANGER THAN PARADISE published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2006

29 PALMS, CA published by Galerie Kaempf, Basel, 2004

2018-2017 (Sel.)
The Other Art Fair, October 25-28, Santa Monica
Participation & curating Bombay Beach Biennale, Bombay Beach, USA (G)
Blickfeld - analoge Fotografie, Kommunale Galerie Berlin-Zehlendorf (G) 10/5 -12/31/2017
Schwartzsche Villa: Screening: THE GIRL BEHIND THE WHITE PICKET FENCE (2013, 61 Min. / OV engl.)
Kunstverein Bad Homburg Artlantis, Polaroid Groupshow
Photography and Media Art Biennale in Kyiv, Ukraine
Rosegallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica (G)

2016-2011 (Sel.)
Instantdreams, Instantdreantdreams Gallery, Berlin (S)
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 (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 Dieselk...