Karen Stuke

lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Karen Stukes photographs leave space for a lot of associations. First of all there is the light. Light allows us to perceive scenarios that take place in the dark. Photographs are light pictures. Light is the essence of photography, its actual medium. But for Stuke light is more than just a medium, it is the subject of photography as well. Then her photos are defined by space. They engage with spaces and are created within them. A third factor that characterises her pictures is the movement. This appears fleetingly, and is not registered in the single decisive moment of a photographic shot, but holistically and with temporal duration.Hours go by while the camera obscura gradually collects and saves the images of darkness. Only towards morning will its intimate view be terminated, as day breaks. What remains are slow, peaceful pictures on the border between closeness and distance, between day and dream.

(Gottfried Jäger from the book: The Trilogy of time, or: I dont mind waiting!)

University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld, Germany

Academie Minerva, Groningen,
The Netherlands

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2019

»Wandelhalle – after Sebald’s Austerlitz« Kommunale Galerie Berlin
»Hotel Bogota – last check in!« Galleria PrimoPiano, Napoli, Italy
»Acqua Alta« heubleinphilippson, Potsdam, Germany


2016
»Puschkin«, Commissioned work and permanent exhibition at a villa in Potsdam, Germany

2014
»Opera obscura di Napoli« Teatro Kismet Opera Bari, Italy
organized by Museo Nuova Era and PrimoPiano Napoli

2013
Stuke after Sebald’s Austerlitz, The Wapping Project, London

2012
“Meistersinger & Co.”, Kronenboden, Berlin, Germany

2011
“Opera Obscura di Napoli”, PAN, Naples, Italy
“Opera Obscura”, Galleria PrinoPiano, Naples

2010
"Opera Obscura"
Society for Musictheater, Vienna, Austria

2009
"City Lights"
Elipsis Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

2007
"Die Trilogie der schönen Zeit, oder: Warten macht mir nichts aus!"
Beaugrand Kulturkonzepte, Bielefeld, Germany

2006
"Auf dem grünen Hügel"
Galerie Magenta, Berlin, Germany

"Opera Obscura"
Monochrom, Berlin, Germany

2005
"4 Rooms"
St. James Cavalier, Valletta, Malta

"BühnenBilder"
Space Untitled, Berlin, Germany

2003
"Schlafbilder"
Space Untitled, Berlin, Germany

2000
"Ten Rooms"
Manoel Theater, Vallet...