Stefan Zephyr Teske

STEFAN ZÉPHYR TESKE

Stefan Teske lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, graduating as a Meisterschüler. Placements with Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood in London shaped his early practice. Today he works as a draughtsman, designer, sculptor and lecturer. His interdisciplinary work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany and abroad.

Artist Statement

The body is my central subject: as a sensual event, an erotic narrative, an intimate moment.
Years of working with fashion, construction and pattern cutting have shown me how strongly people are defined by systems and conventions: the body by measurements and norms, life by templates that are rarely questioned. Drawing is my counterpoint, a space where only the gaze, the naked body, the posture and a single moment matter.

I am an observer of people. On the subway, in the street, in cafés, I watch. Drawing gives me something precious: a legitimate reason to look longer. Deeper. More closely. In the studio, in front of a live model, I am allowed to see what otherwise remains hidden: how a body occupies space. Vulnerability. Dignity. Eroticism. Liberation. In doing so, I move between two poles: voyeur and exhibition...

2014 graduadet from university of art „weißensee kunsthochschule berlin“.
Studied in the interdiciplinary postgraduate class of textile- and surface design.
Completed the diploma degree in the traditional Bauhaus way as „Meisterschüler“.

2014 Textile and Surface Design/Visual Art, Meisterschüler (interdiciplinary)

2009-2013 Textile and Surface Design / Visual Art, Diploma (interdiciplinary)

2007-2009 Informatics

2005/2006 Artistic exchanges, workshop studio visits of designers and artists in London and Paris

2003-2007 Industrial Design (Fashion), Diploma

Exhibitions & Competitions

2026 Represented by Gallery Newman Berlin
2022 Berlin
2019 Berlin
2013-2017 intermission for traveling around the world
2013/2014 Berlin
2012 Vienna
2011 Vienna
2011 Berlin
2011 Düsseldorf
2010 Berlin
2009 Salzburg
2008 Salzburg
2008 Apolda
2007 Berlin
2006 Cologne
2004 Trier