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Stefanie Gerstmayr finished her MFA in Fine Art in 2018 at Goldsmiths University London. Stefanie's work has been included in exhibitions at Kunstverein Kärnten in Klagenfurt, Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn as well as APT Gallery in London. 2022 she was awarded with the US travelling scholarship by the state of Bavaria.

In her practice Gerstmayr explores the boundaries and transitions between drawing, sculpture and the moving image. She is interested in questions of perception, thinking bodies and feeling spirits/minds/ghosts. Wobbly lines, organic formal elements and abstracted image fragments oscillate between two- and three-dimensionality; they hold the space for ambiguity and spin new, non-linear narratives about the lives of physical beings in an increasingly virtual world.

BIOGRAPHY

2022/08 Visiting artist at Mothership, New York City, USA
2016-2018 MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London (graduated with distinction)
2008-2015 Studies of photography at Academy of Fine Arts Munich (diploma as master student)

EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS (SELECTION)

2024 "Von Symbionten und Monaden", Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt (trio)
2023 "Children of the City", Studio 52, Munich (solo)
2023 "Drawing Machine", Quartiersatelier Dulsberg, Hamburg (trio)
2023 "TRIANGLE", Studio 52, Munich
2023 "Offene Ateliers Ludlstraße", Munich
2022 "feat.", Edicola 51, Turin
2022 "Artist Salon", Mothership, NYC
2022 "Konglomerate und andere Disaster", KVD Galerie, Dachau (trio)
2022 "INTER_NARRATIVE SCAPES", Online Project
2021 "Atelier 19", Platform, Munich
2020 "Chronos und Kairos", Kunstbüro reillplast, Munich (duo)
2020 "SAFE PLAY (This new distance)", Platform, Munich
2019 "Komplizen", Platform, Munich
2018 "syntax error", Lewisham Arthouse, London (co-curator & artist)
2018 "Phantom Limb", Corsica Studios, London
2018 "Degree Show", Goldsmiths University of London, London
2018 "Beyond the Standard Model", Almanac, London
2018 "Die ersten Jahre der Professionalität 37", Galerie der Künstler, Munich
2017 "9 Ways To Tell Yourself Everything Will Be Fine", APT Gallery, London
2017 "Tacker", Galerie der Künstler, Munich
2017 "NoFuture", Out of the Brew, London
2016 "Tacker", Galerie der Künstler, Munich
2015 "Diploma Exhibition", Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
2013 "Atlas 2013", Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
2012 "Eye Eye", Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich
2011 "7 Stars for Bad Reichenhall", urban area of Bad Reichenhall

SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS

2023 Studio grant programm, the municipality of Munich
2022 US scholarship, the State of Bavaria
2021 Project grant "Junge Kunst und junge Wege", the State of Bavaria
2020 Studio grant programm, the municipality of Munich
2016 Project grant, Erwin und Gisela von Steiner Foundation
2011 Fanny-Carlita Foundation