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Stefanie Schneider
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- Stranger than Paradise
- 29 Palms CA
- Artist's book
- Heavenly Falls
- Minis
- The Girl behind the White Picket Fence
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29 Palms, CA
A trailer park in the Southern California desert. Shimmering sunlight, brightly coloured wigs, and striking props. The very sight of “The Muse” or “A Vision you can’t capture” brings entire movies to mind. It is not just the appearance of the photographs that links them to the screen, however; Stefanie Schneider financed a short film through the sale of her “29 Palms, CA” Polaroids, and she integrated the images into the film as stills.
The photographs are Schneider’s ode to the American dream: poetic scenes that float between hope, longing, and resignation. The appeal of the images has even drawn in the support of German actor Udo Kier. Schneider explains: “Udo Kier and I knew each other from an earlier project. When we reconnected at a film festival, he was immediately taken by ‘29 Palms’. He was full of ideas. Generally, our shoots are very open. Something unexpected always happens, and this fits perfectly with the concept.”
Long Way Home
Stefanie Schneider creates a seductive utopia. In the glare of the Southern California desert, the artist stages encounters with unlikely characters, telling stories of forgotten dreams with urgency, passion, and cinematic drama.
Her works follow a mysterious narrative, yet cling repeatedly to the same themes: love, longing, and ambivalence towards the American dream. Schneider masterfully presents her surreal sequences using soft contours and an implausible colour scheme. She puts us under her spell, pulling us to a place somewhere between fantasy and delirium.
Stranger than Paradise
Stefanie Schneider creates thrilling tension in her images, telling the story of a never-ending road movie and of unlimited freedom, whether it is through a single work such as “Palm Tree Restaurant”, or through a triptych such as “Gasoline”. The individual shots do not follow a set timeline – they can be interpreted in any order. Each image distils the emotions of the moment, offering a new facet, a new nuance, to the narrative.
Schneider presents palm trees in eccentric colours and arranges her subjects beneath a blue sky or before a seemingly endless expanse. The vertical colour gradients are another fascinating part of these works.
The Girl behind the White Picket Fence
Stefanie Schneider recently worked with the well-known director, Mark Foster, on the film “The Girl behind the White Picket Fence”. For this project, the photographer combined over 4,000 Polaroids with scenes shot on Super-8. Together with the LUMAS Editions Gallery, Schneider combed through her archives to create a series of the same name and present these new, atmospheric works.
As is common in Schneider’s work, quirky characters appear in the Southern California wilderness. Complete with detailed, eye-catching costumes, the models strike poses for Schneider’s Polaroid camera. The internationally recognized artist has explained her choice of setting in an interview: “What I really love about the desert is the desolation, the sense of hope for something that might or might not come. It’s easy to see our dreams projected in the desert.”
Multi-Picture
The triptych “Primary Colors” demonstrates the close relationship the artist has to her chosen home, America. The US flag is an easy to read symbol encompassing the history and self-image of an entire nation. Viewers instantly create their own associations, possibly thinking of the painted flags by Jasper Johns, one of the Pop Art trailblazers on the 1950s. Stefanie Schneider, however, captures her version of the American flag in Polaroid photographs with bright, almost surreal color. In this way, the piece may be reminiscent of the fabled American Dream, but its faded streaks of color pose questions. As in her other series, Schneider takes on the dreams, hopes, and unrealities of American culture.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
In 2006 she may have been known as a shooting star, but today Schneider is without doubt a well-established name in the international art scene. After completing a degree in photography at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, she moved to Los Angeles. Since then, Schneider has shot her dream-like Polaroids just a few hours’ drive from her hometown. For “29 Palms”, that meant a shimmering oasis in Joshua Tree National Park.
“I am a perfectionist, but I am perfecting chance.”
TECHNIQUE
Staged dreams, presented in Polaroid
In 1996, Stefanie Schneider bought three boxes of old Polaroid film on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Since then, her works have been easy to recognise, not only because of the typical, square format of a Polaroid, but also due to their surreal colours. This “look” of a Schneider work remains impossible to define, because the behaviour of the chemicals during development is so unpredictable. And yet, while the works retain an element of spontaneity, the content and composition of these fantastical images is anything but random: Schneider plans the costumes and settings down to the finest detail.
Stefanie Schneider defies common conventions when creating her works. Rather than handling the exposed Polaroids with white gloves, she throws them into the sand, changing their surfaces. Finally, she takes analogue photographs of the Polaroids in her lab.
1968 | Born in Cuxhaven, Germany |
1991-1996 | Studied Photography at Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen, Germany |
Lives and works in Los Angeles and Berlin |
Коллекции (избранное)
DZ Bank, Frankfurt, Germany | |
Dreyfuss, Basel, Switzerland | |
Schmidt Bank, Regensburg, Germany | |
Holtzbrinck Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany | |
The Sander Collection, Berlin, Germany | |
Ocean Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland | |
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Germany | |
Impossible Collection, Vienna, Austria | |
Collection Luc LaRochelle, Montreal, Canada | |
The Canton of Zug Art Collection, Switzerland |
Персональные выставки (избранное)
Групповые выставки (избранное)
2014 | Instantdreams, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles, USA |
Stefanie Schneider, c.art-Galerie Bregenz, Austria | |
2013 | The girl behind the white picket fence, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France |
2012 | Stranger than Paradise, Christian Hohmann Fine Art, Palm Desert, USA |
Stefanie Schneider, Gallery at Cliff Lede Vineyards, Napa Valley, USA | |
2011 | California Dreaming, ROLLO Contemporary, London, UK |
2010 | Stefanie Schneider, Galerie Walter Keller, Zurich, Switzerland |
Instant Dreams, Frank Picture Gallery, Santa Monica, USA | |
2009 | 29 Palms, CA, Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic |
2008 | Sidewinder, Städtische Galerie am Mozartplatz, Salzburg, Austria |
2006 | Wastelands, Zephyr/Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Germany |
2007 | Wastelands, Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Germany |
2005 | Last Picture Show, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, Germany |
2004 | Suburbia, Galerie Kuttner Siebert, Berlin, Germany |
Stefanie Schneider, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany |
Групповые выставки (избранное)
2014 | Nude, Pop-up Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
2013 | Images for Images, GASK – Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutná Hora, Czech Republic |
The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, USA | |
Road Atlas - Straßenfotografie, DZ Bank Collection, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany | |
2012 | Polaroid (Im)Possible – The Westlicht Collection, NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany |
2010 | Mapping Worlds: Welten verstehen – Aufbruch in die Gegenwart, 8. Internationale Foto-Triennale, Esslingen, Germany |
2009 | True Lies, Kunsthaus Essen, Germany |
2008 | Les Rencontres d'Arles - Photo Festival South of France, curated by Christian Lacroix, nominated for the Discovery Award |
2007 | Breaking the Waves, ArtHaus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA |
2006 | Artists for Tichy - Tichy for Artists, Museum Moderner Kunst, Passau, Germany |
Out of the Camera: Analoge Fotografie im digitalen Zeitalter, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Germany | |
Land in Translation, Riverside Museum, Riverside, USA | |
2005 | Zaunwelten, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, Germany |
Polaroid als Geste, Museum für Photografie, Brunswick, Germany | |
2002 | Realities and Histoires d´amour, Kunstverein Ulm, Germany |
2001 | Night on Earth, Kunsthalle Münster, Germany |
Книги/Каталоги (избранное)
29 Palms, CA. Stefanie Schneider, Berlin, 2007. | |
Stranger than Paradise. Stefanie Schneider, Ostfildern, 2006. | |
Wastelands. James Scarborough (pub.), Berlin, 2006. | |
Night on Earth. Ralf Christofori (pub.), Cologne, 2001. | |
Sehnsucht nach Utopie – Film und Fotografie im Dialog. Andreas Greulich et al., Heidelberg, 2000. |
Дополнительная информация
FILMS | |
2013 | Director, “The Girl behind the White Picket Fence”. Film starring Udo Kier, Heather Megan Christie, Steve Marshall, Kyle Larson, Jeff Leaf Camille Waldorf, produced by MICA Film, co-produced by ARTE, with support from Medienboard Brandenburg |
2012 | Director, “Heather’s Dream”. Short film starring Udo Kier, Heather Megan Christie, Camille Waldorf, produced by MICA Film, co-produced by ARTE, with support from Medienboard Brandenburg |
2012 | Director, “29 Palms, CA”. A film about Polaroids in cooperation with Radha Mitchell, Max Sharam, Udo Kier, Bob Mack, JD Rudometkin, Marc Forster, Reneé Chabria, Austen Tate, Camille Waldorf, Scott Z Burns |
2009 | Director, “Till Death Do Us Apart”. Short film starring Daisy McCrackin, Austen Tate, produced by MICA Film, co-produziert by ARTE, with support from Medienboard Brandenburg |
2005 | Senior Visual Artist, “Stay”. Directed by Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland), starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts (photographs used for memory sequences, credits, etc, and all art by Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling provided by Stefanie Schneider) |
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