Stephanie Iffert
Deutschland
www.Stephanie-Iffert.com
Kunstart: Skulptur
Technik: Materialmix
Stil: Gegenständlich
Statement:
Where the surface splits open the diversity and richness of life emerges.
I work in two and three dimensional ways. I paint canvases, I build objects and I do sculptures. I apply material to the surface of the canvas as I paint my sculptures and objects. I stretch the limits and break the borders between painting and sculpture. I work with the figure and in abstract ways. My sculptures are often isolated fragments of the figure.
I work with different kinds of materials like plaster, ashes, sand and paint. However, I almost always use soil for my work of arts. I started using this material early at college and I have been working with it ever since. I am constantly trying to find new ways in using this material, pushing it to the limit.
Sometimes the soil fills out the silhouette from the figures on the canvas. Sometimes it builds up the underlying structure of a painting and sometimes it encases the surface of the object, sometimes I use it as a detail. In my most recent works the object is only build up with soil.
Soil itself has many different connotations. In removing it from its natural surrounding and giving it a new form it gains new meanings. I am very interested in the cracks of the surface. They occur during the drying process. The surface ends up being rough and uneven, the material itself is dark and rich. It stands for the imperfection, the vulnerability and the richness of life.
Vita / Lebenslauf:
1970
in Berlin
1999-2005
Auslandsaufenthalt in den USA
2002-2005
Studium der Bildenden Künste am Ramapo College, NJ, USA
2005
Abschluss BA „visual arts“ mit summa cum laude bei Prof. Jay Wholley,
Graduation from the College Honors Program with distinction
2005
Rückkehr nach Berlin und Beginn freiberuflicher
Tätigkeit als freischaffende Künstlerin
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
Stipendien und Awards
2004
Fred and Florence Thomases Scholarship,
Frank E. and Lillian A. Mutter
Scholarship, Visual Arts Award
2003
Fred and Florence Thomases Scholarship,
Shows selected
Solo:
2103
Galerie Kunst Krämer, Berlin
WilhelmGalerie, touched, Potsdam
Studienkreis; apology, Berlin
2012
Heilandskirche, Fragmente, Berlin
Martin-Luther-Kirche, Paradies: Endstation oder Neubeginn, Berlin
2009
Bildungsstätte IG Metall, Maskerade, Berlin
2005
Senior Art Prize, Library, RCNJ, New Jersey, USA
Group:
2012
Elledorado, art charity, Galerie Kunst Krämer
2011
Galerie Kunst Krämer, Mann, Stadt, Frau, Berlin
Kunsthalle Hamburger Platz, Leistungsschau, Berlin
2009
Campus Naturalis, Berliner Farbenherbst, Berlin
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