Stefanie Hofer
My prints show insights into landscape gardens whose creators - artists, poets and architects - come from different cultural contexts. The garden functions here as an interface between nature and culture, between free and applied art, and in a historical sense also as a boundary between this world and the hereafter. It is both a place of reflection and a statement on current events.
I combine materials collected on my travels, sketches, research and sometimes documentary material from archives into a new, idealised pictorial space. Intaglio printing offers me the opportunity to transfer the detailed preparatory drawing to the printing plate and then to rework it using the free, painterly process of the aquatint technique.
The black and white visual language and the play of light and shadow direct the viewer's gaze to the most crucial aspect: the garden is not only experienced as an architectural space, with its statements and references it becomes a setting and - similar to a stage set or a theatre play - a mirror for man in his being and actions.
The garden becomes an open space for interactions and interventions in the visual arts, architecture, theatre, philosophy and language. It combines poetics, aesthetics and play with functionality and everyday reality.
My artistic work resembles a quest for and collection of these successful moments; it is an approach to this great theme, a reminder of the former state of this art and is intended to point to the potential of these gardens to serve as a source of inspiration and ideas for the design of an urban and landscape space.ARTWORKS
Fragment, 2021
Aquatint on handmade paper
87.0 x 68.0 cm
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Portikus, 2021
Aquatint on handmade paper
69.0 x 88.0 cm
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Hehlentorfriedhof, 2019
Aquatint on handmade paper
48.0 x 58.0 cm
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Spatiality II, 2020
Aquatint on handmade paper
40.0 x 50.0 cm
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Jupiter III, 2019
Aquatint on Handmade Paper
25.0 x 31.0 cm
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Il Riposo, 2018
Aquatinta auf Bütten
100 x 140 cm
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Westpark (Study), 2020
Aquatint on handmade paper
34.0 x 28.0 cm
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Nymphenburg II, 2020
Aquatint on handmade paper
25.0 x 31.0 cm
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Materiality, 2021
Aquatint on handmade paper
40.0 x 50.0 cm
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Hear Lorrain II, 2019
Aquatint on handmade paper
25.0 x 31.0 cm
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Jupiter II, 2019
Aquatint on handmade paper
25.0 x 31.0 cm
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Snail Mound, 2018
Aquatinta auf Bütten
100 x 140 cm
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Westpark II, 2020
Aquatint on handmade paper
40.0 x 50.0 cm
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Westpark, 2020
Aquatint on handmade paper
48.0 x 58.0 cm
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Aqueduct, 2019
Aquatint, Vernis mou on handmade paper
25.0 x 31.0 cm
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Roß'sche Villa, 2019
Aquatint on handmade paper
59.0 x 47.0 cm
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Spatiality, 2021
Aquatint on handmade paper
69.0 x 88.0 cm
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Nymphenburg, 2019
Aquatint on handmade paper
25.0 x 31.0 cm
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Snail Mound III, 2020
Aquatint on handmade paper
25.0 x 31.0 cm
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Snail Mound II, 2019
Aquatint on handmade paper
25.0 x 31.0 cm
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EXHIBITIONS
2021 in Retrospect
Group Show
02 December 2021 - 08 January 2022
Stefanie Hofer
Fragmente
24 June - 31 July, 2021
Paper Matters
Group Show
21. July - 1. August 2020
Stefanie Hofer
Zwischen den Künsten und der Natur
05 December 2018 - 02 February 2019
Summer Exhibition
Group Show
7th July - 8th September 2018
BIOGRAPHY
Education
Born 1974 Munich, Germany
Education
2015 Diploma with honors, master student, painting and graphic studies with Prof. Karin Kneffel, Academy of Fine Arts Munich
2009 State Examination in Art Education, sculpture studies with Prof. Albert Hien, painting and graphic studies with Prof. Gerhard Merz, Academy of Fine Arts Munich
1998 Graduation, Vocational College for Sculpture, Munich
Awards and Grants
2022 Zeit zu drucken 3, Artist in Residence program in the Museum für Druckkunst supportet by Giesecke+Devrient Foundation, Leipzig
2022 Grant, Stipendium Neustart Kultur, Kunstfonds Foundation 2022 Cultural promotion, LfA Förderbank Bayern
2020 Art award, Joseph und Anna Fassbender-Preis, City of Brühl 2020 Studio grant, City of Munich
2018 Art award, City of Wertingen
2017 Studio grant, City of Munich
2016 Project grant, Erwin und Gisela von Steiner Foundation 2015 Project grant, GOLART Foundation
2015 Grant for fine arts, City of Munich
2015 Graduate prize, Erwin und Gisela von Steiner Foundation 2013 Graphic art award, Leipzig Book Fair
2011 Working grant, Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium
2010/11 Grant, University and Science Program of the Free State of Bavaria
Exhibitions
2023 Zeit zu drucken 3 / Museum für Druckkunst, Leipzig
2022 Ausstellung zum Kahnweilerpreis / Museum für Kunst, Rockenhausen
2022 You can have both silence and action / Galerie Sebastianskapelle Ulm (S)
2022 As If / Kunstverein Eislingen
2021 Scene or Scenery? / Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel (S)
2021 Cling Together Swing Together / Galerie Noah, Augsburg
2021 Fragmente / Galerie Boutwell Schabrowsky, München (S)
2021 Die ersten Jahre der Professionalität #40 / Galerie der Künstler, München
2021 Auf der Schwelle, Städtische Galerie im Kulturforum Klosterkirche, Traunstein (S)
2020 StrichCode / Lyonel-Feininger-Galerie – Museum für grafische Künste Quedlinburg
2020 Gebautes Land / Kronacher Kunstverein, Kronach (S)
2020 Paper Matters / Galerie Susan Boutwell, München
2019 Schwarz-weiße Sachverhalte kann es in der Welt nicht geben / Kunstverein Celle (S)
2019 Münchner Meisterklasse / Kunstforum Münchner Bank, München
2019 KollerNow / Koller Auktionen, München
2019 In a Silent Way / Villa Böhm, Kunstverein Neustadt, Neustadt an der Weinstraße
2018 Zwischen den Künsten und der Natur / Galerie Susan Boutwell, München (S)
2018 Druckfrisch / Neue Galerie Landshut
2017 Who’s Afraid of Black and White / Kunstverein Erlangen (S)
2017 The Proof is in the Pudding / Galerie Noah, Augsburg
2017 11e Biennale de Gravure de Liège / Musée La Boverie, Liège
2016 Ausstellung zum Perron-Kunstpreis / Kunsthaus Frankenthal
2016 Thema und Variationen / Verein für Originalradierung München
2015 Ausstellung zum Preis der Darmstädter Sezession für junge Kunst / TU Darmstadt