Stefan Sehler
Stefan Sehler is a painter. This simple statement, however, proves helpful when looking at his paintings, which at first glance are mostly received as large-format photographs or prints.
Sehler‘s work derives its relevance and its conceptual sharpness precisely from the apparent refusal of the medium-specific characteristics. In contrast to painting, photography has no surface, it is rather a virtual mirror.
It is precisely in the vivid approach of his often large-format reverse glass paintings to the technical medium that Sehler creates the space to reflect on the specific characteristics of painting. It is precisely the lack of haptics, ductus and surface that make them thematic. The choice of motifs, which at first glance seem to take up the innocuous genre of nature painting, also proves to be a seductive occasion to rethink terms such as ‚representational‘ and ‚abstract‘.
Selected Works
Exhibitions
Cloud ‒ Stefan Sehler
-Die Erinnerung an abstrakte Bilder, die noch nicht gemalt wurden ‒ Stefan Sehler
-Stefan Sehler
-Musée D'Art Contemporain, Nice ‒ Stefan Sehler
-New Paintings ‒ Stefan Sehler
-Curriculum Vitae (CV)
BIOGRAPHY
Born 1958 in Nürnberg
Lives and works in Berlin
EDUCATION
1979–86
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
'There. Parts', Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
2022
'Some Painting', Kunstverein Schwäbisch Hall e.V., Schwäbisch Hall
2019
'New Paintings', Handel Street Projects, London
2018
'Die Erinnerung an abstrakte Bilder, die noch nicht gemalt wurden', COSAR
2014
'N.P.', Handel Street Projects, London
2013
'N.P. (Moon)', Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf
2012
'Abstract Paintings', Galerie Sultana, Paris, France
Because it's There, Parker's Box, New York
2011
I Was There, KUTTNER SIEBERT Galerie, Berlin
2009
Stefan Sehler, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf
Musée d'Art moderne et d'Art contemporain de Nice, France
2008
Galerie Baumet Sultana, Paris
Neue Bilder, KUTTNER SIEBERT Galerie, Berlin
2007
New Paintings, Parker's Box, Brooklyn, USA
2006
Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf
Galerie Baumet Sultana, Paris, France
2005
kuttnersiebert Galerie, Berlin
Parker's Box, New York
2003
Triagle Residency Program’s Open Studio, New York
kuttnersiebert Galerie, Berlin
2002
Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf
Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz
2001
Parker's Box, New York
1999
Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf
1998
Parkhaus im Malkastenpark, Düsseldorf
1997
Short Cuts, Galerie 102, Düsseldorf
Wewerka-Pavillon, Münster
Echo (mit Gerard Williams), Pavillon der Volksbühne, Berlin
1996
Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, France
1995
Galerie 102, Düsseldorf Prima Kunst, Kiel
Galleria Alberto Weber, Turin
Galerie Steltzner und Rading, Essen
1993
Galerie 102, Düsseldorf
1992
Kunstraum Neckarstrasse, Düsseldorf
1991
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart Galerie Jablonka, Köln
1990
Gallery First Draft West, Sydney
1989
Galerie Johnen und Schöttle, Köln
1986
Galerie Traude Näke, Nürnberg
Ausstellungsraum Brückenstrasse, Düsseldorf
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
Studenten der Uecker Klasse, exADA, Düsseldorf
2015
Peter Lamb/Stefan Sehler, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf
Du sollst dir (k)ein Bild machen, Berliner Dom
2013
… and beyond painting, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf
2010
WNTRSLN, Parker's Box, Brooklyn, USA
Acquisations Recentes, Musée d’Art moderne et d’Art contemprain de Nice, France
Handel Street Projects, London
Waldbild, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg
2009
S.A.A.B.S.D.P.D.J.I.M.K.R.L.C.P.S.S.S.F.W.M.W., kuratiert von Sven Druehl,
Autocenter, Berlin und Philara Düsseldorf
Point of View, KUTTNER SIEBERT Galerie, Berlin
NotAbstract 1, Parker's Box, Brooklyn, USA
2008
Farmer's Market’, Handel Street Project, London
3rd Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Peking
Qui a peur de la couleur?, Frac Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen
Idylle. Traum und Trugschluss, Galerie der Stadt Remscheid
2007
Kunst treibt Blüten, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim
Idylle – Traum und Trugschluss, Domus Artium, Salamanca
2006
Idylle – Traum und Trugschluss’, Phoenix Kulturstiftung, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg
Tennewpaintings , Parker's Box, New York
2005
What doesn’t fit, The Nunnery, London
2004
Groupshow, Galerie Michael Cosar
Pacific Pearl 2, The Cross Art Project, Biennale of Sydney
Parallel Program, mit Maria Cruz, Sydney
2003
Groupshow, Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf
Parkers Box, New York
2002
One Fine Day, 34K, Berlin
2001
Entweder?Oder!, Allianz, Berlin
2000
Gebaute Horizonte, Neue Galerie Dachau,
Schloss Ringenberg, Schloss Agathenburg
Modular Loops, Parker´s Box, New York
1999
Paper, Gallery 132, Sydney
1998
3D, Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf
1997
What, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
Rencontres N°10-Ricochets, La Vigie, Nimes
Re.Painting, Galerie de la Friche Belle de May, Marseille
1996
Good News’ Galerie 102, Düsseldorf
En helvetes förvandling, Deutsche Kunst aus NRW, Kulturhuset Stockholm
1994
Ambach-Lepper-Sehler, Galleria Valeria Belvedere, Mailand
1992
Der Teppich des Lebens, Museum Haus Koekkoek, Kleve
Dialog, Galerie Budapest, Budapest