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Stefanie Schneider (1968) is a German photographer living in Berlin and Los Angeles. Schneider's photographs exhibit the appearance of expired Polaroid instant film, with its chemical mutations. It has been released in books and exhibition catalogs, and in her own feature film 29 Palms, CA (2014). Her work has also been used as the cover art for music by Red Hot Chili Peppers and Cyndi Lauper, and in the film Stay (2005).

Schneider's preferred choice of location is the American West (especially Twentynine Palms, California, which served as location and title to one of her books), and the mounting of sequential images in a panel, the photographs evoke the impression of faded dreamy film stills. She holds an MFA in photography from the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany.

Schneider completed 29 Palms, CA in 2014. A feature film, art piece that explores the dreams and fantasies of a group of people who live in a trailer community in the Californian desert. The project includes six films: "Hitchhiker", "Rene's dream", "Sidewinder", "Till death do us part", "Heather's dream" and the feature film "The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence". A defining feature is the use of still Polaroid images in succession and voice over. Characters talk to themselves about their ambitions, memories, hopes and dreams. The latest of these short film is "Heather's dream", starring Heather Megan Christie and Udo Kier, and was selected in May 2013 by the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and is also nominated for the 2013 German short film award.

In a review of her book Stranger Than Paradise, Daniel Kothenschulte writes in the German magazine Literaturen that:

Stefanie Schneider is an internationally known artist that takes analog photographs and makes experimental movies with them. Schneider has cribed some of the titles of the series of her enlarged Polaroids from her favorite movies: Red Desert, Zabriskie Point or The Last Picture Show. Even if most images remain connected to the genre of road movies—in one case one seems to get a glimpse of Ridley Scott's tragic runaways Thelma and Louise.

Collections

DZ Bank, Francfort, Allemagne

Dreyfuss, Bâle, Suisse

Schmidt Bank, Ratisbonne, Allemagne

Groupe d'édition Holtzbrinck, Stuttgart, Allemagne

Collection Sander, Berlin, Allemagne

Ocean Foundation, Zurich, Suisse

Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Allemagne

Impossible Collection, Vienne, Autriche

Collection Luc LaRochelle, Montréal, Canada

Collection d'art du canton de Zug, Suisse

Expositions

Expositions individuelles

2014 Motion Photography – 6 Finalists, Saatchi Gallery, Londres, GB

2014 Instantdreams, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2014 Stefanie Schneider, c.art-Galerie Bregenz, Autriche

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

2012 Stefanie Schneider, Gallery at Cliff Lede Vineyards, Napa Valley, USA

2011 California Dreaming, ROLLO Contemporary, Londres, GB

2010 Stefanie Schneider, Galerie Walter Keller, Zurich, Suisse

2010 Instant Dreams, Frank Picture Gallery, Santa Monica, USA

2009 29 Palms, CA, Moravian Gallery, Brno, République tchèque

2008 Sidewinder, Städtische Galerie am Mozartplatz, Salzbourg, Autriche

2007 Wastelands, Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Allemagne

2006 Wastelands, Zephyr / Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Allemagne

2005 Last Picture Show, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, Allemagne

2004 Suburbia, Galerie Kuttner Siebert, Berlin, Allemagne

2004 Stefanie Schneider, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Allemagne

Expositions collectives

2014 Nude, Pop-up Art Gallery Berlin, Allemagne

2013 Images for Images, GASK – Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutná Hora, République tchèque

2013 The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, USA

2013 Road Atlas - Straßenfotografie, DZ Bank Collection, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Allemagne

2012 Polaroid (Im)Possible – The Westlicht Collection, Forum de la culture et de l'économie du land de Rhénanie du Nord-Westphalie, Düsseldorf, Allemagne

2010 Mapping Worlds: Welten verstehen – Aufbruch in die Gegenwart, 8ème triennale internationale de la photo, Esslingen, Allemagne

2009 True Lies, Kunsthaus Essen, Allemagne

2008 Les Rencontres d'Arles, organisées par Christian Lacroix, nominée pour le prix découverte

2007 Breaking the Waves, Arthaus, Los Angeles, USA

2006 Artists for Tichy - Tichy for Artists, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Passau, Allemagne

2006 Out of the Camera: Analoge Fotografie im digitalen Zeitalter, Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Allemagne

Land in Translation, Riverside Museum, USA.


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All artworks of Stefanie Schneider
Photography, Every single incident weighs tons (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence), Stefanie Schneider

Every single incident weighs tons (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm

$621

Photography, Traces (Frozen) - Proof before printing, Stefanie Schneider

Traces (Frozen) - Proof before printing

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 128 x 125 x 0.1 cm

$791

Photography, Horizon (Zuma Beach), Stefanie Schneider

Horizon (Zuma Beach)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 48 x 47 x 0.1 cm

$903

Photography, White trash beautiful I (29 Palms, CA), Stefanie Schneider

White trash beautiful I (29 Palms, CA)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 60 x 59 x 0.1 cm

$2,259

Photography, White Trash Beautiful I (29 Palms, CA), Stefanie Schneider

White Trash Beautiful I (29 Palms, CA)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 38 x 36 x 0.1 cm

$678

Photography, Thunderbird Motel (The Last Picture Show), Stefanie Schneider

Thunderbird Motel (The Last Picture Show)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 57 x 56 x 0.1 cm

$2,259

Photography, Vegas (Stranger than Paradise), Stefanie Schneider

Vegas (Stranger than Paradise)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 38 x 50 x 1 cm

$791

Photography, Zoë (Paris), Stefanie Schneider

Zoë (Paris)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 60 x 50 x 0.1 cm

$2,259

Photography, Athena and Henry (Stay), from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence, Stefanie Schneider

Athena and Henry (Stay), from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 38 x 36 x 0.1 cm

$678

Photography, Childhood Memories (Paris), Stefanie Schneider

Childhood Memories (Paris)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 50 x 60 x 0.1 cm

$2,259

Photography, Childhood Memories (Paris), Stefanie Schneider

Childhood Memories (Paris)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 50 x 60 x 0.1 cm

$2,259

Photography, Moving in Together (Till Death do us Part), Stefanie Schneider

Moving in Together (Till Death do us Part)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 160 x 320 x 0.1 cm

$31,620

Photography, Long Way Home III (Stranger than Paradise), Stefanie Schneider

Long Way Home III (Stranger than Paradise)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 127 x 126 x 0.1 cm

$6,211

Photography, Penelope and Hans (Immaculate Springs) starring Udo Kier, based on a Polaroid, Stefanie Schneider

Penelope and Hans (Immaculate Springs) starring Udo Kier, based on a Polaroid

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 57 x 56 x 0.1 cm

$2,597

Photography, Penelope and Hans (Immaculate Springs) starring Udo Kier and Jacinda Barrett, based on a Polaroid, Stefanie Schneider

Penelope and Hans (Immaculate Springs) starring Udo Kier and Jacinda Barrett, based on a Polaroid

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 57 x 56 x 0.1 cm

$2,597

Photography, Pasolini (Immaculate Springs) starring Jacinda Barrett, based on a Polaroid, Stefanie Schneider

Pasolini (Immaculate Springs) starring Jacinda Barrett, based on a Polaroid

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 57 x 56 x 0.1 cm

$2,597

Photography, Gestures (Stranger than Paradise), Stefanie Schneider

Gestures (Stranger than Paradise)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 207 x 155 x 0.3 cm

$29,362

Photography, Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven), Stefanie Schneider

Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm

$429

Photography, Village Motel, Raining (The Last Picture Show), Stefanie Schneider

Village Motel, Raining (The Last Picture Show)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 126 x 166 x 0.1 cm

$20,327

Photography, Male Nude V (29 Palms, CA), Stefanie Schneider

Male Nude V (29 Palms, CA)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm

$395

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Who is the artist?

Stefanie Schneider (1968) is a German photographer living in Berlin and Los Angeles. Schneider's photographs exhibit the appearance of expired Polaroid instant film, with its chemical mutations. It has been released in books and exhibition catalogs, and in her own feature film 29 Palms, CA (2014). Her work has also been used as the cover art for music by Red Hot Chili Peppers and Cyndi Lauper, and in the film Stay (2005).

Schneider's preferred choice of location is the American West (especially Twentynine Palms, California, which served as location and title to one of her books), and the mounting of sequential images in a panel, the photographs evoke the impression of faded dreamy film stills. She holds an MFA in photography from the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany.

Schneider completed 29 Palms, CA in 2014. A feature film, art piece that explores the dreams and fantasies of a group of people who live in a trailer community in the Californian desert. The project includes six films: "Hitchhiker", "Rene's dream", "Sidewinder", "Till death do us part", "Heather's dream" and the feature film "The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence". A defining feature is the use of still Polaroid images in succession and voice over. Characters talk to themselves about their ambitions, memories, hopes and dreams. The latest of these short film is "Heather's dream", starring Heather Megan Christie and Udo Kier, and was selected in May 2013 by the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and is also nominated for the 2013 German short film award.

In a review of her book Stranger Than Paradise, Daniel Kothenschulte writes in the German magazine Literaturen that:

Stefanie Schneider is an internationally known artist that takes analog photographs and makes experimental movies with them. Schneider has cribed some of the titles of the series of her enlarged Polaroids from her favorite movies: Red Desert, Zabriskie Point or The Last Picture Show. Even if most images remain connected to the genre of road movies—in one case one seems to get a glimpse of Ridley Scott's tragic runaways Thelma and Louise.

Collections

DZ Bank, Francfort, Allemagne

Dreyfuss, Bâle, Suisse

Schmidt Bank, Ratisbonne, Allemagne

Groupe d'édition Holtzbrinck, Stuttgart, Allemagne

Collection Sander, Berlin, Allemagne

Ocean Foundation, Zurich, Suisse

Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Allemagne

Impossible Collection, Vienne, Autriche

Collection Luc LaRochelle, Montréal, Canada

Collection d'art du canton de Zug, Suisse

Expositions

Expositions individuelles

2014Motion Photography – 6 Finalists, Saatchi Gallery, Londres, GB

2014Instantdreams, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2014Stefanie Schneider, c.art-Galerie Bregenz, Autriche

2013The girl behind the white picket fence, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France

2012Stranger than Paradise, Christian Hohmann Fine Art, Palm Desert, USA

2012Stefanie Schneider, Gallery at Cliff Lede Vineyards, Napa Valley, USA

2011California Dreaming, ROLLO Contemporary, Londres, GB

2010Stefanie Schneider, Galerie Walter Keller, Zurich, Suisse

2010Instant Dreams, Frank Picture Gallery, Santa Monica, USA

200929 Palms, CA, Moravian Gallery, Brno, République tchèque

2008Sidewinder, Städtische Galerie am Mozartplatz, Salzbourg, Autriche

2007Wastelands, Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Allemagne

2006Wastelands, Zephyr / Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Allemagne

2005Last Picture Show, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, Allemagne

2004Suburbia, Galerie Kuttner Siebert, Berlin, Allemagne

2004Stefanie Schneider, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Allemagne

Expositions collectives

2014Nude, Pop-up Art Gallery Berlin, Allemagne

2013Images for Images, GASK – Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutná Hora, République tchèque

2013The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, USA

2013Road Atlas - Straßenfotografie, DZ Bank Collection, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Allemagne

2012Polaroid (Im)Possible – The Westlicht Collection, Forum de la culture et de l'économie du land de Rhénanie du Nord-Westphalie, Düsseldorf, Allemagne

2010Mapping Worlds: Welten verstehen – Aufbruch in die Gegenwart, 8ème triennale internationale de la photo, Esslingen, Allemagne

2009True Lies, Kunsthaus Essen, Allemagne

2008Les Rencontres d'Arles, organisées par Christian Lacroix, nominée pour le prix découverte

2007Breaking the Waves, Arthaus, Los Angeles, USA

2006Artists for Tichy - Tichy for Artists, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Passau, Allemagne

2006Out of the Camera: Analoge Fotografie im digitalen Zeitalter, Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Allemagne

Land in Translation, Riverside Museum, USA.

What is Stefanie Schneider’s artistic movement?

The artistic movements of the artists are: Travel Souvenirs, On Film, Deconstructivism

When was Stefanie Schneider born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1968