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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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Photography

Print

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 - 15 x 14.2 x 0 inch

$648

Stefanie Schneider's Coupe Plate 'Haley and the Birds', Stefanie Schneider

Stefanie Schneider's Coupe Plate 'Haley and the Birds'

Stefanie Schneider

Print - 10.5 x 10.5 x 0.4 inch

$756

Radha Shooting II (Long Way Home) (1), Stefanie Schneider

Radha Shooting II (Long Way Home) (1)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 49.2 x 48.4 x 0 inch

$4,860

Feathered (Stage of Consciousness) part of the 29 Palms, CA project, Stefanie Schneider

Feathered (Stage of Consciousness) part of the 29 Palms, CA project

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 7.9 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch

$302

Blue Sky (Zuma Beach), Stefanie Schneider

Blue Sky (Zuma Beach)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 18.9 x 18.5 x 0 inch

$864

Kaleidescope (Zuma Beach), Stefanie Schneider

Kaleidescope (Zuma Beach)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 18.9 x 18.5 x 0 inch

$864

Brooklyn Bridge (Stay) - 12 pieces - from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence, Stefanie Schneider

Brooklyn Bridge (Stay) - 12 pieces - from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 39.4 x 53.1 x 0 inch

$3,240

The Party is over (Oxana's 30th Birthday), Stefanie Schneider

The Party is over (Oxana's 30th Birthday)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 18.9 x 18.1 x 0 inch

$1,404

Forgotten Land (California Badlands), Stefanie Schneider

Forgotten Land (California Badlands)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 9.4 x 7.9 x 0 inch

$648

Unfinished Bridge (Stay) from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence, Stefanie Schneider

Unfinished Bridge (Stay) from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 22 x 21.7 x 0 inch

$2,376

Impact - it all began quite simply I was very happy (Wastelands), Stefanie Schneider

Impact - it all began quite simply I was very happy (Wastelands)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 22.4 x 22 x 0 inch

$2,160

Blue Space Dark - Mindscreen 09 (Night on Earth), Stefanie Schneider

Blue Space Dark - Mindscreen 09 (Night on Earth)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 22.4 x 22 x 0 inch

$1,620

Traces (Frozen) - Proof before printing, Stefanie Schneider

Traces (Frozen) - Proof before printing

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 50.4 x 49.2 x 0 inch

$756

Horizon (Zuma Beach) - Malibu, Stefanie Schneider

Horizon (Zuma Beach) - Malibu

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 15 x 14.2 x 0 inch

$864

Illuminated (Deconstructivism), Stefanie Schneider

Illuminated (Deconstructivism)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 7.9 x 9.4 x 0 inch

$540

Expanses of Time (Wastelands), Stefanie Schneider

Expanses of Time (Wastelands)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 15 x 14.2 x 0 inch

$540

Radha Shooting I (Stranger than Paradise), Stefanie Schneider

Radha Shooting I (Stranger than Paradise)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 15 x 14.2 x 0 inch

$648

A piece of Cake (Oxana's 30th Birthday), Stefanie Schneider

A piece of Cake (Oxana's 30th Birthday)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 18.9 x 22.8 x 0 inch

$1,404

Springtime (Paris), Stefanie Schneider

Springtime (Paris)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch

$2,160

Haley and the Birds (29 Palms, CA), Stefanie Schneider

Haley and the Birds (29 Palms, CA)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch

$756

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

White Trash Beautiful I (29 Palms, CA)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 15 x 14.2 x 0 inch

$648

Calliope (Haley and the Birds), Stefanie Schneider

Calliope (Haley and the Birds)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch

$756

Green Chair (29 Palms, CA), Stefanie Schneider

Green Chair (29 Palms, CA)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 22.8 x 22.4 x 0 inch

$2,160

Long Way Home, triptych, Stefanie Schneider

Long Way Home, triptych

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 15 x 47.2 x 0 inch

$2,160

Blue (Deconstructivism), Stefanie Schneider

Blue (Deconstructivism)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 7.9 x 9.4 x 0 inch

$410

Abstract I (Sidewinder), Stefanie Schneider

Abstract I (Sidewinder)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch

$594

Horizon (Zuma Beach), Stefanie Schneider

Horizon (Zuma Beach)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 18.9 x 18.5 x 0 inch

$864

Gas station at Night I (Stranger than Paradise), Stefanie Schneider

Gas station at Night I (Stranger than Paradise)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 15 x 14.2 x 0 inch

$756

Room No. 503, II (Strange Love), Stefanie Schneider

Room No. 503, II (Strange Love)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 18.9 x 18.5 x 0 inch

$1,296

Yellow Flower (Stranger than Paradise), Stefanie Schneider

Yellow Flower (Stranger than Paradise)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch

$756

Green Chair (29 Palms, CA), Stefanie Schneider

Green Chair (29 Palms, CA)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 22.8 x 22 x 0 inch

$2,160

'Radha doing her Nails by the Pool' (29 Palms, CA), Stefanie Schneider

'Radha doing her Nails by the Pool' (29 Palms, CA)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 15 x 14.2 x 0 inch

$648

Max by the Pool (29 Palms, CA), Stefanie Schneider

Max by the Pool (29 Palms, CA)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 15 x 14.2 x 0 inch

$648

White Trash Beautiful I from the 29 Palms, CA series with Radha Mitchell, Stefanie Schneider

White Trash Beautiful I from the 29 Palms, CA series with Radha Mitchell

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 15 x 14.2 x 0 inch

$648

Memories of Love III (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) (1), Stefanie Schneider

Memories of Love III (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) (1)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 18.9 x 18.5 x 0 inch

$864

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

White trash beautiful I (29 Palms, CA)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 23.6 x 23.2 x 0 inch

$2,160

Marilyn (Heavenly Falls) - triptych, Stefanie Schneider

Marilyn (Heavenly Falls) - triptych

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 15 x 47.2 x 0 inch

$3,024

Wandering II (Wastelands), Stefanie Schneider

Wandering II (Wastelands)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 22.4 x 22 x 0.1 inch

$1,836

Ronald (Immaculate Springs) based on a Polaroid, Stefanie Schneider

Ronald (Immaculate Springs) based on a Polaroid

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 22.4 x 22 x 0 inch

$2,484

Père Lachaise (Paris), Stefanie Schneider

Père Lachaise (Paris)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch

$2,160

Père Lachaise (Paris), Stefanie Schneider

Père Lachaise (Paris)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch

$2,160

You don't love me! (Till Death do us Part), Stefanie Schneider

You don't love me! (Till Death do us Part)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 7.9 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch

$702

The Fabric of the Mind I (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence), Stefanie Schneider

The Fabric of the Mind I (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 15 x 18.9 x 0 inch

$1,026

The Fabric of the Mind II (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence), Stefanie Schneider

The Fabric of the Mind II (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 15 x 18.9 x 0 inch

$1,026

Into the Light (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Udo Kier, Stefanie Schneider

Into the Light (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Udo Kier

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 18.9 x 22.8 x 0 inch

$1,620

Circle of Magic - Shazam (29 Palms, CA), Stefanie Schneider

Circle of Magic - Shazam (29 Palms, CA)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 18.9 x 22.8 x 0 inch

$1,296

A Man and a Woman (Sidewinder), Stefanie Schneider

A Man and a Woman (Sidewinder)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch

$864

The Nurse (Heather's Dream), Stefanie Schneider

The Nurse (Heather's Dream)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 20.1 x 24.4 x 0 inch

$2,160

Feathered (Stage of Consciousness) - Featuring Australian actress Radha Mitchell, Stefanie Schneider

Feathered (Stage of Consciousness) - Featuring Australian actress Radha Mitchell

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 18.9 x 22.8 x 0 inch

$864

Loneliness doesn't exist outside of your mind! (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence), Stefanie Schneider

Loneliness doesn't exist outside of your mind! (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 15 x 18.9 x 0 inch

$1,026

When suddenly everything stops (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence), Stefanie Schneider

When suddenly everything stops (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 15 x 18.9 x 0 inch

$1,026

Untitled (Stage of Consciousness), Stefanie Schneider

Untitled (Stage of Consciousness)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 15 x 18.9 x 0.4 inch

$648

On Hold (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence), Stefanie Schneider

On Hold (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 22.8 x 22 x 0 inch

$1,944

Fairytales (Stranger than Paradise), diptych, Stefanie Schneider

Fairytales (Stranger than Paradise), diptych

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 15 x 33.5 x 0 inch

$1,296

Gasstation (Stranger than Paradise), triptych, Stefanie Schneider

Gasstation (Stranger than Paradise), triptych

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 15 x 48 x 0 inch

$1,944

On Hold (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence), Stefanie Schneider

On Hold (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 38.6 x 37.8 x 0 inch

$3,780

Sisyphus (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence), Stefanie Schneider

Sisyphus (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 38.6 x 38.2 x 0 inch

$3,780

Gravity (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence), Stefanie Schneider

Gravity (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0 inch

$3,780

Oxana (Stage of Consciousness) part of the 29 Palms, CA project, Stefanie Schneider

Oxana (Stage of Consciousness) part of the 29 Palms, CA project

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 15 x 18.9 x 0.4 inch

$756

Spiegelbild (Stage of Consciousness) part of the 29 Palms, CA project, Stefanie Schneider

Spiegelbild (Stage of Consciousness) part of the 29 Palms, CA project

Stefanie Schneider

Photography - 15 x 18.9 x 0.4 inch

$756

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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