STEFAN SCHWABE
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In search of an image and material based language for the space in which words stumble and fall.
A way of playing - allowing to be unknowing. Giving way to be surprised.
Ingredients such as: the material and the immaterial, the abstract and the concrete, the living,
the inanimate; with words, with matter; with the process.
Learning by playing and to play, by rules the game imposes onto itself.
Artifacts of various processes, re-excavated and re-purposed as new beginnings.
Vita
2004–2010
Studies at Burg Giebichenstein, University of Art and Design Halle, Germany
2007–2008
Exchange student at the Aix-en-Provence School of Art, France
2008–2009
Four months internship at Art+Com AG, Berlin
2009–2010
Freelancer for Art+Com AG, Berlin
2010
Graduation at Burg Giebichenstein (Dipl. Des.), University of Art and Design Halle
2010–2012
Studies at the Royal College of Art (RCA) London, Design Interactions
2012
Graduation at the RCA, Design Interactions (MA)
2012
One-month Residency at the Siena Art Institute, Italy
2011–2012
Burg Giebichenstein Graduate Scholarship, Graduiertenförderung Sachsen-Anhalt
2013
Artist Scholarship, Kulturstiftung Thüringen
2012–2017
Teaching position at UdK Berlin, Künstlerische Werkstattleitung Mechatronik
2016–2017
Visiting professor at Burg Giebichenstein, University of Art and Design Halle,
Department of Industrial design/ System design
2010–
Working as independent designer
2018–
Projekt director, Farming the Uncanny Valley, Research project at UdK Berlin
2007
"Impasse" installation at the Design Preis Halle
2008
"Episureo" installation at the Stadtbad, Halle (Saale)
2008
"Episureo" installation at the Ars Electronica Festival, Linz
2008
"Cut and paste" at the Cité des Sciences, Grand Palais, Paris
2009
"Cut and paste" at the "Uncharted" exhibition, Santralistanbul, Istanbul
2009
"Do we have to stay out?" at DMY Youngsters 2009, Berlin
2010
"Troblion" graduation show, Volkspark Turnhalle, Halle (Saale)
2010
"Cut and paste" at the Node10 - Forum for Digital Arts, Frankfurt
2011
"Troblion" published in the Neural magazine, Issue 38
2011
"Vestalia" at the Design Interactions WIP Show, RCA, London
2011
"Troblion" at the Kernel Festival, Desio, Italy
2011
"Cut and paste" as tempory installation at the Schauspiel Frankfurt
2011
"Troblion" at the Celeste Prize Finalists Exhibition, New York
2012
"Growing a Roll" at the Design Interactions WIP Show, London
2012
"Living Artefacts" at the Inspiring Matter Exhibition, London
2012
"The Kernels of Chimaera" at the Show RCA, London
2012
"The Kernels of Chimaera" at BIO 23 Biennial of Design, Ljubljana
2012
"Living Artefacts" at "Material Matters", Droog Lab, DDW, Eindhoven
2012
"The Kernels of Chimaera" at "Graduiert ≈ Präsentiert", Halle (Saale)
2013
"Biocar covers" at "United Micro Kingdoms", Dunne & Raby, Design Museum London
2013
"Xylinum Cones" at "Grow Your Own...", Science Gallery, Dublin
2014
"Xylinum Cones/ Programming" at "Progress!/ Revive!", Heimtextil Trends 2014/15, Frankfurt
2014
"Xylinum Cones/ Programming" at "Hit the future – design beyond the borders", Munich
2014
"Xylinum Cones/ Programming" at "Synthetic Aesthetics", V&A Friday Late, London
2014
"Xylinum Cones/ Programming" at "ABN AMRO Hotspots", DDW, Eindhoven
2015
"State of Matter" at designtransfer: Transmediale Vorspiel 2015, Berlin
2015
"Xylinum Cones" at Living Matter(s), Transnatural, Milan
2015
"Growing a Roll" at Domestic Futures, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
2016
"Gutfather" at Shaping Futures, Josephs, Nürnberg
2017
"Xylinum Cones" and "Gutfather" at "5 years ABN AMRO Hotspots", DDW, Eindhoven
2018
"Farming the Uncanny Valley WIP Show" at State Studio, Berlin
2020
"MACHT NATUR" at State Studio, Berlin
2011
"Troblion" published at Neural magazine, Issue 38
2012
"The Kernels of Chimaera" at Dezeen, Movie: tour of Design Interactions
at Show RCA 2012 with Tony Dunne
2012
"Living Artefacts" in "Design relations", Catalogue of BIO 23 Biennial of Design,
Ljubljana, The Museum of Architecture and Design, 2012
2012
"The Kernels of Chimaera" published in the annual book "BURG 2012"
of Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle
2013
"The Kernels of Chimaera" featured in "Material Futures" a Publication of the Textile Futures
Research Centre (TFRC), compiled and edited in collaboration with FranklinTill
2014
"Xylinum Cones" published at Frame magazine, Issue 96
2014
"Xylinum Cones" published at Experimenta magazine, Issue 66
2015
"Xylinum Cones/ Programming" published at Frame magazine, Issue 103
2016
"State of Matter" published at Frame magazine, Issue 109
2016
"Gutfather" in Das Gefühl zur Erkenntnis - Junges Design aus Halle, Goethe Institut
2017
"Exploring /_/ Transitions", Book available as print-on-demand
2018
"The Vague Space", Article published at Plasma Magazine #4
2018
"State of Matter", Paper published at innteract2018