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Stefanie Schneider
Wabi-Sabi (Sidewinder) - 9 Original Polaroid - Unique Pieces

2005

$2,408.37
£1,781.89
€2,000
CA$3,330
A$3,655.93
CHF 1,907.31
MX$44,241.83
NOK 23,905.12
SEK 22,524.91
DKK 15,228.06

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Wabi-Sabi (Sidewinder) - 9 Original Polaroids - Unique Piece, 2005 DECONSTRUCTIVISM, 2000 - present. About the narrative potential of images. each Polaroid 7.8 x 7,7cm (image area) 10.7 x 8.7 cm ( including white Polaroid frame) signed on verso installed: 104.3 x 8.7cm Stefanie Schneider's scintillating situations take place in the American West. Situated on the verge of an elusive super-reality, her photographic sequences provide the ambience for loosely woven story lines and a cast of phantasmic characters. Schneider works with the chemical mutations of expired Polaroid film stock. Chemical explosions of color spreading across the surfaces undermine the photograph's commitment to reality and induce her characters into trance-like dream scapes. Like flickering sequences of old road movies Schneider's images seem to evaporate before conclusions can be made - their ephemeral reality manifesting in subtle gestures and mysterious motives. Schneider's images refuse to succumb to reality, they keep alive the confusions of dream, desire, fact, and fiction. Stefanie Schneider received her MFA in Communication Design at the Folkwang Schule Essen, Germany. Her work has been shown at the Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, the Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Museum für Moderne Kunst Passau, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Foto -Triennale Esslingen. “It was Stefanie Schneider, who inspired me to start the company THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT after seeing her work, which seems to achieve the possible from the impossible, creating the finest of art out of the most basic of mediums and materials. Indeed, after that one day, I was so impressed with her photography that I realized Polaroid film could not be allowed to disappear. Being at the precise moment in time where the world was about to lose Polaroid, I seized the moment and have put all my efforts and passion into saving Polaroid film. For that, I thank Stefanie Schneider almost exclusively, who played a bigger role than anyone in saving this American symbol of photography.” –Florian Kaps, March 8th 2010 (“Doc” Dr. Florian Kaps, founder of “The Impossible Project”) Exhibitions Selected (selected) 2018 Bombay Beach Biennale 2018 Rough Play Projects, Available for All, Joshua Tree 2017 BLICKFELD] Analoge Fotografie, Kommunale Galerie Steglitz-Zehlendorf (G) (catalog), (upcoming)
 Kunstverein Bad Homburg Artlantis, Bad Homburg (G)

 2016 
Instantdreams, Instantdreams Gallery, Berlin 

(S) 2015
 Desert Voices, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) with Pamela Littky 
Blue Nudes, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) 

 2014

 Summer Show, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (G) 6 Finalists, Saatchi Gallery London (G) 
Instantdreams, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (S)
Grand Opening, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) with Banksy, Andy Warhol, Alison Bignon, Sophie Dickens, Victor Gingembre and others
 2013 
Heather's Dream, Short, nominated for the German Short Film Award 
Images For Images (Artists fir Tichy), GASK - Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region,  Kutná Hora, Czech Republic, (G) with Richard Prince, Nan Golding, Shirana Shahbazi, Sophie Calle, Martin Kippenberger, Arnulf Rainer, Thomas Ruff, Katharina Grosse, Jonathan Meese & others (catalog) 
The Girl behind the White Picket Fence, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (S)
 Heather's Dream, Short, German Competition Short Film Festival Oberhausen 
Multimedia Presentation with Artist Stefanie Schneider, Palms Springs Art Museum, Annenberg Theater
 The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, (G) with Ansel Adams, Bruce Charlesworth, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Charles and Ray Eames, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lisa Oppenheim, Andy Warhol and others, (catalog)
 Road Atlas - Straßenfotografie, DZ Bank Collection: Kunsthalle Erfurt (Spring), Art Foyer DZ Bank, Frankfurt/Main, (G) with Helen Levitt, Pieter Hugo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Pietro Donzelli, and others (catalog)  
2012
 Stranger Than Paradise, Christian Hohmenn Fine Art, Palms Desert, (S)
 Stefanie Schneider, Gallery at Cliff Lede Vineyards, Napa Valley, CA, (S)
 Bienale Art Auction 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, (G), with Ai Weiwei, John Baldessari, Christo, Ed Ruscha, Christopher Russell... MUSES, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (G) 
Polaroid (IM)POSSIBLE - THE WESTLICHT COLLECTION, NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf (G), (catalog)
 Road Atlas - Straßenfotografie, DZ Bank Collection: Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus, (G), (catalog), 
Studio Scholorship, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, May 2012
 Selling Sex, ShowStudio Gallery, London (G) with Cortney Andrews, Una Burke, Liz Cohen, Inge Jacobsen, and others
 Stranger Than Paradise, Scott White Contemporary, San Diego, (S) 

2011 
Kunst zu verlosen !  // Art to raffle off !, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, (G) with Monica Bonvicini, Tim Eitel, Olafur Eliasson, Pipilotti Rist, Katharina Sieverding, and others Hitchhiker, Festival Saint Germain des Près, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (S) 
 New Works by Rollo Artists, ROLLO Contemporary, London, GB (G) 
 Stefanie Schneider, Gallery at Cliff Lede Vineyards, Napa Valley, CA (S) 
Road Atlas - Straßenfotografie, DZ Bank Collection, Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, (G) with Helen Levitt, Pieter Hugo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Pietro Donzelli, and others (catalog)  
 Mirrror of broken Dreams, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover, Germany, (S) 
 California Dreaming, ROLLO Contemporary, London, GB (S) 
 Stefanie Schneider, Catherine et André Galerie Hug, Paris, France (S) 
 Polaroid (IM)POSSIBLE - THE WESTLICHT COLLECTION, Westlicht - Schauplatz für Fotografie, (G), (catalog) 
Summershow, Scott White Contemporary, San Diego, (G)

 2010
 Stefanie Schneider, Galerie Walter Keller, Zurich (S)  
Stefanie Schneider, Galerie Thierry Librati, Paris (S) 
 Kunstmesse Zurich, Solo Show Stefanie Schneider with Gallery Walter Keller  
Instant Dreams, Frank Picture Gallery, Santa Monica (S)  
Women Only, Show Off, Paris with Galerie Hug, Paris, France (S) 
L'Ouverture Collectif, Galerie Hug, Paris, France (G)  
 Instant Dreams, 30 Works, Cologne, Germany, (S)  
 Mapping Worlds: Welten verstehen – Aufbruch in die Gegenwart, 8. Internationale Foto -Triennale Esslingen 2010, Germany, curated by Andreas Baur (G) (catalog) 
 
2009 
29 Palms, CA, Galerie Koestlin, Artbar 71, Berlin, Germany  
Till Death Do Us Part, Filmpremiere, Babylon, Berlin 
Landscapes and Icons, Galerie Thierry Librati, Paris, France (S)  
True Lies, Kunsthaus Essen, Essen, Germany (G), curated by Uwe Schramm 29 Palms, CA, Moravian Gallery, (Museum of Applied Arts), Brno, 
Czech Republic (S) 2008
 Sidewinder / 29 Palms, CA, c.art-Galerie, Dornbirn, Austria (S)  
 Love, Städt. Galerie im Palazzo Ducale, Pavullo, Italy (G) (catalog) 
29 Palms, CA, Int. Filmfestival Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 Sidewinder, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover, Germany (S) 
 Les Rencontres d'Arles - Photo Festival South of France, curated by Christian Lacroix (G), nominated for the Discovery Award 
Sidewinder, Städtische Galerie am Mozartplatz, Salzburg, Austria (S)  
 'Frenzy', Image Presentation Salzburger Festspiele 
29 Palms, CA, Galerie Spesshardt-Klein, Berlin (S)  

 2007  
 29 Palms, CA, Polanoid, Vienna, Austria (S) (catalog) 
 Stefanie Schneider, Galerie Thierry Librati, Paris, France (S)
 Wastelands, Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Germany (S)  
 Breaking The Waves, Arthaus, Los Angeles, USA, (G), curated by Tim Wride (LACMA) 
Infinite Polar Bear Party, Galerie Amber Abbas former kunstbuero, 
Vienna, Austria, curated by Julie Ryan (G) 
Sidewinder, Scalo Guye, Los Angeles 2006 Artists for Tichy - Tichy for Artists, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Passau, Germany (G) (catalog) Stay, nd-projects, Zurich, Switzerland (S)  
 Artists for Tichy - Tichy for Artists, curated by Adi Hösle and Roman Buxbaum, The East Bohemian Gallery in Pardubice, Czech Republic (G) 
 Sidewinder, Artwalk Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, curated 
by Frans Oomen (G)  
 Out of the Camera: Analoge Fotografie im digitalen Zeitalter, curated by Lars Mextorf, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (G), (catalog)  
 Artists for Tichy - Tichy for Artists, curated by Adi Hösle and Roman Buxbaum, Moravská Galerie (Haus Der Kunst), Brno, Czech Republic,Salon Lessing, Zürich, Switzerland, (G) (catalog) 
 Stefanie Schneider, c.art-Galerie, Bregenz, Austria (S) 
 Stranger Than Paradise, Galerie Drees, Hannover, Germany (S) (catalog)  
 Wastelands, Städtische Galerie, Waldkraiburg, Germany (S) 
 Wastelands, Zephyr, Mannheim, Germany (S) (catalog)   
Land in Translation, Riverside Museum, Riverside,CA, USA (G)

 2005        
Zaunwelten, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, Germany (G)         
 Stefanie Schneider, nd-projects, Zurich, Switzerland (S) 
Last Picture Show, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, Germany (S)  
 Stefanie Schneider, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR, USA (S) 
29 Palms, CA., Schloß Ritzebüttel, Cuxhaven, Germany (S)         
Polaroid als Geste, Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, 
Germany (G) (catalog) 
 A Warlike People: Victims or Perpetrators? curated by Lara Taubman, Monorchid Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, USA (G)  
2004      
 Stefanie Schneider, Colectivo Fotográfico UFCA, Algecira, Spain (S)  
 29 Palms, CA.  Brotfabrik, Berlin, curated by Andrea Domesle, Wien (S)
 Stefanie Schneider, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany (S)  
 Suburbia, Galerie KuttnerSiebert, Berlin, Germany (S)  
 American Dreams, Gallery Zelda Cheatle, London, England (S)   
Endstation Sehnsucht, Galerie Greulich, Frankfurt, Germany (S)
 OilFields, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, LA, USA (S) 
 DreamGirl, Marvelli  Gallery, NY, USA (S) 
 Armory Show NY with Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects, LA, USA (G) 
 29 Palms, CA, Galerie Kaempf, Basel, Switzerland (S) (catalog)   
Stefanie Schneider - L'usine Galerie, Brussels (S)

 2003         
Paris Photo with TZR Galerie für Bildende Künste, Bochum, Germany (S)
 Stefanie Schneider, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany (G)  
 First Glance, Galerie kuttnersiebert, Berlin, Germany (G)  
California Dreaming, TZR Galerie, Bochum, Germany (S) 
Armory Show NY with LA Projects, Los Angeles, USA (G)
 YOU - Galerie Fiebach & Minninger, Cologne (G)

 2002        
 1 Site 2 Places II, KUNST+PROJEKTE Sindelfingen e.V., Germany (G) 
 Realities and Histoires d´amour, Kunstverein Ulm, Germany (G) with Gabriele Basch, Tracey Moffatt, Mathilde ter Heijne 
 Stefanie Schneider, Galerie Michael Zink, München (S)  
 Projekte mit Fotografie - Kunststiftung Poll, Berlin (G)

 2001       
 Night On Earth, Städtische Ausstellungshalle Am Hawerkamp, Münster, Germany curated by Ralf Christofori, (catalog) (G) 
 LISTE 01, Basel, Switzerland, with Susanne Vielmetter, LA Projects (G)
 Rough Cuts, Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects, Los Angeles (S)      
Entweder? Oder!, Kunstallianz, Treptowers, Berlin, Germany, curated by 
Tobias Kuttner und Mattias Siebert, (catalog) (G)         
 Loosely Landscapes, Cerro College, Ridgcrest, CA, USA (G) BOOK PUBLICATIONS 29 PALMS, CA, Pocket Polaroid Series #004, published by 
SCHWARZERFREITAG, Berlin   WASTELANDS published by edition braus, Wachter Verlag, Heidelberg  STRANGER THAN PARADISE published by hatje cantz Verlag   
29 PALMS, CA published by Galerie Kaempf, Basel     SELECTED COLLECTIONS DZ Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
 Dreyfuss, Basel, Switzerland        
 Schmidt Bank, Regensburg, Germany      
 Holtzbrinck Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany
Sammlung Sander, Berlin, Germany
 ARTISTS for TICHY  - TICHY for ARTISTS, TICHY 
Ocean Foundation, Zurich Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, Germany   
Impossible Collection, Vienna, Austria 
Collection Luc LaRochelle, Montreal, Canada
 Kunstsammlung, Kanton Zug, Switzerland   FILMS
 2013  THE GIRL BEHIND THE WHITE FENCE (60min) - Director / Artist  - starring Heather Megan Christie, Udo Kier, Steve Marshall, Kyle Larson, Jeff Leaf, Camille Waldorf, produced by MICA Film, co-produced by ARTE, supported by Medienboard Brandenburg 2012   HEATHER'S DREAM (15min.) - Director / Artist - starring - Heather Megan Christie, Udo Kier, Camille Waldorf, produced by MICA Film, co-produced by ARTE, supported by Medienboard Brandenburg, competition Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2013, nominated for the German Short Film Award 
2007 - 2014   29 PALMS, CA - Director / Artist - in collaboration with Radha Mitchell, Udo Kier, Robert Mack, JD Rudometkin, Marc Forster, Reneé Chabria,  Nadia Conners, Daisy McCrackin, Austen Tate, Camille Waldorf, Scott Z Burns, Sophie Huber 
2009   TILL DEATH DO US PART - Director / Artist - starring Daisy McCrackin, Austen Tate, produced by MICA Film, co-produced by ARTE, supported by Medienboard Brandenburg   

 2005  SIDEWINDER - Director / Artist  / Camera / Editing - starring JD Rudometkin, Stefanie Schneider, music by JD Rudometkin  

2005  RENéE'S DREAM - Director / Artist  / Camera / Editing - starring René Chabria, Scott Springer, Derrik First, music by Coco Rosie  

2005   STAY - Senior Visual Artist. Directed by Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland) starring  Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts (photo-graphs used for memory sequences, credits, etc, and all art by Naomi Watts and Ryan Gossling provided by Stefanie Schneider)  

2000  VOID - Assistant to Director, Still Photographer, Editor, Associate Producer. Feature film directed and written by Dominique A. Faix (Supported by Filmstiftung NRW) 
1996   THE TIMETRAVELER - Editor. Documentary by Dominique A. Faix (45min., 16mm, color) for the NDR, WDR, SFB TV Networks Supported by the Filmboard of the State of Hessen, Germany, nominated for the Adolf Grimme Award 1996, nominated for German Cinematographer Award in the Category Editing 1996, German Cinematographer Award 1996 
 1996   THE MACHINE - Assistant to Director, Still Photographer, Editor Sci-fi Short (15 min., 16mm, color) directed by Dominique A. Faix, produced with the financial support by the German Ministry of the Interior

 art fairs 1999 ART FRANKFURT with Susanne Vielmetter 2000 Art Cologne galerie Michael Zink 2001 LISTE 01, Basel, Switzerland, with Susanne Vielmetter, LA Projects (G) ArtForum Berlin, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Berlin, milano Artfair 2001 with Galerie Zink Art Cologne, Anita Beckers 2002 -ArtForum Berlin, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Berlin, Artforum Berlin, Galerie Zink Art Chicago with Susanne Vielmetter 2003 Armory Show New York, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects Paris Photo with TZR Galerie Bochum 2005 Art Cologne with Galerie Sturm, Stuttgart Art Brussels with Galerie Sturm, Stuttgart Art Cologne with TZR Galerie, Bochum 2006 arte Fiera, Bologne, Robert Drees - Hannover Kunst Zürich, Robert Drees - Hannover Art Cologne with Galerie Sturm, Stuttgart Art Brussels with Galerie Sturm, Stuttgart DiVA - Frère Independent with Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin Artfair Cologne with galerie Robert Drees, Hannover 2007 arte Fiera, Bologne, Robert Drees - Hannover Kunst Zürich, Robert Drees - Hannover Art Brussels with Galerie Sturm, Stuttgart 2008 arte Fiera, Bologne, Robert Drees - Hannover Kunst Zürich, Robert Drees - Hannover 2009 Paris Photo with Galerie Bruce Silverstein Kunst Zürich, Robert Drees - Hannover Art Bodensee, Robert Drees - Hannover Schneider’s work is unique and thus immediately recognizable. Unmistakably ‘wabi-sabi’ in appearance and content. Dream like, colorful with depth and vision. From start to finish, a truly self made artist with a distinctively female perspective. In fact, the first to use expired instant film in fine art photography. Schneider's Polaroid film was bought, stored and used only for when it's best performance is expected. The sets, costumes and concepts are all constructed and friends are invited to 'play' in the dreams she wants to conjure. A large format negative is made of the choice shots to enlarge the image to it's optimum size and finally hand print an analog edition in Schneider's self built darkroom/dreamlab. Ready for mounting and hanging. "My dream of accepting so called 'imperfection' is in fact a realizing of a different world view. Formally, my work was called blurry or broken but they fail in the test of acceptance that all things are imperfect. It's a seismic shift for some but in this age where the cracks are no longer hidden, the affirmation of reality is still difficult. The celebration of imperfection reconnects us to the real world where we normally mask our flaws. I chose Polaroid film because it portrays color like candy making even the broken an expression of endearment. The combination of the color and the blemishes of expired Polaroid analog film gave me a sense of inner peace with my surroundings. It just fit. Nothing had portrayed my vision so symbolically. "The film schools I went to scoffed at my discovery blinded by the very imperfections that expressed my passion and love. The quirks, oddities or the perfectly imperfect uniqueness of my work relate to our own life blemishes and somehow make them ok or even remarkable. Honoring that value of imperfection makes it permissible to be. At least for me... I plan engagements in spontaneity for any new project or photoshoot. Allowing space and time for the magic moment to manifest and capturing that enchantment. I use my senses and current affairs to plot that path of serendipity especially when it's a mark of turbulence. The upheaval of balance is the key for chance and allows all unknown forces to contribute to the moment. I look inside myself, ground that emotion and imagine it in a dream because dreams are the foundation of emotion and the link to our sub-conscience. I try to clarify my nightly dreams subjectively with a cup of nostalgia in a bowl of emotions and sprinkle it generously with sex. It is there, the fountain of our instincts." Stefanie Schneider
  • Creator:
    Stefanie Schneider (1968, German)
  • Creation Year:
    2005
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 41.07 in (104.3 cm)Width: 3.43 in (8.7 cm)Depth: 0.08 in (2 mm)
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  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Morongo Valley, CA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU65237415202

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