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Stefanie Schneider
Yellow Flower - Contemporary, Abstract, Landscape, Polaroid

2005

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'Yellow Flower (Stranger than Paradise) - 2005 20x20cm, sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 1/2. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist Inventory Number 672.14. Not mounted. Stefanie Schneider: Fragments of a Life in Motion Art is rarely born from comfort. For Stefanie Schneider, it began with escape—a departure from the weight of Germany’s rules and expectations, in search of something unstructured, sun-drenched, and free. California called, with its desert light and the slow exhale of San Francisco’s laissez-faire spirit. But fate intervened on a motorcycle, in a hit-and-run collision that left her with a crushed leg, a reconstructed foot, and a missing toe—a permanent trace of a past both distant and unshakable. Recovery wasn’t just physical; it was a remapping of purpose. In the quiet spaces between pain and resilience, Schneider turned to film and communication, drawn instinctively to the fleeting and the fragile. That instinct remains at the core of her art today. Her Polaroid images, suspended between past and present, embrace imperfection as truth. The chemical distortions of expired film mirror the unpredictability of life itself—fractured yet beautiful, impermanent yet unforgettable. Schneider’s work is a document of experience, a testament to survival, and a refusal to be confined by linear narratives. Her women, often cast in golden light and desert solitude, are figures of longing and independence, reflections of a journey shaped by both wanderlust and the ghosts of what was left behind. Today, her photographs are sought after by collectors, museums, and galleries worldwide. They are cinematic relics of a life lived in motion, where every frame is a fragment of memory, every image a portal to a dream half-remembered. 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, Bombay Beach Biennale 2018. 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, Switzerland / Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, Germany / Polaroid Collection, USA / Collection Luc LaRochelle, Montreal, Canada / Kunstsammlung Kanton Zug, Switzerland / Bombay Beach Biennale, California / The Brooklyn Museum, NY / LACMA , Los Angeles / Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Collection, Texas, USA

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