STEFKA AMMON

/// www.stefka-ammon.de ///

born 1970 in Hannover
lives and works in Berlin

Education
2001 master class with Prof. Inge Mahn
2000 thesis project mentored by Yana Milev
1998-1999 study abroad in Philadelphia, MFA program at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, USA, with Prof. Joel Fisher, Prof. Jody Pinto
1994-2000 studied sculpture at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee
1992 trained as stonemason (journeyman's certificate)

2002-2005 visiting instructor at the KHB-Weißensee, coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Study Program
2002- member of »damensalon«

Exhibitions (selected)
2012 Ex Girlfriends in the Age of Drones, curated by Linda Green / Una Tittel, gallery space at Naherholung Sternchen, Berlin /// Space Release #2: Spacial Shift, Stedefreund Berlin
2011 Faster and Slower Lines - aus der Sammlung Pétur Arason und Ragna Róbertsdóttir, curated by Birta Guðjónsdóttir, Hafnarhús, Reykjavik Art Museum, Island /// Space Release #1: 12 Titles, Stedefreund, Berlin /// Preview 2011, Stedefreund, Berlin /// Art and Architecture - Three competitions, Art-Space of the German Bundestag at Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders Haus /// Lage 3:20, #4 - Das Kuriositätenkabinett, curated by Jofroi Amaral und Pierre Granoux, LAGE 3:20, Berlin /// Die Linie überschreiten. Eine Zeichnungsausstellung, kuratiert von Florian Müller-Klug, Schau Fenster. Schauraum für Kunst, Berlin /// based around Babusch, curated by Barbara Scheuermann, babusch, Berlin /// Seeing is remembering, Stefka Ammon, AK Dolven (NO), Emanuel Geisser (CH), curated by Anne Fäser, Stedefreund, Berlin /// Uferhallen Kunstaktien, Uferhallen, Berlin /// What is treason?, thealit, Bremen
2010 Mareschstrasse 15 Studios, Berlin - Neukölln /// Schnell & Schmutzig, with Robert Ziegler, www.my-wtc.com, Markthalle IX, Berlin-Kreuzberg /// 2 UM-Festival, plein-air, Uckermark, Land Brandenburg /// DMY - International Design Festival, Berlin, contribution for Le Van Bos HartzIV-furniture /// Visibility Conditions, with Veronike Hinsberg, Juliane Laitzsch, Stedefreund, Berlin
2009 Anonyme Zeichner N°10, Kunstamt Kreuzberg im Künstlerhaus Bethanien /// Attention, Erlkönig, Gebäude, .... ,Freunde aktueller Kunst e.V., Zwickau /// Club 89, Marks Blond, Bern, Schweiz /// Gaze, installation by Stefka Ammon and Astrid Busch, Stedefreund, Preview Berlin /// The World Within / group show Berlin - Skopje, curated by Elena Veljanovska, Stedefreund /// O U T O F W E D D I N G / Uferhallen, Berlin /// Anonymous Drawings / archive selection 2009, fruehsorge/ contemporary drawing, Berlin /// Mahn oh Mahn, Emerson Gallery, Berlin
2008 Wharf Road Project, The Wenlock Building, London /// Stedefreund at the Preview Berlin 2008 /// UM08, 1. festival für kunst.literatur.musik, fergitz, uckermark /// MINI MINUTES, Festival des kleinen Films, Münster /// Schöner Wohnen at the Kollwitzplatz, group show, curated by Julia Staszak, Husemannstrasse, Berlin /// ICON with Sonja Draub, Susanne Huth, Eva Meyer and Eran Schaerf, Stedefreund /// Stedefreund at the Art Athina, "Berlin now- "then we take Berlin", curated by Sarah Belden /// Manual CC - Instructions for Beginners and Advanced Players, uqbar, Berlin
2007 Ten years and a day after the day when Di died, interactive installation in front of Stedefreund///Kunst am Bau - German Embassy in Warsaw, Stefka Ammon//Veronike Hinsberg, third prize for Ziemniak/Kartoffel, Department for Foreign Affairs, Berlin///Raum für Kunst, contribution for an installation by Julia Staszak, Galerie Christa Burger, Munich///Wo man hin sieht, Stefka Ammon//Sandra Zuanovic, with a contribution by Esther Dischereit, Stedefreund///Wild West, with Ethan Jackson, Björn Hegardt and Gudrun Rauwolf, German-American Institute (DAI) Saarbrücken, Mia-Münster-Haus, St. Wendel///Alles Gute, liebe Kunst!, Stedefreund, Berlin
2006 Cultural Clash, Art Tape Center, Halifax, Canada /// Berliner Kunstsalon, Stedefreund, Berlin
2005 Vorfreude, contribution to exhibition by Katja Pudor, Galerie Weißer Elefant, Berlin /// überdreht — Spin Doctoring, Politik, Medien, thealit, Bremen (catalog) /// Avanti Melancholia, contribution to exhibition by Katharina Karrenberg, Museum of Modern Art, Tallinn, Estonia /// Electric Ladyland, Umformwerk Bewag, Berlin (catalog)
2004 Neue Kunst in alten Gärten, Park Gut Lenthe, Hannover (catalog) /// deconstruct me — I am an artist, symposium, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin /// WildWest, magnifico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA /// 5 x 1 = 6 x 5, Projektraum des Kunstamtes Kreuzberg, Berlin /// WildWest, Landmark Arts Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA (catalog)
2003 Me, Window on Broad, Rosenwald-Wolff Gallery, University of Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA /// WildWest, Basekamp, Philadelphia, PA, USA /// Entblössung in der Schweiz, Rencontres International Paris-Berlin, Paris, France /// WildWest, augenblick-raum für gegenwartskunst, Berlin
2002 I wish I was ... I am ..., Kaskadenkondensator, Basel, Switzerland (solo show) /// Prime Time 2, FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, France /// Bestof V.I.D. 2001/2002, 2002, Festival for Video Art, V.I.D. Berne, Switzerland
2001 The real virtuality, Fishing Enterprise, Staatsbank, Berlin /// Reich & Berühmt, Fishing Enterprise in cooperation with Podewil, Staatsbank /// Mart-Stam Prize recipients exhibition, Kulturkaufhaus Dussmann, Berlin (catalog) /// Künstlerbilder, Galerie Helga Broll hosted by Galerie Mesaoo Wrede, Hamburg
2000 3. International Student Triennale, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey (catalog) /// Hauptsache, man ist gesund und glücklich, performance with Franziska Wüsten, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel, Switzerland
1999 sticker shock, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Philadelphia, USA (catalog) /// Videonight, MadeaStudio, Kitakyushu, Japan
1997 Kunstverein Frankfurt/Oder, with Dorothea Neitzert /// transfer, Jannowitzbrücke S-Bahn station (catalog)
1995 Galerieprojekt Artus, Hamburg

Grants and Awards
2012 second place, art-competition, former church of the Dominicans - new design of windows, Bamberg
2011 awardee of the program "George Sand - Frédéric Chopin", Stiftung Genshagen 
second prize, art-competition, Elisabeth Lüders Building, Berlin
2009 Muzychi Expanded History, Private Residency program in Ukraine
2006 with Veronike Hinsberg Third prize for concept "Ziemniak/Kartoffel" art competition for German Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung
2005 Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, travel and residence stipend, Lithuania
2003 project sponsorship, Berliner Senat, Berlin
2002/2003 DAAD travel stipend to Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
2002 nominated for VID-Award, Festival für Videokunst, Berne, Switzerland
2002 artist in residence, Werkraum Warteck, Basel, Switzerland
2001-2002 IPA Jahresstipendium des Landes Berlin
2000 Förderpreis der Mart-Stam Gesellschaft, Berlin
1999 Vermont Studio Center, Artists-in-Residence Program, Johnson, Vermont, USA
1995-2001 scholarship recipient, ev. Studienwerk Villigst