Dirk Stewen
Biography
Born 1972 in Dortmund
Lives and works in Hamburg
Education
1992–1995
Art History at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
1995–2001
Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
Elfenbein, Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg
Dirk Stewen, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg
2010
Maureen Paley, London
Chez Atle, Project at private apartment, Berlin
2009
droplets, c/o – Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
Dirk Stewen: Paper Eye Collection, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Six for Oslo, Galleri MGM, Oslo
Exercises, Overbeck Gesellschaft, Lübeck
2008
The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers 2.3: Dirk Stewen, CCA Wattis Institute
for Contemporary Arts,
San Francisco
2007
Pictures not lovers, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
Pictures, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf
2006
Even in its blackness, the sky did not rest, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Sugar, Lump, Sugar, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart
2005
Boîte AC, Wohnungsausstellung bei Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Berlin
2002
Le Mépris, Galerie Nomadenoase Hamburg
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
Wert / Sache, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, ex tip-Berlin-Shop, Tagesspiegel-Areal
The Anxiety of Photography, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
2010
SHAZAM!, c/o – Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
10 Jahre, Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers,
176 Zabludowicz Collection,
London (cat.)
Milk Drop Coronet, Camera Austria: steirischer herbst, Graz
The Page, curated by John Stezaker and Matthew Higgs, Kimmerich, New York
Art on Paper 2010: The 41st Exhibition, curated by Xandra Eden, Weatherspoon
Art Museum of Greensboro, North Carolina
2009
privat – Wuppertaler Sammler der Gegenwart, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
Markus Amm, Tobias Hantmann, Michail Pirgelis, Dirk Stewen, Artleib, Düsseldorf
2008
Wir nennen es Hamburg, Hamburg Kunstverein, Hamburg
Bookish, curated by Matt Packer, Lewis Glucksmann Gallery, Cork
Summer Group Show, Galerie Eva Winkeler, Frankfurt/Main
2007
Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
Ballet Mécanique, curated by Emma Dexter, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
The Three Cities – Exhibition in Print: Tank magazine, Volume 4 Issue
8, London
Pale carnage, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
Very abstract and hyper figurative, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Thomas Dane
Gallery, London
Pale carnage, Arnolfini, Bristol
Galleri MGM, Oslo
2006
The Three Cities – Milan: The Factory, Milan
partoftheprocess2, Galleria Zero, Milan
Das Stipendium, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
The Glass Bead Game, curated by Alun Rowlands and Matt Williams, Vilma Gold
Project Space, Berlin
2005
Alles.In einer Nacht, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery,
New York
It takes some time to open an Oyster, curated by Yilmaz Dziewior, Centro Cultural
Andratx, Andratx-Mallorca
Boîte à Conserves, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg
Suburbia, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen
2004
Formalismus, Moderne Kunst, heute, Kunstverein in Hamburg
Ausstellungsraum Taubenstrasse 13
2000
The Color of Friendship, curated by Elke aus dem Moore, Shedhalle, Zürich