Rebecca Stephany, 1980, Germany
lives and works in Amsterdam, NL
EDUCATION AND RESIDENCIES
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL, 2010 (forthcoming)
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL, 2004 – 2006
Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main, GER, 2001 – 2004
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2009 INFORM Award for Conceptual Design, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, GER
2008 Startstipendium, Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam, NL
2007 Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007 for “Project Vitra” (in collaboration with Cornel WIndlin)
2006 Albert Klijn Prize
EXHIBITIONS
2010
"INFORM", Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, GER (forthcoming)
2009
"Rebecca Stephany – The Early Year (Lehrjahre sind keine Herrenjahre)", Plan B, Amsterdam, NL
2008
Brit Insurance Design Award 2009 (shortlist), Design Museum London, GB, with “Project Vitra”
2007
"Outfitting Subversion", Three Walls Gallery, Chicago, US, curated by Cat Mazza/microrevolt
"The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007", Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, CH, with “Project Vitra”
2006
Final Exams Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
2005
"Publish And Be Damned", CASCO, Utrecht, NL
TEACHING AND LECTURES
2009
lecture and presentation of “I want to be a political artist...”, W139, Amsterdam, NL
lecture and workshop at “Die Aktionsklasse” with Sisi Aress, Berlin
workshop at Gerrit Rietveld Academie with Sisi Aress, Amsterdam, NL
since 2008
workshops for students of the applied arts in collaboration with Christine Correll, Frankfurt, GER (as Sisi Aress)
since 2007
teaching at the Graphic Design Department of Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
PUBLICATIONS
"I want to be a political artist but I’m not quite there yet. I did this in the meanwhile", 2009
"Weightlessness in Tight Leotards", 2008
"Archiving Today", 2006
"Better Blood (doubting faster), blood love blood love (let me know)", 2005
in collaboration with Mathias Kreutzer and Paul Gangloff
"Laserpublic", 2005
(all in self publication)
PRESS AND CONTRIBUTIONS
Graphic Magazine #10, 2009
Graphic Spaces, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2008
Grafik Magazine, 2007
ID Magazine, 2006
Kunstpositionen 2004, 2004
Auch anders, year book HfG Offenbach, 2004
Gray Magazine/NL
Girls Like Us/NL
Creative Aggression/AUS
Hippy Shit/USA