Rebecca Stephany, 1980, Germany
lives and works in Amsterdam, NL
EDUCATION AND RESIDENCIES
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL, 2010 – 2011
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL, 2004 – 2006
Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main, GER, 2001 – 2004
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2010
INFORM. Award for Conceptual Design, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, GER
Dr. Hendrik Muller’s Vaderlandsch Fonds, NL
2009 Fonds BKVB, contribution to working budget
2008 Startstipendium, Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam, NL
2007 Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007 and Most Beautiful German Books 2008
for Project Vitra (in collaboration with Cornel WIndlin)
2006 Albert Klijn Prize
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 INFORM. Award for Conceptual Design, Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, GER
2009 Rebecca Stephany – The Early Year (Lehrjahre sind keine Herrenjahre), Plan B, Amsterdam, NL
(SELECTED) GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
the forever ending story #013 – Basel Research Base, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, CH (forthcoming)
Past in Presence, Kunstenfestival Watou, BE
The Happy Children Nuancing Down The Hall, Residence Botkyrka, Stockholm, SE
2008 The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007, with Project Vitra, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, CH
2007 Outfitting Subversion, Three Walls Gallery, Chicago, US
2006 Final Exams Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
TEACHING AND LECTURES
since 2007 teaching at the Graphic Design Department of Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Amsterdam, NL
2010 lecture at Museum for Contemporary Art Leipzig, GER
2009 lecture and workshop at ‘Die Aktionklasse’, Berlin, GER
lecture and presentation, ‘I want to be a political artist…’, W139, Amsterdam, NL
PUBLICATIONS
2010 More Abgrund, More Zweifel, Less Pferdepipi
2009 I want to be a political artist but I’m not quite there yet.
I did this in the meanwhile.
2008 Weightlessness in Tight Leotards
2006 Archiving Today
2005 Laserpublic
(all in self publication)
PRESS AND CONTRIBUTIONS
W139 #1, NL, 2010
Graphic Magazine #10, 2009
Graphic Spaces, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2008
Grafik Magazine, 2007
ID Magazine, 2006
Gray Magazine/NL
Girls Like Us/NL
Creative Aggression/AUS
Hippy Shit/USA
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Rebecca Stephany
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
Sarphatistraat 470
NL-1018 GW Amsterdam