Stefan Hirsig

Stefan Hirsig (b. 1966 in Berlin, lives and works in Berlin) is a painter of dynamic and energetic compositions. In his large-format and exuberant paintings, structures and patterns, which the painter painstakingly leaves on the surface, come together in collage-like shapes. Everything is in motion. It is a constant change between abstraction and figuration. Various references to the history of art and culture unfold here and there until they are then drowned out by another element of the picture, for example a hand that rebels defiantly into the foreground. Or it is a brushstroke, which has to giveway to the just referring scene, which itself in turn is interrupted by strong color spots, where an explosion of color and texture further emerges. The passionate stormy tension that covers the canvas conveys a fascinating sense of depth, into which one easily gets lost.

Since 1996, Stefan Hirsig’s works were presented in numerous exhibitions, such as Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Galerie Martin Klosterfelde, Berlin, Sprüth Magers, Munich, Heinrich Erhardt, Madrid, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, and Spencer Brownstone, New York. Since 2017, he has been represented by Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin. 



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Installation view Spencer Brownstone, New York, 2007




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Installation view Klosterfelde Berlin, 2008





1966

Born in Berlin, Germany / geboren in Berlin, Deutschland

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany / lebt und arbeitet in Berlin, Deutschland

Education/ Ausbildung

1988 – 1993

Hochschule der Künste Berlin (Professor Bernd Koberling)

Selected Solo Exhibitions / Ausgewählte Soloausstellungen

2022

Stefan Hirsig, Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin (upcoming / Gallery Weekend)

2020

“Der Maler ist hell” (The Painter is Bright), Haverkampf Galerie, Berlin

2019

Solo Booth at art berlin with Philipp Haverkampf Galerie, Berlin

2018

‘Danger’, Galerie Philipp Haverkampf, Berlin

2017

‘Schnee von heute’, Galerie Philipp Haverkampf, Berlin

2014

´I Live in an Orange´, Primae Noctis Gallery, Lugano, CH

2012

Primae Noctis Gallery, Lugano, CH

2011

Primomarellagallery , Milan, I

‘Ring‘, Galerie Wendt + Friedmann, Berlin

2010

‘Le Peintre e son Model’, with Christian Achenbach, Galerie Wendt + Friedmann, Berlin

2008

Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin

Galerie Charlotte Moser, Genf, CH

2007

‘The World is Bound With Secret Knots’, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin

Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, USA

‘There is Water at the Bottom of the Ocean’, Lightbox, LA, USA

2006

Galerie Charlotte Moser, Genf, CH

2005

Marella Arte Contemporanea, Mailand, IT

Galerie Xippas, Paris, FR

2004

Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin

OSRAM-Haus, München

2002

Galerie Philomene Magers, München

‘Echo’, Galeria Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, ES

2001

‘AllIneed‘, Klosterfelde, Berlin

2000

‘Are Friends Electric‘, Arc, Wien, AT

Galleria Franco Noero, Turin

Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg

Galerie Philomene Magers, München

Gió Marconi, Mailand, IT

1999

Klosterfelde, Berlin

Galeria Mário Sequeira, PT (with Michel Majerus)

1998

Klosterfelde, Berlin

1996

‘Other Voices, Other Rooms‘, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

1994

Daniel Fusban, München

Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin

Selected Group Exhibitions / Ausgewählte Gruppenausstellungen

2020

‘Boxenstopp’, KWADRAT, Berlin GER

‘Elf’, SchauFenster, Berlin, GER

‘Alptraum (Nightmare)’, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, US

2019

‘Alptraum: The Wandering Show’, Fine Art Complex, Tempe, AZ, US

‘+1’, Safe Gallery, Berlin, GER

2016

‘Vitales Echo‘, Künstlerhaus Bethanien

2015

‘Inaugural Exhibition‘, Galerie Patrick Ebensperger

Schauräume Wien, Vienna

2011

‘Black Beauty White Swan‘, Galerie Wendt&Friedmann, Berlin

‘Verschwende Deine Jugend‘, Galerie Wendt&Friedmann, Berlin

2010

CCA Gallery, Andratx, Mallorca

‘On Portrait‘ , Kunstagenten, Berlin

‘Night of the Pawn‘, Leipzig

‘Der Agnostische Blick‘, Mbf-Kunstprojekte, München

2009

‘Self-Portraits‘, Circleculture Gallery, Berlin

2007

‘Play Yourself‘, Gimpel Fils, London

‘Dialogue Pictural‘, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Genf

2006

‘Thank You For The Music‘, Galerie Sprüth Magers Lee, London

‘Stile Libero 2‘, Studio d’Arte, Cannaviello, Mailand

‘Liaisons Excentriques‘, Domaines de Chamarandes, F

2005

‘Bendix Harms, Stefan Hirsig, Stephan Jung‘, Galeria de Arte Antonia Puyó, Zaragoza

‘Thank you for the music‘, Galerie Sprüth Magers, München

2004

‘Stay Positive! A group show on positivism and abstraction ‘, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Mailand

‘Arbeiten auf Papier / Works on paper‘, Sprüth Magers Projekte, München

2003

‘Abstrakte Malerei‘, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen

2002

‘Dubuffet and Graffiti Art‘, Palazzo Martinengo, Brescia

2001

‘The (Ideal) Home Show‘, Gimpel Fils, London, UK

‘Life goes on‘, Arc, Wien

‘Drawings‘, sommer contemporary art, Israel

‘Musterkarte – Modelos de pintura en Alemania 2001‘, Galeria Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid

‘Frisch gerahmt‘, Artothek im Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn

1999

‘Bilder aus Städten‘, Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt am Main

Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt am Main

‘Officina Europa‘ (‘European Factory‘), Bologna

‘Flaming June‘, works on paper, Los Angeles, CA

1998

‘Harms, Jung, Hirsig‘, Galerie Philomene Magers, Köln

‘SALON 98‘, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin bei Tishman & Speyer Properties, Messeturm, Frankfurt am Main

‘Harms, Jung, Hirsig‘, Galeria Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid

1996

‘Malerei III, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Köln, D ‘A bonnie situation‘, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

‘Sammlung Volkmann zeigt: Faustrecht der Freiheit‘, Kunstsammlung Gera, Gera und Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen

1994

‘Amsterdam’, Fons Welters, NL

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