Stefan Kern

Born in Hamburg, Germany, Stefan Kern studied art in Frankfurt from 1988 to 1993 at the side of Per Kirkeby, Ulrich Rückriem and Franz West.

Kern’s sculptures are beautiful, noble and most of all: disturbing.

The precisely finished forms, reduced to a functional minimum, emphasize the static quality of their decidedly sculptural appearance. However, harmonious shapes and monochrome, neutral colours underline their industrial character, blurring their contours and making them part of the environment in which they are situated.

Kern’s sculptures are supposed to be conceived in immediate connection with the location exhibiting. Although their relationship to a location is not always immediately obvious, their precise forms are based on a formal analysis of the place for which they are created. The objects deliberately refuse to be considered as autonomous units and thus integrate their environment in the process of both creation and conception.

Kern’s pieces can be found in some of the major Munich museums. Recent exhibitions include the Neues Museum in Nuremberg, ZKM in Karlsruhe, The State Russian Museum in St Petersburg and Galerie Wittenbrink in Munich.