Manuel Stehli Swiss, b. 1988
Manuel Stehli was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1988 and graduated from Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig in 2014.
In his recent work, Manuel Stehli has been focusing on the life-sized depiction of the human figure, both individually and in groups. While the situations presented appear rather concrete at first glance, Stehli's paintings refuse a specific placement in space and time. They don't represent events but rather states, experimental arrangements showing one possibility out of many.
There is a peculiar sense of limbo inherent in these paintings: between their blatant presence on the one hand and their muteness on the other, between the intimacy they suggest and the remoteness within which it is sealed. Stehli's works are reticent, they don't reach out to the spectator, but rather act as mere presences, be it as counterparts or placeholders, leaving one to fill the silences themselves.
His recent solo exhibitions include 'Strangers When We Meet' at Lemoyne (Zurich, Switzerland, 2020), 'Sober Speech' at Gallery of the Czech Centre Berlin(Berlin, Germany, 2020), 'Some Kind of Change' at Sudio Picknick (Berlin, Germany, 2019), 'Tongue Tied' at WERK (Berlin, Germany, 2019), 'Wait A Second' at Schierke Seinecke (Frankfurt, Germany, 2018).
Born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1988
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
EDUCATION
2008 – 2014 | Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig |
2010 – 2014 | Class of Professor Annette Schröter |
2011 – 2012 | Camberwell College of Arts, London, class of Daniel Sturgis |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 | Lemoyne, ‘Strangers When We Meet’, Zurich, Switzerland |
Gallery of the Czech Centre Berlin, ‘Sober Speech’, Berlin, Germany Berlin, Germany | |
2019 | Sudio Picknick, ‘Some Kind of Change’, Berlin, Germany |
WERK, ‘Tongue Tied’, Berlin, Germany | |
2018 | Schierke Seinecke, ‘Wait A Second’, Frankfurt, Germany |
2016 | Bistro 21, ‘Jetzt, Aber’, Leipzig, Germany |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 |
Galerie Burster, ‘New Neighbours’, Berlin, Germany |
2020 | Kunstverein Haus 8, ‘Hookup’, Kiel, Germany |
Sonneundsolche, ‘Little Room for Wildness’ with Maria Wallace, Düsseldorf, Germany |
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Oel Früh, ‘Minibar’, Hamburg, Germany | |
Schau Fenster - Raum für Kunst, ‘Future Forms and Fiction’, Berlin, Germany | |
2019 | Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, ‘Kunstpreis Junger Westen 2019’, Recklinghausen, Germany |
Setareh x, ‘Conduct’ with Katharina Maderthaner, Düsseldorf, Germany | |
Kunstraum Super, Presentation of AVE Magazine 5, Vienna, Austria | |
The Window, ‘VIER5 & SQUIZZY P Show Drawings of Today’, Paris, France | |
Vertretung des Freistaates Sachsen beim Bund, ‘Neuzugänge zeitgenössischer Kunst im Sächsischen Kunstfonds 2018’, Berlin, Germany |
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2018 |
Lehderstraße 35, ‘Berlin Masters’, Berlin, Germany |
Halle 14, ‘WIN/WIN’ The Acquisitions of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, Leipzig, Germany | |
Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, ‘Lütt’, Berlin, Germany | |
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, ‘Out of Touch / Out of Time’ with Aneta Kajzer, Berlin, Germany | |
Kantonsspital Basel Landschaft, ‘Verstehen-Nicht Verstehen’, Basel, Switzerland | |
2017 | Halle 53, ‘Jungkunst 2017’, Winterthur, Switzerland |
Langestraße 31, ‘Supervision’, Frankfurt, Germany | |
Raum Weisz, ‘A Space Odyssey: 5 Jahre Raum Weisz’, Leipzig, Germany | |
2016 |
Museum Haus Konstruktiv, ‘Werkschau 2016’, Zurich, Switzerland |
INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
Collection of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
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Manuel StehliOrder, 2018Oil on canvas180 x 150 cm
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Manuel StehliPraxis, 2018Oil on canvas170 x 135 cm
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Manuel StehliUntitled, 2019Oil on canvas180 x 240 cm
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Manuel StehliUntitled, 2019Oil on canvas180 x 150 cm
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Manuel StehliUntitled, 2019Oil on canvas180 x 160 cm
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Manuel StehliUntitled (fortress I, fortress II), 2019Oil on canvasEach: 40 x 50 cm, set of 2
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Manuel StehliUntitled, 2020Oil on canvas180 x 240 cm
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Manuel StehliUntitled, 2020Oil on canvas200 x 170 cm
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Manuel StehliUntitled, 2020Oil on canvas240 x 190 cm
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Manuel StehliUntitled(Bruch), 2020Oil on canvas170 x 210 cm
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Manuel StehliUntitled (pair of hands III), 2021Oil on canvas30 x 36 cm