Stefanie B?rkle (1966) studied scenography in Paris and painting at the University of Arts in Berlin. As an artist and urban researcher, she has explored topics such as the city, artificial worlds, and the relationship between fa?ades, space, and architecture. In doing so she has used various media, including painting, photography, postcards, and wallpaper. She interrogates common perceptions by reinterpreting our surfaces of projection and the spaces that lie behind them. Her projects include “Beirut Berlin” (a comparison of two formerly divided cities), “Eiscaf? Venezia” (about Italian ice-cream parlor culture in Germany), and “Berlin Wallpaper” (a living room wall decoration using the likeness of the Palace of the Republic). “Lo Chao tu Hanoi,” a photo and video study of Vietnamese life in Germany, was financed in part by the Capital Cultural Fund, and exhibited in Hanoi, Berlin, and Leipzig in 2007 and 2008.
Stefanie B?rkle holds the chair for Fine Arts at Technische Universit?t Berlin.
The places Stefanie’s work has appeared include:
Berlin Museum; City Gallery Prague;
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau;
Biennale Venice, Sektion Architektur, Expo on Line, Venice;
PS1, New York;
Galerie Lelong, Zurich
StoreFront for Art and Architecture, New York;
National Academy of Science, Washington, DC;
Kwangju Biennale, South Korea; Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen;
Kunsthaus Dresden;
Lindenmuseum Stuttgart;
Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin;
NGBK, Berlin;
Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London
66 east centre for urban culture, Amsterdam;
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart;