New portrait: german artist Stefan Knauf / by Toni Ricart

Stefan Knauf (*1990 in Munich, Germany, lives and works in Berlin, Germany) received his MA in Fine Arts and Speculative Design from Universität der Künste in Berlin. He also studied at Columbia University in New York, USA, and the University of Fine Arts in Sicily, Italy.
His most recent solo and duo exhibitions include Paradies, D. D. D. D., New York, USA (with Manuel Stehli); Nachts wach, Livie Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland (with Manuel Stehli); Diorama, Eyes Only Gallery feat. Galerie Robert Grunenberg, Munich; Birds don’t cry, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin; Oscar Columno’, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin. His work was also included in group exhibitions at Sainte Anne Gallery, Paris; D.D.D.D. New York; Fructa Space, Munich, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Chezplinio, Milan, Italy, Galerie 7 Türen, Hamburg, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin and Höhenrausch Festival, Linz, Austria, and Livie Gallery, Zurich. In 2017 the artist has been awarded with the Hanke-Förster-Preis, Berlin, and a scholarship of Fraunhofer Institut, ISE Freiburg. Stefan Knauf’s work is included in various public collections such as the Peters-Messer Collection, Berlin/Viersen and Miettinen Collection, Berlin.