Manuel Stehli

About

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Manuel Stehli, born in Zurich, studied painting at the Academy of Visual Art Leipzig and at the Camberwell College of Arts in London and is currently based in Berlin.

In his recent work, Stehli has been focusing on life-sized paintings of humans ineracting with each other. While the situations presented appear rather concrete at first glance, Stehli’s paintings refuse a specific placement in space and time. There is a sense of impenetrable remoteness to these works, but at the same time an almost eery, unambiguous intimacy that is bound to involve the spectator.

Parallel to these large canvases, several series of small body details have come into being. These works both stand for themselves and represent a resonance space for the latter, as they blur the lines between topology and anatomy, between surface and skin.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Come too close, 1690X Art Space, Shanghai (2023)
Oh so slowly, Schierke Seinecke, Frankfurt (2023)
In its place, TAO Art Space, Taipei (2022)
From a distance, Grisebach, Zurich (2021)
Moving inland, Marguo, Paris (2021)
Strangers when we meet, Lemoyne, Zurich (2020)
Sober speech, Czech Centre Berlin (2020)
Some kind of change, Studio Picknick, Berlin (2019)
Wait a second, Schierke Seinecke, Frankfurt (2018)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Schweden, curated by Nadin M. Rüfenacht, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig (2023)
Nous, petits bourgeois, curated by Andrzej Steinbach and Steffen Zillig, Briefing Room, Brussels (2023)
CRUSH, curated by Hannah Weidner für Grove Collective, Backhaus, Berlin (2022)
Versa, curated by Lisa Deml, Salon am Moritzplatz, Berlin (2022)
Salon der Gegenwart, Helmhaus Zürich, Zurich (2022)
In conversation with Selina Lutz, curated by Katrin Sperry, Grand Palais, Bern (2021)
Interfaces, or those who caress the surface, curated by Alizée Gazeau, Interface, Berlin (2021)
Future Forms Fiction, curated by Amélie Esterházy-Blendl and Gawain v. Mallinckrodt, Schaufenster, Berlin (2020)
Kunstpreis Junger Westen, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (2019)

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
Shortlisted for Preis der Leipziger Jahresausstellung, Leipzig (2021)
Shortlisted for Kunstpreis Junger Westen, Recklinghausen (2019)
Shortlisted for Berlin Masters Award, Berlin (2018)
Winsor&Newton-Residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2017/18)
Art grant from the Canton of Zurich (2016)