My interest in art and writing has accompanied me since I can think of. At the beginning of my deeper occupation with art I have done an apprentice-ship as stone mason/sculptor after finishing school, and this persistent work of setting free shapes has influenced my way of working even though I have left behind stone as a medium and use whatever a project suggests. Many people suppose that working with stone involves a lot of power, but actually it is a lenghty process of rythm and endurance.
In one of my recent works, haufenweise (in heaps)I have dived into language, when I collected German words ending in -los (in English -less; the words define a loss or the absence of something). At the same time the noun Los is meaning Go!, lot, fortune. I have collected around 130 Germany words ending in -los and got raffle lots manufactured with the words printed on them; here the absence of something becomes the fortune.
Another project The clouds 200 years ago was a series of drawings on porcelain; here drawings and etchings by Alexander Cozens and Constable, where they tried to show cloud formations before they were classified by Luke Howard were copied in drawings on porcelain tiles.
Steffi Jüngling
- born 1970 in Haßfurt/Northern Bavaria, Germany
- 1991-1994:
apprenticeship as sculptor in Nurembourg, Germany - 1994:
EU scholarship „Leonardo“ in Montpellier, France - 1996-2002:
Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany (Braun scholarship for graduating) - 2000-2001:
MA Fine Arts at Central St Martins College in London, GB (DAAD grant) - 2003-2004:
EU scholarship „RADAR“ for Venice, Italy
DAAD scholarship for Japan - 2005:
Robert-Bosch scholarship for project in Ulan-Ude, Siberia - 2005-2006:
PGCE Secondary Art Education, Greenwich University, London - 2007-2017:
Lecturer, School of Art, Kassel
2007-2009: research, Wimbeldon School of Art, London
Exhibitions
2017 ART.POETRY.SPACE, ursula blickle lab, Kraichtal, D
2017 WUNSCHLOS, Kunsttempel Kassel, D
2016 haufenweise, Brüderkirche Kassel, D
2011 Happy Birthday Hedwig! Kunsttempel, Kassel, D
2010 Die Kunst des Buchhaltens, Leipzig, D
2006 Ein neues Drake Monument für Offenburg, Offenburg, D
2006 Schweizer Krankheit, Kunsthaus, Dresden, D
2003 Room4love, ef Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2002 RADAR Xtra50 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Steffi Jüngling
- geb. 1970 in Haßfurt
- 1991-1994:
Ausbildung zur Steinbildhauerin in Nürnberg - 1994:
EU Stipendium „Leonardo“, Montpellier, Frankreich - 1996-2002:
Studium Freie Kunst bei Norbert Radermacher Kunsthochschule, Kassel (Braun Abschlußstipendium) - 2000-2001:
MA Fine Arts, Central St Martins College of Fine Arts, London (DAAD Stipendium) - 2003-2004:
EU Stipendium „RADAR“ für Venedig, Italien
DAAD Stipendium für Japan - 2005:
Robert-Bosch Projekt-Stipendium für Ulan-Ude, Sibirien - 2005-2006:
PGCE Secondary Art Education, Greenwich University, London - 2007-2017:
künstlerische Mitarbeiterin Kunsthochschule Kassel
2007-2009 Research, Wimbeldon School of Art, London
Ausstellungen
2017 ART.POETRY.SPACE, ursula blickle lab, Kraichtal, D
2017 WUNSCHLOS, Kunsttempel Kassel, D
2016 haufenweise, Brüderkirche Kassel, D
2011 Happy Birthday Hedwig! Kunsttempel, Kassel, D
2010 Die Kunst des Buchhaltens, Leipzig, D
2006 Ein neues Drake Monument für Offenburg, Offenburg, D
2006 Schweizer Krankheit, Kunsthaus, Dresden, D
2003 Room4love, ef Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2002 RADAR Xtra50 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Unsere Sprache und Wahrnehmung gibt mir immer wieder Impulse der poetischen Entdeckung und Erfahrung. Literatur, historische Schriften oder Phänomene und aktuelle Fragestellungen sind häufig der Ausgangspunkt für meine künstlerische Arbeit; in der Auseinandersetzung werden unterschiedlichste Materialien neu genutzt und betrachtbar gemacht.