Barbara Steppe
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| 1956 |
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born in Karlsruhe
lives and works in Berlin |
| 1977 - 82 |
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Education at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 1985 - 86 |
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Scolarship for Chicago from the Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Baden-Württemberg |
| 1986 - 88 |
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Education and part- time teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
| 1988 |
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Master of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
| 1990 |
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Grant from the Helmut-Kraft-Stiftung, Stuttgart |
| 1991 |
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Lingener Art Award, Kunstverein Lingen |
| 1992 |
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Grant from the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg |
| 1993 |
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Art award from the Grundkreditbank, Berlin |
| 1993/2002 |
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Work grant from the Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin
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Projects (selection)
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| 1993/1994 |
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Stage designs for dance projects of Sasha Waltz and Guests
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| since 1996 |
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Portraits
portraying individuals or groups of people, by investigating and illustrating in Peoples social situations and the way they manage their every-day-time.
Based on a statistical evaluation of the portrayed people's individual habits and actions, pictures are produced, architectural models, sculptures, traversable floor plans, musical compositions and a dance/theatre piece.
The portraits enable the user/ spectator to develop a relationship to the portrayed person, and to simultaneously reflect on her/his own life and the economics of time. Single people and groups have been portrayed, for example, families, residents of a hotel, users of a public bench, tax office employees, or anonymous passers-by on a bridge in Berlin.
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| 1999 |
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Von A nach B
Photographs and Paper/Aluminum
Photographs taken on my daily route from home to the studio and exerpts of text from the political section of different newspapers, were associatively edited. That gives the impression, that the photo is illustrating the text and vice versa.
Despite the fact that the connection between the subjective/private traveldescription and the objective information is simulated, one media approves the „reality“ of the other.
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| 2002 |
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Transit Ein Tag in Hamburg, Hotel Wedina in Hamburg
.Floor, walls and ceiling: red and grey pigmented concrete.
A Portrait of the average hotel-guest. composed by 30 Guests.
The work is designed for an 18 meter long hallway in the entrance area of the Hotel
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| 2003 |
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design of the January edition of Le Monde diplomatique Nr1, 9.Jg. German edition
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| 2003 |
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„24 hours“ danceproject for 5 dancers, 5 musicians und 5 announcers.
The dance/theater piece was performed at the Festival les Grandes Traversees, Sasha Waltz & Guests in November 2003 in Bordeaux, Salle A. Vitez.
Five dancers describe five people at different age, profession and character, leading chronologically through phases of their day.
The musicans work with a partitur based on this same time structure.
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| 2004/2005 |
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Zeithaus
On a 2,50 x 4,50meter billboard, an utopian nine-story- building is announced to be build. The Appartments which are advertised, especially designed for the future owner. The size of each room in the appartment, is related to the time spent for the respective activity, using this area. (The size of the kitchen correlates to the amount of time spent for cooking, washing dishes etc.) these Informations are visible from the outside, through different movable pattern-elements in the facade, and window shades, of the building. The look of the building is changing constantly.
Zeithaus was designed for the exhibition Non Standard Cities, Berlin.
In the second phase of the project, the billboard was displayed on diverse building- sites in Berlin.
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| 2006 |
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Private History
An exhibition- and musikproject, about the life and socialstructure in Berlin
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