FELIX STUMPF

Force The City I 2014

"Force the City" and "Pflastersteine Kreuzberg" (Rocks of Kreuzberg) are my latest series of drawings on paper and stones that draw on common patterns and objects found in the urban environment.

Through the juxtaposition of scale and color our attention is drawn to a possible world in which the familiar or overlooked place is broken down, re-drawn and re-imagined.

Kreuzberg, a district in West Berlin, is historically known for its political motivation and left winged inhabitants. In the recent past they were not scared of being radical and figthing the authorities, throwing rocks, squatting buildings, setting cars and garbage cans on fire. 

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Artist influenced by: Philipp Bauknecht, German Expressionism, concrete art, Bauhaus, Carl Andre,  Sol Lewitt, Gabriel Orozco, Situationist International, Suprematism, Gordon Matta Clark 

Bio

Felix Stumpf is the founder of Studio Klein based in Berlin, Germany working with drawings, sculptures and interventions in the urban landscape. He studied Visual Communication at the HFG Pforzheim, Germany and Space Strategies/Art in Open Space program at Berlin School of Art. 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015 "39qm Neuland" Bootshaus am Spreefeld Berlin, Germany 2013
2015 "Ritornello" Stubenflieger, Luzern, Switzerland
2012 "On the Weißensee" District Kunst- und Kulturförderung Berlin 2005
2012 Kunst für Freunde, Gerlingen, Germany 

 

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS 

2015 S.o.S. Weißensee, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin
2015 People run over streets` Make City Festival Berlin
2014 The corner`, Blue Monday, Artitude Kunstverein, Berlin Kreuzberg
2013 81 Bodenplatten` Württembergisches Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
2013 Tutti Fuori, Art Squat Berlin
2013 The Naked City` Berliner Wirtschaftsgespräche
2012 Dictate : Creation` The Law of The Market. Berlin – Bangalore
2012 Month of Performance Art Berlin, Kunstverein ACUD e.V.
2011 Rundgang Kunsthochschule Weißensee, ort Art Berlin
2011 "The Naked City" la belle alliance, 37 manifestos. How to become collective in four easy lessons, Berlin
2010 Rauschen`TDC New York 

PERMANENT ART INSTALLATIONS

2014 "Die Markierung des ortes" The Mercator Research institute on Global Commons and Cli- mate Change Berlin
2014 "Die Karteografie des ortes ii" The Mercator Research institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Berlin
2014 "Die Karteografie des ortes i" The Mercator Research institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Berlin
2013 "Die Kartografie der Welt" The Mercator Research institute on Global Commons and Cli- mate Change Berlin
2012 "Elinor ostrom" The Mercator Research institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Berlin 

AWARDS 

2012 Walter-Tiemann-Price Shortlist, Leipzig, Germany
2011 Young Talents Award for German Bookart, Frankfurt, Germany

2010 Nominated for the German Photobook Price 

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