ABOUT

lives and works in Berlin, Germany
mail@karenstuke.de
++49 152 09425100
Karen Stuke completed her studies in Photo/Film Design at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences and graduated under Gottfried Jäger and Jürgen Heinemann in 1999.
1996 she achieved a foreign exchange scholarship for the Academie Minerva in Groningen, the Netherlands.
In 1999, Stuke received a crucial grant from the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia.
To this day, she has been collaborating with some of the most prestigious directors and theatres including Gottfried Pilz at the Vienna State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opéra Comique Paris, the Los Angeles Opera and many more.
She did exhibit at the Art Museum in Mülheim an der Ruhr along names such as Maria Loboda, Thomas Ruff, Michael Schnabel, Emil Nolde, Ernst Barlach and Pablo Picasso.
In addition to having her works displayed at various group exhibitions, her solo exhibitions titled „Sleeping Sister“ and „Opera Obscura“ took place in Berlin, „4 Rooms“ in Malta, St. James Cavalier, and „City Lights“ was seen at Elipsis Gallery in Istanbul.
Karen was involved in a project called „Amongst Neighbours“, an artist exchange project in the course of Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture.
on the productions of the festival. So she stayed as an artist in residence at PrimoPianoNapoli and present those works at the PAN (Palazzo delle Arti Napoli) in 2011.
workshops, lectures
2019 Kommunale Galerie Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
International Summer Academy of Fine Arts & Media, Venice, Italy
2017 Festival Neuer Kunst „lAbiRynt“ in Slubice, Poland
International Summer Academy of Fine Arts & Media, Venice, Italy
2016 „Wolkersdorfer Fotowochen“ FotoFLUSS – Society for the promotion of photo and media art, Austria
2015 Photowerk Berlin, Germany
2013-21 Demonstrator, photographer and lecturer at the historical daylight photostudio, LWL Freilichtmuseum Detmold, Germany
2003 lecturer at Malta Photographic Society
2000 lecturer at Malta Photographic Society
1998 lecturer at the FH Potsdam, Germany by invitation of Prof. Gisela Scheidler
invitation to the symposium about theatre photography, Theaterfestival Theaterformen, Hannover, Germany
grants, awards and residencies
2021 Projektraum Stipendium Bildende Kunst, by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin
2020 Vonovia – Award für Fotografie, shortlist
2017 Kronenboden was one of the prize winners of the award program for artistic project spaces and initiatives
by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin
2013 Kunstpreis, picked by the jury, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
2012/13 artist in residence at Hotel Bogota, Berlin
2012 appointed member of the DGPh (the German Photographic Association)
2010 artist in residence Napoli Teatro Festival Italia
2004 Nomination for the “Golden Thumb”, 1st International Flipbook Festival, Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
1999 crucial grant from the Arts Foundation of NRW, Germany
1996 foreign exchange scholarship „Erasmus“ for the Academie Minerva in Groningen, the Netherlands
bibliography
»Nicht hinauslehnen«, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, cataloque 2019
»Show your darling IV – Die Wildnis« Atelier Sabine Wild, Berlin, cataloque 2019
»Aneignung – Künstler der Kolonie Wedding« catalogue 2018
»Umano, Troppo Umano« catalogue 2018
»Opera Obscura di Napoli« PrimoPiano Editioni, 2011
Die deutsche Bühne 10/2011 »Die Gleichzeitigkeit des Ungleichzeitigen« ISSN 0011-975X
»Der gedehnte Blick« ISBN 978-3-942311-00-7
»Es werde Dunkel! Nachtdarstellungen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst« ISBN 978-3-927877-73-3
European Month of Photography 2008 ISBN 978-3-940231-04-8
»Die Trilogie der schönen Zeit, oder: Warten macht mir nichts aus!« Edition Beaugrand Kulturkonzepte,
Verlag für Druckgrafik Hans Gieselmann ISBN 978-3-923830-63-3
»Selbstsicht – Der Schritt ins Bild« catalogue of Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie 2006 ISBN 3-9810254-2-3
»Malta 24/7« Project Malta, Progress Press Co Ltd ISBN 99903-3-0880-0
»24 Stunden Bielefeld« Westfalen Verlag ISBN 3-88918-098-1
leib & leben ISSN 1613-740X
Camera Austria, 74/2001 ISBN 3-900508-35-6