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In my artistic practice, I work across drawing, photography, and image-processing techniques. Through rhythm, repetition, nesting, layering, and translation, I intend to form relational systems where new relationships emerge, gradually exposing the conditions of the (digital) image itself.
The photographic work focuses on the everyday: objects, food, and the materials and minerals inside our technical devices – things easily overlooked because they belong to the routines, services, and infrastructures that sustain daily life. Brought together in still lifes and assemblages, different elements are rearranged into new, often surreal compositions. Through the camera, the work reflects on the act of looking itself – on the position from which we observe the world and what this reveals about our relationship to the material world.
Drawing, for me, is thinking through lines, rhythms, and densities. Working with ink, nib, and brush, some drawings emerge fast and intuitively; others build up slowly over weeks. The work attends to the implicit knowledge carried in the hand and body – shaped by habit, labour, craft, and the deep histories of drawing and writing.
Certain images undergo a further stage of transformation, shifting the focus from what they depict to their material and technical conditions. Treated as processable material, the digital image is subjected to rule-based operations — scaling, repetition, and multiplication in software — while other transformations arise through translation into alternative image and pattern-transfer technologies. Cycles of printing, re-photographing, and re-digitising move the image repeatedly between physical and digital states, referring to the underlying conditions of digital images themselves: grids, pixels, and discrete units. Through these processes, information transforms, erodes, and reorganises. Objects dissolve into fragments and patterns; representation gradually shifts toward process, where light, matter, and technical constraints become visible as formative conditions.
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On my Mastodon profile, I share my work on translation processes between image and pattern transfer technologies, from photolithography to early computing, and the materials and minerals that these processes are based on.
CONTACT & LINKS
stephaniestern@pm.me
TEXTS:
2024 Verborgene Strukturen by Bettina Spörr
2020 Mimicry and the Translation of Forms by Anthony Iles
EDUCATION:
2023: Le Mentorat, École nationale supérieure de la photographie, Arles, France
2012-2018: Art&Photography, Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria
2016-2017: Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Arts, UCL, London, UK
2011-2012: School for artistic photography, Friedl Kubelka, Vienna, Austria
LATEST & UPCOMING
2026
Solo Exhibition, Neue Galerie, Innsbruck
2025:
Nomination: Kardinal-König Art Prize; Exhibition at Kunstraum St. Virgil, Salzburg (November 2025).
Group Exhibition: Yogyakarta International Creative Art Festival (YICAF), 20.6 - 31.08.2025, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Group exhibition: Find a Spot / Zwischen Räumen May 26 – July 12, at t.a.s.xyz curated by Sophie Halder, Vienna
Solo Exhibition / Ritus Mat - Galerie Theodor von Hörmann, Imst
2024:
Solo Exhibition / Polyphone Verschiebungen - at RLB Atelier Lienz
2023:
Feiermaterial ELSHAN und STERN, Kunstinsert im dérive - Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung
Group Exhibition LoveLetters at Gabriele Senn Gallery, curated by Paul Feigelfeld Vienna
2021:
Solo Exhibition / Wine & Hot Water - at Gabriele Senn Gallery, Vienna
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Imprint
Stephanie Stern
, 1140 Wien, Austria
All rights reserved. The copyright for any material published on this website is reserved.
Any duplication or use of objects such as images, photos and texts is not permitted without Stephanie Stern's written agreement. Stephanie Stern is not responsible for any contents linked or referred to from her website.
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In my artistic practice, I work across drawing, photography, and image-processing techniques. Through rhythm, repetition, nesting, layering, and translation, I intend to form relational systems where new relationships emerge, gradually exposing the conditions of the (digital) image itself.
The photographic work focuses on the everyday: objects, food, and the materials and minerals inside our technical devices – things easily overlooked because they belong to the routines, services, and infrastructures that sustain daily life. Brought together in still lifes and assemblages, different elements are rearranged into new, often surreal compositions. Through the camera, the work reflects on the act of looking itself – on the position from which we observe the world and what this reveals about our relationship to the material world.
Drawing, for me, is thinking through lines, rhythms, and densities. Working with ink, nib, and brush, some drawings emerge fast and intuitively; others build up slowly over weeks. The work attends to the implicit knowledge carried in the hand and body – shaped by habit, labour, craft, and the deep histories of drawing and writing.
Certain images undergo a further stage of transformation, shifting the focus from what they depict to their material and technical conditions. Treated as processable material, the digital image is subjected to rule-based operations — scaling, repetition, and multiplication in software — while other transformations arise through translation into alternative image and pattern-transfer technologies. Cycles of printing, re-photographing, and re-digitising move the image repeatedly between physical and digital states, referring to the underlying conditions of digital images themselves: grids, pixels, and discrete units. Through these processes, information transforms, erodes, and reorganises. Objects dissolve into fragments and patterns; representation gradually shifts toward process, where light, matter, and technical constraints become visible as formative conditions.
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On my Mastodon profile, I share my work on translation processes between image and pattern transfer technologies, from photolithography to early computing, and the materials and minerals that these processes are based on.
CONTACT & LINKS
stephaniestern@pm.me
TEXTS:
2024 Verborgene Strukturen by Bettina Spörr
2020 Mimicry and the Translation of Forms by Anthony Iles
EDUCATION:
2023: Le Mentorat, École nationale supérieure de la photographie, Arles, France
2012-2018: Art&Photography, Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria
2016-2017: Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Arts, UCL, London, UK
2011-2012: School for artistic photography, Friedl Kubelka, Vienna, Austria
LATEST & UPCOMING
2026
Solo Exhibition, Neue Galerie, Innsbruck
2025:
Nomination: Kardinal-König Art Prize; Exhibition at Kunstraum St. Virgil, Salzburg (November 2025).
Group Exhibition: Yogyakarta International Creative Art Festival (YICAF), 20.6 - 31.08.2025, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Group exhibition: Find a Spot / Zwischen Räumen May 26 – July 12, at t.a.s.xyz curated by Sophie Halder, Vienna
Solo Exhibition / Ritus Mat - Galerie Theodor von Hörmann, Imst
2024:
Solo Exhibition / Polyphone Verschiebungen - at RLB Atelier Lienz
2023:
Feiermaterial ELSHAN und STERN, Kunstinsert im dérive - Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung
Group Exhibition LoveLetters at Gabriele Senn Gallery, curated by Paul Feigelfeld Vienna
2021:
Solo Exhibition / Wine & Hot Water - at Gabriele Senn Gallery, Vienna
__________________
Imprint
Stephanie Stern
, 1140 Wien, Austria
All rights reserved. The copyright for any material published on this website is reserved.
Any duplication or use of objects such as images, photos and texts is not permitted without Stephanie Stern's written agreement. Stephanie Stern is not responsible for any contents linked or referred to from her website.
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