Untitled - EMAF

AUSSTELLUNG // EXHIBITION
A man fixes his penetrating gaze on us, frontally, ceaselessly, almost aggressively. He has blue eyes, a three-day beard and wears an
orange-red hip-hop style camouflage cap and a thick fur hood. In the background, snow flakes fall in nostalgic peace, in front of a fuzzy
urban facade reminding of an abstract modern painting.
The social belonging of the man is unclear. His situation might range between the well-heeled hip upper-middle class white-trash twenty-something
and the homeless person. Sweating, in a hysterical staccato and in a cool music-video-like slang he tells us his shopping
strategy when buying an undefined high-tech hardware product.
In an almost conspirational, missionary forcefulness, he talks about the demanding ›work‹ of consumption, about daily confusion and
paranoid moments in contemporary temples of consumption. Starting from a pedantic, obsessive nightmarish product search, he finally
pictures the arrival at a decision as a mystical, almost pseudo-religious experience.
Stefan Panhans, *1968 in Hattingen. He studied Visual Communication at Merz Academy Stuttgart and at Academy of Fine Arts
Hamburg. Stefan Panhans has received several artist's grants and stipends: Kunstfonds working stipend, studio grant of Künstlerstätte
Schloss Bleckede, a studio grant of GSM, Hamburg as well as a working stipend by the council of culture of the city of Hamburg.
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2005 Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin (D);
2004 Ausstellungsraum Taubenstraße 13, Hamburg (D);
2003 Oberwelt e.V., Stuttgart (D);
2002 GSM, Hamburg (D);
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 Kunsthalle zu Kiel (D); Art Center South Florida, Miami (USA); Depot, Stuttgart (D); Transmediale, Berlin (D);
2005 Kunsthaus Hamburg (D); Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (D); ACC Galerie Weimar (D); Videonale 10, Bonn (D); Halle 14,
Leipzig (D); Autostadt, Wolfsburg (D); rice + cafe, Tokio (J);
2004 Fotographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung, Köln (D); Kunsthalle Göppingen (D); Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig
(D); Walcheturm, Zürich (CH); Hôtel Bellville, London (GB);
2003 Schloss Burgau, Düren (D); Barlachhaus, Wedel (D); V.I.D. Videofestival, Bern (CH); Alsterhaus, Hamburg (D);
2002 SFAI, San Francisco (USA); Kunstverein Celle (D); Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin (D); Kafe Bar, Wien (A);
2001 Produzentengalerie, Hamburg (D); Kunsthaus Hamburg (D);
2000 Biennale Tornitz Werkleitz (D);
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