Steffi Klenz

Bio

Steffi has exhibited her work across the UK and internationally at The British Museum in London, The Wellcome Collection London, The Royal Academy in London, The Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, Camden Art Centre in London, The Museum for Contemporary Art in Taipei, The Museum of Contemporary Art Alicante, The FotoMuseum Antwerp, Los Angeles Centre for Digital Arts, The Phoenix Art Museum, The Fine Art Museum Luleå, The Finish Museum of Photography, , Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen and Museum Künstlerkolonie in Darmstadt.

Her work was part of the Biennale for Contemporary Photography in Germany in 2020, The International Biennale for Photography in Belo Horizonte (Brazil) in 2021, The Biennale for Electronic Language and Technology in Sao Paulo (Brazil) in 2022 and most recently the 2023 Tokyo Biennale.

Her work has been reviewed in numerous magazines such as Art Monthly, Art Review, Art World China, Elephant Magazine, The Architectural Review, Photographies, History of Photography Journal, Photography and Culture Journal and Portfolio Magazine.

Her practice has been discussed in Chris Townsend’s “New Art from London”, Thames & Hudson (2006), Judith Rugg’s “Spatialities: The Geographies of Art and Architecture” by Intellect Publishing (2012), Robert Shore’s “Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera”, by Laurence King Publishing (2014), Imogen Racz’ “Art and Home: Comfort, Alienation and the Everyday” by I.B.Tauris (2015), Robert Shore’s “Beg, Steal and Borrow” by Laurence King Publishing (2017), Jean Wainwright’s “Ship to Shore: the Art and Lure of the Sea” by John Hansard Gallery and Cornerhouse Publications in 2018.

Klenz published her first book “Polo bound for Passaic” by Cornerhouse Publishing (UK) and Schaden Verlag (Germany) in 2009. Her book “He only feels the black and white of it, Berlin Wall 14-07-1973” by Mörel Books was launched in 2016 and the book “So to Speak” was published in 2018. Recently, Klenz was selected for the book publication “Collage: Women in Photography” by Gestalten in December 2022. The book highlights the most innovative recent works by women who have forged a place for themselves in the world of contemporary art and photography.

Klenz was commissioned by Unseen Photography Fair in Amsterdam in 2013, undertook the Rights of Passage Commission for the 2015 Venice Biennale, completed the BBC East Tower Project in 2017 in London, the Strange Cargo Commission for the Cheriton Light Festival 2018 and the Tunbridge Wells Museum and Cultural Quarter Commission in 2018. Most recently, Klenz completed the innovative London Borough of Culture Project (2019-2022), exhibited as part of London Festival of Architecture in 2022 and launched her first permanent public artwork “Tensed Muscles” in London in June 2022.

In 2024, Klenz will be presenting new work as part of the European Capital of Culture in Bodø, Norway.

She is also part of the collaborative European project “Out of the Metropolis – Art Exchange across Borders” initiated by NŌUA in Norway, in partnership with the Finish Museum of Photography and DoubleDummy in France. Between 2023-25 the institutions and invited artists are working together to explore new curatorial phenomena by challenging the roles, models and functions between exhibition spaces, curators, artists, and audiences in a micro-institutional context. The objective is to strengthen unconventional arenas for art in the peripheries by developing innovative strategies and methods for cross-border collaborative teams, co-production, and exchange of art, with particular focus on economic and ecological sustainability.

Further information:

http://www.steffiklenz.co.uk/