Artist Statement
Stefanie Schwarzwimmer is a media artist and graphic designer based in Berlin. Her artistic practice explores spaces, images, and everyday situations as carriers of social and psychological conditions. She is interested in subtle shifts within familiar structures—moments in which something appears simultaneously ordinary and uncanny, believable and artificial.
Her work often begins with private interiors, working environments, consumption, digital self-presentation, and self-optimization. Schwarzwimmer observes, reconstructs, and alters these situations using 3D, film, sound, and voiceover. Realistic computer-generated images become entry points into artificial worlds where documentation and fiction overlap.
She understands spaces as stages on which social ideas about work, productivity, consumption, and living together become visible. Her work examines how images, spaces, and narratives not only depict reality but participate in constructing it. Humor, absurdity, and unreliable narratives create moments of disorientation in which the familiar begins to reveal its own artificiality.
Stipends and Grants
2025
Recherchestipendium, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa Berlin (DE)
2022
BMKÖS Startstipendium Medienkunst (AT)
2022
Recherchestipendium, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa Berlin (DE)
2022
Neustart Kultur Project Grant (Modul C: Innovative Kunstprojekte)
2022
Kunstankauf der Stadt Wien (AT)
2022
Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, Berlin (DE), goldrausch.org
2021
BMKÖS Project Funding (If these walls could talk, they would cough and go back to bed.) (AT)
2019/20
ArtStart-Stipend (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) (AT)
2019
Theodor Körner Preis (The Quest), Vienna (AT)
2018
Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Silent Revolution) (AT)
2018
Artagon IV (International Exhibition Program), Paris (FR)
2017
Berlin Program for Artists, Berlin (DE)
Collaborations
Christopher Schmidt, Andrea Popelka, Anna Lucia Nissen, June Drevet, Stefan Wirnsperger, Anas Sareen, Elsa Westreicher, Deiara Kouto, Juan Pablo Garcia Sossa
Selected Clients
(CGI and Graphic Design)
Double Standards (DE), Agnieszka Polska (Artist, DE), Luisa Kasalicky (Artist, AT), Barbara Kapusta (Artist, AT), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT), PPAG architects (AT), Berlinale Talents (DE), Triple Canopy (US), Armin Lorenz Gerold (Artist, DE), Johannes Gierlinger (Artist, AT)
Publication
Published by June Drevet, Barbara Kapusta, Andrea Popelka and Stefanie Schwarzwimmer on the occasion of the exhibition New Views on Same-Olds.
With contributions by: Eva Alken, Jette Büchsenschütz, Céline L. Couson, Diedrich Diederichsen, June Drevet, Adam Farah / free.yard, Misha Faulty, Nina Franz, Kelly Ann Gardener, Susanna Hofer, Bernhard Jarosch & Mariann Diedrich, Barbara Kapusta, Anna Paul, Andrea Popelka, Vika Prokopaviciute, Constanze Ruhm, Stefanie Schwarzwimmer, Miroslava Svolikova, Johanna Charlotte Trede, und / and Nada Tshibwabwa
Available upon request.
Review/Interview
gallerytalk.net 03/23
Contemporary Matters 01/21
PW-Magazine 02/21
Camera Austria Nr.153/21
Der Standard 25/06/18
Downloads
Portfolio 03/25 (9 Mb) ↘
CV 03/25 ↘
Contact
Artist Statement
Stefanie Schwarzwimmer is a media artist and graphic designer based in Berlin. Her artistic practice explores spaces, images, and everyday situations as carriers of social and psychological conditions. She is interested in subtle shifts within familiar structures—moments in which something appears simultaneously ordinary and uncanny, believable and artificial.
Her work often begins with private interiors, working environments, consumption, digital self-presentation, and self-optimization. Schwarzwimmer observes, reconstructs, and alters these situations using 3D, film, sound, and voiceover. Realistic computer-generated images become entry points into artificial worlds where documentation and fiction overlap.
She understands spaces as stages on which social ideas about work, productivity, consumption, and living together become visible. Her work examines how images, spaces, and narratives not only depict reality but participate in constructing it. Humor, absurdity, and unreliable narratives create moments of disorientation in which the familiar begins to reveal its own artificiality.
Stipends and Grants
2022
BMKÖS Startstipendium Medienkunst (AT)
2021
BMKÖS Project Funding (If these walls could talk, they would cough and go back to bed.) (AT)
2019/20
ArtStart-Stipend (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) (AT)
2019
Theodor Körner Preis (The Quest), Vienna (AT)
2018
Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Silent Revolution) (AT)
2018
Artagon IV (International Exhibition Program), Paris (FR)
2017
Berlin Program for Artists, Berlin (DE)
Collaborations
Christopher Schmidt, Andrea Popelka, Anna Lucia Nissen, June Drevet, Stefan Wirnsperger, Anas Sareen, Elsa Westreicher, Deiara Kouto, Juan Pablo Garcia Sossa
Selected Clients
(CGI and Graphic Design)
Double Standards (DE), Agnieszka Polska (Artist, DE), Luisa Kasalicky (Artist, AT), Barbara Kapusta (Artist, AT), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT), PPAG architects (AT), Berlinale Talents (DE), Triple Canopy (US), Armin Lorenz Gerold (Artist, DE), Johannes Gierlinger (Artist, AT)
Publication
Published by June Drevet, Barbara Kapusta, Andrea Popelka and Stefanie Schwarzwimmer on the occasion of the exhibition New Views on Same-Olds.
With contributions by: Eva Alken, Jette Büchsenschütz, Céline L. Couson, Diedrich Diederichsen, June Drevet, Adam Farah / free.yard, Misha Faulty, Nina Franz, Kelly Ann Gardener, Susanna Hofer, Bernhard Jarosch & Mariann Diedrich, Barbara Kapusta, Anna Paul, Andrea Popelka, Vika Prokopaviciute, Constanze Ruhm, Stefanie Schwarzwimmer, Miroslava Svolikova, Johanna Charlotte Trede, und / and Nada Tshibwabwa
Available upon request.
Review/Interview
Downloads
Portfolio 03/25 (9 Mb) ↘
CV 03/25 ↘
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