Stefan Cantante
Hessische Kulturstiftung Residency
2020/21
Stefan Cantante’s artistic practice derives from research on subcultural phenomenas within the history of gender and fashion studies. Affection, love and longing, complicated but also kitsch are embedded within the words and feelings of his raw performative works. Stefan chooses to practice as an outsider, reflected in the connotations of different mediums subverted in his work: high low, hard soft, in out. In a performative gesture resembling costuming, he straddles the spheres of theatre, art and fashion, playfully endowing and eschewing high art delineations through use and disuse of (the) canvas.
Stefan has exhibited in solo and group shows at Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin (2019); fffriedrich, Frankfurt/M (2019); Café Strange, Antwerp (2019); Städel Museum, Frankfurt/M (2018); after the butcher, Berlin (2016); Kunstverein Frankfurt (2016); wellwellwell, Vienna (2015); Portikus, Frankfurt/M (2015) and Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (2015).
Hessische Kulturstiftung, Germany
The Cultural Foundation of Hesse (Hessische Kulturstiftung) provides work/live studios in London, New York and Paris for 12 month residency scholarship recipients. Acme has managed the London residency programme in Bow, E3 on behalf of Hessische Kulturstiftung since 1996. Residencies are awarded to visual artists who were born in Hesse, have a permanent residence there, or hold a diploma from a Hessian art academy. Designed to accommodate artists' family or dependents for the length of residency. Artists are selected to the programme directly by Hessische Kulturstiftung.
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