Manuel Stehli

Manuel Stehli (b.1988) was born in Zurich and currently lives and works in Berlin. In 2014 he graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig.

In his recent work, Manuel Stehli has been focusing on the life-sized depiction of the human figure, both individually and in groups. While the situations presented appear rather concrete at first glance, Stehli's paintings refuse a specific placement in space and time. They don't represent events but rather states, experimental arrangements showing one possibility out of many. There is a peculiar sense of limbo inherent in these paintings: between their blatant presence on the one hand and their muteness on the other, between the intimacy they suggest and the remoteness within which it is sealed. Stehli's works are reticent, they don't reach out to the spectator, but rather act as mere presences, be it as counterparts or placeholders, leaving one to fill the silences themselves.

His recent solo exhibitions include Come Too Close, (1690 Art Collection Space, Shanghai, 2023); oh so slowly, Schierke Seinecke (Frankfurt, 2023); in its place, TAO Art Space (Taipei, 2022); From a Distance, Grisebach (Zurich, 2021); Moving Inland, Galerie Marguo (Paris, 2021); jetzt dut, Schierke Seinecke (Frankfurt, 2021); Strangers When We Meet, Lemoyne (Zurich, 2020), Sober Speech, Gallery of the Czech Centre Berlin (Berlin, 2020), Some Kind of Change, Studio Picknick (Berlin, 2019); Tongue Tied, WERK (Berlin, 2019); Wait A Second, Schierke Seinecke (Frankfurt, 2018); and Jetzt Aber, Bistro 21 (Leipzig, 2016).

Manuel Stehli’s work is in the permanent collections of the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen and the Collection of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony.

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Born 1988 in Zurich, Switzerland. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Education

2008 – 2014	Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
2010 – 2014	Class of Professor Annette Schröter
2011 – 2012	Camberwell College of Arts, London, class of Daniel Sturgis

Solo Exhibitions

2023	1690 Art Collection Space, Come Too Close, Shanghai, China
	Schierke Seinecke, oh so slowly, Frankfurt, Germany
2022	TAO Art Space, in its place, Taipei, Taiwan
2021	Grisebach, From a Distance, Zürich, Switzerland
	Galerie Marguo, Moving Inland, Paris, France
	Schierke Seinecke, jetzt dut, Frankfurt, Germany
2020	Lemoyne, Strangers When We Meet, Zurich, Switzerland
	Gallery of the Czech Centre Berlin, Sober Speech, Berlin, Germany
2019	Sudio Picknick, Some Kind of Change, Berlin, Germany
	WERK, Tongue Tied, Berlin, Germany
2018	Schierke Seinecke, Wait A Second, Frankfurt, Germany
2016	Bistro 21, Jetzt, Aber, Leipzig, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2024	dddd pictures, Paradies, New York, USA
	Alzueta Gallery, New Portraits, Barcelona, Spain
	Livie Gallery, nachts wach, Zurich, Switzerland
2023	Galerie Marguo, ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China
	Sainte Anne Gallery, Tutti Frutti, Paris, France
	Galerie Marguo, Art Paris 2023, Paris, France
	Briefing Room, Nous, Petits Bourgeois, curated by Andrzej Steinbach and Steffen Zillig, Brussels, Belgium
	Galerie Kleindiest, Schweden, Leipzig, Germany
2022	Backhaus Projects / Grove Collective, Crush, curated by Hannah Weidner, Berlin, Germany
	Galerie Marguo, ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China
	Salon am Moritzplatz, Versa, curated by Lisa Deml, Berlin
	Helmhaus Zürich, Salon der Gegenwart, Zurich
	Kunstraum 145, convergence, curated by Kunzten, Berlin
2021	Grand Palais,'In conversation - Selina Lutz / Manuel Stehli', Bern, Switzerland
	Werkschauhalle,Leipziger Jahresausstellung, Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig
	Galerie Marguo, Presentation of Marguo Artists, Paris, France
	Kunstverein Amrum,New Adventures in Vexillology #7, Amrum
	Galerie Burster, New Neighbours, Berlin, Germany
2020	Kunstverein Haus 8, Hookup, Kiel, Germany
	Sonneundsolche, Little Room for Wildness with Maria Wallace, Düsseldorf, Germany
	Oel Früh, Minibar, Hamburg, Germany
	Schau Fenster - Raum für Kunst, Future Forms and Fiction, Berlin, Germany
2019	Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Kunstpreis Junger Westen 2019, Recklinghausen, Germany
	Setareh x, Conduct with Katharina Maderthaner, Düsseldorf, Germany
	Kunstraum Super, Presentation of AVE Magazine 5, Vienna, Austria
	The Window, VIER5 & SQUIZZY P Show Drawings of Today, Paris, France
	Vertretung des Freistaates Sachsen beim Bund, Neuzugänge zeitgenössischer Kunst im Sächsischen Kunstfonds 2018, Berlin, Germany
2018	Lehderstraße 35, Berlin Masters, Berlin, Germany
	Halle 14, WIN/WIN The Acquisitions of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, Leipzig, Germany
	Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Lütt, Berlin, Germany
	Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Out of Touch / Out of Time with Aneta Kajzer, Berlin, Germany
	Kantonsspital Basel Landschaft, Verstehen-Nicht Verstehen, Basel, Switzerland
2017	Halle 53, Jungkunst 2017, Winterthur, Switzerland
	Langestraße 31, Supervision, Frankfurt, Germany
	Raum Weisz, A Space Odyssey: 5 Jahre Raum Weisz, Leipzig, Germany
2016	Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Werkschau 2016, Exhibition of the Nominees for the Art Awards of the Canton of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland