Pescia / Berlin
angelikastepken@gmail.com
Free lance curator, author and researcher
Since the 80ies she published a large number of reviews and catalog texts on contemporary art in international media.
Since 2022:
Texts on artists’ practices for books and catalogues as well as features for online magazines such as comune-info.net, theleftberlin.com, artsoftheworkingclass.org and others.
Exhibitions:
2025
Juan Pablo Macías, TIEMPO MUERTO
Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
Future Perfect - Contemporary Art from Germany
Nikos Arvanitis, Nairy Baghramian, Kerstin Brätsch & Das Institut, Mariana Castillo Deball, Dani Gal, Cyprien Gaillard, Annette Kelm, Jutta Koether, Armin Linke, Antje Majewski, Henrik Olesen, Yorgos Sapountzis, Nora Schultz, Lina Theodorou, Nasan Tur, Danh Vo, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Vangelis Vlahos
International IfA traveling exhibition
MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2024
Luce sulla Città
An itinerant cinema in the urban space of Florence
Contributions by Karolina Bregula, Cesare Dagliana, Karolina Bregula, David Behar Perahia, Mariana Ferratto, Kinkaleri, Mohammed Lakhel con Giovanni Pietracaprina Johannes Paul Raether, Duccio Ricciardelli, Massimo D’Amato, Marco Bartolini, Mario Rizzi, Maya Schweizer, Enrico Tomassini e Jessica Mazzotti, Justin Randolph Thompson
A collaboration with Commoning dello Spazio Pubblico di Firenze e dintorni, Studio Alter’azioni, Assemblea 16 Febbraio e Assemblea per gli spazi Statuto Rifredi
2024 - 2026
muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi, ABOLITION GARDEN
In collaboration with Hannah Baader, Costanza Caraffa, Dorit Malz, Gerhard Wolf and KHI’s Garden Commission, curated in collaboration with Tina Plokarz
Kunsthistorisches Institut - Max-Planck-Institut, Florence
Future Perfect - Contemporary Art from Germany
Nairy Baghramian, Kerstin Brätsch & Das Institut, Mariana Castillo Deball, Dani Gal, Cyprien Gaillard, Annette Kelm, Jutta Koether, Armin Linke, Antje Majewski, Henrik Olesen, Yorgos Sapountzis & Nora Schultz, Nasan Tur, Danh Vo, Clemens von Wedemeyer
International IfA traveling exhibition
Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
2023
San’azione
David Behar Perahia & Iacopo Seri, Leonora Bisagno & Bruno Baltzer, Valentino Carai, Alberto Gori, Leonardo Magnani, Jacopo Rachlik, Tina Salvadori Paz, Anne Schülke, Elena Barthel & Anna Lisa Pecoriello & Tina Grifoni.
Le Piagge, Firenze
In collaboration with IlPrisma
2022 - 2006
Director Villa Romana, Florence
Focus on alternative models of knowledge transfer (Scuola Popolare et.al.), (re-) construction of Mediterranean artistic exchanges (brokenarchive.org), critical approaches on art-historical master narratives Exhibitions and projects with Michael Baers & Thomas Kilpper, Giorgio Griffa, Robert Gabris, Jeremiah Day, Uriel Orlow, Janet Mullarney, Paolo Fabiani, Sarenco, Federico Cavallini, Milo Rau, Moussa Saar, Patrick Joel Tatcheda Yonkeu, Giuseppe Chiari, Andrea d’Amore, Fehras Publishing Practices, Lek M. Gjeloshi, Mona Marzouk, Gülsün Karamustafa, Juan Pablo Macias, Mikhail Karikis, Leone Contini, Justin Randolph Thompson, Kevin Jerome Everson, William Furlong, Mario Rizzi, Antje Majewski, Piotr Nathan, Gianfranco Baruchello, Eleni Kamma, Aglaia Konrad, Willem Oorebeek, Armin Linkę, Ming Wong, Bahman Jalali, Marine Hugonnier, Katharina Karrenberg, Rosa Barba and many other artists and neighbors and all Villa Romana Fellows …
since 2013
Co-curator of Future Perfect - Contemporary Art From Germany, ifa worldwide traveling exhibition
2006 - 1998
Director Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Focus on widening and reflecting the European perspective on art (media, language and painting) after the end of the West, rediscovering female artistic pioneers, proposing alternative urban narrations
Solo exhibitions: Joelle Tuerlinckx / Willem Oorebeek, Ewa Partum, Martin Rosz, Ross Sinclair, Edi Hila, Victor Alimpiev, Rosa Barba, Ernst Caramelle, Collier Schorr, Moebius, Setareh Shahbazi, Lili Dujourie, Klaas Kloosterboers, Alfredo Jaar, Chris Reinecke, Hans-Peter Feldmann et.al.
Group shows: Kritische Gesellschaften (Critical Societies) - a one year long program in four chapters with changing artistic constellations, Sisters and Brothers and Birds, De-REALIZE Karlsruhe, PARA>SITES, Uncertain Signs - True Stories et.al.
until 1998
Free lance curator, exhibitions / collaborations in Berlin, Istanbul, Lodz, Malmö, Nordland, Beijing et.al.
Recent publications:
Lara Vinca-Masini, Scritti scelti 1961-2019. Arte Architettura Design Arti applicate; a cura di Alessandra Acocella, Angelika Stepken, Florence 2020
Giuseppe Chiari - Maria Gloria Bicocchi, Giancarlo Cardini, Alvin Curran, Gian Piero Frassinelli, Daniele Lombardi, Paolo Masi, Lara-Vinca Masini, Gianni Pettena, Renato Ranaldi parlano di / sprechen über Giuseppe Chiari, Edited by Angelika Stepken and Ilaria Gadenz, Vienna 2017
Ketty La Rocca. You - works and writings 1964-1976. Edited by Angelika Stepken, Texts Angelika Stepken, Emy Fontana, Pier Luigi Tazzi, Berlin 2017
Unmapping the Renaissance, Edited by Angelika Stepken, Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Mariechen Danz, Vienna 2016
On One Side of The Same Water, Artistic Practices between Tirana and Tanger, Jahresring 59, Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e.V., Stuttgart 2012