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.
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