Painting Paradise | Stefan Szczesny | ARTES Berlin | 01.07.-03.09.2023

Stefan Szczesny (*1951 in Munich) has left his mark on contemporary art. His studies with Günter Fruhtrunk, an early scholarship in Paris and stays in New York, the South of France, the Caribbean and the Villa Massimo in Rome had a lasting influence on the artist’s work. In the early 1980s, he was instrumental in the “Neue Wilde” movement. He initiated the exhibition “Rundschau Deutschland” in 1981 as the first presentation of the movement and thus brought expressive, figurative painting back into the consciousness of art in Germany. Szczesny’s works are now shown worldwide in numerous museum, solo and group exhibitions.

The exhibition “Painting Paradise” shows new paintings and sculptures, including for the first time large, museum-quality canvas tableaux on which the artist spreads out his entire pictorial archive. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue and four new small editions.