Stephen Kent
Stephen Kent (USA, 1985) lives and works in Berlin. He works around ideas of resolution and image production through the decorative gesture and the exploration of cultural codes embedded in everyday objects. In his ceramics, paintings and mosaics the artist demonstrates his engagement with psychedelic culture and comparative mythology. He explores cultural codes that can be found embedded in everyday objects and scenarios. With a medium-reflexive approach, he uses a process-oriented language to humorously investigate the stuff our world is made of. It remains a staged clash of ancient and digital pixels, an ironic montage of high and mass culture with an inquisitive wink.
Kent received a Master of Fine Arts at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit, and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania State University. He has recently exhibited with Elephant Kunsthall in Norway, Good Weather Gallery in the U.S., LVL 3 in Chicago, Haverkampf Leistenschneider Galerie in Berlin, Szydlowski Galeria in Warsaw, and Die Brücke Museum, Berlin. His mosaic works have been written about in publications such as Der Tagespiegel and the Chicago Tribune.Stephen Kent (USA, 1985) lives and works in Berlin. He works around ideas of resolution and image production through the decorative gesture and the exploration of cultural codes embedded in everyday objects. In his ceramics, paintings and mosaics the artist demonstrates his engagement with psychedelic culture and comparative mythology. He explores cultural codes that can be found embedded in everyday objects and scenarios. With a medium-reflexive approach, he uses a process-oriented language to humorously investigate the stuff our world is made of. It remains a staged clash of ancient and digital pixels, an ironic montage of high and mass culture with an inquisitive wink.
Kent received a Master of Fine Arts at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit, and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania State University. He has recently exhibited with Elephant Kunsthall in Norway, Good Weather Gallery in the U.S., LVL 3 in Chicago, Haverkampf Leistenschneider Galerie in Berlin, Szydlowski Galeria in Warsaw, and Die Brücke Museum, Berlin. His mosaic works have been written about in publications such as Der Tagespiegel and the Chicago Tribune.
Ph. Jens Ziehe
Stephen Kent, WITHIN THE EGG OF A FLEA (DONG XUAN CENTER), 2021Print on Dibond, marble, tile, cement on wood panel, 90x70x4 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli.
Stephen Kent, WITHIN THE EGG OF A FLEA (BERLIN FABRIC MARKET), 2021Print on Dibond, marble, tile, cement on wood panel, 90x70x4 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli.
Stephen Kent, DAYFLOWERS (DENIM), 2021 – WILTED VASE I (COCKTAIL HOUR), 2021Plaster, resin, pigments, acrylic, 51x41x4 cm (each) Ph: Alberto Fanelli.
- Serena Vestrucci
The work Abbronzatissimi (2023) is now part of the permanent collection of the Santa Maria della Scala Museum in Siena
- Sophie Ko
Scuderie e Parco del Castello di Miramare, Trieste
December 6 2024 – November 9 2025
Curated by Melania Rossi
- Giovanni Kronenberg
Curated by the Curatorial Collective of students from the Luiss Business School
COSMO Trastevere, Rome
Piazza di Sant’Apollonia, 13
December 18, 2024 – January 15, 2025
Opening December 18, 7.30 pm – 22.30 pm
- Giovanni Kronenberg
Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto
December 14 – February 23, 2024
Opening Saturday December 14, h. 11.30
Curated by Saverio Verini
