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.
Renata Fabbri is delighted to announce that the artist has been chosen to create a project for the Croatian pavilion at the Sixtieth Venice Biennale, to take place April 20 to November 24, 2024.
- Vlatka Horvat
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Opening Sept 14
Until 12/11/2023
Curated by Kristina Bonjeković Stojković
- Vlatka Horvat,
- Tim Etchells,
- Sophie Ko
Artissima
2nd – 5th November 2023
Oval | Torino
Main Section
Hall Orange | Booth 12
- Giovanni Kronenberg
Curated by Vincenzo de Bellis and Alessandro Rabottini
