TOBIAS STERNBERG
WORKS II BIOGRAPHY II REVIEWS
 The Wanderer, imbroidered jean fabric, 2010 |
 Bad Box, 2006/2012 |
 Spirit Chair, 2010 |
 Chop Cut and Slice, 2016 |
 Chop Cut and Slice, 2016 |
 Lost World Axe, 2012 |
 Geodesic Hive, 2015 |
 Spiny Core, 2012 |
 Unplanned Obsolescence, 2012 |
 Unplanned Obsolescence, 2012 |
 Quantum Prayer, 2014 |
 Lady of the Void, 2014 |
 Lady of the Void, 2014 |
COLLAGE-SERIAL |
 Collages, gallery view 2013 |
 Blooming Telescopes, Collage |
 Posture Confidence, Collage |
 Americans, Collage |
 Size of Unicorn, Collage |
 Too godamn close, Collage |
 Mystery, Collage |
 Time is running out, light bulbs, sand, acrylic glass, 2015 |
 Seven sins for the living, Installation, 2006 |
 Shallowness (Seven sins for the living), Installation, 2006 |
 Shame (Seven sins for the living), Installation, 2006 |
 Playing War, clay soldiers, furniture, Kunsthalle Stavanger, Norway 2014 |
 Tank, aluminium, 2010 |
 Fear your neighbours, spear, wood, Samurai handling instructions, 2011 |
 Papi’s Pistole, (series of different toy guns) wood, tin, black glass frame, 2012/2014 |
 Papi’s Pistole, (series of different toy guns) wood, tin, black glass frame, 2012/2014 |
 Papi’s Pistole, (series of different toy guns) wood, tin, black glass frame, 2012/2014 |
 Papi’s Pistole, (series of different toy guns) wood, tin, black glass frame, 2012/2014 |
Tobias Sternberg is a multidisciplinary sculptor, extending his practice to installation, video, collage and performance. To all these mediums he brings the sculptor's understanding of skillful craft and material presence. His work is infused with a dark humor and a flair for story-telling, and often in a playful way challenges the rules of the art world itself. His video works have been shown at Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn. Tobias Sternberg was born in Stockholm, studied at Goldsmith's College in London, and now lives and works in Berlin. He is a co-founder of artists' run space HilbertRaum.org.
BIOGRAPHY
Tobias Sternberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden / Lives in Berlin.
EDUCATION
2002-2005 First Class with Honors BA degree in Fine Arts and Contemporary Critical Studies at Goldsmiths College, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 | The Temporary Artrepair Workshop with Goethe Institut, Weimar, Germany |
2015 | The Temporary Artrepair Workshop in the course of “Visiting Artist”-stage, American University, in Washington, USA (October) Curated by Tobias Sternberg, Hilbertraum, Berlin, Germany (September) |
2014 | Tactile Narratives, Kunsthalle Stavanger, Norway |
2013 | Seeing is Believing, Soloshow at the occasion of Cologne Contemporaries Weekend, kuk, Cologne 2012 Temporary Art Repairshop, ESW, Edinburgh Temporary Art Repairshop, PS2, Belfast |
2011 | Krieg Spielen, Krupic Kersting Galerie, Cologne 2010 PaperLifeGrid, Golden Parachutes, Berlin |
2009 | Yourself from the Outside, PS2, Belfast Review, Cornexchange gallery, Edinburgh 2006 Point of Sale. Cornexchange gallery, Edinburgh |
GROUP SHOWS
2015 | Inaugural Exhibition Part One, Hilbertraum, Berlin, Germany Extreme Juxtaposition, Hilbertraum, Berlin, Germany |
2014 | The Remarkable Lightness of Being, aeroplastics contemporary, Brussels, Belgium Entre deux chaises un livre, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium |
2013 | Vienna Fair, ViennaManufactor Motorenhalle, Dresden |
2012 | Re:MMX, Co-Verlag, Berlin |
2011 | Funkhaus Kunstpreis, shortlisted, Berlin Cash & Carry, MMX, Berlin Mehr Licht, GlogauAIR, Berlin |
2010 | Artistic intervention for Videonale on tour, Sarajevo Guest artist, GlogauAIR open studios, Berlin Jour du Nord, Simultanhalle, Cologne ShowIV, MMX, Berlin |
2009 | Videonale 12, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany |
2008 | Videoholica, Varna, Bulgaria Souvenirs From Earth, cable TV, Cologne, Germany |
2007 | Outside Perspectives, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland Saison Vidéo 2007, Lille, France Nature Untouched, Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway |
2006 | AWOL, Young Artists’ Biennial 2nd edition, Bucharest, Romania Smoke and Mirrors. mac-Midlands Arts Centre and VIVID, Birmingham Saison Vidéo + Fringe#1, Espace Croisé, Roubaix, France |
2005 | The Gallery is Temporarily Open for Unnecessary Refurbishment, consisting of site-specific permanent sculptural interventions in the Embassy gallery, Edinburgh. EXiS 2005, Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, South Korea 4th International Kansk Videofestival, Kansk, Russia |
2004 | HOME BASE IV. Home base gallery, Tokyo |
2003 | HOME BASE III. Home base gallery, Tokyo |
RESIDENCIES
2012 | Compeung Grant 2012; one month production residency, Thailand |
2007 | Esmée Fairbarn programme, six week residency; Cove Park, Scotland EMARE, two month media research residency; VIVID in Birmingham |
2006 | mapXXL organized by Pépiniéres Européennes pour jeunes Artistes. Four month studio residency; National Sculpture Factory in Cork, Ireland |
2005 | Community. One month studio residency, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
EDUCATIONAL WORK
2012 | This is the Place. Induction week for the MfA students at Edinburgh College of Art Commissioned by Dr Neil Mulholland |
2011 | Shiftwork, designed and led part of workshop for emerging artists Commissioned by Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and Dr Neil Mulholland at Edinburgh College of Arts |
COLLECTIONS
Private collections: e.g. Collection Famille Servais, Belgium, Sammlung Sutter, CH, Collection Galila Barzai, Belgium Collection Frédéric de Goldschmid, Belgium + private collections in Cologne, London, Berlin, Milan etc.
REVIEWS
Artist Cataloque TOBIAS STERNBERG, 2013. Various authors/curtators, published by the Krupic Kersting Gallery and the artist.
Kölnische Rundschau, on Tobias Sternberg, January 2013.
Süddeutsche Zeitung on Tobias Sternberg, 28/29.08.201.
