Steffen Bartenschlag is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, drawing, photography, object-making, music, and text. Since the 1980s, he has developed an expansive practice centered on introspection, transformation, and the interplay between visual and acoustic perception. His projects often...
Read MoreSteffen Bartenschlag is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, drawing, photography, object-making, music, and text. Since the 1980s, he has developed an expansive practice centered on introspection, transformation, and the interplay between visual and acoustic perception. His projects often move between material and immaterial dimensions, reflecting a sustained interest in resonance, language, and the poetics of form.
Artistic Practice
Bartenschlag’s work integrates visual, textual, and sonic elements into a continuous exploratory process. His approach combines intuitive composition with conceptual reflection, resulting in works that oscillate between abstraction and associative figuration. Recurring themes include perception, memory, and the idea of the “once-said” (Hapax legomenon) as a metaphor for singular experience.
Creative Retreats
Sweden, Denmark, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain
Selected Exhibitions and Projects
1993
Fantasy, Color, Form
Solo exhibition, Café Zeitlos, Hanau
1996
Introspections
Solo exhibition, Steinheimer Marstall, Hanau
Since 2007
Ongoing digital and conceptual projects, including Hapax Legomenon
2020–2021
Art Box Cube Award
2021
Folly – In Praise of Folly
Chamber play
2022
metasonus – the melody of life in counterlight
Solo contribution, Hanau Cultural Summer
2023
Retrospective Drawings
Kunstnetz B (Bruchköbel), exhibition series Kaleidoscope
2024
The Metasonus Project
Competition entry, Biennale Bad Orb
2025
Kunstnetz B – 20 Years of Kaleidoscope
Anniversary exhibition
Das Denkstellen-Experiment
2026
Heal Your Wound
Competition entry, Biennale Bad Orb
