Stephanie Hartstang
Vita
Stephanie Hartstang holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the British Open University. Her passion lies in high-contrast, expressive watercolors, created through numerous layers, washes, and condensations on heavy, high-quality handmade papers. Her work is characterized by exceptional color compositions and an often astonishing sense of depth. She primarily works in her studio on the Baltic Sea coast, but also paints en plein air, directly from the subject, for example in Hong Kong, Ireland, or Switzerland. She is a student of the Salzburg artist Wilhelm Fikisz.
Stephanie's second passion is creating cityscapes and landscapes in acrylic mixed media. These works are painstakingly crafted using a variety of techniques and materials on canvas; the Austrian artist Bernhard Vogel is her teacher. She often accompanies her paintings with her own texts, adding another dimension to the experienced image through words. Her works are regularly featured in exhibitions in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.
Working in dialogue
She frequently collaborates with her husband, photographer Thomas Hartstang, on projects. Selected subjects are presented as a dialogue between painting and photography. During the creative process, the photographer and painter engage in intensive discussions, from jointly searching for motifs and perspectives to exploring colors, effects, and everything the subject means to them personally. This fosters inspiration and a sustained period of mutual influence—a true dialogue. Paintings and photographs are always a documentation of a moment; they are also a more immediate and personal expression of what has been experienced, seen, and felt. They represent a symbiosis of the objective external and the subjective internal.
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Exhibitions
- Group exhibition "Transforming mind into matter and matter into mind", Art Academy Bad Reichenhall, Dec 2025
- Group exhibition "Arte Spazio Tempo", Galleria d'ArteVenice Dec 2025
- Group exhibition "Nostra Colletiva di Arte Contemporanea", RoccArt Gallery, Venice, Nov/Dec 2025
- Exhibition "(Cultural) Landscapes - a painterly and photographic exploration" with Thomas, Premium Mobile Kuntz Gallery, Gettorf, October 2025 - January 2025
- Exhibition "In Dialogue - Painted and Photographed" with Thomas in Kiel, September 2025
- Solo exhibition "Schleswig - painted and photographed" with Thomas at the Schleswig City Museum, August - October 2024
- Exhibition "Selection of Hamburg Motifs in Watercolor and Photography" with Thomas at the "Hamburg Art Gallery" in Haus Jupiter, Hamburg, February/March 2024
- Solo exhibition "Hamburg in Watercolor and Photography" with Thomas at the "Galerie im Levantehaus", Hamburg, January/February 2024
- Group exhibition at the Kunsthaus Kappeln, Dec 2023 - March 2024
- Open Studio Day, Atelier Südereiche, July 2023
- Exhibition “Watercolor and Photography in Dialogue”, Rosarium Glücksburg, 2023, together with Thomas
- Exhibition "Watercolor and Photography in Dialogue" together with Thomas at the Sörup Art Space, September 2022
- Open Studio Day, Atelier Südereiche, July 2022
- Exhibition at the Open Studio Day Karin Hansen, June 2022
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