Contemporary Artist

Statement and Bio

Stephanie Bing studied painting in the master class of internationally renowned art professor Klaus Jürgen-Fischer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mainz and photography in the master class of Professor Dr. Vladimir Spacek from Prague. Born in 1967 in Mannheim, Germany, Bing graduated with distinction from high school in Offenburg. Subsequently, she studied fine arts, painting, photography, art history, German, and literature at Johannes Gutenberg University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Mainz, again graduating with distinction.
Following her education, she worked as an associate professor for the Bavarian Ministry of Culture in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and the Bavarian Chamber of Architects until 2002.
Bing focused on design, architecture, aesthetic perception, and digital media to promote visual literacy.

Since 1991, her work is shown in national and international exhibitions. In 2022 her career pushed up and she won first prize of international Art Award VIBES in Frankfurt. She received the IIA 2022 Award in Photography and Digital Art as Finalist at Camelback Gallery, Arizona, USA, with her stunning photography and became artist of the Month of Camelback Gallery, Arizona USA in October 2022, one of the most popular internationally working Galleries in USA. Then she was winning the first prize of World Wide Galleries ART TOUR www.worldwidegalleries.com/artworldtour2023 with her painting “TRIO INFERNAL” and was touring the world with this awesome inspiring piece of art for one year to the top places international, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Art Basel, Swiss Art Expo. 2022 Stephanie was among the top finalists of the 10th KUNST-ONLINE Prize, Germany - Austria - Switzerland.
Her paintings are meanwhile exhibited in Miami Art Basel Miami, in Venice at Palazzo Pembo at VENICE INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2022 - 16th Edition and in London at the Contemporary ART LONDON CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR 2022. In Palma de Mallorca her art was shown in the Contemporary Art Gallery CASA DEL ARTE, in Netherlands in Lelij Gallery, Amsterdam.
Recently she won the Artrepreneur New York Still Life Open Call international and Global. New jump in 2023 was winning the TALENT PRIZE AWARD ART of International Juried Art Competition ART SHOW INTERNATIONAL GALLERY and Finalist Award Competition „Shades of Blue“ international juried Visual Arts Competition; Camelback Gallery International Art Gallery, Arizona USA.
2024 has been enormously successful for Stephanie Bing, with her paintings being presented at the SWISSART EXPO International Art Fair in Zurich, Switzerland. She also participated in the exclusive Parcus Gallery Museum Exhibition at Museo Arte e Scienza in Milan, Italy, and won "Vibrant Landscapes 2024" in Red Bluff, Sacramento, California, USA. Her artwork was featured at the Affordable Art Fair in Berlin and at the ARTMUC 2024 Art Fair, Spring Edition in Munich, Germany. TERAVARNA Gallery from Los Angeles visited Stephanie for a full interview in her studio in Germany, which is published on YouTube.
Following her exclusive Solo Exposition d'art "The Blue Gorilla" in Paris, France in 2023 and her participation in the London Art Biennale 2023 in Chelsea, London, United Kingdom, she had an exclusive Solo Show at New York City Times Square on jumbotron billboard screens featured by HMVC GALLERY in New York, USA. She also had another successful Exclusive Solo Exposition titled "Bing in Basel" in Basel, Switzerland. Since 2024, Bing has been listed and featured on the international Art Market platform SINGULART Stephanie Bing: Deutsche Malerin - SINGULART .

What is your background and how did you start your journey in the art world?
"I have been a working artist for more than 30 years. When I was young, I tied flowers together and arranged them in different vases to play with composition. When I was fourteen, I learned the principles of the Japanese art of floral arranging: Ikebana. That taught me a fresh and creative approach to movement, balance, and harmony with the line, color, and mass elements. I grew up in a house that was supportive of the arts. My mother was passionate about pottery, and I participated in many craft exhibitions with her. My dad is also a talented painter with hints of abstract expressionism in his youth and later realistic approaches in oil paintings. At 16, I started painting in watercolors: landscapes, still lifes, and seascapes. Subsequently, I studied fine arts, painting, photography, art history, German, and literature at the University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Mainz, Germany. These professional qualifications gave me access to all creative techniques and provided me with a global art historical background. I started my painting career with solid references to abstract expressionism and reduced myself to almost monochrome, gestural signs in both formal language and color repertoire. I stopped painting in 2002 and traveled worldwide for ten years to gather more inspiration.
When my beloved mum died, it was a life-changing event that prompted me to start painting again. My style changed completely, as did my technique: I created environments and furnished imaginary rooms on canvas by creating new, unexpected, magical interiors, which I interpret as sanctuaries. This is the path that led me to develop my current style."

What is the most powerful element of your artistic inspiration?
"I start painting without an outside trigger of inspiration. The painting process itself is of the utmost importance in my daily life. Painting is comparable to breathing for me. I like to plunge into my painting process as others plunge into a pool. Creating a new painting is an effort to balance between visualizing and reflecting on my surroundings and emotions. The subjects of my work reflect a myriad of daily impressions from traveling and being in motion. While painting, I get an extraordinary sense of personal and creative freedom. Two days ago, I just arrived home from a big trip to Saudi Arabia. The impressions I gained there, with the different historical, political, geographical, and religious backgrounds, have greatly affected me. It will be a surprise, even to me, what kind of influence these images will have on me and which colors, emotions, and experiences will be reflected in my upcoming artwork."

Describe the underlying theme of your work
"I compose bright, surprising settings like a luxury jewel box and assimilate my interiors to unknown sanctuaries with high vibes by metabolizing my experiences, observations, and impressions into interior pictures. I compose collage elements, sea creatures, plants, and images from art history into new spatial structures and give rebirth to the classical interior. In my highly detailed paintings, with their tapestry-like designs, you will find interiors with fish, leopards, Chinese porcelain, ceramics, baroque furniture, and retro-style influences. Everything in my paintings is playful, ambiguous, and multi-layered. I love variations within a theme and image quotations. My artwork is much more than an assemblage of colors and patterns to please the eye. I build new environments which relate to nothing seen before. I want my pure aesthetic energy to flow out of my artwork and brighten the viewer's mind with pure buzz and pleasant excitement.
I love to break the traditional methods of spatial visualization and the three-dimensional physical illusions of a room to make the viewer's perception of reality absurd. I want to allow my audience to look behind the bare, well-known pictorial sphere by leaving behind the classically taught composition and inventing more layers within the two-dimensional canvas. Sometimes I enlarge the interior space through perspective illusions and add collage elements, which I collect every day, for additional connotation. By breaking the classical view, I can generate a new experience for my audience, pointing them to emotional reality. I turn my motives into bright, cheering works of art, like an explosion of colors and organic shapes. Everybody is welcome to participate."

Take us through your creative process
"Creating is like breathing. Painting is surviving.
The painting process itself is of the utmost importance in my daily life. Painting is comparable to breathing for me. I like to plunge into my painting process as others fall into a pool. Creating a new image is an effort to balance between visualizing and reflecting on my surroundings and emotions. The subjects of my work reflect a myriad of daily impressions from traveling and being in motion. While painting, I get an extraordinary sense of personal and creative freedom. From the basic idea of perspective, I developed the layout of the constructed space, which I am wallpapering. I overpaint my interior compositions with an old master glaze technique and a structure of shadows and complementary colors to increase the luminosity of my work. I capture detailed and precise moments that bring a fresh and intriguing perspective to the world's reality. As the viewer sees now existing in a different light, context, or resolution, familiar objects appear as something new. "

How would you define your artwork?
"It's all about the room, about space, about interiors. On a superficial view, one might say a colorful composition featuring some decorative stylistic, vivid elements with storytelling hints in a sometimes confusing 3-dimensional room. On closer inspection, it opens up to a more profound interpretation: Multi-layered, storytelling, colorful, loud, exciting, explosive, mysterious spaces. There are a lot of hidden symbols of perseverance, fertility, and persistence. When you find a bird in my artwork, like a goldfinch, it is not just a decorative tropical bird. My pictorial elements always have connotations. Courageously I put a bird or a fish and furniture and combine these elements with sometimes gleaming and dominant colors, adding a rich fruit still life to a well-done composition with hints of deeper perspective by giving a view in hidden rooms. It needs time to get into my themes.
I can't expect this specific background knowledge from my audience.
For this reason, I comment on my pictures and give insights into composition and meaning. The decision to combine these elements within my picture composition arises each time anew because the plain image or the pure abstract composition is not enough for me: I like to offer. Further, deeper content is not only to please the eye. I want to build environments and interiors which relate to nothing seen before. My paintings present contrasts: organic and technical, black and white and brightly colored, large and small, geometric-perspective, freehand drawing, illusion, and collaged reality. From the basic idea of perspective, I developed the layout of the constructed space, which I am wallpapering. I overpaint my interior compositions with an old master glaze technique and a structure of shadows and complementary colors to increase the luminosity of my work."

What do you believe to be the role of an artist in society?
"The pursuit of beauty is the socially formed role of an artist. Art and Artists reflect the known and the new, the growth and changes. Thus, the first role of an artist is to teach the understanding of beauty and to broaden our view. But to be honest, I also paint for selfish, personal reasons. Only some things in my paintings have a message or are socially significant. That must be mentioned in all. I also design and paint for my peace of mind.
Of course, nowadays, I can transport my "peace of mind" via social media to the outside world. If this arouses interest, that's, of course, entirely in my interest. Culture is considered the lifeblood of society and time. Art can help to reflect the truth symbolically.
Art itself has excellent value. It broadens the perspective, offers innovation and provocation, questions the familiar, and stimulates discourse. But the ideal value of art also has a price. The market value of art is an increasingly important factor in public life, which is at the expense of the content of art."

What is your method for navigating creative block?
That’s a very funny question for me. It is like asking me how I would survive without breathing.
Thank God I don't know anything about a creative block. If that happens, I'm probably dead.

Selection of Exhibitions & Awards

Stephanie Bing

23 May - 01 June 2023
Parcus Gallery
Exclusive exhibition
Rome, Italy
Medina Gallery, Via A. Poliziano 32/34 00184 - Roma

14 April - 16. April
ARTe FUSION Stuttgart 2023
Zeitgenössische Kunstmesse, Art Fair, Stand C13/1 Stuttgart, Germany

1 April - 30 April 2023
Johnathan Schultz Gallery Miami,
groups exhibition
4141 NE 2nd Ave Suite 105
D/F, Miami, FL 33137, USA

17th April - 26th April 2023
NYC ARTEXPO, Manhattan, New York, groups exhibition
345 Broome Street, New York, USA

31 March - 2 April 2023
Paris - Le Carrousel du Louvre, Booth B25, Art Shopping Contemporary Art Fair 2023 Paris,
Paris, France

17 April 2023 - 26 April 2023
ARTBOX EXPO, New York World Wide Galleries World Tour 2023 with Award Winner Stephanie Bing, 345 Broome Street, New York, USA

25 March 2023 - 31 May 2023
Solo Exhibition “Amazing Animals” Art Gallery Am Fischerweg 27, Korbach, Germany

10 February 2023 - 23 February 2023
ROME INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2023 - 6th edition
Medina Art Gallery, Rome, Italy

13 February 2023
Award Competition „Amazing Animals“, online Exhibition of international Juried Visual Arts Competition, Camelback Art Gallery, Arizona, USA
awarded to Finalist Stephanie Bing
https://www.camelbackgallery.com/amazinganimals2023exhibition?pgid=lduplois-c6e89835-e37e-4e9a-9196-b4b180ccac98&utm_campaign=c0bae203-f95a-4240-9d98-fd59faac469c&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=31c60d4d-af6c-4993-8bad-79157b591151

16 January 2023 - 15 February 2023
groups exhibition
LOS ANGELES ART LAB
1306 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, USA

O2 December 2022 - March 2023
VENICE INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2022 – 16TH EDITION
Palazzo Bembo, Italy

27 November 2022 - 19 February 2023
Museumsausstellung
Solo exhibition
Die große Welt im Kleinen 3, Wolfgang Bonhage Museum Korbach, Germany

28 November 2022 - 10 December 2022
groups exhibition, Miami Art Weeks, ART BASEL ART WEEKS MIAMI 2022, Gallery Wynwood Miami, USA

25 November 2022 - 24 February 2023
groups exhibition
Villa Justitia Wiesbaden, Germany

11 November 2022 – 25 November 2022
LONDON CONTEMPORARY 2022 - Art Fair 5TH EDITION, THE LINE Contemporary Art Space, London, Great Britain
https://www.facebook.com/groups/itsliquid/permalink/2726764747457485/

24 October 2022 - 05 November 2022
groups exhibition
ARTBOX.PROJECT PALMA 1.0, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

01 October 2022 - 31 October 2022
groups exhibition
Lelie Galerij Amsterdam, Netherlands

01 October 2022 - 31 October 2022
groups exhibition
Thomson Gallery Fine Art, Zug, Switzerland

25 September 2022 - 29 November 2022
groups exhibition
4 ART[en] Galerie des Kunstvereins der Hansestadt Korbach, Germany

31 July 2022 - 02 August 2022
Award: 1. Prize international Art Award >VIBES< 2022, Frankfurt, Germany

28 July 2022 - 31 August 2022
Solo exhibition
TIEFGRÜNDIG, Atelier #ninibing34 Korbach, Germany

01 April 2022 - 01 July 2022
Solo exhibition
Parrot Cay, Turcs & Caicos, Karibik, British West Indies

15 July 2021 - 15 August 2021
Solo exhibition
„Von Korbach in die Welt" Atelier #ninibing34
Korbach, Germany

01 November 2020 - 21 January 2021
Museumsausstellung
IN ZEITEN VON CORONA, PANDEMIE. Wolfgang Bonhage Museum Korbach, Germany

27 February 2020 - 28 May 2020
Solo exhibition
Parrot Cay, Turcs & Caicos, Karibik, British West Indies

05 December 2019 - 03 January 2020
Museumsausstellung
Solo exhibition
Die große Welt im Kleinen 2, Museum im Stift der Stadt Bad Hersfeld, Germany

28 June 2019 - 05 July 2019
Solo exhibition
Tag des offenen Ateliers #ninibing34 Korbach, Germany

08 February 2019 - 30 April 2019
Solo exhibition
THE BIG BLUE, Galerie des Kunstvereins Korbach, #ninibing34
Germany

16 December 2018 - 29 March 2019
Museumsausstellung
Solo exhibition
Die große Welt im Kleinen 1, Waldecker Spielzeugmuseum Museum der Stadt Bad Arolsen, Germany

18 April 2018 - 24 October 2018
groups exhibition
ArteCasa Gallery - Port d'Andratx, Balearen, Spain

2018 since today
listed at lensculture Photography https://www.lensculture.com/stephanie-bing

02 March 2018 - since today
Award: Admission as designer with label #ninibing34 in the London manufacture of CONTRADO Imaging Ltd. UK, England https://www.originellefotogeschenke.de/stores/ninibing34-farbwunder-shop international

14 June 1994 - 21 June 1994
Examensausstellung „,WANDA im Kontext", Atelier Boppstraße, Mainz, Germany

18 January 1994 - 22 January 1994
Solo exhibition
Examensausstellung, Photographie „AGNES", Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Mainz, Germany

05 July 1993 - 25 July 1993
groups exhibition
Kunst & Künstler aus Rheinland Pfalz, MENSCHENBILD- MENSCHENBILDNIS, Speyer, Germany

05 February 1993 - 31 March 1993
groups exhibition
Kunstverein Eisenturm, Galerie der Stadt Mainz, Germany

02 September 1991 - 29 November 1991
Solo exhibition
ConceptForm Mannheim, Germany

05 March 1991 - 30 March 1991
Solo exhibition
„Facetten aus einem ungebändigten Kopf“
Kunstbahnhof Kalteneck, Germany

13 February 1989 - 16 February 1989
groups exhibition
Meisterklasse Prof. Klaus Jürgen-Fischer, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Mainz, Germany

Selection of AWARDS

2023 Winner of World Wide Galleries World Tour 2023, exhibition in New York, April 17th to 26th at the ARTBOX EXPO Gallery on 345 Broome Street, New York, USA

2023 Award Competition „Amazing Animals“, Finalist
International Juried Visual Arts Competition, Camelback Gallery Art Gallery, Arizona USA
Artwork: „Trio Infernal“, awarded to
Stephanie Bing, Medium: Acrylic & mixed media painting
https://www.camelbackgallery.com/amazinganimals2023exhibition?pgid=lduplois-c6e89835-e37e-4e9a-9196-b4b180ccac98&utm_campaign=c0bae203-f95a-4240-9d98-fd59faac469c&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=31c60d4d-af6c-4993-8bad-79157b591151

2023 Award Competition „Shades of Blue“, Finalist
International Juried Visual Arts Competition, Camelback Gallery International Art Gallery, Arizona USA
Artwork: „The Big Blue“, painting
https://www.camelbackgallery.com/shadesofblue2023exhibition

2023 One Year Online Art Residency, Winner
In January 2023 I applied for Camelback Gallery's Featured Artist one-year online art residency and my artwork was juried and selected for this designation. https://www.camelbackgallery.com/featured-artists/stephanie-bing
Camelback Gallery International Art Gallery, Arizona USA

Listed and featured @ international Parcus Gallery Paris, Carrousel du Louvre, selected Artist since 2023.
Parcus Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in the primary art market. Located in Europe, acting globally.
https://parcusgallery.com/portfolio-type/stephanie-bing/

2022 ART SHOW INTERNATIONAL GALLERY, Talent Prize Award „WATER“
international Juried Art Competition
https://www.artshowinternational.com/de/winners-2023-water-3//
Artwork: „Socialized water, bathroom interior“, painting

since 2022 listet @ ARTREPRENEUR Contemporary international Artist, Painting Stephanie Bing
https://artrepreneur.com/p/yeNnNomiTE5wnJQNF?limit=20&marketplaceChecked=false&artistId=pHDZbTqzBf9Jfn2vR&page=1&

Award Winner STILL LIFE COMPETITION 2022, December 
ARTREPRENEUR the leading global Art online platform
https://artrepreneur.com/p/85ZdvStDmXiaXdNLu/art/CvdJu7renm7m8NgYo
USA and Worldwide Competition, Winner
Artwork: „The big YELLOW. Still life with fruit and Arne Jakobsens Egg-Chair“, painting

Award Winner Welttournee 2023, international
World Wide Galleries bietet Künstler:innen erstmalig die Chance, ihre Kunstwerke im Rahmen einer Welttournee global zu präsentieren. Die ART WORLD TOUR nimmt die Kunst von auserwählten Kunstschaffenden auf eine spannende einjährige Reise rund um die Welt mit. Stephanie Bing WINNER „TRIO INFERNAL 1“ (painting) goes around the World to: Swiss Art Expo; Miami Art Basel; Art Lab California; Art Basel Weeks and New York Art Weeks in 2023
https://www.worldwidegalleries.com/artworldtour2023

since 2022 Listet @ ARTREPRENEUR Photography / Contemporary international 
Stephanie Bing „Smart Yellow Cape Town“ by Stephanie Bing
Photography: Stephanie Bing's photography is mysteriously enchanting. With her eye for every living object and spatial structure, she captures a detailed and precise picture that brings a fresh and intriguing perspective to the world's reality. As the viewer sees existence in a different light, context or resolution, familiar objects appear as something new. 

Award Finalist, November 2022 international 
10. KUNST-ONLINE Preis - Internationaler Kunstwettbewerb, Finalist 
Artwork: „Interieur mit Kugellampen“, Painting
https://www.kunst-online.com/collections/10-kunst-online-preis

Award, Artist of the Month October 2022 
Winner, Camelback Gallery International Art Gallery, Arizona USA
Artwork: „First Floor“, Painting
https://www.camelbackgallery.com/post/stephanie-bing-artist-of-the-month

2022 IAA Awards Competition; International-Achievement'Awards in Photography & Digital Art
Camelback Gallery International Art Gallery, Arizona USA, Finalist
Artwork: Miami Medusa Blue 2; Medium: Photography
https://www.camelbackgallery.com/2022iaaawardsphotodigital?pgid=laohj3vk1-75a4205e-2e95-417d-9156-32ce674c30c6

Award Winner, 2022, July Germany
Winner internationalen Online-AWARD >VIBES<, World-Art-Cooperation-Club, Frankfurt
Artwork: „Prophetia“, Painting
http://www.world-art-cooperation-club.de/kuenstler/

Listed @ LENS CULTURE since 2020 Photography international 
Since 1991 Stephanie Bings art work is shown in national and international art exhibitions. Stephanie Bing studied photography with professor Vladimir Spacek from Prague at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mainz. Her photographic oeuvre is listed on #LensCulture, one of the most comprehensive and far-reaching resources for discovering contemporary photography talent around the world.
https://www.lensculture.com/stephanie-bing

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