Hanna Stiegeler
*1985, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Biography
Hanna Stiegeler’s practice uses images, both found and produced, to dissect visual culture and its connections to commerce, history, and femininity. Appropriating imagery from commercial photography and public archives while also borrowing their language for self-produced images, Stiegeler constructs her screenprints through a manual and deliberately imprecise process. The resulting artworks, unique versions of otherwise reproducible images, hint and tease the latent and veiled narratives, labors, and contradictions of their source materials.
Stiegeler (*1985, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. She has presented two solo exhibitions at Sweetwater, most recently in 2026. Her first institutional solo exhibition at Galerie für Gegenwartskunst Freiburg opened in 2026. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at Eigen+Art, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Gems, and the Goethe Institut Paris. Stiegeler received an MFA from the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig in 2019.
Selected Texts
Exhibitions
Artworks
Curriculum Vitae
Education
| 2019 | Meisterschüler, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2016 | Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany |
| Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2014 | Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie, Warsaw, Poland |
| 2010 | University Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany |
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
| 2026 | Brutes des nuits, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany |
| Ext. I, Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, E-Werk, Freiburg, Germany | |
| 2023 | Infinite Library, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany |
| 2022 | Hungry Hearts with Darya Diamond, piloto pardo, London, United Kingdom |
| 2021 | Inhabitants with Hadassah Emmerich, The Tail, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2020 | Centerless space with Morgan Canavan, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany |
| 2019 | There is no hierarchy in climax, Gewölbekeller, Konstanz, Germany |
| 2018 | What do you do? with Cosima zu Knyphausen, Come over chez Malik‘s, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2016 | D’ressed, Ortloff, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2015 | Stories From The End, Up Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
| The Sun Estate, BSMNT, Leipzig, Germany | |
| 2014 | Nieszkazitelny, Museum Warszawy, Warsaw, Poland |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2026 | Material Image, Louche Ops, Berlin, Germany |
| 2025 | Against Interpretation Club, ICA London, United Kingdom |
| Before I got my eye put out –, EIGEN+ART Lab, Berlin, Germany | |
| Lost and Found, Galeria Monopol, Warsaw, Poland | |
| 2024 | Everything but the Kitchen Sink, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany |
| Neuerwerbungen 2020–2023, n.b.k. Artothek, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2023 | Artists against the Bomb, Judd Foundation, New York, NY, United States |
| Utopian Library, Kemmler Foundation, Berlin, Germany | |
| Mixed Media, Galerie EIGEN+ART, Leipzig, Germany | |
| 2022 | Neuzugänge, Landesvertretung des Freistaates Sachsen beim Bund, Berlin, Germany |
| Bernhard August von Lindenau Förderpreis Nominee Exhibition, Prinzenpalais, Lindenau Museum, Altenburg, Germany | |
| 2021 | Win/Win, Halle 14 Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany |
| City’s, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany | |
| Tacet, Gems, New York, NY, United States | |
| Working Titel, Heit, Berlin, Germany | |
| Space and Place, Galerie EIGEN+ART, Leipzig, Germany | |
| 2020 | Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria |
| The world is not enough, Adalberstraße 9, Berlin, Germany | |
| Senado Tomado, Despina, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| 2019 | D‘ici là, Goethe Institut, Paris, France |
| Not everything means something, honey, Gallery Anca Poterasu, Bucharest, Romania | |
| What Gary didn‘t know / Petty perceptions, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany | |
| Access, PiK Deutz, Cologne, Germany | |
| 2018 | Kombi 6, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany |
| SHOW, Ku‘damm Karre, Berlin, Germany | |
| Re-set, Tête, Berlin, Germany | |
| I wish the wish you wish to wish, Urlaub Projects, Berlin, Germany | |
| Edition No. 1, Rampe, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2017 | Goldrausch 17, Studio 1, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany |
| Thread Count, Der Greif, Unseen, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| The Love of Three Oranges, Kyotobar, Cologne, Germany | |
| 2016 | Hotline, Basis e.V., Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| Fremd, Grassimuseum, Leipzig, Germany | |
| Collection of Collection, Cinema Deptford, London, United Kingdom | |
| Teststrip Films Part 2, The Museum, Leipzig, Germany | |
| 2015 | Luc LOL Le, Die alte Bäckerei, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2014 | Burnt by the Lights, Ortloff, Leipzig, Germany |
| Fall/Caso, F-Stop Festival for Photography, Leipzig, Germany | |
| As long as we want, European Capital of Culture, Umeå, Sweden | |
| 2013 | Prints from Leipzig, University of Arts, Budapest, Hungary |
Residencies, Grants and Awards
| 2023 | International Studio and Curatorial Program Residency via Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, New York, NY, United States |
| 2022 | Bernhard-August-von-Lindenau-Förderpreis |
| 2021 | Acquisition, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen |
| 2019 | Prize Junge Kunst!, Konstanz, Germany |
| German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD Travel Grant, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| 2018 | Bund Bildender Künstler*innen, Studio Stipend, Berlin, Germany |
| 2017 | Federal Graduate Stipend, Saxony, Germany |
| 2016 | Goldrausch Programm, Berlin, Germany |
| 2014 | Prize of Sparkasse Leipzig / Freundeskreis HGB Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany |
Selected Press
| 2026 | Julius Pristauz, After the Afterparty: Berlin Art Tests Its Pulse during Gallery Weekend, Artforum, May 5 |
| Hilka Dirks, Gallery Weekend Berlin: Nach der Party kommt das Kümmern, taz, May 3 | |
| Brutes des nuits, Artforum Must See, May 1 | |
| Jil Tischer, 22nd Gallery Weekend in Berlin – Highlights, Crash, April 29 | |
| 7 artists to have on your radar at Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026, Dazed, April 29 | |
| Louisa Elderton, 7 Shows to See During Berlin Gallery Weekend 2026, Frieze, April 24 | |
| 2024 | Olivia Allen, The Semiotics of Shopping, émergent magazine, May |
| 2023 | Emerging Artists in Focus at Frieze London 2023, Frieze, October 9 |
| Hanna Stiegeler at Sweetwater, Berlin, Daily Lazy, August 12 | |
| Hanna Stiegeler, Sweetwater, Berlin, Mousse, July 21 |
Publications and Texts
| 2025 | Translations, Chiaromonte, October |
| 2022 | Curiosity Gap, Berlin, Germany |