Ext. I

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 May 2026. Her solo exhibition Ext. I opened in February 2026 at the Galerie für Gegenwartskunst Freiburg. 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.