Dr Stefanie Schulte

Stefanie Schulte (1972) is a German artist  

who studied Visual Arts in Barcelona and Madrid, Spain

and is now based in Canberra, Australia.

Initially her work was centred in the medium of sculpture and has been exhibited in group and solo shows in Spain, Germany and the Netherlands.

After completing a PhD in Visual Arts in 2005, which was unanimously awarded the distinction “summa cum laude” by a panel of professors from five different Spanish Universities, she stopped her creative work to focus on her young family, who was then living in central London.

The family’s move to the fifth continent in 2015 turned into a new starting point for her work. With abundance of space and the inspiration of the Australian light, she set up a new studio and reconnected with her previous self, but this time her work is centred in colour. The hunger for colour had already started building up in her years as a sculptor and continued to grow during the time in busy London.

Her paintings have been exhibited in solo shows in the German Embassy (2017, "Architektur der Fläche"), The Grainger Gallery (2021, "Orange Wasn't Invited to the Party") and ANCA Gallery (2022, "Vivaldi's Seasons") in Canberra. She received an Art Residency in Stockholm, Sweden, (2020, Art Circle Residence— Europe Connect, see video links below), which she could not attend in person due to Covid travel restrictions. But her paintings travelled to the group show in the German Residence in Stockholm, Sweden, and were also included in a retrospective of all the past recipients of the Kunstförderpreis award in her home town of Neuss, near Düsseldorf, Germany (2021), an award she had received in 2000 after graduating from art school.

Stefanie is fluent in German, Spanish, English, understands Catalan,

and is currently learning Arabic.