Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

Frischzelle_15: Stefanie Trojan

17 Sep - 16 Oct 2011

Stefanie Trojan
Being happy, performance, 2011
photo: Jukka Kostet
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011
Frischzelle_15: STEFANIE TROJAN
17 September - 16 October, 2011

Every culture develops rituals, habits, and complex models of social behavior. Artist Stefanie Trojan (b. 1976 in Neu Ulm, Germany) investigates such traditional norms in her performances as she carries out actions that consciously break the rules of interpersonal communication. In this way, she asks viewers to consider the familiar from a new perspective: »I don’t work with pictures, but with experience«, Stefanie Trojan explains about her performative approach. Here she allows the audience to play an essential role in the resulting performance, as it is audience members’ reactions to the irritating and provoking actions that complete the experiments she initiates.