Art History at Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg

Artist in Residence, Tarabya Cultural Academy, Goethe-Institut, Istanbul, Turkey

Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius Foundation Grant, Hamburg, Germany

Artist in Residence, Tarabya Cultural Academy, Goethe-Institut, Istanbul, Turkey

Boesner Art Award 2014, Märkisches Museum Witten, Witten, Germany

Artist in Residence, Villa Aurora, Los Angeles

Artist in Residence, Chinati Foundation, Marfa/Texas

Lichtwark-Stipendium des Hamburger Senats

Arbeitsstipendium Stiftung Kunstfonds

Reisestipendium (New York), Neue Kunst in Hamburg e.V.

(C) denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition.

PAPER MOONS, Maureen Paley: Studio M, London, UK

Daphne, Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo, Norway

Zen and the Birds of Appetite, Gerhardsen Gerner, Gallery Weekend Berlin, Germany
Zen and the Birds of Appetite, Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo, Norway
Transition, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

Dirk Stewen – Negative, Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg, Germany
Dirk Stewen featuring GAY GOTH SCENE, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany

Dirk Stewen: Glückliche Stunde, Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo, Norway

Day and Night, Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo, Norway

Maureen Paley, London, UK
Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg, Germany

Carpets and Couplets, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
Paper Sir, GerhardsenGerner, Berlin, Germany
Dirk Stewen, The Locker Plant, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, USA

Elfenbein,Galerie Karin Günther, Hamburg, Germany
Dirk Stewen, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany

Maureen Paley, London, UK
Chez Atle, Project at private apartment, Berlin, Germany

Dirk Stewen: Paper Eye Collection, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

• droplets, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
  Six for Oslo, Galleri MGM, Oslo, Norway
  Exercises, Overbeck Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany

The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers 2.3: Dirk Stewen, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA

Pictures not lovers, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
Pictures, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, Germany

Even in its blackness, the sky did not rest, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Sugar, Lump, Sugar, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Boîte AC, Wohnungsausstellung bei Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Berlin, Germany

Le Mépris, Galerie Nomadenoase, Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg, Germany

I like it, a-ha a-ha, Ausstellungsraum Taubenstrasse 13, Hamburg, Germany (with Susanne Luptovits)

(C) denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition.

Are Blytt and Dirk Stewen, Beautiful Wreck, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Ixelles, Belgium

(C) denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition.

Fotografie Zerstören, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria

GEGENWARTSGESELLSCHAFT 50 years of Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

There is no Sea but the Sea, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany
Forcierte Relikte, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
Summer Art and Culture Festival, Cultural Academy Tarabya, Goethe-Institute
Istanbul, Turkey

Inaugural Exhibition, FATALE, Female Geistergalerie, Hamburg, Germany
Wildlife 2021, Cape Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Re-Cognition, Cape Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

Beautiful Wreck, Are Blytt and Dirk Stewen, MLF/Marie-Laure Fleisch, Brussels, Belgium
ALLE, Overbeck Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany (C)

ALL: Artists in the Overbeck-Gesellschaft Lübeck 1918–2018, Overbeck-Pavillon, Kunstverein Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
Germany is Not an Island, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany (C)
Fhkss, Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg, Germany
Acquisitions 2012–2016, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Tjorg Douglas Beer / Ulla von Brandenburg / Dirk Stewen, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Untitled, Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo, Norway
Artists against Aids 2017, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Schwarze Bretter, Galerie Karin Günther, Hamburg, Germany
The Day Will Come When Photography Revises, Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany, touring to: Landesgalerie Linz, Austria

Boesner Art Award 2014, Märkisches Museum Witten, Germany (C)
Act Three – Selections from the Nordea Norway Art Collection, Drammens Museum, Drammen, Norway
Between the Lines, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
Do not disturb – At the invitation of Elmgreen & Dragset, Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo, Norway

Girls Can Tell, Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany (C)
OHIO, Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg, Germany
Liebe ist kälter als das Kapital, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (C)
Nur hier, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn (C)

Collection Tedeschi, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
Accrochage, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany

Wert-Sache, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, ex tip-Berlin-Shop, Tagesspiegel-Areal, Berlin (C)
The Anxiety of Photography, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (C)
Painting Expanded, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Milk Drop Coronet, Curated by Maren Lübbke-Tidow and Reinhard braun, Camera Austria: Steirischer herbst, Graz, Austria

SHAZAM!, c/o – Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany
10 Jahre, Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg, Germany
The Page, Curated by John Stezaker and Matthew Higgs, Kimmerich, New York, USA
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, 176 / Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK (C)
Art on Paper 2010: The 41st Exhibition, curated by Xandra Eden, Weatherspoon
Art Museum of Greensboro, North Carolina

privat – Wuppertaler Sammler der Gegenwart, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal (C)
Markus Amm, Tobias Hantmann, Michail Pirgelis, Dirk Stewen, Artleib, Düsseldorf

Invention/Tradition, Crown Point Press, San Francisco
Bookish, curated by Matt Packer, Lewis Glucksman Gallery,
Cork Galerie Eva Winkeler, Frankfurt/Main
Wir nennen es Hamburg, Hamburg Kunstverein, Hamburg

Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
Ballet Mécanique, curated by Emma Dexter, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
The Three Cities - Exhibition in Print: Tank magazine, Volume 4 Issue 8, London, UK
Pale carnage, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland
Very abstract and hyper figurative, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK (C)
Pale carnage, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (C)
Galleri MGM, Oslo, Norway

The Three Cities – Milan: The Factory, Milan, Italy
partoftheprocess2, Galleria Zero, Milan, Italy
Das Stipendium, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (C)
The Glass Bead Game, curated by Alun Rowlands and Matt Williams, Vilma Gold Project Space, Berlin, Germany

Alles.In einer Nacht, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
It takes some time to open an Oyster, curated by Yilmaz Dziewior, Centro Cultural Andratx, Andratx-Mallorca
Boîte à Conserves, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg
Suburbia, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen (C)

Formalismus, Moderne Kunst, heute, Kunstverein in Hamburg (C)
Ausstellungsraum Taubenstrasse 13

Feine Ware, Plattform Taubenstrasse im Kunstverein Hamburger Bahnhof

The Color of Friendship, curated by Elke aus dem Moore, Shedhalle, Zürich

Jones, Darren, Critic's Picks: New York, Dirk Stewen, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, artforum.com, February 2018
–––, Dirk Stewen’s ‘Transition’ at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, blouinartinfo.com, 18 January 2018

Herbert, Martin, Preview Dirk Stewen, Gehardsen Gerner, Berlin, Art Review, April 2017, p.42

Dziewior, Yilmaz, Dirk Stewen, Love is Colder than Capital, 2014, pp 240-255
Borcherdt, Gesine, The Definitive Guide to Gallery Weekend Berlin, blouinartino.com, 27 April 2014

Hoffmann, Gabriele: Markt und Emotionen, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 27 February 2013
Liosi, Marianna: Gallery Weekend : Berlin über alles, Drome Magazine, 31 May 2013
Meixner, Christiane: Kleine Kraftpakete im großen Glücksspiel, Der Tagesspiegel, 24 April 2013
—-, Alle Teilnehmer von A bis Z, Berliner Zeitung, 24 April 2013

Büsing, Nicole; Klaas, Heiko Dirk Stewen, Portrait, Artist Kunstmagazin Heft 90

Borcherdt, Gesine: Dirk Stewen bei Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Artnet.de, 2 September 2011
Büsing, Nicole; Klaas, Heiko: Hol den Igel aus der Hose, Artnet.de, 2 September 2011
Heinevetter, Nele: Die Zukunft der Kuration liegt im Mitmachen, Zeit.de, 29 April 2011
Hill, Wes, Dirk Stewen, Frieze d/e, Winter 2011-12, pp. 125-126
Schaller, René: Gerhardsen Gerner zeigt Dirk Stewen, Rene-schaller.blogspot.com, 22 January 2011
Borcherdt, Gesine: Dirk Stewen bei Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Artnet.de, 27 January 2011

Firsching, Ulrich Raphael: Lichtwark-Preis an Olaf Metzel, Kunstmarkt.com, 25 January 2010
Bodungen, Ilka von: Olaf Metzel mit dem Lichtwark-Preis geehrt. Hamburger Künstler
–––, Lichtwark-Preis für Bildhauer Olaf Metzel, Weltonline.de, 25 January 2010
–––, Lichtwark-Preis für Olaf Metzel, art – Das Kunstmagazin, 25 January 2010
–––, Olaf Metzel erhält Lichtwark-Preis, Frankfurter Rundschau, 26 January 2010
–––, In Kürze, taz, 26 January 2010
Sherwin, Skye: Artist of the week no. 112: Dirk Stewen, Guzardian.co.uk, 4 November 2009
–––, Stefan Marx und Dirk Stewen erhalten das Lichtwark-Stipendium, Hamburg.de, 29 January 2010
–––, Olaf Metzel mit dem Lichtwark-Preis geehrt, Kultur-Port.de, 29 January 2010
–––, Bildhauer Olaf Metzel mit Lichtwark-Preis ausgezeichnet, PR inside, 29 January 2010
–––, Lichtwark-Auszeichnung für Hamburger Künstler, Hamburger Abendblatt, 30 January 2010
–––, Berenberg Bank lud zur Vorschau auf Charity-Kunst, Die Welt, 28 March 2010
–––, Lichtwark-Preis für Olaf Metzel, artmagazine.cc, 28 January 2010

Meade, Fionn, Dirk Stewen, Artforum, April 2009, pp. 188–189
Kartoffelpapier, Neues Deutschland, 7 January 2009
Dirk Stewen: Droplets, Berlinulike.net, January 2009 (illust.)
Hans-Jürgen, Hafner, Dirk Stewen bei c/o Atle Gerhardsen: Fette Männer mit Zauberhut, artnet.com, 16 January 2009
Dziewior, Yilmaz (ed.) and Elke aus dem Moore, While you were out, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2009

Clark, Martin, ed. Pale Carnage. Catalogue from Arnolfini in London. London: Specialblue
Kastner, Jeffrey, Openings: Jeffrey Kastner on Dirk Stewen. Artforum, September, pp. 450-451 (illust.)
Shariatmadari, David, Pale Carnage, Art Review, Issue 11, May 2007
Wittneven, Katrin, Die Watchlist de luxe für 2007, Dirk Stewen, Monopol Magazin, No 1, January 2007
–––, Dirk Stewen, iheartphotograph.blogspot.com, 15 April 2007

Büsing, Nicole and Klaas, Heiko, Stipendium im Hamburger Kunstverein. Einmal Welt und zurück, Kunstmarkt.com, 1 April 2006
Hoffman, Jens, ed. Stipendium. Catalogue from Kunstverein in Hamburg. Frankfurt: Revolver Books
Jahn, Wolf, Sechs Künstler auf Reisen. Kunstverein Stipendiaten stellen aus, Hamburger Abendblatt, 16 April 2006
Gebbers, Anna-Catharina, Über Dirk Stewen, Artist – Kunstmagazin No 66, January/February 2006, pp. 4-7
–––, Sugar Lump, Sugar, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, 20 June 2006

Diedrichsen, Diedrich: Formalismus, Artforum International, March 2005, p. 231
Gebbers, Anna-Catharina and von Dziembowski, Bettina, Suburbia. Neuenkirchen, Germany: Kunstverein Springhornhof
Smith, Roberta, Art in Review: Alles. In einer Nacht, The New York Times, 15 July 2005
Stipendium, Die Tageszeitung, 1 April 2005, p. 31
–––, Die Reisestipendiaten. Neue Kunst in Hamburg, Hamburger Abendblatt, 16 November 2005

Dziewior, Yilmaz, ed. Formalismus: Moderne Kunst, heute. Catalogue from Kunstverein in Hamburg. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz

Egetar, Yuval, Vitamin C+: Collage in Contemporary Art, Phaidon, London
Gillman, Claire, and Malbert, Roger, Drawing in the Present Tense, Thames and Hudson, New York, pp. 198-99

Asthoff, Jens: Dirk Stewen, in: The Art of Tomorrow, edited by Laura Hoptman, Yilmaz Dziewior, Uta Grosenick, Distanz Verlag, Wuppertal, pp. 286-289
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London
Parabol, The where do you come from issue, curated by Yilmaz Dziewior, Parabol Art Magazine, Wien, p. 42-44

Kultur & Gespenster Nr. 9: Hochstapler II, Textem, Hamburg def – drafts establishing future, art berlin contemporary, Berlin
privat – Wuppertaler Sammler der Gegenwart, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers 2.3: Dirk Stewen, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (booklet)

Clark, Martin, Pale Carnage, exhibition catalogue Arnolfini, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Bristol/Dundee

Das Stipendium, exhibition catalogue Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg

Suburbia, exhibition catalogue Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen

Formalismus, Moderne Kunst, heute, exhibition catalogue Kunstverein in Hamburg

Paper Moons, limited edition artist book, Buchbinderei Erdmann; Studio Stewen, Hamburg, Germany

Schwarzes Brett, Hamburg, limited edition artist book, Burö Ballmann Weber

While you were out, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne
Night Excercises, limited edition artist book, Printed Matter, New York