Anne-Marie Stöhr

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Anne-Marie Stöhr ( * 1969 in Saarbrücken ) is a contemporary artist. She is a representative of contemporary abstract painting and engages in performance art and installation.

Biography

Born in Germany to a Swedish mother a German father, Stöhr went to elementary school in Lorraine, France. Stöhr is a native speaker of German, Swedish and French and acquired native English fluency during the 17 years, that she lived in the Bay Area of California.

Artistic Career

She began her artistic career as a student of painting of Tullan Fink at Dômen Konstskola in Gothenburg Sweden 1989-1991. As a student at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar in Saarbrücken 1992-1997, where she studied painting with Bodo Baumgarten and performance art with Ulrike Rosenbach , her work became more process oriented. As a recipient of an exchange scholarship from the Franco-German Youth Office for a semester at the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs Strasbourg , she began her series of works with sulfur, using sulfur as a pigment and drawing and writing with charcoal into the wet sulfur. With the series „Sulfur Poems", she achieved her first successes. A participation in the Landeskunstausstellung Saar in the Saarland Museum in 1995 and her first solo exhibition at the gallery PS in Gothenburg followed, a gallery that still represents her today. In 2000, Stöhr married and changed her name to Ann-Marie Selvidge and presented her drawings during a solo show in the Fruchthalle Kaiserslautern, curated by Dr. Andrea Edel in a spatial installation where she transformed the space with her painted papers. 2001 She was invited by the artists Lukas Kramer and Monika Schrickel to a residency and a two-week long drawing performance at the Saarländisches Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken along with her toddler Nils. From 1998 to 2013, she worked exclusively with colored ink on mostly large handmade papers from French and Italian paper mills. In 2002, she moved to California. There, in 2004, she was promoted by French art consultant Bruno Mauro and his project space Ampersand International Arts San Francisco. This resulted in her participation in the group show Emerge in the Old Mint San Francisco, where she presented her large scale drawings superimposed on each other, as well as the installation of her drawings : „The Corporate Smile“ and the animation "Female Back Flip". In 2006, she divorced and took her name back again. As Ann Stoehr she exhibited during a residency at the Kala Art Institute Berkeley curated by Lauren Davies "Drawn Together by Line" with Nora Pauwels and Livia Stein, where she made a large wall drawing with one line only. In 2007, two large-scale drawings were shown at Patricia Sweetow Gallery San Francisco. In 2007-2009 she lived in Point Reyes California where she learned how to surf The immense nature and the intense experiences while surfing informed Stöhr’s painting.

During the 2010 Stanford Electrical Music Festivals, she performed ‚Modulations‘ with poet Dan Harder and Max Matthews , during which the poet read his zipper poems, his voice modulated by sounds of Max Matthews, While Stöhr drew ambidextrously, which was projected on a screen.

Curations and artist collectives

As a co-founder of the artist collective Kunstmanöver, she organized exhibitions together with the group in conversion sites like the former French Holtzendorff barracks in Kaiserslautern in 1996. In 1997 she was the artistic director and initiator of the Kunstmanöver in Röda Sten art center in Gothenburg Together with Monika Bohr, she initiated and directed the art maneuver in Schloßberghöhlen Homburg 1998.

In 2018 she conceived and directed the exhibition Thinking Structure with Andy Vogt, Linda Geary, Sabine Reckewell, Ulrike Palmbach, Kirk Stoller, Anne-Marie Stöhr at the Buck Institute Novato California in a building designed by architect IM Pei In 2022 she curated the memorial exhibition "On the Threshold of Abstraction" for her artist friend Andrea Neumann , who died in 2020, and whose function as vice chair she took over at the Saarländisches Künstlerhaus in Saarbrücken. In 2022 she was part of the team that created the Kunstpreis Andrea Neumann along with ME Stiftung Saar. There she also curated the exhibition "Nomadic Structure" with Andy Vogt, Ulrike Palmbach, Sabine Reckewell, Kirk Stoller and Blaise Rosenthal in 2022 as well as „The Nomadic Work of Art“ a panel discussion during a pop-up exhibition with Annebarbe Kau, Dirk Rausch, Claudia Vogel, Christiane Wien and herself at the Pingusson building in Saarbrücken.

Her work is represented by Gallery PS in Gothenburg Sweden, Brigitte Henninger in Seefeld, a portfolio with works on paper is on view in the flat files at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn. She is a member of the Saarländischer Künstlerbund since 2014. and she is vice chair of the Saarländisches Künstlerhaus .

Work in Public Collections

-Statens Konstråd Sweden -Göteborgs Kulturnämnd Sweden -Ministerium für Familie, Frauen, Kultur und Integration Rheinland Pfalz,https://familienapp.trier.de/einrichtungen/aemter-und-behoerden/ministerium-fuer-familie-frauen-kultur-und-integration -Ministerium für Kultur und Bildung Saarland .

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