About
Stefanie Welk, born in 1972 in Heidelberg, is a sculptor with a studio in Walldorf near Heidelberg. Represented by Galerie Petra Kern, Heidelberg.
Artist and mediator between THE worlds
Embodiment is a central theme for me. I explore how spiritual energy comes into the world – how it takes on form and becomes matter.
I like to look behind the form. Again and again my concern is transformation, movement – above all inner movement. My work is a passage, an inner impulse – made visible through transparent, open structures.
My works are not closed – I work with states, transitions, vibrations. My work touches the invisible. It has a counterpart in quantum physics, in models of consciousness, in energetic systems. I do not understand the world as an object, but as a living field.
I see myself as a mediator between different worlds. My art is a medium – it mediates between the spiritual and the physical, between the invisible and the visible, between energy and form.
Art for your place
A work that belongs exactly to its place – that is my particular passion.
When I see a place or know its conditions, I begin to imagine: What should the work convey? Whom should it reach? Where does it find its place, and how does it change the space around it? From these questions I develop a work tailored to the place, its conditions and your concern. I have refined this way of working over decades – from large-scale sculptures for cities, companies and TU Chemnitz to sculptures for private gardens.
A particular focus of my work is art for companies. I have already worked with numerous companies and developed works for foyers, entrance areas, outdoor grounds and rooftops – among others for the Brand Group, Nedschroef, Bruker BioSpin, AOK Systems and WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management. Works that make a company's values, history and identity visible.
You have a place – a garden, a company building, a practice, a square – and would like a work of art to convey something: an idea, a thought, an attitude that reaches people? Write to me or give me a call. Let's sit down together. I will send you sketches and designs, and step by step your project will take shape together.
Biography
- 2022Opening of the studio in Walldorf
- 2016Working stay in Bangalore, India
- 2013Opening of the studio in Mannheim's industrial harbour
- 2011Artistic exploration of the principles of permaculture for the design of alternative living spaces. Repeated journeys to Greece
- 2001Studies in “Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness” at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, USA
- 1999Self-employed as a freelance artist
- 1992–1999Studies in psychology, Heidelberg University
Art prizes
- 2025CONNECTION, 1st prize, competition of the municipality of Weisenheim am Berg for a sculpture in public space
- 2025CALLING FOR PEACE, 1st prize, competition of the Bürgerstiftung Weinheim for a sculpture in public space
- 2024IMPACT, 1st prize in the art-in-architecture competition for a sculpture / Transmission Electron Microscopy Centre of TU Chemnitz
- 2012SKY-DANCER, 1st prize in the art-in-architecture competition for CASA ALTRA, Düsseldorf
- 2010CYCLES OF LIFE, 1st prize in the art competition for a sculpture marking the 20th anniversary of “Der Grüne Punkt”, Duales System Deutschland
Grants and awards
- 2021Project grant from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg
- 20021st prize in the SAP Future Competition, Ernst Bloch Centre, Ludwigshafen, and SAP AG – “Paul Harris Fellow”, Rotary Club, San Francisco
- 2001–2002Rotary cultural scholarship, San Francisco, USA
- 1992Renate Maria Radbruch Prize for Fine Arts
- 1991Main prize in the Japan competition of the Ministry of Culture and Sport, Baden-Württemberg: study trip to Japan
- 1989–1990Scholarship of the German Bundestag: one-year stay in the USA
- 1987“Youth Sees Europe”, 34th European Competition, medal for a poster design on European integration
Art in architecture and public space
- 2025CONNECTION, art in public space, municipality of Weisenheim
- 2025CALLING FOR PEACE, art in public space, city of Weinheim
- 2024IMPACT, art in architecture, TU Chemnitz
- 2023AN DER GRENZE (At the Border), wall object for the cemetery chapel in Ladenburg
- 2022SPHERA, sculpture in public space for the city of Weinheim
- 2022MOMENTUM, art in architecture, wire sculpture for WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Düsseldorf
- 2020FEUERLÄUFER (Fire Runner), wire sculpture for the Beisheim Foundation, Düsseldorf
- 2020CHRONOS, steel sculpture for the sculpture park in Bad Salzhausen
- 2019FREE SPIRIT, art in architecture, floating installation for the iLive Tower, iLive Holding, Aalen
- 2019TRAUM IN DIR (Dream in You), sculpture in public space for the city of Weinheim
- 2018WASSERLÄUFER (Water Runner), outdoor sculpture for Luisenpark Mannheim
- 2018TIMELINES, art in architecture, 25 m wall installation for Nedschroef Holding, Netherlands
- 2017EMBRACE, outdoor sculpture for the town of Hemsbach / artists' symposium
- 2017TRANSPARENCY, art in architecture, steel sculpture in the outdoor area of COWA GmbH, Gottmadingen
- 2013STEINBOCK (Ibex), design and realisation of the sculpture for the Aschera-Park, Schiers, Switzerland
- 2012LÄUFER (Runner), outdoor sculpture for the Municipal Museum Iserlohn
- 2010ZEITLÄUFER (Time Runner), art in architecture, sculpture for the 950th anniversary of the town of Roth, donated by Leonische Drahtwerke
- 2006PLEXTER, stainless steel sculpture for the art trail in Abtsteinach, Odenwald, funded by the Sparkassenstiftung Starkenburg
- 2005IM FREIEN FALL (In Free Fall), wire sculpture for the art trail on the Tromm in the Odenwald, funded by the Sparkassenstiftung Starkenburg
- 2005RAUM-TANZ (Space Dance), wire sculpture for the “Garden of Science” at the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
Art fairs
- 2019–2026Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Petra Kern, Heidelberg
- 2023Art Karlsruhe, sculpture square
- 2020Art Karlsruhe, one-artist show
- 2019Contemporary Basel, Galerie Petra Kern, Heidelberg
- 201418th Art Innsbruck, group presentation by Suisse Arte, International Fair for Contemporary Art
- 201222nd Art Fair at the Frauenmuseum, Bonn
Exhibitions at art associations
- 2025MENSCH UND RAUM (Human and Space), Kunstverein Bad Nauheim
- 2025SPACE.HUMAN, Villa Streccius, Landau
- 20248th Kunsttage Winningen
- 2022PANTHA REI, Kunstverein Bad Homburg
- 2020WERKFORUM Plastische Perspektiven (Sculptural Perspectives), sculpture garden Bad Salzhausen, Kunst Projekt e.V. Nidda–Bad Salzhausen
- 2018ZWISCHEN ENERGIE UND MATERIE (Between Energy and Matter), Kunstverein Kulmbach
- 2017ZEIT-MENSCH-RAUM (Time-Human-Space), Kunstverein Ladenburg
- 2017KÜNSTLERSYMPOSIUM (artists' symposium), Kunstverein Hemsbach
- 2015IM NETZ (In the Net), Kunstverein Barsinghausen
- 2014Kunstforum Forst
- 2013SIEBENFACH (Sevenfold), Kunstverein Germersheim
- 2010SOMMERAUSSTELLUNG (summer exhibition), Kunstverein Germersheim
- 1996MINOTAUROS, Kunstförderverein Weinheim
Art News
Invitations and news from the studio