Sep 13 - Nov 1, Galerie Dumas, Linz

Exhibition: France ↔ Austria

Saturday, September 13 – Saturday, November 1, 2025

Vernissage:
Saturday, September 13, 2025 | 2 PM – 7 PM

Featured Artists:
Sandra Chérès | Ensemble Réel | Jana & Js | Florian Nörl | Kurt Stimmeder | Tegmo | Birgit Zinner

After the summer break, we return with a new exhibition celebrating the vibrant artistic dialogue between France and Austria. Building on the success of our 2021 and 2023 editions, we present a fresh selection of works—bridging cultures, sparking conversations, and embracing contemporary art as an adventure.

When artworks meet, sparks can fly—sometimes a romance, sometimes a friendly rivalry. These encounters tell stories. What will you discover?

During the opening, enjoy a tasting and special sale from Maison des Six Sens: fine wines, premium olive oil, and southern French delicacies to keep the summer spirit alive.

Oct 11 – Nov 22, Ironbridge Gallery, Telford,UK

My lithograph “HOT DOG” has been selected for the final exhibition of the Ironbridge Printmaking Competition!

Ironbridge / Telford / UK
October 11 – November 22

This is a very special moment for me. The Ironbridge competition, founded in 1980, has built a reputation as one of the most respected platforms for printmakers in the UK.

“HOT DOG” is one of my lithographs that plays with both humor and tension, exploring everyday gestures through a lens of allegory and psychological nuance. To see it presented in such a historically rooted and internationally recognized context feels like a confirmation of my ongoing dialogue between traditional techniques and contemporary themes.

I am truly honored to stand alongside so many talented printmakers in this year’s edition, and I look forward to sharing this moment with visitors in Ironbridge. A heartfelt thank you to the jury and the organizers for making this possible.

"The Forbidden Moment" - New Painting

"The Forbidden Moment" - Oil on canvas - 71x54 cm

The Forbidden Moment explores the tension between visibility and self-protection in an age of constant exposure. The figure holds a Sacred Heart – not as a religious symbol, but as an emblem of inner integrity and quiet resistance. Calm and unreachable, it refuses legibility, turning withdrawal into an act of self-assertion.

The work questions power relations in the gaze: Who is seen, who remains hidden, what happens when intimacy becomes public? In a digitized world that demands transparency and efficiency, the painting offers resistance through opacity – a plea for complexity, silence, and inner space. The Forbidden Moment understands painting as deceleration and symbolic independence, shifting the focus toward an ethic of seeing that is attentive, uncertain, and deliberately unresolved.

New Painting is coming

New Work in Progress from the Hand Series

I’m happy to announce that next week I’ll be presenting a new oil painting from my Hand Series, a body of work I started back in 2020. The series explores hands as a form of nonverbal language – carriers of tension, emotion, and meaning. Each painting tells its own story, while all works are connected through this focus on gestures.

For this upcoming piece, I once again collaborated with Nati as the hand model. She already helped me last year with the painting “How to repair a Pear Sandwich,” and her sensitivity in posing always brings a unique quality to the work.

The frame is already mounted, which means we are on the final stretch. The last phase of the process is often the most intense for me: it’s about making small corrections, fine adjustments, and carefully working out the details until the painting feels complete.

Over the next few days, I’ll be fully immersed in these finishing touches. If you’d like to follow along and get a glimpse behind the scenes, I’ll be sharing updates in my https://www.instagram.com/kurtstimmeder/ Stories.

Stay tuned – I look forward to unveiling the finished painting with you soon!

July 24 - Oct 24, Spazio SV, Venice, Italy

I am pleased to take part in La Sublime Ossessione, a large-scale group exhibition exploring the obsessive desire to collect art. The concept follows the fictional mind of a compulsive collector - driven by impulse, detached from logic - who transforms accumulation into a form of art in itself.

The venue becomes an immersive, theatrical installation. A dense, chaotic mosaic of small-format works, memories, and symbolic fragments. Each piece contributes to an unsettling and evocative whole, dissolving the boundaries between collector and creation, viewer and artwork.

Artificial intelligence plays a key role in shaping this experiential space, intensifying perception and interaction. La Sublime Ossessione is not just an exhibition, it is a psychological and sensorial journey through obsession, identity, and the aesthetics of excess.

La Sublime Ossessione – Group Exhibition

Venue: Spazio SV – Centro Espositivo San Vidal, Venice
Dates: July 24 – October 24, 2025 📅
Curated by: Rossella Farinotti
Organizer: Associazione culturale Internazionale Aion Arte

Nov 6 - 20, Gallery Makowski, New York

Solo Show - Galerie Makovski - New York

I’m excited to announce a new collaboration with Galerie Makovski, featuring a solo exhibition from November 6 to 20, 2025 at their Chelsea venue in New York, preceded by two group exhibitions. The gallery operates multiple international locations, including New York, Paris, Beijing, Wuhan, Macao, Zhuhai, and Shenzhen

Founded in 2012 in Berlin by Rusa Makowski, Galerie Makovski focuses on contemporary art across painting, graphic art, photography, and sculpture.

The upcoming solo exhibition will take place at the Chelsea location on West 25th Street (555 W 25th St, 3rd Floor), a vibrant hub for contemporary art in Manhattan.

The two preceding group shows will set the stage for this collaboration — further details on dates and curation will be shared soon.

More information and ongoing updates will be available here on my website and directly from Galerie Makovski International at galerie-makowski.com

Recognition at the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2025

The artwork “The Green Trout” by Kurt Stimmeder has been acknowledged in the context of the international Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2025 in the category Catherine K. Gyllerstrom Emerging Artist Award.

The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is a prestigious international art competition that provides artists with a platform to present their work to a global audience. The exhibition and award ceremony will take place in October and November 2025 at the Haven Gallery in Long Island, New York.

Discover Available Works on Artsy

Some of my works are currently viewable on Artsy. The presentation is managed by collaboration partners who have listed current pieces of mine.

The Hero’s Journey – A Tool in the Artistic Process

A poetic short film about the artist’s inner path.

This atmospheric short film (2023), directed by Lesja Kvitka, presents the creative process as an emotional journey. Visuals by Amirali Bashiri (Director of Photography), music by Sashe Urdovski, editing by Ebrahim Eskandari, color grading by Yazdan Zand.

Kurt Stimmeder is followed in his studio, revealing how art emerges from inner movement, doubt, and curiosity. The Hero’s Journey is not only the title, but also a metaphor for the creative struggle and the search for a personal visual language.

144th RUA Annual Exhibition

Preselection for the 144th Annual Exhibition of the Royal Ulster Academy, Ulster Museum, Belfast (UK)

I am pleased to share that my work "The Green Trout" has been preselected for the 144th Annual Exhibition of the Royal Ulster Academy (RUA), to be held at the Ulster Museum in Belfast, United Kingdom. Founded in 1879, the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts is one of the most established and respected art institutions in Northern Ireland.

The exhibition will take place from 11 October 2025 to 5 January 2026 at the Ulster Museum, one of the country's leading public venues for contemporary art. It presents works across a wide range of media, selected through an open call by an annually appointed panel of professional artists and curators.

The Annual Exhibition brings together contributions from both established and emerging artistic positions from across the UK and internationally. The Green Trout was chosen for the preselection from a large pool of international submissions.

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New Lithograph

"Hot Dog" - 11 layer Lithograph - 53x45,7 cm (framed)

With the lithograph “Hot Dog”, I translate painterly ideas onto paper, embracing this medium’s unique qualities. The hands holding a bright pink French Bulldog take center stage—as carriers of body language, emotion, and meaning in an ambiguous dialogue.

Lithography introduces subtle variations through its process, differing from the direct approach of oil painting and adding another layer of interpretation.

tARTget Painting Prize

“An Old Dutch Dream” was shortlisted in 2025 for the international tARTget Painting Prize, in the Figure and Portrait category. The nomination recognizes his high level of technical skill and his distinctive approach to representational painting.

The tARTget Painting Prize is one of the few internationally curated competitions focused on contemporary figurative art. The shortlisted works will be shown in June 2025 at the historic Ateneo de Madrid, a venue of cultural significance known for hosting both literary and visual arts.