Sylvia von Bernstorff
born in Düsseldorf -Germany
2004-2009
Academy of arts “wfk Wiesbadener Freie Kunstschule”, Wiesbaden
studies in visual art (painting, synthetic drawing, art theory)
2008-2009
Academy of arts “Städelabendschule”, Frankfurt/Main
2019 + 2020
Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg
Master-class with Tobias Pils
2009-2012
Curatorial work with national and international artists
2014-2016 Co-organiser of the open studio project “Tatorte Kunst”
Since 2023
Member of GEDOK – Europe’s largest network for women artists of all disciplines, founded in 1926
scholarships / grants
2020
Hessian Culture Foundation „Hessische Kulturstiftung“- Grant received for 6 months project work
Art Charity Festival „Wi für Kultur“, Wiesbaden – Grant received
2019
Artist in Residence (June 2019) – „Kunstarkaden Kempten“, Kempten/Allgäu 2010
2010
Full year support programme, Art school “Kunstschule Atelier Siegel”, Frankfurt/Main
exhibitions
2024
Kunstforum Seligenstadt – Galerie Altes Haus |Resonanzen
2022
Kulturfabrik Fürstenwalde|Miniatur in der bildenden Kunst|
„approach – Annäherung und ihre Synonyme“
2019
Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden | “lines stuff indoor – drawing attention III“, (solo-exhibition)
Project space of the association of art galleries in Wiesbaden „KUNSTRAUM“ | “lines stuff indoor – drawing attention I” (solo-exhibition)
2018
Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden @espace despalles, Paris | „Patterns of Movement (I)“, (group exhibition)
pop-up-gallery, Wiesbaden | “travel.pieces.unfinished”
2017
SCHAUstelle, Wiesbaden | „OHNE EUCH KEINE KUNST“ – mini-drawings, (group exhibition)
Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg | Hessiale (Hession quadriennale of fine arts) -monochrom- – „Soft Error“, (group exhibition)
Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden | -Linie 11- „Patterns of Movement (I)“, (group exhibition)
2016
pop-up-gallery, Wiesbaden | “Time capsule”, “Patterns of Movement I-IV”, “Curtain Down”
2015
Hessian Ministry of Science and Art, Wiesbaden | -answer2- “Soft Error”, (group exhibition)
pop-up-gallery, Wiesbaden | “La magie du fromage”
Museum Kunsthaus, Wiesbaden | “My Robo-Bee Has Lost Its Childhood (II)”, (group exhibition)
2014
pop-up-gallery, Wiesbaden | “Candy Thoughts / My Robo-Bee Has Lost Its Childhood (I)”
2013
pop-up-gallery, Wiesbaden | “Power Game (I+II)”
2012
pop-up-gallery, Wiesbaden | “Drollig/Droll”
2011
arte.fakt Contemporary Fine Arts, Wiesbaden | “Warriors – Creatures – Things”, (solo exhibition)
wfk, Wiesbaden | Artistic research as a process- “untitled drawings”, (group exhibition)