Background
Stefan Kürten was born in 1963 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf where Stefan Kürten studied Philosophy and English from 1982 to 1983.
Eiskellerstraße 1, 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany
The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf where Stefan Kürten obtained a Master of Arts degree in painting in 1989.
800 Chestnut St, San Francisco, CA 94133, United States
San Francisco Art Institute which postgraduate program Stefan Kürten attended from 1989 to 1990.
Stefan Kürten was born in 1963 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Stefan Kürten entered Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in 1982 and studied Philosophy and English for the next year. He then joined the painting department of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Kürten graduated in 1989 with a Master of Arts degree.
From 1989 to 1990, he followed a postgraduate program at San Francisco Art Institute.
Stefan Kürten emerged to the art scene in the middle of the 1908s. Almost simultaneously, he tried his hand in academics first teaching at his alma mater, San Francisco Art Institute, from 1992 to 1994. Eight years later he joined the staff of the Hochschule für Künste Bremen (University of the Arts Bremen) where he served the following year. In 2006, Kürten came back to San Francisco Art Institute teaching there for one more year. Kürten has also been a guest professor at Alfred University School of Art and Design and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (from 2014 to 2018).
Since the beginning of his artistic career, Stefan Kürten has exhibited his artworks internationally, including the shows, both group and solo, in France, Germany, United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and China.
Nowadays, the artist lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Spirit in the Night
Heile Welt (grün)
Heile Welt (blau)
Heile Welt
Dogs
Die Goldenen Jahre
Untitled
One Thousand and One Mornings
Trains and Boats and Planes
Ghost
Shadowtime
Meererbusch, John Carpenter
Black Hole Sun
Edelweiss
Deeper Weil
Ashes Everywhere
Midnight Blue, burning Gold
Abgrund
Supernatural
Traum Traum
Aberglaube
Tranquilizer
Golden Collection – Out of Time
Crying Lights
Beautification
Perfect World
Trampoline
The Perfect Night
Always the Sun
Top of the World
Quotations: "It is more concerned with the present, the way we feel and experience ourselves and our environments now, and of course the past, as we access our memories be they 'true' or 'false.' The futuristic quality in my images is something from the future, but it's a future from the past, an optimism laden with bright promises and bedeviled by moral imperatives."
Stefan Kürten is also known as a musician. He writes his own compositions and performs with the Elena Farr band. From 1995 to 1999, he was a guitarist in the Superbilk group.