Stephanie Pech (b. 1968) lives and works in Bonn, Germany. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Münster and graduated in 1995. She has received several awards and scholarships, including the Transfer NRW–Israel Travel Grant from the Cultural Secretariat of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2002 and the CityARTists Award in 2021. She is currently nominated for the Paula
Modersohn-Becker Art Prize.
Her work has been exhibited extensively at leading institutions, including Kunstmuseum Bonn (GER), Israel Museum, Jerusalem (ISR), Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (ISR), Kunsthalle Bielefeld (GER), Osthaus Museum Hagen (GER), Große Kunstschau Worpswede (GER), Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg (GER), Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster, Aachen (GER), and Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund (GER).
Works by Stephanie Pech are represented in numerous public collections, including Kunstmuseum Bonn, Osthaus Museum Hagen, the Art Collection of North Rhine-Westphalia, Aachen, the German Federal Foreign Office, and the Hypo Cultural Foundation, Munich.
Stephanie Pech's paintings navigate the space between chance and composition, figuration and abstraction. Her work dissolves fixed boundaries between bodies, identities, and realities, creating uncanny image worlds that propose alternative forms of togetherness.
Conceiving the human being as part of a complex network of relationships rather than an isolated subject, Pech explores the tension between physical presence and latent unease. Shifts in perspective draw viewers into a direct encounter with the image, while shadows emerge as autonomous elements that blur the distinction between object and apparition.
Moving between the visible and the indeterminate, her paintings open spaces of ambiguity in which new forms of perception and connection can emerge.