installing Vessels
Stephanie Imbeau (b. 1982, Florence, South Carolina, USA) is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist and dual Canadian/U.S. citizen working across sculpture, installation, drawing, and public art. Her practice explores themes of shelter, resilience, vulnerability, and collective presence through works that combine fragile or overlooked elements into larger interconnected structures. Working cyclically across materials and forms, she frequently revisits and reconfigures existing bodies of work, allowing installations to evolve through new arrangements and spatial relationships. Ceramics—and particularly porcelain—play a central role in her practice, informing both her material language and broader conceptual approach.
with Untitled (Cover/Uncover 9)
photo: Patrick Kolts
Through processes of stitching, layering, suspension, and assembly, Imbeau transforms porcelain into unexpectedly soft, textile-like structures that negotiate tensions between delicacy and strength, permanence and impermanence. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Kunstverein Meißen, the Cultural Center of Belgrade, and Channel 4 Headquarters in London. She has participated in residencies including Kunstverein Meißen, Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Vermont Studio Center, and The Arctic Circle Residency in Svalbard, and is the recipient of multiple public art commissions in Berlin as well as grants from Stiftung Kunstfonds and the Canada Council for the Arts.
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