Stefan Guggisberg (*1980, lives and works in Leipzig) has developed a work method all his own. He doesn’t begin with an immaculate, blank sheet of paper, but with an already thoroughly colored sheet, from whose layers of color he gradually exposes morphologies using various tools. In this way, oil paints are layered over each other and then scraped off – like an archaeologist who conceals the objects of his investigations, only to re-encounter them in surprise and to view them with completely different eyes. This is a school of seeing that challenges our attention and points it to things that might not be visible immediately. Stefan Guggisberg was a Master Student under Neo Rauch, one of the artists with whom the Galerie EIGEN + ART has worked together since the beginning.
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Stefan Guggisberg studied photography and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig in the classes of Christoph Muller, Neo Rauch and Timm Rautert. His works have been shown nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions at venues including the Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin, Germany; the Kunstverein Gera, Germany; the Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland; the Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland; the G2 Kunsthalle Leipzig, Germany; and the Grafikstiftung Neo Rauch in Aschersleben, Germany. Guggisberg has received numerous awards, including the Culture Promotion Prize and the Art Prize of the City of Thun, the Aeschlimann Corti Scholarship from the Kunstgesellschaft Bern, a project scholarship from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, and a working scholarship from the City of Leipzig. Stefan Guggisberg was also a visiting professor at Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan, in 2022 and 2025.