Stephan Huber

Stephan Huber is one of the most important artists in Germany. He was awarded the Swabian District Art Prize in 2023 for his multifaceted oeuvre. Although the sculptor worked internationally from an early age, he remained connected to his home region of Allgäu.

The exhibition "Das große Leuchten" has been specially designed for the premises of the Schwäbische Galerie. Stephan Huber is known for his white, idealised Alpine peaks made of dental plaster. In the exhibition, he has mountain sculptures floating under the historic roof truss: the Höfats (Allgäu), the Watzmann, the Drei Zinnen and the Antelao (Dolomites). They illuminate tables with books that thematise important sources of his artistic work.

The exhibition title also refers to three chandeliers mounted in the baroque roof truss. The artist has assembled them from copies of bones. They are both light and memento mori. They were inspired by the Capuchin crypt in Rome, where bones and skulls decorate the walls.

It is the desire to play with realities and fictions that drives the great storyteller Stephan Huber. Wall-filling maps, created using collage, photography and drawing, become projection surfaces for his ideas. They not only invite you to take a stroll through world history, but also depict local history through biographically charged descriptions.

The artist also stages the juxtaposition of irony and disaster, of stories and history, as a puppet theatre in which he himself appears.

Last edited on 14.11.2024