In her work, Stella Wanisch examines everyday objects, questioning, shifting, and poetically transforming their form and function. These transformations open up a space where heaviness and lightness, possibility and limitation, humor and melancholy intersect. In this way, the banal becomes a carrier of meaning.
Through a precise shift from function to imagination, the relationship between material, form, and action is reconsidered.
Education
2023
2015 - 2023
2013 - 2015
2009 - 2013
Diploma Fine Arts - Jewellery and Artefacts
Fine Arts - Jewellery and Artefacts Studies
(Klasse Suska Mackert) Academy of fine Arts Nuremberg
Fine Arts - Jewellery Studies (Klasse Daniel Kruger) Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle (Saale)
Training as a Goldsmith, Zeichenakademie Hanau
Awards, Fellowships, Residencies
2026
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2024​
2021 - 2023
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2021
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2016 - 2023
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2015
Member of the jury for the class based Danner Award (AdBK Nürnberg Klasse Suska Mackert)
German Design Award Newcomer Nominee 2024
master student of Suska Mackert, Fine Arts - Jewellery and Artefacts (Klasse Suska Mackert) Academy of fine Arts Nuremberg
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1. prize of the award for a prayer room for August-Meier-Haus, Nuremberg
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Stipend of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
Exhibitions
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2018/19
2018
2017
2016
2015
Fog makes things look farther away, Verein für Originalradierung, Munich
FD The other Space x Space Between, Space Between, Nuremberg
Gone Astray – the Art of Gold- and Silversmithing on the Edge of Reason: Hollowware – Jewelry – Utensils, CODA Museum in Apeldoorn, NL
Frisches Design - Edition Neues Museum, Neues Museum Nuremberg
Auf Abwegen - Schmuck und Gerät am Rande der Vernunft, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim
denn sie wissen nicht, was sie tun, Kunstpavillon, Munich
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Karneval der Sinne, Class of Fine Arts - Jewellery and Artefacts at Galerie VONFORM, Munich
Die Selbsternte mit Ikarus war eine tolle Findung - denn im Bettvorleger mit Zopf liegt die Presse >plopp< als Portrait vieler Gefäße, Galerie Biro, Munich
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Class project Intervention as part of the exhibition Friedrich von Borries. Politics of Design, Design of Politics, Pinakothek der Moderne - Die Neue Sammlung, Munich
One and another, ephemera, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, NL
Under the stairs. Tableau Vivant, Class of Fine Arts - Jewellery and Artefacts, Nuremberg at Pinakothek der Moderne - Die Neue Sammlung, Munich
3 im Weggla, 6 auf Kraut, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, NL
Champagner und je t’aime, Akademiegalerie auf AEG, Nuremberg
KlasseN, Streitfeld Projektraum, Munich
Zabo Paradise, Galerie Schlegelschmuck, Munich