In his Œuvre Stefan Reiss has been researching drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, projection and light as an artistic medium for over ten years. The basis of all his works is the exploration of the theme of transformation. Stefan Reiss understands transformation as a multi-dimensional process of analogue as well as digital realms. In his approach he focuses on human comprehension, the haptic perception of the artwork and the comprehensibility of space and spatiality. Through his interrelated transformations of analogue and digital worlds, he connects art and technology, research and innovation, interdisciplinarity and immersion: always with a vision of the comprehensibility of both worlds and their sensory perception.
Stefan Reiss studied Fine Arts / Sculpture at the Weissensee Kunsthochschule in Berlin (Germany) and attended the master class with Prof. Inge Mahn and Prof. Berndt Wilde.
He is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors (London, UK), lives and works in Berlin. He's represented by Galerie Probst, Berlin.
His works were shown in international exhibitions at Amsterdam Light Festival (NL), Die Blaue Nacht (Nuremberg, DE), Light Night Leeds (Leeds, UK), Today Art Museum (Beijing, CN), Himmel unter Berlin (Berlin, DE), Leeds Digital Festival (Leeds, UK), Beijing TaiKoo Li Sanlitun Light Festival (Beijing, CN), Canary Wharf Summer Lights (London, UK), Ortung 12 (Schwabach, DE), Space & Vision Redbridge Digital Public Art exhibition (London, UK), Museum of Contemporary Art (Shanghai, CN), European Media Art Festival (Osnabrueck, DE), Aesthetica Art Prize (York, UK), Periscope (Salzburg, AT), Light Up Bashu (Chengdu, CN) and many more.
Stefan Reiss received distinguished awards, such as the CODA Awards Merit Award (Institutional, Madison US, 2020), the Trades District Public Art RFQ (Bloomington, US, 2019), the LIT Award Honorable Mentions (Los Angeles, US, 2019), the SPACE & Vision Redbridge Culture & Leisure Commission (London, UK, 2018) and the Audience Award of Die Blaue Nacht (Nuremberg, DE, 2017). His work has been selected for numerous competitions such as Aesthetica Art Prize (York, UK, 2024, 2019 & 2017), Giralda Sky Public Art Commission (Coral Gables, US, 2019), Lumen Prize (London, UK, 2016), LYNX Prize (Trieste, IT, 2016) and Warsteiner Bloom Award (Cologne, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019) and many more.