Stefan Pente

Stefan Pente, born 1964 in Zürich, Switzerland, became a male nurse in a psychiatric hospital in the mid-80s, studied art in the 90s and has lived since 1995 in Berlin. Here he works as a filmmaker, composer, musician, performer, visual artist and author. His videos, installations and lecture performances have appeared nationally and internationally within self-organized and museum contexts. Alongside ongoing research about the human body as an instrument for identifications with race, gender, class, and age, Pente works about the construction of the monstrous and the society of membership. He has worked with William Wheeler, Xavier Leroy, Ines Schaber, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Tara Herbst, Ausland and b_books, among others, on film, theater, dance and performance projects.

In September of 2007 Pente and Wheeler co-organized the symposium-festival, “A Body Is as a Body Isn’t: Virtual Bodies” at fabrik Potsdam after their six-month residency there, with performances, lectures, films, installations and videos around the theme of ‘virtuality’. Stefan Pente has been awarded various studio and production grants in Germany and abroad, including the Swiss Eidgenössischer Kunstpreis.

Together with William Wheeler Pente formed the arts production unit smoking mirror.

in distribution:

one hand on open, 2008