Artist Talk - Stefan Löffelhardt & Wolfgang Ullrich

About

Stefan Löffelhardt was born 1959 in Biberach. After his education as a sculptor, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, there he was a master student of Günther Uecker.
Löffelhardt received several scholarships, among them the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship. The further ones led him to Rome (Academic Scholarship Foundation) and to Venice (Scholarship of the German Academic Centre).
Löffelhardt’s work has been shown, among others, at Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Kunstverein Schwerte, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, and Kunstverein Cuxhaven.
Stefan Löffelhardt lives in Düsseldorf.

Wolfgang Ullrich, born 1967 in Munich, had studied philosophy, art history, and logics/philosophy of science from 1986 on and received his master degree in 1991 with the paper on Richard Rorty, followed by the dissertation on late work of Martin Heidegger in 1994.
Subsequently he was a freelance writer, lecturer, and advisor. From 1997 to 2003 assistant at the chair for art history at the Art Academy Munich, thereupon visiting professor at University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK) and Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, where he held the professorship for art theory and media theory from 2006 to 2015.
Since then Wolfgang Ullrich has been working as freelance writer, academic in cultural studies, and advisor. Wolfgang Ullrich lives in Leipzig.