My practice exists between art and design, using diverse media, methods and collaborative formats to explore abstract subjects, reveal complexity and open up new perspectives.

I am also involved in design education. I want to give young people a playful and enduring approach to design. Design is not only part of our everyday culture, but should also be understood as an opportunity to shape one's own environment and a positive future. My focus is on the development and design of innovative educational concepts and materials dealing with different aspects of design. I work at the intersection of school, university, museum and design practice. Current project: wedesign - Design x Schule.

Based in Munich, I work on self-initiated and commissioned projects.



CONTACT
Anna Stephan-Schmid
hallo@annastephan.de
0176-69686431

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESS (SELECTION)
/ Publication: »wedesign Design x Schule«, a project of Stiftung art 131 in cooperation with the
Bünemann Stiftung and Die Neuen Sammlung - The Design Museum, 2022/2023
/ kurier.at: »Object of the week« presenting the project »Valet Stools«, 03/2018
/ AD-Magazin: »special edition kitchen«, presenting »Ani-Boards« from Stephan & Schmid, 05/2018
/ AD-Magazin: »Munich oriental«, presenting the carpet »Izze«, 10/2015
/ Art calendar 2015 of Lfa Förderbank Bayern, presenting the chair »not«, 2015
/ Trade magazin »Licht«, presenting the installation »Licht sticken«, 10/2014, S.100
/ on-light.de: presenting the installation »Licht sticken«, 2014

ACTIVITIES
/ Project lead »wedesign – Design x Schule«, a project of Stiftung art131 in cooperation with the Bünemann Stiftung and Die Neuen Sammlung – The Design Museum, 2022/2023
/ Interim art teacher at Camerloher Gymnasium Freising, 2020 - 2022
/ Artistic assistant at the chair of product design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany, 2022
/ External partner for a design seminar for an 11th class at Gymnasium, 2018
/ Co-Founder and Designer of design studio Stephan & Schmid, 2018

EXHIBITIONS
/ »Malerei, Skulptur, Möbel«, Group exhibition, Stephan & Schmid together with the artist Manfred Stephan, Altes Gefängnis Freising, 2023
/ »No Wood No Fun«, Stephan & Schmid at the MCBW Munich, 2019
/ Furniture exhibition with Stephan & Schmid at the Biennale Interieur Kortrijk, Belgium, 2017
/ Installation »Licht Sticken« for Osram at the Osram Headquarter in Munich, 2014
/ Installation »windfield« at Kunstatelier Wasserturm 39, Aubing, 2012

NOMIATIONS AND AWARDS
/ Scholarship Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, support programme »Junge Kunst und neue Wege«, 2022
/ Scholarship Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, 2016
/ Winner of the design competition organised by the magazin AD Architectural Digest and JAB Anstoetz. Awarded with carpet design »Izze«, 2015
/ Winner of the LIO Osram Light Award 2013. Awarded for the Installation »Licht Sticken«, 2013