Roland Stelter
In the late 1990s he was head of public relations for Germany's largest city planner at that time, the development agency Bornstedter Feld.
The gallery exhibited the works of artists such as Kerstin Grimm, Melanie Manchot, Martin Parr, Eva Rubinstein, Ransome Stanley and Emilio Vedova.
Stelter also participated in the launch and organisation of many other cultural and political projects while continuing to work as an author, journalist, painter, sculptor and photographer.
In 1983 he co-founded the 'Aktives Museum Faschismus und Widerstand in Berlin', serving together with Heinz Schilling as deputy chairman of the board of executives under Gerhard Schoenberner.
The project was the first to bring together all of West Berlin's democratically oriented political groups for a critical re-evaluation of the Nazi period in Germany.
Minneapolis 2005:[3] At a public hearing sponsored by the Academy of Arts about the future of the Martin Gropius Bau in 1983, Roland Stelter recalled standing in front of the rubble of the former Gestapo building after the war as a child.
He stated that, one cannot so easily, when one speaks about a Museum of German History, move away [from the reality of] where this Gropius-Bau stands: namely, right next to the prison cells where witnesses were persecuted during this time, many of whom are still living.Roland Stelter has worked primarily as an author, painter, sculptor and photographer since the 1990s.
The exhibition was about the life of Ms Zhuk, a Ukrainian survivor of Nazi forced labour and concentration camps who was persecuted by the KGB after her return.
Following his wish, to show political responsibility as an artist, he carried out the photo exhibition «Memories of Europe« in the Chernigov Art Museum M. Galagan in Ukraine in 2014.
In 2015 the mayor of Potsdam, the minister of science, research and culture in Brandenburg, the Armenian ambassador to Germany, the representative of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation of Berlin-Brandenburg, and the publicist Rolf Hosfeld inaugurated Roland Stelter's marble sculpture "Civil Courage."
]), in artery June 1994][4] His work gives the impression of being influenced by American Abstract Expressionism, a distinct classical aesthetic language in conjunction with a most subjective psychological expression.
Constructive forms are inspired by the concept that the stone figures have to lose their weight and float in front of your eyes.Tom Bullman in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on the public sculpture 'Fragment des Regens' ('Fragment of Rain' [transl.
])., May 8, 1999:[6] The inner link of antiquity and modernity, the confrontation of nature and high-tech as well as the adjustment to the historical preconditions of the location are all captured by this sculpture.Simone Reber in the radio transmission "Galerie Rundgang" for Radio Kultur of SFB and ORB about the photo exhibition "Mythos Moscow" by Roland Stelter in the Gallery Blickensdorf Berlin, April 24, 2001:[7] The most beautiful are the photos of a hotel room with a wine-red velvet blanket on top of the bed and an art deco lamp, as if time has stopped.
Roland Stelter makes prints himself in which the colors turn out very soft, very cosy, very close to painting.Klaus Jörg Schönmetzler, Rosenheim's cultural attaché, said in a speech at the Galerie's Christmas exhibition of the 'Gallery of the Kunst und Kultur zu Hohenaschau e.V.'
Summery pictures, flooded with light, almost casual in their expression, revealing past and present pain only on a second or third view ... Roland Stelter has selected a visual language which is documentary but not journalistic ...
Psychological elements like strong facial expressions or gestures he leaves in the background; instead he relies on a stringently worked out composition, and he relies on a lyrical interpretation of the half hidden.Bogdan Gulyay in the Ukrainian internet magazine „Gorod.cn.ua – Portal Tschernigova (Portal Çernigova)" at August 10, 2014 about the Open Air – Vernissage of he exhibition «Memories of Europe« by Roland Stelter of the Art Museum Chernigov M. Galagan, Ukraine:[10] An exhibition of the well-known photographer from Germany here in our place, in Chernigov on the "Green Stage"!
I was even more surprised, when I saw the landscapes, interiors, and people from Germany, France, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia some minutes later.Krikor Amirzayan wrote: "On April 28, 2015, in the heart of the Johannes Lepsius house museum in Potsdam (Germany), the inauguration of a work by the German sculptor Roland Stelter was held ... A number of prominent figures attended the inaugural ceremony.
Among them were the mayor of Potsdam Jan Jacobs, the director of the Johannes Lepsius museum Rolf Hosfeld and the Armenian ambassador to Germany Achot Sempadian.
Stelter manages to successfully fuse these levels.Hanno Depner in the catalogue of the 5th International Literature Festival, Berlin 2005:[17] Leons Bruder: Roman einer Zeitenwende (2005) tells the life story of a restless artist traveling between America, Germany, France, and Russia, and so sketches a complex historical panorama of the second half of the 20th Century.Besides working as an author, visual artist and designer, Stelter has also served periodically since 2010 as an adjunct professor of photography, design and professional writing at Webster University Vienna and in Amsterdam/Leiden.
In a nature reserve in the north-eastern part of Germany he restored in cooperation with his son Benjamin Stelter an ensemble of listed buildings from 18th and 19th century and designed it for the purpose of modern living and working.
