born in 1970 in Stuttgart, Germany; settles in Paris at the age of 19; at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle, takes classes in drama and Franco-German studies; works as a language teacher and translator. Moves to Great-Britain; studies art in London and Norwich; sets up studio in Paris, continues drawing classes. In the following years, works as a radio producer, a speaker and as an extra in film; teaches German at Ecole du Louvre and Lycée Louis-le-Grand. Signs as the director’s assistent and art director of Joel Cano’s Siete días Siete noches. Receives various grants and travels to work in Cuba, Ireland (Cork, Sculpture Factory, map programme/Pépinières pour jeunes artistes), Austria (Graz, European Forum for Emerging Creation), Germany (Weimar, ACC European Studio Programme) and India (New-Delhi/Kolkata, Artists-in-Residence, French Embassy). Exhibits in solo and group shows in these countries; interventions in public space; fictional and theoretical writing. Settles in Marseille; conceives and realizes the stage design for Résidence Secondaire, by Company Christophe Haleb.
On New Year’s Day 2007, settles in Berlin.

Solo Exhibitions

2009 Wedding Cards, Online Residency, Centre for Recent Drawing, London;
Wedding Cards, second home projects, Berlin Wedding
2008 richtfest, Galerie Naumann, Stuttgart
2007 Deutschlandgeschichtenerzähler, Galerie 35, Berlin
2006 footfood - Betrachtungen zur Identität: Männer, Nationen und Fußball, Galerie Naumann, Galerienhaus Stuttgart
2005 Hunting on Foreign Ground, Galerie Romain Rolland/Alliance Française, New-Delhi; Hunting on Foreign Ground, Alliance Française, Chandigarh, Pondicherry; The Same and the Other, Max Mueller Bhavan/ Goethe-Institut, Kolkata
2003 res publica, City Hall, Paris
2002 George in Paradise, Return to Art Gallery, Goethe-Institut, Dublin
1999 Haus Deutschland, Berlin-Rahnsdorf

Group Exhibition (Selected)

2009 Art of Emergency, Artneuland, Berlin; Chimera, Galerie Zak-Branicka, Berlin
2008 Pardah – EnGendered, Lincoln Center, New York;
Gender & Language, Artneuland, Berlin;
Intelligent Design, Galerie Naumann, Stuttgart;
Anonyme Zeichner, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
2007 The Monsoon Chapter II, Travancore Palace, New-Delhi
2006 Metrospective: Visual Representations of Metrosexuality, curated by Himanshu Verma, Galerie Romain Rolland/ Alliance Française, New-Delhi;
FLUIDE, public space, city of Thuin (Belgium);
Abseitsfalle, City Hall, Stuttgart
2005 Metrospective: Visual Representations of Metrosexuality, The Fourth Floor/Kitab Mahal, Bombay
2004 herkunft niemandsland, ACC Galerie, Weimar
2002 Echo, Sirius Arts Center, Cobh (Ireland)
1999 The Memory of the Future, Altes Postfuhramt, Berlin

Art Fairs

2008 PULSE, New York, (Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt)
Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Paris (Galerie Nicolas Silin, Paris)
Artchicago, Chicago, (Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt)
Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Galerie Naumann, Stuttgart)
Stephan Weitzel collaborates with Galerie Naumann, Stuttgart, and in Asia with Red Earth, New-Delhi.
He lives and works in Berlin.