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

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 EXHIBITIONS (Selected)

2008	Pardah – EnGendered, Lincoln Center, New York; Gender & Language, Artneuland, Berlin; Intelligent Design, Galerie Naumann, Stuttgart
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 is represented by Galerie Naumann, Stuttgart, and in Asia by Red Earth, New-Delhi.
He lives and works in Berlin and Paris.