Stefan Gross, was born in Bendorf, in Germany, in 1964.

He apprenticed in a glass painting business. There, in addition to restoration, he also carried out commissions from artists. This was his first contact with visual artists. After completing the advanced master’s training, he decided to make art himself. He put together a portfolio of his own free works and was then accepted to the then newly founded HBK saar in Saarbrücken. He studied painting and.graduated in 1997 as a master student with Prof. Bodo Baumgarten. Then het took a big step into the unknown, the Netherlands, with a scholarship from the German government (DAAD).

After a few guest studios in Rotterdam, he made his permanent studio in the studio community Kunst en Complex in the Rotterdam harbour, where he still works today. In 2010 he makes his first experiments with thermoplastic plastics. He sets himself the challenge to create a material that can be manipulated by hand and painted, based on an industrial material. A material with unlimited possibilities for him. 

But also a controversial, time-defining material of the petroleum age, which could not depict the excesses of our time more aptly.

He believes to have found the appropriate visual language in the Baroque and even more so in the Rococo. 

Stefan Gross calls his works for this reason works of the ‘SciFi Rococo’. 

A future version of the Rococo, which hopefully does not end up pointing to the limits of our civilization.

1981-1990 Apprentice, master glazier/stained glass painter.
1991-1996 art academy HBK saar, Saarbrücken, Germany
since 1997 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands

2023

Art Karlsruhe, solo presentation Chiefs and Spirits 
Palmbeach Modern Contemporary with Chiefs and Spirits

2022

Context, Art Miami presentation Chiefs and Spirits
Palmbeach Modern Contemporary with Chiefs and Spirits
Enter Art Fair Copenhagen, Rademakers Gallery

2021

Student Hotel Project, Pottage Foundation, group exhibition
Summer exhibition Museum Sankt Wendel, Germany group exhibition
Solo show ‘No Waste’ Rademakers Gallery, Amsterdam
Enter Art Fair Copenhagen, Rademakers Gallery

2020 

Art Karlsruhe, solo show, Gallery Chiefs and Spirits.
COVID stop!

2019

Palm Beach, Modern and Contemporary, presentation gallery Chiefs and Spirits.
Art Karlsruhe
Art New York, presentation Chiefs and Spirits.
CONTEXT Miami, presentation Chiefs and Spirits.
Salon Milan, presentation Rademakers Galerie.
Art Breda, Van Loon Galleries.
Art RAI, Amsterdam, presentation Chiefs and Spirits.
Biennial Tilburg van Loon Galleries
CONTEXT Miami, presentation Chiefs and Spirits.
PAN Amsterdam Rademakers Gallery

2018

CONTEXT Miami, presentation Chiefs and Spirits.
PAN Amsterdam, presentation Rademakers Gallery.
Art RAI Amsterdam, presentation Chiefs and Spirits.
Salon Milano, presentation Rademakers Galerie.
Biennial van Loon Galleries
Art Breda, van Loon Galleries
Art Karlsruhe, solo presentation Chiefs and Spirits.
Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary, presentation Chiefs and Spirits.

Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2 works.
Museum LAM Lisse , 2 works

1996 “AEG Art Prize Ecology” from AEG Germany
1996 Drawing prize of the Eisenturm Art Association in Mainz.
1997 DAAD scholarship to the Netherlands from the German government.     
2008 Frits Philips Art Prize at the Museum Kunstlicht in de Kunst, Eindhoven, NL
2009 Project grant for Love Hate Punch from the Netherlands Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture
2016 Awarded scholarship ‘Proven Talent’ Mondriaan Fund