STEFAN CANHAM
1968 born in England
1987–1992 studied Experimental Film at University of Fine Arts Hamburg
2003 artist-in-residence at Schleswig-Holsteinisches Künstlerhaus Eckernförde
2007–2008 artist-in-residence at Art and Culture Outreach, Hong Kong
2008 5th International Bauhaus Award, Dessau
2013 WYNG Masters Award, Hong Kong
EXHIBITIONS
2024
Birgit Brandis – Stefan Canham: Erratische Blöcke, Frise Künstler*innenhaus, Hamburg
Kunsthalle Niendorf – Everyone but Caspar!, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg
Regal, hinterconti, Hamburg (upcoming)
Portraits from Above – Hong Kong’s Informal Rooftop Communities, with Rufina Wu, Synthesis Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria (upcoming)
2021
Sabine Höpfner – Stefan Canham: Pictures at an Exhibition, MOMus Museum of Modern Art – Costakis Collection, PhotoBiennale Thessaloniki 2021, Greece (solo)
Anthony Canham – Stefan Canham: Arbeiten 1961–2021, Galerie der Stadt Lüdenscheid (solo, cat.)
Stefan Canham – Anthony Canham: Unanswered Questions, Galerie im Stammelbach-Speicher, Hildesheim (solo)
2019
Marking Time – 25 Jahre Werkstättengalerie, Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau, Dresden (cat.)
2018
Nomadic Mountains – a Survey on High Altitude Mental Architecture, Schunck*, Heerlen, Netherlands
Capitalist Realism, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Photobiennale 2018, Greece (cat.)
Transitions, Frappant, Hamburg
when is becomes if, with Sabine Höpfner and Katja Musenberg, Hinterconti, Hamburg
2017
Die menschliche Dimension – Fotografien von Nakazato Katsuhito und Stefan Canham, Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum, Berlin
Die menschliche Dimension – Fotografien von Nakazato Katsuhito und Stefan Canham, Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau, Dresden
Soft City – Rahmenbedingungen für einen weichen Urbanismus, place/making, Berlin
2016
Zoom! Picturing Architecture and the City, Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna, Austria
Portraits from Above – Hong Kong’s Informal Rooftop Communities, with Rufina Wu, Bolzano Architecture Festival / Foto Forum, Bolzano, Italy (solo)
2015
Zoom! Picturing Architecture and the City, Architekturmuseum der TU, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (cat.)
Visions 2050 – Lifestyle and the City, UABB Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture, Hong Kong
2013
Poverty in the Midst of Plenty, WYNG Masters Award 2012, Hong Kong
Urban Border, UABB Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture, Shenzhen, China (cat.)
Kunstverein projektraum-bahnhof 25, Kleve
Dear Shu, with Sabine Höpfner, Hinterconti, Hamburg (solo)
2012
Die Deutschen Vietnamesen, with Nguyen Phuong-Dan, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Rostock (solo)
The city that doesn’t exist, Museum Ludwig Forum, Aachen
Was stand da? Galerie Genscher, Hamburg
2011
Die Deutschen Vietnamesen, with Nguyen-Phuong-Dan, 25books, Berlin (solo)
Portraits from Above – Hong Kong’s Informal Rooftop Communities, with Rufina Wu, Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau, Dresden (solo)
Rapid Change, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland, New Zealand
High-Rise – Idea and Reality, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Switzerland (cat.)
small BIG show, University of Minnesota, USA
2010
Portraits from Above – Hong Kong’s Informal Rooftop Communities, with Rufina Wu, Design at Riverside, Cambridge, Canada (solo); Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada (solo)
Breda Photo 2010, Breda, The Netherlands
Eye Level, Pith Gallery, Calgary, Canada
Small Architecture Big Landscapes, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, USA
2009
Portraits from Above – Hong Kong’s Informal Rooftop Communities, with Rufina Wu, Kunsthaus Hamburg (solo, cat.); Goethe-Institut Hongkong & Lumenvisum Gallery, Hong Kong (solo); 25books, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Eye Level, Irresistible District, Helsinki, Finland
Informal Cities, Coomaraswamy Hall, Mumbai, India
2008
Shanghai (Urban Public) Space, Land’s End, Hamburg (cat.)
2007
Unhoused, Common Room2, New York, USA
Wohntraum – Zwei Fotografen im Dialog, with Michael Wolf, Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau, Dresden
2006
Spatial Shift, State Museum of Urban Sculpture, St. Petersburg, Russia
Bauwagen, 25books, Berlin (solo)
2005
Bauwagen, Altonaer Museum / Fabrik Fotoforum, Hamburg (solo)
BOOKS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
The Town, Hamburg 2021
Stefan Canham – Anthony Canham: Arbeiten 1961–2021, Galerie der Stadt Lüdenscheid 2021
Die Deutschen Vietnamesen, with Nguyen Phuong-Dan, Peperoni Books, Berlin 2011
Portraits from Above – Hong Kong’s Informal Rooftop Communities, with Rufina Wu, Peperoni Books, Berlin 2008; MCCM Creations, Hong Kong 2009; Parco Publishing, Tokyo 2014
Rufina Wu / Stefan Canham, Portraits from Above – Hong Kong’s Informal Rooftop Communities. Extra: Brett Bloom, Unhoused. Creative Engagement With Global Housing Crises, with Rufina Wu and Brett Bloom, Kunsthaus Hamburg 2009
Bauwagen / Mobile Squatters, Peperoni Books, Berlin 2006
CONTRIBUTIONS TO CATALOGUES, MAGAZINES, JOURNALS
Capitalist Realism, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, University of Macedonia Press, Thessaloniki, Greece 2018
Zoom! Picturing Architecture and the City, Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2015
Volume #39: Urban Border, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2014
Area Magazine – Informal Community No. 128, Milan, Italy 2013
Freitext No. 21, Hanover 2013
ARCH+ No. 206/207, Aachen 2012
Arhitext No 5/2012 – Squatting and Trashing, Bucharest, Romania 2012
MONU Magazine on Urbanism #16, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2012
Textile Forum Magazine 2/2012 June Issue, Hanover 2012
High-Rise – Idea and Reality, HatjeCantz, Ostfildern 2011
Rufina Wu and Stefan Canham on Hong Kong’s Informal
Rooftop Communities, artforum. com.cn, http://artforum.com.cn/words/1701 (accessed 15.2.2017) 2009
Un-titled Magazine, Issue #2, Thessaloniki, Greece, http://www.untitledmagazine.org/ (accessed 15.2.2017) 2009
Ein Magazin über Orte No. 6: Zuhause, Berlin 2009
European Photography No. 84, Berlin 2009
Sarai Reader 07: Frontiers, Delhi, India 2008
An Architektur No. 18, Berlin 2007
Critical Planning Vol. 14: Spatial Justice, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA 2007
Camp for Oppositional Architecture 2006: Theorizing Architectural Resistance, Casco / An Architektur, Utrecht, The Netherlands 2006
Scroope 17 Cambridge Architecture Journal, Cambridge, England 2005
TALKS
Kunsthaus Hamburg, 2022
Kunstsalon, Galerie der Stadt Lüdenscheid, 2022
Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece 2018
Studentische Initiative »Horizonte« at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 2017
Bolzano Architecture Festival, Italy 2016
Kunstsalon, Galerie der Stadt Lüdenscheid, 2013
Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg 2013
WYNG Masters Award, Hong Kong 2013
CCA Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada 2012
HfbK Hamburg, 2012
Armutszeugnisse – Vom Verhältnis von Stadt und Fotografie, with Hannes Wanderer, HafenCity University, Hamburg 2012
The Women of Sapa – Personal Encounters in the »Textiles and
Tourists« Industry of Northern Vietnam, 8th International Shibori Symposium, Hong Kong 2011
University of Applied Sciences, Wismar 2010
Breda Photo, The Netherlands 2010
University of Siegen 2009
Chinatime, Hamburg 2009
Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2009
Hong Kong Art School, Hong Kong 2009
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg 2006
