Stéphane Couturier France, b. 1957

With E-1027+123, French photographer Stéphane Couturier turns his lens to Eileen Gray's iconic Villa E-1027 - a milestone of modern architecture and a symbol of female architectural utopia. In his multilayered double exposures, Gray's precise geometries encounter Le Corbusier's expressive wall paintings. The result is a series of vibrant visual spaces that reveal architecture as both a poetic and political medium.

The exhibition presents works that drew wide attention at the 2025 Rencontres d'Arles - now on view in Berlin for the first time.

Paris is back in the spotlight—and Made in Paris celebrates the city’s vibrant, diverse art scene through twelve contemporary positions. Curated by KUNSTFORUM author Heinz-Norbert Jocks, the exhibition runs parallel to the magazine's special issue and brings together painting, photography, ceramics, video, and installation by artists currently living and working in Paris, most of them exhibiting in Germany for the first time.
Talk (in german): Wednesday, 12 November 2025, 6:30 pm
Heinz-Norbert Jocks stellt im Gespräch mit Thomas Huber den neuen KUNSTFORUM-Band
Made in Paris vor.
Stéphane Couturier
Thomas Buswell
Edi Dubien
Emile Degorce-Dumas
Kenny Dunkan
Liang Fu
Marina Gadonneix
Augustin Lignier
Viktoriia Oreshko
Alireza Shojaian
Vincent Voillat
Jiechang Yang
Curated by Heinz-Norbert Jocks

Tammam Azzam, Elvira Bach, Stéphane Couturier, Nick Dawes, Paris Giachoustidis, Hubertus Hamm, Natela Iankoshvili, Rusudan Khizanishvili, Franziska Klotz, Tamara Kvesitadze, Christopher Lehmpfuhl, David Meskhi, Susanne Roewer, Hubert Scheibl, Martin Spengler, Jan Tichy, Ivana de Vivanco
Galerie Kornfeld is delighted to announce it's ten year anniversary exhibition, wich will feature the artists that have come along with us through the decade. The anniversary exhibition will reveal touching glimpses of the past and the future, sensitive and exciting exchanges between first artistic attempts and more mature works. The works on show hint at inner struggle and transformation, the eternal search for what is hidden behind the visible.

Hiba Alansari, Tammam Azzam, Stéphane Couturier, Nick Dawes, Farshad Farzankia, Hubertus Hamm, Rusudan Khizanishvili, Vera Pagava
Shutdown. Lockdown. Confirmations. Cancellations.
That might happen from time to time, the gallerist thinks. Occasionally an artist or a collector might cancel. This time, however, it's a collective, worldwide cancellation. And he tries to understand current events, just as the friends of art seek to read and interpret images. And the gallerist thinks. Cancel? Confirm? He thinks: These extraordinary times offer us the opportunity to pause momentarily, to reflect on what really matters, to feel what is taking place and to become aware of the consequences. At least from time to time.

“Les Nouveaux Constructeurs” will present, for the first time in Germany, photographer Stéphane Couturier’s work that resulted from his involvement with French painter Fernand Léger’s œuvre. Upon the invitation of Julie Gutierrez, curator of the Fernand Léger Museum in Biot, Stéphane Couturier worked intensely with the oeuvre of Fernand Léger, one of the masters of modern painting in early 20th-century France. Léger was particularly attentive to the radical transitions of his time. The central focus of his work was the changes people and cities went through due to machines and mass production. Drawing from the form experiments of the cubists, his body of work found its particular artistic expression, which merged the cubist avantgarde with communist engagement.

During his first visit to “Climat de France”, Stéphane Couturier instantly realized that his work would have to involve the people, who today inhabit and transform Pouillon’s ideal architectures according to their own needs and desires. Thus his repertoire of themes and motifs expanded: in addition to the large-scale, captivatingly composed, almost painterly photographs of buildings or architectural structures, he created pictures that document the people and their everyday life, capturing them in iconic images. Video portraits, which formally occupy a space between image and film, and three-dimensional photo installations touch the very limits of the medium of “photography” and extend its spectrum.

Stéphane Couturier, Hubertus Hamm, Bertram Hasenauer, Natela Iankoshvili, Franziska Klotz, Tamara Kvesitadze, Christopher Lempfuhl, Olivia Mc Gilchrist, Anne Pantillon, Sandeep Mukherjee, Alexander Polzin, Susanne Roewer, Sonny Sanjay Vadgama
At a “Supper Club”, people who have generally never met before, get together in their host’s private rooms, where they are wined and dined with a self-prepared culinary menu. The idea of different people and cultures coming together through a shared interest is the inspiration for the group exhibition “Supper Club” that kick-starts the year 2017 at Galerie Kornfeld. We invited gallery artists, as well as exciting guest artists, to bring along one or two works as gifts for this exhibition, which unites a variety of artistic forms under one thematic framework.

In this series, Stéphane Couturier explores, which was created over more than three years, in highly aesthetic and, at the same time, socially ambitious photos and videos, the “Climat de France” housing project – today called Oued Koriche – in Algier. Built-in the International Style in the 1950s and based on a design by French architect Fernand Pouillon, the ambitious project is now the centre of the Bab-El-Oued district. Today the housing project is a city within a city, forgotten by politicians and avoided by the police.

Stéphane Couturier, Camilla Douraghy, Ralf Peters, Benyamin Reich
The Other Europe is the theme for The 6th European Month of Photography Berlin in 2014. Our exhibition presents four photographers searching for Europe’s intrinsic identity.
The 21st century with its open borders and world wide connectivity is putting the old structures of an already heterogeneous Europe into question. Is there, or was there ever a united European idea? Is there such a thing as a European identity? Who today is actually European?
None of the artists in the exhibition explicitly address these topics, yet the question of a possible European identity can be perceived in all works featured in the exhibition.

The large-scale photographs by the contemporary photographer Stéphane Couturier are never committed to representing the purely factual. They also create a new, image-immanent order of things: Through the superposition of two different images of the same place, the artist creates intensely colored to almost abstract works. His works, which have more in common with the definition of contemporary painting as color, line and surface than with traditional notions of photography as a document, are characterized by dynamic verticals and horizontals, elegantly curving lines and brilliant effects of light and color.