Monika Stein

Monika Stein was born in Munich in 1954. She attended courses in painting and printing techniques at art academies in Bad Reichenhall, Kolbermoor and Augsburg. But her work is not limited to painting and printmaking. As a sculptor, she meets the challenges of the three-dimensional when working with her preferred materials of concrete and plaster, papier-mâché and bronze. She is a freelance artist and maintains her own studio with a showroom in Oberwössen/Brem im Chiemgau. Monika Stein gets often involved publicly with her art such as when she created works for the victims of the Regens Wagner Foundation during the Second World War (Action T 4) in Dillingen and when she took sides artistically against the abuse in the Catholic Church. She also created Stations of the Cross for an exhibition in Trier Cathedral, which expand the religious theme to the tragedy of today’s grievances and suffering. The orientation of her sculpture, whether humorous, political or sacred, is always motivated by an inner examination of herself, human existence, the divine and the interpersonal. Her abstract paintings are predominantly aesthetic in nature and are motivated by her experimental endeavours. For her sculptures, Monika Stein prefers concrete, a rock-hard material, which stands pars pro toto for her special passion for bringing movement into seemingly hardened human structures and giving them new possible forms and perspectives under her hands. Her Head and hands work together, sometimes in a more structured way, sometimes intuitively and randomly. Monika Stein looks back on 20 years of exhibition work as a sculptor and painter. Her works are in public and private collections in Germany, Italy, USA, Australia and Canada. Since 2024 she has been represented by LDXArtodrome Gallery, among others.