Stephanie Buhmann

Stephanie Buhmann (born 1977) is an art critic, art historian, and curator.

Born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, she lives in New York City and Lübeck, Germany.

Her book series "Studio Conversations" focuses on contemporary female artists from different cities.

Each book is in a different city.

Previously, she attended Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and received a B.F.A. and Master in the History of Art, Architecture and Design from Pratt Institute, New York City, in 2002.

Buhmann has conducted over one hundred interviews with contemporary artists, ranging from Nancy Spero to Mark Dion.

The concept for the "Studio Conversations" project goes back to 2012 when Buhamann became increasingly disenchanted with the media’s fixation the soaring art market.

Buhmann states, "I wanted to counterbalance that trend while supporting my community by creating a permanent record of something private and simple: conversations with artists in their studios about the works on their walls."

Buhmann received her PhD. from the Humboldt Universität of Berlin in 2021.

She has released five books thus far: "New York Studio Conversations; Seventeen Women Talk About Art” (2016), "Berlin Studio Conversations - Twenty Women Talk About Art” (2017), New York Studio Conversations (Part II) (2018), and Rheinland Studio Conversations (2021).

All of these were published by The Green Box, Berlin.

Artists include Katharina Grosse, Julie Mehretu, Shirin Neshat, Carolee Schneemann, Kiki Smith and more than eighty others.

Buhmann’s essays and art reviews have been published by a variety of international art magazines and newspapers, including Kunst Bulletin, Sculpture Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, ARTPulse, Art on Paper, Art Papers, Art Collector, Chelsea Now and Art Lies.

She has contributed essays to various monographs, including publications by Hatje Cantz and Birkhäuser, and she is a contributing editor at artcritical.

In addition to being an art critic and writer, Buhmann has curated many exhibitions, including the Shirley Fiterman Art Center at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, the Macy Art Gallery, Teacher's College, Columbia University and Jason McCoy gallery.

Artists she has exhibited include, Lee Krasner, Frederick Kiesler, Thomas Nozkowski, Willy Bo Richardson, Jackson Pollock, and Richard Pousette-Dart.

Buhmann has organized many panel discussions, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; Teacher’s College, Columbia University, New York, and the Shirley Fiterman Art Gallery at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York.

Her teaching experience includes lectures at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; Pratt Institute, New York; Hofstra University, New York; Wave Hill, New York, and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick, Canada, among others.

In 2019, when asked by Deanna Sirlin, founder of The Art Section, an online journal of art and cultural commentary, whether her perspective on an artist’s work would change after an interview, Buhmann replied:

"I believe that your perspective on something always changes when you learn more about it. A deeper understanding will always add another, more interesting layer. That’s why education is so important to everything we do or want to have a say in. In general, I will walk away with even more respect and admiration for the work I saw.'"