Biography

Alfred Stoll was born on 17 July 1993 to a family of ethnic Germans in Kazakhstan. Soon after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, his family moved to Russia, first to Siberia and then to the South of Russia, to a small town in the Caspian lowland. There he went to school and got his first art education. His degree he/they got a bachelor of Architecture at the State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. After finishing his studies he moved to St. Petersburg. A year later, his family and he decided to move to Germany through a program supporting repatriates. Since 2017 he has been living in Bavaria and creating his art. Alfred Stoll is an artist's name that Aleksej Gluhov chose shortly before moving to Germany.

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In August 2021, his first solo exhibition "Red point" took place at the Rote Galerie, which lasted 40 days and was reported in the Nürnberger Zeitung and Curt Magazin. In the summer of 2021, he gave an interview for Al-Tiba9, a Spanish-Algerian art magazine, about his art and how he sees and feels about the world. This biography and artist-statement by Alfred Stoll was published in Collectors' Art Book by Al-Tiba9. In the spring of 2022 Alfred Stoll released his first artworks as NFTs on Open Sea and presented them in two virtual exhibitions in the metaverse Spatial, namely MOSAIC and Russian Decadence. In addition, from mid-April to the end of May there was an AR-exhibition Quick Response with Augmented Reality effects at Neighbourhood Management Nuremberg in the Old Town. In June 2022 he took part in a group exhibition at the Ost Anders Festival in Kulturewerkstatt auf AEG.

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From 14.09.22 to 28.10.22, the Haus des Deutschen Ostens in Munich presented the solo exhibition "Metamodern Grotesk. Digital Art by Alfred Stoll". The exhibition is informally divided into three different formats of interaction with art objects, both in classical format and with augmented and mixed reality effects, as well as in digital format. The exhibition has been announced in the newspapers Süddeutsche Zeitung and Siebenbürgische Zeitung, on Museumsportal Bayern as well as on M ART Ausstellungsanzeiger. The exhibition was also part of Munich's Long Night of Museums.

In October 2022 he was part of the shift/walls art programme: open atelier and exhibition space project from Künstlerhaus in the Kunsthaus for 17 days. During the project Alfred Stoll continued his experiments with the digital space and its integration into the real space as well as working on atmospheric and participatory elements as the basis for a dialogue between art and the viewer. Also from December 2022 to January 2023, part of the Metamoder Grotesk exhibition was on display at the artist's house. In February 2023 Alfred Stoll finished the Metamodern Art Manifesto.

In the spring of 2023, Alfred Stoll again took part in the group exhibition Ost Anders Festival in Kulturwerkstatt auf AEG, where Alfred presented the series of works Prediction 000. In June, Alfred presented this series of works in the group exhibition enlightenment of generative art created with the help of artificial intelligence at the Haze Galerie in Berlin. At the end of June, Alfred Stoll took part for the first time in an international group exhibition "AI: The Next Evolution" by Chimera Gallery in Philadelphia, USA. In May and June 2024 Alfred Stoll held an open studio and solo exhibition "Myth, Play, Aesthetics of Consciousness" at kultur.lokal.fürth in Fuerth.