stefan pente born 1964 in zürich, switzerland, became a nurse in a psychiatric hospital in the mid-80s, studied art in the 90s and is based in berlin since 1995. She views art as a system of actions intended to change / make worlds rather than encode symbolic or semiotic propositions about it. He uses sculpture, painting, installation, sometimes performance and video to create situations where she can see things as they are and not as what he thinks to know them to be.