Team

Ralf Schmitt
Ralf SchmittFounder & co-director
Ralf Schmitt (*1964) lives and works in Berlin. From 1985 to 1989 he studied communication design at the Fachhochschule Würzburg and from 1989 to 1995 fine art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main under Prof. Hermann Nitsch. From 1998 to 2008 he ran the project space “Förderkoje®” in Berlin. From 2005 – 2015 he was the co-founder, managing director and co-director of PREVIEW BERLIN ART FAIR. From 2008 – 2015 he was the founder and artistic host of “MyVisit.to”. He is one of the initiators of the BERLIN ART WEEK established in 2012. From 2013 – 2016 he was teaching at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. Since 2015 he has been the co-founder, managing director and co-director of BERLIN ART INSTITUTE.

www.foerderkoje.de
www.previewberlin.com

Stephanie Jünemann
Stephanie JünemannFounder & co-director
Stephanie Jünemann (*1963) lives and works in Berlin. From 1989 to 1995 she studied fine art at the Kunsthochschule of the University of Kassel in the interdiscipliny class of Prof. Norbert Radermacher and attended philosophical lectures and seminars held by Prof. Dr. Hannes Böhringer. She has been living and working in Berlin since 1997. From 2000 to 2006 she worked as an artistic research assistant with Prof. Norbert Radermacher at the Kunsthochschule Kassel and from 2010 to 2012 as substitute professor in the basic class. From 2009 – 2014 she was also active in the area of art and education at schools in Berlin, where she realized artistic projects with children and youths. Since 2015 she has been the co-founder, managing director and co-director of BERLIN ART INSTITUTE.

www.SJuenemann.de
www.Ku-Bi.st

Our Past & Current Guest Lecturers

We work together with a pool of artists, curators, critics, and authors. Based to the specific needs and interests of the participants of the studio program, we invite them to deliver guest lectures, discuss artistic work, or hold seminars. The guest lecturers from different artistic disciplines work with various media including painting, sculpture, drawing, film/video, installation, architecture, photography, illustration, intervention, and performance.

Born 1971 in Salzburg, Austria

He lives in Berlin.

He studied at the Academies of Fine Arts in Vienna/Austria and Athens/Greece

His work was shown at following venues:

Galerie Krinzinger/Vienna, Derek Eller Gallery/New York City, Nina Menocal Gallery/Mexico City, Bonner Kunstverein/Bonn, Bawag Contemporary/Vienna, Museum der Moderne/Salzburg, Marta/Herford, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, …

He received – among others – the Great Art Prize of Salzburg and the Villa Romana Prize.

www.christianschwarzwald.net

born 1964 Weert, The Netherlands

William Engelen is a visual artist and composer, born in the Netherlands, living and working in Berlin. His work traverses the spectrum between visual arts and music, poaching strategies from each field to test the boundaries between image and sound. The output includes installations, performances, videos, musical scores and even models.

His compositions are written by visually responding to a given locale—whether it be a museum, a church, a construction site, or the artist’s own belly—and then finding a method of acoustic translation. The final work might return to its site of origin or be transferred to yet other spaces such as parks, city squares, silos, museums, or programmed into mobile phones. His musical scores are not written using traditional notation, but with drawing techniques that in turn form their own musical logic. As a performance, they are a collaborative negotiation of the different variables set up by the artist. Though they are bounded by rules, they are irreproducible.

www.william-engelen.de

born in 1963 in Zeil/Main

Artist and Communication Designer (FH)

working stations in Bamberg, Köln and Münster

since 2000 living and working in Berlin.

– Since 2010 workshops and management of the media studio of Vincentino e.V.

– Since 2006 founding of the design and art studio »RAUMbilder«

– Since 1985 different exhibitions and art projects

www.raumbilder.com

Berlin-based, Czech-born (*1984) artist Martin Kohout’s early study background is in film (FAMU, Prague) and fine arts (UdK, Berlin and Städelschule, Frankfurt). His work has a strong grounding in research, both academic and qualitative. His practice spans a wide range of medium such as film, sculpture, installation, print, events, and publications. In addition to that he produces music under the name of TOLE and runs the independent publishing house TLTRPreß. In 2017, Martin won the Jindřich Chalupecký Award for young Czech artists. Martin works with Exile in Vienna, Austria, and Polansky Gallery in Prague and Brno, Czech Republic. Martin is also a teaching assistant at The Studio of Photography at AAAD in Prague.

www.martinkohout.com

Born 1984 in Northeim, Deutschland

Lives and works in Berlin, Kassel and Hattorf am Harz

Education

2012 Meisterschülerin Urs Lüthi

2012 Graduation with honour; Urs Lüthi, Joel Baumann

2011 Gueststudent John Bock Karlsruhe

2011 Residency and workshoporganisation, Art Academy Hangzhou, China, DAAD scholarship

2010 Kunsthochschule Kassel, Porf. Urs Lüthi, Joel Baumann, Bjorn Melhus

2008 University of Finearts, Taiwan, residency/ research year in New York City

2007 Kunsthochschule Kassel, Prof Bjorn Melhus

2006 Kunsthochschule Kassel, Prof. Else Gabriel

2005 Kunsthochschule Kassel, Prof. Eva Maria Schön

2004 Abitur, Gymnasium Corvinianum

Awards and scholarships

2014 Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Projektstipendium

2014 Canale Grande, Urbahne Künste Ruhr, Arbeitsstipendium

2013 Preis der Zippelstiftung, Kasseler Kunstpreis

2012 DAAD Reise Stipendium China

2010 Preis des Unternehmenspark Kassel

2008 DAAD Stipendium für Workshop Taiwan

www.annschomburg.info

born 1978 Dresden, GDR, since 2003 in Berlin

sculptress, specializing in the field of air- and spacetravel

Fine Arts/ Sculpture – M.F.A. 2010 – Berlin-Weissensee Academy of Art Berlin

Contemporary art and Literature – Ph.D. 2010 – Technical University Dresden,

University of East Anglia Norwich/ U.K., Universita Cattolica Milano/ Italy (Erasmus)

Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee: Associate Professor (2013-15), Associate Lecturer (2012/13), Associate Instructor (2011/12) – Interdisciplinary Project Space “Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz” // Technische Universität Dresden: Associate Instructor Art Pedagogy (2011-12), Assistant Lecturer Art History (2009/10), Associate Instructor Art and Media design (2005-08)

Awards/Grants (selection)

2012 – studio grant, BBK Berlin, 2011 – DAAD travel grant, Russia, 2010 – Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium, City of Berlin, 2010 – PhD Award – Department of Philosophy, TU Dresden, 2009 – Mart Stam Award, 2005 – German National Academic

Exhibitions and projects

in Germany, Serbia, Slovenia, Russia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Ecuador, USA

www.silvialorenz.wordpress.com

geb. 1959 in München, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin

1980-1986 Architekturstudium in München

1990-1996 Studium an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Städelschule) in Frankfurt am Main bei Martin Kippenberger, Peter Cook und Thomas Bayrle

Ausstellungen (Auswahl)

2014

„Blitz“, Apartment Draschan, Wien – Berlin

Gruppenausstellung mit Martin Städeli, Thaddäus Hüppi, Marc Bijl, Catherine Lorent u.a.

“Schlecker I” SpeckerGroup, Berlin

Gruppenausstellung mit Alexandra Baumgartner, Thomas Draschan, Marcus Weber u.a.

Raw Art Fair, Rotterdam, Skulpturenpräsentation, Livingstone Gallery, Den Haag

“Uhu” und “UTA”, Ausstellungsprojekte der Kunsthochschule Weissensee zur Art Week, Berlin

2013

„yes or no“, works on paper and sculptures, Livingstone Gallery, Den Haag (Einzelausstellung)

„Face the Face“, Livingstone Gallery, Den Haag

“Group Show“, Galerie Sebastian Brandl, Köln

2012

„On the road again“ Livingstone Gallery, Den Haag

Gruppenausstellung mit Jan Dibbets, Birgit Vewer, James Brown, Jörg Immendorf u.a.

„zeigen“, Galerie Sebastian Brandl

2011

„Deserted Ideologies“, Livingstone Gallery, Den Haag (Einzelausstellung)

„Drawings and Paintings”” The Volta Show NY, (Einzelpräsentation)

“Lokalkosmos“, Gallery Sebastian Brandl, Köln (Einzelausstellung)

2010

“Rock, Paper, Scissors”, Livingstone Gallery, Den Haag

Gruppenausstellung mit James Brown, Jannis Kounellis, Raquel Maulwurf u.a.

2009

„Not strictly platonic“, Galerie Sebastian Brandl, Köln (Einzelausstellung)

„Heidi im Land von Martin Kippenberger“, Collection Rausch, Goethe-Institut Bordeaux

„Good Constellation / Clear Vision“, Galerie Jürgen Wolfstädter, Frankfurt a. M. (Einzelausstellung)

1971 born in Munich, grown up in Bamberg, Germany

1994 studies at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art & Design, Halle/Saale, Germany

with Prof. Una. H. Moehrke

1996 studies at Academy of Fine Arts, Münster, Germany

with Prof. Timm Ulrichs

2000 Masterstudent of Prof. Timm Ulrichs

Diploma Fine Art (Totalkunst and Sculpture)

2000 Founding of Felixleiter – Space for Art, Berlin (project space till 2002)

2006 Founding of Frederik Foert Gallery, Berlin (project space till 2007)

so far nearly untroubled by any grants or stipends

since 2000 numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad

Lives and works in Berlin (Germany), Vienna (Austria) and Beijing (China)

www.frederik-foert.de

Lukas Feireiss works as curator, writer, artist and educator in the international mediation of contemporary cultural reflexivity beyond disciplinary boundaries. He attained his graduate education in Comparative Religious Studies, Philosophy and Ethnology. His Berlin-based creative practice Studio Lukas Feireiss aims at the critical cut-up and playful re-evaluation of creative and intellectual production modes and their diverse socio-cultural and medial conditions. Lukas Feireiss is author and editor of numerous books, and curator of manifold exhibitions. He has lectured and taught at various universities worldwide including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ETH Swiss Institute of Technology, University of Arts Berlin, University of Applied Arts Vienna, University of Arts Linz and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, and is head of the new Master’s programme Radical Cut-Up at Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam.

www.studiolukasfeireiss.com

Ursula Döbereiner is a fine artist who investigates the relationship between image and the medium of drawing, drawing and space in a variety of ways. Through drawing, she probes into the construction of public and private space and the means by which images are received through various media. Her point of departure is to inquire into how collective social notions and individual private desires, fears, and yearnings are manifested in media images, advertisements, surfaces, architecture, and decisions in urban planning. The core of her work lies in the reciprocal contingency between the material represented and the means of representation as well as in a critical reflection on the medium of drawing.

www.ursuladoebereiner.de

Döbereiner is a musician soundcloud.com/kollektivmaschine/ and vimeo.com/burqamaschinen and a member of the artists’ group Stadt im Regal www.stadtimregal.de.

born 1982 Calgary, Canada, lives in Berlin. Julie Beugin works in painting and photographic collage. Beugin completed her BFA at Emily Carr University in Vancouver in 2004 and her MFA at Concordia University, Montréal in 2008. Her MFA thesis exhibition was held at Optica centre d’art contemporain in Montréal. Beugin was shortlisted for the RBC painting competition in 2009, and is the recipient of multiple grants from the Canada Council for the Arts. In Berlin she has participated in group exhibitions at Horse & Pony and HilbertRaum, and solo shows include multiple exhibitions at VivianeArt in Calgary, Canada and Paul Petro Contemporary Art in Toronto, Canada.

www.juliebeugin.com

1965 born in Frankfurt/Main

1986-92 Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt

under Thomas Bayrle, Peter Kogler and Christa Näher

1996 Studio Award (New York City) Hessische Kulturstiftung

1998 Award Kunstfonds Bonn

Teaching

2001 – 2003 drawing, perspective and storyboard,

L4, Institut für Digitale Kommunikation, Berlin

2006 – 2013 workshops for painting, colour theory and figurative drawing, Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee

Solo Shows (selection)

2010 Galerie Krethlow, Bern

2008 Kabinett. Bern

2007 Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln | Kabinett, Bern

2006 Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin | Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt

2005 Bielefelder Kunstverein | Kunstverein Göttingen |

Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln

2003 Kabinett, Zürich | Sammlung Wagner, Gerzensee

2002 Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt

2000 Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln | Galerie Cato Jahns, Hamburg

1999 Goethe Institut, Rotterdam | Sauce drip in mud like sparkling water in ocean, Kabinett, Bern

1998 Goethe Institut, Brüssel

1997 Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln

Group shows (selection)

2012 we have ways to make you talk, heldart, Berlin | last order II, heldart, Berlin | Erkenntnis der eigenen Unfreiheit, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin

2011 I know what you don’t see, Karlin Studios Futura, Prag | “Erika Mustermann Collection”, Der Strich, Pavillon der Volksbühne, Berlin | Captain Pamphile #3, Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg | La Valleé populaire, Gustav-Müller-Str. 18, Berlin

2010 Ich weiss was Du nicht siehst, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin | Captain Pamphile #2, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg | everybody learns from desaster, Villa Elisabeth, Berlin | Und immer fehlt mir etwas, und das quält mich, Kunstgruppe Kunstverein Köln

2008 Our Generation IV, Kunstverein Familie Montes, Frankfurt | The International Invitation Exhibition, The city Art Museum of Gangneung, Südkorea

2007 Unsere Affekte fliegen aus dem Bereich der menschlichen Wirklichkeit hinaus, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin | Künstler der Galerie, Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin

2006 Küss die Hand / Waldheim After, Sezession Wichtelgasse, Wien | Drawing Attention, Invaliden 1, Berlin

2005 Wicked Games, Stalke Galleri, Kopenhagen | 8 Nachkriegszeichnerinnen und ein Monitor, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe | 2. Int. Lückerinnerungstreffen, WBD, Berlin | I asked for, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin

2004 Editionen, WBD, Berlin | Kabinett, Bern | Schickeria, Carlos Depot, Berlin

2003 Malerei, Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin | Für völligen Arbeitsschutz, WBD, Berlin | Postcontact, Buchpräsentation & Ausstellung, pro qm, Berlin | Colorado, Klinkhammer und Metzner, Düsseldorf | 4rd international ExtraShortFilm Festival, Novosibirsk | The living room, Amsterdam (mit Armin Boehm und Michael Kunze)

2002 3rd international ExtraShortFilm Festival, Novosibirsk | Drawing in Motion, Forum Stadtpark, Graz | Sound, G7, Berlin | Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt | Kiosk, Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin

2001 Tirana Biennale, Tirana | 2 Maler – 2 Bildhauer, Galerie Haus Schneider, Ettlingen | strange attitudes, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt | Kabinett, Zürich | berlin-london, Videoscreening, Institute of Contemporary Art, London | Desire, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal / Galleria D´arte Moderna

Collections

Wilhelm Schürmann, Aachen

Kasper König, Köln

Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt

Sammlung Wagner, Gerzensee

Deutsche Flugsicherung, Hannover

 

Born in 1970 in Leningrad (St. Peterburg), Russia (USSR), lives and works in Berlin

Education
1981-1989 secondary art school, Leningrad, Russia
1992-1995 illustration and graphic design at Dawson College, Montreal, Canada
1995-2001 Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, communication design and illustration
1998-2002 and 2005-2009 freelance work as an artist, designer and Illustrator in New York
2002-2005 postgraduate interdisciplinary art studies at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee
2014-2015 ARTPAED – certified pedagogical studies

Grants & Scholarships (since 2010)
2019 Artist-in-Residency in Künstlerhaus Cuxhaven, Germany
2018 Artist-in-Residency in Printshop Dresden, Germany
2017 Artist-in-Residency in Künstlerhaus Kaliningrad, Russia
2016 and 2010 Artist-in-Residency in Printshop Hohenossig, Leipzig, Germany
2015 Artist-in-Residency in Stanglerhof, Italy
2015 and 2011 Artist-in-Residency in Nelimarkka Museum, Alajarvi, Finnland
2012 Artist-in-Residency in Printshop GeGrave, Geneva, Switzerland
2011 Artist-in-Residency in Printshop in Künstlerhaus Munich, Germany
2010 6. Grafic prize of Griffelkunst, Hamburg 

Teaching
2018 Drawing Course in Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee
2017 Workshop »Experimental Printing«, Hochschule Darmstadt
2015 various workshops with children and young adults during the certified pedagogical studies

Anja Tchepets’s works beeing shown in various solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally (s.a. USA, Australia, Austria, Finland, Switzerland, England, Japan, Russia, Italy)

www.anja-tchepets.com

lives and works in Berlin, Germany

1974 born in Offenbach (Germany)

1990-1991 stay in Ankara (Turkey)

studied at Academy of Art and Design Offenbach

Academy of Art Städelschule Frankfurt

2006–2007 stay in London (United Kingdom)

2014-2015 stay in Rome (Italy)

Awards

2014 Villa Massimo Stipend, Rome

2012 Will-Grohmann Artprize, Akademie der Künste, Berlin

2012 Grant for Visual Arts, Berlin Senate

2008 Grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds

Selected Solo Shows

2016 Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna

2016 Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium

2015 Musei di Villa Torlonia, Rome

2014 Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck

2013 Blain/Southern Gallery, Berlin

2011 Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim

2009 Frischzelle, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart

Selected Group Shows

2016 Uncertain States, Akademie der Künste, Berlin

2016 Bucharest Biennial, Bucharest

2015 Do Disturb! , Palais de Tokyo, Paris

2015 Istanbul. Passion, Joy, Fury, MAXXI -Museo Nazionale delle Arti, Rome

2015 Stand Up! , Centre Pompidou, Paris

2014 Memory Lab or the Sentimental Turn: Photography Challenges History, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

2013 Wall Works, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

2013 Rethinking Modernity, Istanbul Modern – Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul

2010 Tactisc of Invisibility, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporaryy, Vienna

2009 Playing the City, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a. M.

2008 Taipei Biennial, Tapei

2007 Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul

www.nasantur.com

born in 1971, lives and works in Berlin as a philosopher.

He teaches at UdK (University of the Arts) Berlin. His recent books include: “Behauptungsphilosophie” (Berlin: Merve 2006); “Duras” (with Rosemarie Trockel, Berlin: Merve 2008); “Politik des Subjekts“ (Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes 2009); “Aporien der Liebe” (Berlin: Merve 2010); “Kunst und Philosophie / Art and Philosophy” (Cologne: Walter König: 2012); “Philosophie der Überstürzung” (Berlin: Merve 2013), “Inkonsistenzen” (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2015), “Evidenzterror” (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2015) and “Gramsci Theater” (Berlin: Merve 2015). Forthcoming: “Splitter” (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2016).

www.inaesthetics.org

Catherine Lorent (* in Munich) studied painting at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe from 1998 to 2003, as well as history and art history at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the Universities of Heidelberg and Luxembourg. In 2012 she received her doctorate in art history.

In 2013, CATHERINE LORENT represented LUXEMBOURG at the Venice Biennale with the project „RELEGATION“. The artist lives and works in Berlin in painting, drawing and installation. Furthermore she has been experimenting for several years as a multi-instrumentalist with electric guitar, bass, piano, drums, voice and pursues her music projects. Catherine Lorent has already exhibited in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United States, Austria and Luxembourg, was nominated for the „Prix Robert Schuman“ in Luxembourg in 2011, received the „Prix révélation 2011“ and is considered one of the most important talents in Luxembourg.

www.catherinelorent.net
www.granhorno.com

b. 1981, lives and works in Berlin since 2017.

2010 – 2012 Masters of Fine Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
2000-2003 Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Honours), Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
2011 Erasmus exchange scholarship to Sint-Lucas Beeldende Kunst Gent, Belgium

Hunt has been running Big Ego Books since 2015. She was the co-Dictator of DUKE Magazine, an artist magazine focusing on Australian artists and thrift culture between 2005-2009. She has shown extensively in Australia since 2012, including at the Museum for Contemporary Art Sydney, First Draft, Casula Powerhouse, UTS Gallery, Artspace, Bundanon Trust, UQ Art Museum, KNULP and The Commercial gallery.Her work is held in collections that include The Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art (CCWA), Artbank, and Manly Art Gallery. She was awarded Marten Bequest Scholarship for Painting (2015), and Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant (2017), with two grants from Australia Council for the Arts (2014 & 2019). Her work has recently been shown at the Arp Museum Remagen, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Zitadelle Spandau (ZAK) and Sim Smith Gallery, London. In 2020 Hunt was selected as a participant in the Goldrausch Künstlerinnen Projekt. In 2021, Hunt’s first solo exhibition in Berlin opened at Galerie Wedding.

www.emilyhunt.de

Born in 1974 in Mödling, Austria.
1999-2005 studies at Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule, Frankfurt/M. Cmelka works with film/video, performance and photogpraphy.
She lives and works as visual artist in Berlin.
Since 2000 she shows internationally and participates in film festivals and screenings. Several residency (e.g. Villa Aurora in winter 2014, residency of Bundeskanzleramt Austria in New York in 2011 aswell as in Rome in 2008).
Since 2007 various teaching jobs: e.g. visiting professor at Udk Berlin from 2012-2015, since 2016 professor for time based media and performance at the school for art and design – Khib in Bergen, Norway. She gave workshops i.g. in the Academy of Fine Art in Umea, Sweden, University of Harvard, USA; Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule, Frankfurt/M., Germany; University Lund, Sweden.

Exhibitions – Solo (selection)
2016 „The Animals – Varieté“, Kunstverein Langenhagen (Nov. 2016)
2016 „The Animals – Homestories“, Liszt, Berlin
2015 “Kerstin Cmelka with Manuel Gorkiewicz, Mario Mentrup, Hanno Millesi and Mandla Reuter”, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
2014 “Microdrama #11”, Kunstverein Langenhagen
2014 “Surviving a Shark Attack on Land” (Performance), ACTS 2014, Museum for Contemporary Art Roskilde, Denmark
2013 „Kunst und Lebensform/Art and Life form“, Halle für Kunst und Medien (KM-), Graz
2012 „All Change“, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg
2012 „Art&Life“, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden
2012 „Step in Shelter“, Signal, Malmö
2012 „A wave of certain needs“ (with Nora Schultz), after the butcher, Berlin
2010 „Flirtations and Partners“, Peles Empire, London
2007 „Kerstin-Cmelka-Retrospective“, ritter&staiff, Frankfurt/M.
2006 „Multistability“, rraum, Frankfurt/M.
2006 „Non-Identical Twins“, Kunstraum NÖ, Vienna
2003 „Kerstin Cmelka“, Schnitt Ausstellungsraum, Cologne

Group shows (selection)
2016 „Where are we now?“, nbk, Berlin
2016 „Ein Schelm, wer Böses dabei denkt“, Künstlerhaus Bremen
2014 “Essential Loneliness”, Taylor Macklin, Zürich
2013 „Der feine Unterschied“, Kunstverein Langenhagen
2011 „Based In Berlin“, Berlin
2011 „Kalte Gesellschaft“, curated by Judith Hopf, KW69 #3, Kunstwerke Berlin
2010 „Handlinger/Gestures“, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
2009 „Scorpios Garden“, compiled by Kerstine Roerpsdorff, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
2009 „Playing Homage“, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
2008 „50 Moons. Turin Triennale“ , Castello di Rivoli, Turin
2008 „Die Wahrnehmung von Ideen führt zu neuen Ideen“, Kunstverein Rheinlande u. Westfalen, Düsseldorf
2008 „Schnecke, Vogel, Katze und Qualle“, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna
2007 „Overtake. The Reinterpretation of Modern Art“, Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2007 „Secret Flix“, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt/Main
2007 2nd Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art, Moskau
2006 Busan Biennale 2006, Busan, Korea
2005 „Wer von diesen sieben (…)“, Studiogalerie Kunstverein Braunschweig
2005 „Madonna“, Kunsthaus Dresden
2004 „Bool, Chung, Cmelka, Fleischmann, Takeki Maeda“, c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
2004 „Fotosommergruppenausstellung“, Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin
2003 “Vivere Venezia 2 – Recycling the Future”, Biennale di Venezia
2001 „Kerstin Cmelka Bernhard Schreiner – Ausgewählte Filme 1986 –2001“, Galerie Maschenmode, Berlin

Performances (selection)
2016 „The Animal Exercise“ (with Mario Mentrup): Kreuzbergpavillion Berlin and Künstlerhaus Bremen
2015 „The Song and Dance Exercise“: performance feat. Gerrit Frohne Brinkmann, Hanno Millesi and Mario Mentrup, with a concert by Pasadena Projekt (Mario Mentrup, Nikolaus Woernle and Claudia Basrawi), Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
2014 “Surviving a Shark Attack on Land”, Kerstin Cmelka feat. Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann, Jenny Grönvall, Carl Lindh and Hanno Millesi, ACTS 2014, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
2013 „Nora“ (with Daniel Laufer), MEGAfon, Berlin
2013 „Non Identical Twins (Dance Folly)“ “, tap dance performance, Museumsnacht, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
2013 „Change“ (with Manuel Gorkiewicz, Hanno Millesi, Christian Wallner und Thomas Draschan), in the frameworks of „Art and Life Form“, Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst und Medien (KM-), Graz
2012 „Art&Life“, talk show performance, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden
2012 „Kunst und Lebensform“ (talk performance with Nikola Dietrich, Scott Cameron Weaver, Tenzing Barshee, Hannah Weinberger and Fabian Schöneich), Elaine, Basel
2011 „Zeitgeist Varieté“ (with Adrian Williams), in the frameworks of „Stolen from my subconscious“, KW69 #4, Berlin
2008 „Intervention Michael Part Eins“ (Street theatre with Michael Part), dutrottoirvers, Vienna
„Microdramas“: live performances and performance videos between 2008 and 2014:
e.g. „Liebelei/Flirtations“, „I love you“, „Nora“, „Change“ etc.: various performers and sets such as:
2011 „Change“ (with Christian Wallner, Hanno Millesi, Manuel Gorkiewicz und Scott Cameron Weaver), Based in Berlin, Berlin
2009 „Nora“ (with Manuel Gorkiewicz), Paper bar, Passagegalerie, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna
2010 „That will come later in the course of the manipulation“ (with Christian Wallner), Maribel Lopez, Berlin
2009 „Mikrodramen“ (with Judith Hopf and Achim Lengerer), in the frameworks of „Scorpios Garden“, Temporäre Kunsthalle (Kirstine Roepstorff), Berlin
2006 „Vienna Dance Performance (Empathy)“ (with Martin Hoener, Kristoffer Frick, Karl Orton, Hanno Millesi), in the frameworks of „Non -Identical Twins“, Kunstraum NÖ, Vienna, 2006
2006 „Multistability Theatre“ (with Daniela Kneip-Velescu, Katharina Schücke, Karl Orton, Martin Hoener,Sangram Singh Pabla, Kristoffer Frick), Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt/Main, 2006
2006 „Tap Dance Performance“ (with Karl Orton), Meerrettich on Ice Gala, Volksbühne Berlin

Filmography (selection):
„Mit mir“ (2000); „Neurodermitis“ (1999), „Et In Arcadia Ego“ (2000); „camera“ (2002);
„Mikrodramas“ (Video- und Life-Performances zwischen 2008-2014): u.a. „Liebelei“ (20008), „Nora“ (2008), „Change“ (2009), „Who´s afraid?/Final Fight“ (2010), „Art and Life“ (2012), „The Indiviualists“ (2012), „Mikrodrama #11“ (2014)
„The Animals“, 80 min, 2016

Publications (selection):
“Kerstin Cmelka”, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna, 2013
“Mäuse”, Merve Verlag, Berlin, 2012
“I, Coleoptile” (mit Ann Cotten), Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin, 2010
“Multistability”, Revolver – Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt/M., 2006

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Born in Istanbul (TR) 1984

Education
2011-2013
MFA in Photography, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, NY, US
2008-2010
MA in “Art in Context”, UdK Berlin, DE
2003-2007
BA in “Film and TV”, Istanbul Bilgi University, TR

Residencies
2016
Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, LB
2014-2015
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL

Solo shows
2016
Off-White Tulips, Ystads Konstmuseum, Ystad, SE 2013
Off-White Tulips, Uqbar, Berlin, DE

Selected group shows
2016
Father Figures are Hard to Find, nGbK, Berlin, DE
THE BILL: For Collective Unconscious, Artspace, NZ
2015
Home Works 7, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, LB
Sights and Sounds: Turkey, Jewish Museum New York, NY, US 2014
what is queer today is not queer tomorrow, nGbK, Berlin, DE 2013
Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, DE
2012
3rd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, RU 2011
Station, Konsthall C, Stockholm, SE
2010
AH OH, Gallery NON, Istanbul, TR
2009
Psychometry, Galerie Exile, Berlin, DE
2008
Reasonable, Hafriyat Karaköy, Istanbul, TR

Selected screenings
2016
62nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, DE
Dhaka Art Summit, film program curated by Shanay Jhaveri, Dhaka, BD 2015
Outfest, REDCAT, LA, US
Dirty Looks LA, Ghebaly Gallery, US
Dirty Looks NYC, Microscope Gallery, US
2014
Montreal International Documentary Festival, Quebec, CA Stockholm Literature, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
52nd New York Film Festival, NYC, US
52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI, US
33rd Istanbul Film Festival, Istanbul, TR
Images Festival, Toronto, CA
2013
59th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, DE Bucharest Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest, RO
2010
23rd MIX Film Festival, New York, US
2008
Pink Screens, Brussels, BE
Artist talks & lectures & performances
2016
Gülsen & Hüseyin: Screen Tests for Gender, Labor and Migration, Alt, Istanbul, TR
2014
My Sorrow Nightingale (performance), Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, DE Edmund White & Aykan Safo lu (public talk), Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
Camp and Queer in Turkish Cinema (panel), Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, TR 2013
Enthusiasm (a lecture performance), KAT1, Istanbul, TR

Awards
2014
On Screen Award at the Images Festival
Kinetta Archival Film Award at the 52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival
2013
Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen at the 59th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Grants and fellowships
Research Stipend of the Berlin Senate Chancellery, 2016
SAHA studio at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, 2014-2015 SAHA, Supporting Contemporary Art from Turkey, 2013
Vehbi Koç Foundation, Living Bursary during Bard College, 2011-2013 DAAD/TEV Scholarship, 2008-2010
OSYM Scholarship, 2003-2007

Publications
2016
Frauen und Film (67th issue)
Interview conducted by Nanna Heidenreich (in German)
2015
Pink Labour on Golden Streets.Queer Arts Practices
edited by Erharter, Christiane; Schwärzler, Dietmar; Sircar,
Ruby; Scheirl, Hans. Sternberg Press. Vienna.
USER’S MANUAL 2.0
Contemporary Art from Turkey 1975-2015. Ed. Halil Altındere, Süreyyya Evren, Revolver Publishing, Berlin.
2010
Semiotics of the chicken is published in the student magazine –UNIQUE- of the University of Vienna.
List of works (selection)
2015
untitled (artist coop), Drawing class performance.
Untitled (Gülsen vs Hüseyin), Two-channel video installation, 13’.
2014
Portraits (Marc), two-channel video installation, 10’.
My Sorrow Nightingale, pop-up choir performance at Neue Nationalgalerie Companions, 6 performances&workshops with nGbK catalogues
2013
Off-White Tulips, 2013, Video Essay, 23’47’’.
2012
Untitled (Sweat Series), a series of digital photographs, 40X28cm.
2011
Carmen Miranda’s exemption from Turkish Military Service (Self-portrait), etching on paper (unique), 43X51cm.
2010
Semiotics of the chicken, mixed installation with photography, silicone sculpture, rice. Dimensions vary.
Voguing, mixed installation with wallpaper, plant, and book. Dimensions vary.
2009
Carmen Miranda pays a visit to the Turkish armed forces, postcard, 13x 17cm. 2008
The End of the World (after Gustave Courbet’s L’Origin du monde), Digital Photography.
2007
Anti-confessions vol. 1, short film.

Collections
2015
Rijksakademie van beldende kunsten’s Collection Vehbi Koc Foundation Contemporary Art Collection 2014
Agah Ugur Collection
Merve Caglar Collection

1966 born in Hannover/Germany, lives in Berlin.
2009-12 Residence in London
1984-87 Residence in Barcelona
1983-89 Studies and final degree at Hochschule für bildende Künste Kassel with Harry Kramer

Awards and Grants
2015 Fred-Thieler-Award for painting, Berlin
2008 Artist Award oft the City of Wolfsburg
2003 Grant of Villa Arson, Nice
1998 Grant of Hessische Kulturstiftung
1996 Grant of Stiftung Leube, Salzburg
1992 Grant of Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1990-91 Awardee oft the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Program) in Barcelona

Solo exhibitions since 2000 (national/international) selection
2019 “Disconnected Truth”, Galerie Dittrich/Schlechtriem, Berlin (C)
2017 „Total Liquidation Impact“ Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zürich
2016 „Love and Money?“ ToGu Architecture, Marseille
2015 „Fred Thieler Preis 2015“ Berlinische Gallery, Berlin (C)
2013 „The Nothing is our story“ Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
2012 „Bell Cazzo, Vita Figa“ Part 2, Union Gallery, London
„Diktatur der Hormone“ Thomas Schulte Gallery, Berlin
2011 „Eissalon Bernhard Martin“, Kunstraum Deutsche Bank, Salzburg
2009 “Dogma freier Raum”, Thomas Schulte Gallery, Berlin
„Thema verfehlt“, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen (C)
2008 „Thema verfehlt“, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (C)
„Arriba, abajo, a la derecha y a la izquierda“, Joan Prats Gallery, Barcelona
„Corner Space“ with Jonathan Lasker, Thomas Schulte Gallery, Berlin
„Gott und ich wir wissen’s schon“, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
„Prognosefehler“, Team Gallery, New York
2006 „Verpasste Gelegenheiten“, Arario Museum, Seoul (C)
„Brennholz+Ravioli“, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad
2005 Villa Arson with Larry Pittman, Nizza (C)
„Ichlinge+Dulinge“, Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Paris
2004 „Bahnhofsviertel“, Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Salzburg
2003 „Gartencenter“, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
2002 „Ich zeige Ihnen gerne meinen Nassbereich“ with Peter Saul and Martin Kippenberger, MAMCO Genève, Geneva
2001 „softcore“, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim (C)
PS.1, MoMA with Atelier Van Lieshout, New York

Works in public collections (selection)
MoMa New York, Mamco Geneva, Migros Museum Zürich, Family Rubell Collection Miami, Deutsche Bank Frankfurt, FRAC Bourgogne Dijon, FRAC Ile de France Paris, Sammlung Sander Berlin, TBA 21 Wien, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Arario Museum Seoul, JP Morgan Chase & Co Manhattan, Collection Schauffler Sindelfingen

Larissa Fassler (b. Vancouver 1975) has lived and worked in Berlin since 1999. She obtained her BFA from Concordia University, Montreal, and an MFA from Goldsmiths’ College, University of London.

In 2017 her work was shown at the 11th São Paulo Architecture Biennial and at the MAAT | Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon. In 2016 her work was exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris; at Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris; at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt and at the Esker Foundation in Calgary. Critical reviews and writing on her work have appeared in Canadian Art, Artforum and Artpress and her work has been included in books such as Imagine Architecture and Beyond Architecture from Gestalten and Dirt by PennDesign and the MIT Press.

www.larissafassler.com

Heiko Pfreundt develops playful concepts with Lisa Schorm at the artist-run Project Space Kreuzberg Pavillon in Berlin that he founded in 2011. He studied in the field of art education and visual communication and is a graduate from the University of Arts Bremen. In Berlin he worked for different project spaces, artist residency programs and institutions and received with Kreuzberg Pavillon one of the Project Space Awards of the Cultural Senate of Berlin in 2013. Until today – Kreuzberg Pavillon hosted over 130 shows and 800 artists in a weekly change.

Beside his artistic practice he has been giving lectures at the cultural science institute of University Bremen from 2013-2016 about diverse forms of exhibition making and gaming as education. He’s a regular contributor to Norwegian Kunstforum Magazine and portfolio reviewer for nordic artists and designers at the Northern Embassies in Berlin. In 2016 he co-directed the third issue of the Project Space Festival Berlin.

www.kreuzbergpavillon.de

Born 1967 in Cologne, Germany

Jens is a founding partner of Casper Mueller Kneer based in London and Berlin. His work includes the seat of the publisher DISTANZ in Berlin, the bunker conversion BOROS COLLECTION / SAMMLUNG BOROS, and WHITE CUBES´s largest venue in Bermondsey Street, London.

Besides his work in practice Jens gained strong and extensive teaching experiences. He was a tutor at RWTH Aachen, taught at TU Berlin, was a Unit Master within the AA Berlin Laboratory of the Architectural Association. At Brandenburg University of Technology BTU Cottbus he held a Professorship, chaired Contextual Design, directed an international postgraduate architectural design programme, and lectured on the correlation of progressive heritage conservation and architectural design in an experimental and transdisiplinary format.

Jens studied architecture at RWTH Aachen, and was employed in severals architectural offices before co-founding his first own practice Realarchitektur in Berlin in 2003. In 2010 Jens joined forces with Marianne Mueller and Olaf Kneer to establish Casper Mueller Kneer in London and Berlin. Their practice puts focus on spaces for the arts, culture and fashion, and their respective protagonists.

Jens lives and works in Berlin, Germany

www.jenscasper.com

Marte Eknæs (born 1978) is a Norwegian visual artist. Her practice spans a wide range of mediums including sculpture, digital collage, text and video. She has exhibited widely internationally and completed several large scale public commissions, and she often works in collaborations. Some of her recent and upcoming exhibitions include Kunsthall Oslo; Between Bridges, London; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; What Pipeline, Detroit; Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Kölnischer Kunstverein; Kunsthall Stavanger and Efremidis, Berlin. Together with film maker Michael Amstad, she has completed several video projects, including People Mover, 2017 and the ongoing audio / visual project a ƒolder with the musician Powell. She also has an ongoing collaboration M.A.N. with the artist Nicolau Vergueiro.

www.marteeknaes.info

Whilst studying Art History and Media Science at the Friedrich-Schiller-University, Maria Isserlis (Ukrainian, b. 1986, based in Berlin) had already started an internship at the State Hermitage Museum as an assistant curator. Following this she became an assistant curator in the Contemporary Art Department of the State Hermitage Museum while also working in parallel as a freelance curator for the Goethe Institute in St. Petersburg. After this experience she was based in Berlin and worked with the Haus am Waldsee Museum.

Since June 2013 Maria has been working as the General Coordinator of MANIFESTA 10 in St. Petersburg. Following Manifesta in Zurich Maria joined the curatorial team of the biennial. In 2016-17 Maria was invited to the V-A-C Foundation in Venice as an exhibition director.

In 2017 and 2018 she was a co-curator of the first and second edition of AKI AORA research program in Tulum, Mexico.

Maria is a cofounder of the Aperto Raum, Berlin.

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Manray HSU is an independent curator and art critic based in Taipei. Manray is co-founder and director (2010-2012) of Taipei Contemporary Art Center and teaches at art academies in Taiwan and abroad.

A main focus of Manray’s work is on politics of mobility, borders of different forms and urban conditions in the age of globalisation, flows of capital, and activism-related art. Recent research includes interdisciplinary art practices related to environmental issues, multi-species interactions in urban and rural scenarios, with a special interest in viewing the Anthropocene in the context of contemporary philosophy and ancient Chinese thinking.

Major exhibitions include, “The Sky Is the Limit: 2000 Taipei Biennial” (with Jerome Sans, Taipei Fine Arts Museum); “How Big Is the World?” (2001, O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz); Wayward Economy (2004, Main Trend Gallery, Taipei); “Wrong(ed) Attitudes: Tsui Kuangyu and Su Huiyu” (2006, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin); Naked Life (2006, MOCA Taipei); Liverpool Biennial in 2006 (with Gerardo Mosquera); “Future Relics” (2007, co-organized with Hu Fang, Documenta 12 Magazine); 2008 Taipei Biennial (with Vasif Kortun); Biennale Cuvee in 2009 (the OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz); Forum Biennial of Taiwanese Contemporary Art in 2010 (Taipei Contemporary Art Centre); “The South: an Art of Asking and Listening” (2017, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts); “Autosrada Biennale: The Future of Borders” (2017, Prizren, Kosovo); “Herbal Urbanism: An artistic project on cosmopolitics” (2018, Hong Gah Museum, Taipei); “When Kacalisian culture meets wth vertical city: Greater Sandimen Contemporary Art” (Feb. 2019, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei; May 2019, Taiwan Aboriginal Culture Park, Pingtung).

Manray has served as juror for Venice Biennale (2001), Istanbul Biennial (2001), Hermes Art Award for Korean Contemporary Art (2007), Hugo Boss Asian Art Award (2012), etc.

www.facebook.com/manrayhsu

Habib William Kherbek is the writer of the novels Ecology of Secrets (Arcadia Missa, 2013) and ULTRALIFE (Arcadia Missa, 2016), New Adventures (left gallery, 2020), and Best Practices (Moist Books, 2021). His video-poem playlist/collection/reading, retrodiction (2016), was released by left gallery. Other poetry collections include Everyday Luxuries (Arcadia Missa, 2018), and 26 Ideologies for Aspiring Ideologists (If a Leaf Falls Press, 2018). Twenty Terrifying Tales from Our Technofeudal Tomorrow, a short story collection, was published by Arcadia Missa in 2021, and Still Dancing, an art book Kherbek curated and contributed images to, was published by TLTR Press in the same year. Abstract Supply (London) will release Kherbek’s collected art writings, entitled Entropia, in 2022. He was the recipient of a research fellowship from the Sandberg Institute in 2020 during which time he wrote Technofeudalism Rising (left gallery, 2021). He is currently a fellow at the 0x Salon based at Trust in Berlin. His writing has appeared in the award-winning Block Magazine, Tank MagazineRhizome.orgBerlin Art LinkMAPFlash ArtSpike MagazineSleek, Samizdat, AQNB, and a number of other publications. His Ph.D. is from the University of London, Birkbeck (2014).

Kherbek produces music under the name dirtagnan, and oversees a subscription-only fashion project entitled HabibWear.

Bibliography 

Ecology of Secrets (2013)
ephemera (2014)
Ultralife (2016)
Pull Factor (2016)
retrodiction (2016)
Everyday Luxuries (2018)
26 Ideologies for Aspiring Ideologists (2018)
New Adventures (2020)
Twenty Terrifying Tales from Our Technofeudal Tomorrow (2021)
Technofeudalism Rising (2021)
Best Practices (2021)
Still Dancing (2021)
black pillows (2021)
Entropia: The Childhood of a Critic (2022)

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Övül Ö. Durmusoglu is a curator and writer living in Berlin. Her interests lie in the intersection of contemporary art, critical and gender theory, politics and popular culture. As a curator, she acts between exhibition making and public programming, singular languages and collective energies, material and immaterial abstractions, worldly immersions and political cosmologies. Currently, Övül is mentor and program leader in the Graduate School in University of the Arts in Berlin and a visiting professor for Art and Discourse in Hochschule für Bildende Kunst Braunschweig. She has very recently co-initiated “Die Balkone: Life, Art, Pandemic and Proximity” in Berlin with Joanna Warsza. Her other recent curatorial project ‘Stars Are Closer and Clouds Are Nutritious Under Golden Trees’ took place in the MMAG Foundation, Amman. In the past, Övül was curator for steirischer herbst festival in Graz; curator/director for YAMA public screen in Istanbul; curatorial advisor for Gülsün Karamustafa’s ‘Chronographia’ at Hamburger Bahnhof, artistic director for the festival Sofia Contemporary 2013 titled as ‘Near, Closer, Together: Exercises for a Common Ground’. She curated programs within 10th, 13th and 14th Istanbul Biennials; coordinated and organized different programs and events at Maybe Education and Public Programs for dOCUMENTA (13). With her writing Övül contributes to different publications, online platforms and magazines such as Texte zur Kunst and Frieze.

Serj (b. 1985, Bergamo, Italy) lives and works in Berlin. He studied painting at Liceo Artistico Statale di Bergamo. In 2005 he moved to Rome where he attended the painting course at the Academy of Fine Arts, from which he graduated with honors in 2009.

Selected solo shows include: abstine substine (2020, Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain); Flat Fold Floats (2019, Spazio KN, Trento, Italy); Lunghezze d’Onda (2015, Palazzo Sforza Cesarini, curated by Giovanna dalla Chiesa, Genzano di Roma, Rome, Italy); mira-morsa (2014, Operativa Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy); CODIMA: primo enunciato and CODIMA: secondo enunciato (2013, Cortile dell’Arte, Rome, Italy).

Selected group shows include: K60 (in collaboration with Galeria Plan B, Wilhem Hallen, Berlin, Germany); Passages / Paysages (2021, curated by Roberto Lacarbonara, Plazzo Barbò, Torre Pallavicina, Italy); Polyptoton / πολύπτωτον (2018, curated by Elena Giulia Abbiatici, Something Else – OFF Biennale Cairo, Cairo, Egypt); Una Vetrina (2016, MAXXI, The Indipendent project, curated by Giulia Ferracci and Elena Motisi, Rome, Italy); The Hawt Show (2016, outdoor project by Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Borgo Colle Melone, Frosinone, Italy); FRAC, Festival Ricerca Arti Contemporanee (2015, Palazzo Rinascimentale, curated by Nicoletta Grasso, Aieta, Cosenza, Italy); Factory (2013, ex Mattatoio Testaccio, curated by Costantino D’Orazio, Rome, Italy); Il Peso Della Mia Luce (2013, Operativa Arte Contemporanea, text by Gianni Garrera, Rome, Italy). Selected site specific projects include: G (2017, Funkhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany); Six Traps (2016, Nevalon Festival, Montalcino, Siena, Italy); Three Spears (2016, Save Festival, Moscow, Russia); Mira (2015, Una Vetrina, Rome, Italy).

www.serj.it

Doireann O’Malley (born 1981 in Limerick, IE) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin. Their research-led practice unites collaborative methodologies, healing and reparative movement, writing, and theory, with a strong technological emphasis on new media, virtual Reality, 3Dand film installation.

O’Malley holds an MFA from University of Ulster in Belfast, UK. From 2021- 2022 held the position of Professor of Gender & Space at Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien. They were a research fellow at the Berliner Förderprogramm Künstlerische Forschung (2020-2021) and a participant of the BPA// Berlin programme for artists (2019-2020). They acted as a guest mentor on the The Live Arts MA / AdBK Nuremberg (2001)

Their exhibitions, talks and screenings have been presented at IMMA, Dublin, IE; Art Institute, Basel, CH; Biennale Zielona Góra, PL; Goethe-Institut Montreal, CA; Goethe-Institut, NY, USA; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin, DE; National Sculpture Factory/Cork Film Festival, Cork, IE; GöteborgInternational Biennial for Contemporary Art, SE; Rencontres Internationales, Forum des Archives, Paris, FR & HKW, Berlin, DE; Mumok Kino, Vienna, AT; Dublin City Gallery, Dublin, IE; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE; Berlin Art Prize, 2018, Berlin, DE; Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, DE.

www.doireannomalley.com

Jasmine Reimer is a Canadian artist based in Berlin. Working in non-fiction, fiction, poetry, sculpture, and drawing, her work uses symbolism, myth, and abstraction to investigate states of spiritual transcendence and bodily transformation. Reimer exhibits internationally – most recently at the plumb in Toronto and Khota Kunsthalle in Helsinki. In addition, Reimer writes art criticism, which can be found in Border Crossings Magazine, Peripheral Review, and most recently, Mousse. Following her self-published collection of poetry titled, “Small Obstructions”, Reimer is currently working on a research and writing project about the relationship between contemporary art and spiritual practices.

www.jasminereimer.com

Steven Warwick is an artist, writer, and musician living and working in Berlin. His practice is paradigmatic of an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses theatre-making, sculptural installation, film making, social dramaturgy and composition. His work is disseminated on a multitude of platforms including records, galleries, nightclubs, publications and the Internet. Across these contexts, Warwick creates assemblages of performance, image, sound and language that speak to the ways in which ideologies construct and inhabit spaces, online and offline – from co-working spaces to clubs, television shows and online chat rooms.In its pluralistic live forms, Warwick’s work redefines the expectations and conventions that accompany events such as performance and public exhibitions.

His visual work has been exhibited at KW Berlin; Schinkel Pavillon, Volksbühne Berlin, Klosterruine Berlin, Reading International, Zürich Moves! Festival, Art Night London, SMK, Copenhagen; The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Cleopatra’s, New York; Beach Office, Berlin; and Balice Hertling, New York. As a musician working under his own name and, previously, as ‘Heatsick’, he produces and performs a hybrid live/ DJ set, releasing recordings with the club/experimental label PAN and has played at Berghain, Berlin; London Contemporary Music Festival; Trouw, Amsterdam; Bergen Konsthall; LAMPO/ Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago; Issue Project Room, New York; and the Mutek and Unsound Festivals. His writing has appeared in Artforum,Texte zur Kunst, BOMB, Frieze, and Urbanomic. He is also a co-author of ‘Fear Indexing the X- Files’,  an audiovisual performance-lecture series issued as a book by Primary Information.

www.stevenwarwick.info

Ben Cottrell, born in 1972 in Cornwall, England, lives and works in Berlin. He studied at Cheltenham School of Art and Design, was an artist in residence at, among other institutions, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, and Meet Factory, Prague. He was also co-director of the Berlin based exhibition space forever and a day Büro.

His works have been shown in venues including Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; Galería Ehrhardt Flórez, Madrid; Lodger, Berlin; Cell Project Space, London; Envoy Enterprises, New York; Gallery Ben Kaufmann, Berlin; Gallery Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen; Garage Rotterdam; Ten Haaf Projects, Amsterdam; Blackbridge Offspace, Bejing; Kunst-Werke Berlin; Knust x Kunz, Munich; Superdeals, Brussels; Warhus Rittershaus, Cologne; Sauvage,Düsseldorf; Märkisches Museum, Witten.

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Shoufay Derz, an Australian-born artist, researcher, teacher and curator of Taiwanese and German heritage, has worked in Berlin since 2019. As of 2022, she serves as the Co-director at The Institute of Endotic Research, focusing on exploring relational and community practices within and beyond the visual arts realm. In 2023, Derz was awarded her PhD, centred on her research titled ‘Towards the Unknown: The Visual Poetics of the Ineffable.’

Her research delves into the limits and possibilities of language and visual expression, particularly within diasporic contexts, engaging in conversations about belonging and alienation. Her artistic endeavours involve proposing rituals and alternate archives at the thresholds of world(s) beginnings and ends, inviting collective imagination to explore unknown possibilities. Her recent work playfully incorporates improvisational tactics and humour to convey the ephemeral and transformative facets, possibilities, limitations, and risks of site-specific storytelling. Spanning diverse mediums such as moving images, textiles, sculpture, photography, performance, and text, her interdisciplinary practice aims to link language silences with voids present in social, structural, and geological landscapes, contemplating temporal wounds and the uncertainties of future terrains.

Select exhibitions include The Outside Art Project at London’s King’s Cross curated by the Photographers Gallery, the Pingyao International Photography Festival, the Auckland Festival of Photography, and Dark Heart, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. Noteworthy residencies include Künstlerhaus Bethanien awarded by Creative Australia from 2019 to 2020 and a visiting artist position at The New School – Parsons, NYC, in 2017. Derz has received accolades such as the 52nd Blake Prize for Religious Art early in her career.

More information on www.shoufay.com

born in Witten, Germany, lives and works in Berlin. After studying Sociology at Bielefeld University and “Photography and Video” at the Unversity of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, he was awarded with a “Meisterschüler” degree at the University of the Arts Berlin in 2006. In 2005 he received the Fulbright Grant New York and majored in the MFA program of Hunter College, New York City.

Niklas Goldbach received several sholarships (i.e. Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn 2010, Arbeitsstipendium Bildende Kunst des Berliner Senats 2013, Globalstipendium des Berliner Senats 2014, Dredsdner Stipendium für Fotografie 2016, Villa Aurora Los Angeles 2017) and presented his works in numerous solo shows, group exhibitions, and festivals in venues like the as the Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Mori-Art Museum, Tokyo, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k., Cornerhouse, Manchester, documenta 14 public programs, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Centre Pompidou, Berlinische Galerie Museum for Contemporary Art, Museum Ludwig, Cologne and the Short Film Festival Oberhausen. In 2014 he was awarded with the “Paula Modersohn-Becker Jubilee Award”.

www.niklasgoldbach.de

Wojciech Kosma is a Polish performance artist known for staging nuanced representations of intimacy that weave together dance, theatre, and personal biographies. More recently, he works with sound and poetry under the alias spalarnia, creating works that oppose and deconstruct the violent, exclusionary and white-centric propaganda of the Polish government. His performances have been shown at Tate Modern, London; Chisenhale Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Volksbühne, Berlin and Interstate Projects, NYC among others. spalarnia tapes are released by Dym Records in Poland. Wojciech is a founding member of the artist collective East London Cable.

www.linktr.ee/spalarnia

Özge Ersoy is Public Programs Lead at Asia Art Archive, an independent arts organization based in Hong Kong. Özge is also Research and Programming Associate for the 13th Gwangju Biennale (2020) and Managing Editor of m-est.org, an online publication conceived as an artist-centered initiative. Her writings have been included in Curating Under Pressure: International Perspectives on Negotiating Conflict and Upholding Integrity (Routledge, 2020), The Constituent Museum (Valiz and L’Internationale, 2018), Erkan Özgen: Giving Voices (Sternberg, Fundació Han Nefkens and Fundació Antoni Tàpies, 2018), and Speculation, Now (Duke University Press and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, 2014), among others. She holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.

born 1970 in Kempten/Allgäu, Germany
lives and works in Berlin und Bremen

1996 – 2004 Study at the University of Arts Bremen, Master Student, Germany
since 2014 teaching in the context of the Excellence Programm from the UdK Berlin at the KUNSTHALLE am Hamburger Platz, Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee
since 2014 teaching at the University of Arts Bremen
2014 Lecture at the University Bremen „Kiss me, Hardy“, Stratigrafien between kitsch and violence in pictorial spaces of dwelling
2014 Lecture at the Akademie of Arts Mainz, Johannes-Gutenberg University

Awards and Residencies (selection)

2014–2015 Excellence Programm of the UdK Berlin
2013 Artist Residency Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems
2011 Artist Residency Schloß Hundisburg, Kultusministerium Sachsen-Anhalt
2008 Artist Residency Künstlerhaus Hooksiel
2006 Prize for Arts, Ottersberg, Niedersachsen
2003 Thales Prize of the NORDWESTKUNST, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven

www.patricialambertus.de

Born 1971 in Munich
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

1990-92 Animator at Linda Film GmbH, München
1992-98 Akademie der bildenden Künste Nürnberg
1997 Universität der Künste Berlin
1996/97 Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris
1998 Master Student

GRANTS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2008 Käthe-Dorsch-und-Agnes-Straub-Forundation, Project Grant
2007 Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art IT, Award
2002 DAAD, Travel Grant
Award of the gorvernement of Oberfranken
2000 Awarnd of the Freestate of Bavaria
1996-96 Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Award

PUBLICATIONS

2014 THE PINK PAINTINGS, Galerie Münsterland e.V.
2007 Doris Marten, Goldrausch Künstlerinnenproject art IT
2003 Abstraktion Now, Künstlerhaus Wien
2001 Um die Ecke geschaut, Nürnberg

www.dorismarten.com

Emma Waltraud Howes (f. 1976, Canada) worked in a professional context as a dancer and choreographer before shifting her focus towards performance, video, sculpture, sound, and various 2D media within the framework of a conceptual art practice. Her current work is guided by observations of gestures with a focus on the development of an expanded choreographic practice. She incorporates public interventions, kinesthetic and architectural research, and an underlying drawing component in the form of graphic scores for performances that can be interpreted by orchestras, dancers, and the public. These compositions are representative of a stage in the development from concept and intention to depiction and effect. Howes approaches the stage as a place of theater and a moment in the expansion of a social process. She is drawn to include the audience in this practice through an invitation to occupy the space of the exhibition as actors in a process of negotiation and play with perceived borders and boundaries.

www.emmawaltraudhowes.com

Raul Walch (born in 1980) crosses the boundaries of artistic genres in his broad and inventive practise. He works as a sculptor and conceptual artist but also slips easily into the roll of an investigator or becomes part of a performance. His focus is on creating an unconventional approach to social reality, often unexpectedly including observers in the process. Walch’s playful works and actions are not limited to questioning or participation. Instead, he creates ephemeral and largely site-specific interventions that respond to different environments around the world.

www.raulwalch.net

geboren 1970 in Stuttgart
Andreas Koch ist Künstler, Grafikdesigner und Herausgeber der Zeitschrift „von hundert“.

Er unterrichtete an zahlreichen Institutionen wie der Udk Berlin, der KHB Weissensee, Hfbk Dresden, Hbk Brauschweig, bbk Berlin oder Goldrausch. Außerdem betrieb er von 1996 bis 2004 die Galerie Koch und Kesslau zusammen mit Sybille Kesslau und beteiligte sich damit an zahlreichen Messen u.a. dem Art Forum Berlin, der Frieze in London oder der Art Basel Miami Beach. Die Galerie stellte unter anderem die Künstler Kai Schiemenz, Sofia Hultén, René Lück oder Tilman Wendland aus. Die Galerie gewann auf dem Art Forum Berlin 2001 den Preis für den besten Stand (Project Spaces).

Als Künstler erhielt er unter anderem zweimal das Berliner Arbeitsstipendium des Senats (2000, 2011), Kunstfonds Bonn (2008) und ein Stipendium der Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, außerdem war er Stipendiat der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. Er stellte seine Arbeit an vielen Orten in und außerhalb Berlins aus, unter anderem 2013 im Kunstverein Arnsberg. Für 2015 ist eine teils retrospektive Einzelausstellung im Haus am Lützowplatz in Planung.

Andreas Koch ist Mitglied der Alliance International des Critiques d’Arts (AICA).
Seit 2006 ist er Herausgeber, Autor und Redakteur der mit Kito Nedo gegründeten und zusammen mit Barbara Buchmaier geleiteten Kunstzeitschrift „von hundert“, die mit kritischem Blick die Kunstszene Berlins verfolgt. Außerdem schrieb er für die Zeitschrift „Spike“ Beiträge.

Als Buchgestalter entwarf Andreas Koch zahlreiche Bücher und Kataloge, unter anderem für die Künstler Olafur Eliasson, Elmgreen & Dragset, Eberhard Havekost, Veronika Kellndorfer oder Yarisal & Kublitz. 2014 wurde das Buch Kochbuch “The Kitchen” des Studios Eliasson für die Shortlist der schönsten Bücher 2013 nominiert, ebenso das Buch „Weltausstellung“ von Stephanie Kloss 2014. Seit 1994 gestaltet er die Obdachlosenzeitung „motz“. Er arbeitet im Büro für Film und Gestaltung, Berlin mit Stefan Stefanescu, Daniel Wiesmann, Sebastian Fessel und Kai Dieterich.

www.vonhundert.de
www.loop-raum.de
www.kochundkesslau.de

Rüdiger Lange worked for ten years in the context of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. In 1997 he took over the artistic direction for the Volksbühne’s PAVILLON at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. There, he realized exhibitions and projects, always with focus on artistic process in (semi-)public spaces.

At the same time he was responsible for PARABOLICA SPACES – a complex of buildings in Berlin-Mitte temporarily used as cultural venue until 2001. Another important project was the development of an extensive cultural agenda in the former Heeresbäckerei in Berlin-Kreuzberg. From 2002 to 2005 Lange figured out a various program of artistic productions operating under the label heeresbaeckerei-kultur. Additionally, he ran a club for advanced elctronic music. Both projects were performed in close cooperation with the particular real estate developer.

As co-founder of the Art Fair PREVIEW BERLIN he created a platform for emerging galleries. PREVIEW BERLIN is dedicated to the promotion of young positions. It explores new formats for mediation in the art market.

Rüdiger Lange has curated numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, South Korea, Canada, the US and Great Britain, such as BERLIN – LONDON 2001 in the ICA Institute for Contemporary Art London. As owner and artistic director of GALERIE LOOP – RAUM FÜR AKTUELLE KUNST he offers a continous exhibition program since 1997. Currently he presents Standard International – #1 Post Spatial Surfaces / #2 Post Spatial Devices at Geisberg Berlin.

www.loop-raum.de
www.standard-international.de

born 1967 in Rosenheim
lives and works in Berlin

1989-1996 AdBK München / Munich, Goldsmiths’ College, London

Solo exhibitions (selection)
2015
Morgenröthe, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin

2013
S, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich

2012
The Mental Life of Savages, Galerie Guido W. Baudach (Charlottenburg), Berlin
Form and Fear and Muse, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam

2011
Quiet Days in Salò, Thomas Brambrilla Contemporary, Bergamo
Gehirne (mit / with Armin Boehm), Kunstverein Heppenheim E.V., Heppenheim

2010
Use Your Relatives, China Arts Objects, Los Angeles
Thomas Helbig, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague
Thomas Helbig, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin

2009
Mário Sequeira Gallery, Braga
WHITE, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Viper in Bosom, Vilma Gold, London

2008
Remote Pulse, Bortolami, New York
Complete Birth, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
Stern der Musen, Kunstverein Oldenburg, Oldenburg *


Group exhibitions
(selection)
2015
Turn of a Century, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
50 Jahre PIN. Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich
Der Beste Anfang, Thomas Brambilla Contemporary, Bergamo
Wo ist hier? #2: Raum und Gegenwart. Bildhauerei und Installation seit 2000, Kunstverein Reutlingen, Reutlingen
Reformer, Nationalmuseum Berlin, Berlin
Painting Show – Part Two, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
FRISCH aus Berlin. Einblicke in eine Berliner Privatsammlung, Stadtmuseum Oldenburg, Oldenburg *
Berlin – Klondyke: 1. Berlin-Edition, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin
Sweet Sixten, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles

2014
Feels Like Heaven, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Sein und Zeit, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck
Luggage and observations, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart
Paperworlds, Collectors Room Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin *

2013
Painting Forever! Keilrahmen, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin *
Berlin-Klondyke, Hipphalle, Gmunden
Berlin-Klondyke, Werkschau Spinnerei, Halle 12, Leipzig
Too Big or Not too Big – Summer Show, Thomas Brambilla, Bergamo
The Inevitable Figuration, Museo Pecci, Prato
Vages Gefühl des Unbehagens. Thomas Helbig – Victor Man – Helmut Stallaerts, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle

2012
Private/Corporate VII, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
Alpenrepublik, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck *
Collaborations & Interventions, Kunsthalle Andratx, Andratx / Spain
Accelerating Toward Apocalypse, Doron Sebbag ArtCollection, ORS Ltd., Tel Aviv *

2011
Gesamtkunstwerk, Saatchi Gallery, London *
How to Paint!, Katholische Akademie, München / Munich *
Tabula Rasa, ein Projekt von / a project by Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
Impossible Vacation, White Flag Projects, St. Louis
a painting show, Autocenter, Berlin
What a serious horror writing a play, Show 3, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin *
the darkest corners of the whitest cube, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden

* Catalogue

www.guidowbaudach.com/artists/thomas-helbig/works

 

Ahmet Öğüt, born in 1981 in Diyarbakır, is a sociocultural initiator, artist, and lecturer who lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam.

He is the initiator of The Silent University, which is an autonomous knowledge exchange platform by refugees, asylum seekers. Working across a variety of media, Öğüt’s institutional solo exhibitions include Round-the-clock, Alt Art Space Istanbul (2016); Forward!, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2015); Happy Together: Collaborators Collaborating, Chisenhale Gallery, London (2015); The MATRIX Program at the UC Berkeley Art Museum (2010); and Kunsthalle Basel (2008). He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the British Art Show 8 (2015-2017); Okayama Art Summit; 11th Gwangju Biennale; Museum On/OFF, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR (2016), the 13th Biennale de Lyon (2015); 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale (2014); Performa 13, the Fifth Biennial of Visual Art Performance, New York (2013); the 7th Liverpool Biennial (2012); the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011); the New Museum Triennial, New York (2009); and the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2008).

He has taught at the Dutch Art Institute, Netherlands (2012); the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Finland (2011–ongoing); and Yildiz Teknik University, Turkey (2004–2006), among others.

Öğüt was awarded the Visible Award for the Silent University (2013); the special prize of the Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Ukraine (2012); the De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2011, Netherlands; and the Kunstpreis Europas Zukunft, Museum of Contemporary Art, Germany (2010). He co-represented Turkey at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009).

www.ahmetogut.com

*197X in Bremen
Lives and works in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and Bremen.

Constructions of art / strategies of art / spectatorship of various matrixes
„Life recreates art“

2014 Starting „The Idling Gallery“ with Ann Schomburg
2011 Lecture MAA Art Programme Helsinki / Public Assemblies
2001 – ongoing Art Market Research collaboration with IFSE Berlin
2002 – 2006 Research collaboration at HfG Karlruhe / Art and Media
2002 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Academy degree / Albert Oehlen
1998 -2002 Research collaboration at University of Witten Herdecke / Art and Oeconomy / Organisation Team of „Oeconomenta“

Grants and Awards:
2015 Vienna Calling Price, Vienna Bötzow Price, Berlin
2014 The Idling Mobile Residency, Kassel/Düsseldorf 2011 Artist in Residency, HIAP Helsinki
Artist in Residence, City of Frankfurt am Main 2004 I&H Support Price, Bremen
2002 Artoll Labor Bedburg Hau
2001 Travel Grant Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
1998 Art Price „The Junction“, Düsseldorf
1998 Art Price of HHUK, Düsseldorf
1988 LPP Art Price, Bremen
1987 OSBH Art Price, Bremen

Collections
Artoll Labor, Bedburg Hau
Cultural Values, Köln
Deutsche Bank Collection Frankfurt am Main / Wallstreet New York Heinrich Heine Universitätsklinik, Düsseldorf
Ihrcke Erdarbeiten, Bremen
Institut für Strategieentwicklung, Berlin
Lacoste, Paris
Kurzeja&Cie., München
Wöbken Dachtechnik, Köln

www.sascha-boldt.com

Born in Caracas May 16, 1971

Education:
1992 -96 B.A. Columbia University, New York. School of Visual Arts.
1990 -92 Columbia University, New York. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. 1988 -90 Universidad Metropolitana de Caracas, Business.

Internship:
2002 -03 Jorge Stever, Caracas.
1996 -97 Gregory Amenoff, New York. 1995 -96 Archie Rand, Brooklyn, New York.

Professional experience:
2007 – 2012 Gallery Director Dgriss Art Gallery, Panama.
2012 – 2014 Gallery Advisor DGAG Contemporary, Panama.

Shows:

Individual:
2015 RANIVILU Art Gallery, MAGNETIC INTERFERENCE. Miami, Fl. USA.
2014 RANIVILU Art Gallery, INTERVENTION, Miami, Fl. USA.
2014 DGAG Contemporary BLACKGOLD, Panamá, Panamá
2014 Klaus Steinmetz Contemporary, INTERVENTION Ezcazú, Costa Rica
2013 Quanta Collection, Wynwood. Miami, Fl, USA
2013 DGAG Contemporary INTERVENTION, Panamá, Panamá.
2011 DGAG Contemporary, Flatline, Panamá, Panamá.
2009 DGAG Contemporary, Sweet Violet Sweet, Panama, Panama.
2007 Bernhard Smodics Gallery, “ Hyperexpressionism” Salzburg, Austria.
2003 Bernhard Smodics Gallery, “ Ich Bin Mahler…”, Salzburgo, Austria.
1999 Museo Casa del Tesoro, “Soy un árbol”, Coro, Edo. Falcón, Venezuela.
1998 Galería BANAP, “Al pie del árbol”, Caracas, Venezuela.
1995 Soo Kyung Gallery, “Recent Works”,The Soho Building, New York, USA.
1994 Dodge Hall, “Welcome Le Roy Neiman”, Columbia University, New York, USA. 1993 Soo Kyung Gallery, “Self -Self Portraits”,The Soho Building, New York, USA.

Group / Art fairs:
2016 Art Wynwood, RANIVILU art Gallery Miami, Fl. USA.
2015 HFAF 2015, RANIVILU Art Gallery. Houston, TX. USA.
2015 Art Lima 2015, Klaus Steinmetz Contemporary. Lima, Peru
2015 LONDON Contemporary Art Fair, Beers Contemporary, London, UK. 2015 PINTA MIAMI 2015, RANIVILU art gallery, Miami Fl. USA.
2015 IREVERENT, RANIVILU Art Gallery, Miami FL. USA.
2015 COLOR MOTION, RANIVILU Art Gallery, Miami Fl. USA.
2014 VALOARTE, Ezcazú, Costa Rica
2014 PINTA MIAMI 2014, RANIVILU Art Gallery, Miami FL. USA.
2014 100 Painters of tomorrow , ICA London, UK
2013 Artspot Art Fair Miami, Aldo Castillo Projects, Miami, Fl. USA
2013 ArtBo 2013, Klaus Stenimetz Contemporary, Bogotá , Colombia 2013 BEERS.LAMBERT Contemporary, AU, London, UK.
2010 DGAG Feria de Arte Panama, Panama.
2010 DGAG Contemporary, 002 TEXTURA, Panama, Panama.
2008 DGAG Contemporary, SON 4, Panama, Panama.
2005 Galería Espacios Infinitos, “Técnicas Mixtas”, Caracas, Venezuela. 2002 Bernhard Smodics Gallery, “Saltamontes”, Salzburg, Austria.
2001 Ateneo de Valencia, 59 Salón Arturo Michelena, Valencia, Edo. Carabobo, Venezuela
1998 Ven-Arte, Corp-Banca, Caracas, Venezuela
1995 Arquideco Art Gallery, Coral Gables, Miami, Florida, USA.
1994 Robenson Center Art Gallery, “Latinos Invitados – Arte Latino”, Newark, New Jersey, USA. 1993 The Venezuelan Center, “Venezuela + 1 Artstorming”, Venezuelan Consulate, New York, USA. 1993 Montauk Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA.

Private Collections:
BANESCO BANCO , Panama, Panama. INDUSTRIAS BEROL , Caracas, Venezuela. QUANTA Collection, Miami, Florida. USA

Prints:
100 Painters of Tomorrow.(Libro 2014) Editorial: Thames-Hudson/ New York

www.pablogriss.com
www.pablogrissintervention.com
www.pablogrissblackgold.com

Geboren/Born 1968 in Wels, Österreich/Austria.
Lebt und arbeitet/Lives and works in Berlin, Deutschland/Germany.

1988 – 1990
Studium an der /Studies at Hochschule für Kunst und Gestaltung, Klasse für visuelle Gestaltung/class for visual design, Linz, Österreich/Austria

1990 – 1995
Studium an der/Studies at Staatlichen Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Klasse/class Professor Raimer Jochims, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland/Germany

2004 – 2005
Lehrauftrag „Neue Formen der Malerei“/Lectureship „New forms of painting“, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Mainz, Deutschland/Germany

Bibliographie/Bibliography

Kataloge/Catalogues
Berlin Artists
Till Kremer, Kerber Verlag, Berlin, 2015
Autocenter
Autocenter (Hg./Ed.), Distanz Verlag, Berlin, Deutschland/Germany, 2014
SNAFU
Kunstraum Dreieich (Hg./Ed.), Artspace Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland/Germany 2014
Im Dschungel
Friedemann Hahn (Hg./Ed.), Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland/Germany, 2014
Vector IV
Peter Gregorio, Javier Barrios (Hg./Ed.), Berlin, Deutschland/Germany, 2014
REkollekt
Galerie Borchard (Hg./Ed.), Hamburg, Deutschland/Germany, 2014
Apokalyptik als Widerstand
Biber Tom (Hg./Ed.), Ingolstadt, Deutschland/Germany, 2013
Die Knieende
Galerie Next (Hg./Ed.), Dresden, Deutschland/Germany, 2012
Ten Words and One Shot
Kevin Krumnikl (Hg./Ed.), Eltville, Deutschland/Germany, 2011
Verbrechen und Bild
Friedemann Hahn (Hg./Ed.), Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland/Germany, 2011
Home Run
Architekturmuseum (Hg./Ed.), Berlin, Deutschland/Germany, 2010
Brennstoff, Moderne Nerven
Ela Angerer (Hg./Ed.), Verlag Czernin, Wien/Vienna, Österreich/Austria, 2010
Zeigen Temporäre
Kunsthalle (Hg./Ed.), Berlin, Deutschland/Germany, 2009
Sammlung Rausch
Daniel Birnbaum (Hg./Ed.), Verlag Walther König, Köln/Cologne, Deutschland/Germany 2007
Sommerfrische/Sehnsucht nach dem Paradies
Indra Wussow (Hg./Ed.), Sylt, Deutschland/Germany 2007
2. international Painting Price of the Castellon County
Paco Barragan (Hg./Ed.), Spanien/Spain, 2005
brillant(e)
KUNST MERAN (Hg./Ed.), Meran, Italien/Italy 2004
Macht und Tränen
Friedemann Hahn (Hg./Ed.), Waldmann Verlag, Senden, Deutschland/Germany, 2003
Polaroid
Manfred Peckl & Bernhard Schreiner, Gartner‘s Gallery (Hg./Ed.), Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland/Germany, 1994
AUSSER
Manfred Peckl & Elke Martin, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland/Germany, 1992
ROMANIACS
Manfred Peckl & Elke Martin, Martin Liebscher (Hg./Ed.), Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland/Germany, 1992

Monografien/Monographs
No Moon, Text von /text by Marcus Andrew Hurttig, Galerie Kai Erdmann (Hg./Ed.), Hamburg, Deutschland/Germany, 2016
Künstler, kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Ausgabe 108/Heft 27/4. Quartal,Text von/text by Oliver Körner von Gustorf, Der Kunsthandel Verlag GmbH, Neu Isenburg, 2014
Ob die Täter Mütter Föten, Text von/text by Cora Waschke, Galerie Kai Erdmann (Hg./Ed.), Hamburg, Deutschland/Germany, 2013
WAH, Manfred Peckl, Berlin, 2013
Rosa Brille, Kunstverein Heppenheim (Hg./Ed.), Mona Hartfiel, Heppenheim, Deutschland/Germany, 2009
Another Girl another World, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nürnberg, Deutschland/Germany, 2005
Bis dass der Tod uns meidet, Manfred Peckl, Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland/Germany, 2000
gegend/exzerpte, Manfred Peckl, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland/Germany, 1997
Mexikoreise, Manfred Peckl, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland/Germany, 1997
unter fischen spricht man fisch, Manfred Peckl, Axel Dielmann Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland/Germany, 1997
miamia, Manfred Peckl, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland/Germany, 1996
mund, Manfred Peckl, Frankfurter Sparkasse (Hg./Ed.), Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland/Germany, 1996
MUSIK, Edition Voges+Deisen (Hg./Ed.), Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland/Germany, 1996
muh, Manfred Peckl, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland/Germany, 1996
auch äther ist schön, Manfred Peckl, Wien/Vienna, Österreich/Austria, 1995
Gedichte, Manfred Peckl, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland/Germany, 1993
DICHTUNG, Manfred Peckl, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland/Germany, 1993

Musik/Music
To Be Or Not The B-Men, (mit/with Andreas Schlaegel, Marc Bijl, Marcus Sendlinger)
CD, Sick Fuck Records, Berlin, Deutschland/Germany,2013
Amen, The B-Men (mit/with Andreas Schlaegel, Marc Bijl, Marcus Sendlinger), Vinylschallplatte/vinyl record, Sick Fuck Records, Berlin, Deutschland/Germany, 2010
Ants in Pants Always Everything, (mit/with Svenghoulie, Zemon Demon, GogoGunnar),CD, 2006
Ants in Pants (mit/with Sveghoulie, Sylvie Hohlbaum, Zemon Demon), Vinylschallplatte/vinyl record, naiv hören und sehen, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland/Germany, 2001

www.manfred-peckl.com

Nadine Fecht lives and works in Berlin. She studied languages at Humboldt University and received an MFA from UdK Berlin in 2009. She has since exhibited at Kunstmuseum Basel, Hamburger Kunsthalle, SMB Berlin, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig, Kunsthalle Mannheim (solo) and Akademie der Künste, Berlin a.o. She received various grants, e.g. Villa Aurora, Dorothea Erxleben, „Berlin-Stipendium“ AdK Berlin, Stiftung Kunstfonds. In 2014, she was awarded the Will-Grohmann-Preis. Her works are part of public collections at Hamburger Kunsthalle, Berlinische Galerie, Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig, n. b. k., Kunsthalle Mannheim and Kunstmuseum Basel. From 2015 – 17 she taught conceptual drawing at both HBK Braunschweig and Mozarteum Salzburg. From 2018 – 19 she was assigned a temporary professorship for drawing at HBK in Braunschweig.

www.nadinefecht.com

Norbert Erwin Witzgall (*1976, Münchberg, Germany) studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Nürnberg, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Lyon, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, and Universität der Künste, Berlin. He has exhibited internationally, at venues including Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Kunstverein Nürnberg, DEWEER (Otegem, Belgium) and Venetia Kapernekas (NYC) e.a.

Witzgall has been a visiting professor at the MA program of VCU’s Painting and Printmaking Department in Richmond, VA. Since 2014, he has been teaching fine art at Berlin’s Universität der Künste.

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Born 1976 in Eskilstuna, Sweden
Lives and works in Berlin

Studies
1997-2001 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, free media, Amsterdam (NL)
1999 School of Visual Arts, New York (USA)
1995-1997 Pernby´s Painting School, Stockholm (SE)

Grants
2018 Swedish Art Grant Committee – two years working grant (SE)
2014 Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation (SE); Goldrausch art IT, Berlin (DE)
2008 Swedish Art Grant Committee – one year working grant (SE); Ester Lindahl Foundation (SE)
2006 Västerås City Grant Committee (SE)
1997 Ida & Gustav Unman foundation (SE)

www.ulrikasegerberg.de

Andreas Schlaegel (born 1966 in Kinshasa, DRC) is a critic, curator and artist, based in Berlin.

His essays, portraits or criticism has been published by international art magazines,such as Flash Art International (Milano), Frieze d/e (Berlin/London), Billedkunst (Oslo), /100 (Berlin) and in books by institutions such as the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; MUSAC, Leon; Aspen Museum, Colorado; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main; Thyssen Bornemisza Contemporary, Vienna; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf and many others.

His artwork is invested in creating collaborative formats, oscillating between sculpture performance and exhibitions. This includes collaborations with other artists such as »Come early, avoid disappointment« with the artist group Gelitin at TBA21 in Vienna, and the Venice Biennale, 2011, or »The Art of Conversation« with Paolo Chiasera and Matthew Antezzo, at PSM Galllery, Berlin, 2013, or or his art related music projects, including ACO- Art Critics Orchestra, (w. Raimar Stange, Oystein Aasan, Sabine Schmidt, and others), or The B-Men (w. Manfred Peckl, Marc Bijl u. Marcus Sendlinger).

Currently he teaches at the HfG Offenbach und HdK Hamburg.

www.andreasschlaegel.de

Working with film as a participatory tool, Stine Marie Jacobsen designs educational projects that deal with ethics, identity, control, fear and trust and aim to raise solidarity and civic engagement through community involvement. With a BFA from CalArts, a MFA from The Royal Danish Art Academy and recently a peace and conflict resolution certificate from Chula University, she is based in Berlin.

Some of her notable solo shows have been at Galerie Wedding, 2016, Berlin, Germany, Overgaden institute of contemporary art, 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, District Kunst- und Kulturförderung, 2014, Berlin, Galway Arts Center, 2014, Galway, Ireland, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2012, Berlin. Selected group shows consist of Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast, Momentum Biennale 2013, Moss, Norway, Either Or Nikolaj Kunsthal, 2013, Copenhagen, Idyll Turku Biennale, Turku, Finland, The 10th OPEN International Performance Festival, 2009, Beijing.

In 2012 Jacobsen was a resident at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Residencias Artisticas, National University Bogotá and Air Antwerpen. In 2014, she started collaborating with District Berlin and social organisation Gangway and was jury selected for Berlin Art Week. In 2015, she was awarded an Innovators Grant, a two months research and study in art creativity and education by Node Curatorial Studies, where she now also teaches a course called ‘Socially engaged Art Projects’. In 2016, she launched www.artistsexercises.org – a collective sharing and donation platform, which facilitates new ways of teaching for other educators. Same year she was awarded a peace Fellowship by the Rotary Foundation and nominated for the Berlin Art Prize.

Jacobsen develops learning tools in order to create community and to expand the use of art. Besides following a Rancierian approach turning ‘teachers’ into ‘students’ and vice versa and participants to collaborators, her educational methods are attention, intimacy and improvisation and to value participants’ integrity.

www.stinemariejacobsen.com
www.direct-approach.org

Louisa Elderton is a contemporary art Curator, Writer and Editor. She received a First-Class Bachelor’s degree in Art History and English from The University of Sussex (2006) and a Master’s degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art in Curating the Art Museum (2010), presenting an exhibition about Christian iconography in historical and contemporary art. From 2009–11 she worked for public institutions including Tate and The Whitechapel Gallery and was Writer in Residence at Jerwood Visual Arts. She mounted exhibitions by Lawrence Weiner, Francesco Clemente, Douglas Gordon, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Nasan Tur and Rachel Howard from 2012-15, then moving to Berlin in September 2015 to curate the exhibition Time Capsules. By the side of the road. Wim Wenders’ recent photographs for Blain|Southern Berlin, in collaboration with Wenders Images.

She is a regular contributor to magazines including Artforum, Art Review, Frieze, Flash Art, Elephant Magazine, Apollo, The Burlington Magazine, Vogue China, Berlin Art Link, House & Garden and The White Review and contributed texts to Phaidon’s Vitamin P3 about new-wave contemporary painters (published 2016). She has edited monographs on Rachel Howard, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Francesco Clemente and Jonas Burgert. Currently, she is Project Editor of Phaidon’s upcoming book Vitamin C: New Perspectives in Contemporary Art, Clay & Ceramics (to be published October 2017).

www.louisaelderton.com

The Berlin based artist duo Various & Gould works in close collaboration since 2005. After studying at the Berlin-Weissensee School of Art, the artists graduated under the tutelage of Prof Alex Jordan in 2010.

Various & Gould’s creation is based on the simple but striking formula 1+1=3. Whilst methods of screen-printing and collage are their speciality, their art can also emerge in a public performance or an installation as they like crossing borders and do not stick to a certain medium. Mutual passions including their love of paper, enthusiasm for accidental beauty in everyday life and art in urban space form the core of their artistic practice.

Various & Gould often deal with socially prominent themes such as work, migration, gender, death, religion or the financial crisis in a playful, intuitive manner. Influenced by (political) poster graphics, Dada and Pop Art, vivid colors combined with typography and encrypted messages are the characteristics of their work.

www.variousandgould.com

Born in 1976 in Damascus Suburb, and currently based in Berlin, Khaled Barakeh graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus, Syria in 2005, completed his MFA at Funen Art Academy in Odense, Denmark in 2010 and finished his Meisterschueler at the Städelschule Art Academy in Frankfurt a.M, Germany in 2013. During his stay in Europe Barakeh, originally trained as a painter, has developed a stronger concentration on conceptual art practices. Today he works in a variety of media, focusing on the current and pertinent issues, often revolving around politics and power structures in context of identity, culture and history. He has exhibited at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart; Shanghai Biennale; Salt Istanbul; Kunsthalle Brandts, Overgaden Denmark; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Artspace New Zealand and many other institutions and venues around the world.

Recently Barakeh started a new initiative called Syria Cultural Index, dedicated to mapping and connecting the Syrian artistic community around the globe and showcasing their work to wider audience.

www.khaledbarakeh.com
www.syriaculturalindex.com

1972 born in Braunschweig, lives and works in Berlin since 1998
1994–1997 Burg Giebichenstein, Hochschule für Kunst und Design Halle
1997–1998 École supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg
2000 Glasgow School of Art
1998–2003 Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, Diplom und Meisterschülerin

Grants & Scholarships
2017 Mathilde-Planck-Programm, Lehrauftragsstipendium, Hochschule Pforzheim
2013 Artist-in-Residence Stipendium »sommer.frische.kunst«, Bad Gastein
2008 Projektstipendium, DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, Hörstel
2003 DAAD-Stipendium für Buenos Aires
2002 Erster Preis für Zeichnung, Birkner-Stiftung, Leipzig
2000 Erasmus-Stipendium für Glasgow

Teaching & Art Mediation
2017–2018 Lehrauftrag für Zeichnung, Fakultät Gestaltung, Hochschule Pforzheim
2017 Workshop »Experimental drawing«, Akademie Schloss Rotenfels
2015 Künstlerische Bildungsarbeit in ausserschulischen Einrichtungen
2001–2011 Kunstvermittlung in Galerien (Deutsch/Englisch)

Public Collections
Sammlung des Deutschen Bundestages, Berlin
Columbus Art Foundation, Ravensburg
SØR Rusche Sammlung, Oelde/Berlin

www.nikolaroethemeyer.de

born 1981 Helsinki

Education
2001-2006 MFA/BFA, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
2004 Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art
2000-2001 Institute of Fine Arts, Lahti Polytechnic

Collections
De Hallen Haarlem, NL
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki / Finnish National Gallery
EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, FI
Amos Anderson Art Museum, FI
The State Art Collection, FI
Helsinki City Art Museum, FI
Helmond Municipal Museum, NL
Teixeira de Freitas’ Collection, PT

Residencies
2015 ISCP, New York / Alfred Kordelin Foundation
2013 Gasworks / Frieze Projects, London
2011 IASPIS, Stockholm
2010 FRAME Fellowship
2009-2010 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten / Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
2009 ARCADIS Fellowship
2007 Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb
2005 Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul

www.pilvitakala.com

Born in Stanford, California, 1968

Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Berlin, Germany

EDUCATION

1996 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York, New York
1993 Master of Fine Arts (Visual Arts), University of California, San Diego, California
1989 Double Bachelors of Art with Honors (Visual Arts, Literature and Society), Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Nina Katchadourian works with sound, photography, sculpture, performance, video, music, and public projects. Many of her ideas and projects spring from observations of the everyday and her desire to look for ways to engage the mundane and overlooked aspects of quotidian life. Katchadourian lives in Brooklyn and Berlin and is an Associate Professor at New York University.

www.ninakatchadourian.com

b. 1981, Koszalin Poland

Education
2010: The London Consortium (Birkbeck College, University of London), London UK, Masters of Research w/ Distinction in Humanities and Cultural Studies
2007: The University of Western Ontario, London CA, Masters of Fine Arts
2005: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg CA, Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours

Dagmara Genda is an artist and writer. Her art art has been shown at the Arp Museum, Remagen DE Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff; the Esker Foundation, Calgary; Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener + Area Biennial 2014, as well as numerous public and private venues across Canada, the US and Europe. Genda is currently completing a public art project for the expansion of the subway system in Toronto.

www.dagmaragenda.com

Krist Gruijthuijsen (born in 1980, NL) is curator, and director of KW Institute for Contemporary Art since July 2016. At KW he has curated exhibitions with, among others, Hanne Lippard, Ian Wilson, Adam Pendleton, Ronald Jones, Hiwa K, Willem de Rooij, Beatriz González, David Wojnarowicz and Hreinn Friðfinnsson. 
 
Gruijthuijsen has been artistic director of the Grazer Kunstverein in Graz from 2012 until 2016 and has been course director of the MA fine arts department at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam from 2011 until 2016. He is one of the co-founding directors of Kunstverein in Amsterdam and has organized numerous exhibitions and projects over the past decade, including Manifesta 7 (Trentino-South Tyrol, IT), Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center (Istanbul), Artists Space (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art(Belgrade, RS), Swiss Institute (New York), Galeria Vermelho (São Paulo, BR), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, NL), Arnolfini (Bristol, GB), Project Arts Centre (Dublin), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt Lake City, US), and Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane, AU). 
 
Gruijthuijsen has produced, edited and published extensively in numerous collaborations with JRP|Ringier Kunstverlag, Sternberg Press, Mousse Publishing Printed Matter, Inc., Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König and Kunstverein Publishing. Recent publications are amongst others MIERLE LADERMAN UKELES – SEVEN WORK BALLETS (Sternberg Press, 2015), VINCENT FECTEAU (Sternberg Press, 2015), WRITINGS AND CONVERSATIONS BY DOUG ASHFORD (Mousse Publishing, 2014), LISA OPPENHEIM: WORKS 2003–2013 (Sternberg Press, 2014), THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FICTIONAL ARTISTS AND THE ADDITION (JRP|Ringier, 2010), and several others under the umbrella of Kunstverein Publishing.

Joanna Warsza is a Program Director of CuratorLab at Konstfack University of Arts in Stockholm, and an independent curator interested in how art functions politically and socially outside the white cubes. She was the Artistic Director of Public Art Munich 2018, curator of the Georgian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale and associate curator of the 7th Berlin Biennale among others. In Spring 2020 together with Övül Ö. Durmusoglu she co-initiated ‘Die Balkone. Life, art, pandemic and proximity’ in windows and balconies of Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin, where they both live.

Rouzbeh Rashidi (born in Tehran, 1980) is an Iranian-Irish filmmaker. He has been making films since 2000, at which time he founded the Experimental Film Society in Tehran. Rashidi has always worked entirely away from mainstream conceptions of filmmaking, striving to escape conventional storytelling stereotypes. Instead, he roots his cinematic style in a poetic interaction of image and sound. He generally eschews scriptwriting, seeing the process of making moving images as exploration rather than illustration. His work is deeply engaged with film history, and primarily concerned with mysticism, philosophy, esotericism, cosmology, phenomenology, and hauntology. The films are wildly experimental and often surrealist, magical realist, and mysterious, and have been associated with the Remodernist movement. They are unified by his oneiric imagination, idiosyncratic working methods, and the dreamlike experience of watching them.

www.rouzbehrashidi.com

Elif Saydam incorporates writing, sculpture and performance into an expanded painting practice. They have shown their work at Kunsthalle Bern; Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg; Kunstverein Nürnberg; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, and the Montréal Biennale, among others. Together with Vera Palme, Saydam co-wrote the pulp novel Desecration of Descent (Broken Dimanche Press, 2018) and is currently working on a monograph with Mousse Publishing (2021) as part of the Krupp Kataloge für junge Künstler Prize. They graduated from Städelschule in the class of Monika Baer and Amy Sillman in 2016, and live and work in Berlin.

Anna Ehrenstein lives between Berlin, Tirana and the cloud and works in various mediums in artistic or curatorial production, examining how technology and digital-material culture reshape power relations. She investigates varying forms of knowledge and their constructions through south-south collaborations and redistribution of global north resources. Photography, Text, Video, Installation, Performance and Sculpture are created through working in community and throughout process-based artistic and curatorial research and mediation. How are we as a society produced by the media and through lens-based realities? Networked processes are key in untangling capitalistic structures of greed in a world of ongoing crises.

Anna Ehrenstein studied photography and media art in Germany and attended curatorial courses in Valetta, ML and Lagos, NG. In 2022 she received the INITIAL scholarship for artistic mediation, in 2021 the Research Scholarship of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin and in 2020 the C/O Berlin Talent Award 2020 for “New Documentary Strategies” with her work Tools for Conviviality. She worked for the educational program of BB10 curated by Gabi Ngcobo and curated exhibitions for the Triennale of photography in Hamburg, amongst others. In 2019 she received a DAAD scholarship for a research semester in Bogota, Colombia. In the past year she has exhibited at the Ural Biennale in Yekaterinburg, the Lagos Biennale in Lagos and at KOW Berlin, the C/O Berlin Foundation and the Kunstraum Kreuzberg, among others.

Ghada AlMuhanna (born in Riyadh, 1991) is a dedicated cultural and media advisor with a focus on the Arabian Peninsula’s visual history and identity. After earning her Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ghada began her career as a counter-terrorism researcher. It was during this time that she recognized the need for a more authentic representation of the Arabian Peninsula’s culture and heritage. This realization inspired her to shift her focus towards media and public diplomacy, working with both public and private entities to create narratives that genuinely reflect the region’s rich history and identity.

As an M.A. Candidate in Media and Visual Anthropology at HMWK in Berlin, Ghada’s work emphasizes storytelling, cultural preservation, and cultural exchange. Her passion for the region’s identity drives her to use her Twitter and Instagram accounts to retell the stories of the Arabian Peninsula, reclaiming its narrative and challenging misconceptions. Ghada’s unique expertise, combined with her passion for detail-oriented and creative writing, enables her to craft engaging content that resonates with multiple audiences across various platforms.

Currently, Ghada is exploring the potential of using AI in visual representations.

More information on the Ghada AlMuhanna WebsiteTwitter and on Instagram.

An Paenhuysen is an independent curator, writer and art critic based in Berlin. From 2019 to 2022 she was the director of ‘The House of The Deadly Doris’, where she organised events to activate its 1980s punk archive. Recently, An curated ‘Hotel Belgrade’, the main venue for Belgrade Art Week 2021 and  in 2022 ‘Sign and Arts. Deaf Culture / Hearing Culture’ at Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art. An wrote her PhD about the cultural criticism of the Belgian artistic avant-garde. She was a post-doc researcher at UC Berkeley, Columbia University New York and Humboldt University Berlin. An has published her writing in Spike Magazine, Contemporary And, Sotheby’s, Berlin Art Link, etc. She also writes poetry: Silly Poems (Arthur Cravan Foundation) and Island Life (Quince Ediciones). In 2020 she founded the publishing project AAAAA PPPPP Publishing for short format art writing.

www.anpaenhuysen.net

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Studio Program