born in Würzburg, Germany | lives and works in Berlin.
“My mainly site-specific artworks consist primarily of multi-layered installations in which I generate referential settings with the help of video, photography, text and participatory elements. The reference to current discourses and theories and the involvement of the public is one of my concerns. I also work with artists, scientists and theorists.”
Starting from a conceptual, context-based perspective, my artistic works move along the boundaries of visibility and latent existence. In processual and long-term research work, structures of order and reference are questioned and new possibilities of reference are developed.
Central to this is the investigation and development of spaces for action and opportunities for action, as well as conditions for synergies through collaboration. I incorporate questions into complex, audience-integrative, participatory and site-specific installations or implement them within direct active/activist cultural-political and curatorial work.
Questions of collective action, authorship and the social and political impact of art play a special role. Furthermore, investigations into the art system, the role of the artist and the production conditions of art are the subject of my artistic explorations.
Artistic training
2006-2008
Studied cultural studies/philosophy at the Humbold University of Berlin.
2003
MA, “Masters of Art in Context”, Institute for Art in Context University of the Arts (UdK) Berlin
1997
MfA, (master student) class of Professor Katharina Sieverding, University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin
1996
Graduation with focus on installation and mixed media, University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin
1995
ERASMUS scholarship, Royal College of Art, London
1993
Study of Fine Arts/Mixed Media, Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin
1990
Study of Fine Arts/Sculpture/Installation, Class Christina Kubisch, Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin
1991-89
Student of the stone sculptor Yoshimi Hashimoto
1988-87
Pupil of the sculptor Klaus Müller-Klug
PERFORMANCE
since 2014
Intensive performance training & workshops at the interfaces of music, rhythm and spatial perception /Tanzfabrik Berlin with Sigal Zouk, Jan Burkhardt, Joris Camelin, Matthieu Burner, Ivan Mijačević and others.
MUSIC
since 2015
Drums/music theory/band lessons with Jürgen Meyer
Choir Singing Voices /conductor Christoph Wagner, Kreuzberg Music School
Soul choir & improvisation with Merran Langinestra
2019-2014
Vocal coaching/vocals/choir ZirkaZehn with Joep Hegger, thevocalcoach NL/B
since 2017
Piano/music theory/improvisation with Marcos Méza (since 2017), Jesko Stüve (2014-17)
Voice training with Lea W. Frey (2016-2017), Andrea Tralles (2007)
Exhibitions (selection)
2013
BLANC ZONE – THE POETRY OF LIMITS in cooperation with Fernando Nino-Sanchez
Gallery Axel Obiger Berlin /
Installation / Soundscape / Performance / Edition
GROUND SEARCH – from relational space to space relations Presentation | Video Screening | Discussion
PASAJ Istanbul/TK
2012
[mi:t] berlinerpool archive exhibition | video screening EXPOSURE, curated by Valentina Paris, Apartment Projects Berlin
OUT OF PLACE / ONGOING ARCHIVE PROJECT, curated by assoziatione 22:17 / ArtVerona and Corpo Berlin / / text and picture contribution: BEYOND LOCATION
FROM SCRATCH / A COLLECTIVE TEXT/project curated by Vassiliea Stylianidou
artistic text intervention : COLLECTIVE ACTING
2011
RAM / Random Access Memory, group show / lectures / presentations, MicaMoca Berlin www.ram-projects.net
video screening of YET
2009
BENEATH THE REMAINS – translations of estrangement and politics of survival
arttransponder, Berlin
2008
BEYOND SRTRUCTURES, single Exhibition, Apartment Project, Istanbul Turkey
2007
CAPITAL, exhibition project with emphasis on participatory aspects, Lund, Sweden, curator: Caroline Lund
ARTIST ARCHIVES, Apartment Project, Istanbul Turkey framing the 10th Istanbul Biennial, curator: Selda Asal
AUF DEM BODEN DER ZEIT, (partner exhibition with Nina Lundström), arttransponder, Berlin
2005
POSTPRODUKTION DIALOG, arttransponder, Berlin
2004
ANGEECKT IV_UMBAU IN EINE NEUE DIMENSION exhibition Project in an empty high-rise building,
Berlin-Marzahn, curator: Natalie Espinoza
2001
MEGAPEARLS, Haus am Kleistpark
2000
THROUGH EUROPE IN BERLIN, Märkisches Museum, Berlin
1998
SNAP TO THE GRID, (single exhibition)
Galerie im Parkhaus, Berlin, curator: Dr. Ute Tischler
HALT DIE STELLE; Exhibition on billboards in the public space, Kunstamt Treptow, Berlin
STREET TV, video screening in the public space, Galerie Parkhaus, Berlin
1997
1997 1st INTERNATIONAL STUDENT TRIENIAL, Dolmabahçe Cultural Center, Istanbul Turkey, curator: René Block
TRANSIT, Dirty Windows Gallery, Berlin (single exhibition), curator: Dirk Sommer
POST POSTCARD II, Four Walls Gallery, San Francisco, USA
PEARLS VOL. V, Gallery in the parking garage, Berlin
UNTERTAGE, Action Gallery, Berlin
1995
1995 PRIVATE VIEW (room installation), David Hockney Gallery, RCA London
SENSIBLES ORGAN HAUT, Festspielgalerie Berlin
1994
1994 HOPE, video 13 min., shown in open channel network, Berlin
PART OF A WHOLE I/II (room installation), HINTERHAUS Berlin
37 RÄUME, Kunstwerke Berlin, project in collaboration with curator Jeannot Simmen
Projects / cooperations / presentations (selection)
2017-2014
HAVE & NEED / AG Work
Collaboration in the development of a dialog concept between the Senate and cultural professionals / member of the working group Arbeit, which addresses the working conditions of artists and designs and presents models for adequate conditions
ENTER DIGITOPIA Women Media Workshops
Professionalization & exchange project
Concept & Organization
since 2011
RADICANT NETWORKS
Interdisciplinary exchange, research & cooperation platform for contemporary art & critical discourse with different working formats Founder | Project Development | Organization
2012/2011
FLASHLIGHTS, series of knowledge sharing workshops in the fields of art / cultural management / science, philosophy and spatial strategies, concept I organization I documentation: Tatjana Fell (in cooperation with Andrzej Raszyk in 2011) www.arttransponder.net/flashlights facebook/flashlights
SYMPOSIUM PERSPECTIVE SPACE
curated by Linn Quante Lecture Presentation: Beyond the Walls ? from a white cube to a space for action and communication. Transitory processes and fields of action of independent project spaces and art initiatives Presentation in cooperation with Andrzej Raszyk, Munich, May 2011 http://perspektiveraum.wordpress.com
LINKING BERLIN. Independent art spaces & initiatives in Berlin, PASAJist
Presentation in cooperation with Andrzej Raszyk, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2011
2010
R_EVOLTION?
Exhibition/Filmscreening/Workshop/Bookpresentation/Performance/Lecture
Main Concept/Curating: Tatjana Fell in cooperation with Martyna Starosta, film curator ...more about the project
RECREATION OF LINKS ? ART AND ACTUALITY OF LIFE
3 art platforms in dialog:
presentation of arttransponder _ common berlin _ Plattenvereinigung
NGBK Berlin
An event by the mediation program framing the 6th BERLIN BIENNALE for contemporary art in cooperation with Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung
CRISIS, RUPTURE AND ANXIETY
Postgraduate Conference, University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK
Within an interdiciplinary analyses the various appearences of the concept “crisis” in art, media and social sciences was critically questioned. The project Chances of Crisis was presented by embedding it within cultural developments in Berlin
lecture-presentation/answers & questions
2009
CHANCES OF CRISIS – movements out of an unstable field
Blog/Round Table/Networking
in collaboration with Kerstin Karge & Carsten Horn
arttransponder, Berlin … see blog
2008
PEACE-UTOPIA OR REAL SPACE, networking project / exhibitions / talks
arttransponder, Berlin / CATALYST Berlin / Technical University Berlin
… see www.peace-realspace.net
2005
CROSS STADT, participatory art project in collaboration with Lisa Glauer, nominated fort he scholarship, “KunstKommunikation”, DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst
HE MISSING LINK ?
Public Understanding of Art and Biomedicine, series of lectures , concepts forart mediation projects guiding the exhibition in Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité Berlin in collaboration with Lisa Glauer and Käthe Wenzel.
2004
REIN KOMMEN / getting in, questionnaire project in Berlin / New York revealing processes of distinction in institutional exhibition settings. In collaboration with Lisa Glauer
“WHERE ARE WE GOING? What are we getting at? Guest lecture and book release, Pratt Institute of Art, New York
2003
2003 KISSENLABOR, participatory art project in collaboration with Natalie Espinoza, Quartiersmanagement Wassertorplatz, Berlin/Kreuzberg
Curatorial work / projects
since June 2010
curator / project development / management
of arttransponder art initiative, Soldiner Str. 92, 13359 Berlin
2010-2011
curator / project development / second board member
berlinerpool artist archive
April 2012-2010
member of the board of directors
2010
co-founder of the non-for profit organization of berlinerpool artist archive, www.berlinerpool.de, which was initiated an developed by Sencer Vardarman in 2005
2009
initiated and co-founded the network of independent art spaces and -initiatives Berlin
May 2010-2005
curator and art director for the arttransponder project room together with Lisa Glauer, … see arttransponder
October 2007-2005
part time study of philosophy and culture studies, Humboldt University, Berlin
2004
initiated and co-founded arttransponder art initiative
2009-2004
curator for CATALYST project space berlin – … see CATALYST
arttransponder’s projects are located on the interface of theory, politics, science and medicine as well as emphasizing participatory and context related aspects. Additionally arttransponder supports artist networks and networks for art mediation