Biography

 

1981
Born in Starnberg

 

Lives and works in Berlin

 

Education

 

2001-2010
Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (Diploma/Postgraduate Studies)

 

2005-2007
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

 

2010-2011
Whitney Independent Study Program, New York

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2024
“A Coin from Thin Air”, Amant, New York

“Champagner Galopp”, Kunsthaus Biel

“Mashes of the Afternoon”, Espoo Museum of Modern Art

 

2023
“Trash The Musical”, Fluentum, Berlin

 

2022
“Gap Years”, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln

 

2021
“A Decade that Exploded”, n.b.k. - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
“Circle Navel Nil”, Lumiar Cité, Lisbon

 

2020
“Rubber Breasts Willing to Bring Teacups and Roll Away Fire and Bombs”, Company Gallery, New York

“Loretta Fahrenholz: I wanted to tell you…”, Ashley, Berlin 

 

2018
VOX, Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal
“Small Habit Revolution”, mumok, Vienna

 

2017
“Arbeiterkammer”, Arbeiterkammer, Vienna
“Two A.M.”, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin

 

2016
“Two A.M.”, Fridericianum, Kassel / Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

 

2015
“3 Frauen”, Kunsthalle Zürich
“The Dross of It All & The Loss of It All”, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
“kbo-Isar-Amper-Klinikum”, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis

 

2014
“Implosion”, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich
“Ditch Plains”, The Gardens, Vilnius

 

2013
“My Throat, My Air”, Ludlow 38, New York
“Ditch Plains”, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York / Project Native Informant, London
Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg

 

2011
“Implosion”, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
“Europa”, Sotoso, Brussels

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2023

“Touch. Politiken der Berührung”, Amtsalon, Berlin

 

2022

“Militant Joy”, Theta Gallery, New York
“Anti-Monuments”, Artmonte-Carlo / Julia Stoschek Collection, Monte-Carlo

 

2021

“Distant Bodies Moving Eyes”, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
“Time Without End”, Fluentum, Berlin
“Reading Window”, RL 16, Berlin
“Documenta: Politik und Kunst”, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
“Film as Muse”, Kunstverein Salzburg
“Facing New Challenges “Cities - urban communities”, Heidelberger Kunstverein

 

2020
“A Restless Rendition”, DREI, Cologne
“1,2,3,4 - Dance in contemporary artist’s films”, The Glucksman, University College, Cork
“Shelter in Place”, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
“MY C ART OGRAPHY - The Erling Kagge Collection”, Fundación Banco Santander, Santander Art Gallery, Madrid
“Who are we are who”, curated by Fabian Schöneich, Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne

 

2019
“9KG de Oxigénio”, Galeria Municipal do Porto
“Tell me about yesterday tomorrow”, NS-Dokumentationszentrum, Munich
“Letzte Lockerung”, Kunsthalle Bern
“Tri Volta”, 521 W26th St 2nd Floor, New York
“Exercises in Style”, A plus A Gallery, Venice

 

2018
“Dancing is what we make of falling”, OGR, Torino
“Warm Bodies”, Cement Fondu, Paddington
“The Seam”, the Fault, the Flaw, Greenspon Gallery, New York
“True Luxury”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

 

2017
“Still Human”, Rubell Family Collection Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami
“Schreibtischuh”r, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
“WCW nine”, Hotel Ipanema Inn, Rio de Janeiro
“Contemporary Experimental Film & Video Art from Germany”, Goethe-Institute, Toronto
“Perverts”, Cell Project Space, London

 

2016
“Die Welt am Draht”, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin
“ASSOCIAÇÃO LIVRE #1”, Uma Certa Falta de Coerencia, Oporto
“Putting Rehearsals to the Test”, VOX, Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal
“The Highs of Everyday Life”, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
“Imitation of Life: Melodrama and Race in the 21st Century”, HOME, Manchester
“AUTOBIOGRAPHY”, Index, Stockholm
“Perfect Lives”, Kunstverein Göttingen

 

2015
“No Man’s Land: Woman Artists from the Rubell Family Collection”, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
“This Is the End”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
“Re: Re:”, Montague, London
“LEAN IN”, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
“Welcome to the Jungle”, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
“Greater New York”, MoMA PS1, New York
“America is hard to see”, Whitney Museum, New York

 

2014
Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
10th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai
“a/wake in the water: Meditations on Disaster”, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, New York
“Disparité et Demande”, La Galerie, centre d’art contemporain de Noisy-le-Sec
“Europe, Europe”, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo
“Krankheit als Metapher”, Kunsthaus Hamburg
“Private Settings. Art after the Internet”, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
“Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse in Bremen”, Bremen
“Real Emotions: Thinking in Film”, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
“De Potten Van Etablissement”, Etablissement d‘en face, Brussels
“Festival of the Eleventh Summer”, Kunsthalle Basel
“Abandon the Parents”, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
“Video Container: Museum As Method”, MOCA at Goldman Warehouse, Miami
“I multiplied myself to feel myself.”, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna

 

2013
“The Sixth Year”, Ludlow 38, New York
“Celluloid Brushes”, Ludlow 38, New York
“The Issues of Our Time”, Castillo/Corrales, Paris
“Pride Goes Before a Fall”, Artists Space, New York
“Version Control”, Arnolfini, Bristol
“Utopien Vermeiden”, Werkleitz Anniversary, Halle

 

2012
“films & windows I-IV”, Mathew, Berlin
“To the Moon via the Beach”, LUMA Foundation, Arles
“Celluloid Brushes,” Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin

 

2011
“Looking Back / The 6th White Columns Annual”, White Columns, New York
“Marion Ermer Preis”, Oktogon, Dresden
“Dealing with - Some books, visuals, and works related to American Fine Arts, Co.”, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg
“Celluloid Brushes”, Etablissement d‘en face, Brussels
“Studio Program Exhibition”, Whitney Museum, New York

 

2010
“Kökken Wien”, Rua Actor Taborda no 37, Lisbon
“The Most Incredible Thing”, Demoraum K, Vienna

 

2009
“Test/Sent from my iPod,” M. Glenn Project Space, New York
“From a Distance”, WCW Gallery, Hamburg, Berlin, London
“Digital Black and White Photography”, WCW Gallery, Hamburg

 

Screenings

 

2021
“Ditch Plains”, Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
“Earthquake”, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor (online)

 

2020
“Sketch Artist”, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen (MuVi-Award)
“Earthquake”, International Women’s Film Festival, Dortmund/Cologne
“Sketch Artist”, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor (Feature Competition)
“My Throat, My Air”, Isolation TV, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (online screening program)
“My Throat, My Air”, Factory for Films for Friends, Berlin
“Two A.M.”, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
“Two A.M.”, Studio 52, Allston
“No Home Record”, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York (video party with Kim Gordon)
“Ditch Plains”, Shelter in Place, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
“Haust”, Screeners VI, Helena Anrather, New York
“Implosion”, Ashley, Berlin (online)
“My Throat, My Air”, COMET: 2 PLAY, Berlin

 

2019
“Two A.M.”, mumok, Vienna
“Two A.M.”, ICA London
“Two A.M.”, Anthology Film Archives, New York
“Ditch Plains”, MAXXI, Rome
“Two A.M.”, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor (Feature Competition)
“My Throat, My Air”; “Implosion”, Cave Gallery, Detroit
“Grand Openings Return of the Blogs”, MUDAM, Luxembourg

 

2018
“Ditch Plains”, PAF: Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art, Olomouc
“Implosion”, stations, Ku’damm Karree, Berlin

 

2017
“Two A.M.” (short), Projections #3, Kunsthalle Darmstadt
“The Sixth Year”, Hollis & Money, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
“The Sixth Year”, Hollis & Money, ICA London

 

2016
“Ditch Plains”, Image Festival, Toronto
“Ditch Plains”, Ecologies and Other Earthly Movements, Anthology Film Archives

 

2015
“My Throat, My Air”, Rotterdam International Filmfestival, DINAMO P&I Screenings, Rotterdam
“Ditch Plains”; “Implosion”, Speculative Fiction Series II, D21 Kunstraum Leipzig
“My Throat, My Air”, Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
“My Throat, My Air”; “Ditch Plains”, Joan Jonas is on our mind., The Wattis Institute, San Francisco
“Ditch Plains”, Film & Music Experience, le Sucre, Lyon
“Ditch Plains”, On Screen/Sound: No. 2, EMPAC, New York
“Haust”, Cinema Précaire, Artists Unlimited, Bielefeld
“My Throat, My Air”, Short Film Bouquet Ver.0.3., ARTos Foundation, Nicosia
“Grand Openings Return of the Blogs”; “Ditch Plains”, Artists’ Film Club: Avant-Noir, Volume 2, ICA London
“My Throat, My Air”; “Ditch Plains”, Modes of Play, mumok, Vienna
“Implosion”, NYC Porn Festival, New York
“Qué Bárbara”; “Grand Openings Return of the Blogs”, Kunsthalle Zürich
“Haust”, Kunsthalle Zürich

 

2014
“My Throat, My Air”, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen (German Competition)
“My Throat, My Air”, Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg, Hamburg
“Ditch Plains”, Artists’ Film Club, ICA London
“Ditch Plains”, See it this, Forde, Geneva
“Implosion”, Lines and Meridians, Cubitt, London
“My Throat, My Air”, Artists’ Film Biennial 2014: Selected by Ken Okiishi, ICA London
“Ditch Plains”, Video Container: Museum as a Method, MOCA, Miami
“Ditch Plains”, Looking Back: The 8th White Columns Annual, Anthology Film Archives, New York
“Ditch Plains”, VerniXage, Milano Film Festival
“Ditch Plains”, carosposo, Paris
“Ditch Plains”, BYTAPE, Amsterdam
“My Throat, My Air”, Flatness and Volume, Moderna Museet, Malmö
“Grand Openings Return of the Blogs”, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai

 

2013
“The Sixth Year”, Anthology Film Archives, New York
“Implosion”, Arnolfini, Bristol

 

2012
“Grand Openings Return of the Blogs”, How Are We Performing Today, MoMA, New York
“Haust”, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
“Haust”, Formulations of the Experimental in Film II, mumok, Vienna
“Qué Bárbara”, L’Ocean Licker, Vienna
“Careless Talk Lives Costly, Subjective Projections”, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld
“Grand Openings Return of the Blogs”, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig

 

2011
“Qué Bárbara”; “Grand Openings Return of the Blogs”, MoMA, New York
“Haust”, Bodega, Philadelphia
“Haust”, Goethe-Institute, New York
“Haust”, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg

 

2010
“Evas Arche und der Feminist No.28”, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
“Haust”, Projection, Cave Gallery, Detroit
“Haust”, Luru-Kino, Leipzig
“SALOON”, Duane Reade 52E 14th St., New York (performance)
“We say Yes”, V8, Berlin (performance)

 

2009
“Happy Ending”, Light Industry, New York
“Dying to Death”, WIELS Project Room, Brussels
“How to Calm Down”, Cleopatras, New York
“How to Calm Down”, Corner College, Zurich
“How to Calm Down”, Top-Kino, Vienna
“Wie man ruhig wird”, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg

 

Scholarships/Awards

 

2015
Grand Hans-Purrmann-Award of the City of Speyer

 

2014
Villa Romana Prize

 

2013
Kunstfonds Foundation (one-year scholarship)

 

2011
Marion Ermer Award

 

2008-2010
Friedrich Ebert Foundation (full postgraduate study scholarship)

 

2008
Foundation for Culture of State of Saxony (scholarship)

 

2007
State of Saxony (full postgraduate study scholarship)

 

2006
Pfann-Ohmann Award