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Nina Fischer born 1965 in Emden,Germany
Visual Communication, University of the Arts, Berlin, Diploma, Master Class Valie Export
German Film- and Television Academy, Berlin (dffb), Diploma
2007 - 2010 Associate Professor, School of Art and Design, Sapporo City University
since 2010 Visiting Professor, School of Art and Design, Sapporo City University
   
Maroan el Sani born 1966 in Duisburg, Germany
Film Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, MA
2007 - 2010 Associate Professor, School of Art and Design, Sapporo City University
since 2010 Visiting Professor, School of Art and Design, Sapporo City University
   

Collaboration since 1993. Currently live and work in Berlin and Sapporo

   
   
Prizes, Stipends
2011 Villa Kamogawa - Goethe Institut, Kyoto
2010 Crossmedial Artists Residency 2010, Goethe-Institut Toronto / Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU)
2009 Werkstattstipendium des Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin
Collaborative Research Grant, Sapporo City University, Sapporo
2008 Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH
2007 Projektförderung, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
Kunststiftung NRW
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH
Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
2006 Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam
Professorship of Art and Public Space, Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
Zuidas Free Spaces, Zuidas Virtual Museum Foundation, Amsterdam
2005 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, City Department for Science, Research and Culture, Berlin
2003 Stipend for Fine Arts, City Department for Science, Research and Culture, Berlin
2002 Daad Stipend Japan
1999 German Academy Villa Massimo, Rome
1998 Karl-Hofer-Prize, University of the Arts, Berlin
1998 Stipend Kunstfonds, Bonn
1997 Stipend for Fine Arts, City Department for Science, Research and Culture, Berlin
   
   
Solo Shows (selection)
2011 “Impero dei segni”,Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome
2010 “Spelling Dystopia”, Cobra Museum - Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen
  “Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani - A window to the world”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
2009 “The Communist Party Headquarters (West)”, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin
  “Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani - The beauty of the imperfect, impermanent and incomplete”, Kunsthaus Glarus
  “Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani - -273,15 °C = 0 Kelvin”, Neues Museum, Weimar
2008 “Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani”, Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig
2007 “The Rise”, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
2006 “Toute la mémoire du monde - The world's knowledge”, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin
2005 “Radio Solaris, -273,15 °C = 0 Kelvin”, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi, Japan
2004 “-273,15 °C = 0 Kelvin”, Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig
2002 “Klub der Republik”, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin
2001 “Artists - Creation of an international artist group for a feature length film”, platform, Vaasa, Finland
  “Palast der Republik”, Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig
2000 “L’Avventura senza fine”, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin
  “millenniumania”, Goethe Institute, Paris
1999 “Tsunami”, Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthaus, Dresden
1998 “Aura Research”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
  “Klub2000 - rom, paris, marzahn”, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin
  “Klub2000 - rom, paris, marzahn”, Galerie Meile, Lucerne
1997 “millenniumania”, Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig
  “Aura Research”, P-House Gallery, Tokyo
  “Be supernatural”, Gallery L, Moscow
1995 “Be supernatural”, Artist Debut Program, Art Cologne 95, Cologne
   
   
Group Shows (selection)
2010 ruru and friends - ruangrupa 10th Anniversary, Indonesian National Gallery, Jakarta
Hoehepunkte der Koelner KunstFilmBiennale KW - Institut fuer Zeitgenoessische Kunst, Berlin
Das Nahe und das Ferne, KAI 10 - Raum fuer Kunst, Duesseldorf
Tumult - Public Art Festival, The Muncipality of Guldborgsund
Balaklava Odyssey, Media Art - Performance Festival, Sewastopol/Balaklawa
Awake are only the spirits, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun
Apart we are together, Samstag Museum, Adelaide
100. Exhibition - Groupshow, Autocenter, Berlin
2009 Liquid Archives - Notes on Relations, Ruptures and Silences, PLATFORM3 - Räume für zeitgenössische Kunst, Munich
Niemand mehr dort, wo er hinwollte, Palazzo Stelline, Milano
The view from elsewhere, Australian Cinémathèque, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Berlin 89/09 - Kunst zwischen Spurensuche und Utopie, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
3. Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg, Images Recalled - Bilder auf Abruf, Kunstverein Heidelberg
Reconstructed Zone, Kunstverein Wolfsburg
Void of Memory - Platform in KIMUSA (The old Defense Security Command Site) / Artsonje Center of Platform 2009, Seoul
Summer Time: or close-ups on places we have (never) been, San Francisco Art Institute
Carte Blanche VII: Galerie Eigen + Art, GFZK, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
10. MIFF Media Forum, 31. International Film Festival, Moscow
Awake Are Only The Spirits" - On Ghosts And Their Media, HMKV - Phoenix Halle, Dortmund
The view from elsewhere, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), Sydney
XXL Europe - Liquid Frontiers, Tri Postal, Lille
Biennale Cuvee, OK - Center for Contemporary Art, Linz
Snowscape Moere IV, Moerenuma Park, Sapporo
2008 Light InSight, NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo
Speicher fast voll, Kunstmuseum Solothurn
Der Blinde Fleck NGBK, Berlin
7th Gwangju Biennale
Modern Ruin, Queensland Art Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, Brisbane
Vertrautes Terrain - Aktuelle Kunst in und über Deutschland ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe
Quobo - Art in Berlin 1989 - 1999, Museo de Arte, Lima
7th Courtisane Festival, Kunstencentrum Vooruit & Sphinx Cinema, Ghent
Biennale Cuvée, O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz
Selective Knowledge, Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought, Athens
2007 Quobo - Art in Berlin 1989 - 1999, Kumu Art Museum, Tallin
City Without a Center, Institute for Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros
10th International Istanbul Biennal
Neue Heimat, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07, WRO Center for Media Art Foundation in Wroclaw, Poland
Quobo - Art in Berlin 1989 - 1999, State Art Museum, Novosibirsk
Expanded Media. Medien im Raum, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
2006 Sonambiente Festival, Berlin
Palast der Republik, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin
Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin, Art from two cities, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo / Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Global Players, Contemporary Art from Germany and Japan, Ludwig Forum Aachen
2005 Criss Cross, 5 Positions in Contemporary Croatian and German Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Superstars - The principle of prominent figures in the arts, Kunsthalle Vienna and Kunstforum Vienna
Global Players, Contemporary Art from Germany and Japan, Bank Art 1929, Yokohama
Helden Heute, Centre Pasquart, Biel Bienne, Switzerland
Motorblues, Museum for FIne Arts, Leipzig
2004 The future is not what it used to be, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
Berlinskaja Lazur - jeunes artistes photographes berlinois, Pavillion d’Arsenal, Paris
excessive, dense, speedy, complex, empty but humane, Argos Festival, Brussels
Sonar Sound Festival, Tokyo
Nuit Blanche, Paris
made in berlin, art forum. Berlin
Schrift Bilder Denken, Walter Benjamin und die Kunst der Gegenwart, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
Quobo - Kunst in Berlin 1989 - 1999, Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago de Chile
Überreichweiten, ACC Galerie Weimar
Kunstbank, Galerie der Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft Forschung und Kultur, Berlin
2003 Berlinskaja Lazur, Junge Fotokunst aus Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
From Dust to Dusk, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
Arcadia - the other life of video games, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, Neuseeland
Quobo - Art in Berlin 1989-1999, Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City / Servico Social do Comercio Pompeia, Sao Paulo
2002 10 Years Aenne-Biermann-Preis – the best of 5, Museum of Photography, Reykjavik
Manifesta 4, European Biennial for Contemporary Art, Frankfurt
Quobo - Art in Berlin 1989-1999, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul / Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
(The World May Be) Fantastic, 13th Biennale of Sydney
Pause, 4th Gwangju Biennale, South Corea
Present Tense, Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies, New York
Berlino Nuova Città D’Arte, Opera Paese, Rome
2001 Quobo - Art in Berlin 1989-1999, Institut for Foreign Cultural Relations, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin /
Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand
Anstoss, Kunstverein Nürnberg
Autowerke, European and American Photography, Franz Hals Museum, Harlem, Netherlands
berlin-london, ICA, London
2000 AutoWerke, European and American Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Quobo - Art in Berlin 1989 - 1999, Hongkong Arts Center, Hongkong
  Inner City Pressure, Gallery No-D, Prague
Re:Songlines, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg
Artroom Berlin, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
Durchreise, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1999 Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool
Welcome to the artworld, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Chronos & Kairos, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
FilmArt, Art Basel, Basel
Sampling, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
1998 Berlin Biennale, Plattform, Berlin
ISEA, Liverpool/Manchester
art club berlin, Mies van der Rohe Pavillion, Barcelona
Transmission, Espace des Arts, Chalon sur Saone
1997 Correspondences / Korrespondenzen: Berlin-Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh / Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
In Medias Res, Dolmabahce Palace, Istanbul
1996 Discord - Sabotage of realities, Kunsthaus und Kunstverein, Hamburg
After dark, Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam
On Camp/Off Base, Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo
Surfing Systems, Kasseler Kunstverein, Fridericianum, Kassel
1995 Beyond the Borders, Kwangju Biennale 95, South-Korea
Urbane Legends - Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
1994 Independant Art Space, London
Minima Media, Medienbiennale 94, Leipzig
   
   
Films/Videos (selection)
2008/09 "Spelling Dystopia", HD, double projection, colour, stereo, 17 min.
  "Sayonara Hashima", HD, short film, colour, stereo, 17 min.
2007 "The Rise", short film, HD, colour, stereo, 17 min. loop
2006 "Toute la mémoire du monde - The world's knowledge", 35 mm transfered to HD, double projection, colour, stereo, 7:30 min.
2005 "Die Künstler (Berlin/Leipzig) - 10 seconds thinking about the future", 16 mm, colour, mute, 5 min. loop
2004 "- 273,15°C = 0 Kelvin", DV, double projection, colour, stereo, 15 min.
  "Tokyo Star", Digi Beta, colour, stereo, 78 min.
2002 "On Location with Michael Ballhaus", image spot, 35 mm, colour, stereo, 2 min.
2001 "Fork Unstable Media", image spot, 35 mm, colour, stereo, 30 sec.
  “Palast der Republik - Weißbereich”, DV, double projection, colour, stereo, 7 min. loop
  "Hongkong will sing", DV, colour, stereo, 20 min.
  "See you tomorrow", 16mm, colour, stereo, 14 min.
2000 "Berlin [sunrise] - 10 seconds thinking about the future.", 16 mm, colour, mute, 5 min. loop
  “All roads lead to Rome - A line made by driving”, DV, colour, stereo, 64 min.
  "Panorama Berlin", Beta SP, colour, stereo, 60 min. loop
1999 "Roma/Amor - 10 seconds thinking about the future", 16 mm, colour, mute, 5 min. loop
1998 "Tokio[sur]face - 10 seconds thinking about the future", 16 mm, colour, mute, 5 min. loop
  "millenniumania", Videoinstallation, Live-Streaming
  "Klub 2000 - Rom, Paris, Marzahn", short film, 16 mm, b/w, stereo, 12 min.
1997 "Straßenkinder", image spot, 35mm, colour, stereo, 44 sec.
  "Lumber", short film, Beta SP, colour, stereo, 14 min.
1996 "Familyland", short film, 16mm, colour, stereo, 11 min.
1995 "Be supernatural", short fiction, Beta SP, colour, stereo, 18 min.
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