Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani

Nina Fischer

1965
  • born in Emden, Germany
  • 1987-1992
  • Visual Communication, University of the Arts, Berlin, Diploma, Master Class Valie Export
  • 1989-1990
  • Audiovisuell, Rietveld-Academie, Amsterdam, Study Year Abroad
  • 1994-2004
  • German Film- and Television Academy, Berlin (dffb), Diploma
  • 2007-2010
  • Associate Professor, School of Art and Design, Sapporo City University, Japan
  • 2015-present
  • Professor of Experimental Film and Media Art, University of the Arts, Berlin
  • Maroan el Sani

    1966
  • born in Duisburg, Germany
  • 1988-1995
  • Film Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, MA
  • 2007-2010
  • Associate Professor, School of Art and Design, Sapporo City University, Japan
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    Selected Awards and Residency Fellowships

    2023
  • Villa Aurora Fellows, Artist-in-Residence, Villa Aurora, Los Angeles
  • 2021
  • Medienwerk NRW – Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen im Rahmen des Förderprogramms Medienkunstfonds
  • 2019
  • Short Tiger Award, International Filmfestival Rotterdam
  • Candidate European Short Film Award
  • 2018
  • Arbeitsstipendium Bildende Kunst der Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Berlin
  • 2015
  • Film funding, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH
  • 2012
  • Projektförderung Kulturaustausch, Senatskanzlei für Kulturelle Angelegenheiten, Berlin
  • 2011
  • Villa Kamogawa – Artist in Residence, Goethe-Institut, Kyoto
  • Film funding, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH
  • 2010
  • Crossmedial Artists Residency 2010, Goethe-Institut Toronto / Ontario College of Art and Design University
  • 2009
  • Collaborative Research Grant, Sapporo City University, Sapporo
  • Werkstattstipendium des Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin
  • 2008
  • Film funding, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH
  • 2007
  • Project funding, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
  • Stipendium, Kunststiftung NRW
  • Project funding, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
  • 2006
  • Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, Professorship of Art and Public Space, Rietveld Academie, Zuidas Free Spaces, Zuidas Virtual Museum Foundation, Amsterdam
  • Film funding, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH
  • 2005
  • Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin
  • 2003
  • Arbeitsstipendium Bildende Kunst der Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin
  • 2002
  • Daad Stipendium Japan
  • 1999
  • Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo, Artist in Residence, Rome
  • 1998
  • Arbeitsstipendium, Kunstfond e.V., Bonn
  • Karl-Hofer-Preis, University of the Arts, Berlin
  • 1997
  • Arbeitsstipendium Bildende Kunst der Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin
  • Selected Solo Exhibitions

    2024
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin
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    2023
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – selected films, e-flux screening room, New York City
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – selected films, Goethe Institute, Boston
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    2021
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – digital solo show, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
  • 2019
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, La Place, Barcelona
  • The Active Guest – Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg
  • 2017
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Kurt-Kurt Projektraum, Berlin
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, MART, Dublin
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Freedom of Movement, MAXXI – Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Dynamis, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome
  • 2016
  • K21 Künstlerräume, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani / Bertold Stallmach, K 21 Ständehaus, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani / Bertold Stallmach, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome
  • 2015
  • Fischer & el Sani in collaboration with Stallmach, Caravan – My Home is no Castle, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
  • 2014
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, MART, Dublin
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Spirits closing their eyes, Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig
  • 2013
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – A memoria do concreto, MAMAM – Museo Arte Moderna, Recife
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Spirits closing their eyes, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome
  • 2012
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Toute la memoire du monde, Austin Museum of Art – Arthouse, Austin
  • 12 x 12 IBB Videolounge – Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Berlinische Galerie – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Berlin
  • 2011
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Impero dei segni, bye bye testosteroni, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Impero dei segni, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rom
  • 2010
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – 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
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – The Communist Party Headquarters (West), Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – -273,15 °C = 0 Kelvin, Neues Museum, Weimar
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – The beauty of the imperfect, impermanent and incomplete, Kunsthaus Glarus
  • 2008
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Spelling Dystopia, Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig
  • 2007
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – The Rise, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam
  • 2006
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – 10 sek. an die Zukunft denken/My image is, Spots, Medieninstallation, Potsdamer Platz
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Alles Wissen dieser Welt /Toute la mémoire du monde” Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin
  • 2005
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Radio Solaris, -273,15 °C = 0 Kelvin, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi, Japan
  • 2004
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – -273,15 °C = 0 Kelvin, Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig
  • 2002
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Klub der Republik, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin
  • 2001
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Artists – Creation of an international artist group for a feature length film, Platform, Vaasa, Finland
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Palast der Republik, Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig
  • 2000
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – L’Avventura senza fine, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – millenniumania, Goethe-Institut, Paris
  • 1999
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani- millenniumania, Voxxx Galerie, Chemnitz
  • 1998
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Aura Research, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokio
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani- Klub2000 – rom, paris, marzahn, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani- Klub2000 – rom, paris, marzahn, Galerie Meile, Luzern
  • 1997
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani- millenniumania, Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig
  • 1996
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Aura Research, P-House, Tokio
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Be supernatural, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Be supernatural, Galerie L, Grenzenlos – Berlin in Moskau, Moskau
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Be supernatural, Galerie Meile, Luzern
  • 1995
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Be supernatural, Förderprogramm, Art Cologne 95, Köln
  • 1993
  • Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani – Neue Produkte aus der Chaosforschung, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin
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    Selected Group Exhibitions

    2024
  • Rooms with a view – Villa Aurora Fellows 2023, Los Angeles. Haus Kunst Mitte, Berlin
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  • Images de la Méditerranée, MUCEM – Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille
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  • Olympism: another world history, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris
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  • Vertigo – Video Scenarios of Rapid Changes, Fondazione MAST, Bologna
  • 2023
  • City Scenes: Video Art from the Collections of n.b.k. and EAI, Goethe-Institut New York
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  • TORCH – University of Oxford presents our film: Cloud Alchemy, The Ultimate Picture Palace, Oxford
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  • Video-Program Berlin Art Week Screening of our film: Klub 2000 – Rome, Paris, Marzahn, BAW Garden / Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
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  • Peer to Peer – A month of Media Art in NRW, medienwerk NRW, FFT Düsseldorf
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  • Villa Aurora Showcase, 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
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  • Sharjah Biennale 15: Thinking Historically in the Present
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    2022
  • Film screening of ‚Appropriation takes you on a weird ride‘, Black Box Cinema, Abu Dhabi International Book Fair
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  • Villa Kamogawa, Goethe Institute Kyoto in Berlin, 10 years artist in residence program, CLB, Berlin
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  • Manifestiamo – resistance, creation, reciprocity, Villa Romana, Firenze
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    2021
  • Nimmersatt? Gesellschaft ohne Wachstum denken, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur / Kunsthalle Münster / Westfälischen Kunstverein, Münster
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  • The Body and the City, Goethe-Institute Hong Kong
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  • Screening of Appropriation takes you on a weird ride, Cinema São Jorge, Monstra – Animation Film Festival, Lisbon
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  • Screening of Appropriation takes you on a weird ride, Filmfest Dresden – International Short Film Festival
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  • State and Nature, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
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  • ROHKUNSTBAU XXVI – “I am Nature_On Vulnerability. Survival in a society at risk”, Schloß Lieberose
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  • Video Art Lockdown Program, Screening of Snow Division, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
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    2020
  • Screening of Contaminated Home, Casa do Cinema Manoel de Oliveira Serralves Foundation, Porto
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  • Screening of Freedom of Movement, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rome
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  • Les Parallèles Du Sud, Rue D, Alger, Italian Cultural Institute Marseille, Manifesta 13, Marseille
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  • Screening of Appropriation takes you on a weird ride, German Competition Short Film, DOK Leipzig – International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
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  • Zusammen – 30 Jahre Wiedervereinigung aus künstlerischer Perspektive, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
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  • Screening of Freedom of Movement, European Film Award Shorts Tour, Tirana Film Festival
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  • Screening of Sayonara Hashima, VIDEOEX – Experimentalfilm & Video Festival, Zurich
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  • after PASOLINI – visions of today, Center for Contemporary Art ‚The Ancient Bath‘, Plovdiv
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  • Screening of Freedom of Movement, European Film Award Shorts Tour, OFF – Odense International Film Festival
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  • Screening of Appropriation takes you on a weird ride, MIEFF – 
International Experimental Film Festival, Moscow
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  • Screening of Freedom of Movement, European Film Award Shorts Tour, Ljubljana Short Film Festival
  • Screening of Freedom of Movement, Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
  • Screening of Freedom of Movement, European Film Award Shorts Tour Glasgow Short Film Festival
  • Screening of Freedom of Movement, European Film Award Shorts Tour Tampere Film Festival, Tampere
  • Glass and Concrete – 
Manifestations of the impossible, Marta Museum, Herford
  • Screening of Freedom of Movement, European Film Award Shorts Tour, Riga International Short Film Festival
  • ɛksˈtsɛntrɪʃ : ex_zentrisch, Kunsthalle Emden
  • The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2020, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
  • 2019
  • Screening of Freedom of Movement, Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest
  • Screening of Freedom of Movement, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival
  • Screening of Freedom of Movement, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
  • Screening of Freedom of Movement, Uppsala International Short Film Festival
  • Screening of Freedom of Movement, Human Rights Film Festival, Nuremberg
  • Screening of Freedom of Movement, Sydney Film Festival
  • Screening of Freedom of Movement, Deutscher Wettbewerb, Kurzfilm Festival, Hamburg
  • Palast der Republik – Utopie, Inspiration, Politikum, Kunsthalle Rostock
  • Screening of Freedom of Movement, Section:Silvestre, INDIELISBOA 2019 – International Film Festival, Lisbon
  • Screening of Freedom of Movement, Section: Festival Hits, Kiyev International Short Film Festival, Ukraine
  • Screening of Freedom of Movement, International Competition, Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
  • Little Boys Luminous Legacies (new, clear, atomic narratives), Lothringer 13 Halle, München
  • Screening of Freedom of Movement, International Competition, 19th Las Palmas International Film Festival, Spain
  • There Is Fiction in the Space Between, n.b.k., Berlin
  • VIDEONALE.17 – Festival for video and time-based arts, Kunstmuseum Bonn
  • Screening of Freedom of Movement, Tiger Short Award Winner and Candidate for the European Film Award, International Film Festival Rotterdam
  • 2018
  • 10 Years Videoart at Midnight Festival, Kino Babylon, Berlin
  • Limbo Lichtspiele, Villa Stuck, München
  • Amnistia – Colonialita italiana tra cinema, critica e arte contemporanea, Accademia di Brera, Milano
  • Breath Turn – about uncertainty, Musrara Mix Festival, Jerusalem
  • In Transition, whiteBOX, München
  • 2017
  • 3. Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theater, Kronprinzenpalais, Berlin
  • RIXC Art Science Festival 2017, kim? – Contemporary Art Centre, Riga
  • Loop Discover Award 2017, Antiga Fàbrica Estrella Damm, Barcelona
  • The place to be – The new presentation of the permanent collection, MAXXI – Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome
  • 2016
  • Public Library, Interventions at the America Memorial Library, Berlin
  • Paradise Lost – Schöpfung zwischen Natur und Zivilisation, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot
  • Media Art Festival, S.O.S. – Save Our Souls. Art in an Age of Urgencies, Seoul
  • Geheimnis, Kunstverein KunstHaus, Potsdam
  • Wahlverwandtschaften, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
  • transmediale 2016, Atlas of MediaThinking and MediaActing in Berlin, HKW, Berlin
  • Art & Anthropology, Städtische Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
  • 2015
  • Remake Resnais, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla
  • Wahlverwandtschaften, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
  • Better.Place?, Cinémathèque Leipzig, Leipzig
  • 2050 – A brief history of the future, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels
  • Room in Room, Grüntuch Ernst Lab, Berlin
  • European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück
  • Another Site, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo
  • 2014
  • Reconstructions- Belfast Exposed Photography, Belfast
  • Festival of Future Nows, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
  • SeMa, Media City Seoul Biennale
  • Tempus Ritualis, Contemporary Art Center, Thessaloniki
  • Art Basel – Film Sector
  • Japan Syndrom, Festival – Art and Politics after Fukushima, HAU, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
  • A Thousand Doors – A Neon Foundation Whitechapel Gallery collaboration, Gennadius Library and Grounds, American School of Classical Studies, Athens
  • Distant Observations. Fukushima in Berlin, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
  • 6th Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
  • 2013
  • Curitiba Biennial, Curitiba
  • 2. Aichi Triennale, Nagoya
  • Berlinale – Forum Expanded, 63. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
  • Four Houses, Some Buildings and Other Spaces, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, New York
  • 2012
  • Quest for Vision vol.5 – Spelling Dystopia, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
  • Sky Over My Head, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
  • Media City Seoul Biennale, Seoul
  • Durchblicken und Abprallen, K3, Zürich
  • Sammen / Together, Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway
  • La Zona, NGBK, Berlin
  • Film Festival 2012 – Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo
  • Haltung und Ausdruck, COCO, Wien
  • 2011
  • RE-cycle. Strategies for architecture, city and planet, MAXXI – The National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome
  • Dreams of Power, Zamek Culture Center, Poznan
  • ARCHITEKTONIKA, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
  • 5. International Short Film Festival, Sapporo
  • 7. Achtung Berlin festival, Berlin – Retrospektive Musik – Stadt – Berlin, Kino Babylon-Mitte, Berlin
  • Invisibleness is Visibleness – International Contemporary Art Collection of a Salaryman- Daisuke Miyatsu at MOCA, Taipei
  • La Cinematografia É L’Arma Piú Forte, 98 weeks Project Space, Beirut
  • 2010
  • Höhepunkte der Kölner KunstFilmBiennale KW – Institut für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
  • abc_light, camera, action, HAU2, Berlin
  • Das Nahe und das Ferne, KAI 10 – Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf
  • 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, München
  • Niemand mehr dort, wo er hinwollte, Palazzo Stelline, Mailand
  • 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 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. Internationales Film Festival, Moskau
  • Wach sind nur die Geister – Über Gespenster und ihre Medien, HMKV – Phoenix Halle, Dortmund
  • The view from elsewhere, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), Sydney
  • XXL Europe – Liquid Frontiers, Tri Postal, Lille
  • Biennale Cuvée, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz
  • 2008
  • Light InSight, NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo
  • Urban Refelections, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
  • Der Blinde Fleck, NGBK, Berlin
  • 7th Gwangju Biennale
  • Speicher fast voll, Kunstmuseum, Solothurn
  • Modern Ruin, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
  • Vertrautes Terrain – Aktuelle Kunst in und über Deutschland, ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst
  • Quobo – Art in Berlin 1989-1999, Museo de Arte, Lima
  • 7th Courtisane Festival, Kunstencentrum Vooruit & Sphinx Cinema, Ghent
  • Selective Knowledge, ITYS – Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought, Athens
  • Biennale Cuvée, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz
  • 2007
  • 10. International Istanbul Biennial
  • Neue Heimat, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
  • 12. International Media Art Biennale WRO 07, WRO Center for Media Art Foundation in Wroclaw, Poland
  • AIR, Virtueel Museum Zuidas, Platform 21, Amsterdam
  • Quobo – Art in Berlin 1989 – 1999, State Art Museum, Novosibirsk / Eesti Kunstimuuseum – Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
  • Portrait: Berlin – Contemporary photography and video art from Berlin, The Moving Gallery / Old Omaha Association, Omaha
  • Expanded Media. Medien im Raum, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
  • 2006
  • Quobo – Art in Berlin from 1989-1999, The Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithunia
  • Sonambiente – Festival für Hören und Sehen, Berlin
  • Berlin/Tokio -Tokio/Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin / Mori Art Museum, Tokio
  • Palast der Republik, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
  • QUOBO – Kunst in Berlin 1989 – 1999, IFA, Gallery of the Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia, Bulgarien / Muzej “25.maj”, Belgrad, Serbien und Montenegro
  • Es ist schwer das Reale zu berühren / It is hard to touch the Real, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
  • Global Players, Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Berlin und Tokyo, Ludwig Forum Aachen
  • 2005
  • Criss Cross, 5 Positionen zeitgenössischer kroatischer und deutscher Kunst, Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Zagreb, Kroatien
  • Superstars – Das Prinzip der Prominenz in der Kunst, Kunsthalle Wien and Kunstforum Wien, Österreich
  • Global Players, zeitgenössische Kunst aus Berlin und Tokyo, Yokohama Bank Art, Japan
  • Helden Heute, Centre Pasquart, Biel Bienne, Schweiz
  • Motorblues, Museum für Bildende Künste Leipzig
  • Überreichweiten, Motorenhalle, Dresden
  • Portrait, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin
  • 2004
  • Die Zukunft ist nicht, was sie einmal war, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
  • Berlinskaja Lazur – jeunes artistes photographes berlinois, Pavillion d’Arsenal, Paris
  • Schrift Bilder Denken, Walter Benjamin und die Kunst der Gegenwart, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
  • Argos Festival, Brüssel
  • Sonar Sound Festival, Tokio
  • nuit blanche, Paris
  • Sacra Famiglia, Goethe Institut, Brüssel
  • made in berlin, art forum, Berlin
  • QUOBO – Kunst in Berlin 1989 – 1999, Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago de Chile, Chile
  • Überreichweiten, ACC Galerie, Weimar
  • Kunstbank, Galerie der Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft Forschung und Kultur, Berlin
  • 2003
  • Berlinskaja Lazur. Junge Fotokunst aus Berlin, Martin Gropius Baus Berlin
  • From Dust to Dusk, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Kopenhagen, Dänemark
  • 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, Mexico / Servico Social do Comercio Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brasilien
  • Räume der Macht – Macht der Räume, Schloß Sacrow, Berlin
  • 2002
  • Urban Drift, Café Moskau, Berlin
  • 1 Site – 2 Places, Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen
  • 10 Jahre Aenne-Biermann-Preis – the best of 5, Mueum of Photography, Reykjavik, Island
  • Manifesta 4, European Biennial for Contemporary Art, Frankfurt
  • QUOBO, Kunst in Berlin 1989 bis 1999, IFA, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South-Korea / MOT – Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
  • Die Stadt, Städtische Galerie, Delmenhorst
  • (The World May Be) Fantastic, 13th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
  • Pause, 4th Gwangju Biennale, South Corea
  • Present Tense, Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies, New York, USA
  • Berlino Nuova Città D’Arte, Opera Paese, Rom
  • 2001
  • Anstoss, Kunstverein Nürnberg
  • QUOBO, Kunst in Berlin 1989 bis 1999, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin/ National Museum,
  • Jakarta, Indoniesien / Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, Neuseeland
  • Autowerke, Europäische und Amerikanische Fotografie, Franz Hals Museum, Harlem, Holland
  • berlin-london, ICA, London
  • 2000
  • AutoWerke, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
  • QUOBO, Kunst in Berlin 1989 bis 1999, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Berlin, Hongkong
  • Artistenmetaphysik – Friedrich Nietzsche in der Kunst der Nachmoderne, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
  • Inner City Pressure, Gallery No-D, Prague, Czech
  • Klangschatten, DG f. chr. Kunst, Erfurt
  • Berlin-Binnendifferenz, Benger-Areal, Bregenz
  • Heldenfrühstück, Kunstverein Rosenheim
  • songlines, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg
  • Artroom Berlin, Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warschau
  • art club berlin, W 139, Amsterdam
  • Durchreise, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
  • 1999
  • art club berlin, au base, New York
  • ambi in/out, Haus des Lehrers, Berlin
  • Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool
  • Welcome to the artworld, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
  • Chronos & Kairos, Museun Fridericianum, Kassel
  • FilmArt, Art Basel, Basel
  • Sampling, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
  • Ideal, Luzerner Ausstellungsraum, Vierwaldstädter See, Luzern
  • 1998
  • Berlin Biennale, Plattform, Berlin
  • Gallery Clark, Montreal
  • ISEA, Liverpool/Manchester
  • art club berlin, Mies van der Rohe Pavillion, Barcelona
  • Transmission, Espace des Artes, Chalon-sur-Saone
  • 1997
  • Correspondences: Berlin -Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
  • Korrespondenzen: Schottland – Berlin, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
  • designed for the television, moving art studio, Brüssel
  • art club berlin, art forum berlin, berlin
  • In Medias Res, Grenzenlos – Berlin in Istanbul, Istanbul
  • Aenne Biermann-Preis, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Gera
  • 1996
  • Unfrieden – Sabotage von Wirklichkeiten, Kunsthaus und Kunstverein, Hamburg
  • Unikumok, Ernst Muzeum, Budapest
  • After dark, Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam
  • Files, Bunker 4th floor, Berlin
  • On Camp/Off Base, Tokyo Big Sight, Tokio
  • Alle Neune, ACC Galerie, Weimar
  • Surfing Systems, Kasseler Kunstverein, Fridericianum, Kassel
  • Disneyland After Dark, Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Berlin
  • Blick ins 21. Jahrhundert, Kunstverein, Düsseldorf
  • Smart Show, project room, Art Fair, Stockholm
  • 1995
  • Beyond the Borders, Kwangju Biennale 95, Südkorea
  • Film Cuts, Galerie Neuger/Riemschneider, Berlin
  • Urbane Legenden – Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
  • 1994
  • Young German Artists, EIGEN + ART at Independant Art Space, London
  • Minima Media, Medienbiennale 94, Leipzig
  • Private Mix, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin
  • Nahubek, Galerie Fragnera, Prag
  • 1993
  • Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin
  • 1992
  • Jahreslabor, Berlinische Galerie, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
  • 1990/91
  • Bar Fleischerei B.Friederich, eigener Künstler Projektraum, Berlin
  • Selected Films/Videos

    2021
  • “Die Alchemie der Wolken – Art, Activism and Splitting Communities”, 6 channel video installation
  • 2020
  • “Appropriation takes you on a weird ride”, HD, colour, stereo, 20 min.
  • 2019
  • “Appropriation takes you on a weird ride”, 1 channel video installation, colour, stereo, loop, 20 min.
  • 2018
  • “Freedom of Movement”, HD, colour, 5.1. surround, 29.51 min.
  • 2017
  • “Freedom of Movement”, HD, 3 channel video installation, colour, stereo, 9.45 min.
  • 2016
  • Identity’s Rule of Three, HD, colour, stereo, 20 min.
  • 2014
  • “Dynamis”, HD, colour, stereo, 22 min.
  • “Contaminated Home”, HD, colour, stereo, 24.30 min.
  • “I Live in Fear After March 11”, HD, colour, stereo, 29 Min.
  • 2013
  • “I Live in Fear – Record of a Living Being After March 11”, 2 channel video Installation, HD, colour, stereo, 33 Min.
  • “Spirits closing their eyes”, HD, 1 channel video installation, colour, stereo, 72 min.
  • 2012
  • “Spirits closing their eyes”, HD, 3 channel video installation, keyword generated, colour, stereo, length variable
  • 2011
  • “Impero dei segni”, HD, short film, colour, stereo, 2 min.
  • 2010
  • “Snow Division”, 4k transferred to HD, colour, stereo, 9 Min.
  • “Narita Field Trip”, HD, short film, colour, stereo, 29 min.
  • “The Line”, HD, short film, colour, stereo, 12 min.
  • 2008/09
  • Spelling Dystopia”, HD, 2 channel video installation, colour, stereo, 17 min.
  • “Sayonara Hashima”, HD, colour, stereo, 17 min.
  • 2007
  • “The Rise”, HD, colour, stereo, 17 min. loop
  • 2006
  • “Toute la mémoire du monde – The world’s knowledge”, 35 mm transfered to HD, 2 channel video installation, 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, 2 channel video installation, colour, stereo, 15 min.
  • “Tokyo Star”, HD, 1 channel video installation, 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, 2 channel video installation, 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”, video installation, Live-Streaming
  • “Klub 2000 – Rom, Paris, Marzahn”, 16 mm, b/w, stereo, 12 min.
  • 1997
  • “Straßenkinder”, image spot, 35mm, colour, stereo, 44 sec.
  • “Lumber” Beta SP, colour, stereo, 14 min.
  • 1996
  • “Familyland”, 16mm, colour, stereo, 11 min.
  • 1995
  • “Be supernatural” Beta SP, colour, stereo, 18 min.
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