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Education
2010 Psychology at the University of
Hagen
2010 - 2016 "Media Art" at
the Academy of Media Arts Cologne
2013 "Artes Plasticas" at
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Scholarships
/ Residencies / Grants
2013
Residency at lugar a dudas with
BERGERNISSEN, Cali, Colombia
2013
DAAD Scholarship for the international exchange to Bogota, Colombia
2015
Film- und Medienstiftung NRW project
grant for Die Körper der Astronauten
2016
NRW KulturSekretariat - PerformAktiv, project grant for Awakening Future at KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation with BERGERNISSEN
2017
DAAD Scholarship for international exchange to Tokyo, Japan / research at Kazuo
Ohno Dance studio
2017
Grant of “Frauenkulturbüro
NRW e.V.” (Womens Cultural Office) - International Artist Exchange to Georgia
and Armenia.
2017 Studio grant of Bonner Kunstverein
2017 Young German Film
Committee (Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film) “Script Grant for talented film”
2019 Mediengründerzentrum
NRW development grant for company “FORTIS FEM FILM”
2019 Seoul Geumcheon Art
Space Residency, Seoul, Korea
2019 Asia Europe Foundation
- Mobility First Grant
2019 Export funding of
Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaft NRW
Awards
2015
Best Super-8-Film Award at Artifact Film Festival Calgary for Island Story
2017 Best Narrative Feature
Film Award at Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival for Die Körper der Astronauten (Eng.: The Astronauts’ Bodies)
2017 Nomination for FIRST STEPS Award for Die Körper der
Astronauten (Eng.: The Astronauts’ Bodies)
2017 Best Screenplay Award
(H.W.Geißendörfer Drehbuchpreis) at Kinofest Lünen for
Die Körper der Astronauten
2018 Best Film Award at
International Filmfestival of Uruguay “New Directors” for Die Körper der Astronauten (Eng.: The Astronauts’ Bodies)
2018 Golden Star Award at
Central Java Film Festival Indonesien for Die
Körper der Astronauten
2018 Special Mention at 32.
Cineuropa Compostela Film Festival for Die
Körper der Astronauten
2018 Best Feature Film
Award at Strasburg Film Festival for Die Körper der Astronauten
2019 Best of Festival
Feature Film Award at Female Filmmakers
Festival Berlin for Die Körper der
Astronauten
Work
2019
Creative Producer for FORTIS FEM FILM GbR
2019
Assistant Director and Casting Director for Shinpei Takeda “APOCATASTASIS”
2018
Curator and director for LICHT e.V. - Off-Space
2018
Videographer for Obruza.net Tokyo / NUMÉRO China
2016
- 2018 Curator for video & experimental film section for FAR OFF -
contemporary art fair
2016
- 2017 Curator for audiovisual performances for “Senti menti” events
2015
Location-scout for Jakob M. Erwa “Die Mitte der Welt”
2014
- 2015 Curator and programmer for Projekt 66 - Off-Space & Gallery
2014
First Assistant Director for Philip Gröning “Mein Bruder Robert”
2010
Production Assistant for USA Network’s “Covert Affairs” Europe shoot
2010
First Assistant Director for Philip Gröning “Die Frau des Polizisten”
2008-2009
Production Assistant for Cyril Tuschi “Khodorkovsky”/”Der Fall Chodorkowski”
Social Involvement
2010
- 2019 supporting member of Pulszeit e.V. / Bundesvereinigung Nachhaltigkeit
2018
- 2019 supporting member of Frauenkulturbüro NRW
Exhibitions
/ Screenings / Performances
2019
“Oriental Discourse” KAMAGOME1-14cas
contemporary art space, group exhibition, Tokyo, JP
7th Nakanojo Biennale - 中之条ビエンナーレ 国際現代芸術祭,
Gunma, JP
BBK München / Galerie der Künstler
München, group, Munich, DE
Hay Art Center & Goethe-Institut
Yerevan “Die Grenze”, group, Yerevan, Armenia
OXYGEN Tbilisi No Fair, solo
exhibition presented by Patara Gallery, Tbilisi, GEO
Kindl – Centre for Contemporary Art
/ Babette Cafe, performance, Berlin, DE
Gemeinde Köln / Tiefgarage,
AWAKENING: FUTURE, solo of bergernissen, Köln, DE
Palace Of Youth Creativity &
Goethe Institut Tashkent “Die Grenze”, group, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
2018
Artisterium XI, Tbilisi
International Contemporary Art Exhibition, group
exhibition, GEO
C.A.R. - Contemporary Art
Ruhr, art fair, Zeche Zollverein,
Essen, DE
Kasteyev State Museum of
Arts, group exhibition, Almaty, KAZ
PATARA Gallery, Behind the
Curtain, solo exhibition, Tbilisi,
GEO
Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel,
Surviving Fitness, group exhibition with
BERGERNISSEN, Wolfenbüttel, DE
NCCA - Ural National Centre
of Contemporary Art, group exhibition,
Yekaterinburg, RU
Goethe-Institut Yerevan /
Mirzoyan Library organized by Frauenkulturbüro NRW, screening and performance,
Yerevan, ARMENIA
OAG - Deutsche Gesellschaft
für Natur und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, lecture
and screening, Tokyo, JAPAN
Sci-Fi Film Festival, screening, London, UK
Armenian Art Fair, Open
Space, Yerevan, ARMENIA
S.Y.P. artist space and
gallery, solo exhibition of "Three Borders", Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN
AUTOCENTER “last dance” at
Kindl - Centre for Contemporary Art, group
exhibition, Berlin, DE
International Video Art
Festival Now&After, Artplay St. Petersburg, group exhibition, St. Petersburg, RU
DC Independent Film
Festival, screening, Washington DC,
USA
Filmmor Women Film Festival
Istanbul, screening, Istanbul, TURKEY
Internacional Festival
Cinematográfico del Uruguay, screening,
Montevideo, URUGUAY
2017
Hartware MedienKunstVerein
Dortmund, “Die Grenze” group exhibition, Dortmund, DE
Hong Kong Arthouse Film
Festival, Award for Best Narrative Feature Film, screening, Hong Kong, CHN
Kinofest Lünen, screening, Lünen, DE
Culture Centre “Korpus”
& Goethe Institut, “Die
Grenze” group exhibition, Minsk, BLR
Hartware MedienKunstverein
Dortmund - video of the month “Three Borders”, solo exhibition, Dortmund, DE
Kosmetiksalon Babette -
Solo for one, group exhibition, Berlin, DE
History Museum Tbilisi & Goethe Institut, group exhibition, Tbilisi, Georgia
Dovzhenko Centre / Plivka
Art Center & Goethe Institute, group exhibition, Kyiv, Ukraine
Museum Centre Peace Square & Goethe Institut, group
exhibition,
Krasnoyarsk, RU
PLAY Festival, group
exhibition, Düsseldorf, DE
Artplay
St. Petersburg & Goethe Institut, group
exhibition, St. Petersburg, RU
BACC Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, group
exhibition with BERGERNISSEN,
Bangkok, THA
MMOMA
- Moscow museum of modern art & Goethe Institut, group exhibition, Moscow, RU
Filmfestival
Max Ophüls Prize, screening,
nominated for best feature film, Saarbrücken, DE
2016
San Diego Underground Film Festival,
screening, San Diego, USA
KAI 10, Arthena Foundation, performance “TAKE UP YOUR SPACE” with BERGERNISSEN, Düsseldorf, DE
Anthology Film Archives - AXWFF, screening, NewYork, USA
CCA - Center for Contemporary Art, artist talk, screening, curation,
Tbilisi, GE
Eidolon - philosophical film festival,
screening, Liévin, FR
FAR OFF, screening, curation, Köln, DE
2015
“Landscapes of fear” CD-Release auf
Grünrekorder Label, Köln, DE
Coastal Currents, Altered States
Filmprogramm, screening, London, UK
Time Based Academy, Kunsthalle
Düsseldorf, performance,
Düsseldorf, DE
Believing History, group exhibition with BERGERNISSEN, Kloster
Lorsch, DE
European Media Art Festival EMAF, group exhibition with BERGERNISSEN,
Osnabrück, DE
Videonale Parcours, LVRMuseum
& Fabrik45, group exhibition and performance
with BERGERNISSEN, Bonn, DE
Kunstverein Jahnstraße, group exhibition, Braunschweig, DE
Gegenkino: Vaginale, group exhibition, Leipzig, DE
100$ Film Festival, screening, Calgary, Canada
2014
Kunstfilmtage 2014, group exhibition with BERGERNISSEN, Düsseldorf,
DE
Ghost Warrior, performance with BERGERNISSEN, Heidelberger Kunstverein, DE
FULL SATURATION. Kunstpavillon, group exhibition, München, DE
Cinemateca Distrital, screening, Bogota, CO
Synthetic Zero, Bronx Art Space, screening, New York, USA
Lichterfest K21 Ständehaus
Kunstsammlung NRW, performance with
BERGERNISSEN, Düsseldorf, DE
"Portrait of the living
Sky", Roxie Cinema, screening,
San Francisco, USA
The 8fest, screening, screening, Toronto, Canada
Q18, Quartier am Hafen, solo exhibition & performance with
BERGERNISSEN, Köln, DE
2013
Kunsthallen Rottstr5, screening & performance with
BERGERNISSEN, Bochum, DE
Festival Internacional de la Imagen,
screening & performance with
BERGERNISSEN, Manizales, CO
Politik, Avantgarde und Psyche,
Kunstwerke, group exhibition with
BERGERNISSEN, Köln, DE
Kühlhaus, team titanic, Berlin Art
Week, group exhibition with BERGERNISSEN,
Berlin, DE
open studio , Lugar a dudas, performance with BERGERNISSEN, Cali, CO
Museo del Banco de la Republica, performance with BERGERNISSEN, Bogota,
CO
2012
Zaija Lab, screening, Beijing, CH
Galerie Frei, performance with BERGERNISSEN, Cologne, DE
Publications
1999
“Biblioteca Utopij”, book, IMA-Press, Russia ISBN 5-7070-0102-10
2015 Believing History, catalogue,
Kloster Lorsch, Kerber Verlag
2015 EMAF - European Media Art
Festival, catalogue
2015 Videonale Bonn, catalogue
2015
Landscapes of fear, sound-art compilation with various artists, Grünrekorder
Records Label
2017 THAI-EU Media Conference, BACC -
Bangkok Art and Culture Center
2018
And she was like BÄM, Strzelecki Books
2019
CFMDC Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre is distributing a majority of
recent films
Languages
English (fluent), German (mother language), Spanish
(fluent), Russian (mother language)