Grants
2024 travel grant, Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion Berlin
2023 Artistic research grant - Kulturbüro Landeshauptstadt Hannover (collaboration with Manuela Bolegue)
2023 professional development grant from the German Dance Association/ Dachverband Tanz Deutschland
2022 2nd Research Grant Take Heart - Fonds Darstellende Künste, Berlin
2022 Research Grant Take Heart - Fonds Darstellende Künste, Berlin
2022 UNESCO City of Media Arts Karlsruhe. Funding with Karolina Sobel for Embrace Platform
2022 Artist Work Stipend (Niedersachsen dreht auf). Ministry of Science and Culture - Lower Saxony
2021 Research Grant Take Care together with Charles Washington – Fonds Darstellende Künste, Berlin
2020 Artistic Research Grant. Kulturbüro Landeshauptstadt Hannover
2018 Erasmus+ Stipend Art.Earth and Dartington Dance Festival,England
2017 Nomination for Arts Grant of the Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg for New Music
2017 Erasmus+ Stipend, MA Fine Arts, Icelandic Academy of the Arts
Residencies:
11/2023 choreographic research residency with Manuela Bolegue at Tanzkoop Braunschweig
11/2022 ArsBioarctica Residency, Biological Research Station / University of Helsinki, Kilpisjärvi, Finland.
10 -11/2022 Artist in Residence at EMS- Electronmusik Studio Stockholm, Schweden.
2019 - 2021 Artist in Residence at EMS – Electronmusik Studio Stockholm, Sweden.
07/2020 Artist in Residence at SITE Performing Arts Production House, Stockholm, Sweden.
12/2019 Artist in Residence at C.OFF Stockholm.
10/ 2017 Artist in Residence at Verksmiðjan, Hjalteyri, Iceland.
Selected Exhibitions
2022 Water is water, is water is snow (part of Flows /Ströme), HanseArtWorks / Alte Postgalerie Neuss. Commission of the City of Hannover.
2022 Embrace – Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe / Kinemathek Karlsruhe / Künstlerhaus Hannover
2020 LEZBY – Stroboskop Gallery Warsaw, Poland (collaboration with Karolina Sobel)
2018 Screening of Nereids and Sound Installation Hering Song – LungA International Art Festival Seyðisfjörður, Iceland.
2017 When the fridge greets the morning, part of The wrong place. Mengi, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2017 Nereids – Potential Spaces Conference HfG Karlsruhe / ZKM Karlsruhe
2017 „Vollmond“ at Next Generation Festival at ZKM Karlsruhe.
2017 Concert at Abeerance Performance Festival London
2016 No Games On Private Land / sidelines – LAF Leerstand als Freiraum Pforzheim
2016 Essai d‘une Négociation – The 18. Blackmarket of the mobile academy, Musée de l`Homme Paris (On Becoming Earthlings), Chicago Rebuild Foundation, USA. Collaboration with Armin Linke, Guilia Bruno, Lisa Bergmann, Klemens Czurda, Víctor Fancelli, Florian Haag, Alper Kazokoglu, Bruno Latour, Charles Mallison.
2015 Errant Voices - No Games on Private Land, Errant Bodies Gallery, Berlin
Selected choreographic and performance work
2023 work-in-progress showing "Burning Collapse" at LOT Theater Braunschweig
2023 Feral Child, guest production at Theater im Pavillon, Hannover
2022 Matineee – ACUD Galerie/ Prater Galerie, Berlin (collaboration with Minh Duc Pham)
2021 Die Einsamkeit der Stadt in mir, guest production Theater an der Glocksee Hannover
2020 Glacial Decay at OSCO Hannover
2018 Melting Bodies, HfG Karlsruhe and Studio Ilka Theurich Hannover
2015 Time Piece – occupation of Tate Turbine Hall (collaboration with Liberate Tate)
2013/ 2014 – Collaboration with Cluster B. Collective London, residencies at MYK Bristol, based at Performance Space, Hackney Wick, London.
Music releases
2021 selected artist for Soli Sampler, Women in Music Hannover
Publications
2022 Interview Kerstin Möller and Karolina Sobel about Embrace Platform. Umbau Online Magazine Link: https://umbau.hfg-karlsruhe.de/posts/embrace
2022 „Embrace Platform: Embrace an Introduction“. Publication as part of the exhibition Embrace at Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe.
2016 editorial for MAS – Materialien zu Ausstellungsdesign und Szenografie - MAS 003: László Moholy-Nagy und Erwin Piskator. ISSN:2511-1035
Education
2023/2024 CuratorLab, Konstfack University of Art, Craft and Design Stockholm, led by Joana Warsza and Maria Lind
2020-2021 Further Education in Contemporary Dance Dramaturgy, Producing Dance and Performance, Sound Art and Klein Technique (TM) - Stockholm University of the Arts
2014 - 2018 Diplom (MA) in Media Arts with Scenography and Exhibition Design and Contemporary Arts Theory– University of Arts and Design ( HfG) Karlsruhe, Germany
2017 Certificate in Sustainable Development – KIT Karlsruhe, Germany
2017 Erasmus Exchange to MA Fine Arts, Icelandic Academy of Arts, Reykjavik.
2013 - 2014 MA in Urban Sociology with visual cultures, political theatre and cultural relations – Goldsmiths College, University of London, England
2008 - 2011 BA in Choreography and Visual Arts Practices – Dartington College of Arts, England
2010 Erasmus Exchange BA contemporary dance – Icelandic Academy of Arts and MA Choreography, HZT /Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch Berlin
Artists Talks:
05/2024 Artist talk and podcast session with Samí artist Anders Sunna, an initiative of Sixten Liu, together with Ana Victoria Bruno and Kerstin Möller, Konstfack, Stockholm.
02/2024 Artist talk on Sustainability and learning from indigenous practices with the directress of the Samí Giron Theatre at Konstmuseet i Norr, Kiruna, Sweden as part of Konstfest 2024.
Teaching
04/2023 - 07/2023 Visiting Lecturer in Fine arts and Curatorial Practices. University of Hildesheim
11/2022 - 02/2023 Visiting Lecturer in Body Space Narration / Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
03/2021 - 07/2022 Visiting lecturer in Media Arts and Product Design. University of Art and Design (HfG) Karlsruhe
I have taught and supervised across undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Design, Media Arts, and in interdisciplinary contexts and have been responsible for many aspects of course administration and creation.
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