Biografia Artista

Nina Fischer
Nata a Emden, Germania, 1965.

Visual Communication, University of the Arts, Berlino, Diploma, Master Class Valie Export
German Film and Television Academy (dffb), Berlino, 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
Nato a Duisburg, Germania, 1966.

Film Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, MA
Since 2010 Visiting Professor, School of Art and Design, Sapporo City University
Collaboration since 1993. Currently live and work in Berlino. 

Attività  educative

2011      'Expanded Media', Seminar, Deutsche Film-und Fernsehakademie, Berlino

2007-2010 Associate Professor, School of Art and Design, Sapporo City University, Giappone

2010      Workshop for graduate students, Helpmann Academy for the Visual & Performing Arts, Adelaide

2007      'The Class Room' - Lecture program, Professorship of Art and Public Space, Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam

2004      Lecture series, Ryuku University, Okinawa

2002      Lecture series, Tama University of the Arts, New Media Department, Tokyo

2000      Workshop with art students and actors, The Swedish School of Arts, Nykarleby

1999      Workshop with graduate students, Royal Academy of Arts, Copenhagen

1999      Workshop, Karl-Hofer Prize, University of the Arts, Berlino

1996      Lecture series, Research Center for Media Aesthetics, Kyoto

1994      Lecture series, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Londra 

Premi e borse di studio

2015        Filmförderung, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH

2014        Artist in Residence, Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

2013      Artist in Residence, Museu de Arte Moderna, Recife

2011      Villa Kamogawa - Goethe Institut, Kyoto

2010      Crossmedial Artists Residency 2010, Goethe-Institut Toronto / Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU)

2009      Collaborative Research Grant, Sapporo City University, Sapporo
Capital Cultural Fonds, Berlino

2008      Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

2007      Stiftung Kunstfonds, project grant, Bonn
Kunststiftung NRW
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
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

2005      Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, City Department for Science, Research and Culture, Berlino

2003      Stipend for Fine Arts, City Department for Science, Research and Culture, Berlino

2002      Daad Stipend Japan

1999      German Academy Villa Massimo, Roma

1998      Karl-Hofer-Prize, Academy of the Arts, Berlino

1998      Stipend Kunstfonds, Bonn

1997      Stipend for Fine Arts, City Department for Science, Research and Culture, Berlino

1991      Stipend for Photography, City Department for Science, Research and Culture, Berlino

Mostre personali (selezione) 

2015
“Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Video of the Month - The Line”, HMKV, Dortmund
“Dreisatz der Identitàt (Identity's Rule of Three)", (in collaborazione con Bertold Stallmach) Aargauer Kunsthause, Aarau, Svizzera
"Recalculating Route", Museum of Art, Petach Tikva  
"Tempus Ritualis", Galeria Am Körnerpark, Berlino
"Another site", Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo

2014
“Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani”, MART, Dublino
“Spirits closing their eyes”,Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig   

2013
"Spirits closing their eyes - Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani", Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Roma
“Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani”, Museu de Arte Moderna, Recife

2012
“Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani - 12 x 12 IBB Videolounge”,Berlinische Galerie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Berlino
“Toute la mémoire du monde”,Austin Museum of Art - Arthouse, Austin     

2011
“Impero dei segni”, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Roma     

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, Berlino
“Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani - -273,15 °C = 0 Kelvin”, Neues Museum, Weimar
“The beauty of the imperfect, impermanent and incomplete”, Kunsthaus Glarus

2008    
“Spelling Dystopia”, Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig

2007    
“The Rise”, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam

2006    
“Think about the future for 10 sec./My image is...”, Spots, Media-installation, Potsdamer Platz, Berlino
“Toute la mémoire du monde - The world‘s knowledge”, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlino 

2005
“Radio Solaris, -273,15 °C = 0 Kelvin”, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi, Giappone     

2004
“-273,15 °C = 0 Kelvin”, Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig    

2002
“Klub der Republik”, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlino
“Palast der Republik”, Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig 

2000
“L’Avventura senza fine”, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlino
“millenniumania”, Goethe Institute, Parigi 

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     

1997
“millenniumania”, Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig   

1996
“Aura Research”, P-House, Tokyo
“Be supernatural”, Gallery L, Moscow

Mostre collettive (selezione)

2016
Art & Anthropology, Städtische Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlino, Germania 

2015
2050.A brief history of the future, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Bruxelles
Wahlverwandtschafen, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
Remake Resnais, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Siviglia

2014
Media City Seoul Biennale, Seul
Tempus Ritualis Contemporary Art Center, Thessaloniki
Japan Syndrome - Festival zur Kunst und Politik nach Fukushima HAU - Hebbel Theater am Ufer, Berlino
A Thousand Doors - A Neon Foundation Whitechapel Gallery collaboration Gennadius Library and Grounds, American School of Classical Studies, Atene
Distant Observations. Fukushima in Berlin Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlino

2013
20. Curitiba Biennale, Curitiba
The 4th FORMER WEST Research Congress: Documents, Constellations, Prospects, House of World Cultures, Berlino
Awakening, Aichi Triennale 2013, Nagoya
"Spirits closing their eyes" @ Berlinale - Forum Expanded 63. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlino 
Die Sammlungen. The Collections. Les Collections ARCHITEKTONIKA curated by Gabriele Knapstein, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlino
Four houses, Some buildings and Other Spaces, 80wse Galleries, New York University, NYC

2012
Sky over my head, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kumamoto
Quest for Vision Vol. 5 - Spelling Dystopia, Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Media City Seoul 2012, Seul
Sammen / Together, Kunstmuseum, Trondheim
Durchblicken und Abprallen, K3, Zürich
La Zona, NGBK, Berlino
TokyoFilm Festival 2012 - Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo

2011
RE-cycle. Strategies for architecture, city and planet, MAXXI, Roma
Dreams of Power, Zamek Culture Center, Poznan
Invisibleness is Visibleness, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan
Architektonika, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlino 

2010
ruru&friends - ruangrupa’s 10th Anniversary, Indonesian National Gallery, Jakarta
Höhepunkte der Kölner KunstFilmBiennale KW - Institut für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlino
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, Berlino

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, Berlino
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, Seul
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, Mokau
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 Cuvée, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz

2008
Light InSight, NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo
Urban Reflections, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
7th Gwangju Biennale
Modern Ruin, Museum of Modern Art, Brisbane
Der Blinde Fleck, NGBK, Berlino
Speicher fast voll, Kunstmuseum, Solothurn
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, Gent
Selective Knowledge, ITYS - Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought, Atene
Biennale Cuvée, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz

2007
City without a center, Institute for Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros
10th International Istanbul Biennal, Istanbul
Neue Heimat, Berlinische Galerie, Berlino
Portrait: Berlin - Contemporary Photography and Video Art from Berlin, Nuovo Polo Natatorio "Bruno Bianchi", Trieste
12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07, WRO Center for Media Art Foundation, Wroclaw
AIR, Virtueel Museum Zuidas,Platform 21, Amsterdam
Quobo - Art in Berlin 1989 - 1999, State Art Museum, Novosibirsk / Kumu Art Museum, Tallin
Portrait: Berlin - Contemporary Photography and Video Art from Berlin, Moving Gallery, Omaha
Expanded Media. Medien im Raum, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart

2006
Sonambiente Festival, Berlino
Palast der Republik, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlino
Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin, Art from two cities, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo / Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlino
QUOBO - Art in Berlin 1989 - 1999, The Contemporary Arts Center, Vilnius / Gallery of the Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia, / Muzej "25.maj", Belgrado
Es ist schwer das Reale zu berühren - It is hard to touch the Real, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
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
Motorblues, Museum for Fine Arts, Leipzig
Überreichweiten, Motorenhalle, Dresden
Portrait, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlino

2004
The future is not what it used to be, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
Berlinskaja Lazur - jeunes artistes photographes berlinois, Pavillion d’Arsenal, Parigi
excessive, dense, speedy, complex, empty but humane, Argos Festival, Bruxelles
Sonar Sound Festival, Tokyo
Nuit Blanche, Parigi
Sacra Famiglia, Goethe Institute, Bruxelles
made in berlin, art forum, Berlino
Schrift Bilder Denken, Walter Benjamin und die Kunst der Gegenwart, Haus am Waldsee, Berlino
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, Berlino

2003
Berlinskaja Lazur, Junge Fotokunst aus Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlino
From Dust to Dusk, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen
Arcadia - the other life of video games, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
Quobo, Art in Berlin 1989-1999, Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City / Servico Social do Comercio Pompeia, Sao Paulo
Räume der Macht - Macht der Räume, Schloß Sacrow, Berlino

2002
Urban Drift, Café Moskau, Berlino
1 Site - 2 Places, Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen
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
Die Stadt, Städtische Galerie, Delmenhorst
Berlino Nuova Città D’Arte, Opera Paese, Roma

2001
Quobo, Art in Berlin 1989-1999, Institut for Foreign Cultural Relations, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin / Waikato Museum, Hamilton
Anstoss, Kunstverein Nürnberg
Autowerke, European and American Photography, Franz Hals Museum, Harlem
berlin-london, ICA, Londra

2000
AutoWerke, European and American Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Quobo, Art in Berlin 1989 - 1999, Hongkong Arts Center, Hongkong
Inner City Pressure, Gallery No-D, Praga
Artistenmetaphysik - Friedrich Nietzsche in der Kunst der Nachmoderne, Haus am Waldsee, Berlino
Berlin-Binnendifferenz, Benger-Areal, Bregenz
Re:Songlines, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg
Artroom Berlin, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
Durchreise, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlino
art club berlin, W 139, Amsterdam

1999
Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool
Welcome to the artworld, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Chronos & Kairos, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
FilmArt, Art Basel, Basel
art club berlin, au base, New York
ambi in/out, Haus des Lehrers, Berlino
Sampling, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
Ideal, Luzerner Ausstellungsraum, Vierwaldstädter See, Lucerne

1998
Berlin Biennale, Plattform, Berlino
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, Berlino
In Medias Res, Dolmabahce Palace, Istanbul
Aenne Biermann-Preis, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Gera

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
Unikumok, Ernst Muzeum, Budapest
After dark, Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam
Files, Bunker 4th floor, Berlino
Alle Neune, ACC Galerie, Weimar
Disneyland After Dark, Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Berlino
Blick ins 21. Jahrhundert, Kunstverein, Düsseldorf

1995
Beyond the Borders, Kwangju Biennale 95, Kwangju
Urbane Legends - Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
Film Cuts, Galerie Neuger/Riemschneider, Berlino

1994
Independant Art Space, Londra
Minima Media, Medienbiennale 94, Leipzig
Private Mix, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlino
Nahubek, Galerie Fragnera, Praga

1992
Jahreslabor, Berlinische Galerie, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlino