Artist Biography

NINA FISCHER 
Born in Emden, Germany, 1965.
Lives and works in Berlin.  

Education
Visual Communication, University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany, Diploma, Master Class Valie Export
German Film and Television Academy (dffb), Berlin, Germany

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

2010
Visiting Professor, School of Art and Design, Sapporo City University, Japan

Since 2015
Present Professor of Experimental Film and Media Art, University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany

MAROAN EL SANI
Born in Duisburg, Germany, 1966.
Lives and works in Berlin. 

Education
MA in Film Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Since 2010
Visiting Professor, School of Art and Design, Sapporo City University, Japan
Collaboration since 1993.

Teaching  Activities
2011
'Expanded Media', Seminar, Deutsche Film-und Fernsehakademie, Berlin, Germany

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

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

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

2004
Lecture series, Ryuku University, Okinawa, Japan

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, Finland

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

1999
Workshop, Karl-Hofer Prize, University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany

1996
Lecture series, Research Center for Media Aesthetics, Kyoto, Japan

1994
Lecture series, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, United Kingdom

Solo Exhibitions
2019
The Active Guest, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany

2017
Dynamis, MLF | Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy
Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani. I Live in Fear After March 11, film screening, Arts Catalyst Centre, London, UK
Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani. Freedom of Movement, MAXXI-Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy 
Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, MART, Dublin, North Ireland
Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Kurt-Kurt Projektraum, Berlin, Germany

2016
Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani / Bertold Stallmach, MLF | Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy
K21 Künstlerräume, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani / Bertold Stallmach, K 21 Ständehaus, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany

2015
Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Video of the Month - The Line, HMKV, Dortmund, Germany
Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani in collaboration with Bertold Stallmach, Aargauer Kunsthause, Aarau, Switzerland 
Recalculating Route, Museum of Art, Petch Tikva, Israel
Tempus Ritualis, Galeria Am Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany
Another site, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan

2014
Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, MART, Dublin, Ireland      
Spirits closing their eyes, Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig, Germany

2013
Spirits closing their eyes - Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy
Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Mamam-Museu de Arte Moderna, Recife, Brasil

2012
Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani - 12 x 12 IBB Videolounge, Berlinische Galerie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Toute la mémoire du monde, Austin Museum of Art - Arthouse, Austin (TX), USA

2011
Impero dei segni, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy

2010
Spelling Dystopia, CoBrA Museum - Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, Netherlands
Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani - A window to the world, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

2009
The Communist Party Headquarters (West), Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin, Germany
Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani - -273,15 °C = 0 Kelvin, Neues Museum, Weimar, Germany
The beauty of the imperfect, impermanent and incomplete, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland

2008
Spelling Dystopia, Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig, Germany

2007
The Rise, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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

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, Germany

2002
Klub der Republik, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin, Germany
Palast der Republik, Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig, Germany  

2000
L’Avventura senza fine, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin, Germany
millenniumania, Goethe Institute, Paris, Germany

1999
Tsunami, Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthaus, Dresden, Germany

1998
Aura Research, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Klub2000 - rom, paris, marzahn, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin, Germany

1997
millenniumania, Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig, Germany

1996
Aura Research, P-House, Tokyo, Japan
Be supernatural, Gallery L, Moscow, Russia

2017
Das Leben ist eine Reise, duo exhibition with Sara Nabil, Kurt-Kurt Projektzentrale, Geburtshaus von Kurt Tucholsky, Berlin, Germany

Group Exhibitions (selected)
2019
10 Years Videoart at Midnight Festival, film screening, Kino Babylon, Berlin, Germany
REFRACTED REALITIES, VIDEONALE.17 – Festival for video and time-based arts -Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
The Active Guest, film screening, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany
There Is Fiction in the Space Between, curated by Eva-Maria Gillich, Misal Adnan Yıldız, n.b.k. - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Freedom of Movement, Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Nederlands
Freedom of Movement, film screening, INDIELISBOA 2019 - international Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
Little Boys Luminous Legacies (new, clear, atomic narratives), curated by Dr. Daniel Bürkner and Jörg Koopman, Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich, Germany

2018
In Transition, whiteBox, Munich, Germany
Muster Raum / Face – Facade – Fakt – Fake, curated by Stephan Klee and Branislav Mihajlović, Schinkelsche Bauakademie, Berlin, Germany
Identity's Rule of Three & Spelling Dystopia, film screening, Musrara Mix Festival, Jerusalem, Israel
Amnistia impropria – Colonialita italiana tra cinema, critica e arte contemporanea, Accademia di Brera, Milan, Italy
Limbo Lichtspiele, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
Which Times do you embody? Artistic researches on the colonial and intercultural present, film screening, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
Spirits closing their eyes, film screening, Erkundungen im Filmarchiv der Deutschen Kinemathek Kino Arsenal, Berlin, Germany
30. Jubiläum des Goethe Instituts China – 30 Jahre. 30 Fragen. 30 Stunden, film screening, Goethe Institute, Bejing, China

2017
3. Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany
kim?, RIXC Art Science Festival 2017, Riga, Latvia
Loop Discover Award 2017, Antiga Fàbrica Estrella Damm, Barcelona, Spain
Collezione MAXXI. The Place to Be, MAXXI-Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
Identity’s Rule of Three, screening of the video, 36th Istanbul Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani / Bertold Stallmach. The Rule of Three of Identity, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen - Artist's Rooms at K21, Düsseldorf, Germany

2016
Perpetual Uncertainty, Bildmuseet Umea, Umea, Sweden
PUBLIC LIBRARY X.0, America Memorial Library, Berlin, Germany
Paradise Lost- Expulsion from Garden of Eden, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany
Art & Anthropology, Städtische Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany
Transmediale 2016, Atlas of MediaThinking and MediaActing in Berlin, HKW, Berlin, Germany
Kleines Festival der Krise - Film Festival, Goethe-Institut, Rotterdam, Netherlands

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

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

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

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

2011
RE-cycle. Strategies for architecture, city and planet, MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
Dreams of Power, Zamek Culture Center, Poznan, Poland
Invisibleness is Visibleness, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan, China
Architektonika, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

2010
ruru&friends - ruangrupa’s 10th Anniversary, Indonesian National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Höhepunkte der Kölner Kunst Film Biennale KW - Institut für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Das Nahe und das Ferne, KAI 10 - Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf, Germany
Tumult - Public Art Festival, The Muncipality of Guldborgsund, New Zealand
Balaklava Odyssey - Media Art & Performance Festival, Sewastopol/Balaklawa, Russia
Awake are only the spirits, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland
Apart we are together, Samstag Museum, Adelaide, Australia
100. Exhibition - Groupshow, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany

2009
Liquid Archives - Notes on Relations, Ruptures and Silences, PLATFORM3 - Räume für zeitgenössische Kunst, Munich, Germany
Niemand mehr dort, wo er hinwollte, Palazzo Stelline, Milan, Italy
The view from elsewhere, Australian Cinémathèque, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Berlin 89/09 - Kunst zwischen Spurensuche und Utopie, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
3. Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg, Images Recalled - Bilder auf Abruf, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Reconstructed Zone, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Void of Memory, Platform in KIMUSA (The old Defense Security Command Site) / Artsonje Center of Platform 2009, Seoul, South Korea
Summer Time: or close-ups on places we have (never) been…, San Francisco Art Institute, USA
Carte Blanche VII: Galerie Eigen + Art, GFZK, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
10. MIFF Media Forum, 31. Internationales Film Festival, Mokau, New Zealand
Awake Are Only The Spirits - On Ghosts And Their Media, HMKV - Phoenix Halle, Dortmund, Germany
The view from elsewhere, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), Sydney, Australia
XXL Europe - Liquid Frontiers, Tri Postal, Lille, France
Biennale Cuvée, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria

2008
Light InSight, NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo, Japan
Urban Reflections, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
7th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
Modern Ruin, Museum of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Der Blinde Fleck, NGBK, Berlin, Germany
Speicher fast voll, Kunstmuseum, Solothurn, Switzerland
Vertrautes Terrain – Aktuelle Kunst in und über Deutschland, ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
Quobo - Art in Berlin 1989-1999, Museo de Arte, Lima, Peru
7th Courtisane Festival, Kunstencentrum Vooruit & Sphinx Cinema, Ghent, Belgium
Selective Knowledge, ITYS - Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought, Athens, Greece
Biennale Cuvée, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria

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

2006
Sonambiente Festival, Berlin, Germany
Palast der Republik, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin, Art from two cities, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo / Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
QUOBO - Art in Berlin 1989 - 1999, The Contemporary Arts Center, Vilnius, Lithuania / Gallery of the Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia, Bulgaria / Muzej "25.maj", Belgrade, Serbia
Es ist schwer das Reale zu berühren - It is hard to touch the Real, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
Global Players, Contemporary Art from Germany and Japan, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany

2005
Criss Cross. 5 Positions in Contemporary Croatian and German Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Superstars - The principle of prominent figures in the arts, Kunsthalle Vienna and Kunstforum Vienna, Austria
Global Players, Contemporary Art from Germany and Japan, Bank Art 1929, Yokohama, Japan
Helden Heute, Centre Pasquart, Biel Bienne, Switzerland
Motorblues, Museum for Fine Arts, Leipzig, Germany
Überreich weiten, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
Portrait, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin, Germany

2004
The future is not what it used to be, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
Berlinskaja Lazur - jeunes artistes photographes berlinois, Pavillion d’Arsenal, Paris, France
Excessive, dense, speedy, complex, empty but humane, Argos Festival, Brussels, Belgium
Sonar Sound Festival, Tokyo, Japan
Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
Sacra Famiglia, Goethe Institute, Brussels, Belgium
made in berlin, art forum, Berlin, Germany
Schrift Bilder Denken, Walter Benjamin und die Kunst der Gegenwart, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
Quobo - Kunst in Berlin 1989 - 1999, Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Überreichweiten, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany
Kunstbank, Galerie der Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft Forschung und Kultur, Berlin, Germany

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

2002
Urban Drift, Café Moskau, Berlin, Germany
1 Site - 2 Places, Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
10 Years Aenne-Biermann-Preis – the best of 5, Museum of Photography, Reykjavik, Iceland
Manifesta 4, European Biennial for Contemporary Art, Frankfurt, Germany
Quobo. Art in Berlin 1989-1999, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul / Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
(The World May Be) Fantastic, 13th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
Pause, 4th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
Present Tense, Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies, New York, USA
Die Stadt, Städtische Galerie, Delmenhorst, Germany
Berlino Nuova Città D’Arte, Opera Paese, Rome, Italy

2001
Quobo. Art in Berlin 1989-1999, Institut for Foreign Cultural Relations, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin/Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand
Anstoss, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Autowerke, European and American Photography, Franz Hals Museum, Harlemberlin-London, ICA, London, United Kingdom

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

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

1998
Berlin Biennale, Plattform, Berlin, Germany
ISEA, Liverpool/Manchester, United Kingdom
art club berlin, Mies van der Rohe Pavillion, Barcelona, Spain
Transmission, Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saône, France

1997
Correspondences / Korrespondenzen: Berlin-Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom/Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
In Medias Res, Dolmabahce Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
Aenne Biermann-Preis, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Gera, Germany

1996
Discord - Sabotage of realities, Kunsthaus und Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
After dark, Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
On Camp/Off Base, Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, Japan
Surfing Systems, Kasseler Kunstverein, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Unikumok, Ernst Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary
After dark, Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Files, Bunker 4th floor, Berlin, Germany
Alle Neune, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany
Disneyland After Dark, Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Blick ins 21. Jahrhundert, Kunstverein, Dusseldorf, Germany

1995
Beyond the Borders, Gwangju Biennale 95, Gwangju, South Korea
Urban Legends - Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
Film Cuts, Galerie Neuger/Riemschneider, Berlin, Germany

1994
Independant Art Space, London, United Kingdom
Minima Media, Medienbiennale 94, Leipzig, Germany
Private Mix, Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin, Germany
Nahubek, Galerie Jaroslava Fragnera, Prag, Czech Republic

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

Selected Prizes & Stipends
2019
The Ammodo Tiger Short Awards, 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2015
Filmförderung, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH, Japan

2014
Artist in Residence, Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

2013
Artist in Residence, Mamam-Museu de Arte Moderna, Recife, Brazil

2011
Villa Kamogawa - Goethe Institut, Kyoto, Japan

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

2009
Collaborative Research Grant, Sapporo City University, Sapporo, Japan
Capital Cultural Fonds, Berlin, Germany

2008
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam, Germany

2007
Stiftung Kunstfonds, project grant, Bonn, Germany
Kunststiftung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Netherlands

2006
Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, Professorship of Art and Public Space, Rietveld Academie, Zuidas Free Spaces, Zuidas Virtual Museum Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam, Germany

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

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

2002
Daad Stipend Japan

1999
German Academy Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy

1998
Karl-Hofer-Prize, Academy of the Arts, Berlin, Germany

1998
Stipend Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany

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

1991
Stipend for Photography, City Department for Science, Research and Culture, Berlin, Germany