Curriculum Vitae
Artist and curator. Born 1975 in Tübingen, Germany, lives and works in Berlin since 1994. Experimental Media Design studies at the Universität der Künste (UDK) Berlin, Meisterschüler with Professor Joachim Sauter.
Founder, artistic and creative director of CTM – Festival for Adventurous Music and Arts. In 2005 co-founder of DISK Berlin for the promotion of experimental music and visual arts within the context of sound and music. 2004 co-founder of the studio house Inn.to in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg and the project space General Public.
Education
• 2004 - 2005 Meisterschüler with Professor Joachim Sauter, UDK Berlin
• 2000 - 2004 Experimental Media Design, UdK Berlin
• 1997 - 2000 Visual Communication, UDK Berlin
• 1996 - 1997 Cultural Studies, Humboldt University Berlin
Solo exhibitions
• All the Guards Asleep, Gallery Visite Ma Tente, Berlin, 2006
• Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This ..., Gallery Wieland, Berlin, 2002
• MEM, Gallery Kunst Ruimte, Berlin, 1999
Group exhibitions (selection)
2009
• A Necessary Suspension, Visite Ma Tente, Berlin
• Alle Herzen fliegen zu (Zeichnungen und Servietten plus Diverses), General Public, Berlin
2008
• Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Arnsberg
• Sonic Voices, Rocking Hard, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam
• Nuits Sonores, Lyon
2007
• Antidrom, General Public, Berlin
• Summer Camp, Gallery Visite Ma Tente, Berlin
2006
• Rio, Artnews Projects, Berlin
• Life Without Weekend, P///AKT, Amsterdam
• À Rebours - Escapism and the Terror of the Sublime, General Public, Berlin
2005
• Strange Attractors, General Public, Berlin
• Splendid Affinities, Galeria Pauza, Krakow
2004
• AIKITWIF WIR IKIA, Kunst Vlaai, Amsterdam
• Schizorama, National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2003
• Arbeitsraum 1, Project Space of the Kulturamt Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin
• Sleeping Beauty, Theater am Halleschen Ufer, Berlin
2002
• Intermedium II, ZKM, Karlsruhe
2001
• Hundstage, Thalia-Theater, Halle
• Novalog 2001, Staatsbank, Berlin
• Novalog 2001, Rachel & Israel Pollak Gallery, Tel Aviv
• Songs of Love and Hate - Side B, Gallery Wieland, Berlin
2000
• European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück
• Gallery Transition, Berlin
• Lightshow, Gallery Wieland, Berlin
• Berlin Beta version 2.0 Media Festival, Berlin
• Festival Babylone, Batofar, Paris
• Z2000 - Positionen junger Kunst, Academy of Arts, Berlin
Curatorial work and projects (selection)
2013
• Polymorphism IV – V, ongoing concert series in collaboration with Berghain, Berlin
• CTM.13 - The Golden Age, HAU / Berghain / Kunstquartier Bethanien a.o., Berlin
2012
• Various concerts for Berghain, HAU, West Germany, Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin, and Unsound Festival, Krakow
• Music for Solaris, Volksbühne, Berlin
• In That Weird Part, exhibition, General Public, Berlin
• Polymorphism I – IV, ongoing concert series in collaboration with Berghain, Berlin
• THE ICAS SUITE, various venues, Berlin
• Denkfabrik, one-day conference program for Berlin Music Week, Berlin
• CTM.12 - Spectral, HAU / Berghain / Kunstquartier Bethanien a.o., Berlin
2011
• Various concerts for Berghain, HAU, West Germany, Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin
• THE ICAS SUITE, various venues, Berlin
• CTM.11 - #Live!?, HAU / Festsaal Kreuzberg / Berghain / Kunstquartier Bethanien a.o., Berlin
2010
• Various concerts for festivals and theatres (a.o. Ulver, SoiSong, Charlemagne Palestine, Mudboy, Goblin) for Volksbühne Berlin, HAU Berlin, Unsound Festival Krakow and ISEA 2010 RUHR
• CTM.10 - Overlap, WMF / .HBC, Berlin
2009
• Structures Node 3 - In Between Categories, General Public, Berlin
• Touch This Sound, Musikprotokoll im Steirischen Herbst, Graz, Austria
• Invasive Sound, TodaysArt Festival, The Hague, the Netherlands
• Structures Node 1 - Global Alchemy, Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin
• Goblin, Donaufestival, Krems, Austria
• CTM.09 - Structures, Maria am Ostbahnhof / Kunstraum Kreuzberg,
Berlin
2008
• Wasted Over Toulouse & Marseille, Toulouse and Marseille, France
• CTM.08 - Unpredictable, Maria am Ostbahnhof a.o., Berlin
2007
• Antidrom, General Public, Berlin
• Midi Street Instruments, Kontraste Festival, Krems, Austria
• Opening concert program for Les Siestes Electroniques, Toulouse, France
• Wasted vs Overkill, Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin
• Wasted 5, Paard van Troje, The Hague, Netherlands
• Series of av-performances for Donaufestival, Krems, Austria
• CTM.07 - Building Space, Maria am Ostbahnhof a.o., Berlin
2006
• Live Cinema Nights, ISEA 2006, San Jose, USA
• club transmediale @ TodaysArt - Festival for Art and Music, The Hague, Netherlands
• Soundbridge, Berlin and Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Zimbos Labor, MUTEK Festival, Montréal, Canada
• CTM.06 - Being Bold!, Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin
2005
• Strange Attractors, General Public, Berlin
• 10 Years Art Forum Berlin, Cafe Moskau, Berlin
• Berlin RMXD, TodaysArt - Festival for Art and Music, The Hague, Netherlands
• Wasted 2 - Two More Days of Breakcore, Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin
• X-Film Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria
• Since spring 2005 DISK Sessions (currently No. 20), with Andrey Kiritchenko, Kotra,
Ultra Red, Elliot Perkins, Kanak Attak, Christopher Willits, Pure, Florian Kmet, Erich
Berger, HC Gilje, Klimek, Marc Weiser, Eran Sachs, Jamie Drouin, O.blaat, Anne
Wellmer, Jan Jelinek a.o., General Public, Berlin
• CTM.05 - Basics, Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin
2004
• Building Space From Scratch, cph-dox Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Trans-it! Migrations (Ultra Red, Kanak Attak), TM/CTM-Salon, Podewil, Berlin,
• Narod Niki, collaboration project with MUTEK Festival (Montréal), Volksbühne, Berlin
• CTM.04 - Fly Utopia!, Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin
2003
• CTM@WEF, Warsaw Electronic Music Festival, Warsaw, Poland
• CTM in the Garage, Garage Festival, Stralsund, Germany
• CTM.03 - Play Global!, Maria am Ufer, Berlin
2002
• CTM.02 - Go Public!, E-Werk, Berlin
2001
• CTM @ Adrift-Festival, MS Stubbnitz, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• CTM - Berlin Nights 01, Exit Art Festival, Creteil/Paris, France
2000
• CTM 2000 - Get Personal, Haus des Lehrers, Berlin.
1999
• CTM 1999, Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin
Talks / Lectures
2012
• ReSource 002: Trial Crack, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin
2011
• Strategien abseits des Mainstreams, #a2n_2011, Kater Holzig, Berlin
2009
• Manifestos on Electronic Dance Music, Unsound Festival, Krakow, Poland
• Sound and Media in Berlin, Structures Node 3: In Between Categories, General Public,
Berlin
• Music From the Backyard Melting Pots, Structures Node 1: Global Alchemy, Festsaal
Kreuzberg, Berlin
2008
• Dancing With Myself, Conference, HAU, Berlin
• Strukturfieber, General Public• The Ecology of Festivals, MUTEK - Music, Sound and New Technologies, Montréal, Canada
2007
• Tesla Salon, Tesla, Berlin
• ECAS Meeting, Future Sonic Festival, Manchester, UK
2006
• Festivals - Where to Go From Here? MUTEK - Music, Sound and New Technologies,
Montréal, Canada
• M4Music conference, Volkshaus, Zürich, Switzerland
• Soundbridge Ljubljana - Berlin, Zentrale Randlage, Berlin
2005
• Progress Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2004
• Gallery Blickensdorff, Berlin
2003
• Garage Festival, Stralsund, Germany
• M4Music conference, Volkshaus, Zürich, Switzerland
• MUTEK Intersections, MUTEK - Music, Sound and New Technologies, Mc Gill University,
Montréal, Canada
2001
• Novalog 2001 Berlin - Tel Aviv, Rachel and Israel Pollak Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Publications featuring work
• Pencilbreak - A Graphicore Compilation, Belio Magazine, Madrid, 2008
• Gendertronics - der Körper in der elektronischen Musik, club transmediale and Meike
Jansen, ed., Edition Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a.M., 2005
• X-0 - Identities in the 21st Century, catalogue, Intermedium II, ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2002
• Novalog 2001 Berlin - Tel Aviv, catalogue, Novalog, Berlin, 2001
Publications as author / editor
• "Invasive Sound", in catalogue of Todays Art Festival 09, The Hague, 2009
• "Touch This Sound", in Herbst - Theorie zur Praxis, magazine of Steirischer Herbst
festival, Graz, 2009
• "Höhlen fuer alle", in Vernetzt, Krystian Woznicki, ed., Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin, 2009
• Gendertronics - der Körper in der elektronischen Musik, club transmediale and Meike
Jansen, ed., Edition Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a.M., 2005
• "Generieren, nicht Collagieren", in Cinema - Schweizer Jahrbuch für Film, Nr. 49 -
Musik, Schüren Verlag: Marburg, 2004