artist >>
After my studies of experimental art at the University of the Arts Berlin at Rebecca Horns' class, I received an Erasmus grant to The Chelsea College of Arts in London and a DAAD scholarship for Computer Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Afterwards, I completed my PhD on
"Research Arts: the Interface of Art, Science and Technology as a Field of Knowledge and Action" at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Barcelona. While writing my thesis i developed the idea to create the
"Research Arts" platform, where since 2012 a research community interested in artistic research publish their articles.
My multimedia art installations, videos, cinetic objects, sculptures and paintings have been shown internationally in museums, galleries and art festivals in Germany, Spain, Greece, Poland, Slovenia, USA, Canada, among others at the Academy of Arts Berlin, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Deutsche Bank Barcelona, European Capital Thessaloniki, KIBLIX Art Science Technology Festival.
In my
indoor mixedmedia installations I want to create an immersive experience of a core perception and/or history of a particular space as a train station hall, a lapidarium, a former shipyard or liqueur factory. They often contain motion through sculptural kinetic elements that move naturally or are operated by a machine or the user.
I have developed transdisciplinary art projects in cooperation with a.o. the Center for Development Research, Bread for the World, the German Commission for UNESCO and Heinrich-Böll-Foundation.
In the last years I have been mainly creating
outdoor collaborative interventions, land art and participative landscape interventions, and since three years i am participating in the organization of the
BATECS Art and Nature Festival.
researcher >>
My research fields are focused on the exploration and development of artistic cooperative practices and participatory scientific approaches that may contribute towards a transformation to a more sustainable society.
More specifically the research fields I am mainly interested in are artistic research, environmental and connecting art, archives and memory, inner and outer transformation, sustainability and transition research, transformative learning and ESD, science and democracy, participative research policies, ecovillages and sustainable living, community-designed methods and practices.
I collaborated with the German civil participation platform
"Forschungswende", which advocates
civilian involvement in science.
After my MBA, I deepened my experience in national and European research projects working as seniour project manager at the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology ICN.
I have published in book chapters and academic journals e.g. about
the inner transformation towards sustainability and the
“RealLab transformative learning approach” in higher education, and wrote a
handbook for transdisciplinary projects in Latin America.
Within the frame of the European project "Soft Control" linked to Hangar and Grid Spinoza I collaborated in writing a protocol for interdisciplinary research and knowledge transfer in arts, science and technology.
In collaboration with the
Global ecovillage network GEN, I co-leaded the project "Living in sustainable villages" financed by the German Environmental Ministry.
I am member of the
Federation of German Scientists.
teacher >>
Since 1998 I have been teaching and lecturing at different universities and extracurricular education centres. At the Faculty of Fine Arts in Barcelona I worked as a visiting professor, juror on a selection comittee, and initiator of the annual degree shows.
At the
Leuphana University a.o. the
Institute for Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research (IETSR) I designed
transdisciplinary Reallabs for higher education through research-community partnerships particularly with ecovillges, developing methods to support the enhancement of student's competences in participative and sustainability oriented research.
In my adult education seminars i apply diverse communication methods, based on my trainings in a.o. Community Building (Scott Peck), Forum (ZEGG) and Dialogue (David Bohm).
I am co-founding member of the
Bund für Bildung e.V. association in Berlin where i collaborate developing educational projects and materials.
With my teaching, I want to inspire young people and adults to embrace sustainable lifestyles and to implement their needs and visions in everyday life. I try to combine a sound knowledge base and expertise in subject areas with a high level of reflection, communication and action skills.
It is particularly important to me to foster interdisciplinary knowledge and transdisciplinary approaches taught by combining community-building, artistic and scientific methods that foster creative and relaxing mutual learning experiences.
EXHIBITIONS / ART INTERVENTIONS
2024 "Interconnected Trees - Cardinal Points", Los Portales, Castilblanco de los Arroyos
2024 "Big Nest" and "Sensorial Footpath", with ADFPG and Ralf Hilgers, Festival d'art i natura BATECS, Font-rubí
2024 "Simbiosi (a gra i ment)", with Carlaina Fahle and Roser Rigol, Festival d'art i natura BATECS, Font-rubí
2024 "Water arteries - Baga de Toses", with Ralf Hilgers, Festival KMINART, Toses
2024 "On Connecting", with Ralf Hilgers, Living Knowledge conference 10, Girona University, Girona
2023 "Water arteries - keylines", with Ralf Hilgers, Festival d'art i natura BATECS, Font-rubí
2023 "Water arteries - trough", with Ralf Hilgers, Festival d'art i natura BATECS, Font-rubí
2022 Performative Lecture, International Art Week ADEMA, Palma de Mallorca
2022 "(Inter)Connected Trees", Festival d'art i natura BATECS, Font-rubí
2021 "View of the World on Germany", participative online-project by Beate Simons, German Citizens' Assembly
2019 "Wish Tree", Peace Research & Education Centre, Tamera
2018 "Here and there", selected Drawings, Kulturfestival Wagen & Winnen, Sieben Linden / Salzwedel
2017 “Real-world Laboratories”, ISEA, University of Caldas, Manizales
2016 "Von Datenbanken zu Lebensgeschichten", Amerika Gedenkbibliothek, Berlin
2016 "Chroniken der Ober- und Unterwelten von Buchwegen", Kulturfestival Wagen & Winnen, Sieben Linden
2015 "Yellow Drawings", Regiohaus, Sieben Linden
2014 "Sensing the heart", Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2014 "Challenge Yasuní - Think Tank", with Dan Norton, Bread for the World, Berlin
2014 "Challenge Yasuní - Development Research and Buen Vivir", with Dan Norton, Center for Development Research, Bonn
2014 "Challenge Yasuní - The Future of Democracy", with Dan Norton, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin
2014 "Challenge Yasuní - Degrowth", with Dan Norton, Grünes Büro, Stralsund
2014 "Challenge Yasuní - Who owns the raw materials?", with Dan Norton, Degrowth Conference, University of Leipzig, Leipzig
2014 "Tischlein Deck Dich - Was wäre wenn?", mit Christiane ten Hoevel, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin
2014 "Participative Governance", "Disciplinarities Summary" Anthropocene Curriculum, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2013 "Revaluing Memory", with Dan Norton, Kiblix Art Science Technology Festival, Maribor
2013 "RAABLAB", with Dan Norton, Centre d'Art Visual HANGAR, Barcelona
2011 "TENCHI on the Moountain", Serra del Cadí, Bagà
2006 "TENKAN Nano-Topologies", Parc Científic and Facultat de Belles Arts, Barcelona
2005 "TENKAN on the Beach", Platja de la Mar Bella, Barcelona
1997 "Being present", Artists Space, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1997 "Gestreift", Fahrradhalle, Frankfurt/M
1997 "Oculus", Lichthaus / Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
1996 "Looking In and Out on the Same Time", Espai 22a, Barcelona
1996 "Streams of Stories", European Cultural Capital, Thessaloniki
1995 "Warteraum", Künstlerwerkstatt Bahnhof Westend, Berlin
1995 "Waterfall", Norrishalle, Kunsthalle Nürnberg
1995 "Con Aperitivo y Digestivo", Gallery Moret, Reus
1995 "Flying through time", "Waterfall", Gallery Miejsaka BWA Arsenal, Poznan
1995 "Together", Gallery Eva Poll, Berlin
1995 "Together", Polish Culture Institute Berlin
1994 "Flying through time", Muzeum Artystow, Lodz
1994 "X3 Space for Imagination", Kunsthalle, Berlin
1994 "The arrival", Gallery Vorsetzen, Hamburg
1994 "Fliegende Menschen/Flying through time", "Slaves of our senses", Gallery Wewerka, Berlin
1994 "Die zwei Seiten des Geldes", with Svenja Hehner, Gallery Deutsche Bank, Madrid / Barcelona
1994 "Sensing the Heart", Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
1994 "Cosmopolitical Organs", Künstlerwerkstatt Bahnhof Westend, Berlin
1993 "Teestunde", Litzensee Park, Berlin
1993 "Waterfall", Hochschule der Künste, Berlin
1993 "As Above so Below", "I miss you", "Reizverschluss", Berlinische Galerie - Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Arquitecture, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin
1993 "Con Aperitivo y Digestivo", Gallery Likörfabrik, Kunstwerke Berlin
1992 "Implantat", Galerie im Treppenhaus, Berlin
1992 "Take Your Time", "Cleaning Sights", Hochschule der Künste, Berlin
1991 "Vorsicht Hund!", "Take Your Time", Lapidarium, Berlin
1991 "Quallenbrennen", Gallery Cardoso-Ribeiro, Berlin
1991 "Das umnebelte Aquarium", Festspielgalerie, U-Bahnhof Wittenbergplatz, Berlin
1991 "Film Blinds", Lichthof, Technische Universität, Berlin
1991 "Teestunde", Hochschule der Künste und Litzensee, Berlin
1991 Video Installation, European Biennial of Art Academies, Barcelona
FILMOGRAPHY
2024 “Simbiosi (a gra i ment)” | experimental Video of Art Performance | mp4 | color, bw | 02:41
2024 “Canço del caminant” | experimental Video | mp4 | color | 01:55
2023 “w i l d b o a r s perspective (on land art)” | experimental Video | mp4 | bw | 01:49
2023 “Art&Nature Festival Batecs 2023” | Documentary | mp4 | color | 17:34
2023 “Art&Nature Festival Batecs 2023” | Trailer | mp4 | color | 01:0
2023 “Vibrating Connections I” | experimental Video | mp4 | color | 01:00
2023 “Vibrating Connections II” | experimental Video | mp4 | color | 01:45
2023 “Artèries d’aigus - l’abeurador” | art installation Documentary | mp4 | color | 01:40
2023 “Water Harvest - a minute of silence for peace” | experimental Documentary | mp4 | color | 02:30
2022 “(Inter)Connected Trees I” | land art intervention Documentary | mp4 | color | 04:59
2022 “(Inter)Connected Trees II” | experimental Video | mp4 | color | 02:45
2022 “Connecting & Centering” | land art intervention Video | mp4 | color | 00:59
2022 “Resonating impressions of documenta15” | experimental Documentary | mp4 | color | 03:38
2022 “Meine Kunst wirkt in die Gesellschaft wie…” | experimental Video | mp4 | color | 05:48
2020 “RAABLAB” (interactive multimedia interface with Dan Norton, 2013) | Documentary | mp4 | color | 2:59
2019 “Atem” | experimental Video | mp4 | color | 07:43
2018 “Leben in zukunftsfähigen Dörfern. Ökodörfer als Katalysatoren nachhaltiger Entwicklung” | Documentary | mp4 | color | 13:03
2017 “Real-world Laboratories” | ISEA2017 Conference Video-Abstract | mp4 | color | 06:08
2016 “Von Datenbanken zu Lebensgeschichten” | experimental Documentary | mp4 | color | 38:24
2015 “Chroniken der Ober- und Unterwelten von Buchwegen” | experimental Documentary | mp4 | color | 6:00*
2015 “Shared Spaces: Living in Community, Berlin / Hunedoara” | experimental Documentary | mp4 | color | 30:18
2014 “hereandnow 1” | experimental Video | mp4 | color | 02:30
2014 “hereandnow 2” | experimental Video | mp4 | color | 01:11
2014 “hereandnow 3” | experimental Video | mp4 | color | 02:00
2014 “hereandnow 4” | experimental Video | mp4 | color | 05:24
2014 “The role of art in the transformation of society” | experimental Videointerview to Tere Badia and Maria ptqk | mp4 | color | 20:21
2014 “The role of art in the transformation of society” | experimental Videointerview to Leonidas Martín / Colectivo Enmedio | mp4 | color | 25:56
2014 “Development Research and Global Change Management” | experimental Videointerview to Pierre Ibisch and Christoph Nowicki | mp4 | color | 20:00*
2014 “Entwicklungsforschung und Buen Vivir” | experimental Videointerview to Alberto Acosta | mp4 | color | 20:00*
2014 “(Neo-)extractivism and the Future of Democracy in Latin America” | experimental Videointerview to Edgardo Lander | mp4 | color | 18:17*
2014 “(Neo-)extractivism and the Future of Democracy in Latin America” | experimental Videointerview to Carlos Monge | mp4 | color | 18:17*
2014 “(Neo-)extractivism and the Future of Democracy in Latin America” | experimental Videointerview to Maria Luisa Aguilar | mp4 | color | 11:28
2014 “(Neo-)extractivism and the Future of Democracy in Latin America” | experimental Videointerview to Nancy Yanez Fuenzalida | mp4 | color | 20:00*
2014 “Who owns the raw materials?” | experimental Videointerview to Carlos Zorilla | mp4 | color | 22:17
2014 “Who owns the knowledge?” | experimental Videointerview to Miguel Colapi | mp4 | color | 22:17
2013-14 “Challenge Yasuní” | interactive Video Installation (with Dan Norton) | mp4 | color | variable
2013 “Revaluing memory. From object art to connected art” | Video Interview to Stella Veciana | Author: KID KIDLA | mp4 | color | 05:24
2012 “tuc tuc-polyrhythms” | experimental Video | mp4 | color | 01:43
2012 “lab(or)rhythms” | experimental Video | mp4 | color | 00:39
2011 “VOICES of nature VOICES of people” | experimental Video | mp4 | color | 02:48
2011 “The making of "Flocking herding shoaling swarming” | experimental Video | mp4 | color | 03:34
2011 “floqting” | experimental Video | mp4 | color | 02:29
2010 “againandagain” | experimental Video | mp4 | color | 01:10
2005 “here and there” (short version) | experimental Video | mp4 | color | 02:43
1992 “Indagation” | experimental Video | S-VHS | bw | 05:00
1992 “Zeitsubstrat” | experimental Video | S-VHS | color | 08:00
1992 “Implantat I” | Dance Film (with Janine Schneider) | S-VHS | bw | 08:00*
1992 “Implantat II” | Dance Film (with Janine Schneider) | S-VHS | color, bw | 19:23
1991 “Quallenbrennen” | art installation Documentary | S-VHS | color | 02:00*
1991 “Lapidarium” | art installation Documentary | S-VHS | color | 02:00*
1991 “Das umnebelte Aquarium” | art installation Documentary | S-VHS | color | 04:00
1991 “Die verschiedenen Arten ein Ei zu Essen” | experimental Film (with Nada B. Doellen) | 16mm | color | 10:00
1991 "HDK at European Biennial of Art Academies Barcelona" | Documentary | S-VHS | color | 03:00*
1990 “¿Què paso?” | experimental Film | 8mm | color | 08:00