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Clemens von Wedemeyer

born 1974 in Göttingen, lives and works in Berlin

 

 

 

 

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Biography

 

2006 Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff-Stipendium
2005 Cité des arts, Paris
2004 Grant by the Kunststiftung Sachsen
2002 - 2005 Meisterschüler (Prof. Astrid Klein), Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
2002 Grant by the Kunststiftung Sachsen
2002 Grant by the DEFA Film Foundation, Berlin
1998 - 2002 Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig

1996 - 1998

Phototgraphy and the Media, Fachhochschule Bielefeld

 

 

Awards (selection) 

 

2006 Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, German Competition
2005

GASAG Kunstpreis, Berlin

2005 Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse in Bremen
2002

VG Bildkunst Award for Experimental Film and Video-art, Munich Film Festival

2002 Marion Erner Preis, Leipzig

1998

Focus (Festival für Fotografie und Elektrokunst), Dortmund

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"Metropolis, Report from China", Video, 42 min, joint work with Maya Schweizer (2006)   "Von Gegenueber / From the Opposite Side", film, 38 min, skulptur projekte muenster 07, (2007)

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Solo Exhibitions

 

2008
CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

 

2007
"Films in common", Argos - Centre for Art & Media, Brussels

"Vita Kuben", Umea, Sweden

2006
Kölnischer Kunstverein (catalogue)
"Rien de Tout", CAC Brétigny-sur-Orge, France
PS1 MOMA, New York

2003
"Cinema Divisible", Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris
"Big Business", Plattform, Berlin

 

 

Group Exhibitions & Screenings (selection) 

 

2008
"Estern Standard: Western artists in China", Mass MoCA, North Adams, USA
Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendium, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
"Collateral 2, When art looks at cinema", SESC, Sao Paolo, Brasil

 

2007 - 2008
"Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to now", MoMA, New York
"Filmische Wahrheiten", Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany
"Bare life", museum on the seam, Jerusalem, Israel
"Fiction vs. Reality", Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisboa, Portugal

 

2007
"Wheel", Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
"Divided Monologue", Max Pechstein Preis, Städtisches Museum Zwickau, Germany
"Skulptur Projekte Münster", Germany
"Timeout: Art and Substainability", Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
"The California Files, re-viewing side effects of cultural memory", CCA Wattisd Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Fransisco, USA
"Love Addiction", La Comunale, Monfalcone, Italy
"Re:", Site Gallery, Sheffield, England
"Umbau / Modificstion", Neue Kunst Halle St. Gallen (catalogue)
"Collateral", Hangar Bicocca, Milano (catalogue)
"Retour d'Italie. Documents en déplacement", Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris
"Le nuage Magellan", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
"Naked Life", Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan
"The other city", Trafo Galeria, Budapest


2006
"Just off focus", Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
"In Moment", Skelleftea Konsthall, Sweden
4th Biennale of contemporary art, Berlin

  

2005 
"The Pantagruel Syndrom", T-Treinnale, Torino
"Déjà-vu, The Moment of "Belatedness" in Contemporary Art", Atelier Augarten, Center for Contemporary Art, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
"Projekt Migration", Kölnischer Kunstverein (catalogue)
"Krasnojarsk Museum Biennale", Krasnojarsk, Siberis, Russia
"Bremer Freiheit", Künstlerhaus Bremen
Galerie Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany (with Gustav Kluge and Jan Mancuska)
Art Space, Auckland, New Zealand
"In der Wäldern", Kunsthaus Mürz, Mürzzuschlag, Austria
Klosterfelde, Berlin (with Markus Schinwald and Matthew Buckingham)
Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow

 

2004
Galerie Konrath Wimmer, Vienna (in association with Plattform, Berlin)
"Verfahren im Raum", Kunstraum B2, Leipzig (catalogue)
"Utopia station", Haus der Kunst, München
"Shrinking cities", Kunst-Werke, berlin (catalogue)
"Deutschland sucht", Kölnischer Kunstverein (catalogue)
"Das Fenster zum Hof", NGBK (Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Künste), Berlin
"Cremers Haufen", Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgfeschichte, Münster, Germany (catalogue)

 

2003 
"Lautloses Irren", Postbahnhof am Ostbahnhof, Berlin (catalogue)
"Radical Architecture III, processing uncertainty", Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne

 

2002
"Keep on looking: Fragen zur Kunst", Kunstfond Sachsen, Kunsthaus Dresden
"Wunschbilder", Kunstfond Sachsen, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig 

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