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LYDIA HAMANN & KAJ OSTEROTH

born 1979 in Strausberg, DE (LH), and 1977 in Beckum, DE (LO), live and work in Berlin and Brandenburg
Villa Romana Fellows 2020


Lydia Hamann & Kaj Osteroth, 2019
photo: Timothy Speed


Awards and Scholarships (selection)

2019
Research residency at the invitation of the MASP, São Paulo, BR (LH&KO)

2018
Cultural department of the city of Vienna, science and research funds, radical admiration – a feminist picture book (LH&KO)

2014
Residency, Bag Factory, Johannesburg, ZA (LH&KO)
Berlin Project Space Award (LH, Raumerweiterungshalle)
ifa travel grant for visiting artist /Residency in the Bag Factory, Johannesburg, ZA (LH&KO)

2012 - 13
ifa Travel Grant for Vanilla Facts 1-3, Research and Work shop connecting artists from Johannesburg and Berlin
(KO & Lester Adams)


Die Lüge des Patriarchats, 2015, oil on canvas, 200 x 260 cm
photo: Bande für Gestaltung

Admiring Yayoi Kusama, Love forever, 2014, oil on canvas, 115 x 160 cm
photo: Smina Bluth

Staying with the trouble, 2019, oil on canvas, 140 x 240 cm
photo: die Künstlerinnen


Exhibitions (selection)

2019
Histórias Feministas /Feminist Histories, MASP, São Paulo, BR (LH&KO)
Beyond Radical Admiration, lecture & research residency at the invitation of the MASP, São Paulo, BR (LH&KO)
AKÜ in the context of food for thought, talks, sign /CIAT, Berlin (KO)

2018
We don´t need another hero, 10th Berlin Biennale (LH&KO)
WWWZ: Salon zu geistigem Eigentum und Autor*innenschaft, Aquarium, Berlin (LH&KO)
Zwei, Museum Abtei Liesborn, Wadersloh, DE (KO)
AKÜ in the context of food for thought, talks, sign /CIAT, Berlin (KO)

2017
Feministischer Kunstunterricht, The Future is Female, Sophiensäle, Berlin (LH&KO)
AKÜ in the context of food for thought, talks, sign /CIAT, Berlin (KO)
Übergänge, Museum Abtei Liesborn, Wadersloh, DE (KO)

2016
Ende vom Lied, Bethanien, Berlin (LH&KO)
I Really Like Your Work, sign /CIAT, Berlin (KO with N. Lehtonen Braun)
DeathLab, series of events, Berlin (LH mit M. Winkel & K.Winzer)
no name for my desire, uqbar, Berlin (KO)

2015
FAMILIARITY. Imperial Myths. Unexpected Queerings, VBKÖ, Vienna
Unter Tage sind wir alle queer, Kokerei Hansa, Dortmund, DE (LH&KO)

2014
this situation – a guest show, Bag Factory, Johannesburg, ZA (LH&KO)
cockpit of a girl, dialogue piece with Liv Strand, Flutgraben, Berlin (LH&KO)

2013
INexactly THIS Festival (Kunstvlaai), Amsterdam (LH&KO)
Vanilla Facts 3, connecting artists from Johannesburg and Berlin, VANSA, Johannesburg, Südafrika
(KO & Lester Adams)

2012
Vanilla Facts 1, 11 ⁄2 & 2, connecting artists from Johannesburg and Berlin, Flutgraben e.V., Berlin
(an initiative by KO & Lester Adams)
Von Rosen, Nelken, Netzen – Artistic statements on International Women's Day, alpha nova kulturwerkstatt & galerie futura, Berlin (LH&KO)

2011
Micku Tschur - HIDDEN PARTS, after the butcher, Berlin (LH&KO)
Hofmalerinnen, painting-performance with Chuck Morris /souvereines éternelles # 1- 5, Panatom Gallery & Sophiensäele (LH&KO)
cadavre exquis, ehemalige Sparkassenfiliale, Berlin (LH&KO)

2010
Ian White´s Kopietheater, Berlinale 2010 /Forum expanded, Cinema Arsenal, Berlin (LH&KO)

2009
Phoenix Radio. Politik Queer-Feministischer Räume, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Bethanien, Berlin (LH&KO)

2008
TOTALEPARTIZIPATIONradikaleentspannung, IG bildende Kunst, Vienna (LH)
German Angst, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (LH)

2007
documenta12, Kassel, DE (LH mit Timeline group & Alice Creischer)
fleeing the arch, workshop and zine production as part of the Ladyfest and the Queer Feminist Days, Berlin
(LH&KO and Emma Williams)
D Bilder, Kulturbunker, Cologne, DE (LH and Timeline group)
More work to do, Shedhalle, Zurich (LH)
You´ll Know what to do, happening with Vaginal Davis, Raumer weiterungshalle, Berlin (LH)

2006
La Normalidad, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires (LH and Timeline group)
Lost in Translation, 9. Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul (LH and Die Üblichen Chichieh)
Lichtomis dritter Standberg, after the butcher, Berlin (KO)
Video works from Berlin, Hamis McKay Gallery, Wellington, NZ (KO)

2005
Medialisierung /Arbeit /Spatialisierung /(Re-)Politisierung, Fluc, Vienna (KO)
W..wir wissen, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (LH and Die Üblichen Chichieh & KO with Freie Klasse Berlin)