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Geboren 1972, Bremen
Ausbildung: UdK – Universtät der Künste Berlin, 2002

Aram Bartholl befragt mittels seiner skulpturalen Interventionen, Installationen sowie performativen Workshops unser gegenwärtiges Medienverhalten sowie die Öffentlichkeitsökonomien, die an soziale Netzwerke, Online-Plattformen oder digitale Verbreitungsstrategien geknüpft sind. Gesellschaftlich relevante Themen wie Überwachung, Datensicherheit oder Technikabhängigkeit stellt er zur Diskussion, in dem er die Lücken, Widersprüchlichkeiten oder Absurditäten unseres digitalen Alltags in räumliche Settings überführt. Dabei entstehen einerseits teils groteske Konfrontationen mit der eigenen Ignoranz gegenüber einem global agierenden Plattformkapitalismus, anderseits nutzt er auch die Potentiale des öffentlichen Raums, um Netzwerkaktivitäten als politische Formen der Teilhabe auf analoger Ebene neu zu verhandeln. Damit stößt Aram Bartholl mittels seiner Arbeiten einen performativen Prozess an, der es ermöglicht, das individuelle Handeln wieder innerhalb eines kollektiven und selbstbestimmten Netzwerk-Diskurses zu verstehen. Formal und konzeptuell greift er in seinen künstlerischen Arbeiten auf die Ästhetiken, Codes und Kommunikationsmuster zurück, mit denen auch User auf YouTube, Instagram oder in Videospielen agieren. Die gezielte Kontextualisierung vergegenwärtigt die Logiken des Internets und unterwandert sie gleichzeitig anhand ihrer eigenen Verwertungsstrategien.

Neben zahlreichen Vorträgen, Workshops und Performances wurden seine Arbeiten international u. a. im MoMA Museum of Modern Art, Palais de Tokyo, Hamburger Bahnhof, Seoul Museum of Art, der Thailand Biennale, der Venedig Biennale und auf den Skulptur Projekten Münster ausgestellt. Aram Bartholl lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.

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Professor für Kunst, Schwerpunkt digitale Medien

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Einzelausstellungen

2024 Kunstverein Rotenburg, Rotenburg, Home Smart Home
2023 NEUES MUSEUM Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design Nürnberg, Nürnberg, This is fine
Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Ihr Paket ist abholbereit
2022 HMKV, Dortmund, Video des Monats
2021 Kunstsommer Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Hypernormalisation
Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, New Viewings
2019 Roehrs & Boetsch, Zurich, Open
panke.gallery, Berlin, Strike Now!!
SMAC, Berlin, True Depth
2018 Emmanuel gallery, Denver, Your shopping cart is empty
La Chaufferie, H.E.A.R., Strasbourg, France, Is this you in the video?
Import Projects, Berlin, Your parcel has been delivered (to your neighbour)
2017 Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland, SITUATIONS #91
2016 Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany, Remind Me Later
2015 Babycastles, New York, Point Of View
2014 DAM Gallery, Berlin, Hurt me plenty
2013 Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Hello World
xpo gallery, Paris, Retweet if you want more followers
Aksioma, Ljubljana, Go!Go!Go!
xpo gallery, Paris, OFFLINE ART: new2
2012 DAM Gallery, Berlin, Germany, Reply All
2009 5 Minute Museum, STRP, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Random Screen
2006 Project space „Ceci n’est pas un restaurant“, Berlin, Germany, Gamestar

Biennalen (Auswahl)

2019 Stadstriennale: Screen It, Stadstriennale Hasselt Genk, Hasselt, Genk
Immortality – The Ural Bienniale, uralbiennale.ru, Ekaterinburg
Vienna Biennale 2019, MAK Design Labors, Vienna
Modell und Ruine, Werkleitz Festival, Dessau
2018 Biennale d’art contemporain de Strasbourg, Hotel des Postes, Strasbourg, France
Thailand Biennale, OCAC, Krabi, Thailand
The Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Le Grand Monnayage, 8e biennale internationale d'art contemporain de Melle, Melle, France
2017 Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017, LWL, Münster, Germany
Hyperpavilion, Venice Biennale, official extended program, Venice, Italy
BoCA, Biennial of Contemporary Arts, Lisboa & Porto, Portugal
2016 CAMÉRA(AUTO)CONTRÔLE, TRIENNIAL 50JPG, Centre de la photographie Genève, Geneva, Switzerland

Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)

2024 Out Of Bounds, SEAGER gallery, London
Transmediale Exhibition: you’re doing amazing sweetie, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
Decoding the Black Box, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen
2023 Street 3.0, Osaka Kansai International Art Festival, Osaka
Prototypen und andere seltsame Dinge, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg
Amsterdam Light Festival, Hoftuin, Public Space, Amsterdam
*cringe*, HGW STD, Athens
Kunst Basis Ebertplatz vol.2, Ebertplatz Köln, Köln
Die Sirenen heulen (It`s on us), Galerie Sexauer, Berlin
Die Sirenen heulen (It`s on us), Mieze Südlich, Chemnitz
A:PRÉS D:ÉSSERT, Projectspace A:D:, Berlin
Tilt Shift – Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstadt
Asuntos de nuestro espacio, EAC Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo
Let’s Do It All!, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel
Enigma, Museum of Communication, Kopenhagen
:-#, Kunstverein Rotenburg, Rotenburg
Behind the screens. 50 years of computer art., CODA Museum, Apeldoorn
2022 Kunst gegen Rechts, https://www.haeselburg.org, Mieze Südlich, Häselburg Gera
Playmode, CCBB – Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Sao Paulo
Safe Mode: Amplified Realities, TILT Platform, The Project Gallery, MISC, BHD Hub Athens, Athens
Bridging Differences, T3 Photo Festival Tokyo, Tokio
I am not a Robot, Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest
On Equal Terms, Uferhallen, Berlin
Kunst gegen Rechts, Uferhallen, Berlin
Bike In Head, Städtische Galerie, Bremen
Playmode, CCBB – Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
How to Win At Photography, The Photographers Gallery, London
DeadDrops in H4v4n4, El Paquete Semanal, Havana
Art Me!, Galerie Charlot, Paris
Call Me, galeriepcp, Paris
House of Mirrors: Artificial Intelligence as Phantasm, HMKV, Dortmund
Playmode, CCBB – Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Belo Horizonte
The Glass Room, MOD, Adelaide
2021 Domestic Drama, Halle Für Kunst, Graz
Decision Making – L’instant décisif, Canadien Cultural Centre, Paris
Stampede, Horse & Pony, Berlin
Museum of Cryptography, Museum of Cryptography, Moscow
Glass Room – An exhibition by Tactical Tech, OBA, Amsterdam
Owned by others, Museum Island Berlin, Berlin
The Principle of Hope, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing
Me And My Machine, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
Glass Room – An exhibition by Tactical Tech, dbieb, Leeuwarden
Thinking landscapes: Beyond a framework, +CODE, Buenos Aires
How to Win at Photography, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Supermarket of Images, Red Brick Art Museum, China
2020 Mind Over Matter, Technische Sammlungen Dresden, Dresden
Owned By Others, Museum Tropicana, Berlin
Data CTRL Centre, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kiev
Imagine you Wake Up and There is no Internet, Romantso, Athens
Opencoil, Berlin, Berlin
A Brief Inquiry Into Empty Space, ZhdK, Zurich
Olympics x Art, Co Gallery, Paris
The Days Are Just Packed, THE POOL, Istanbul
Tap To Edit, Renk Rosenblat Alexa, Berlin
Seasons of Media Arts, ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe
Better Off Online, KÖNIG GALERIE / KÖNIG DIGITAL, Online
Erneuerbare Medien, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
The Sea Is Glowing, Exportdrvo, Rijeka
On entering a living being. From Social Sculpture to Platform Capitalism, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
The Supermarket Of Images, Jeu de Paume, Paris
Museumsnacht Basel, HeK - Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel
2019 Link in bio, MdbK, Leipzig
The Glass Room, Tacitical Tec, San Francisco
Asuntos De Nuestro Espacio, Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Buenos Aires
Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, Coventry, Coventry
Playmode, Maat, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon
Kunstsommer Arnsberg, Arnsberg
Speed Show: FACE THE FACE, Internet Cafe, Berlin
One night stand, Horse and Pony, Berlin
Please don’t stand in the middle of the road waiting for me to get you on camera, isthisitisthisit.com, Online
Metanatural Landscapes, panke.gallery, Berlin
Kunst und Kapital, Kunstraum Bogenhausen, München
If birds in a truck fly, does the truck get lighter?, Drugo More, Rijeka, Croatia
SF MOMA: Snap + Share, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2018 Monitoring, Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel, Germany
Without Nature, Nicoletti Contemporary, London
W&W: Miete, Strom, Instagram, Walch & Winkler, Berlin
Gallery.Delivery, Gallery.Delivery, Berlin
All Changes Saved, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca
Die Informale, Videoramas - The Pool at Night, Buenos Aires
Otra Visita A La Escultura, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico
#DATAMAZE, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague
Ein gemachter Mensch – Künstlerische Fragen an Identitäten, Kallmann Museum, Ismaning, Germany
2017 SITUATIONS #91, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Festival of Futurenows, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Escaping the Digital Unease!, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Langenthal, Switzerland
Odysey, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Möhnesee, Germany
immaterial, Kunstverein Bochum, Bochum, Germany
2016 The Glass Room, Tactical Tech, New York, USA
Alle Achtung!, Kunstraum ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany
Invisible Threads: Technology and its Discontents, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Regeneration Movement, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipeih, Taiwan
FROM BITS TO PAPER* du pixel au papier, sortez des écrans !, Le Shadok, Fabrique du Numérique, Strasbourg, France
SHIFTING OPTICS III, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015 Wie leben? Zukunftsbilder von Malewitsch bis Fujimoto, Wilhelmhack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
Save the Data!, Kunstpalais, Erlangen, Germany
Operation Mindfuck, Kunstverein, Wolfsburg, Germany
Das Netz (Dauerausstellung), Deutsche Technikmuseum, Berlin, Germany
Infossphäre, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany
Dead Drops at Palais de Tokyo, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
PBKAC – IMHO, HeK , House of Electronic Arts, LISTE – Art Fair Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Poetics and Politics of Data, HeK, House of Electronic Arts Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Art In The Age Of… Planetary Computation, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Offline Art: Are you still there?, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
#NEULAND, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, Germany
2014 End User, Hayward Gallery Project Space, London, England
The Darknet – From Memes to Onionland. An Exploration., Kunsthalle St.Gallen, St.Gallen, Switzerland
net.art Painters and Poets, Mestna Galerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Cuban Contemporary Art Salon, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales (CDAV), Havana, Cuba
SNEL HEST, Alingsås Konsthall, Alingsås, Denmark
Archipel in√est, KUNSTrePUBLIK, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Recklinghausen, Germany
Hyperresemblances: REALITY FX, The Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USA
FULL SCREEN, XPO Gallery, Paris, France
UNPAINTED, Media art fair at Postpalast, Munich, Germany
2013 The Influencers Festival, The Influencers Festival, Barcelona, Spain
YIA ART FAIR with XPO gallery, YIA ART FAIR #03, Paris, France
MOTI HOTEL, MOTI - Museum of the Image, Breda, Netherlands
Todaysart, Todaysart festival, The Hague, Netherlands
FACELESS part 2, quartier 21/ INTERNATIONAL Museums Quartier, Vienna, Austria
In Medias Res, Galerie Verney-Carron, Lyon, France
Public Abstraction Private Construction VI VII, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany
Summer Splash 2, DAM Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Fußnoten zum Aufbruch, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
Brand Innovations for Ubiquitous Authorship, Carroll / Fletcher, London, England
F.A.T. Lab GOLD – 5 years of fffffat!!, Eyebeam, New York, USA
From here on, Arts Santa Mónica, Barcelona, Spain
2012 Meine Wunderkammer, DAM Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Co-Re-Creating Spaces, centralTrak, UT Dallas, Dallas, USA
Rock the Block, Backjumps, Berlin, Germany
DVD dead drop, MMI - Mueum of Moving Image New York, New York, USA
Megacool 4.0, Künstlerhaus 1050 / k-haus, Vienna, Austria
Cantastoria, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), Utah, USA
Invisible Maps, Luis Adelantado Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Playtime – Videogame mythologies, Maison d'Ailleurs, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
Signals: For Real, IFFR, Rotterdam, Netherlands
TRANSCEIVER, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
2011 Curious Minds: New Approaches in Design, Design & Architecture dept. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Dada New York II, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland
Tracing Mobility, Trampoline at HKW, Berlin, Germany
Quasi Cinema, Video_Dumbo, New York, USA
Experience Space, DAM Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Social Media, The Pace Gallery, New York City, USA
Ready for upgrade!, DAM Gallery Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Talk to Me, MoMA, Department of Architecture and Design, New York, USA
From here on, Les Rencontres d'Arles 2011, Photo Festival, Arles, France
Identités précaires, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Alternative Controllers, Devotion Gallery, New York, USA
The Uncommon Portrait, Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth, USA
2010 ShadowDance, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
Space Invaders, NIMK Netherlands Media Arts Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
GOOD TIME, Public Art Festival Taipei, VERY conception, Taipei, Taiwan
ISEA2010 RUHR Exhibition, International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2010 Conference, Dortmund, Germany
Locate Me, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Gamezone, Desingel 2010, Antwerpen, Belgium
2009 Space Invaders, Foundation for Art and creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool, England
Nature Transformer, Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2009, Hong Kong
Lack of electricity, Space CAN, Seoul, Korea
Mirror Mirror: Contemporary Portraits and the Fugitive Self, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah, USA
Springt!, Bremer Kunstfrühling / Art Spring Bremen, BBK-Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Inspiracje, Inspiracje Art festival, Szczecin, Poland
2008 DADAMACHINIMA, Planetart, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Time to Play, V2 at eARTS, Urban Space, Shanghai, China
Avatar, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
Hack the City, Total Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA), Seoul, South Corea
Try again, Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain
Public Privacy, NIMK Netherlands Media Arts Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Offline Social Networks, Futuresonic, Manchester, England
Try again, Casa del Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Cardinal Points, Richman Gallery, Baltimore, USA
Being Bold, Urban Media Salon during Transmediale, Berlin, DE
2007 Sandbox Berlin, Skulpturenpark, Berlin, Germany
Goodbye Privacy, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
FPS and WoW, Gameworld, Laboral, Gijon, Spain
Open City – Towards a New Graffiti, Eyebeam, New York, USA
the game is up! – about breaking rules and changing codes, Vooruit Arts Centre Gent, Gent, Belgium
Borderline Behaviour, Filmfestival Rotterdam, TENT, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2006 First Person Shooter, Trampoline Night, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2), Berlin, Germany
Speed, Plattform Bohnenstrasse, Bremen, Germany
Simplicity, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Viper, 25th VIPER BASEL Festival, Basel, Switzerland
3rd (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest, ENEMY, Chicago, USA
2005 23C3, Chaos Communication Congress, Berliner Congress Center (BBC), Berlin, Germany
Hyperpavillion, Venice Biennale, official extended program,
BoCA Biennial of Contemporary Arts, Lisboa & Porto, Portugal
2016 The White Room, Tacical Tech, New York
Alle Achtung! ACC Galerie, Weimar
Invisible Threads: Technology and its Discontents NYUAD Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi
CAMÉRA(AUTO)CONTRÔLE, TRIENNIAL 50JPG, Centre de la photographie, Geneve
Regeneration Movement, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipeih
FROM BITS TO PAPER* du pixel au papier, Le Shadok,, Strasbourg
Shifting Optics, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2015 Wie leben? Zukunftsbilder von Malewitsch bis Fujimoto, Wilhelmhack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Save the Data! Kunstpalais Stadt Erlangen, Erlangen
Operation Mindfuck, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Das Netz (Dauerausstellung), Deutsche Technikmuseum Berlin
Infossphäre, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Poetics and Politics of Data, HeK, House of Electronic Arts Basel
Art In The Age Of Planetary Computation, Witte de With, Rotterdam
PBKAC – IMHO ,Haus der Elektronischen Künste, LISTE art fair, Basel
Offline Art: Are you still there? Museum Angewandte Kunst; Frankfurt
NEULAND Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Germany
2014 End User Hayward Gallery Project Space, London
The Darknet Kunsthalle St.Gallen, Switzerland
Cuban Contemporary Art Salon Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Cuba
SNEL HEST Alingsås Kosthall, Denmark
Archipel in√est, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Recklinghausen
net.art Painters and Poets, Mestna galerija Ljubljana, Solvenia
Hyperresemblances: REALITY FX, The Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, NYC
FULL SCREEN, xpo gallery, Paris
MOTI HOTEL MOTI Museum of the Image, Breda, Netherlands
UNPAINTED Media art fair at Postpalast , Munich
2013 30C3: 30th Chaos Communication Congress, Hamburg
The Influencers Festival Barcelona, Spain
YIA ART FAIR with xpo gallery, Paris, France
Todaysart, festival, The Hague, Netherlands
FACELESS, quartier 21 Museums Quartier, Vienna
In Medias Res, Galerie Verney-Carron, Lyon, France
Public Abstraction Private Construction VI VII, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany
Summer Splash 2, DAM Gallery, Berlin
Fußnoten zum Aufbruch, Motorenhalle Dresden, Germany
Brand Innovations for Ubiquitous Authorship, Carroll / Fletcher, London
FAT GOLD, Eyebeam, New York
From here on , Arts Santa Mónica, Barcelona, Spain
2012 Rock the Block, Backjumps, Berlin, Germany
Meine Wunderkammer, DAM Gallery Berlin, Germany,
Co-Re-Creating Spaces, centralTrak, UT Dallas, USA
DVD dead drop, Museum of Moving Image, New York
Megacool 4.0, Künstlerhaus, Wien, Österreich
Cantastoria, UMOCA Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, USA
Invisible Maps, Luis Adelantado Mexico, Mexico City, Mexiko
It‘s a small small world, Family Business, New York
Playtimes, Maison d‘Ailleurs, Yverdon-les-Bains, Schweiz
Curious Minds, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Signals: For Real, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Niederlande
Tranceiver, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, USA
2011 Dada New York II, Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich, Schweiz
Tracing Mobility, HKW, Berlin
 Quasi Cinema, Video_Dumbo, New York, USA
 Experience Space, [DAM] Berlin, Berlin
 Social Media, The Pace Gallery, New York, USA
 Ready for upgrade, [DAM] Cologne, Köln
Talk to me, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
From here on, Les Rencontres d‘Arles 2011, Arles, Frankreich
The Uncommon Portrait, Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth, USA
Alternative Controllers, Devotion Gallery, New York, USA
Identités précaires, Jeu de Paume, Virtual Space, Paris, Frankreich
Gateways. Kumu, Tallinn, Estland
2010 ShadowDance, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Niederlande
Locate Me, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
Gamezone, Desingel, Antwerpen, Belgien
GOOD TIME, Public Art Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
Sterne Sehen, Art Space Riga, Riga, Lettland
Space Invaders, NIMK Netherlands Media Arts Institute, Amsterdam, Niederlande
ISEA2010 Exhibition, ISEA, Dortmund
2009 Space Invaders, FACT, Liverpool, Großbritannien
Nature Transformer, Microwave, Hong Kong
BLK River Festival, Gallery Ofroom, Vienna, Österreich
Mirror Mirror: Contemporary Portraits and the Fugitive Self, Brigham Young, MoA, Utah, USA
Lack of electricity, Gallery Space CAN, Seoul, Korea
WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, USA
InnMotion, Biennial International Festival Of Visual And Performing Arts, Barcelona, Spanien
Springt!, Bremer Kunstfrühling, Bremen
Inspiracje art festival, MUZ, Szczecin, Polen
DADAMACHINIMA, Planetart, Amsterdam, Niederlande
2008 Video Award Bremen, Weserburg | Museum of Modern Art,Bremen
Time to Play, eARTS, Urban Space, Shanghai, China
Avatar, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australien
Hack the City, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Südkorea
Try again, Koldo Mitxelenam, San Sebastian, Spanien
Public Privacy, NIMK Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, Niederlande
Offline Social Networks, Futuresonic, Manchester, Großbritannien
Try again, Casa del Encendida, Madrid, Spanien
Cardinal Points, Richman Gallery, Baltimore, USA
Being Bold, Club Transmediale, Berlin
2007 Sandbox Berlin, Skulpturenpark, Berlin
Goodbye Privacy, Ars Electronica, Linz, Österreich
Our Cyborg Future?, Newcastle’s Discovery Museum, Newcastle, Great Britain
Gameworlds, Laboral, Gijon, Spanien
Open City, Eyebeam, New York City, USA
Time’s up, Vooruit, Gent, Belgien
Unfinish!, Transmediale, Berlin
Borderline Behaviour, TENT, Rotterdam, Niederlande
2006 First Play Berlin, HAU2, Berlin
Plattform Bohnenstrasse, Public Space Exhibition, Bremen
Simplicity, Ars Electronica, Linz, Österreich
Viper, Basel, Schweiz
3rd (A) r4WB1t5 micro.fest, ENEMY Gallery, Chicago, USA
2005 22C3, Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin
2004 21C3, Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin

Kuration

2018 Don’t show again, Reaktor, Wien, Österreich
2017 34C3 Co-curation Art&Culture track, Chaos Communication Congress, Leipzig, Germany
Make it fit!, panke.gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015 Offline Art: Are you still there?, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Offline Art: ‘Your are not checked in’ at ‘Capture All!’, Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
2014 FULL SCREEN, XPO Gallery, Paris, France
2013 OFFLINE ART: Hardcore, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
OFFLINE ART: new2, XPO Gallery, Paris, France
2011 SPEED SHOW vol.5 – Open Internet, Internet Cafe Welat, Paris, France
2010 SPEED SHOW vol.2 – who the fuck do you think you are talking to?, Kaukas Handy Shop, Vienna, Austria
SPEED SHOW vol.1 – TELE-INTERNET, Internet shop on Kottbusser Damm, Berlin, Germany
2009 SPEED SHOW vol.3 – Peace!, at ’A.Internetcafe’, Tw.v.d. Helststraat 15, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007 Second City, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2018 Don’t show again, REAKTOR, Vienna
2017 Make it fit · Panke Gallery, Berlin
34C3 · Chaos Communication Congress, Leipzig,Co-curation Art&Culture track
2016 Speed Show · LA: Manifesto, Korea town, LA
33C3 · Chaos Communication Congress, Hamburg, Co-curation Art&Culture track
2015 Offline Art: ‘Your are not checked in’ at ‘Capture All!’ · Transmediale, Berlin
Offline Art: Are you still there? · at Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt
2014 FULL SCREEN · xpo gallery, Paris, Frankreich
2013 Offline Art: new2 · xpo gallery, Paris, Frankreich
Offline Art: Hardcore · Kasseler Kunstverein
2012 Speedshow · GML, Berlin
DVD DeadDrop vol.2 ·MMI New York, USA
DVD DeadDrop vol.1 · MMI New York, USA
2011 Speedshow · Evan Roth, New York, USA
Speedshow · Constant Dullaart, Berlin
Speedshow · Fun is back, Stuttgart
Speedshow · Open Internet, Paris, Frankreich
2010 Speedshow · Super Niche New York, USA
Ars Electronica · TeleInternet, Linz, Österreich
Speedshow · Peace, Amsterdam, Niederlande
Speedshow · who the fuck do you think you are talking to?, Wien, Österreich
Speedshow · TELE-INTERNET, Berlin
2007 Second City · Ars Electronica, Linz, Österreich

Sammlungen (Auswahl)

City of Paris – Le Fonds municipal d’art contemporain de la Ville de Paris

Sammlung MoMA

Lehre

Seit 2019 Professur für Kunst, Schwerpunkt digitale Medien, HAW Hamburg
2016-18 Vertretungsprofessur: Klasse Neue Medien, Kunsthochschule Kassel
2016 Visiting Professor Design & Media Art, UCLA Los Angeles, Winter/Spring quarter
2014 Vertretungsprofessur: New Media, Merz Akademie, Sommersemester

Förderungen / Kommissionen / Künstlerresidenzen

2018 Stiftung KUNSTFONDS, project grant
FLACC foundation, Belgium, residency
2017 Innogy Stiftung, Skulptur Projekte Münster, stipend
2015 ACA, Atlantic Center of the Arts, Florida, residency (Master)
Senatskanzlei / Kulturelle Angelegenheiten, City of Berlin, stipend
2012 Museum of Moving Image, New York, commission, Harpo Foundation, Los Angeles, USA, stipend
2011 Rhizome, New York, USA, commission
Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Department, stipend
2010 Eyebeam, New York, USA, Artist in residence,
2009 V2 Institute for Unstable Media, Rotterdam, artist in residence,
2008 Stiftung KUNSTFONDS, stipend
IFA Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., stipend
2007 Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Department, project grant

Preise

2011 Honorable mention, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2007 17th Video Art Award, Bremen
Transmediale Award, Berlin, Honorable mention
2001 Browserday, Berlin, Competition

Vorträge (Auswahl)

2023 Fachtagung der Kunstkommission Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Perspektiven von Kunst im öffentlichen Raum
Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Artist talk
TU Berlin, Berlin, Artist Talk
UdK Berlin, Berlin, Weak Signals
2022 Online, München, Marburg, DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms „Das digitale Bild“
Bundesgerichtshof, Berlin, Kunst am Bau – Bundesgerichtshof
2021 +CODE, Buenos Aires, Artist Talk
2020 Pavillon Bosio - Monaco, Monaco, Poétique & esthétique du digital
FH Potsdam, Potsdam, Zeitmaschine
Vienna Contemporary, Vienna, ArtTech Talk: Technology Off Screen
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, EC(centri)CITY – Die exzentrische Stadt
HAWK Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Artist Talk
Co Gallery, Paris, Co Talk
2019 James-Simon-Galerie, Berlin, ASAP – transferring the immediacy of the digital to culture
HeK, Basel, Panel discussion
Drugo More, Rijeka, Croatia, BYOD
Hotel de Poste, Strasbourg, Biennale de Strasbourg: True Depth
ETH, Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur, Zurich, Digital Matters
2018 Jugend Hackt - Jugendtheater Parkaue, Berlin, MACHT.CODE
NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, G23-Summit
Volksbühne, Berlin, Das ist Netzpolitik
Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Your shopping cart is empty
Panke Gallery, Berlin, eGames – die Kunst des ernste Spiels
HEAR, Strasbourg, Is this you in the video?
Reaktor, Wien, Österreich, Speculative Privacy
2017 Technische Sammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Artist Talk
Uni Bremen, Bremen, Germany, Re-Configuring Anonymity Symposium
Biennial of Contemporary Arts, Lisboa & Porto, Portugal, Artist Talk
Bard College, Berlin, Germany, Never Worry Again
2016 KIKK Festival, Namur, Belgium, Artist Talk
Internationales Sommerfestival, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany, Datapolitics
LACMA Art & Technology Lab, Los Angeles, USA, Offline/Online Convergences: Aram Bartholl and Kathy Rae Huffman
MCAD Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Artist Talk
2015 Projectspace ACUD, Berlin, Germany, Panel Discussion: Image is a Virus – On activism
We are Museums conference panel, Berlin, Germany, Museums : after the Internet?
re:publica conference, Berlin, Germany, Artist Talk: finding europe
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, HATE – Kongress der Möglichkeiten
2014 31C3, Chaos Communication Congress, Hamburg, Germany, A New Dawn
Urbane Künste Ruhr, Duisburg, Germany, art / space / public
Schwindel der Wirklichkeit Gesprächsreihe, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany, glDrawArrays(Reality) Lecture Series
re:publica Conference, Berlin, Germany, Into The Wild
Intergraph Studierende des Masterstudiengangs Bühnenbild_Szenischer Raum TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Hello World!
2012 Stadtbibliothek, Stuttgart, Germany, Digitale Kultur: GameTalks
Graphic Design Festival Breda, Breda, Netherlands, Search – Find
Next Berlin, Conference for digital industries, Berlin, Germany, Next Berlin
Rhizome, New York, USA, Seven on Seven
FITC Conference Amsterdam 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Talk on dead drops
2011 Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum with Goethe Institute, Washington DC, USA, Lunch Bytes (3) – Digital Material
DAZ, Berlin, Germany, Macht im öffentlichen Raum
Broadway, Nottingham, England, Making Future Collaboration
SFAI's Thesis 2 Collaborative project, San Francisco, USA, Transit///Stasis
2010 International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2010 Conference, Dortmund, Germany, Artist presentation
thinktank at HAU2, Berlin, Germany, Jean Luc und die Singularität vorm falschen Fenster
2009 Graphic Design Museum Breda, Paradiso Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, me you and everyone we know is a curator
Berlin Technical University of Art (BTK), Berlin, Germany, The Drop Shadow Talks lecture series
V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Test_Lab: Fashionable Technology
2008 MB21 Cynetart, Dresden, Germany, ‘Between the Private and the Public’ Panel
International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2008, Singapore, Artist Talk
Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Halle, Germany, Artist Talk
Inspired FAQ, Lisbon, Portugal, Artist Talk
Club Transmediale, Berlin, Artist Talk
2007 Telefonica, Madrid, Spain, Ambassador for innovation
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, Second Life
Designmai 2007, Berlin, Germany, Second Life
re:publica Conference, Berlin, Germany, Offline symbols in the offline world
2006 Bauhaus-University Weimar, Media City Conference, Weimar, Germany, Digital Layers in Urban Space
Experimentdays06, Berlin, Germany, Nachhaltigkeit und öffentlichem Raum
2018 Reaktor Wien, Österreich, Speculative Privacy
2017 Bard College Berlin, Artist Talk, Never Worry Again
BoCA Biennial of Contemporary Arts, Lisboa & Porto, Portugal, Artist Talk
Universität Bremen Symposium 2017, Bremen, Re-Configuring Anonymity
Technische Sammlungen Dresden, When machines are dreaming, Artist Talk
2016 MCAD, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, USA, Artist Talk
LACMA Art & Technology Lab, Los Angeles, USA, Offline/Online

Convergences: Aram Bartholl and Kathy Rae Huffman

Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel, Hamburg, Datapolitics
KIKK Festival, Namur, Belgien, Artist Talk
2015 Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien,  Berlin, HATE – Kongress der Möglichkeiten
re:publica – finding europe, Station Berlin, Berlin, Artist Talk
We are Museums, Conference Panel, Berlin, Museums: after the Internet?
ACUD, Panel Discussion, Image is a Virus – On activism
2014 TU Berlin, Intergraph, Masterstudiengang Bühnenbild_Szenischer Raum,
Berlin, Hello World!
re:publica, Into The Wild – Konferenz, Berlin, Artist Talk
Hochschule Luzern, Design & Kunst, Luzern, Schweiz, Wegen der Produktion
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Schwindel der Wirklichkeit, Lecture Series
Urbane Künste Ruhr, Duisburg, art / space / public
31. Chaos Communication Congress, Hamburg, A New Dawn – 31C3
2013 FHNW, Basel, Schweiz, Synthesize!, Symposium
The Influencers Festival, Barcelona, Spain
2012 Play & Make, Conference, Düsseldorf
Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Digitale Kultur: GameTalks
Graphic Design Festival Breda, Netherlands, Artist Talk
Next Berlin, Berlin, Conference for digital industries
Rhizome at the New Museum, New York, Seven on Seven
FITC Conference Amsterdam, Netherlands
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Trampoline – Agency for Art & Media, Tracing Mobility
2011 Smithsonian‘s Hirshhorn Museum, DC, USA, Panel, Lunch Bytes (3) –
Digital Material
DAZ, Berlin, Lecture Series, Macht im Öffentlichen Raum
Open World Forum, Paris, France, Konferenz, Art & Open Source
The Pace Gallery, New York City, USA, Panel Discussion, Social Media
Broadway, Nottingham, Großbritannien, Panel, Making Future Collaboration
SFAI, San Francisco, USA,Panel, Transit///Stasis
ShareConference, Belgrad, Serbien, Offline Networks, Artist Talk
2010 ISEA 2010, Dortmund U, Conference, Artist Presentation
Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Artist Talk, Locate Me
GDFB – Graphic Design Festival Breda, Netherlands, Artist Talk, Are you human?
HAU2, Berlin, Think Tank, Jean Luc und die Singularität vorm falschen Fenster
2009 Graphic Design Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Symposium, me you
and everyone we know is a curator
BTK, Berlin, Drop Shadow Talks
F.A.T. Lab, Berlin, Konferenz, Atoms & Bits
ICST, Berlin, FaVE Konferenz, Keynote
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, USA, Artist Talk, WoW: Emergent
media phenomenon
V2_ Institut for unstable Media, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Test_Lab:
Fashionable Technology
2008 Cynetart, Dresden, MB21, Panel, Between the Private and the Public
ISEA, Singapore, Konferenz, Artist Talk
Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Halle, Artist Talk
Inspired F.A.Q., Lisbon, Portugal, Konferenz, Artist Talk
GeneratorX, CTM, Berlin, Artist Talk
2007 Telefonica, Madrid, Spain, confrence, Ambassador for Innovation
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, panel, Second Life
Designforum, Freiburg, Artist Talk
reboot 9.0, Copenhagen, Denmark, Konferenz, Artist Talk
Designmai, Berlin, Panel, Second Life
re:publica, Berlin, Germany, Konferenz, Offline symbols in the offline world
Transmediale, Berlin, Second Life panel
2006 Mediacity, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Konferenz, Digital Layers in Urban Space
2005 Transmediale, Berlin, Open.Plan, Daten am Ort
2002 TU Cottbus, Cottbus, Vortragsreihe, Crossover Architektur
V2_ Institut for Unstable Media, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Panel, Infotopia the infogolem

Workshops (Auswahl)

2024 Killyourphone workshop, Transmediale exhibition hosted by Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
Killyourphone workshop, Transmediale exhibition hosted by Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
#linkchain – workshop by Nadja Buttendorf, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück
Warum sind Daten poltisch? – Von digitalen Diensten zu realen Ungerechtigkeiten, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück
Reparatur- und Nachhaltigkeitsmesse „2.Chance!“, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück
2023 Killyouphone, 37C3 Chaos Computerclub Congress, Hamburg
Repair Cafe IV, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück
Repair Cafe III, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück
Mini-Teilchenbeschleuniger-AV-Experiment workshop by Darsha Hewitt, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück
Repair Cafe II, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück
Fahrrad-Exkursion – Warenströme vor Ort!, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück
Repair Cafe I, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück
2019 Kill your phone, Centre culturel suisse. Paris, Paris
Workshop: True Depth, HeK, Basel
Digital Matters, ETH, Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur, Zurich
2018 netzkunst.berlin, Panke Gallery, Berlin
G23 Gipfel, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf
Aluhut Workshop, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf
Because Internet, Universität Köln, Köln
Is this you in the video?, HEAR, Strasbourg
2017 Aluhut Workshop, Technische Sammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Killyourphone, Skulptur Projekte, Münster, Germany
Friday Late, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Iconomania, MAIF Social Club, Paris, France
2016 Geheim-Camera, 33c3, Chaos Communication Congress, Hamburg, Germany
Killyourphone with STAT-US, Machine Project, Los Angles, USA
Killyourphone, Tribeca Film Festival, New York, USA
2015 Survival, Kunstakademie, Münster, Germany
KILLYOURPHONE.COM, Parsons School, Paris, France
2014 Killyourphone, The Darknet – From Memes to Onionland. An Exploration, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St.Gallen, Switzerland
PAINT figure drawing class, EYEBEAM, New York, USA
Wegen der Produktion, Hochschule Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
DIAS Opening, Vallensbæk, Denmark, Digital Interactive Art Space
2013 killyourphone.com, 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress, Hamburg
Dead Drops Workshop, The Influencers Festival, Barcelona, Spain
Synthesize! Symposium, FHNW, Basel, Switzerland
F.A.T. Lab GOLD – 5 years of fffffat!!, MU.nl, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2012 The Future of offline filesharing, Baltanlabs, Einhoven, Netherlands
2011 Open World Forum, Open Source forum Europe, Paris, France
Wahlwoche – New Media Pathway, Merzakademie, Stuttgart, Germany
CrossLab, Willem de Kooning Akademie, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Phaenomenale, Edith Russ Hau, Oldenburg, Germany
2010 Are you human?, Graphic Design Festival Breda (GDFB), Breda, Netherlands
Point & Click, Academy of Media Arts, KHM, Cologne, Germany
2009 Guest lecture & Workshop, Interaction Design Department of The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon, Workshop & Performance, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, USA
Wahlwoche, Merz Akademie, University of Applied Arts, Stuttgart, Germany
Socially Active, University Gallery, University of Essex, Essex, England
2008 Time to Play, V2 at eARTS, Urban Space, Shanghai, China
Creative Gaming Initiative, play08, Potsdam, Germany
WOW, Total Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA), Hack the City, Seoul, South Corea
2007 Analog, Lab30 Festival, Augsburg, Germany
Sandbox Berlin, Skulpturenpark, Berlin, Germany
Goodbye Privacy, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Open City – Towards a New Graffiti, Eyebeam, New York, USA
2006 Simplicity, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Adaptations, Project space ‚Ceci n‘est pas un restaurant’, Berlin, Germany
2017 MAIF Social Club, Paris, France, Iconomania
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Großbritannien, Friday Late
Skulptur Projekte, Münster, Killyourphone
Technische Sammlungen Dresden, When machines are dreaming Aluhut
Workshop & Lecture
2016 Tribeca Film Festival, New York, Killyourphone
Machine Project, Los Angeles, USA, Killyourphone, Workshop mit STAT-US
33rd Chaos Communication Congress, Hamburg, Geheim-Camera
2015 Parsons School Paris, Paris, France, KILLYOURPHONE.COM
Kunstakademie Münster, Survival
2014 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress, Hamburg, killyourphone.com
Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland, The Darknet – From Memes to Onionland. An Exploration, Killyourphone
DIAS – Digital Interactive Art Space, Vallensbaek, Denmark
EYEBEAM, New York, PAINT figure drawing class
2013 F.A.T. Lab GOLD – 5 years of fffffat!!
The Influencers Festival, Barcelona, Spain
Edith-Russ-Haus, Oldenburg, Killyourphone
2012 Baltanlabs & MU, Eindhoven, Netherlands, The Future of offline filesharing
University of Cologne, Symposion at What‘s next?
Künstlerhaus k/haus, Wien, Austria, Megacool 4.0
2011 Broadway, Nottingham, Great Britain, Future Work
Kumu, Tallinn, Estland, Gateways
Merzakademie, Stuttgart, Wahlwoche
Edith Russ Haus, Oldenburg, Phaenomenale
Willem de Kooning Akademie, Rotterdam, Netherlands, CrossLab
2010 KHM Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Point & Click
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, TeleInternet
2009 AHO – School for Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, USA, WoW: Emergent
Media Phenomenon
Merzakademie, Stuttgart, Wahlwoche
University Gallery, Essex, Great Britain, Socially Active
2008 eARTS, Shanghai, China, Urban Space, Time to Play
Futuresonic, Manchester, Great Britain, Offline Social Networks
Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Corea, Hack the City
Creative Gaming Initiative, Potsdam, play08
2007 Lab30, Augsburg, Analog
Skulpturenpark, Berlin, Sandbox Berlin
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, Goodbye Privacy
Eyebeam, New York City, USA, Open City
Vooruit, Gent, Belgien, Time’s up
2006 Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, Simplicity
Project space ‚Ceci n‘est pas un restaurant’, Berlin, Adaptations