Education:
2022-2025 Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (Germany)
Ph.D. Candidate – Artistic Research in Film
2006-2009 Academy of Media Arts Cologne (Germany)
MA in Media Arts – audiovisual media
2002-2005 Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador)
AA in Graphic Design
1999-2001 Universidad Católica de Quito (Ecuador)
Pre-grade studies in Fine arts
Grants & Awards:
2023 NEU START-Grant of the Kunstfonds Foundation
2020 MKW-Grant of the Federal State NRW
2016 Scholarship of the Mediengründerzentrum NRW
2015 Media Art Grant of the SK Stiftung Kultur
2013 Grant “Young Scene” of the Art Foundation NRW
2011 Special Mention at the Videonale13
2009 Special Mention at Guanajuato International Film Festival in Mexico
2009 3Sat Award in German Competition at the Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Conferences:
2022 Szikago Pakrel / 7th Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference: The Nomadic Image / Naryn (Kyrgyzstan)
2022 Future Archeology / 13th International Conference on Artistic Research SAR2022 / Weimar (Germany)
2021 Fabulation for future / Masterclass of Artistic Research in Film and Philosophy / Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (Germany)
2021 Villa Futuro: An introduction / ADD+ART 2021 / Barcelona (Spain)
2021 The Slum or how to imagine the future from a fictional, precarious city / 12th International Conference on Artistic Research SAR2021 / Vienna (Austria)
Residencies:
2016 Artist in Residence / Schloss Bröllin (Germany)
2015 Production residency / Tanzhaus NRW (Germany)
2013 Artist in Residence / Pact Zollverein (Germany)
2010-2012 Production residency / Filmlaboratorium / Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf (Germany)
2009 International exchange / Feldstärke / Centquatre Paris (France) / Pact Zollverein (Germany) / California Institute of the Arts (USA)
Publications:
SAR 2022 Conference Proceedings / on peer-review
Szikago Pakrel – Future Archeology / The Nomadic Image / on peer-review
How to become a posthuman / Fabulation for future / https://exhibition.fabulationforfuture.net/
Villa Futuro: An introduction / ADD+ART 2021 / https://www.artdies.net/en/home-add-art/art-territory/98-gonzalo-h-rodr%C3%ADguez
The Slum or how to imagine the future from a fictional, precarious city / SAR2021 / https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1564264/1564247
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 UPCOMING: 0,5V 0,2mA (and other entangled stories) / Matjöe – Raum für Kunst / Cologne (Germany)
2019 Anónimo – Eine kontrafaktische Geschichte Perus / Lettrétage / Berlin (Germany)
2019 Anónimo – The Angkar Archive / bunker k101 / Cologne (Germany)
2016 AbstractVisions (Visual Performance) / Schloss Bröllin / Fahrenwalde (Germany)
2015 Mise en Scène / Kunsthaus Rhenania / Cologne (Germany)
2013 The Initiate (You) & The Mystics (Them) / Quartier am Hafen / Cologne (Germany)
2007 Die Badewanne / Raum Kalk / Cologne (Germany)
2004 Pepe / Mochileros Bar Art Gallery / Lima (Peru)
Group exhibitions, screenings, and performances (excerpt):
2022 Sinneswüsten / Expanded film for a dance theater play by Irina Pauls with the Freiraum Ensemble / St. Stephan Church Riehl, Cologne and LOFFT Theater Leipzig (Germany)
2022 La Strada / Europäisches Untergrund Musikvideo- und Kunstfilmfestival / Hochbunker Grüner Hof / Cologne (Germany)
2022 Anónimo / Life is life / Salon Sophie Charlotte / Academy of the Sciences and Humanities of Berlin-Brandenburg (Germany)
2022 Future Archeology / How To Become A Posthuman / Online show
2021 ladyboi at Le Salon Immatériel / Art-O-Rama Marseille / Online show
2020 ladyboi at The Long Table / platform for creative collaboration on “sheltering in place” / Online show
2018 Archive Future / Atelier Pr Kouro / Nice (France)
2017 A Life Like This / LIFT/ PIX FILM Gallery / Toronto (Canada)
2016 Court-Bouillon #2.27 [laboratoire d’images et de rencontres] / Vidéothèque Nomade / 6870 asbl / Brussels (Belgium)
2016 RAVE / New Talents Biennale / Museum Kolumba / Cologne (Germany)
2016 Far Off / Jack In The Box / Cologne (Germany)
2015 Exil / FREIraum Ensemble / Odonien / Cologne (Germany)
2015 Saisonstart Bonn / Kunstmuseum Bonn (Germany)
2015 AbstractVisions / Now&Next Plattform / Tanzhaus NRW / Düsseldorf (Germany)
2014 30 Years – 30 Voices / Retrospective of the Videonale / Kunstverein Bonn (Germany)
2014 Cut-up / Kulturbunker Cologne (Germany)
2013 Hold-up / Salon Jeunes création / 104 Paris (France)
2013 Un espace / La Marbrerie / Montreuil (France)
2012 Donnerhall / die Große Kunstausstellung NRW / Kunstpalast Düsseldorf (Germany)
2010 Höhepunkte der KunstFilmBiennale / KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin (Germany)
2010 Contemporary Art Ruhr (C.A.R.) / Forum & Media Art Fair / Kokerei Zollverein (Germany)
2009 Reel to real / Künstlerhaus Mousonturm / Frankfurt (Germany)
2007 Rettung ohne Untergang / Deutzer Brücke / Cologne (Germany)
Film Festivals (excerpt):
2022 TENT Little Cinema Film Festival / Kolkata (India)
2016 Filmlab Fest / Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf (Germany)
2013 Reykjavik Shorts and Docs Festival (Iceland)
2013 Ambient Music Festival / Basilika St. Aposteln / Cologne (Germany)
2012 Guanajuato International Film Festival (Mexico)
2011 Videonale 13 / Kunstmuseum Bonn (Germany)
2010 OpenCinema / St. Petersburg (Russia)
2010 New Talents – Biennale Cologne (Germany)
2010 Festival International de Cinema Visions du Reel / Nyon (Switzerland)
2010 Tampere Film Festival (Finland)
2009 Torino Film Festival (Italy)
2009 KunstFilmBiennale 09 Cologne (Germany)
2009 Sao Paulo Short Film Festival (Brazil)
2009 Loop’09 Barcelona (Spain)
2009 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (Germany)
Commissioned Work (excerpt):
2021 Enter Literature / Dokumentarfilm / Regie, photography, editing / EXC Temporal Communities / FU Berlin (Germany)
2021 Lebenssequenzen – eine filmische Vermessung / Film essay / Regie, photography, editing and music / Academy of Sciences and Humanities of Berlin-Brandenburg (Germany)
2020 CULTRA-Hall Brühl / Media stage concept / ASB Rhein-Erft (Germany)
2019 Offbeat Finale / Musical / Scenography and light design / Museum Römerthermen (Germany)
2017 Grenzen sprengen / Fashion show / Light and laser design / WfbM Duisburg (Germany)
2016 bodyRealities / Choreography by DIN A13 / Live video projections / Korea International Accessible Dance Festival KIADA Seoul (South Korea)
2015 ROTKAMMERTRAUM / Choreography based on Cao Xueqin’s ‘The Dream of the Red Chamber’ / Live video projections / Folkwang Tanz Studio Essen (Germany)
2010 Tree of Sounds / Audiovisual Children’s Concert / Live video performance for the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra (Germany)
Distribution & Archives:
Videonale Online Archive (VOA) (Germany)
Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf (Germany)
6870 La Videóthèque Nomade (Belgium)
Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (Germany)
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