ABOUT ARNOLD DREYBLATT
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Arnold Dreyblatt (b. New York City, 1953) is an American media artist and composer. He has been based in Berlin, Germany since 1984.
In 2007, Dreyblatt was elected to lifetime membership in the visual arts section at the German Academy of Art (Akademie der Künste, Berlin). He is currently Professor of Media Art at the Muthesius Academy of Art and Design in Kiel, Germany.
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activities
His early activities in music and performance included the albums "Nodal Excitation", "Propellers In Love" and the opera project "Who's Who in Central and East Europe 1933".
His artistic practice of the last 20 years has ranged from large staged multi-day performances ("The Memory Projects", 1995-2001), involved installations (such as "From the Archives", 1999; "The Wunderblock", 2000; "Turntable History", 2009) and wall works (such as "Ephemeris Epigraphica", 2006 and "Memory Lost", 2007).
At the same time he has continued to develop his unique work in composition and music performance.
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visual work
Dreyblatt's visual artworks create complex textual and spatial visualizations for memory. These projects, which reflect on such themes as recollection and the archive, include permanent installations, digital room projections, dynamic textual objects and muti-layered lenticular text panels.
He has exhibited and performed in galleries, museums and public spaces such as the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin; The Jewish Museum in New York; the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna and Gallery e/static in Turin. Permanent public art works are on display at the HL Holocaust Center in Oslo and the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
He has recieved numerous commissions and awards including the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts in New York, and the 'Förderpreis' of the Academy of Art (Akademie der Künste) in Berlin.
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music
One of the second generation of New York minimal composers, Dreyblatt studied music with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, and Alvin Lucier and media art with Woody and Steina Vasulka.
Arnold Dreyblatt has charted his own unique course in composition and music performance. He has invented a set of new and original instruments, performance techniques, and a system of tuning. Often characterized as one of the more rock-oriented of American minimalists, Dreyblatt has cultivated a strong underground base of fans for his transcendental and ecstatic music with his Orchestra of Excited Strings.
His music has been performed by the Bang On A Can All-Stars, Jim O'Rourke, Pellegrini String Quartet and the Crash Ensemble. He has recorded for such labels as Tzaddik, Hat Hut, Table of the Elements, and Cantaloupe.
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2008
December 9
Lecture, Institute of Art and Design of the West Bohemian University Plzen,
Czech Republic
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December 8
Lecture, Expandia Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
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December 3 - February 15 (2009)
Installation in Exhibition "Recollecting Looted Art and Restitution",
MAK Exhibition Hall, Vienna
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November 9 (Opening)
"Unsaid", Permanent Installation, Jewish Museum Berlin
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October 28
Lecture at Exhibition "Schrift in Bewegung", Zürcher Literaturmuseum,
University Zürich
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September 21
Concert, (w/Megafaun) The Knitting Factory, New York City
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September 20 - November 16
"Speakstones 4X", Lenticular Frieze, in exhibition "Notations",
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
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September 16
Concert (w/Megafaun), The Middle East, Boston
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September 14
Concert, The Wire Festival, The Empty Bottle, Chicago
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September 12
Concert and Residency, Salem Art Works, Salem, New York
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May 31
"Resonant Relations", performed by Crash Ensemble Dublin, Bang On
A Can Marathon, Winter Garden, New York
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May 7-September 14
"Preferences" in Exhibition "Sex brennt" Magnus Hirschfelds
Institut für Sexualwissenschaft und die Bücherverbrennung, Berliner
Medizinhistorischen Museum der Charité, Berlin
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April 11 - June 6
"Epigraphica Emphemeris 11" in exhibition "Words", Paolo
Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto, Italy
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April 2 - 26
"Action Completed", set of stamped prints, in exhibition "Paperfile"
in Gallery oqbo, Berlin
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February 21-22
Artist in Residence and Concert Performance, Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass.
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February 13-16
Artist in Residence, Media Arts, Columbia College, Chicago
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February 6-12
Artist in Residence, Art and Art History Dept., Stanford University, Palo Alto
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2007
December 2
Concert, with Jörg Hiller, Ausland, Berlin
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November 20
Lecture, Academy of Art, Berlin Weißensee
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November 9-11
Group Exhibition, "Memory Lost", "Speak Stones", Galerie
e/static, Artissima 14 Art Fair, Torino
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October 20
Concert, Commissioned Work, Austin New Music Coop, Austin, Texas
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July 24
"The Wunderblock", installation and Reading Performance / Texts by
Sigmund Freud, International Psychoanalytic Association World Congress, Gemäldegalerie,
Berlin
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July 4 - Oktober 21
"Register", Installation, Jewish Museum, Vienna
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June 25, 26
Lecture Presentations, Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung and ZKM Center
for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
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May 31 - July 31
Solo Exhibition, Gallery e/static (Blank), Torino
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May 20
Concert, "Music for 32 Strings - Octet", performed by Appartment House,
BBC Live Concert, London
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May 5
Composer in Residence, Concert, Performance Workshop, Music Gallery, Toronto
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April - July
Guest Lecturer, Institute for Art in Context, University of Art, Berlin
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February 16 - March 31
Group Exhibition, Artist's Books: Transgression/Excess, Other Space Gallery,
Boston
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February 2 - March 3
"Retrospect", Installation, "Decoupage" Group Exhibition,
Gallery e/static, Torino
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2006
December 11 - February 28 (2007)
"Working Papers", Solo Exhibition, Gelbe Musik Gallery, Berlin
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November 24
Concert, Performance Workshop, Altantic Waves Festival, Purcell Room, South
Bank Centre, London
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October 18-January 7 (2007)
Installation, Group Exhibition, "Übersetzung. Text als Bild",
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
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September 12-14
Workshop, Summer University, Hans-Böckler Stiftung, Max Planck Institut
Berlin
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August 27
Lecture "Innocent Questions", HL Senteret / Villa Grande, Oslo, Norway
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August 23
Opening Reception, "Innocent Questions", Permanent Outdoor Public
Art Project, HL Senteret / Villa Grande, Oslo, Norway
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August 23
Lecture, "Innocent Questions", Seminar: "Genocide and Statistics",
Statistics Norway, Oslo
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June 8 - June 28
"The Great Archive" shown in Group Exhibition: "Haben. über
die Dinge, durch ihre Verwandtschaft", Galerie der Hochschule für
Bildende Kunste, Braunschweig
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May 26 - October 8
Group Exhibition: "Sonoric Perspectives"; "Innocent Questions":
Prints; Ostseebienale, Kunsthalle Rostock
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April 20
Lecture, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
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April 1-3
Lecture, Conference: "Abwehr. Modelle - Strategien - Medien", Akademie
der Wissenschaften, Berlin
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March 16
Concert, Table of the Elements Showcase, Central Presbyterian Church, South
by Southwest Festival, Austin, Texas
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March 8
Concert, Tonic, New York
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February 14
Reading Performance: After Cage Network, Cologne Fine Art
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2005
December 11
Panel Discussion, Texte zur Kunst, Roten Salon Volksbühne, Berlin
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November 29/30
Lecture, Music Dept., Trinity College, Dublin
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November 25
Lecture, Media Dept., Bauhaus University, Weimar
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November 12
Solo Concert, Gallery e/static, Turin
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October 27
Concert, Resonant Relations, Commissioned Composition by Irish Arts Council,
Crash Ensemble, Sugar Club, Dublin, Ireland
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August 20/21
Concert, Music for 16 Strings, String Quartet, "Drop of Blood" Performance
Series, San Francisco
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June 10
Concert (w/ Jason Kahn), Ertz Festival, Bera, Spain
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June 5
Reading Performance, Jewish Museum, Frankfurt am Main
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May 5
Lecture Presentation, Innocent Questions, winning project for permanent installation,
closed competition, HL Senteret, Olso; Deutsche Opera, Berlin
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February 24
"Inscriptions", Solo Exhbition of new and old works, Jewish Museum,
Frankfurt am Main
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January 12
Solo Concert, Octopus Magazine Festival, Paris
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2004
December 13-17
Workshop and Exhibition, Galerie O Zwei / Gustav-Eiffel-Oberschule, Berlin.
Sponsored by the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
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November 25
Lecture: The Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
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November 12
Concert with Jörg Hiller, Ausland, Berlin
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October 15
Installed work: Index, Stortinget (Norwegian Parliament), Oslo, Norway
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July 23-30
Installation, Epitaph; Galerie Ozwei, Gustav-Eiffel-Oberschule, Berlin
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July 19-23
Workshop, Archive and Memory, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung / Sommerakadamie Berlin/
Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, Gustav-Eiffel-Oberschule, Berlin
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June 17/18
"Aus den Archiven", lecture w/ Prof. Jeffrey Wallen, Symposium: ReMediating
Handwriting, Bauhaus University Weimar
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March 7
Jury Member: Saar Ferngas Föderpreis Junge Kunst 2004
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February 28
Performance: Reading Performance / Diary Junko Wada, Gallery Kunstfaktor, Berlin
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February 20
Music Performance with Jörg Hiller, Raum 3, Berlin
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February 7
Lecture: Archive Practice; Concert Nodal Excitation w/ Jörg Hiller, Künstlerhaus
Stuttgart
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January-March
Guest Artist, Web-Project: T.Mail, University of Lüneburg, Kulturinformatik.
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2003
December 13 - January 24
The Wunderblock, Installation, Group Exhibition, "Die Sehnsucht des Kartografen",
Kunstverein Hannover
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October 17 - November 21
Arnold Dreyblatt with Frends and Students; Haushalten, A Project of Inge Mahn,
Installations, Performances and Concerts; Galerie Pankow, Berlin
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October 15
Lecture, Fachhochschule, Institut für Mediengestaltung und Medientechnologie,
Mainz
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September 28
Concert, "Music for 16 Strings", String Quartet, Pellegrini Quartet,
State Museum, Schwerin
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September 4
Conzert Premier, Music for 16 Strings, String Quartet, Pellegrini Quartet, Conceptualisms,
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
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August 17 - September 21
Recovery Rotation, Installation included in the exhibition Conceptualisms, Akademie
der Künste, Berlin
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May 16 - July 19
Eight Paths, Solo Exhibition, Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin
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April 11
Lecture Presentation, Workshop: The Renaissance of the Theater of Memory, Humboldt
University, Berlin
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March 7- April 21
Solo Exhibition, From the Archives, Mulitmedia Installations 1991 - 2003, Stadtgalerie
Saarbrücken
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2002
November 28 - December 1
Exhibition, The T Documents, Pozitavska Gallery, Nove Zamky, Slovakia
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October 16 - November 30
The ReCollection Mechanism, Installation in Exhibition Art and The Process of
Memory; Ostia Antica, Rome, Italy; Curator: Adachiara Zevi
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October 12
Premier of Commissioned Work: "Music for 32 Strings", Octet, performed
by the Pellegrini Quartet, Freiburg & String Trio Saarbrücken; Stadtgalerie
Saarbrücken
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July 6
Inventar, a project of the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste, Saarbrücken,
Klasse Arnold Dreyblatt; Installations; Rubenheim, Saarland
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June 14
Die Schreiber (The Scribes), as part of the Inga Mahn Group Feuerwerk, Text/Music
Performance/Installation by Arnold Dreyblatt; Music Collaboration with Jörg
Hiller; Wasserspeicher, Berlin
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April - July
Guest Artist, Project: T.Mail, University of Lüneburg, Kulturinformatik.
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April - July
Guest Professor, Academy of Fine Arts (HBK Saar), Saarbrücken; Projects:
Archive, Memorial, Museum; The Sound of One-String
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March 9- July 13
The Great Archive (1994), Installation and Index in Group Exhibition, Galerie
Bleibtreu, Berlin
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February 22 - April 20
Flashbulb Memory (2002) Installation in Group Exhibition, Galerie Anselm Dreher,
Berlin
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2001
October - February
Guest Professor, Academy of Fine Arts (HBK Saar), Saarbrücken, Germany.
Project: Archive and Memorial (Archiv und Denkmal)
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October 28
Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, Bang On A Can Marathon; Performance: The
Orchestra of Excited Strings. Live Radio Web Stream (Real Audio)
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October 12-21
Bern Bienale, Kornhaus; produced by the Bernische Hochschule für Musik
und Theater, Freie Akademie, Switzerland: The Reading Room, Installation-Performance
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September 12 - 16
National Gallery Berlin (Painting Gallery), Installation The Wunderblock
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September 14
Lecture Presentation with Thomas Fechner-Smarzly, Sympoosium: Art as Science,
Science as Art
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September 9 - February 13 (2002)
The Jewish Museum, New York; The ReCollection Mechanism, Installation
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June 15-17
Bauhaus Academy Weimar, Forum Typographie: Lecture: The Memory Projects: Data
Architecture and the Archive
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June 23
Gelbe Musik Gallery, Reading Performance from Junko Wada Arbeitswoche Archive
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May 23
Academy of Art, Saarbrücken: Lecture: Activities 1979 - 2001: Music, Performance,
Installation
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February 8
Clocktower, New York; Nomads & Residents; Presentation (w/ Christian Marclay,
H. Lan Thao Lam, Elisabeth Subrin)
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January 31
MIT Boston; Concert: The Orchestra of Excited Strings , Kresge Auditorium
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January 30
WBUR Radio Interview, The Connection, Minimalist Music, w/ Evan Ziporyn
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January 23
MIT Boston; Lecture, The Memory Projects, Endicott Room
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January 31
MIT Boston; Concert: The Orchestra of Excited Strings , Kresge Auditorium
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January 18/19
Tonic, New York; Concert: The Orchestra of Excited Strings; also Tony Conrad,
Jim O"Rourke
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January 8-31
Workshop, MIT - Mass. Insitute of Technology, Boston
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January 9
MIT Boston; Lecture, Music and Acoustics, Endicott Room
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2000
November 10
Concert, Ludwigs-Lust Festival, Hamburg; Ensemble with Dirk Lebahn, Rob Gutowsk,
Jörg Hiller
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September 26 - October 1
Installation, Der Wunderblock, presented by Galerie Anselm Dreher in Art Forum
Berlin (International Fair for Contemporary Art)
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August 13
Concert, Escalator performed by Bang On A Can Allstars, Schleswig-Holstein Festival,
Kampnagel, Hamburg
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July 20
Lecture The Spaces of Memory at Hyperkult 9 - reale, virtuelle, symbolische
Räume at Rechnenzentrum der Universität Lüneburg
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July 3
Lecture, Berlin: Kunstinsallation und Gedächtnisarbeit, Symposium: Braucht
das Gedenken Normen?, Evangelische Akademie zu Berlin
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June, 26, 27
Lecture, Seminar: Akademie der bildenden Künste, Munich
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May 26 - July 15
Installation, Der Wunderblock, in Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin (Group exhibition
with Rolf Julius, Joseph Kosuth)
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March 18
Prize Award: Art Prize Visual Arts, Akademie der Kunste (Akademie of Art), Berlin