BACKLIGHT 08 TICKLE ATTACK BETTINA FLITNER Boat People photographie BACKLIGHT 08 - TICKLE ATTACK Backlight 2008 is an International Photography Triennial Festival based in Tampere, Finland. It is rooted in documentary photography and open to different artistic approaches. The 8th edition of the Festival promotes intercultural dialogue by focusing on revealing the hidden, the veiled, the lost and forgotten. The title of Backlight 2008 is: Tickle Attack Tickle Attack is about Humor, Laughter, Irony, Paradox and Absurd. Artists should submit photography-based projects that express and reflect different artistic perspectives and interpretations through various cultural backgrounds. ANNA GUEST lives and works in Birmingham,UK www.anneguest.co.uk Selected Group Exhibitions 2009 Lumens Film festival, Leeds Lodz Photography Festival, Poland Flatpack Festival, Birmingham 2008 Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibition, London, Cheltenham, Winchester, Bury St Edmunds, Durham ‘Backlight’, Finland, Florence and Vienna ‘The Mirror Stage’, NeMe, Cyprus ‘Goods In’, Birmingham ‘Through The Lens’, RWA, Bristol ‘One Night Stand’ Crowd6, Birmingham ‘Dropframe’, Arts Fringe Festival, Bath ‘MoveMe’, Rainbird Gallery and selected tube stations, London ‘Going Underground’, Berlin 2007 London Group Open, Menier Gallery, London ‘Akureyrar Vaka 2007’, galleriBOX, Akureyi, Iceland ‘Project’, The Griffin, London ‘Action’, The Projection Gallery at V22 Gallery, London Open 2007, Leamington Spa, Warks. ‘The Light Sale’, Birmingham cinem@tic, Birmingham ‘Margins’, Sherborne Local Shorts, Birmingham ‘blank expression’, Zion Arts Centre, Manchester ‘The Orange Box’, New Generation Arts, Birmingham ‘The Perfect Real’, C.C.A., Glasgow and King St Arts Centre, Belfast New Art Birmingham, Birmingham 2006 ‘60 Second Surreal’, Hayward Gallery, London ‘oneminutevideos’, BizArt Gallery, Shanghai, China ‘Genius Loci’, 8th Int. Festival of Artistic Photography, Athens, Greece ‘pushpull’, MA Show, U.C.E., Birmingham ‘Active Imagination’, International Project Space, Birmingham ‘What do people do all day?’, Mail Box, Birmingham ‘154 Open’, RWA, Bristol ‘New Generation Arts’, Various locations in Birmingham ‘Temporary Asylum’, Works Gallery, Birmingham 2005 ‘Sefton Open’, Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport ‘All at once, together, at the same time’, Colony, Birmingham BA (Hons) Fine Art Show, U.C.E., Birmingham ‘Illusion’, City Space, Birmingham 2004 ‘152 Autumn Open’, RWA, Bristol ‘Cheltenham Open’, Pittville Gallery, Cheltenham ‘Reel 2’, Periscope, Birmingham Awards 2008 Short listed for Jerwood Drawing Prize 2006 NOMADS Travel Bursary Award, Vivid, Birmingham 2006 Rhubarb Festival Bursary Award (Photography), Rhubarb-Rhubarb, Birmingham 2005 Louisa Anne Ryland Scholarship Travel Bursary, Birmingham City University 2003 The Whitworth Wallace Marine Painting Prize Gold Medal, Birmingham City University Qualifications 2006 M.A. (Distinction) Fine Art, Birmingham City University 2005 B.A. (First Class Hons.) Fine Art, Birmingham City University Professional Development 2008-9 Artist at Birmingham City University on Artist Access to Art Colleges Scheme (AA2A) funded by The Arts Council 2007 How to Make a Short Film. 5 day course organised by Producers Forum and Paul Hardy Visual: The Art Gallery for Business. www.VISUALforBUSINESS.com Selected to work with this organisation. Creative Alliance Morning After programme on ‘Ideas and how to Sell Them’. Level 2 award in progression. Rhubarb Farm. Selected to have photography represented by Rhubarb-Rhubarb on their website 2006 Creative Alliance After Hours practice-led mentoring programme in professional development. VIVID NOMADS programme. 5 artists selected for bursary to explore international opportunities and to promote and disseminate their work to overseas markets. Rhubarb Farm. Photography mentoring organised by Rhubarb-Rhubarb with regard to portfolio presentation and marketing. BETTINA FLITNER born 1961. from 1982 to 1986 Bettina Flitner worked as a film editor at the German TV Chanel WDR. In 1986 she studies at the German Film and Television Academy (Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie. Since 1988 she works as a freelance photographer and film maker. www.bettinaflitner.de Numerous individual exhibitions and installations (selection): Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen; Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp; Josef-Haubrich Kunsthalle, Cologne; The National Institute for Photography, Rotterdam; Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne; The Light Factory Photographic Arts Center, Charlotte, USA, Haus der Geschichte, Bonn, ART Cologne; Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan, Museum of Communication, Berlin, Tampere ART Museum, Tampere, Finland; Biblioteca Nacional Madrid; Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Visual Gallery, Photokina, Cologne. Films 1999 "Die Ministerin", documentary, WDR 1994 "Mein Feind", documentary, WDR, screened at Berlinale,Film Festival Berlin 1991 "Aktenzeichen XX-ungelost", feature film, RTL 1989 "Das Fest", documentary, WDR (West German television) 1988 ”Ich", short feature film, broadcast on ARD (German channel 1) Books 2008 „Frauen die forschen“, Edition Rolf Heyne 2004/06 „Frauen mit Visionen“, Knesebeck-Verlag „L’Europe au feminin“, Edition de la Martinière“ 1998 „Mitten ins Herz“, installations and photoreports, Edition Braus 1995 „Mein Herz“, 3 photographic essays, Emma-Verlag 1991 „Reportage aus dem Niemandsland“, The fall of the Berlin Wall 1988 „Porträts“, Emma-Verlag Awards (selection): 2005 Fotoprize of the Michael Horbach foundation 2001 Special "Rückblende" prize for political photography, for the photo series "I am proud to be a nationalist" (young right-wing people) 1995 Prize for young artists 1995 For "Mein Feind": "Prix du public", Festival Films des femmes; "Prix de la mise en scene", Festival Henri Langlois; "Jury Prize", Festival Internazionale Turin 1993 Cologne Chargesheimer-Preis of photography 1991 Agfa/Bilderberg young photojournalists' prize Collections: Haus der Geschichte (Museum of German History), Bonn; Rheinisches Landesmuseum (Museum of the State), Bonn; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Museum of Arts and Crafts), Hamburg; Nordstern-Versicherung Sammlung Zeitgenössische Fotografie (Contemporary photography collection); Vowinckel collection, Cologne. Gallery Galerie Holtmann, Anna Schneider Steig 13 D-50678 Köln Tel. 0221-25 78 60 7 Fax. 0221-2578724, www.galerie-holtmann.de, contact@galerie-holtmann.de PAULA MUHR born in 1977 in Serbia lives and works in Berlin. www.paulamuhr.de www.photo.sittcomm.sk/muhr.htm EDUCATION 1998 – 2002 BA in Photography, Academy of Arts BK, Belgrade, Serbia 1999 – 2004 Studied General Literature and Theory of Literature at the Philological Faculty in Belgrade 2003 – 06 MA in Photography, Faculty of Applied Arts, Belgrade 2006 – 09 Postgraduate studies as master student (Meisterschuelerin) under Prof Tina Bara, Academy of Visual Arts (Hochschule fuer Grafik und Buchkunst) Leipzig, Germany PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Since 2002 Writes reviews for IMAGO – the International Magazine for Photography in Central Europe Since 2004 Member of the Editorial Board of the magazine IMAGO 2002 – 2005 Curator of the Photographic Gallery »Circus« within Students Cultural Centre (SKC) in Belgrade AWARDS, GRANT, RESIDENCIES 2009 - MAP 2008-9 Residency Programme by Pépinières Européennes pour jeunes artistes, residency at CNA Dudelange, Luxembourg April-June 2008 - Nominated for the Exhibition of the Year Award within Month of Photography Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia for “On Show” exhibition 2007 - First award at the competition »Trust Me« organised within the F/Stop, 1st International Photography Festivalin Leipzig, Germany - Winner of "sittcomm.award 2007", photography prize for Central & Eastern European artists, - Shortlisted for "Ricardo Pezza Photography Prize", organized by Triennale di Milano & Associazione Al.b.um, Milan, Italy 2005 - Third award at the photography competition organised within Terminal00, International Balkan Arts Festival in Ljubljana - Pro Helvetia (Swiss Cultural Programme) grant for the curatorial project "Yugoline" - Production grant of the Secretary of Culture, Belgrade, Serbia for the solo exhibitions “Kevin” and “Casanova” 2004 - Resident Artist at Baodo im Nil, Graz, Austria SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION 2009 ETAT NORMAL, Deliktessenhaus, Leipzig, Germany DISPLAY 01 (with Eleonora Bisagno), CNA Dudelange, Luxembourg (June) 2008 GOLDEN BOYS, Kunstverein Leipzig ON SHOW, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia IDENTITE(S), Lyon Septembre de la photographie 2008, Galerie Caroline Vachet (with Pascal Blondeau) and Modernart Cafe, Lyon, France 2007 TATA, Lumen Gallery, Budapest, Hungary SERBIAN BEAUTY, Hochschule fuer Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, 2006 ABSENCE, MXEspai, Barcelona, Spain 2005 CASANOVA, Remont Gallery, Belgrade ABSENCE, SULUJ Gallery, Belgrade 2004 IDEAL PLACE, Balkan Fest/Totalkunst/The Forest, Edinburgh, GB 2003 FETISH, SKC Gallery, Belgrade FETISH, Vector Gallery, Iasi, Romania 2002 INTIMATE ALBUM, Artget Gallery, Cultural Centre of Belgrade 2001 TRANSIENCE, Gallery of the Open University, Subotica, Serbia 1999 BEREAVED, Centre for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION 2009 INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL, Lodz Art Centre, Lodz, Poland FUTURE TOGETHER NOW, Konfuzius Institut, Leipzig TICKLE ATTACK, Galerie Nei Liicht, Dudelange, Luxembourg CHACUN SON HISTOIRE, Galerie Caroline Vachet, Lyon (June -August) DURCHDRUNGEN, Kunstgarten, Graz, Austria (July-August) EHRLICHE HAUT, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany (December) 2008 PHOTOMEETINGS LUXEMBOURG 2008, Galerie Clairefontaine WE WILL ALWAYS BE THERE FOR YOU, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany TICKLE ATTACK, BACKLIGHT 08, 8th International Photographic Triennial, TR1, Tampere, Finland, Fluss, Wolkersdorf, Austria and Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Florence, Italy RICCARDO PEZZA EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE, Trienale di Milano, Milan, Italy PHOTOBIENNALE PH08, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, Greece ATHENS PHOTO FESTIVAL, Athens, Greece 6th INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND VISUAL ARTS, Liege, Belgium WE KNOW THE SMELL BUT NOT THE TASTE, Galerie Baer, Dresden PORTRAITS OF WOMEN, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Kunsthaus Luebeck, Germany 2007 TRUST ME, F/STOP, 1st International Photography Festival, Leipzig FESTIVAL VOIES OFF 2007, Soirees de projectiones, Arles, France PHOTOPHOBIA, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kaliningrad VIENNAFAIR 2007, Vienna, Austria NOS/ZTALGIA, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin, Germany TERMINAL00, Westbourne Studios, London, Great Britain BALKAN ART WEEK, Westbourne Studios, London, GB KAUNAS PHOTO, 4th International Photography Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania SO JUNG KOMMEN WIR NICHT MEHR ZUSAMMEN, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany 2006 EINE FRAGE (NACH) DER GESTE, Die Oper, Leipzig, Germany ATTITUDE, Rdeca Gallery, Atelier 2050, Ljubljana, Slovenia EROSION, Klaipeda Cultural Communication Centre, Klaipeda, Lithuania EYE2EYE, V Art Gallery, Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia FONA, Festival of New Art, Rijeka, Croatia 2005 NEUE FOTOGRAFIE AUS SERBIEN, Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria NE(A)T – WOMEN ON WOMEN, Kogart House, Budapest, Hungary YUGOLINE, ESC, Graz, Austria TERMINAL 00, 1st International Balkan Arts Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia PHOTONIC MOMENTS, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2004 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST, Cultural Centre, Belgrade THE DANUBE STREAMING SHOW, quartier21, Museumsquartier, Vienna FAMILY AND SOCIETY, International Meetings of Photography, Plovdiv, Bulgaria FAMILY ALBUM, National Gallery, Tirana, Albania BELEF 04, Articulate, Belgrade Summer Festival 2003 PHOTOGRAPHY, Duplex Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland BALKANIZE IT!, Dom im Berg, Graz, Austria IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE, Month of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia PHOTOGRAPHY, Duplex Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland CIVILIANS IN UNIFORM, Rex Cultural Centre, Belgrade 2002 TIME CODES, 5th International Biennial of Young Artists, Vrsac, Serbia ART-REALITY-ACTION, City Museum, Subotica, Serbia 2001 REAL PRESENCE, Museum of 25th May, Belgrade 2000 NEW SERBIAN PHOTOGRAPHY, SKC Gallery, Belgrade SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: CHAIN BERLIN, Peeping Tom’s Digest, No1, Paris, 2009 IMAGO #24/5, C. Richter: „Golden Boys“, Bratislava, 2009 KUNSTFORUM, J. Wendland: „Wir sind imme für Euch da “, Juli 2008, Bd 192 LVZ, K. Vokoun: “Ironisch, kritisch, realistisch”, 25. 3. 2008 Antilipseis, #11, „Places and Manners of Worship“, Thessaloniki, 2008 PHOTONEWS, Horst Kloever: “Vorwärts und nicht vergessen...”, Dezember 2007, Januar 2008 SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, (Muenchen Kultur), Christoph Wiedemann: „Wie sich das Leben verabschiedet“, 15./16. 12. 2007 PHOTONEWS, D. B.: „Leipziger Allerlei, F/ Stop – ein Festival in Leipzig“, September 2007 LEIPZIGER INTERNET ZEITUNG, K. Dietrich: „Erfolgreicher Shau: ueber 3000 kamen zum 1. Internationalen Fotografiefestival F/Stop“, 26. 6. 2007. DiPassage web magazine, Maja Stankovic: “Tata“, March 2007. SPIEGEL ONLINE, Jenny Hoch: “Kunstbazar in Leipzig”, 10. 2. 2007. CAPRICIOUS #3, „New Photography“, Amsterdam, 2005 FOTOGRAF #5, Vaclav Hajek: „Paula Miklosevic: Re-constructing Space in Portrait“, Brno, 2005 THE PURPLE JOURNAL #3, Pariz, 2005 BALKON #7-8, Ivanyi Bianca: “A nok metamorfózisa(i) – Két kiállítás a kelet-európai noi identitásról: Necc – A világ tyúkszemmel”, Budapest, july-august 2005 DER STANDARD, „Gegen den Anstand und mit Charme - "Aktuelle Fotografie aus Serbien" in Salzburg“, 15. 07. 2005. IMAGO 20, Goran Malic: ”Absence by Paula Miklosevic Muhr”, Bratislava, summer 2005 IDEA arta+societate #20, Cristian Nae: „The Virtues of Proximity: Vector Gallery, Iasi, 2004-2005“, Kluj, 2005 REMONT, ARTMAGAZINE, #09, Belgrade, 2003 LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS: 2009 artist talk, Delikatessenhaus, Leipzig 2008 artist talk, Kunstverein Leipzig sittcomm.award slideshow, MaiMano – Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest, Hungary and Remonte Gallery, Belgrade. Serbia, PhotoMonth, Manggha Centre, Krakow, Poland, FotoFestiwal, Lodz Kaliska, Lodz, Poland Food for your eyes II - slideshow, Kinokho Studio, Paris, France Panel dicussion within ”So jung kommen wir nicht mehr zusammen” exhibition, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany 2007 sittcomm.award slideshow, A4, Bratislava, Slovakia & Andrejsala, Ednica, Riga, Latvia Symposim ”Refugien der Generationen”, OFF LIMITS festivalDortmund, Germany F-Stop Artists Warm Up, Pierogy Gallery, Leipzig, Germany n/osztalgia, Collegium Ungaricum Berlin & Kortárs Épitészeti Központ, Budapest 2005 Forum ”Networks-Active/Interactive” within “Artist curate Artist – my space”, basement, Vienna, Austria Presentation of Yugoline, ESC im Labor, Graz, Austria COLLECTIONS CNA, Dudelange, Luxembourg Remont Independent Artistic Association, Belgrade, Serbia National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kaliningrad, Russia Photobased collection »Erosion«, Klaipeda, Lithuania Private Collections in Belgrade, Berlin and Lyon MATT SIBER www. siberart.com Education 2003 Master of Fine Arts (Photography) Columbia College Chicago; Chicago, IL. 1994 Bachelor of Arts (History and Geography) University of Vermont; Burlington, VT. Collections The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL. St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO. The Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellows Collection, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. COFF Foundation, San Sebastián, Spain. Deloitte Collection Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN. The Midwest Photographers Project (non-permanent), The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Representation La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid, Spain. Galeria Antoni Pinyol, Reus, Spain. Galerie f 5.6, Munich Germany. Galeria Ysabel Pinyol, Barcelona, Spain. Billi Rubin Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Grants 2005 Illinois Arts Council, Artist’s Fellowship Award, Chicago, IL. 2004 Aaron Siskind Foundation, Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, New York, NY. Solo Exhibitions 2008 Galerie Antoni Pinyol, Reus, Spain. Billi Rubin Gallery, Berlin. 2006 PhotoEspaña, La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid, Spain. Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL. Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL. Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL. 2005 Galeria Antoni Pinyol, Reus, Spain. Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, IL. 2003 Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL. Group Exhibitions 2009 Site Seeing: Explorations of Landscape, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY. Stranger Than Fiction, OHT Gallery, Boston, MA. Fotofestiwal Lodz 2009/Backlight 2008, Lodz. Poland. 2008 In and Out of Place, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN. ARCO Madrid, Madrid, Spain. Backlight 2008, Tampere, Finland/Florence, Italy/Lodz, Poland. Alumni Exhibition, Coburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. 2007 ARCO Madrid, Madrid, Spain. Photo Miami, Miami, FL. Photo London 2007, London, UK. DFoto, San Sebastián, Spain. Ad | Agency, The Photographic Resource Center, Boston. Jon Gitelson, Brian Ulrich and Matt Siber, Galerie f 5.6, Munich. Foreign Language, Ellen Curlee Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri. The Power of Language, The Academy of Arts (The Goethe Institute), Berlin. Group Exhibitions (Continued) 2007 People, Buildings and Cars: New Chicago Photography, The Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT. Signs, Symbols and Gestures, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI. 2006 ARCO Madrid, Madrid, Spain. Art Madrid, Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain. DFoto, San Sebastián, Spain. Well Read, NURTUREart Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. New Trends in Chicago Photography, Version Fest 06, Chicago, IL. 2005 Fotofestiwal Lódz 2005, Lódz, Poland. Footcandles: History and Process in Contemporary Photography, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN. Matt Siber and David John Flynn, Torre Vella, Salou, Spain. THE ABC Power and Communication: Semiotics and Resistance, Galerie Neurotitan, Berlin. Chicago, My Chicago, Orleans Street Gallery, St. Charles, IL. Skinless Capital: Neoliberalism and Resistance, Opensource, Champaign, IL. 2004 Conversations: Text and Image, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL. Art Chicago 2004, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL. Chicago LAND/SPACE/PLACE, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL. Giganticism, Gigantic Art Space, New York, NY. 2003 Wegway Juried Exhibition, SPIN Gallery, Toronto, ON. Columbia College Graduate Thesis Show, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL. Fractured Lines, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL. Publications 2009 Made It, LST Publishing, Liaoning, China. The Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography, The Humble Arts Foundation, Brooklyn, NY. 2007 O-Monografias #5 (Town), Coruña, Spain. Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, Robert Hirsch, Focal Press. Sublime, Madrid (n. 20). Magazin Gudberg, #02, Hamburg, Germany. 2006 ArtForum (September) English Language Notes: Photography and Literature, 44.2 Fall/Winter, U. of Colorado. Type, Image, Message, Nancy Skolos and Thomas Wedell, Rockport Publishing. Photography Now: one hundred portfolios, Wright State University, Dayton, OH. El Cultural (El Mundo), Madrid, Spain. (July 6-12) ABCD, Madrid, Spain. (July 8-14) 2005 Visual Communications, SAGE Publications, London, England. (February) LiP Magazine, Oakland, CA. (No. 5) The National Post, Arts, Culture and Society Section, Toronto, ON. (May 13) 8.5 Magazine, Irvine, CA. (no.10) Etapes Magazine, Paris. (September) 2004 Flash Art International, Milan, Italy. (April/May) Fotopozytyw, Lódz, Poland. (no.7) Mood Magazine, Milan, Italy. (April) Polar Inertia Online Journal, www.polarintertia.com. (May) Sites, 6x6 Book Series, Columbia College Chicago. Aperture, New York, NY. (Fall) EXIT Magazine, Madrid, Spain. (Nov.-Dec.) 2003 Wegway Magazine, Toronto, ON. MAI YAMASHITA + NAOTO KOBAYASHI EDUCATION Mai Yamashita 2009 PhD Tokyo University of the Arts 2005 The Berlin University of the Arts, Class Stan Douglas, Guest student 2004 M.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music 2001 B.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music 1976 Born in Chiba, Japan Naoto Kobayashi 2005 The Berlin University of the Arts, Class Stan Douglas, Guest student 2002 M.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music 1999 B.A. The University of Tsukuba, School of Art and Design 1974 Born in Chiba, Japan SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2009 “The Small Mountain”, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Chiba, Japan “playing with time”, NOW IDeA by Utrecht, Tokyo 2008 “INUZORI”, Rasche Ripken Berlin, Germany 2007 “1000 Waves”, Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany “infinity”, Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi, ZAIM Annex 304, Yokohama, Japan “Yamashita Kobayahshi Repeast Playback@Maruya”, Naoshima, Japan SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS (*) 2009 “Destroy Everything You Touch”, Espai’d Art de Gandia, Spain “Once, there was the sea”, Creative Space 9001, Kanagawa, Japan 2008 “Yokohama Art & Home Collection”, Kanagawa, Japan “The Doctoral Program Final Exhibition”, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan “Re-imagining Asia”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin “When I wish upon a star + Infinity”, STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium “BACKLIGHT 08”, 8th International Photographic Triennial, Photographic Centre Nykyaika, Tampere, Finland etc. “IASmedia Screening 2008- Contemporary Art Video Screening program by IASmedia”, Insa Art Space, Korea* “Sound & Vision Vol.3 RefLect”, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan* “Ohayo JAPAN”, Japan Festival Leipzig, LIA - Leipzig International Art Programme, Leipzig, Germany “VIDEOZOMER”, Petersburg Project Space, Amsterdam “Art Amsterdam”, Rasche Ripken Berlin, Amsterdam “Visions in the Nunnery 2008”, The Nunnery Gallery, London “Theory of Everything”, CASZ with tank.tv, Amsterdam 2007 “I Am Future Melancholic”, Tate Modern, London* “I Am Future Melancholic”, GoGallery, Milan, Italy “Compendium 07 by MIACA JAPAN”, H-I-T, Göteborg, Sweden* “Crawford Open 2007”, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland “Works by Emerging Video Artists”, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN, US “Theory of Everything”, DongFang The Cinema of the Far East, Napoli* “Museumsnacht”, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany “Videonale 11”, Insa Art Space of the Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea “Videonale 11”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain “Videonale 11”, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany “Madrid Abierto 2007”, Canal Metro, Madrid “Japanese Video Art Screening”, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway “Nightcomers”, 10th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey* “MIACA@LUX”, LUX, London* “Future Landscape”, Cambridge Film Festival, Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge, UK* “Evolution 2007”, The Linacre Studio, Leeds, UK* “Saison Video 2007 #31”, Musée des Beaux-Arts et la Dentelle, Calais, France* 2006 “ARS 06-Sense of the Real”, The Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki “LichtRouten Lüdenscheid”, Lüdenscheid, Germany “Small mischiefs, Pump House Gallery, London “Indblik, Herning Kunstmuseum, Denmark* “O.. L by REC”, MIACA, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan “Staring into Space”, Trafó-House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest * “Fair Play 2006”, play - gallery for still and motion pictures, Berlin * “Trans_vision”, V&A Friday Late, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London * “Pixapins”, PHOTOESPAÑA 2006, Madrid, Spain * “Theory of Everything”, LocationOne, NY/Workstation Arts Center, Beijing/www.tank.tv / and others* “The Peninsula”, Singapore History Museum, Singapore * "To Be Continued...", "Double Trouble", tank.tv, www.tank.tv “ArtSway Open 06”, ArtSway, Hampshire, UK “Shrewsbury Open 2006-Unnatural Selection”, Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, UK 2005 “EMERGENCY 2”, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK “Rosa!:the Exposed Colour Pink”, The University Art Museum, Tokyo 2004 “The World is Mine”, Hiromi Yoshii Five, Tokyo 2003 “Green Space 2_licht/schatten”, Haus am Horn, Weimar, Germany 2002 “Philip Morris K.K. Art Award 2002 -The First Move”, Tokyo International Forum SELECTED FESTIVALS 2008 Near Sighted, Far Out: Video Art Festival #003, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, NY VIDEOAKT international videoart show, Glogauair, Berlin 2007 FILE 2007, OI FUTURO CULTURAL CENTER, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 23rd Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Germany 36th International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands 10th Japan Media Art Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan 12th ifva festival, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong 2006 transmediale.06, Akademie der Künste, Gallery ZERO, Berlin The 11th Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Centre Pompidou etc., Paris Ars Electronica Animation Festival, Linz, Austria EMAF:European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany Media Forum, Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow 2005 Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany LOOP :THE PLACE FOR VIDEO ART LOVERS, Barcelona PRIZES AND GRANTS 2009-11 The Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists, Japan (Yamashita) 2007 The Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists, Japan (Kobayashi) Special Prize of VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain 2006 The Asahi Shimbun Foundation, Stipend, Japan The Nomura Cultural Foundation, Stipend, Japan Honorable Mention of transmediale.06, Berlin Special Prize of VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain 2nd Prize of Gstaad Film Festival 2006, Gstaad, Switzerland RESIDENCIES 2009 Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Worpswede, Germany (scheduled) Leipzig International Art Programme, Leipzig, Germany (scheduled) 2007 Schleswig-Holsteinisches Künstlerhaus, Eckernförde, Germany 2006 Künstler Atelier AKKU Uster, Uster, Switzerland PUBLICATION 2007 Catalogue “Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi” MARTIN KOLLAR born 23 November 1971,Zilina, Slovak Rep 1992-1997 the Academy of Performing Arts, Bratislava the Film faculty, camera department 2003 Member of Agence VU,www.agencevu.com Awards 2008 Backlight Award,Tampere Finland www.backlight.fi 2006 Finalist of European Publisher Awards, Arles France 2005 SCAM Rodger Pic award,Francewww.scam.fr 2004 Oscar Barnac Award,honorable mention,Germany www.leica-camera.com 2004 Czech-Press-Photo: 2nd prize, in category –Everyday Life www.czechpressphoto.cz 2003 FujiFilm Euro Press Photo Awards, national level: 1st prize 2002 Mio Photo Award Osaka Japan ,Honorary prize www.miophoto.gr.jp 2002 Backlight Award,Tampere Finland www.backlight.fi 2001 FujiFilm Euro Press Photo Awards, national level: 1st prize 2000 Czech-Press-Photo: 2nd prize, in category Everyday Life 2-prize, in category Art www.czechpressphoto.cz Stipends,Residency 2008 Grand ville de la Vevey Nestle project 2005 Lighrworks, Syracure,NY,U.S.A Artist residency,April www.lightwork.org 2004 Photo stipend 3ppp,www.3ppp.org 2003 Worldpressphoto Joop Swart masterclass, The Netherland www.worldpressphoto.nl 2001 A full-year photo-stipend : Annual Country Report awarded by the Institute for Public Affairs- IVO 1999 Pepinieres europenes pour jeunes artistes, a photo-stipend, June - September, Luxemburg, www.cna.lu Solo Exhibitions 2008 Le Château d'Eau Toulouse France (Jun-August) www.galeriechateaudeau.org 2008 Diaphane-La Grange France (May-Jun) 2007 F/stop Leipzig Germany (Jun) www.f-stop-leipzig.de 2006 Month of photography Athens Batagianni Gallery(October) 2006 Month of Photography Krakow (May) www.photomonth.com 2006 Month of photography Thessaloniki (April) 2005 Guandong Museum of art China(January) www.gdmoa.org 2005 Freelens gallery,Hamburg, Germany (August-Oictober) 2005 Bildungszentrum der Stadt Nürnberg, Germany (May) 2003 The House of Arts, Opava Czech Rep (January-February) 2003 Visa Pour L'Image, Perpignan France, Screening:Czechoslovakia 2003 Siements artlab,Galerire Ernst Hilger,Vienna Austria(March-April) www.artlab.at 2002 Galeria Mala,Warsava Poland (November) 2002 Galeria Opera, Ostrava Czech Rep.(December) 2002 House of Photography Prague, Czech Rep.(October-November) 2002 Galeria Velryba,Praha Czech Rep. (October-November) 2002 Slovak Embassy, Washington USA (September-October) 2002 The Moravian Gallery, Bozkovice Czech Rep. (July-August) 2002 The House of photography Poprad, Slovak Rep (February-March) 2001 Palfy Pallace, the metropolitan gallery of Bratislava, within the Month of Photography, (november - december 2001) 2000 Gallery Profil, Bratislava (October) Group Exhibitions 2007 MOCA Shanghai, Unseen, China (January-March) 2007 Recontres des Arles, Gallery VU France (July-August) 2007 Collezionami art project Bari Italy (November January) 2006 Maison Europeen de la Photography Paris France( November) 2006 Month of photography Vienna, Austria( November) 2005 Paris by 20 photographers Paris France(June) 2005 Month of photography,Tenerife, Canary Island 2005 Leica Gallery Tokyo Japan (October) 2004 Kathleen Eving Gallery,Washington D.C (March) 2004 Photofestival Arles, Gallery VU (July0August) 2004 Photofestival Moscow, Screening (October) 2003 Czech and Slovak Photography 1980-2000 National Library,Prague, Czech Rep(november-march) 2003 Contenporary Slovak Documentary Photography,Montreal Canada (January-February) 2003 Mastterclass,Foam,Amsterdam The Netherlands (November-Januar) 2003 SLO-SLO Artspace Vienna, Austria (April-May) 2003 Conterporary Slovak Documentary Photography, Montreal Canada(January-February) 2002 Czech and Slovak Photography 1980-2000, within the Month of Photography,(november-december 2002) 2002 Backlight 02 Tampere, Finland (october-december) 2002 Czech and Slovak Photography 1980-2000, the Moravian Gallery Olomouc (May-July) 2001 Slovak Photography 1925-2000, the Slovak National Gallery (November-Marec) 2001 Young Slovak Photography, Fotofestival Herten,Germany (Septermber-October) 2001 Substistances, Lyon (January) 1999 AFAD - APA MĂ©dium Gallery, within the Month of Photography Bratislava (November) 1999 Nie-licht gallery, Dudelange Luxemburg (September-October) 1998 New names in Slovak documentary photography, The House of Photography, Poprad (february) Filmography (director of photograpy) 2008 Cooking history (in production) (doc.,dir.: P Kerekes 86min) 2003 66 Seasons (doc.,dir.: P Kerekes 86min) www.66seasons.com 2002 Hey you Slovaks (doc.,dir.:R Kirhohoff 51min) 2001 Acquarium (doc.,dir.:J Vojtek 12min) 2000 Volunteers (doc.,dir.: M Sulik) 1999 Kalo Lav, Black Word (doc.,dir.:R Kirhohoff 26min) 1998 In the Cube (anim. feature,dir.: M. Struss 6min) 1998 The Voice (doc.,dir.: M. Kubos 10min) 1998 The Morytetes and Legendes of Ladomirova (doc.,dir.: P Kerekes 53min) 1997 Beekeepers year (doc.,dir.: M Sulik) 1996 66 Pribenik (doc., dir.:P. Kerekes 15min) 1996 Lovers without Clothes (anim. feature, dir.:K Urbanova 10min) 1995 About Three Days in the Jasov Monastery (doc.,dir.:P Kerekes 26min) MARCO E SAVERIO LANZA MARCO LANZA Marco Lanza was born in Florence (Italy) on 01/12/1957. He is a self-educated photographer who has been working for national and international advertising agencies and magazines since 1978. He presented his artistic works in personal and collective exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum (New York), West Zone Gallery (London), Museo Zucchi (Milan) and Cafè Einstein (Berlin). In 2000, the West Zone Publishing of London issued his photographic book “The living Dead”. In 2005, he started collaborating with his brother Saverio, a musician, on artistic projects based on a mutual concept. SAVERIO LANZA Saverio Lanza was born in Florence (Italy) on 24/03/1970. He studied Composition and Piano at the Conservatory of Music in Florence where he graduated in Conducting. He wrote music for commercials, short films, and for the four albums recorded with his band where he was a vocalist and guitarist. He also works as a producer for several italian artists. He published two albums as a composer: "Ce l'hai una sigaretta?" (2004) and “Madrelingua" (2007). These two last works approach the work of his brother, Marco, photographer, with whom he is now working on a music- and photography-based project called PASTIS.