Emanuel Mathias

About

Biography

lives and works in Leipzig

 

2023 – 2024

Artistic Researcher at the Academy of Applied Sciences, Merseburg

 

2020 – 2021

Assistent Researcher for the Research Project: Image. Text. Politics.Image-text-based artistic practices and new politics of seeing by Prof. Eva Leitolf at the Free University Bolzano, Italy.

 

2017 – 2020

Visiting Researcher at Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig

 

Since October 2017

Candidate of an practise-based Ph.D., at the Bauhaus University Weimar, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Lüthy, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and Prof. Michaela Schweiger, Academy of Arts and Design Halle.

 

2014 – 2020

Artistic/ research assistant at Communications Design/ Photography Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle with Prof. Stephanie Kiwitt, Prof. Eva Leitolf, Prof. Adrian Sauer, and Prof. Rudolf Schäfer.

 

2013 – 2017

Associative project partner of the interdisciplinary research project: The Affects ofResearchers (Die Affekte der Forscher), University Bern, Switzerland, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

 

2011

master’s apprentices fine arts with Prof. Tina Bara

 

2009

Fine Arts Diploma with Prof. Christopher Muller

 

2005

Erasmus Semester at Universidad del Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain

 

2002 – 2009

Photography Studies at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (Hochschule für Grafikund Buchkunst Leipzig) with Boris Mikaiilov, Timm Rautert and Christopher Muller

 

1981

born in Halle (Saale)

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Awards/ Scholarships

2023

Max Uhlig Reisestipendium, Fieldtrip, Gabun, supported by Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen

 

2022

Grant Gastspielförderung Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen

 

2021 – 2022

Bauhaus Ph.D – Stipend of the Bauhaus University Weimar

 

2020 – 2021

Artistic Research Forschungsstipendium Freie Universität Bozen, Italien im Forschungsprojekt Text, Image, Politics von Eva Leitolf.

 

2020

Research Trip, Visit of the Loango Chimpanzee Project , Loango National Park, Gabon. Founded by Bauhaus University Weimar, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig. (postponed)

 

2016

Artist in Residency, Santiago Chile, founded by Goethe Institute Santiago

 

2014/2015

Artist in Residency Yogjakarta, Indonesia, founded by the Institut fürAuslandsbeziehungen (IFA) and Goethe Institute Jakarta

 

2013

SYN Award, awarded by Bauhaus Dessau foundation and SYN Foundation

 

2013

Artist in Residency at Bauhaus Dessau, Germany

 

2013

C/O Talents Award 2013, awarded by C/O Berlin e.V. Germany

 

2012

Artist in Residency Istanbul , Turkey, supported by Halka Art Projekt and Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA)

 

2011

award by the Marion Ermer Foundation

 

2011

project stipend of the Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen

 

2010

working stipend of the German Academic Exchange Service for Istanbul,Turkey

 

2007/2008

Nominee for „Studies Award“ of the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig,Germany

 

2005

Erasmus – Artist in Residence, Bilbao, Spain

 

2003

Artist in Residence Scholarship of the German Academic Exchance Servicewith Boris Mikhailov, in Odessa, Ukraine

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Solo-Exhibitions

2024

Zoe, Exhibition, Billboard Display Gallery Hempel, Leipzig

 

2023

A Fist Full of Peanuts, Exhibition, one week performance, Gallery Intershop Leipzig

 

2022

Everybody´s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey, one week perfomance at the ACC Galerie Weimar and the nearby Park an der Ilm.

 

2019

“Cat, cry, Have-sorry, Koko-love” From a Primatologist´s Archive, Gallery Spinnerei archiv massiv, Leipzig

 

2019

On the Margins of the Field, Max-Planck Institute für Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig

 

2017

Art, Freedom and Zest for Life Galeria Temporal,Santiago, Chile

 

2016

Art, Freedom and Zest for Life, Centex, Valparaiso, Chile

 

2016

On choosing an appropriate Distance, GALERIJA MIROSLAV KRALJEVICZagreb Croatia

 

2016

On choosing an appropriate Distance, ZAVICAJNI MUZEUM – GALERIJA SV.TOMA, Rovinj, Croatia,

 

2015

Art, Freedom and Lebensfreude, C/O Berlin, Amerikahaus, Berlin, Germany

 

2014

Art, Freedom and Lebensfreude, Spinnerei Archiv Massiv, Leipzig, Germany

 

2014

Borders of objectivity, Zentralmagazin Naturwissenschaftlicher Sammlungen,Halle, Germany

 

2013

Gold, Gallery M2A, Dresden, Germany

 

2011

„Nebahat ́s sisters“ Oktogon, Dresden, Germany

 

2011

„Nebahat ́s sisters“ gallery archiv massiv, Leipzig, Germany

 

2009

„Gestures“ ex.Gallery Fred, London, Leipzig, Germany

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Group-Exhibitions: (Selection)

2024

Everyone but Caspar! Curated by: Gesa Lange and Peter Nikolaus Heikenwälder, Kunsthalle Niendorf Hamburg

 

2023

Voilà: Polyphon. Members exhibition of the BBK Leipzig 2023, Werkschau, Halle 12, Spinnerei Leipzig

 

2023

loose ends, Alessa Brossmer · Emanuel Mathias · Viktor Petrov · Mara Sandrock · Marie Lynn Speckert, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg

 

2022

Lumbung Lounge, curated by Site Specific Ideas and Guerilla Architects, Galerie Stellwerk, Kulturbahnhof Kassel,

 

2022

More Planets, less Pain – Konstellationen künstlerischer Forschung

Artists and Initiators: Francis Hunger, Edith Kollath, Lukas Kretschmer, Jeanne Lefin, María Linares, Barbara Marcel, Emanuel Mathias, Grit Ruhland, Markus Schlaffke, Katja Marie Voigt. Curator: Anne Brannys, Kunsthalle Erfurt, ACC Galerie Weimar

 

2021

LITTLE PIECE OF, Artists: Yvon Chabrowski, Enne Haehnle, Sabine Herrmann, Friederike Jokisch,  Lea Petermann, Gudrun Petersdorff, Maria Sainz Rueda, Mara Sandrock, Anija Seedler, Daniel Schörnig, Louise Walleneit, Galerie Intershop, Leipzig

 

2021

27. Leipziger Jahresausstellung: Hommage, Artists: Christiane Baumgartner, Sebastian Gögel, Stefan Hurtig, Franz Jyrch, Kaeseberg, Aris Kalaizis, Annika Kleist, Uwe Kowski, Emanuel Mathias, Alexej Meschtschanow, Thomas Moecker, Bastian Muhr, Stefanie Pojar, Simon Rübesamen, Christoph Ruckhäberle, Annette Schröter, Jana Seehusen, Björn Siebert,  Thomas Taube, Angelika Waniek, Andreas Wünschirs u.a., Werkschauhalle 12, Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig

 

2020

Buchstäblich. With Claudia Barth, Meg Cranston, Guillermo Deisler, exc, FAMED, Katharina Fritsch, Elmar Hermann, Tarik Kentouche, Dieter Kiessling, Estefania Landesmann, Walter Libuda, Petra Maitz, Emanuel Mathias, Methlife, Josef Pallenberg, Anna Schimkat & Michael Barthel, Tilo Schulz,Markus Vater, Studio for Artistic Research Düsseldorf.

 

2020

SYMPOSION, Heike Geißler, Antye Guenther, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Emanuel Mathias, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Alexander Pannier, KV – Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst e.V. Leipzig.

 

2020

Glasklar. From Bauhaus to Kibbutz. with Erich Glas, Yochai Avrahami, Luise Schröder, Emanuel Mathias, Melina Weissenborn, curated by Kristina Semenova, Gallery Drei Ringe, Leipzig

 

2019

From Far Away. Pictures of the GDR., curated by Dr. Sabine Schmid, Museum Villa Stuck, München

 

2019

Buchstäblich – Pongoland / Zoo Leipzig, curated by Elmar Hermann and Constanze Müller

 

2019

Ave Magazine 4 – Kunstraum Super Wien, curated by Anya Tristram and Kirsten Borchert

 

2018

Flurgold, Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn

 

2018

Into the Open- Art Museum Moritzburg Halle, curated by T.O. Immisch, Gabriele Muschter and Uwe Warnke

 

2018

Torn Society, 8 Photography Festival Leipzig (f/stop), Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig, curated by Anne König, Jan Wenzel

 

2018

In the Slipstream of T. together with Mirjam Schaub, within the exhibition

Text, Body, Image, Galerie at theVolkspark Halle, curated by Dr. Jule Reuter

 

2017

Constitution 1989 – Kunstraum D21 Leipzig, curated b yMontserrat Rojas Corradi, Chile

 

2017

Legitimate Rehearsals – Kunstraum D21 Leipzig, curated by Lena Brüggemann and Katharina Zimmerhackl

 

2016

Fragments of Histories, Neuer Sächsischer Kunstverein, Dresden, curated by Tina Bara

 

2015

Memories Compounded, Iveta Vaivode und Emanuel Mathias, Goethe Institut Mexiko City, Mexiko

 

2015

Passages. Art in Public Space in Hamburg since 1981 Kunsthaus Hamburg,Germany

 

2014

C/O Talents, Iveta Vaivode, Marc Beckmann, Krzysztof Pijarskij and Emanuel Mathias, Deutsche Börse, Frankfurt, Germany

 

2013

Kino und der kinematographische Blick, curated by Dr. Axel Lapp, Kunsthalle Memmingen, Germany

 

2012

gold/traders – Club Meta, Hamburg, Germany

 

2012

Nebahats Schwestern, Türkische Filmwoche, Berlin, Germany

 

2012

Bewegung im Rückspiegel – Florian Göthner und Emanuel Mathias, Galerie Raum Hellrot Halle

 

2012

Monitoring, Kulturbahnhof Kassel, Germany

 

2011

Edition of Six – Spinnerei, Leipzig

 

2011

Thanksgiving – gallery Filipp Rosbach, Leipzig

 

2010

Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey

 

2010

NO ISBN, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig

 

2010

In the Hidden, 4. F-Stop Photofestival Leipzig

 

2010

Even my mum can make a book, Manzara Perspectives Gallery, Istanbul,Turkey

 

2009

Räuberleiter, 5 artists from Leipzig, Thun, Switzerland

 

2009

Ex Voto, Ponte Leccio (Corsika) France

 

2009

Werkschau, Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig

 

2009

About a Boy, Gallery Leto, Warsaw Poland

 

2008

Vertrautes Terrain – Showroom 1 / Leipziger Schule- Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe

 

2008

“Studies Award ”, Gallery of the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, Germany

 

2008

“Dreams of a Better Life”, Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, Germany

 

2008

“Bermuda – Young German and Polish Art at the Annenkapelle”, Görlitz,Germany

 

2008

„Perforated“ – Kunstverein Leipzig, Germany

 

2007

“Studies Award”, Gallery of the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Germany

 

2007

“Deuten“ at F-Stop- International Photography Festival, Spinnerei, Leipzig,Germany

 

2007

“Temporary Nations Project”, Chantier Public, Lyon, France

 

2007

“The Visualization of the Invisible” – German-French Youth Association,Berlin,Germany

 

2006

“Sexy Myth” – Artistic Self – Perception and Artistic Perception of the Others, Gallery Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, Germany

 

2006

“Cold Hearts – Photography, Video, Object”, Class of Timm Rautert,Kunstverein Radolfzell, Germany

 

2006

„Caxap – 12 days in Odessa, Boris Mikhailov ans students“, Gasteig, Munich,Germany

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