CLEMENS VON WEDEMEYER
*1974 in Göttingen, lives and works in Berlin

Education

1999-2005 Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Meisterschüler (Prof. Astrid Klein)
1996-1998 Photography and Media at the Fachhochschule, Bielefeld

Awards and Grants

2008 Villa Romana, Firenze
2005 Residency at La Cité des arts, Paris
2006 Karl – Schmidt – Rottluff - Stipendium
2006 Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, German competition
2005 GASAG Kunstpreis, Berlin
2005 Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse, Bremen
2004 Mention, Festival Les Ecrans Documentaires, Arcueil, France
2004 Grant by the Kulturstiftung Sachsen
2003 FIAV Award (Festival international de l‘art vidéo), Tavira
2002 VG Bildkunst Award for Experimental Film and Video–art, Munich Film Festival 2002 Marion Ermer Preis, Leipzig
2002 Grant by the DEFA Film Foundation, Berlin
1999 Short Film Competition organized by SWR (South Western German Channel)
Evangelical Regional Church Award, Stuttgart
1998 Focus (Festival für Fotografie und
Elektrokunst), Dortmund

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)

2011 The Repetition Festival Show, Galerie Civica Trento, Trento
         Metropolis, Report from China, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a.M.
         (with Maya Schweizer)
         The Repetition Festival Show, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Kopenhagen
         Sun Cinema, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris
2010 The Fourth Wall, KOW BERLIN, Berlin
         The Repetition Festival Show, Project Art Center, Dublin
         Sun Cinema, Mardin (Public Art Project)
2009 The Fourth Wall, Curve Commission, Barbican Arts Centre, London
2008 CGAC, Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostela (catalogue)
         Otjesd, Videospace, Budapest
2007 Films in common, Argos – Centre for Art & Media, Brussels
         Vita Kuben, Umea University, Umea
2006 Kölnischer Kunstverein (catalogue)
         CAC Brétigny-sur-Orge
         PS1 MOMA, New York
2003 Cinema Divisible, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris
         Big Business, Plattform, Berlin   

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

2011 The Eye is a Lonely Hunter, 4. Fotofestival Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg,
         Kunsthalle Mannheim
         Communitas Die unrepräsentierbare Gesellschaft, Camera Austria, Graz
         Because Architecture Doesn‘t Speak, a video exhibition around perceptions of buildings
         and cityscapes in contemporary artists‘ videos, Audain Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2010 the hybrid fuels ... plötzlich diese Einsicht, Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen
         Fokus, Lodz Biennale 2010
         Take me to your leader, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
         Over the Counter („Crisis“), Mucsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest
         Höhepunkte der Kölner KunstFilmBiennale in Berlin, KW
         Bilder in Bewegung, Werke aus der Sammlung. Museum Ludwig, Köln
         1984, Austrian Cultural Forum NY, New York
         Screensaver – Open Video Projects De Vleeshal, Middelburg
         Symply Video, Kunsthalle Stuttgart, Stuttgart
         curated by, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Wien
         Portraits de Collectionneurs - Jocelyne et Fabrice Petignat, MURO, Genf
         The Guest Room, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
         NineteenEightyFour, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
         Sammlung Julia Stoschek, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
         L’école de Stéphanie, KW, Berlin
         Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig   
         Auto-Kino by Phil Collins, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
         Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism    Platform, FRAC Chicago
         Arrivals and Departures, Ancona
         A Journey with no Return, AFoundation, London
         Comrades of Time, Unicredit Pavillion, Bucharest
         Sammlung Julia Stoschek, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
         Found Footage, Guest Room, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
2009 Antirepresentationalism I - III, KOW BERLIN, Berlin
         Zeigen, eine Audiotour by Karin Sander, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
         Vilnius COOP: gaps, fictions and practices, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilniu
         La Rose pourpre du Caire - Making of, FRAC Auvergne, Aurillac
         Actors and Extras, Argos, Brussels (catalogue)
         Schweizerische Skulpturen ausstellung, Biel (catalogue)
         There goes the neighborhood, MOCA USA, Cleveland
         Aquisitions Artissima Frac Piemonti, Fondazione Pistoletto, Turin
         Mnemocyne L´atlante delle immagini, Centro Arti Visive Pescheria
         Art Boom Festival, Kravow, Poland
         Monument to transformation, City Gallery Prague
         Mise en scéne, centre d‘art passarelle, Brest
2008 The Cinematic, or Moving Images Expended: Artist’s film and video
         Showcase 2008, Insa Art Space, Seoul
         Video Programme, curator: Anita Beckers, Strozzina, Firenze
         Open studio, Villa Romana, Firenze
         Eurasia: Geographic cross-overs in art Mart, Rovereto
         Seventh Shanghai Biennale: TRANSLOCALMOTION, curatorial team: Zhang Qing,
         Julian Heynen and Henk Slager (catalogue)
         Revolutions - Forms That Turn 16th Biennale of Sydney
         There Goes the Neighborhood, MOCA Cleveland Curator: Megan Lykins Reich
         La vie moderne / revisitée, La Passerelle, Brest, curator : Ulrike Kremeier
         Eastern Standard: Western artists in China, Mass MoCA, North Adams
         Cabinet of Imagination, Netwerk / center for contemporary art, Aalst, Belgium,
         curator: Lorenzo Benedetti
         Villa Romana fellows, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (catalogue)
         Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendium, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
         Collateral 2, When art looks at cinema, SESC, Sao Paulo(catalogue)
         Politique de la vision, Kunstraum Forde, Geneva
         … 5 minutes later, Kunstwerke, Berlin (catalogue)
         Adelaide fringe Festival, Australia
2007-08 Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to now, MoMA, New York
         Filmische Wahrheiten, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
         Bare life, museum on the seam, Jerusalem
         Fiction Vs. Reality, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation,  Lisboa (catalogue)     
         Destroy she said – film programme, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
2007 Wheel, Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
         Divided Monologue, Max Pechstein Preis, Städtisches  Museum Zwickau, (catalogue)
         Skulptur Projekte Münster Curators : Kasper König, Brigitte Franzen, Carina Plath
         (catalogue)
         Timeout ! Art and Sustainability, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, curator: Friedmann Malsch
         (catalogue)
         The California Files, re-viewing side effects of cultural memory, CCA
         Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, curator: Ariane Beyn
         Love Addiction, La Comunale, Monfalcone
         Re : Site Gallery, Sheffield
         Kopf oder Zahl, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna (catalogue) curator : Helmut Mark
         Umbau / Modification, Neue Kunst Halle St. Gallen curator : Burkhard Meltzer
         (catalogue)
         Final Cut, media art and cinema, European Media Art Festival, Kunsthalle
         Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück, Germany, curator: Hermann Nöring
         Collateral, Hangar Bicocca, Milano (catalogue), curators : Adelina von Fürstenberg,
         Anna Daneri, Andrea Lissoni (catalogue)
         Retour d‘Italie. Documents en déplacement, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris
         Le nuage Magellan, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, curator : Joanna Mytkowska
         Naked Life, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan (catalogue)
         The other city, Trafo Galeria, Budapest
2006 Just off focus, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York   
         In Moment, Skelleftea Konsthall, Sweden
         t.i.n.a.b., Prague
         4th Biennale of contemporary art, Berlin (catalogue)
         Fama Fluxus Mythos Beuys... jetzt neu!?NEW!, Kunst+Projekte
         ISindelfingen, Galerie der Stadt, Sindelfingen
2005 Leipzig Lens, Podium Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
         The Pantagruel Syndrom, T- Triennale, Torino
         Déjà-vu, The Moment of “Belatedness” in Contemporary Art , Atelier
         Augarten, Center for Contemporary Art,  Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
         Projekt Migration, Kölnischer Kunstverein (catalogue), curator: Kathrin Rhomberg,
         Marion von Osten
         Krasnojarsk Museum Biennale, Krasnojarsk, Siberia
         Bremer Freiheit, Künstlerhaus Bremen (with Ralf Berger, Mathilde ter Heijne,
         Olaf Nicolai, Thomas Rentmeister, Gregor Schneider) curator: Susanne Pfeffer
         Galerie Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe (with Gustav Kluge and Jan Mancuska)
         NCCA, Arsenal, Nitschni Nowgorod
         Art space, Auckland, New Zealand (with Fitts & Holderness (NZ), Aernout Mik (NL),
         Daniel Roth (DE), Marnie Slater (NZ))
         In der Wäldern, Kunsthaus Mürz, Mürzzuschlag curator: Brigitte Huck
         Kunstpreis  der Böttcherstrasse, Kunsthalle Bremen (Award) (catalogue)
         Die fotografierte Stadt, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
         Curator: Barbara Steiner, Heidi Stecker
         Klosterfelde, Berlin (with Markus Schinwald and Matthew Buckingham)
         Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, curator: Hans Ulrich Obrist (catalogue)
2004 Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna (in association with Plattform, Berlin)
         Verfahren im Raum, Kunstraum B2, Leipzig (catalogue)
         curators: Alexander Koch, Ulrike Kremeier
         Pilot 1, International art forum, London, selected by: Jens Hoffmann
         The Big Business Project, solo show, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, FIAC
         (International Fair of Contemporary Art, Paris)
         Utopia station, Haus der Kunst, Muenchen
         Curators: Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Rirkrit Tiravanija
         Cubed, Plattform, Berlin, curator: Ulrike Kremeier
         Shrinking cities, Kunst-Werke, Berlin (catalogue)
         Deutschland sucht, Kölnischer Kunstverein (catalogue) Curator: Ariane Beyn
         Das Fenster zum Hof, NGBK (Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst), Berlin,
         curator: Frank Wagner
         Eines abends spät in der Zukunft, exhibition with Christoph Weber, Kubus, Leipzig
         Cremers Haufen, Landesmuseum für Kunst and Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany
         (catalogue), curator: Maïté Vissault
2003-04 Lautloses Irren, Postbahnhof am Ostbahnhof, Berlin (catalogue) Curator: Harm Lux
2003 Radical Architecture III, processing uncertainty, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Köln,
         Germany, curators: Bernd Kniess, Christopher Dell
2002 Keep on looking: Fragen zur Kunst, Kunstfond Sachsen, Kunsthaus, Dresden
         Wunschbilder, Kunstfond Sachsen, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig
         Grenzbespielungen: Performativität und Übergangszonen, Academy of Visual Arts,
         Leipzig, curator: Beatrice von Bismarck   
         In welcher Haltung arbeiten Sie bevorzugt? Kunst im Verhältnis zur Konstruktion von
         Arbeit (with Andreas Siekmann), D/O/C/K/ Project, Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig
2000 Flusser-Symposium, Current Cutter, Video-installation, Fachhochschule Bielefeld
1999 Studentforum, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück
1997 *.* Sternpunktstern, Bielefeld

Filmography

2009 The Fourth Wall Project, consisting of:
         Intro: 16 mm film loop, B/W, 3 min
         The Gentle Ones: HD video, 28 min, 16:9
         The Party: 3 channel video installation, 13 min, 3 x 4:3
         Found Footage: Digital video, 31 min, 4:3
         Wood: 2 channel installation, HD video, 6:30 min, loop, 16:9    
         Against Death, 35 mm film transferred to HD video, 9 min, 16:9/ 1:1,85
         2009 The Inner Campus, 2 Kanal Videoinstallation, HD video, Blu-ray, stereo, loop,
         12 min, 2008, aspect ratio 16:9
2008 Die Probe (The Test), HD Video, 12 min, loop
2007 Getrennter Monolog (Divided Monologue), Slideshow, 80 slides
         Von Gegenüber (From the opposite side), 35 mm, realized for Projekte Münster 2007
2006 Metropolis, Report from China, with Maya Schweizer, 42 min, video
         Rien du Tout, with Maya Schweizer, 30 min, 35 mm and video
2005 Ohne Titel (Rekonstruktion), 16 mm transferred to video, 3 min, loop
         Otjesd (Leaving) & The Making od Otjesd, 16mm transferred to video, 15 min, stereo,
         color, loop
2004 Die Siedlung, video, 20 min; stereo, color, Videoessay about an old army base in Leipzig
         Das Bildermuseum brennt, 3channel video installation, 27 min
2003 Silberhöhe, 35mm / DVD, 10 mn; stereo; loop, A study about a modern ghost town
2002 Big Business & The Making of Big Business, digital video / DVD, 25 min, each; mono   
         Occupation & The Making of Occupation, a film for 200 extras and a film team.
         35 mm / DVD, 7 min; dolby surround / stereo
1998 Mass, Men–again and against masses.DVD, 3 min; stereo