MARIO PFEIFER
*1981 in Dresden, lives and works in Berlin
Education
2008-2009 California Institute of the Arts
2007-2008 Städelschule Frankfurt am Main
2005-2007 Universität der Künste, Berlin
2003-2006 Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
Awards and Grants
2011 Salon Video Art Price, London
2010 Videokunst Förderpreis Bremen
2010 DAAD fellowship
2010 Werkleitz production grant
2009 TransvideoStudios project grant, USA
2009, 2010 Goethe Institut project grant
2008 Fulbright scholarship, USA
2005, 2007 Goethe Institute travel grant
2003 FAS Project grant, France
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2012 Andrew Roth Gallery/PPP Editions, New York
Circa Projects, Sunderland
Goethe Institut, New Delhi
2011 Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
KOW BERLIN
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2012 Photography from the MMK Collection, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
India: Visions from the Outside, The Cultural Centre of Brugge
Artists against AIDS, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
Higher Atlas, Marrakech Biennale
Schranz Contemporary, Hinterhof Offspace, Basel
2011 The Chrysler Series, New York
Salon Video Art Prize, Matt Roberts Art, London
Memory Awake, Storey Gallery, Leicester
2010 New Frankfurt Internationals: Stories and Stages, Frankfurter Kunstverein und
MMK Zollamt, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
19. Videokunst Förderpreis Bremen, Weserburg Museum für moderne
Kunst, Bremen
New Topographics, Landesgalerie Linz
Highlights from the Cologne KunstFilmBiennale in Berlin, KW Institute for
Contemporary Art, Berlin
Speckle Imaging: Viewpoints on Documentary in Contemporary Art,
Waseda University, Tokyo
Mulhouse Biennale 010, Mulhouse
Salon Video Art Prize, Matt Roberts Arts, London
2009 New Topographics, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Antirepresentationalism III, KOW BERLIN
Zeigen. Eine Audiotour durch Berlin von Karin Sander, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
Antirepresentationalism II, KOW BERLIN
Antirepresentationalism I, KOW BERLIN
Back to the Future, Center for Opinion in Music and Art, Berlin
2008 Ende, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Thisiscurating1-40, curated by Joel Mu, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
2007 Angst, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
Reissbrettromantik, Platform, Berlin
Film Festival Participations / Screenings
2012 World Film Festival, Bangkok
2011 Bilbao International Documentary Festival, Bilbao
World Film Festival, Bangkok
Museum of Art and Design, New York
Museum of contemporary Art, Detroit
Migrating Forms, New York
London International Documentary Film Festival, London
Images Festival, Toronto
2010 Bangkok World Film Festival
Les Rencontres Internationales, Berlin, Madrid
Videoart at Midnight #16, Kino Babylon Mitte, Berlin
Art Basel Film curated by Marc Glöde, Basel
Lichter Filmtage, Frankfurt am Main
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück
Video Screening II, Museum Folkwang Essen
2009 Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris
Academy of Film & Multimedia Marubi, Tirana
KunstFilmBiennale Köln, Cologne
Bangkok World Film Festival
SE8, curated by Tatiana Echerverri Fernandez, London
Further Projects
2012 Curator Ways of Seeing, I, II & III, Braennen, Berlin
2011 Conversations, Toronto, Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, Salzburg, Paris
2010 Lecture Love & Space, Kunstsäle Berlin
2009 Lecture Hero/Antihero, Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne
2008 Guest Curator 5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival
Guest Curator Sun Screens Festival, Arsenal Berlin
Filmography
2012 The Los Angeles River-project, 35 mm/HD video, color, SR 5.1, 80 min
The De-/Re-Construction of Erawan Shrine, HD video, color, stereo, 30 min
2010 A FORMAL FILM IN NINE EPISODES, PROLOGUE & EPILOGUE,
35 mm film, color, Dolby Sr 5.1., 50 min
2009 Reconsidering The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California by Lewis
Baltz, 1974, 2 x 16 mm, B/W, mono, 13 min
2008 Yet Untitled [Pieces of Nature], S 16 mm on Beta SP, color, stereo, 11’30 min
Untitled [Two Guys], HD, color, stereo, 7’30 min
2007 Sum Over Histories [Part I|, HD, color, stereo, 12 min
2006 IMPERIAL, Digital video, color, stereo, 12 mi
2005 Cinema For The Blind [Trailer for Theatre], Digital video, color, stereo, 3 min
2004 The Horizon Scene, Digital video, color, stereo, 12 min
*1981 in Dresden, lives and works in Berlin
Education
2008-2009 California Institute of the Arts
2007-2008 Städelschule Frankfurt am Main
2005-2007 Universität der Künste, Berlin
2003-2006 Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
Awards and Grants
2011 Salon Video Art Price, London
2010 Videokunst Förderpreis Bremen
2010 DAAD fellowship
2010 Werkleitz production grant
2009 TransvideoStudios project grant, USA
2009, 2010 Goethe Institut project grant
2008 Fulbright scholarship, USA
2005, 2007 Goethe Institute travel grant
2003 FAS Project grant, France
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2012 Andrew Roth Gallery/PPP Editions, New York
Circa Projects, Sunderland
Goethe Institut, New Delhi
2011 Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
KOW BERLIN
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2012 Photography from the MMK Collection, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
India: Visions from the Outside, The Cultural Centre of Brugge
Artists against AIDS, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
Higher Atlas, Marrakech Biennale
Schranz Contemporary, Hinterhof Offspace, Basel
2011 The Chrysler Series, New York
Salon Video Art Prize, Matt Roberts Art, London
Memory Awake, Storey Gallery, Leicester
2010 New Frankfurt Internationals: Stories and Stages, Frankfurter Kunstverein und
MMK Zollamt, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
19. Videokunst Förderpreis Bremen, Weserburg Museum für moderne
Kunst, Bremen
New Topographics, Landesgalerie Linz
Highlights from the Cologne KunstFilmBiennale in Berlin, KW Institute for
Contemporary Art, Berlin
Speckle Imaging: Viewpoints on Documentary in Contemporary Art,
Waseda University, Tokyo
Mulhouse Biennale 010, Mulhouse
Salon Video Art Prize, Matt Roberts Arts, London
2009 New Topographics, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Antirepresentationalism III, KOW BERLIN
Zeigen. Eine Audiotour durch Berlin von Karin Sander, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
Antirepresentationalism II, KOW BERLIN
Antirepresentationalism I, KOW BERLIN
Back to the Future, Center for Opinion in Music and Art, Berlin
2008 Ende, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Thisiscurating1-40, curated by Joel Mu, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
2007 Angst, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
Reissbrettromantik, Platform, Berlin
Film Festival Participations / Screenings
2012 World Film Festival, Bangkok
2011 Bilbao International Documentary Festival, Bilbao
World Film Festival, Bangkok
Museum of Art and Design, New York
Museum of contemporary Art, Detroit
Migrating Forms, New York
London International Documentary Film Festival, London
Images Festival, Toronto
2010 Bangkok World Film Festival
Les Rencontres Internationales, Berlin, Madrid
Videoart at Midnight #16, Kino Babylon Mitte, Berlin
Art Basel Film curated by Marc Glöde, Basel
Lichter Filmtage, Frankfurt am Main
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück
Video Screening II, Museum Folkwang Essen
2009 Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris
Academy of Film & Multimedia Marubi, Tirana
KunstFilmBiennale Köln, Cologne
Bangkok World Film Festival
SE8, curated by Tatiana Echerverri Fernandez, London
Further Projects
2012 Curator Ways of Seeing, I, II & III, Braennen, Berlin
2011 Conversations, Toronto, Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, Salzburg, Paris
2010 Lecture Love & Space, Kunstsäle Berlin
2009 Lecture Hero/Antihero, Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne
2008 Guest Curator 5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival
Guest Curator Sun Screens Festival, Arsenal Berlin
Filmography
2012 The Los Angeles River-project, 35 mm/HD video, color, SR 5.1, 80 min
The De-/Re-Construction of Erawan Shrine, HD video, color, stereo, 30 min
2010 A FORMAL FILM IN NINE EPISODES, PROLOGUE & EPILOGUE,
35 mm film, color, Dolby Sr 5.1., 50 min
2009 Reconsidering The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California by Lewis
Baltz, 1974, 2 x 16 mm, B/W, mono, 13 min
2008 Yet Untitled [Pieces of Nature], S 16 mm on Beta SP, color, stereo, 11’30 min
Untitled [Two Guys], HD, color, stereo, 7’30 min
2007 Sum Over Histories [Part I|, HD, color, stereo, 12 min
2006 IMPERIAL, Digital video, color, stereo, 12 mi
2005 Cinema For The Blind [Trailer for Theatre], Digital video, color, stereo, 3 min
2004 The Horizon Scene, Digital video, color, stereo, 12 min
Links: www.mariopfeifer.com