| Monika Bohr - bohr@virtual-residency.net | |
| Installations, Video, Digital Prints and Photography |
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| 1991-1997 | Student of Fine Art and Media Arts at HBK Saar (Saar Art College) |
| 1997 | First class degree, MA |
Prizes, Grants, Funding and Awards |
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| 1995 | Holder of the town of Saarbrücken’s art scholarship |
| 1997 | Funding granted to the art group Kunstmanöver by the Goetheinstitut Göteborg and the UN |
| 2006 | Art Prize, 1st place, Trier-Saarburg |
| Projects | |
| 1996-1998 | Founding member of the Kunstmanöver group Events are set in places experiencing transition, former barracks and industrial sites in Rhineland-Palatinate, Brandenburg (Germany) and Sweden; co-operation with artists from France, Sweden and Belarus; video art, video installations, sound installations |
| 1997-2000 | Founding member of the producers’ gallery O.T., Saarbrücken Exhibition program specializing in media art and performance, video art events, exchange projects with France, Italy, Spain and Morocco; objects and painting |
| 2000-2001 | Conception and organisation of the international media art project "Gegenort - The-Virtual-Mine"; curatorial work together with Claudia Brieske, Leslie Huppert, Fevzi Konuk and Gertrud Riethmüller – database-supported Internet platform and exhibition in the shaft complex Gegenort / Neunkirchen |
Exhibitions (selection) |
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| 1992 | Kunstsupermarkt (Art Supermarket), Saarbrücken |
| 1993 | Pfingstrot (Whitsunset), Johanniskirche, Saarbrücken (Cat.) |
| 1994 | Saar Ferngas "Junge Kunst" (Young Art), Kaiserslautern (Cat.) Videonale 6, Bonn (Cat.) Videonale 6, Bonn (Cat.) |
| 1996 | Venezia 1991-1995, Galerie Entreé, Saarbrücken KM (Art Manoeuvre), Holtzendorffkaserne, Kaiserslautern |
| 1997 | UN Konferenz zur Konversion, Kaiserslautern KM (Art Manoeuvre), Rote Kaserne, Neuruppin KM (Art Manoeuvre), Röda Sten, Göteborg |
| 1998 | KM, (Art Manoeuvre), Schlossberghöhlen, Homburg |
| 1999 | Geheimnis Landleben (The Secret of Rural Life), O.T. Gallery, Saarbrücken Linientreu und Kugelsicher (Loyal to the Party Line and Bullet Proof), Schwabenrepro Project, Stuttgart Venezia Due, Associazione Culturale Italo-Tedesca, Venice Sans titre (Untitled), Ancienne Trésorerie, Epinal Sandwich, Install, Bad Kreuznach |
| 2000 | Visionen 2000, Moderne Galerie des Saarlandes The-Virtual-Mine (TVM) 2000-2001 (K) |
| 2001 | Realisation of the project The-Virtual-Mine in Gegenort, Neunkirchen
Saar (TVM) Biennale for Digital Media Art, Manila (TVM) Symposium DigitalArt Sao Paulo (TVM) |
| 2003 | Gehäuse (Housing), Eisenturm, Mainz |
| 2004 | Farbecht (Colourfast), Landeszentralbank, Mainz Kunstszene Saar, Saarländisches Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken “Postalisch” (Postal) Galerie Wengihof - Zürich (Cat.) |
| 2005 | Forum Vebikus, Schaffhausen cubus Kunsthalle, Duisburg Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken Kulturverband Favoriten, Wien Great to be at home, Saarländisches Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken (E) (K) |
