Gertrud Riethmüller  -   riethmueller@virtual-residency.net
Interior Installations, Performances and Video Sculptures

1991 Student at HBK Saar (Saar Art College)
Media Arts under professor U. Rosenbach
1998 First class degree, MA under professor U. Rosenbach
Founding member of the producers’ gallery O.T
2000-2001 Conception/organisation of and curatorial work for the international media art project "Gegenort - The-Virtual-Mine", www.the-virtual-mine.net
2002 Member of the Saarländischer Künstlerbund (Saarland Artists’ Association)

Prizes, Grants, Funding and Awards
1998 Art and Culture Prize Neunkirchen, 2nd place
1999 Holder of the town of Saarbrücken’s art scholarship
2002 Plaidter Art Prize, 1st place
2003 Tölzer Art Prize, 1st place
2006 scholarship Artist Unlimited Bielefeld

One-(Wo)man Exhibitions / Performances
1998

Galerie Agi Wegener - interior installation
Johanniskirche Saarbrücken - interior installation
Galerie O.T. Saarbrücken - interior installation

1999 Performance to the theme of the concentration camp memorial in Saarbrücken
2000 Kulturfoyer Saarbrücken - installations
2001 Galerie im Bürgerhaus Neunkirchen - performance
2002 Ulmer Künstlerhaus - video, installation und objects
Design and creation of the Saarland State Prize Architecture Award
2004 Kunstverein Rhein-Sieg-Kreis “Pumpwerk” – interior installation (Cat.)
Bad Tölzer Kunstverein - interior installation

Projects
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 Monika Bohr, Leslie Huppert, Fevzi Konuk and Claudia Brieske – database-supported Internet platform and exhibition in the shaft complex Gegenort / Neunkirchen
bis 2006 "Elsewhere - Not here, not there / Anderswo - nicht hier, nicht dort" - international exhibition project in Saarbrücken and San Francisco

Exhibitions (selection)
1997
Student Forum Media Art Festival in Osnabrück - video installation (Cat.)
1997 Video Festival "Best Before" Hildesheim – video installation and tapes
8th SaarLorLux Film and Video Festival Saarbrücken (Cat.)
State Art Exhibition 1997, St. Ingbert (Cat.)
1998 Student Forum Media Art Festival Osnabrück - performance (Cat.)
Art and Culture Prize Neunkirchen – video installation
1999 s"sans titre" (Untitled), Galerie La Lune en Parachute – interior installation
"Schichtwechsel" Völklingen – video performance
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York
2000 Media Art Festival Osnabrück – video object (Cat.)
Statzionè di Toplo, Italy - installation (Cat.)
State Art Exhibition, St.Ingbert - object (Cat.)
2001 Sikinger Art Prize, Kaiserslautern - objects (Cat.)
Kunsthaus Erfurt – video sculpture (Cat.)
Frauenmuseum Bonn - installation
Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken – video sculpture (Cat.)
Art project “Gegenort - The-Virtual-Mine" Project presentation "Gegenort - The Virtual Mine" at the Biennale for Digital Media Art, Manila, Philippines, and at the Symposium for Digital Art in Sao Paulo, Brazil
2002 “Lichtbrücken” (Light Bridges), Erfurt – exterior installation (Cat.)
Haus der Kunst, München – video object (Cat.)
2003 Kunstforum Löwenhof , Frankfurt – light object
Saarländischer Künstlerbund - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken (Cat.)
Bad Tölzer Kunstverein – video installation
2004 2003 Galerie Wengihof, Zürich - multimedia object (Cat.)
Kulturzentrum Kammgarn - CH - Schaffhausen - multimedia object (Cat.)
2005 Videofoyer Saarländisches Künstlerhaus – Saarbrücken
Kunsthalle Duisburg – multimedia object (Cat.)
Biennale Gera Höhler 2005 – installation – Gera (Cat.)
2005 Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken - installation "Feld"