Curriculum vitae

 

b. April 19, 1949, Berlin (Germany)

Senior Lecturer in German literature for public and private institutions (Universities of Milan, Siena, Bergamo, Goethe-Institut Milan). 2002-05 Director of Bachelor Studies in Cultural Communication Sciences, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (SCM Foundation, Milan). 2004/05 Director of Master Studies in Translation for Visual Arts.

Translations from English and Italian into German, including 2004: MoMa – Highlights, Museum of Modern Art, NYC.

1985 MA, Freie Universität Berlin.

Since 1986 publications, conferences, papers on Literature and Visual Arts.

1993: 1st One-Person Show Macere, Libreria Unione, presented by Generalkonsul Dr. Michael Engelhard, Milan.

1996/2000 Curator of Art exhibitions (including Artisti di passaggio, City of Monteriggioni, Siena, 1999) and Art Director of Spazio d’Arte/ Rapsodia Café and Backstage Gallery, Milan. 2001 Curator of  the Art-Music-Literature-Event Romantik 2001, Bergamo/Milan. 2010 Curator of the Art-Event Publikumspreis 2010 – Lieber Maler, male mir (m)ein Bild, Padova, Berlin, Langwedel, Verden, Hoya.

 

Selected One-Person Shows

• 1996 Constructa Romantika, Istituto di Cultura Germanica, Bologna (Catalogue)
• 1997 Constructa Romantika 2, Circolo Filologico Milanese, Milan
• 1998 Constructa Romantika 3, Circolo Culturale Bertolt Brecht, Milan (Catalogue)
• 2000 Wunderkammer, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Milan
• 2001 ein heilig ding, Goethe-Institut Milan, Catalogue
• 2003 angele, Pizia Arte, Teramo, www.piziarte.net; Sacralità e sopraffazione, Galleria Cortina, Milan, CD-Rom
• 2004 weiberleiber, Munix, City of Rome X, Cinecittà (Catalogue)
• 2006 Il vuoto sacro, Istituto di Cultura Germanica, Bologna, CD-Rom
• 2008 WARNING, CYBERLEIBER ONLY!, Etelser Hunde-Zwinger, Langwedel (D), CD-Rom
• 2009
• Romantik: Lust&Liebe, Gedanken&Bilder, Stadtbibliothek Verden, 12.2.2009/ Foundation SCM, 25.3.09, Milan  
• Il cielo un tempo diviso, Biblioteca comunale, Legnano, 12.11.09
• 2010
• Paul Kroker´s Digital Art, Lambda Gallery, Padova
• Publikumspreis “Lieber Maler, male mir (m)ein Bild”, Neonchocolate Gallery, Berlin , Rathaus Langwedel, Volksbank Grafschaft Hoya, Praxis Dr.Eckmann, Verden.

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

• 2001: Sacro, Misterico, Magico: La Terra, Città di Castello (Perugia/Italy), Catalogue
• 2002: Kreuz, Virtuelle Galerie, Leipzig (Germany), www.kulturportale.de
• 2003: Attraversamenti, Quintocortile/Bazart, Milan, Catalogue
• 2004: Arte all’aria, Circolo culturale Bertolt Brecht, Milan, Catalogue
• 2005: HYPE, Assab One, Milan, www.hypegallery.com
• 2006: HYPE, The Old TPG, Amsterdam, Café Moskau, Berlin
• 2006:Justice for All? Artists Reflect on the Death Penalty, Austin/Texas, www.deathpenaltyartshow.org  
• 2006: The Brain Project 2006, Trieste,         www.associazioneacquamarina.org/thebrain project.eu
• 2007: The Virtual Residency, www.virtual-residency.net
• 2008: The Last Book, A Luis Camnitzer Project, Biblioteca Nacional, Buenos Aires,
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9Y-06nidvQ
• 2010: PlakatKunst-Wettbewerb "Das Goldene Segel", traveling exhibition Bad Zwischenahn, Oldenburg, Isle of Spiekeroog, Catalogue, www.kunstpreis.net. 

 

  

 

Awards

• 1993 Fotowettbewerb des Auswärtigen Amts, Bonn
• 1997 Concorso di Pittura F.Sassetti, Milan,  2nd prize
• 2000 4° Biennale d’Arte, City Council of  Limana (Italy), 3^rd prize
• 2002 BondArt 2002, Borgata Bonda (Biella, Italy), 1st prize ex aequo
• 2006 Residencias, Instituto Rural de Arte Hoz del Jucar, Albacete (rejected)
• 2007 artist in residence, CAMAC centre d’art, Marnay-sur-Seine (rejected)
• 2010 Kunstpreis Bad Zwischenahn, Nominee.

 

 

His works have been commented on by

• Bernd Hägermann, “Lieber Maler, male mir – Kunstprojekt mit digitaler Malerei“, Achimer Wochentipp, 8.4.2010;
• Franca Cavagnoli, “Storie di funamboli, nocchieri e pierrots lunaires”, www.liebermaler.jimdo.com, april 2010;
• Hauke Hirsinger, „In fremden Gesichtern lesen“, Weserreport, 12.1.2010;
• Christian Neuhuber, LENZ-BILDER. Bildlichkeit in Büchners Erzählung und ihre Rezeption in der bildenden Kunst, Wien/Köln/Weimar, 2009, pp.314-316;
• Franca Cavagnoli, “Dietro le sbarre del sé”, http://beatrizszonell.jimdo.com, 08.09.08;
• Carlo Quadrino, „Paul Kroker, il connubio tra le arti“, www.genomart.org,  04.07.08;
• R. Bergmeyer, „Meine ganz persönliche Ausdrucksform“, Achimer Kreisblatt, 10.6.2008;
• Inka Sommerfeld, „Kritische Pornografie“, Weser Kurier, 10.6.2008;
• Beatriz Szonell, „Warning, Schule des Sehens“, CD Warning, Cyberleiber Only!, June 2008;
• Philippe Daverio, „Corpo a corpo con l´osceno”, Istituto di Cultura germanica, Bologna, 28.1.2006, CD;
• Franca Cavagnoli, “Angele”, www.piziarte.net, Teramo, 17.1.2003;
• Giorgio Cusatelli, Intro to the Symposium “Utopie romantiche”, Università degli Studi, Mailand, 23.3.2001;
• Orsola Riva, “Il ritorno del Romanticismo”, Corriere della Sera, 11 March 2001;
  Roberto Festa, Intervista, Radio Popolare, 15.3.01, 11.30;
• Cinzia Bollino Bossi, “Fiera Romantica”,  Circolo Culturale Bertolt Brecht, Milan 1998;
• Generalkonsulin Uta Mayer-Schalburg, Introduction,  Circolo Culturale Bertolt Brecht, Milan 1998;
• Carlo Perini, “Acrobate”, in: Constructa Romantika 3, Catalogue, Milan 1998;
• Giovanni Cerri, “Sorelle”, in: Constructa Romantika 3, Catalogue, Milan 1998;
• Generalkonsul Michael Engelhard, Introduction to the Exhib Constructa Romantika 2, Circolo Filologico Milanese, Milan,  27.1.1997;
• Beatriz Szonell, “Do not explain. This is your right“, Catalogue Constructa Romantika, January 1996;
• Generalkonsul Michael Engelhard, Introduction to the Exhib Macere, Libreria Unione, Milan,  1.12.1993.