In cooperation with the KunstSalon Köln Agnes Meyer-Brandis is invited for a three months fellowship in Villa Aurora.

Agnes Meyer-Brandis, born 1973 in Aachen, Germany, studied mineralogy for a year, then transfered to the Art Academy in Maastricht, the Düsseldorf Art Academy and the Cologne Media Art Academy.

She comes from a background of both sculpture and new media art.

Her work, exhibited worldwide, is at the experimental edge of art and science, exploring the zone between fact and fiction, fantasy and technology. She is working with participatory urban interventions. Her current research focus is on public places and situations as well as imaginary ones. Agnes Meyer-Brandis is the founder of the “Forschungsfloss FFUR / Research Raft for Subterranean Reefology”, a small institute whose chief aim is to explore and confirm subterranean phenomena and unknown lifeforms.

Education

2003
Masters Degree Audio Visual Media Postgraduate studies, Art Academy of Media Arts [KHM], Cologne, Germany
2000
Masters Degree (Akademiebrief + Meisterschülerin), Düsseldorf Art Academy, Germany • Prof: Magdalena Jetelovà
1993-95
Art Academy Maastricht, Netherlands • study: sculpture
1993
RWTH, University Aachen, Germany • study: mineralogy

Awards and grants (selection)

2009
• Hartware MedienKunstVerein, HMKV grant for media artists of North Rhine Westphalia (NRW)
• Artist in Residence, National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) Jekaterinburg, Russland, Stipendium
2008
• HMKV, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, NRW (project: “Moon Goose Experiment”), grant
• Culture Award Rhineland, Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rhineland, emerging artist award
• Artist in Residence, Schöppingen, 3 months NRW, grant
2007
• Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, At, (project: “Iceberg-Probe”), Honorary Mention
2006
• Transmediale Award 2006, Berlin, (project: “Iceberg-Probe”), winner First Prize
• Artist in Residence, Goethe Institute, Porto Alegre, Brazil
• Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, Honorary Mention
2005
• Science & Cite Award, Kunstraum Aarau, Switzerland, winner First Prize • Kunststiftung NRW, (project: “SGM-Iceberg-Probe”), grant
2004
• Award for Media Art of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW)
• CynetArt Award 2004, (project: “Corral Reef-Detector”), distinction award
2003
• Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, At, (project: “Elf-Scan”), Honorary Mention 2000
• Artist in Residence, New York, DAAD grant

Solo exhibitions

2010
• “In The Tropospheric Laboratory”, Schering Foundation, Berlin
2009
• “Impakt – Studies on cause and effect”, National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA), Jekaterinburg, Russia
2006
• “Bambu-Scan”, Torreau, Goethe Institute, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2005
• “Tools To Search”, Kunstraum Aarau, Switzerland
• “Iceberg-Probe, Fieldtest Düsseldorf”, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, De
• “Earth-Core-Laboratory and Elf-Scan”, Gallery Kapelica, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1999
• “Flöhtüh, Flöhtah !”, Parkhaus Malkastenpark, Düsseldorf, De

Group exhibitions (selection)

2009
• “Art On Site”, 3^rd Moscow Biennale, National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) Moskau, Ru
• “Expedition to the Total Eclipse”, Finnish National Gallery KIASMA, Helsinki, Fi
• “2^nd Biennale at the End of The World”, Ushuaia, Argentina
• “Space #4”, White Club, Salzburg, At
2008
• “Shift”, Festival of Electronic Arts, Basel, Ch
• “Magical Systems”, Kunstverein Tromsø, No
• “Intervened Nature. Thoughts on Nature, Environment and New Technologies”, Church of Santa Lucía, Sevilla, Es
• “CynetArt08”, Kunsthaus Dresden, De
• “Rauma Biennale Balticum”, Rauma Art Museum, Fl
• “Tiefenrausch”, OK Zentrum / Linz09, Dachstein-Glacier, At
• “Bild Macht Wissen” (“Image-Knowledge-Power”), Gallery 5020, Salzburg, At
• “Workflow”, DASA Dortmund, De
• “Media Art Awards”, Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl, De
• “EMAF”, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, De
2007
• “Space Art”, ESA/DLR Space Exploration Conference, Berlin, De
• “Taxonomies”, COMAFOSCA, Allela-Barcelona, Es
• “CyberArts”, Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition, O.K Centrum, Linz, At
• “The game is up”, Arts Centre Vooruit, Gent, Be
2006
• “Interface and Society”, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, No
• “Kombi Ticket”, Museum Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, De
• “Paraflows”, Annual Convention for Digital Arts and Cultures, Vienna, At
• “Transmediale” und „Smile Machines”, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, De
• “Japan Media Arts Festival”, Tokyo Metroplitan Museum of Photography, Jp
2004
• “Biennale of Electronic Arts in Perth” [BEAP 2004], Australa
• “Monitoring”, Kulturbahnhof Kassel, De
• “Unter Strom”, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, De
• “Transmitter“, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, De
2003
• “CyberArts”, Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition, O.K Centrum, Linz, At 2002
• “Carte blanche“, Gallery Lab, Strasbourg, Fr
2000
• Gallery Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf, De
1998
• “Reality bites”, Gallery Walbröl, Düsseldorf, De
1997
• “Verweildauer”, Kunstverein Gütersloh, De

Performance / Lectures (selection)

• “Less Remote”, The Futures of Space Exploration: an Arts & Humanities Symposium, Glasgow, parallel to IAC (The International Astronautical Congress), organised by The Arts Catalyst, Flis Holland und Leonardo, Oct.’08, UK
• “CYNETart08”, Kunsthaus Dresden, Nov.’08, De
• “Shift”, Festival of Electronic Arts, Basel, Oct.’08 CH
• “The Drilling Consortium”, Kunstverein Tromsø, Nov.’08, Norway
• “Tools To Search”, Gallery 5020, Salzburg, May’08, At
• “Biorama”, Digital Research Unit, Huddersfield, ‘07, UK
• Comafosca, Centre de Arte y Pensamiento, Allela-Barcelona, ‘07, Es
• Vooruit, Media and Kunstzentrum Gent, Be, 2007
• Goethe Institut Porto Alegre, Br, 2006
• UFRGS [Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul], Br, 2006
• Pro Mata, Research Station of University PUCRS Porto Alegre in cooperation with the University of Tübingen, Br, 2006
• Transmediale, international Festival for Art and digital Media, Berlin, De, 2006
• Kunstraum Aarau, CH, 2005

Cooperations (selection)

• NASA / JPL Laboratory
• DLR, German Aerospace Center
• Geological Service of NRW / Geologischer Dienst NRW
• Zoo of Novosibirsk, Ru
• NPI, Norwegian Polar Institute