born 1983 in Düsseldorf, Germany
based in Essen
STUDIES
2010–2011
guest student in fine art
Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Klasse Richard Deacon / Klasse Rita McBride
2007–2010
fine art (arts plastiques)
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
with Patrick Tosani and Christian Boltanski
DNSAP (MA) with distinction (félicitations du jury)
2003–2009
communication design (specialisation in photography)
Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen
Prof. Gisela Bullacher and Prof. Dr. Herta Wolf
diploma with distinction
GRANTS & AWARDS (selection)
2023
Allbau Kulturpreis of the City of Essen – AllbauStiftung
2022
Neustart Kultur – Stiftung Kunstfonds
2021
Neustart Kultur – Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V.
2020
Begrenzt – Entgrenzt – Zeit für eine Zeitenwende?
special fund by Kunststiftung NRW
2019
Arbeitsstipendium (A1), working grant
Stiftung Kunstfonds
2019
Shortlist for SpallArt Prize 2020
2019
Shortlist for C/O Berlin TALENT AWARD 2019
2018
Individuelle Künstlerinnen und Künstler Förderung (IKF)
Ministerium für Kunst und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW
ein Projekt der ecce GmbH
2017
Plat(t)form 2017, Fotomuseum Winterthur
jury selection: "Eight most convincing positions"
2016
Go/Return – travel and research grant, KunstVereineRuhr
2015
Junge Szene, production grant, Kunststiftung NRW
2014
step beyond, travel grant, European Cultural Foundation
2013
Förderpreis des Landes NRW für junge Künstlerinnen und Künstler (Medienkunst)
Young Artist Award (media arts) – Federal State of North Rhine Westphalia
2013
publication grant Stiftung Zukunft NRW
2013
Junge Szene, production grant, Kunststiftung NRW
2012
project grant for best concept
Bridges Emscher Zukunft photo award of Emschergenossenschaft, Essen
2011
prix de fondation pour la photographie
in context of the exhibition le vent d'apres at ENSBA, Paris
2011
Goldener Kentaur - European Competition for Photography
(1st place)
Künstlerhaus München
2007-2008
scholarship of Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD))
[German Academic Exchange Service
]
2006-2009
stipendiary of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
[German National Academic Foundation]
2006
Deutscher Jugend Fotopreis
[German Young Photographers Award
]
(3rd place & special price "Imaging")
FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
2024
Artist-in-Residence
German Center for Venetian Studies, Venice
2016
Honorary Fellow
Anthropocene Cave Art Project
with Dr. Franz Mauelshagen
Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam
2015–2016
Artist-in-Residence
Institute for Advanced Study & Visual Studies Platform
Central European University, Budapest
2014
Artist-in-Residence
Goethe-Institut Bukarest
2014
Visegrad Scholarship for Open Society Archivum, Budapest
Research Fellowship
2012
Artist-in-Residence, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Daebudo, South Korea
2011-2012
RWE VISIT, artist-in-residence programme of RWE foundation, Essen
SOLO SHOWS
2022
L'ANN DAL SCARS – THE GREAT GLACIER
Kunstforum Montafon/Montafoner Museen, Schruns
2019
DISTURBED HARMONIES [Anthropocene Landscapes]
Neuland – Projektraum, Bochum
2018
DISTURBED HARMONIES [Anthropocene Landscapes]
Kunstverein Bochum, Haus der Kortumgesellschaft e.V.
2018
LUCTOR ET EMERGO
Kunstverein Bochum, Haus Kemnade
2018
DISTURBED HARMONIES [Anthropocene Landscapes]
Bräuning Contemporary, Hamburg
Satellite-show of Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2018
2017
DISTURBED HARMONIES
[Towards an Understanding of Anthropocene Landscapes]
Raum?Station, Zürich
2017
Towards an Understanding of Anthropocene Landscapes
Walzwerk 0, Düsseldorf
2016
SOME KIND OF OPPOSITION
Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives, Budapest
2015
Towards an Understanding of Anthropocene Landscapes
tranzit.sk, Bratislava
2013-14
Zugunsten einer Gesellschaft von morgen, für die wir heute schon bauen.
/
To the benefit of a society of tomorrow for which we built today.
HMKV at Dortmunder U, Dortmund
2012
Nothing is Impossible in a Place Where Dreams Become Reality
in context of the 123 project of Gyeonggi Creation Center
Daebudo, South Korea
2012
Die Technik muss grausam sein, wenn sie sich durchsetzen will./
Technology must be cruel in order to assert itself.
Corporate headquarters of RWE AG, Essen
2010
PURE LIGHT - degree show - École des Beaux-Arts de Paris
2010
Constant Change, LOGE, Essen
2010
les traces du temps
curated by Chun Yanghee
espace des arts sans frontières, Paris
2008
Guangzhou Lockers II
Galerie Gauche, École des Beaux-Arts de Paris
GROUP SHOWS
2022
Fokus Fotobuch, Foto Wien
Festival Centre Augarten, Vienna
2021
Home! [Beobachtungen]
Kunsthaus Essen
2021
Photowall Project
Daegu Photo Biennial, South Korea
2020
NACH UNS DIE SINTFLUT
[After us, the Flood]
KUNST HAUS WIEN – MUSEUM HUNDERTWASSER
curated by Verena Kaspar-Eisert & Sophie Haslinger
catalogue available
2020
SICHTEN / VIEWS
Exhibition in public space
on City Light-Panels in Bremen
curated by Erlkönig / Pio Rahner
2019
BETALAND
Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf
2018
büro komplex – Die Kunst der Artothek im politischen Raum
kunsthaus nrw kornelimünster, Aachen-Kornelimünster
curated by Dr. Marcel Schumacher
catalogue available
2018
Krakow Photo Month, curated by Iris Sikking
Noxious Interference at Szara Kamienica Gallery, Krakow
2017
Photo Book Exhibition at Athens Photo Festival
Benaki Museum, Athens
2016
Go/Return Studio Stage, Künstlerhaus Dortmund
2015
VISIT 2010-2015
Kunstmuseum Bochum
catalogue available
2015
Chaos/Control
Dortmunder Kunstverein
2015
Green City
Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen
catalogue available
2014
Clap!
project space, Essen
2013
Van Bommel Van Dam Preis 2013
Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie, Ludwigshafen
catalogue available
2013
EX
espace des arts sans frontières, Paris
2013
Van Bommel Van Dam Prijs 2013
Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, Venlo
catalogue available
2012
Geheime Dimension
Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz
2021
123 project
Gyeonggi Creation Center
Daebudo, South Korea
catalogue available
2011
Rundgang [open days]
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Klasse McBride
2011
SPOT, group performance and exhibition with Klasse McBride
Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf
2011
le vent d'apres
Salles d'exposition de l'ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris
catalogue available
2011
The Second Act Festival - presented by Time To Meet
De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
2011
sublime disgrace
szobart, Budapest
2010
pictorale molto male
Sugary Photographs with Tricks, Poses and Effects - A Festival On Photography
Antwerp, Belgium
catalogue available
2010
Atelier Spezial
pact Zollverein, Essen
2010
time in our head
La Generale en Manufacture, Sevres (Ile de France)
2010
There will never be problems again (with Christian Odzuck)
Kunsthaus Essen
2010
sense of wonder - A project by Bohème Précaire
Dortmunder U, Dortmund
catalogue available
2009
Degree Show of Folkwang University Essen
Pina Bausch Saal, Folkwang Hochschule Essen-Werden
White Cube, Zeche Zollverein, Essen
2008
sans titre (Guangzhou Lockers I) with Stéphanie Saadé
Galerie Gauche, École des Beaux-Arts de Paris
2008
Feldstärke 08
pact Zollverein, Essen
2008
Remplacements II-XII
Portes Ouvertes des Beaux-Arts de Paris
2008
carte blanche – students of Gisela Bullacher
GAM Galerie, Essen
2007
select [king/pin]
c/o pop, Cologne
catalogue available
2006
Anonym
Projekt Hartmut, Essen
2006
Deutscher Jugendfotopreis - best of 2006
photokina, Cologne
2006
sehwege
Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg
catalogue available
2006
select
Hohenzollern Brücke, Cologne
2006
Speicher
Projekt Hartmut, Essen
PUBLICATIONS (selection)
2020
Kunst Haus Wien – Museum Hundertwasser,
Nach uns die Sintflut, [exhibition catalogue]
Bettina Seidel (ed.), Fotohof, Salzburg, p. 98-103; p. 148
2018
Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster,
büro komplex – die Kunst der Artothek im politischen Raum [exhibition catalogue]
Marcel Schumacher (ed.), Edition Braus, Berlin, p.140-142; p.205-207
2017
Axel Braun, Towards an Understanding of Anthropocene Landscapes
in Technosphere Magazine, Dossier: Land & Sea,
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (ed.),
https://technosphere-magazine.hkw.de
2015
Axel Braun, Some kind of opposition,
in: River Ecologies – Contemporary Art and Environmental Humanities on the Danube,
Maja and Reuben Fowkes (ed.), Translocal Institute, Budapest, p.95-101
2013
Axel Braun,
Zugunsten einer Gesellschaft von morgen, für die wir heute schon bauen./
To the benefit of a society of tomorrow for which we build today.
Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV), Axel Braun, Fabian Saavedra-Lara (eds.),
Verlag Kettler, Bönen
2012
Axel Braun,
Die Technik muss grausam sein, wenn sie sich durchsetzen will./
Technology must be cruel in order to asert itself.
RWE Stiftung für Energie & Gesellschaft (ed.), Essen
TEACHING & WORKSHOPS
2017–2018
Lectureship: Photography and the Public
[Lehrauftrag: Fotografie und Öffentlichkeit]
Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen
2016
RE-VISITING: PLACES – PEOPLE – SITUATIONS
Workshop series
Visual Studies Platform at Central European University, Budapest
TALKS and LECTURES (selection)
19/10/2022
DISTURBED HARMONIES [Anthropocene Landscapes]
Hochschule Trier, INTERPRO, invitation by Prof. Valerie Schmidt
25/04/2022
DISTURBED HARMONIES [Anthropocene Landscapes]
Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Visuelle Kommunikation
invitation by Pio Rahner
21/06/2021
DISTURBED HARMONIES [Anthropocene Landscapes]
Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken
in the lecture series: Der Mensch im Anthropozän (online)
invitation by Prof. Dr. Jonas Nesselhauf
04/03/2020
DISTURBED HARMONIES [Anthropocene Landscapes]
Werkstadt c/o pact Zollverein, Essen
22/01/2020
RECORDS OF LOSS – Images of a Glacier
VANISHING ICE (workshop), University of Vienna
invitation by Prof. Dr. Eva Horn
21/01/2020
RECORDS OF LOSS – Bilder eines Gletschers
VANISHING ICE (presentation & panel discussion),
Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna
invitation by Prof. Dr. Eva Horn
09/04/2019
DISTURBED HARMONIES [Landschaft im Zeitalter des Menschen]
POETIKEN DES ANTHROPOZÄNS, workshop, University of Vienna
invitation by Prof. Dr. Eva Horn
24/07/2018
DISTURBED HARMONIES [Landschaft im Erdzeitalter des Menschen]
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen,
collateral programme for Remembering Landscape
invitation by Eva Schmidt
21/07/2018
DISTURBED HARMONIES [Landschaft im Erdzeitalter des Menschen]
Kunstverein Bochum, Haus der Kortum Gesellschaft
29/09/2017
DISTURBED HARMONIES [Anthropocene Landscapes]
Raum?Station, Zürich
06/12/2016
Towards an Understanding of Anthropocene Landscapes
Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam,
4th Anthropocene Lecture, curated by Dr. Franz Mauelshagen
25/09/2016
Towards an Understanding of Anthropocene Landscapes
Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge,
as part of the workshop:
Transforming Unfamiliar Environments in the Americas, 1600 to 1850 and Beyond
24/11/2015
Towards an Understanding of Anthropocene Landscapes
Central European University, Budapest
23/11/2015
Towards an Understanding of Anthropocene Landscapes
Translocal Institute, Budapest
07/07/2015
Documentation and Intervention,
a panel discussion with Ekkehart Bussenius, Heiko Hebig, Thomas Scholle and Tobias Zielony
Dortmunder Kunstverein
14/10/2014
Towards an Understanding of Anthropocene Landscapes
presentation and artist talk with Raluca Voinea
tranzit.ro, Bucharest
03/10/2014
SOME KIND OF OPPOSITION
The River Symposium on Art, Ecopower and the Liberation of Energy
Translocal Institute / Central European University, Budapest
26/06/2014
Talk: with Axel Braun, Florian Ebner, Till Gathmann and Sven Johne
Clap! Essen
09/05/2014
Performance Translokaler Räume
presentation and discussion with Jochen Becker, Dr. Andreas Rumpfhuber
FFT Kammerspiele, Düsseldorf
06/02/2014
The Reactive Citizen
talk on nuclear energy and public protest
Open Society Archivum Budapest
17/11/2013
Zugunsten einer Gesellschaft von morgen, für die wir heute schon bauen.
Artist talk with Fabian Saavedra-Lara
HMKV at Dortmunder U
24/08/2012
Die Technik muss grausam sein, wenn sie sich durchsetzen will.
Artist talk/ discussion with RWE employees
RWE AG, Essen
22/05/2012
Die Technik muss grausam sein, wenn sie sich durchsetzen will
Artist talk with Prof. Ute Eskildsen, Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt, a.o.
RWE AG, Essen
10/01/2011
beton brut II - discussion about monument preservation for post-war architecture
Kunsthaus Essen
14/11/2010
beton brut I - discussion about monument preservation for post-war architecture
Kunsthaus Essen
