Socially engaged painter and educator.
Based in Berlin since 2002, working as a painter and artistic researcher with galleries, art institutions, academic institutions and "Freie Szene" in Berlin and beyond.
15 years experience teaching as "künstlerische Mitarbeiterin" (6 years, Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar) 1,5 years as Professor of Painting ( Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen, Ottersberg) 5 years teaching art and philosophy in public high school, Berlin.
Represented by Kang Contemporary, Berlin, since 2018.
PROJECTS
(selected)
GROUP
2024 UPCOMING: Beneath the Surface, Kang Contemporary, Berlin.
2023 Serendipity. Kang Contemporary, Berlin
2022 Umsorgniserregend. Performative intervention, in participation with students from HKS, Ottersberg. In: WhoCares, feminist art festival. Feldrünf, Berlin
2021 Skyjacking Across Borders with Toy Guns. In: Leviathan. A Capitalocene Bestiarium. Top e.V.
2020 That question makes my ovaries screech. From the series Onlookers. In: WhoCares, Feldfünf, Berlin
2020 11 artists of gallery, Kang Contemporary, Berlin.
2019 Onlookers, In: Territorium, Tijuana, Mexico (funded by IFA)
2019 Ctrl alt Del, alfanova futura, Berlin, 2 person show (with Magdalena Kallenberger)
2018 Enigmatic Utopia, Kang Contemporary, Berlin, three person show.
2018 What if it won’t stop here? Archive Books. Curated by Jan Verwoert
2018 Leere Sockel/Entfernte Monumente. Organ Kritischer Kunst, Berlin, Kunst im Kontext and Charité
2018 Beating the February Blues, with Giegling, Ballery, Berlin
2017 White Love, Ballery, Berlin
2017 Walking from Frauenklinik to Futurium. In: Close. Never Closer. Curated by Jan Verwoert, BAS/UDK
2017 Skyjacking above, Tunneling below – deconstructing Border, nGbK, Berlin
2017 Mirages, Effects, Distractions – Border as Aseptic Stage
Salon für ästhetische Experiments, BAS, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, with Rajkamal Kahlon and Hillary Mushkin
2017 The Woman in Me, Ballery, Berlin
2017 Deconstructing Border, Premiere of the films “Fever – An/Amnesia” (Glauer/Wessolek)
Präsentation Cine Tonala, Tijuana
2017 Bodylandscapingtime, conceptualized, initiated and implemented in collaboration with the Institute for Art in Context, UDK, GedenkOrt.Charité and Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin.
2015 Out of (B)order – conference/workshop, Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, UCSD
2015 NoExit, international exhibition project at OKK, Berlin.
2015 Fucked, in Selected, Haus am Horn, Weimar
2014 Drawing Across Disciplines, initiated transdisciplinary workshop with UCSD, DAAD funded.
2014 Enjoy (Y)our State of Emergency, ngbk, Berlin, exhibition and performance.
2013 AKW (Auktions Kommittee Wedding) - Athens Biennial, curated by Kostis Stafylakis, Christian Oxenius
2012 Nano/Macro/Mega - Department of Structural Engineering University of California in San Diego (UCSD)
2012 Public Strategies - Bauhaus University, Weimar, with the Department of Structural Engineering, UCSD
2011 Beyond Re/Production - Kunsthaus Bethanien – major installation
2011 Männerbilder - Galerie Amalien, Berlin
2010 The Art of Survival - DA Kunsthaus Gravenhorst
2010 Pushing the Elastic Cube - arttransponder (initiated and implemented group exhibition project)
2009 The Chemistry of Traveling Myths - RE/linking/Oscillogrammes - Goethe Institute, 2b gallery, Budapest.
Conception, Artists Talk, Exhibition and Performance (curator of and exhibitor in group exhibition project)
2009 Hairy Buttons - Evidence und Ambivalence of Men’s Suits Symposium, University Oldenburg - Performance
2009 Metanationale RePositionierung - arttransponder, Berlin
2009 RePositionierung. Critical Whitness/Positions of Color. ngbk, series of events.
2007/2008 Jellibelly, Adjusting our Art to Your Needs Phase 1 -Kunsthaus Gravenhorst, Performances Bern, Berlin etc.
2007 I need to be Touched - Notes on Places, Kunsthalle Lichtenberg, Berlin
2007 Milky Images – arttransponder (group)
2006 Missing Link, Schafler Gallery, N.Y. - Initiator and organizer of the exchange with Pratt Institute (group)
2005 Milk Platform – Missing Link - Museum of Medical History, Berlin (group)
2004 Fresh’n Natural Mabumamma - Futura Gallery, Prague. Catalogue with texts by Nicolas Bourriaud und Jens Hoffmann
2003 NeoKölln - Kulturamt Neukölln – Installation.
2005 Infomercial - arttransponder, exhibition, film and installation, Berlin
2004 Reinkommen - Public Intervention, National Gallery, Berlin. (with Tatjana Fell)
2004 Four Questions - Werkleitz Biennale, with Bik Van Der Pol, School of the Missing Studies
2003 Of One Who Stepped Out (of her clothes) Transportale, Berlin (public art, with Mario Rizzi)
2001 Artists talk in Art, Denise Bibro Gallery, 4 person show, New York
SOLO
2019 Landing Strip for the Milky Way Kang Contemporary, Berlin, Lindenstrasse 90, Berlin, April 10
2019 Ctrl/alt/Del #monumentagainstpatriarchy Lisa Glauer & Magdalena Kallenberger, alphanova gallery futura, Flutgraben 3, Berlin
2018 Pleasing Machines, 2 Person pop-up show, in Half Life, Top Ev, former Schillerpalais Berlin, curated by Tuce Erel
2018 Material Talks Back OKK, Berlin
2017 Plotting for Borderliners, Neuer Ravensburger Kunstverein, Ravensburg
2016 Domestic Warscapes, Alfa Nova/Futura municipal gallery, Berlin. Curated by Dorothea Nold.
2013 Milk as Invisible Ink - San Diego/Tijuana Experimental Drawing Studio, University of California San Diego, invited by Amy Adler.
2013 Später baut sie Atomschiffe Okk Berlin, in collaboration with the European Society for Research and Art
2008 Jellibelly Mietfrei Phase 2 - arttransponder, Berlin (with Käthe Wenzel)
2007 I’ll be Your Paintbrush - Kurt im Hirsch Gallery, Berlin
2004 Mammamil ICH-AG - Neukölln, Berlin
2003 Looking for Donors - Kurt im Hirsch, Berlin
2002 Beautiful Claustrophobia - Kurt im Hirsch, Berlin
GRANTS/ AWARDS
2020 Visiting Artist Suffolk University, Erasmus funded exchange.
2019 #monumentagainstpatriarchy @ Flixfonds Zukunftsland invited by alphanova Futura, Berlin
2019 IFA Institute für Auslandsbeziehungen, exhibition grant for travel to the border region, Tijuana (curated by Jan Lemitz, Miguel Buenrostro, Margarita Certeza Garcia)
2019 KKVW Grant for publication: Are You a Social Practice Artist or a Painter? Revolver Verlag, Berlin.
2017 Artistic Research Grant, Senate for Culture and Europe, Berlin
2017 IFA Institute für Auslandsbeziehungen, research grant for travel to the border region, Tijuana/San Diego
2016-2018 Associate Grant Recipient of the Berlin School of Advanced Study in Science and Art, Einstein Foundation, BAS, UDK
2016/17 Tunnel Below, Skyjack Above: Deconstructing Border - NGBK Grant for research and exhibition project
2014 University Prize based on recommendation of faculty of Art and Design, based on artistic merit. Awarded to one Bauhaus-Universität artist teaching as associate every two years.
2014 DAAD sponsored research at University of California in San Diego
2014 Enjoy (Y)our State of Emergency NGBK Grant as part of the group to implement a project focusing on antifascist activism and art in Athens and Berlin
2013 Resident artist – Experimental Drawing Studio- University of California in San Diego DAAD (German Academic Exchange) funded
2012 1 year Grant to complete PhD Research Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar
2011-2012 Selected for Mentoring Program Women in Science and Art, Bauhaus-University, Weimar
2009 - 2010 Oszillogramme Fund for Women and Goethe Institute, Budapest
2008-2009 RE:Positionierung NGBK grant as part of the group Re:/Positioning, Critical Whiteness and Positions of Color
2007-2008 Jellibelly: Phase 1 Kunsthaus Gravenhorst Grant for the production of the Jellibelly – Bauchpinselmaschinenservice (with Käthe Wenzel)
2007 Jellibelly: Phase II Kulturamt für dezentrale Kulturförderung, Mitte Project grant, Berlin
2001 Artists Talk on Art, Manhattan, New York “Curator's Choice Award”
PUBLICATIONS
The Body Talks Back. Backstage comments and off-center remarks on Broaching the Next Man Suit Barrier. In: What if it won't stop here? Archive Books, eds. Jan Verwoert and Daniel Pies, Design: Nienke Tsierma.
Amputierte Erinnerung zwischen Medizin und Kunst, in: Erinnern und Vergessen. Lisa Glauer und Wolfgang Knapp. Eds. Schmiedebach and Beddies, GedenkOrt.Charite, Bebra Verlag für Wissenschaft, 2018
Skyjacking Across Borders with Toy Guns, In: Serie Border City, Hg. Liz Bachhuber, Margarita Garcia, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 2018
Pleasing Machines, Lisa Glauer und Helge Oder, in: Half Life, Hg. Käthe Wenzel und Manfred Blohm, Europa Universität, Flensburg, fabrico Verlag, Hannover, 2018
Skyjacking Across Borders with Toy Guns, Katalog/Zeitung zum Ausstellungsprojekt Tunnel Below, Skyjack Above, Deconstructing Border. Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, 2017.
„...Später baut sie Atomschiffe.“ Dissertationsschrift. Mensch und Buchverlag, 2017.
Bodylandscapingtime. Kuratorischer Text, ngbk Zeitung, in Zusammenarbeit mit Institut für Kunst im Kontext und GedenkOrt.Charité, 2017.
Domestic Warscapes. Katalog, mit Beitrag von Kathrin Ganser. Alphanova - Galerie Futura, Berlin, 2016.
Ausgewahlt. Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, 2016.
Invisibilities at the Edges In: Border City. Documentation of an interdisciplinary project in San Diego (USA) and Tijuana (Mexico). Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, 2015.
The Artist as Global Nomad. Parameters and Conditions of Teaching in Weimar and Beyond. In: What I can not know about you,. Bauhaus- Universität Weimar/DAAD, 2015
Process. Not Solution. Text on Democracy, Memorials and Public Art in Kolleda, Thüringia.
Garbage Talk or Talking Garbage: Refuse, Location and the Body in Art. In: Entrop(h)y. Hg. Bachhuber, Bidlingmaier. Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, 2012.
Mammamil In: Beyond Reproduction. Revolver Verlag, Berlin, 2011. Mit Texten von Silvia Federici, Gabriele Winkler et al. 2011
Citymap With Danica Dakic, Nadin Reschke. Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, 2010. Pushing the Elastic Cube – Mobile by Circumstance. Arttransponder.net, 2010
Hairy Buttons. In: Kunst und Leben, Partizipatorische Kunst zwischen Autonomie und Intervention. DA Kunsthaus Gravenhorst, 2010
Geschlecht- spezifische (Neu)zuschreibungen an Frauenmilch in der Kunst. In: Barbara Thiessen, Paula Irene Villa: Mediale Inszenierung von Elternschaft, Hg. Thiessen, Villa, Dampfbootverlag, Hannover, 2009.
(Un)mediated Reactions In: Lisa Glauer, Käthe Wenzel, Tatjana Fell (Hg.): Gratwanderungen zwischen Kunst und Naturwissenschaften.. UDK Verlag, Berlin, 2008.
Fell und Lundström lassen Andere durch den Raum Tentakeln. In: Tatjana Fell und Nina Lundström (Hg.):Auf dem Boden der Zeit. Mensch und Buch Verlag, Berlin 2008.
Adjusting our Art to your Needs. In: Käthe Wenzel und Lisa Glauer (Hg.): Jellibelly – Bauchpinselmaschinenservice, Berlin 2008.
With the Door into the House: Naturally Authentic. In: Tatjana Fell, Lisa Glauer, Anna Zosik (Hg.): Postproduction Dialog. Berlin, 2005.
Mabumanna. In: Wolfgang Knapp, Käthe Wenzel, Cornelius Frömmel (Hg.): MISSING LINK – Kunst trifft Biomedizin. UdK Verlag Berlin 2005.
Mabumamma. In: PLUG IN – curated by Mario Rizzi, text by Eva Neklyaeva, includes an introduction by Nicolas Bourriaud. Fine Arts Unternehmen, Zug, 2004
The Missing Corner. In: Eva Sturm (Hg.): Wo kommen wir da Hin? Berlin 2005.
and numerous translations.
PUBLIC TALKS
2018 The Neurobiology of Beauty. With Semir Zeki and Stefan Klein, UdK, Berlin
2018 Feminism and Materialities. Intro to abject materiality of milk and moderated talk with Liz Bachhuber and Gabriele Schor, alphanova/futura municipal gallery for intersectional feminism, Berlin
2018 Re-Hacking the Public. Of Linomonsters and other Comical Expansions. University of Flensburg.
2018 What art can do when the powers that be resist change? with Kersten Ergenzinger, Marco Donnarumma, Bnaya Halperin-Khadderi, Zeynep Tuna and Nino Klingler, Darsha Hewitt, Clarissa Thieme, Kiran Kumar, moderated by Jan Verwoert. Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
2018 Material Resists Concept, Painting Beyond Futurium, Trondheim Academy of Art, trial lecture for Associate Professorship in Painting and Beyond
2018 Teaching with Two Bodies, Rajkamal Kahlon and Lisa Glauer, Berufungsvortrag W2 Professur for Basisklasse,
Kunsthochschule Kassel
2018 Should I stay or should I go? Lisa Glauer, Jan Verwoert, Eleni Froudaraki & DA space for art and antifascism, Crete. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2017 Shapeshifting between Medicine and Art. In: Herbsttagung, Wissenschaft in Verantwortung. GedenkOrt.Charité, Berlin
2017 Mirages, Effects, Distractions. Salon für ästhetische Experimente, Haus der Kulturen der Welt
2017 artist talk, Neuer Ravensburger Kunstverein, Ravensburg
2017 Präsentation Deconstructing Border, mit POLEN collective, Cine Tonala, Tijuana
2016 Erinnerungsweg GedenkOrt.Charité, Berlin
2016 How to Throw the Grenade, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
2016 Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Ringvorlesung Wissenschaft in Verantwortung, Charité, Berlin
2016 Artist Talk, alpha nova/futura kommunale Galerie, Berlin
2015 Argumente, curated by Inez Weitzmann, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, with Ricardo Dominguez, University of California in San Diego
2014 Performative artist talk, EMBROS, invited by Kostis Stafylakis, Athens
2013 Performative artist talk, Experimental Drawing Studio, invited by Amy Adler, Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego
2012 "...later, she will build nuclear vessels." Nano/Macro/Mega Workshop Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego, California, moderated by Benjamin Bratton
2011 Indistinguishability as Exhibition Strategy. Public Strategies, Art and Technology, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar/UCSD Research Projects between Art, Science and Technology.
2011 Garbage Talk or Talking Garbage; Refuse, Location and the Body in Art. Entrop(p)y.Symposium, Bauhaus-Universität. Weimar
2010 Milky Images, Presentation on Research into the Abject and Materiality. Paneldiskussion zum Grotesken, mit Winfried Menninghaus, Nanako Nakajima
2009 Hairy Buttons als behaarte Accessoires; Männlichkeit als modische Prothese.
with Käthe Wenzel. Symposium: Evidenz und Ambivalenz des Herrenanzuges. Institut für kulturwissenschaftliche Geschlechterstudien, Oldenburg
2009 The Chemistry of Travelling Myths Symposium: Oscillogrammes. Goethe Institut Budapest
2009 The Inbetween artists talk - Monday Night Lecture, ACC Weimar
2007 International Conference: Mütter – Väter, Elternschaft zwischen medialen Inszenierungen und alltäglichen Praxen. Paula Irene Villa and Barbara Thiessen, Leibniz Universität Hannover
ACADEMIC and ARTIST POSITIONS
2016/2018
- Associated grant recipient, Berlin School of Advanced Studies in Science and Art (Einsteinstiftung, BAS, Graduiertenschule)
- artistic research scholar, Senate for Culture and Europe, Berlin (Recherchestipendium)
- artistic research scholar, GedenkOrt, Charité, Berlin
- University of the Arts, Berlin, Teaching (Vertretung in der Lehre, Kunst im Kontext)
2009-2015
Teaching as Associate Bauhaus-University, Weimar, MFA Program - Public Art and New Artistic Strategie
- With (guest) professors Maja Bajevic, Inge’s Idee, Mary Jane Jakob, Boris Buden, Mika Hannula, Bojana Pejic, professors Liz Bachhuber, Danica Dakic and others
- Concept and implementation of seminars in theory and practice in English for international postgraduate students from 15 different countries, see attached teaching summary
- Initiating, co-developing and implementing local and international interdisciplinary projects
- Co-planning and implementation of projects and excursions to Sarajevo, Athens, Herford, Kölleda, Düsseldorf etc.
- Concept and implementation of the Monday Night Lecture Series
- Part of the university wide: “Internationalization Strategy” – worked on several successful grant applications such as the DAAD grant for Bauhaus Goes South East Europe, DAAD grant Strategic Partnerships etc.
- Elected representative for mid level academic labor conditions,
- Appointed to the Examination and Advisory Committee, MFA
- Appointed PhD Admissions Committee
Founder and artistic director www.arttransponder.net - artist run space in Berlin
- Concept, Implementation of the Gallery Program focussing on participatory art projects at the interface to other disciplines
- Projects, planning, fundraising (ca. 500 000 EUR from 2004-2009) for further information, please view: www.arttransponder.net (archived)
Editor/Translator Raabe Fachverlag für Wissenschaftsinformation, Berlin
- Online research of Institutional data for higher education etc.
- Editing and translating for the academic publication “Funding Guide for International Students”
Director of Marketing - Pratt Institute, School of Art and Design, New York
- In charge of special events
- Analysis und interpretation of demographic data for statistical purposes and affirmative action, developing diversity
- Hiring and coordinating 30 student workers and eight administrative staff persons
EDUCATION
2021 zweites Staatsexamen, teacher education program, art and philosophy, Berlin (Quereinstieg).
2018 Fellow, Berlin School of Advanced Study in Science and Art, UDK. Successfully completed 2 year artistic research.
2015 PhD in Art and Design (summa cum laude, highest honors) Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar Title: Later she will build nuclear warships…Military and Industry Apparatus in Human Milk as Drawing Material (admitted 2010, submitted 2014, defended 2015)
2010-2014 Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar Courses in teaching in higher education, problem oriented learning and diversity/internationalization
2002 - 2004 M.A. University of the Arts, Berlin / Institute for Art in Context Thesis: BioArt
2000 - 2002 M.Sci. in Art History Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Thesis: Rosemarie Trockel, A Transatlantic Perspective
1998 - 2000 M.F.A. in Painting Pratt Institute, Brooklyn - Thesis: Painting as Embodied Subjectivity
1995-1998 B.F.A. in Painting and Sculpture (magna cum laude) School of Art & Design, SUNY Purchase, New York Thesis: An Essay in Painting Abjection