Angela Melitopoulos
Born
Münich, Germany
Lives / works
Berlin, Germany
Education
2006-2009 - PHD, Architectural Research/Visual Culture, Goldsmiths College London, UK
1988-1995 - Masters of Arts, Professor Nam June Paik, Art Academy Düsseldorf, Germany
Websites:
Videophilosophy (2007)
Liminalzones ()
Translate ()
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 - Assemblages / Gentili Apri / Berlin / Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 - II Berlin Documentary Forum / HKW / Berlin / Germany / Upcoming
2012 - Expanded Forum / Berlinale Film Festival / Berlin / Germany / Upcoming
2012 - / MACBA / Barcelona / Spain / Upcoming
2012 - Animism / Haus der Kulturen der Welt / Berlin / Germany / Upcoming
2011 - Animism / Generali Foundation / Wien / Austria / Curated by Anselm Franke
2010 - Animism / MUHKA / Antwerp / Belgium
2010 - Berlinale Filmfestival, Forum Expanded Exhibition / Akademie der Künste / Berlin / Germany
2010 - Image Mouvement / Centre d´Art Contemporain Geneve / Geneve / Switzerland / curated by Katya Garcia Anton
2010 - Möglichkeitsraum II (The Blast of the Possible) / Berlin Documentary Forum / Berlin / Germany / curatorial film project
2010 - Kino Kino / Temporäre Kunsthalle / Berlin / Germany / presented by Phil Collins
2010 - Animism / Kunsthalle Bern / Bern / Switzerland
2009 - Möglichkeitsraum I / Skulpturenpark Berlin - KunstRePublik
2009 - Multitud Singular: El arte de resistir / Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia / Madrid / Spain
2009 - Heaven_Live / 2nd Athens Biennial / Athens / Greece / curated by Dimitris Papaioannou & Ζafos Xagoraris
2009 - Model Court / CCA Glasgow / UK / Curated as part of This Land Is Your Land by Sidsel Meineche Hansen and Lawrence Abu Hamdan
2008 - Manifesta 7 / Palazzo delle Poste / Trento / Italy
2008 - YouPrison / Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo / Torino / Italy / curated by Francesco Bonami
2007 - CphDox / Copenhagen
2007 - B Zone: on the Margins of Europe / Fundacio Antoni Tapies / Barcelona / Spain / curated by Nuria Enguita Mayo, Carles Guerra
2007 - Artists in Residence / Cologne Kunstverein / Cologne / Germany
2007 - Art Contemporain et Nouveaux Usages de la Critique Institutionnelle / Institut Nacional d´Historie da l´Art / Paris / France
2007 - Der Essayfilm: Ästhetik und Aktualität / Universität Lüneburg / Lüneburg / Germany / Symposium
2006 - B-Zone / KW Institut for Contemporary Art / Berlin / Germany
2006 - Dictionaries of War / Staedelschule Frankfurt / Frankfurt / Germany
2006 - Projekt Migration / Kunstverein Cologne / Cologne / Germany
2006 - Berlinale Filmfestival, Forum Expanded Exhibition / Berlin / Germany
2006 - Film and Videofestival Kassel / Kassel / Germany
2005 - Kiosk, Imaginairy Geographies / KW Institut for Contemporary Art / Berlin
2004 - 3rd Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art / Arsenal Kino / Berlin / Germany
2004 - Transmediale / Haus der Kulturen der Welt / Berlin
2004 - / Musee d’Art Moderne / Strasbourg / France
2003 - Documentarismen / MUMOK / Vienna / Austria
2002 - Stuff it / Institut for Art and Theorie / Zürich / Swizerland
2002 - Documentary Filmfestival / Antalya / Turkey
2002 - Privat Affairs / Kunsthaus Dresden / Dresden / Germany
2002 - City of Women / Ljubljana / Slovenia
2000 - Immagine Leggera / Palermo / Italy
2000 - Revelation Film Festival / New Zeland
2000 - Marler Video-Kunst-Preis
2000 - Stuttgarter Filmwinter / Stuttgart / Germany
2000 - Heimat Kunst / Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin / Berlin / Germany
1992 - Marler Video-Kunst-Preis
Light, Image, Illusion / The Aegina Academy / Greece
Punti di Vista / Institut Francais Neapel / Neapel / Italy
Videokunst / Kunsthalle Kiel / Kiel / Germany
2. Marler Video-Kunst-Preis / Germany
Blickpunkte / Musée d'Art Moderne Montréal / Montréal / Canada
L'homme et la nature artificielle / Goethe Institut Paris / Paris / France
Trans-Voices / Whitney Museum NY / American Center Paris / France
Still-lifes / Triennale of Slovenia / Maribor / Slovenia
Mixed Pixels / Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf / Düsseldorf / Germany
German Videoart / Tokyo / Japan
Biennale dell’Arte Emergente dell’Europa / Siena/Pisa / Italy
Elektronische understromme / Statens Museum / Copenhagen / Denmark
Anthology Film Archives New York / New York / USA
Neue Galerie Dachau
Preisträger des 5.Marler-Video Kunst Preis / Germany
La Ville / Centre Georges Pompidou Paris / Paris / France
Magazin 4 / Kunstverein Bregenz / Bregenz / Germany
Plan 2 / Palais de Tokyo Paris / Paris / France
Selected Publications / Contributions
2010 - Mechanic Animism / Animism (Volume I) / edited by Anselm Franke, Sternberg Press
Events / Activities
2010 - performance / As if (we would be) / Schauspiel Köln, Halle Kalk / Köln / Germany
2002 - symposium / Stuff it / Institut for Art and Theorie / Zürich / Switzerland
1999 - 1986 (sample) - symposium / Tausend Plateaus / Volksbühne Berlin / Berlin / Germany
Academic
2010 - Guest Professor / University of Arts Berlin / Berlin / Germany
2009 - Guest Professor / University of Arts Berlin / Berlin / Germany
2008 - Research Fellow / University of East London / London / UK
2007 - Guest Lecturer / Academy for the Arts Hamburg / Hamburg / Germany
2006 - Guest Professor / University of Potsdam, EMS / Potsdam / Germany
2004 - Guest Lecturer / Academy of Media Arts Cologne / Cologne / Germany
Festivals
2012 - 2nd Berlin Documentary Forum / Berlin / Germany
2011 - European ARTE Festival Temps d´Images / Dusseldorf / Germany with As if (we would be)
2010 - 1st Berlin Documenatry Festival / Berlin / Germany
Documentary Filmfestival / Antalya / Turkey
Filmography
2010 - Möglichkeitsraum II screen performance, 3 x 90 min, Berlin Documentary Forum
2010 - Assemblages video installation, 62 min
2009 - Möglichkeitsraum I billboard installation in the public space, seminar, open air cinema
2009 - Möglichkeitsraum I photo installation in the NGBK Berlin
2007 - The Language of Things video essay, 33 min
2006 - Timescapes/Corridor X filminstallation, double-screen roadmovie, 123 min
2004/8 - The Cell. Antonio Negri and the Prison DVD production, 124 min
1999 - Passing Drama videoessay, 66 min
1996 - The Geographic Room videoinstallation
1996 - Black Pompei single channel tape, 3 min
1996 - Und videoinstallation
1995 - Scratch TV single channel tape, 4 min
1995 - Evidence, short film 4 min (Co-direction with Godfrey Reggio)
1994 - Kriks Kriks single channel tape, 3 min
1994 - Videocube videoinstallation
1993 - Midi a Quatorze Heure 45 min1990, (in collaboration with Maurizio Lazzarato)
1993 - YVARAL. Kunst und Computer TV feature, 40 min
1992 - WDR Experimente TV feature, 45 min
1991 - Avez-vous Vu la Guerre videoessay, 45 min
1991 - Transfer Single Channel Tape, videoessay 12 min
1990 - It’s Politics single channel tape, 4 min
1990 - Voyages aux Pays de la Peuge documentary, 80 min (in collaboration with Maurizioo Lazzarato, Raffale Ventura, Samir Abdallah)
1989 - My Best Friend videoessay, 30 min (Co-direction with Ricardo Perez-Wende)
1987 - Videopaintings single channel tapes, 2 x 4 min
1986 - Aqua Sua single channel tape, 12 min
1985 - Above and Below Ground single channel tape, Trilogy, 25 min
Screenings
2010 - Möglichkeitsraum II (The Blast of the Possible) at Gentili Apri / Berlin / Germany
2007 - Now, das Jetzt des Erkennbaren at Arsenal cinema / Berlin / Germany
2006 - Corridor X at Anthology Film Archives / New York / USA
2005 - Leaps of Faith: arts project for the Green Line at / Nicosia / Cyprus
2005 - Passagen durchs Kino at Deutsche Kinemathek / Berlin / Germany
2002 - City of Women at / Ljubljana / Slovenia broadcasting
2001 - 2. Berlin Biennale at . / Berlin / Germany
2001 - Belonging at Shedhalle Zürich / Zürich / Swizerland
2001 - Kanak Attack at Volksbühne
2001 - 2nd Berlin Biennale at
at Leaps of Faith: arts project for the Green Line / Nicosia / Cyprus
Lectures
2006 - Dictionaries of War at Staedelschule Frankfurt / Frankfurt / Germany performative lecture
2006 - Old Curtains, New Screens at De Balie Amsterdam / Amsterdam / Netherland
2005 - Kiosk, Imaginairy Geographies at Kunst Werke Berlin / Berlin / Germany performative lecture
2005 - at La Caixa Forum, Mediatheque / Barcelona / Spain
2005 - at Berlinale / Germany Forum Program
2005 - at Transmediale / Berlin / Germany
Scholarships
1996-1997 - Academy of Media Arts / Cologne / Germany (project:Passing Drama)
1995-1996 - F A B RI CA, Fondazione Benetton / Italy (project: The Massman Manifesto)
1994-1995 - DAAD, Middle East Technical University / Ankara / Turkey (project:Passing Drama)
Research
2009-2012 - Assemblages, research collaboration with Maurizio Lazzarato
2006-2009 - The Blast of the Possible / UEL London
2003-2006 - B-Zone. Becoming Europe and Beyond / interdisciplinary project at the Institut for Theorie of Design and Arts (ITH) collaborating with Lisa Parks, (USCB, Santa Barbara), Ginette Verstraete (University of Amsterdam) and Ursula Biemann
1991-1993 - Canal Dechaine with Maurizio Lazzarato, Felix Guattari, Les Intermittant du Spectacle
1988-1992 - Press Agency IM’media, (network for migration) / Paris