Francis Hunger | CV
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*1976 in Dessau, Germany | lives and works in Leipzig, Germany
Solo Shows:
2012 History has Left the Building | Hartware MedienKunstverein | Dortmund | Germany (catalogue)
2009 Exhaustion Unlimited | Galerie Metro | Berlin
2008 History Exhaustion | Galerie Metro | Berlin
2007 Laden für Nichts | Leipzig
2006 Galerie Hobbyshop | Munich
2005 School of Arts | Columbia University | New York
2003 Kunstverein Leipzig | Leipzig
Group Shows:
2012 Monitoring Show, 29. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Video Festival, Kulturbahnhof, Kassel
2012 III. Moscow Biennial for Young Art, Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2010 TEXTURE | Galerie Metro | Berlin
2010 History Exhaustion | Qui Vive? Biennial for Young Art | Moscow
2010 Amnesie | Faust Kunsthalle | Hannover
2010 Capitalism must win | Video in Progress 3: Fields of the Performative | Vortex, Skopje | Macedonia
2009 Amnesie | Kunstverein Leipzig
2009 MASC | Space Shuttle 2 | Vienna
2009 Photon Gallery & Kino Siska curated by Kolektiva | Ljubljana
2009 Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv | Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2009 The White Under The Red | Galerie Metro | Berlin
2008 Open Eye Projects | Liverpool
2008 Next Art Fair | Chicago
2008 Am Dritten Ort | Dortmund
2007 Galerie Metro | Berlin
2007 Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) | Leipzig
2006 The Setun Conspiracy| installation and performance | Monitoring Exhibition | Kassel
2006 Westfaelischer Kunstverein| Münster
2006 Kunsthaus Dresden | Dresden
2004 Dauerausstellung | lecture series | Kunstverein Leipzig |
Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) Leipzig | Gallery for Contemporary Art (GFZK) | Leipzig
2004 Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) | Leipzig
Festivals | Lectures | Workshops:
2012 Why remember? lecture, Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig
2012 Hannes Meyer – Traditionalism the arch enemy, Modernism the false Friend | lecture, POT, Kassel
2011 Assembly Line Century, artist talk, gallery dieschönestadt, Halle/Saale
2011 1917: Resurrection within the State, lecture, Kunstverein, Leipzig
2011 The 20th Century–An Assembly Line Century, lecture, Brno
2010 On Artists working with Satellites – An introduction. Lecture, HMKV, Dortmund
2010 WARP Artist Village, workshop, St. Niclaas
2010 Capitalism must win. Video in Progress 3: Fields of the Performative, Vortex, Skopje
2008 SETUN | lecture | transmediale.08 | Haus der Kulturen der Welt | Berlin
2007 SETUN | lecture | Hyperkult | Uni-Lüneburg | Lüneburg
2007 Some comments on the success of Google Earth | Lecture | Satellitenvoyeurism Workshop, HMKV Dortmund
2005 Wargames – Hacker und Spiel | lecture | Chaos Communication Congress | Berlin
2005 Works 2001 – 2004 | lecture | School of Arts | Columbia Universtiy | New York
2004 Computer als Männermaschine | lecture | Gallery of Contemporary Art (GFZK)| Leipzig
2004 Die unscheinbaren Ökonomien des Tauschs | lecture | Academy of Visual Arts (HGB)| Leipzig
2004 Wargames – Hacker und Spiel | lecture | Kunstverein Leipzig | Leipzig
2004 Wargames – Hacker und Spiel | lecture | Ladyfest| Leipzig
2004 Semiology of Cyberspace | lecture | V2 Institute for instable media| Rotterdam
2003 Computer als Männermaschine | lecture | Walled City.org Workshop | Bremen
2003 Die unscheinbaren Ökonomien des Tauschs | lecture | interfiction | Kassel
2003 Wargames – Hacker und Spiel | lecture | computer | spiel | film | hmkv | Dortmund
Awards | Grants:
2012 Production Grant for The woman who never went into Space, Film- und Mediafoundation, Federal State of North-Rhine-Westfalia, Düsseldorf
2011 Project Grant for The woman who never went into Space, Federal State of Saxony, Dresden
2008 Honorary mention for The Setun Conspiracy | transmediale.08 – Festival for Art and Digital Culture | Berlin
2007 Einstand grant for The SETUN Conspiracy | realisation as artist book | Institut für Buchkunst | Leipzig
2005 Philip Morris Scholarship at School of Arts | Columbia University | New York
2004 EMARE (European Media Artist Residency Exchange) grant V2 Institute for instable media| Rotterdam
2001 1st price of the jury for Digital Work | network performance | IG Metall Net-z-lab | Chemnitz
Curatorial Work:
2008 Anna Kournikova Deleted by Memeright Trusted System – Art and Copyright in the Digital Age | exhibiton | HMKV, Dortmund | co-curator with Inke Arns
2007 Niemals Scheitern | exhibition | Gallery Jette Rudolph Berlin | curating
2007 Satellite voyeurism | workshop | HMKV Dortmund | concept and realisation
2007 Sie nennen es Realität | exhibition | HMKV, Dortmund | realisation (In cooperation with Inke Arns)
2007 History will repeat itself | exhibition | HMKV, Dortmund | realisation (In cooperation with Inke Arns)
2007 Media Art Grant of the MKRU | MKRU Unna | concept and realisation
2006 Irational Action Weekend | concept and realisation | HMKV Dortmund
2006 UBERMORGEN.COM: ART FID [F]originals at HMKV Dortmund | realisation |
2006 How I learned to love RFID | workshop at HMKV Dortmund | concept and realisation
2006 Solar Radio Station | live installation by radioqualia and RIXC at HMKV Dortmund | concept and realisation | Glanz und Globalisierung at HMKV Dortmund | curating
2005 Readme 100 – Temporary Software Art Factory | Public Library Dortmund | co-curating
Publications:
2008 SETUN. An inquiry into the Soviet ternary computer. | Verlag des Instituts für Buchkunst Leipzig
2008 Satellite Voyeurism (ed.): Some comments on the success of Google Earth | HMKV | Dortmund
2008 The value of the copy. In: Anna Kournikova Deleted by Memeright Trusted Systems. (Catalogue) | Verlag Kettler | Bönen
2008 !Mediengruppe Bitnik und Sven König. Ursula Biemann. Martin Brand. Minerva Cuevas. In: Hartware MedienKunstVerein 1996-2008. (Catalogue) | Verlag Kettler | Bönen
2007 Sputnik Gazette #1 – #5 | interviews with Lisa Parks, Marko Peljhan, Dragan Zivadinov | Dortmund
2007 Two interviews: Jodi, Tobias Bernstrup | in: Videogames and Art | Intellect Books | London | Chicago University Press
2007 Irational Action Weekend | in: A Hartware Guide to Irational | Revolver Verlag | Berlin
2006 Radioqualia & RIXC | in: Mit allem Rechnen | Medienkunst aus Estland, Lettland und Litauen | catalogue | Revolver Verlag | Berlin
2006 How I learned to love RFID | in: Mit allem Rechnen | Medienkunst aus Estland, Lettland und Litauen | catalogue | Revolver Verlag | Berlin
2005 The clean rooms’ dirty secret | together with Inke Arns | in: Readme 100 – Temporary Software Art Factory | BOD | Norderstedt
2005 Wargames – Hackers spielen | in: 22C3 Proceedings | CCC | Berlin
2004 Open Source – Open Gender? | in: Common Property Source Book | Werkleitz Gesellschaft | Halle