Mirjam Kroker, 1982
(nomadically based, currently between Madrid <—> Dresden)
STUDIES
2016-2017: Fine Arts, University of Antonio Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
since 2014: Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, HfBK, Dresden, Germany
2004-20011: Cultural- and Social Anthropology (diploma), University of Vienna, Austria
2008: Integrative Conflict Transformation and Peace-building, IICP, Vienna, Austria
2003-2004: Ethnology, Eberhardt Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
GRANTS
2019: Caspar-David-Friedrich-Preis
2018: STEP Travel Grant, European Cultural Foundation
2013: IFA research grant, Institute for Foreign Relation
2012: Publication-grant, ÖFG Austrian Research Association
2012: Grant by Volkswagenstiftung for seminar Critical Scenography, art exhibitions in the 21st century, during Documenta 13, Art Academy Kassel, Germany
GRANTED RESIDENCIES
2018: Örö Residency, Finland
2018: Kökar Residency, Finland
PLACES OF TRAVEL-RESEARCH AND/OR VISITING
2002- up to the present: Malawi, South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, Philippines, India, France, Italy, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, England, Italy, Austria, Swiss, Colombia, Ukraine, Mexico, Spain, Finland
SELECTED PROJECTS including EXHIBITIONS
2018: EXISTENZ (group-show), Oktogon HfbK Dresden, Germany
2018: Shelter (group-show), HfbK Dresden, Germany
2017: Remembering the Future (group-show), HfbK Galerie, Germany
2016: Juego Puro/Pure Game, exhibition with ON/OFF Collaboration, Casa del Lago, Mexico City, Mexico
Unsolved Equations Do also Exist, exhibition in collaboration with Juan Toro, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, England
2014-until present: ON/OFF collaboration, Play&Game, transnational and interdisciplinary collaboration, online, in collaboration with Carolina Alba (Mexico City); Jimena Mendizabal (Amsterdam), Alejandro Orozco,(Mexico City), Juan Toro (until 2015), in urban context (Berlin/Dresden/Madrid, Mexico City, Amsterdam), virtual space
2014- 2013: [~] Archive Flaneur, Art and Research project in collaboration with Juan Toro, Berlin, Lviv, Kiev, Ukraine
Exhibition, Postcards and Beyond, in collaboration with Juan Toro, IDBA, Cali, Colombia
Poiesis and other Languages in Contemporary Aesthetic in Colombia, research project, Cali, Medellin, Bogota, Colombia
2013: Escenarios de Mujer, group show, Galeria Luz y Oficios. Habana, Cuba
2012: The Dematerialization of the Art Object, exhibition in collaboration with Juan Toro, PzÄ, Berlin, Germany
Co-Founder of an Art and Theory Project: Projects for Contemporary Aesthetic, PzÄ, Berlin, Germany
2007: The Many Faces of Africa, solo exhibition, Phonetic Art, Club OST, Vienna, Austria
2006: Face-Paintings, solo exhibition Phonetic Art, Club OST, Vienna, Austria
PUBLICATIONS of ARTICLES AND BOOKS
2017: Music as Organisatori_al Principle. In: DOCUMNT 1, Spring, Berlin, Germany
2016: Collectivity as a figure of thought. In: Catalog of the Exhibition, ON/OFF Collectivity and Collaboration, Mexico City, Mexico
2016: RED COLUMN, Nr.3, Vol.1, June. A Fan Publication of Art, Philosophy and Aesthetics, Eds. Mirjam Kroker & Juan Toro. Published by Projekte für Zeitgenössische Ästhetik in cooperation with Museum Casa del Lago, Mexico City, Mexico
2014: Red COLUMN, Nr. 2. Vol. 1, October. A Fan Publication of Art,Philosophy and Aesthetics, Eds. Mirjam Kroker & Juan Toro. Published by Projekte für Zeitgenössische Ästhetik, Berlin, Germany
2013: WELTWÄRTIGE KÜNSTLER_WEGE Im Kontext der Diskurse über zeitgenössische Kunst aus Afrika, der afrikanischen Diaspora und der Globalisierung visueller Kunst (LIT Verlag), Berlin, Germany, ISBN: 9783643504760
LECTURES/TALKS
2012: CONTEMPORARY ART of AUST[ria][af]RICA. Notes on ‚ARTIST_TRAILS TOWARDS THE WORLD, Institute for Art History, University FU, Berlin, Germany
Artist talk & Video intervention with Mara Niang, DEPOT, Place for Art and Discussion, Vienna, Austria
MEMBER and COFOUNDER
since 2014: On/Off collaboration https://onoffcollaboration.com/Information
since 2012: Projekte für Zeitgenössische Ästhetik http://zeitgenoessischeaesthetik.de/