1995/2000 Universität der Künste, Berlin, GER
2000 Hunter College, New York, USA
2001 Surikov-Institut, Moscow, GUS
2002 MFA, Universität der Künste, Berlin, GER
2006/2007 Research fellowship, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, NL
2023 working grant, Senate Department for Culture and Community Berlin
2022 Iméra, the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) of Aix-Marseille University
Stiftung Hans Arp & Sophie Taeuber-Arp Fellowship
Akademie der Künste - NEUSTART KULTUR,
Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
2021 Künstlerinnenprogramm, Filmgrant from the Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs, Berlin
FRAC Paca/Goethe-Institut Marseille residency
2017 research grant, Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs, Berlin
2013/2014 Residency, Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, Paris
2011 Künstlerinnenprogramm, Filmgrant from the Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs, Berlin
2009 International Residency, Berlin Senate's Department of Science, Research and Culture in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery and Studio Voltaire, London
2007 Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft Art Award, Berlin
Toni und Albrecht Kumm Preis zur Förderung der bildenden Künste
Provinzial Förderprojekt
2005 Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art IT, Berlin
Künstlerinnenprogramm, Filmgrant from the Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs, Berlin
2004 DAAD stipend, Paris
2003 Projektgrant from the Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs,Berlin for„Dom Sovietov“
2002/2003 Kyoung-an Artist-in-Residency, Seoul
2024 “The container fetish - episode 3”, Montévidéo, Marseille,
part of the series "Fishing for Flotsam – a deeper dive" (forth coming)
“Visualising the invisible hand#3”, MUCEM – Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille
2023 “The Choreography of Commodities”, Frac Sud - Cité de l'art contemporain
“Visualising the invisible hand #2”, MUCEM – Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille
“The container fetish - episode 2”, Montévidéo
“The container fetish - episode 1”, Musée d’Histoire de la ville de Marseille
& “Containers unchained”, FRAC Provence Alpes-Côte d’Azur,
part of the series "Fishing for Flotsam – a deeper dive"
“Nachdenken über das Gehen/Reflection on walking”, Kino Arsenal/Freunde der deutschen Kinemathek, Berlin
2021 "Visualising the invisible hand#1", Palais de la Bourse, Marseille,
part of Le French Smart Port in Med
“Fishing for Flotsam”, Musée d’Histoire de la ville de Marseille
"Labour Power Plant", Cinéma du Park/Cinéma du Musée, Montréal
and Musée d'art de Joliette, Québec
2020 "Labour Power Plant", FRAC Provence Alpes-Côte d’Azur/Goethe-Institut
La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille
Filmmakers’ Choice, Kino Arsenal/Freunde der deutschen Kinemathek, Berlin
2019 "Labour Power Plant", 69. Berlinale (with Robert Schlicht)
"Labour Power Plant", Kaunas International Filmfestival (KIFF)
"Top/Down", Maisons Folies, Lille (with Robert Schlicht)
2018/2019 “Humanity at Work”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (with Robert Schlicht)
2018 “Titre de travail/Working title”, FRAC Grand Large — Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque (with Robert Schlicht)
“Tugging the apparatus”, Archive Kabinett, Berlin
2017 “Mobile Cinema”, NN Contemporary Art, Northampton
“All the best from Labour Power Plant”, La Commune, centre dramatique national, Aubervilliers/Paris (with Robert Schlicht)
“Performing Labour Power”, Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Vienna (with Robert Rizo)
2015/2016 “Mobile Cinema – Two steps back”, Archive Kabinett, Berlin
2015 “Mobiles Kino. Romana Schmalisch”, Kunstmuseum
Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, in co-operation with the 25. FilmFestival Cottbus
“The Choreography of Labour#6”, in the frame of „Labor für Kritik und Weitsicht“, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
“The Choreography of Labour”, Centre national de la danse (CND), Pantin (with Jean-Marc Piquemal)
2014 “The Choreography of Labour#5” in the Mobile Cinema, Berlin Biennale 8/Program at Crash Pad c/o KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
“The Choreography of Labour#5” in the Mobile Cinema, Archive Kabinett, Berlin
“The Choreography of Labour#4”, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris (with Robert Schlicht)
2013 “The Choreography of Labour#3” - Possessions, Collège des Bernardins, organized by Khiasma (together with Marina Vishmidt)
“The Choreography of Labour#2”, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris (with Jean-Marc Piquemal)
“The Choreography of Labour#1”, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris
“Make Efficiency A Pleasure”, after the butcher, Berlin
2012 “Palace of Culture”, Muzychnyi teatr, in collaboration with the Foundation Center for Contemporary Art (CSM), Kyiv (with Anna Pohribna)
“Dom Kino”, Uqbar Projects, Berlin
“Standpunkt der Aufnahme”, Kino Arsenal/Freunde der deutschen Kinemathek, Berlin (with Robert Schlicht)
2011 “After Show”, National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow
2010 “Tournée”, etablissement d'en face, Brussels
“film/symbol”, part II, centre d'art passerelle - Brest (with Eléonore de Montesquiou)
“film/fabrik”, part I, centre d'art passerelle - Brest (with Eléonore de Montesquiou)
2009 “Mobile Cinema”, France Fiction, Paris
2008 “Il braccio di Lucifero si pone 645 1/3 braccia”, Galerie Karin Günther, Hamburg
“Drehort Zukunft”, Uqbar Projects, Berlin
2007 “Future Cities”, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg *,
“Radiation. An Alien Revue” (with Robert Schlicht), Performance, STUK Theater, Leuven
2006 “Two Steps Back Till Unrise”, Casco Projects , Utrecht (with Nina Könnemann)
2005 “reading in absence”, dreizehnzwei, Vienna (with Tantiana Lecomte) *
2003 “A Journey to the Space”, Young Eun Museum Contemporary Art, Seoul *
2024 “A Home for Something Unkown”, Neue Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin
Escale “Action ou Vérité ?”, Cnap/tënk in collaboration with La Cinémathèque du Documentaire
2023 “Die letzten Tage des Wahnsinns”, Künstlerinnenprogramm, Kino Arsenal/Freunde der deutschen Kinemathek, Berlin
“Arts/Travail”, LAAC muséum, in collaboration Triennale Art & Industrie / Dunkerque – Hauts-de-France
“The Big Warehouse”, Maison Française d'Oxford,
part of the series "Fishing for Flotsam – a deeper dive"
2021/2022 “Smile! Emotions at work”, Musée d'art de Joliette, Québec
“Variables d'épanouissement”, CCCOD, Tours
“KINO SIEMENSSTADT - The Complex of Labour”
Program #4/Program #6, Scharaun, Berlin
Around Vidéo, FRAC Grand Large — Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque
2020 cinéma Le Méliès, Carbone Biennal, Saint-Etienne
Streaming-Channel Arsenal 3, week 7&8: “Labour”
“Games, Fights, Encounters”, OnCurating Space, Zurich
“MARs Goldsmiths Session #9”, (with Diamond Ashiagbor, Bahar Noorizadeh, Elena Vogman and Marina Vishmidt), London
2019 “UN AUTRE MONDE///DANS NOTRE MONDE”, Frac Provence Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille
“Antikino (the siren’s echo chamber)”, Betonhalle/silent green/Kino Arsenal, Berlin
“UNLearning Place Molecular Bodies”, in the frame of “The New Alphabet”, HKW, Berlin
2018 “Working Life”, Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) and medienwerk.nrw
in co-operation with Kino im U, Dortmund
“Cadres de travail/Working Environments”, FRAC Grand Large — Hauts-de-France and Studio 43, Dunkerque in co-operation with Goethe-Institut Lille
“Que fais-tu dans la vie ?”, PointCulture, Brussels
2017 “Work it, feel it!”, Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Vienna
and “Rehearsing the Future”(with Sabeth Buchmann, Kai van Eikels, Robert Schlicht)
in the frame of VIENNA BIENNALE, Robots. Work. Our Future
2016 “Vom Wert der Kunst als Wert der Arbeit”, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
2015 “From here to afternoon”, D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig
“Talking Picture Blues (voices rising)”, Songwon Art Center/Kim Kim Gallery, Seoul
“Moving_Image”, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris
“A l’ouest tout!”, University Paris 8 in co-operation with École européenne supérieure d’art de Bretagne (EESAB), Paris
2014 “NE TRAVAILLEZ JAMAIS!”, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris
2013 “Talking Picture Blues”, Kunstsaele, Berlin
“From here to afternoon”, Museum of Fine Arts Houston,
Glassell School of Art, Houston
“Le cinéma n’a pas de patrie”, Côté Court festival, Cine 104, Pantin in
in collaboration with Ciné-Archives – fonds audiovisuel du PCF,
mouvement ouvrier et démocratique, Paris
“Théâtres au Cinéma”, Magic Cinéma de Bobigny, Bobigny
2012 “Thinking Like A Stone”, after the butcher, Berlin
Gyumri Biennale, Armenia
“At Work”, roARaTorio, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Spanish Cinematheque and Centre Pompidou, Paris, Madrid and Berlin
“IBG”, Galerie de multiples - GDM, Paris
2010 “Easy Rider”, lokal_30_warszawa_london, London
“Transient Spaces: The Tourist Syndrome, Berlin”, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK) und Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Kaunas Photography gallery, Kaunas
“Resource Room”, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
“Tracing Mobility”, Trampoline, Nottingham
“For example Fabrika”, Proekt_Fabrika, Moscow *
2009 “Movie painting”, National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow *
2008 “Digging Deeper II”, Museum Folkwang, Essen
“Zerbrechliche Schönheit”, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf *
2007 “Changing Spaces”, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg *
“Videonale 11”, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn *
2006 “Resonances”, Artis, Den Bosch *
“Tales from a Travel Journey”, CAC, Vilnius *
“La Boum II”, Galerie Sies & Höke, Düsseldorf *
“La Boum I”, Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Munich
“On architecture and other stories/2”, agentur, Amsterdam
2005 “Differences – Art as a Film Form”, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich
“Fiav.05”, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona
“Polished”, Goldrausch, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin *
“Jump Cut-Nights”, SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne
“Real Representation / Representing Realities”, Plattform, Berlin
2004 “Representing History”, Austria Filmmakers Cooperative, Filmcasino, Vienna
2003 “Museale 03”, Museumsfilmfestival, Kulturforum, Berlin
“Tracks/Territories”, Austria Filmmakers Cooperative, Filmcasino, Vienna
* with catalogue
“Mobile Cinema”, a lecture/screening performance
2018 “Mobile Cinema”, Archive Kabinett, Berlin
2017 “Mobile Cinema”, NN Contemporary Art, Northampton
2015/16 “Mobile Cinema”, Archive Kabinett, Berlin
2015 “Mobile Cinema”, Kunstmuseum
Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, in co-operation with the 25. FilmFestival Cottbus
“Mobile Cinema”, Songwon Art Center, Seoul
2014 “Mobile Cinema”, KW, Berlin
“Mobile Cinema”, Archive Kabinett, Berlin
2013 “Mobile Cinema”, Kunstsaele, Berlin
2010 “Mobile Cinema”, etablissement d'en face — Brussels
“Mobile Cinema”, Nationalmuseum N.N. Palmov — Elista
“Mobile Cinema”, centre d'art passerelle — Brest
“Mobile Cinema”, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK) — Berlin
“Mobile Cinema”, OUTPOST — Norwich
“Mobile Cinema”, Peacock Visual Arts — Aberdeen
“Mobile Cinema”, Transmission Gallery — Glasgow
“Mobile Cinema”, Generator Projects — Dundee
“Mobile Cinema”, collective gallery — Edinburgh
“Mobile Cinema”, Annexinema/Trampoline — Nottingham
“Mobile Cinema”, 7inch — Birmingham
2009 “Mobile Cinema”, Utopiana — Yerevan
“Mobile Cinema”, France Fiction — Paris
“Mobile Cinema”, FormContent — London
“Mobile Cinema”, Foundation Center for Contemporary Art *CCA* — Kiev
“Mobile Cinema”, The Muzychi Expanded History *Village* — Muzychi
“Mobile Cinema”, The Office — Berlin
“Mobile Cinema”, *Les Complices* — Zurich
“Mobile Cinema”, National Centre for Contemporary Arts *NCCA* — Moscow
“Mobile Cinema”, Istituto Svizzero di Roma — Rome
“Mobile Cinema”, Center for Visual Introspection *pplus4* — Bucharest
“Mobile Cinema”, National Centre for Contemporary Arts *NCCA* — Kaliningrad
“Mobile Cinema”, Contemporary Art Centre *CAC* — Vilnius
“Mobile Cinema”, Devil Museum — Kaunas
“Mobile Cinema”, Centre for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle — Warsaw
Collection FRAC Grand Large — Hauts-de-France
(Collection FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque)
Videomuseum — La Collection départementale d'art contemporain et cinéma, Seine-Saint-Denis
Collection Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
Collection Provinzial, Düsseldorf
Collection Young Eun Museum Contemporary Art, Seoul
Private Art Collections
2023 “Labour Power Plant”, monograph around the topic of labour is forthcoming from Archive Books end of the year
2019 “Labour Power Plant”, ARTMargins, MIT Press Journals, Vol.8 No.1, Artist Project, pp. 56–72
2018 “Die Zurichtung des Menschen zum Humankapital”, text Tom Mustroph, neues deutschland (21.12.2018)
2018 Auf Ressource reduziert: „Humanity at Work“, Interview with Bert Rebhandl, tip Berlin
2018 “Speaking the Enemy’s Language (Or Not)” in Esse magazine - LABOUR - 94, autumn 2018, text: Eloïse Guénard
2018 “Das Kino der Avantgarde als Spiegel von Gesellschaftstheorien”, Kunstforum, Band 252, 2018, Titel: Moderne, reloaded. Interview with Sabine Maria Schmidt, pp. 176–181
2017 “Mobile Cinema”, published by Archive Books, english, 160 pages
2017 "Labour Power Plant" in L'Art Même, n° 72 - 2e trimestre 2017 - L'art au travail, text: Mathilde Villeneuve, pp.15-17
2017 “Mass Observation 2.0. Situating the Everyday”, 16 booklets in the frame of Labor für Kunst und Forschung am Institut für Kunst und Kunsttheorie der Universität zu Köln, with Ale Bachlechner, Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber, Andreas Bunte, Svetlana Chernyshova, Ebba Durstewitz, Ben Highmore, Tellervo Kalleinen/Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Norman Klein, Jakob Kolding, Geert Lovink, Stefan Panhans, Peter Piller, Julia Scher, Romana Schmalisch and students from the Universität zu Köln, Johanna Steindorf, StrzeleckiBooks Verlag
2015 “The Talking Picture Blues Book”, designed & edited by Clemens Kruemmel, published by Kim Kim Press, S-Korea, pp. 55
2015 „Mass Ornaments", english/serbian, TkH 22, Walking Theory/journal
2014 „Notes sur les mouvements #3", french/english, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, 24 pages
„Der Standpunkt der Aufnahme - Point of View. Positionen politischer Film- und Videoarbeit", Archive Books & Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin, pp. 440–445
Initiales n° 04 – Initiales M.V., french, les presses du réel, pp. 106–109
Le Journal des Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, CAHIER C,
Interview with Mathilde Villeneuve, pp. 1-3
and artistic project « La Chorégraphie du travail »
Romana Schmalisch, pp. 7-10, 2013/2014
„Ne travaillez jamais", french/engl., Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, pages 129–130
Volailles n° 03, french, pp. 110–123
2013 „Notes sur les mouvements #1" and
„Notes sur les mouvements #2", french/engl., Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, 24 pages
2010 “Film/Fabrik”, French/Russian/English, catalogue, centre d'art passerelle
2010 “For example, Fabrika”, Russian/English, Gazetta, Proekt_Fabrika, text by Eléonore de Montesquiou and Romana Schmalisch
2008 Barbara Buchmaier, “Was gestern Welt von morgen war”, in: Texte zur Kunst, nr. 71, pp. 224–226 | “Zerbrechliche Schönheit”, Hatje Cantz Verlag
2007 “Reconstructing Futures”, German/English catalogue,
Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, texts by Robert Schlicht and Sabine Maria Schmidt | “Karl-Hofer-Preis 2007”, text: Esther Buss |
“Changing Spaces”, German/English catalogue, Modo Verlag,
pp. 28–31, text: Elke Keiper and Axel Wieder |
“Radiation”, brochure, Kino Arsenal/Freunde der deutschen Kinemathek
2006
“Tales From the Travel Journal Vol.1”, English catalogue, CAC,
pp. 30–31/72–73, with a text by Catherine Hemelryk |
“Videonale 11”, German/English catalogue, Walther König Verlag,
pp. 86-87, with a text by Thomas Jantschik |
“Resonances”, poster, with a text by Astrid Wege
2005
“reading in absence”, catalogue, with texts by
Melanie Ohnemus and Marc Riess |
“Der Berg”, catalogue, Goldrausch, with a text by Tabea Metzel