Mario Pfeifer
* 1981 in Dresden, Germany
Education
2008 – 2009 California Institute of the Arts
2007 – 2008 Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main
2005 – 2007 University of the Arts, Berlin
2003 – 2006 Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig
Awards
2023 Hessischer Filmpreis | Hessian Film Award
2019 Media Art Award, Edith-Russ-Haus, Oldenburg
2017 innogy VISIT Award, Essen
2012 Celeste Video Art Prize, Rome
2011 Salon Video Art Prize, London
2010 VideoArtAward, Bremen
Artist-in-Residence
2022 Vila Sul, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil
2018 Thread, Tambacounda, Senegal
2018 Villa Romana, Firenze / Guest Artist
2017 Goethe-Institut, Lagos, Nigeria
2015 Cité international des Arts, Paris, France
2014 Proyecto Norte, Alto Patache, Chile
2013 Gasworks, London, UK
2012 ISCP, New York, USA
2011 Dar Al-Ma’mûn, Marrakech, Morocco
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Kunsthalle Winterthur, Suisse
2022 KOW, Berlin, Germany
2022 Pylon Lab, Dresden, Germany
2021 KOW, Berlin, Germany
2020 Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Germany
2020 Berlinische Galerie, Germany
2020 Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Germany
2020 Museum Folkwang Essen, Germany
2019 The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
2019 Pylon Lab, Dresden, Germany
2018 Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany
2017 KOW, Berlin
2016 Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig – GfZK
2016 ACUD, Berlin
2015 Fotomuseum Winterthur, Suisse
2015 KOW, Berlin
2015 Ludlow38, New York, USA
2015 Circa Projects, Newcastle, UK
2015 One Night Only, Oslo, Norway
2014 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Concepción, Chile
2014 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile
2014 Galeria Macchina, Santiago de Chile
2013 KHOJ, New Delhi, India
2013 Project 88, Mumbai, India
2012 Circa Projects, Sunderland, UK
2011 Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
2011 KOW, Berlin
2010 Weserburg - Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen
Film Festivals and Institutional Screenings ( Selection)
2019 32. IDFA Amsterdam, NL
62. DOK Leipzig, GER
53. Internationale Hofer Filmtage, GER
37. Asolo Art Film Festival, Italy
14. Doc Edge, Auckland, New Zealand
50. Visions du Réel Nyon, Switzerland
CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany 2018 Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium
Basis, Frankfurt, Germany
2017 Bunker Stuzki, Krakow
Untitled, San Francisco,USA
2016 62. Int. Filmfestival Oberhausen, Germany
CAC Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium
15. Seoul New Media Festival, S. Korea
Signal, Malmö, Sweden
61. Int. Filmfestival Oberhausen, Germany
2014 Migrating Forms, New York
2013 MoMA PS1, New York
Kunsthaus Bregenz / European Kunsthalle
2012 Sprengel Museum Hannover: Made in Germany II
Kunsthaus Dresden, ‘Various Stages’
Darklight Festival, Dublin
World Film Festival, Bangkok
Bilbao International Documentary Festival
2011 Museum of Art and Design, New York
Museum of contemporary Art, Detroit
Migrating Forms, Anthology Film Archives, NY
London International Documentary Festival
Images Festival, Toronto
Frankfurter Kunstverein
2010 Bangkok World Film Festival
Les Rencontres Internationales, Berlin, Madrid
Videoart at Midnight #16,Babylon, Berlin
Art Basel Film, Basel
Lichter Filmtage, Frankfurt am Main
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück
Museum Folkwang Essen
2009 KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne
World Film Festival Bangkok
Performances (Selection)
2021 KOW, Berlin
2019 IDFA / Pakhuis de Zwijger Amsterdam – AGAIN-Live
Lectures, Conversations (Selection)
2021 Edith-Russ-Haus, Conversation with Robert Trafford, Forensic Architecture
2020 HfBK Hamburg, Guest Lecture
2020 Kunsthalle Mannheim, Artist Talk
2019 Münster Lectures
2019 62. DOK Leipzig – How owns the Truth?, Symposium
2019 Volksbühne Berlin, Artist Talk
2019 The National Gallery of Art Washington D.C., Artist Talk
2019 Mario Pfeifer & Stan Douglas, The Power Plant Toronto, Artist Talk
2019 Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Artist Talk
2019 Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Artist Talk
2018 Academy of Visual Arts Prague, Artist Talk
2018 Kunsthochschule Münster, Artist Talk
2018 Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Artist Talk
2018 C/O Berlin, EMOP, Panel Discussion
2018 Villa Romana, Firenze, Artist Talk
2018 Arte!Brasilieros, São Paulo, Panel Discussion
2018 Museo de Arte do Rio de Janeiro, Artist Talk
2018 10. Berlin Biennale, Artist Talk
2017 European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Artist Talk
2017 GEGENKino, Leipzig, Panel Discussion
2017 Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Artist Talk
2017 Burg Giebichenstein, Halle, Lecture
2016 UNAM, Mexico City, Lecture
2015 Fotomuseum Winterthur, Artist Talk
2015 Baltic, Newcastle, Artist Talk
2015 Goethe Institut, New York, Artist Talk
2014 Universidad Católica, Santiago, Artist Talk
2013 MoMAPS1, New York Artist Talk
2013 Gasworks, London, Artist Talk
2013 Bauhaus Universität, Weimar, Lecture
2013 Khoj, New Delhi, Panel Discussion
2013 StudioX, Mumbai, Panel Discussion
2013 Artists Space, New York, Lecture
2013 MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Artist Talk
2012 4th Marrakech Biennale, Panel Discussion, Writing with Images
2012 Circa Projects, Sunderland, Artist Talk
2011 Goethe-Institut Toronto, Panel Discussion
2011 LA><Art, Los Angeles, Panel Discussion
2011 White Columns, New York, Panel Discussion
2011 Fotohof, Salzburg, Artist Talk
2011 Kunstsaele Berlin, Lecture Performance. Love & Space
2010 Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne, Lecture Hero/Antihero
Curatorial
2008 Guest Curator, 5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival
2008 Guest Curator, Sun Screens Festival, Arsenal Berlin
Project Grants
2024 Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
2019 Federal State of Hesse, Germany
2019 VG Kulturwerk Bonn
2018 Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
2018 Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
2016 Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
2016 Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
2014 Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
2012 Max Mueller Bhavan/Goethe-Institut Mumbai, New Delhi, India
2011 Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
2010 Werkleitz Society, Halle
2009 TransVideoStudios, Moutainview
2007 Goethe Institut, Bangkok
2005 Goethe Institut, Prague
Film-/Videography
2020 Black/White/Grey, 4Kvideo , color, stereo, 17''
2019 Backways, 4K, color, stereo, 5’'
2018 Again, 4K & HD-video, color, 5.1, 42''
2018 Conversation Piece [Western Sahara], 4K & HD-video, color, stereo, approx. 60''
2017 Point of No Return, 4K video, color, stereo, 24''
2016 About Education and Fear, ..., 4K video, color, stereo, 546''
2016 Corpo Fechado, 4K video, color, surround sound, 47''
2015 #blacktivist, 4Kvideo, color, stereo, 10''
2014 Approximation, 4K video, colour, surround sound , 32''
2010 A FORMAL FILM IN NINE EPISODES, PROLOGUE & EPILOGUE, 35mm film, color, stereo, 52''
2010 The Los Angeles River-project, 35 mm/HD-video, color, SR 5.1, 80''
2009 Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California, Dual 16 mm film installation, B/W, mono, 13''
2008 Yet Untitled [Pieces of Nature], S 16 mm transferred to HD-video, color, stereo, 11’30
2008 Untitled [Two Guys], HD-video, color, stereo, 7’30
2007 Sum Over Histories [Part I|, HD-video, color, stereo, 12''
2006 IMPERIAL, Digital video, color, stereo, 12''
2005 Cinema For The Blind [Trailer for Theatre], digital video, color, stereo, 3''
2004 The Horizon Scene, digital video, color, stereo, 12''
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Scholarships
2022 Kunstfonds Foundation
2020 Kunstfonds Foundation
2016 Federal State of Hesse, Germany
2015 BKM – Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
2015 Global Scholarship, Cultural Senate Berlin
2014 Kunstfonds Foundation
2013 DAAD
2013 Goethe-Institut, London
2013 Cultural Senate, Berlin
2012 Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
2010 DAAD
2008 California Institute of the Arts
2008 Fulbright Scholarship
Publications, Monographs
If you end up with the story you started with, then you're not listening along the way (Mousse Publishing, 2021)
Profit over Peace in Western Sahara (Sternberg Press, 2018) Blacktivist – EP (KOW, Berlin, 2016)
Approximation – Publication & LP (Sternberg Press, Berlin / New York, 2015) A Formal Film in Nine Episodes – A Critical Reader (Spector Books, Leipzig, 2013)
Three Films /Three Photographs (Fotohof edition, Salzburg, 2013)
Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974 (Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2011)
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2023 Kunsthaus Dresden – Grids of Violence
Bundeskunsthalle - Who we are, Bonn, Germany
ACAS Studios, Berlin, Germany
Fluentum Collection, Berlin, Germany
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin
2022 Neues Museum Nürnberg – New Acquisitions from the Federal Collection, Germany
KOW Berlin – Das Auto Rosi Aber, Germany
Bundeskunsthalle – New Acquisitions from the Federal Collection, Bonn, Germany
2021 Iruru Muyu – Centro de Arte Contemporáneo – CAC Quito, Ecuador
White Money – Sophiensaele Berlin, Germany
Großer Hans-Purrmann-Preis der Stadt Speyer, Germany
The 4th Mediterranean Biennale in Sakhnin Valley, Israel
Beuys – Der Katalysator, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Time Change – Schloss Biesdorf,Berlin, Germany
2020 MUDAM Luxembourg
Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany
KOW Berlin, Germany
Halle für Kunst und Medien Graz, AT
Innsbruck International 2020 – Biennial of the Arts, AT
Goethe Pop Up Seattle, USA
2019 Pinakothek der Moderne, München, Germany
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin, Germany
IfA Gallery Berlin, Germany
Kunstpavillion Innsbruck, Austria
2018 10. Berlin Biennale, Germany
11° Bienal do Mercosul , Porto Alegre, Brazil
KOW Berlin, Germany
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
CCA – Center of Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria
Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Germany
basis e.V., Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2017 Museum of Art and Technology [MAAT], Lisbon, Portugal
Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany
B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Galeria Hideo Kobayashi, Centro Cultural Usiminas, Ipatinga, Brazil
SARACURA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
European Media Arts Festival, Kunsthalle, Osnabrück, Germany
GEGENkino, Leipzig, Germany
The Atlantic Triangle, Lagos, Nigeria Occupation, Kunstfonds Collection, Dresden, Germany L’Autre… De l’image à la réalité’ (‘The Other… From image to reality’), Maison Populaire, Paris, France
2016 3° Montevideo Bienal, Uruguay Say It Loud!, Florida, USA
Shock Room, BKV Potsdam
Out of the Dark, KOW, Berlin
MUNDO, IMAGEM, MUNDO – Espaço Cultural Marcantonio Vilaça, Brazil
2015 Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden
Think Film / Misliti Film, KCB Cultural Center of Belgrade, Serbia
MUNDO, IMAGEM, MUNDO – International Festival of Photography, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Summer of Films, KOW, Berlin
2014 Give Us The Future, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
A Taste of Ashes Fills The Air, Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2013 Ortsbestimmung - Contemporary Art from Saxony, Kaiserstrutz, Görlitz
Think Film, MMC Luka, Croatia
Jetzt Hier. Contemporary Art from the Collection Kunstfonds, Lipsiusbau, Dresden
2012 Works from the Collection of the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main
Artists against Aids, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
India: Visions from the Outside
Cultural Centre of Brugge
Jetset, Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover
4th Marrakesh Biennale, Morocco
Schrantz Contemporary, Offspace, Basel
2011 Memory Awake, Storey Gallery, Leicester
Salon Video Art Prize, MattRobertsArt, London
The Chrysler Series, New York
Stories & Stages Frankfurter Kunstverein & Zollamt MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt
New Topographics, Landesmuseum Linz
2010 KunstFilmBiennale. KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin
Speckle Imaging, Waseda University, Toyko
Mulhouse Biennale 010, Mulhouse
Salon Video Art Prize,MattRobertsArt, London
2009 New Topographics, Los Angeles County Museum of Art [LACMA] Los Angeles,
ANTIREPRESENTATIONALSIM III, KOW, Belin
ANTIREPRESENTATIONALSIM II, KOW, Berlin
ZEIGEN, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
ANTIREPRESENTATIONALSIM I, KOW, Berlin
2008 Ende, Städelmuseum Frankfurt am Main
I AM A MAN, Portikus., Frankfurt am Main
Publications, Catalogues (Selection]
Who we are | Wer wir sind [2023]
Indentity no proven [Hirmer Verlag, 2021]
Der Katalysator Joseph Beuys und Demokratie heute [2021]
Time Change [2021]
Family, Me [MUDAM, 2020]
Innsbruck International – Biennale of the Arts [2020]
10th Berlin Biennale [Distanz, 2018]
Tension & Conflict (MAAT, 2017)
11° Bienal do Mercosul , Porto Alegre, Brazil [2018]
After YouTube, Cologne [2018]
Tension & Conflict (MAAT, 2017)
Buried in the Mix (MeWo, 2017)
The Vague Space – Sammlung Christian Kaspar Schwarm (Weserburg, 2017)
L'Autre de l'Image à la réalité (Salon Populaire, 2017)
Push – Living in the hyper Inforamtion age (EMAF, 2017
Willem de Rooij & Mario Pfeifer (ACUD, 2016)
62. International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2016)
Ludlow38 (E-Publication, 2016)
61. International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2015)
Disegno (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kerber Verlag, 2015)
Give Us The Future (König Books, NBK, 2014)
A Taste of Ashes Fills the Air (Centre for Contemporary Photography Melbourne, 2014)
Think Film/Cinemania (MMC Luka, Croatia, 2013)
now.here (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, 2013)
India: Visions from the Outside (The Cultural Centre of Brugge,Belgium, 2012)
4th Marrakech Biennale (Sternberg Press, 2012)
Jetlag (Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover, 2012)
Zinebi 53 (International Festival of Documentary Film of Bilbao, 2011)
Kunstfilmbiennale zu Gast (KW Berlin, 2010)
New Frankfurt Internationals: Stories and Stages (Frankfurter Kunstverein, Hatje Cantz, 2010)
ZEIGEN An Audio Tour by Karin Sander (König Books 2009)
KunstFilmBiennale Köln (KFB, 2009)
Thisiscurating1-4 (First Draft Gallery, Sydney, 2008)
Reviews (Selection)
Kunstforum, Bd. 272, 1/2021
Eikon #112, 10/2020
The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 08/2019
New York Times, 06/13/2018
Artforum international, 10/2018
Frieze, 10/2018
Al Jazeera, 06/18/2018
taz, 06/08/2018
Süddeutsche Zeitung, 06/08/2018
Monopol Magazin, 05/2016
artnet, 06/2018
Deutschlandfunk, 03/2018
Artsy, 12/2016
Neues Deutschland, 11/2016
Monopol Magazin, 10/2016
TAZ, 10/2016
Monopol Magazin, 08/2016
Nation of a Billion, 07/2016
Artsy, 04/2016
Art in America, 03/2016
Neues Deutschland, 11/2016
Monopol Magazin, 10/2016
TAZ, 10/2016
Monopol Magazin, 08/2016
Nation of a Billion, 07/2016
Artsy, 04/2016
Art in America, 03/2016
Neues Deutschland, 11/2016
Monopol Magazin, 10/2016
TAZ, 10/2016
Monopol Magazin, 08/2016
Nation of a Billion, 07/2016
Artsy, 04/2016
Art in America, 03/2016
Corridor8, 11/2015
Artforum online, 10/2015
Narc, 10/2015
Art F City, 09/2015
Neues Deutschland, 06/2015
Artsy, 05/2015
Monopol, 05/2015
Arte Al Limite, 01/2015
Artishock, 11/2014
Artslant India, 05/2013
The Sunday Guardian, 05/2013
Indian Express, 05/2013
Africa is a country, 03/2012
Artforum International, 12/2011
Art Review, 12/2011
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 27.11.2011
Kaleidoscope, 06/2011
The Brooklyn Rail, 07/2011
Camera Austria, 04/2011
Senses of Cinema 04/2011
Octopus Journal 04/2011
Slant Magazine, 05/2011
Ahorn Magazine, 01/2011
Artnet, 11/2010
Writings, Essays
Monopol Magazine, 02/2017
Camera Austria #119, 2014
Camera Austria #116, 2012
Bidoun Magazin, 06/2010
Selected Lectures & Conversations
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