SUSANNE VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES PROJECTS
ISABELL HEIMERDINGER
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Born 1963 in Stuttgart, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Education

2002                 Artist-in-Residence, Atelier Augarten, Vienna, Austria.

1995                 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA.

1991                 Master Student, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany.

Solo Exhibitions

2006                 “Love Film”, Atelier Cardenas Bellanger, Paris, France

2005                 “Sculpture Play”, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany

                        “Failed Works”, Florence Loewy, Paris, France

2004                 "Trailer", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA.

                        "The Italian Interiors", River Side Wall, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany.

2003                 "Waiting, Acting Waiting", chouakri brahms berlin, Berlin, Germany.

                        "Wolves, Pigs, People", Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany.

                        Happening, le studio, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France.

                        Performance, Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna, Austria.

                        "Regards Croisés (Slides Taken to and in Abidjan in January 2001)", Library,

                              Swiss Institute, New York, NY.

2002                 "The 366th Sunset" (with Jonathan Monk), Am Parlamentsplatz, Frankfurt/Main,

                              Germany.

2001                 "I was Andy Warhol’s Dracula", Isabell Heimerdinger & "Over the Sea", Udo Kier,

                              Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany.

                        "The blood of these whores is killing me", Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe,

                              Germany.

                        Galerie P, Brüssel.

2000                 "Lost World", Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin.

                        "Wie passen vier Elefanten in einen roten VW?" Bahnwärterhaus/ Villa Merkel,

                              Esslingen, Germany.

                        Singulier, Pluriel, Frac Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France.

1998                 "Failed Work"s, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany.

                        "Open In Total Darkness", Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany.

1997                 3rd LA International Biennial Invitational, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA.

                        "Closed Set", Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany.

1995                 "Homes and Hotels", California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA.

Group Exhibitions

2006                 “Black/White & chewing gum, Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna, Austria

                        “This is Not a Love Song”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,

                              Los Angeles, CA

                        “Kino wie noch nie”, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria

2005                 “Déjà-vu, Der Augen-Blick der Nachträglichkeit in der zeitgenössischen Kunst”, Atelier

                              Augarten, Vienna, Austria

                        “A Certain Tendency in Representation”, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK

                        “The Picture I Carry in my Head”, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

                        “Les grands spectacles”, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

                        “Saltuna—The Baltic Sea Experience”, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art,

                              Malmö, Sweden

                        “Das Neue II”, Atelier Augarten, Vienna, Austria

                        “Polaroid als Geste”, Photomuseum Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

                        “What is important? Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art”, Malmö Konsthall,

                              Malmö, Sweden

                        “I Love Cinema and Cinema Loves Me”, Videoscreening, Camden Art Center,

                        London, UK

2004                 "What did you expect?", Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium.

                        "Ulysses. Ineluctable modality of the visible. James Joyce in contemporary Visual

                        Art", Atelier Augarten, Vienna, Austria.

2003                 "What is Important?", 3. Ars Baltica, Triennale der Fotokunst,

                        Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel; Germany.

                        Schloß Plüschow, Plüschow; Germany.

                        Kunsthall Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

                        Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania.

                        The DaimlerChrysler Collection, Museum für Neue Kunst, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany

                              and Detroit Institute for Art, Detroit, MI.

                        No. 3: Cinéma, Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France.

                        "The Distance between me and you", Lisson Gallery, London, UK.

                        "Fotografie, Video, Mixed Media", Sammlung DaimlerChrysler, Galerie der Stadt

                              Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany.

                        "Still / Moving", Fotografie, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering - Quack, Berlin, Germany.

2002                 Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.

                        "no return", Positionen aus der Sammlung Haubrok, Museum Abteiberg,

                              Mönchengladbach, Germany.

                        "Hollywood revisited", Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark.

                        "The Berlin Files", De Chiara Gallery, (cur. April Elizabeth Lamm), New York, NY.

                        "There is a light that never goes out", Galeria Sonia Rosso, Pordenone, Italy.

                        "Schwarzwaldhochstraße - Aktuelle Kunst in und aus Baden-Württemberg",

                              Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany.

                        "So Jackie", Galerie p, Brussels, Belgium.

                        "Open Studio", Augarten Residence, Atelier Augarten, Vienna, Austria.

2001                 "Not at home", Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany.

                        "Camoshow", Museum Wiesbaden /cur. Alexis Vaillant), Wiesbaden, Germany.

                        S 2001, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany.

                        Film/Fotos. 5. Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen 2001, Villa Merkel, Esslingen,

                              Germany

                        "The more you see the more you know", Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany.

2000                 "The World is not enough", Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany.

                        "Reality bytes. Der medial vermittelte Blick", Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg

                              Germany.

                        "Wouldn’t it be nice", The Netherlands Media Art Institute, MonteVideo/TBA,

                              Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

                        "Hallöchen, Hallöchen", Galerie De Lege Ruimte, Gent, Belgium.

                        "Viva Maria III", Galerie Karin Günther, Hamburg, Germany.

                        Rencontres internationales de la photographie, Arles, France.

                        Hybrid, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland.

                        Fido Television, Hunter College Times Square Art Gallery, New York, NY.

                        "9 1/2, Ausstellungen und Erwerbungen", Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany.

                        "Snapshot", Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, ML.

1999                 Gilbert & George, 1970 N. Bronson, Los Angeles, CA.

                        "events", Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France.

                        "An Apple A Day", Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany.

                        "The Perfect Life", Artifice in LA, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham

                        "Video Cultures", Museum für Neue Kunst/ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.

                        Digitale Photographie. 1. Triennale der Photographie, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg,

                              Germany.

                        "Landscape memories", Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

                        "Giving the Self a Home", Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria.

                        "Moving Images". Film - Reflexion in der Kunst, Galerie für Zeitgenössische

                              Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig / Siemens Kulturprogramm, Germany.

                        "Ich und die Anderen", Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal / Fotomuseum, München

                              (2000) / Nikolaj Udstillingsbygning, Kopenhagen (2000).

                        "Minitopias", Untitled of Dallas, TX

                        "The Captain hates the Sea", BATOFAR, Paris, France.

1998                 "Hot Rrrod – Eine Kunstausstellung", Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria.

                        "Interior", Post, Los Angeles, CA.

                        "Mid Sized Median", Übermain, Los Angeles, CA.

                        "1970 N. Bronson Ave.", Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany.

                        "Fotografie als Handlung - Photography as Concept", 4. Internationale Foto

                              Triennale, Esslingen, Germany.

                        "Five Projected Works", Varsity Theatre, Ashland

                        "Kunst der Gegenwart – Blickwechsel", Museum für Neue Kunst/ZKM, Karlsruhe,

                              Germany.

                        "Other related areas", University of California, Irvine, CA.

                        "Still and Otherwise", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

                        "The End is the Beginning", Bricks and Kicks, Vienna, Austria.

1997                 "In Synch", Spot, New York, NY.

                        "ViewFinders", Übermain, Los Angeles, CA.

                        "GS1", Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany.

                        "Next Door", 1970 N. Bronson, Los Angeles, CA.

                        LACE Annuale, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA.

                        "Bright Idea", 1970 N. Bronson, Los Angeles, CA.

                        Lemon Sky Project Space, Los Angeles, CA.

1996                 "Wrestling with the Sublime", Contemporary German Art in Southern California,

                        California State University Fullerton, CA.

                        "Useful Things", Newspace, Los Angeles, CA.

1995                 "The Multicultural Garden", FAR Full Moon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

                        "Nervous", California Institute of the Art, Los Angeles, CA

                        "Landscape", California Institute of the Art, Los Angeles, CA.

1993                 "Op is op", Goethe Institut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf,

                              Germany

Bibliography

Monographs

2005                 Pose (from Markus to Markus & Nikki to Anne), Alice Travel Cie, Paris

2003                 Isabell Heimerdinger Acting, Waiting, Acting, Text von Jens Hoffmann, limitierte

                              Posteredition, Revolver Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt am Main,

2002                 Martin as, Revolver - Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt am Main

2000                 Isabell Heimerdinger. Act One, published by Renate Wiehager (on the occassion of

                              the exhibition Wie passen vier Elefanten in einen roten VW?, Bahnwärterhaus

                              der Villa Merkel, Esslingen), Berlin 2000

Catalogues on group exhibitions

2006                 Kino wie noch nie, Cinema like never before, Antje Ehmann, Harun Farocki,

                              Generali Foundation, Wien

2005                 Déjà-vu, Der Augen-Blick der Nachträglichkeit in der Bildenden Kunst, Thomas

                              Trummer, Atelier Augarten, Wien

                        Les grands spectacles, 120 Jahre Kunst und Massenkultur / 120 Years of Art and

                              Mass Culture, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Hatje Cantz

                        Polaroid als Geste, Meike Kröncke, Barbara Lauterbach und Rolf F. Nohr,

                              Hatje Cantz

                        22 interviews, Thomas Trummer, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere und Revolver

2004                 The Next Documenta should be curated by an Artist, Jens Hoffman, Revolver Archiv

                              für aktuelle Kunst

                        40 View of an Icon. 40 Works of Art inspired by the Perfume Bottle, Comme des

                              Garçons, Barcelona

                        Ulysses - Die unausweichliche Modalität des Sichtbaren, Thomas Trummer, Atelier

                        Augarten, Wien

2003                 What is important? 3rd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, Ars Baltica Berlin

                              Office in cooperation with the Landeshauptstadt Kiel/Stadtgalerie Kiel

2002                 Hollywood Revisited, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark

                        No Return, Sammlung Haubrok, Axel Haubrok und Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter

                        König, Köln

                        Kunst Kino, Oktagon, Ursula Frohne, Kunsthalle Bern

                        Ctrl [Space], Rhetorics of Surveillance from Benthan to Big Brother (text: “Screen

                              Tests³: Media Narcissism, Theatricality, and the Internalized Observer by Ursula

                              Frohne), ZKM Karlsruhe und MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts & London,

                              England

                        Schwarzwaldhochstraße - Aktuelle Kunst in und aus Baden-Württemberg, Matthias

                              Winzen, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

                        Juni 2001 - Fotografie, Video, Mixed Media, DaimlerChrysler AG

                        SUR.FACES, Interviews 2001/02, Raimer Stange und Revolver Archiv für aktuelle

                              Kunst, Frankfurt am Main

2001                 Juni 2001 Fotografie, Video, Mixed Media, Sammlung DaimlerChrysler, Berlin

                        Moving Pictures - Fotografie und Film in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, 5.

                              Internationale Foto Triennale Esslingen 2001, Renate Wiehager, Villa Merkel,

                              Esslingen

                        Black Box - Der Schwarzraum in der Kunst  (Ursula Frohne: Ausbruch aus der

                              weißen Zelle), Kunstmuseum Bern

2000                 Yours Truly, Recent Works/Jacob Fabricius, Pork Salad Press

                        La Photographie Traversée, Rencontres internationales de la photographie, Arles

                              and Actes Sud

                        Hybrid, Fotomuseum Winterthur and Christoph Merian Verlag

                        Fido Television, Hunter College Time Square Art Gallery, New York

                        Camobook, Alexis Vaillant, Paris and Revolver, Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Stuttgart

1999                 The Perfect Life, Artifice in LA 1999, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham

                        Video cult/ures. Multimediale Installationen der 90er Jahre, Ursula Frohne, ZKM,

                              Karlsruhe

                        Moving Images. Film ­ Reflexion in der Kunst (text: Isabell Heimerdinger¹s Hollywood

                              Interiors by Stephan Pascher), Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig and

                              Siemens Kultur Programm, Leipzig

                        Ich und die Anderen. Fotografien und Videoarbeiten, Ulrich Pohlmann, Ursula Blickle

                              Stiftung und Fotomuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum, Kraichtal

1998                 Fotografie als Handlung - Photography as Concept. 4. Internationale Foto-Triennale,

                              Renate Wiehager, Villa Merkel, Esslingen

1997                 ViewFinders, Übermain, Los Angeles

                        Thomas Emde, Isabell Heimerdinger, Jutta Koether (text: Moving In And Moving Out

                        by Stephan Pascher), Newspace, Los Angeles

1996                 Wrestling with the Sublime, California State University, Fullerton

1995                 Exhibition Space, School of Art, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles

1993                 Op is Op, Goethe Institut, Rotterdam

Press articles (selection)

2005                 Wendland, Johann, “Und jetzt Ätsch. Fremde Farben: Das Brauschschweiger

                              Museum für Photographie zeigt ‘Polaroid als Geste’”, Frankfurter

                              Rundschau, June 24

                        Herbstreuth, Peter, “Rollen, Modelle”, Der Tagesspiegel, December 10

                        “Die Bühne der Kunst”, Tip Berlin, 26/05, December 15-28

2004                 Manacorda, Franceso, “Nouvelle Avantgarde”, Flask Art, XXXVII Nr. 248, Oct-Nov

                        Niiyama, Keiko, “Composite Gallery @ Berlin—Isabell Heimerdinger”, Composite, Vol.

                              3 No. 2, October

                        Vogel, Sabine, Isabell Heimerdinger, Artforum, March

                        Hollywood is a Verb, Isabell Heimerdinger talks to Terri Phillips, Pacemaker, June

2003                 Ungeschützt gesehen werden, Tip Berlin, September

                        Isabell Heimerdinger “Waiting, Acting Waiting³, chouakri brahms berlin. Jonathan

                              Monk interviews Isabell Heimerdinger, Neue Review, Art in Berlin Ausgabe 1,

                              May

                        Garulli, Valentina, Valentina Sansone: Focus Photography, Flash Art, Vol. XXXVI /

                        October

2001                 Ebeling, Knut, Glamour des Wirklichen. Im Wunderland der Filme: Eine Ausstellung

                              bei Mehdi Chouakri, Der Tagesspiegel, February 17th, 2001

                        Hart, Jane, Hollywood 101, zingmagazine Issue 15 Spring/Summer 2001

                        Thomsen, Henrike, Ich war Andy Warhols Dracula, Berliner Zeitung, 22. February

                        Stange, Raimar, Isabell Heimerdinger bei Mehdi Chouakri, Kunst-Bulletin, Nr. 3

                        Stange, Raimar, Isabell Heimerdinger, Udo Kier, Flash Art, Vol.XXXIV / March-April

                        Allen, Jennifer, Isabell Heimerdinger, Artforum, April 2001

                        Zeit Chancen, Medienberufe, Die Zeit, Nr. 26, 21. June 2001

                        Raimar Stange über Isabell Heimerdinger, artist Kunstmagazin Heft 48, 3/2001

2001                 Selbsprojektion, Videokunst in Esslingen, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 10. April 2000

                        Murata, Manabi, Berlin Mitte Art Utopia, Asahi Graph 2.11.2000

                        Wesenberg, Caroline, Zeitsprünge mit Wim Wenders, Die Tageszeitung, 20. March

                        Walsh, Daniella, A visit to ŒOther Related Areas¹, The Orange County Register,

1999                       October 1999

                        Claudia Voigt, Kirsten, Vier Freunde in der Oper, sich mopsend. Das Zentrum für

                              Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe zeigt die Ausstellung “Video

                              cult/ures³, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 26.5.99

                        Titz, Walter, Masken eines Phantoms, Kleine Zeitung, 15. July 1999

                        Seyfarth , Ludwig, Virtueller Müllschlucker, Szene Hamburg, July 1999

                        Pagel, David, Los Angeles Times, July 16, 1999

1998                 Kaiser, Alexandra, Mit der Kamera auf dem Weg zum Gipfel, Esslinger Zeitung, June

                        Nbf: Die Jagd der Kunst nach der Fotografie, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, 26. June 1998

                        Langen, Andreas, Berechnete Schönheit, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 27. June 1998

                        Friedl, Armin, Auf dem Weg zum Ziel: Du stiehlst mir meine Seele nicht, Esslinger

                              Zeitung, July 11-12

                        Stellwaag, Karin, Reise ins Unbewußte, Prinz, August 1998

                        Hübl, Michael, Umkehrung der filmischen Sicht, Badische Neueste Nachrichten,

                              August 7

                        Martinez, Rosa, Reinventing A “Paradise³, Flash Art, Vol.XXXI / October 1998

                        Ebeling, Knut, Filmriss der Erinnerung, Der Tagespiegel, October 1998

1997                 Pagel, David, LACE Annuale Plays It a Bit Too Safe, Los Angeles Times (Calendar),

                              Sept. 15

                        Pagel, David, From Germany, Los Angeles Times, July 11

                        Miles, Christopher, Art and Vodka, Detour Magazine, June/July

                        Treadwell, Carol, Thomas Emde, Isabell Heimerdinger, Jutta Koether, Carol

                              Treadwell, Zingmagazine, Nr. 5

                        Thomas, Bernhard, Nicht von dieser Welt, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, May 30

                        Frank, Peter, L.A. International Biennial, La Weekly, 8-14th August

                        Pascher, Stephan, Isabell Heimerdinger in Hollywood, The Thing, September

                        Werneburg, Christine, Wand & Boden, Die Tageszeitung, September 27/28

                        Sappington, Rodney (interview), Artist in Focus, Los Angeles Center for Photographic

                              Studies, December

                        Cassagnau, Pascale, Numero Deux-suite, Omnibus, October

1996                 Curtis, Cathy, Living Large, Los Angeles Times, November 26