ELLA ZIEGLER

SOLO EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES / LECTURES

2022

• Grazing, Edmund Felson Gallery, Berlin, Germany
• Lucent Cracks, DIEresidenz, Die, France

2021

• BLUFF (bloef) Ella Ziegler / Wolf von Kries, Palais für Aktuelle Kunst/Palais for Contemporary Art, Glückstadt, Germany
• SOIL SOUL – Ella Ziegler / Abrie Fourie, Experimental Gallery Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
• DANCE – 6 Steps together, Edmund Felson Gallery, Berlin, Germany
• BREAK FUSION BRIDGE CYCLE, Poster Edition on Barbara McClintock (Nobel Prize 1982) and Intervention at Cornell University, Lehmann Lab, Ithaca, NY, USA
• (laughter), Button Edition on Barbara McClintock (Nobel Prize 1982) and Intervention at Cornell University, Lehmann Lab, Ithaca, NY, USA

2019

• Movement of Emotions, Spoor Klübi (Project space), Berlin, Germany
• Statische Dynamik, Zentrum für Kunst und öffentlichen Raum / Grün Berlin, Germany

2018

• Movement of Emotions, Performance, Meinblau (Project Space), Berlin, Germany

2017

• The Sound of the Wind, Public Intervention, Aarhus/ Gellerup, Denmark
• Encounter Donkey, Performance/ Human Animal Encounter, Aarhus/Gellerup, Denmark

2016

• Feigned Unconsciousness / Simulierte Ohnmacht (Perfomance in collaboration with Morten J Olsen (vibraphone), Sophie New / Daniel Belasco Rogers (voice), tête – Berlin, Germany
• SIGN I – IV, MAP South Africa, Karoo Desert, South Africa

2015

• The Right Side (Public Art Project / Richmond), MAP Modern Art Projects South Africa
• SEE IV (Lecture Performance), Universitiy of Pretoria, South Africa

2014

• Stolen Car Stored in Bedroom, Kunstverein Arnsberg e.V., Arnsberg, Germany
• Stolen Car Stored in Bedroom (Lercture Performace), Kunsthochschule Weissensee, Berlin, Germany

2012

• GESCHICHTE, Kunstverein Kassel, Germany
• Alles in Ordnung A-Z, (Lecture), HBK Braunschweig, Germany

2011

• Ella Ziegler, Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin, Germany
• Pica Pica, Deutsche Börse Residency Program im
• Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/ Main, Germany
• Picture Berlin, (Performance Lecture), Berlin, Germany

2010

• Ella Ziegler (Performance Lecture), FHNW Solothurn zu Gast in Berlin, Germany

2007

• Collaborations, Tshwane University of Technology Pretoria, Department of Fine Arts, Pretoria, South Africa

2006

• MOSKAU BERLIN, Korridor, Berlin, Germany
• DING DONG, Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• INNOCENCIA, Ein Projekt für den Nassauischen Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany

2005

• Capri, Berlin, Germany
• PIF PAF BADABOUM ARGH, Forum d’Art Contemporain (FAC), Sièrre, Switzerland

2004

• Hotel Room (Intervention), Ramada Hotel, Hamilton, Canada
• Entenhaus (Intervention), Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany

2003

• laut lesen, Klanginstallation und Vortrag, voxxx.galerie, Chemnitz, Germany
• Aktuelle Projekte, Diavortrag im Rahmen der Ausstellung Goldrausch 02/03, Kulturamt Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2002

• Kollaborationen mit Unbekannten, Staatsbank, Berlin, Germany
• Projekte 1999-2002, Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Germany
• Kollaborationen mit Unbekannten, Architekturbüro Link, Köln, Germany
• Projekt 1999-2002, Haus Köbberling, Kassel, Germany
• KünstlerInnengespräch mit Ella Ziegler, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany

GROUP EXHIBITIONS / COLLABORATIONS / PROJECTS

2022

• Die letzte Tüte, NochMall, Berlin, Germany
• A Friendly Place - Shaking Leaves, Touching Sand, WIRWIR Berlin, Germany
• ReEDOcation, Floating University e. V., Berlin, Germany
• Human Electricity, Mahalla, Berlin, Germany

2021

• TERRITORIES UNDER MY SKIN, Ella Ziegler/Deva Schubert (Performance in Public Space), Changing Room, Berlin Germany
• STREET NAMES IN THE AFRICAN QUARTER BERLIN (Instagram Campaign) Ella Ziegler in coop with Christian Kopp (Berlin Postcolonial e.V.), Donna Kukama, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Jaro Straub, Berlin Germany
• THE AFRICAN QUARTER, Digital Slideshow with photographer Akinbode Akinbiji, Concept & Editing Ella Ziegler, Berlin, Germany
• SCHLANGEN IM STAUB, Art & Performances in Public Space / Kunst & Performances im öffentlichen Raum, Kollaboration mit Freilichtspiele Schwäbisch Hall e. V., Germany
• FREUNDE OHNE BÜCHER, HAUNT frontviews (Book Fair), Berlin, Germany
• PORÖS, Sculplobe @ LOBE Block, Berlin, Germany
• Die letzte Tüte, NochMall, Berlin Germany
• ITERATION, The Soil Factory Network, Ithaca, NY, USA

2020

• HIGH PERFORMANCE, Center for Arts and Public Space / ZKR Zentrum für Kunst und öffentlicher Raum / Grün Berlin, Spreepark Berlin, Germany

2019

• SMART SAPIENS @ Vryfees Kunstfestival (Collaboration with Lorin Sookool, Jarrett Erasmus, Andrei van Wyk) Bloemfontein, South Africa
• HOSTING - On Symbiots, Parasites, and other Relations, Picture Berlin, Interventions in private garden in Bergstraße, Berlin, Germany
• SMALL TALK - GARDEN SALON (HOSTING - On Symbiots, Parasites, and other Relations), private Garden in Berlin Mitte, Germany
• MUNDANE POETRY, (intervention in public space), OSCA – OPEN SPACE CONTEMPORARY ARTS, Adelaide, Australia
• CLAY BRICK LAB RICHMOND in collaboration with MAPSA (ongoing), Art and Development Project in the Karoo Desert / Northern Cape, South Africa
• Großkreisentfernung Mail Art Exhibition project, 10 years anniversery PICTURE BERLIN, tête Berlin, Germany
• Disolve Isolation, Projektraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
• FILME, Galerie Ursula Walter Dresden, Germany
• Textur - Denkraum – Schreibmaschine, SCOTTY project space, Berlin, Germay

2018

• Placebo, Edmund Felson Galerie, Berlin
• Erreger- | EIGEN frequenz, Volkspark Halle, Halle / Saale
• Tattoos for Spree Park / Führung für den Spreepark Berlin, Zentrum Für Kunst und öffentlichen Raum, Berlin

2017

• Pissing in the River, Intervention @ BAR BABETTE, Berlin, Germany
• Sigrids Stue (International Residencyprogram Aarhus / Gellerup), Public Interventions & Workshop, Denmark
• Room for Improved Futures (Artist Talk), rum46, Aarhus, Denmark
• P.I.E. Planning Impossible Errors @ Vryfees Kunstfestival (Collaboration with Skye Quadling and Karen Tan) Bloemfontein, South Africa
• ODYSSEE (Public Art Project) Möhnesee, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany
• SAVVY reads SAVVY.doc (SAVVY Funk / documenta14), Feigned Unconsciousness, Berlin, Germany

2016

• 1884 - 1915 An Artistic Position, National Art Gallery Windhoek, Namibia
• Public Library, site specific Interventions at Amerika Gedenkbibliothek, Berlin, Germany
• Cut & Go, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
• A Political Idiom, nationalmuseum (project space), Berlin, Germany

2015

• Reanimation @ Art Science Slam, curated and initiated by Picture Berlin and Salon Satellite at Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik ZKU, Berlin

2014

• { reality is a very strong move } Errant Bodies & General Public in Exile #7, KW Kunstwerke Berlin, Germany
• "Ich habe mir das Paradies immer als eine Art Bibliothek vorgestellt", Amerika Gedenkbibliothek, Berlin, Germany
• Festival of Minimal Actions - 30 actions by 30 artists, Brussels, Belgium
• Lucy Powell / Ella Ziegler, LoBe Gallery, Berlin, Germany
• Blindfolded Line, Dancing Through Time, Oliewenhuis Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa
• Blindfolded Line, Dancing Through Time, KZNSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa
• Blindfolded Line, Dancing Through Time, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Warum verlässt die Kunst den Ausstellungsraum?, Lecture Performance mit Prof. Heike Klussmann Evangelisches Forum, Kassel, Germany

2013

• Alles in Ordnung A-Z, (Book Launch) Performance Lecture Gernot Wieland und Lena Ziese, Kunst & Kultur am Rosa Luxemburg Platz e.V., Berlin, Germany Lebensgefahr (Performance), General Public, Berlin, Germany
• Die Kunst der Intervention II, Galerie im Ratskeller, Berlin-Lichtenberg, Germany

2012

• The Worldly House / documenta 13, kuratiert von Tue Greenfort, Kassel, Germany

2011

• Kunstwerke Werfen, Situatives Brachland Museum, Bochum, Germany

2010

• Angst hat große Augen, Werkleitz Festival 2010, Germany

2009

• Selected Artists, Stipendiaten der Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur im 2009, NGBK, Berlin, Germany
• Addiction, Artist book curated by Norman O´Flynn, Kapstadt, South Africa
• see3, Montagsbar, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
• Good thoughts bad thoughts, n, Pojectspace Wedding, Berlin, Germany

2008

• ON Projetto (Public Art Project), Bologna, Italy

2007

• Kazoo, The Premissis, Johannesburg, South Africa
• see, Parking Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
• see2, blank projects, Kollaboration mit Abrie Fourie, Kapstadt, South Africa
• Diskurs im Grünen, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germany

2006

• Abgebrannt, Kunstbank in der Berlinischen Galerie, Stipendiatinnen und Stipendiaten der Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur 2005/2006, Berlin, Germany
• Das Rätsel bleibt in seiner Verschiebung am selben Ort, West Germany, Berlin, Germany
• I (ICH) / Performative Ontology, SECESSION, Wien, Austria
• COOLING OUT, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
• COOLING OUT, Halle für Kunst e.V., Lüneburg, Germany
• Jagdsalon, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
• Radio sur Internet, Paris, France

2005

• The need to document, Halle für Kunst e.V., Lüneburg, Germany
• Projekte 04/05, (Vortrag), Ausland, Berlin, Germany
• emaf - european media art festival, Osnabrück, Germany
• Lux.us, Lichtkunstpries Lüdenscheid, Lüdenscheid, Germany
• Die Ordnung der Natur, OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst Linz, Austria
• Norbert Kottmann / Ella Ziegler, Jet Projectspace , Berlin, Germany

2004

• Interventionen, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany
• Future Cities, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Canada
• Subduktive Maßnahmen, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Bonn, Germany
• Panic, global_village_garden, Kollaboration mit »SIMPARCH« (USA), Fürstenwalde / Spree, Germany
• Künstlerisch Architektonisches Gutachterverfahren “Straßenbahn Karlsruhe”, Zusammenarbeit mit tb Architekten, Berlin, Germany
• New Talents, ART COLOGNE, Köln, Germany

2003

• street_level 3, Simplon Pass, Switzerland
• Goldrausch 02/03, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2002

• Polizei, Menschenraum, Berlin, Germany
• »Labor Sonor«, Kule, Auguststraße, Berlin, Germany
• 40 Jahre Fluxus und die Folgen, Kultursommer 2002, Wiesbaden, Germany
• IDENTITÄTEN, Löwenpalais Siftung Starke, Berlin, Germany

2001

• Kunststudenten stellen aus, Ausstellungshalle der BRD, Bonn, Germany
• German Leitkultur, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
• Stustaculum, Deutsches Studentenfestival, München, Germany
• Senselessness-lessness, Tramway, Glasgow, GB
• SYBARIS, Baltic Biennale for Contemporary Art, Stettin, Poland

CURATING

2021

• TERRITORIES UNDER MY SKIN – The African Quarter in Berlin, collaboration with Changing Room (Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Jaro Straub), Berlin, Germany

2020

• MEMENTO – THE FORCE FIELD OF MEMORIES, Exhibition, interventions in public space and interdisciplinary program at Museum for Sepulchral Culture in collaboration with Dr. Dirk Pörschmann, Kassel, Germany

2019

• LAMENTO – MOURNING AND TEARS, Exhibition, interventions in public space and interdisciplinary program at Museum for Sepulchral Culture in collaboration with Dr. Dirk Pörschmann, Kassel, Germany

GRANTS / AWARDS

2022

• NEUSTART KULTUR, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany
• DIEresidenz, Die, France

2021

• Project/Exhibition Grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany

2020

• Exhibition Grant, Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Schleswig Holstein, Germany

2019

• Publication Grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany
• Travel Grant, Berlin Senate, Germany

2018

• Project Grant of Berlin Senate, Germany

2017

• SIGRIDS STUE / Research and Residency, Aarhus, Denmark

• IFA – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Project Grant

2014

• LoBe, Residency with Exhibition, Berlin, Germany

2011

• Publication scholarship (monograph) for Fine Arts of the Senate Berlin, Germany

2010

• Scholarship Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany

2009

• Scholarship of Fine Arts, Berlin Senate, Berlin, Germany

2006

• Research Grant Project Space Korridor, Berlin, Germany

2005

• Scholarship of Fine Arts, Berlin Senate, Berlin, Germany
• Artist in Residence, OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria

2004

• Scholarship Elbschloß Bleckede, Lüneburg, Germany
• Scholarship, Goethe Institut Toronto, Kanada

2003

• Goldrausch Art IT Scholarship, Berlin, Germany

UNIVERSITY TEACHING / ARTIST TALKS

2022

• MIND (the) GAP, Dept. Option Construction (Prof. Katharina Hohmann), HEAD Haute École d’Art et de Design – Genève, Switzerland

2021

• LAMENTO / MEMENTO – The Force Field of Memories, Workshop / Lecture, Studium Generale, Berlin University of Arts, Germany
• LAMENTO / MEMENTO – Curating Exhibitions, Raumstrategien, Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel, Germany
• INTERVENTIONS & ACTIONS IN PUBLIC SPACE, The Institute of Architecture Related Art, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
• INTERVENTIONS & ACTIONS IN PUBLIC SPACE (Artist Talk), Section of Soil and Crop Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

2020

• SMALL SCALE – Sustainability and Art (Lecture / Workshop) HZT Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz, Berlin, Germany

2019

• (IL)LEGAL Immigartion (Workshop)
• BARD College Berlin, Germany
• RAGE – THE POETRY OF RAGE AND ANGER (Workshop)
• Projektklasse Performance (Donna Kukama), HBK Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, Germany,

2018

• OBJECTS ON THE MOVE - Ceremonies and Rituals of Giving and Taking, Dept. Option Construction (Prof. Katharina Hohmann), HEAD Haute École d’Art et de Design – Genève, Switzerland

2017

• RING BAHN NOTIZEN / CIRCLE LINE NOTES (workshop) with Dr. Elena Aguido, Art Academy Weißensee, Berlin, Germany
• Artists’ Artist (Artist Talk & Conversation), Prof. Lena Ziese, FB Kunstpädagogik, HFBK Hamburg

2014-2017

• SALON UNIVERSITAS – Art Science Conversations
• Art Academy Kassel / University Kassel, (Initiator and Curator in collaboration with Lucy Powell) Germany

2011-2017

• Department of Fine Arts / Art Pedagogics (Professorship), Kunsthochschule Kassel / Art Academy Kassel / University Kassel, Germany

2008-2011

• University Teaching Assignment, University Kassel, Artistic Practice at the Department of Architecture, Urban Planning, Landscape Planning (Prof. Klussmann)

2005-2006

• University Teaching Assignment / Fellowship - ECAV Ècole Cantonale d`Art du Valais, Switzerland

WORKSHOPS / LECTURES / COMMUNICATION

2021

• FICTIONS ON CIRCULAR BIO - NUTRIENT ECONOMY (Art & Science Collaboration), Cornell University at The Soil Factory, Ithaca, NY, USA
• SNAKES IN THE DUST / SCHLANGEN IM STAUB, Performances in Public Space / Kunst und Performances im öffentlichen Raum, Kollaboration Jugendensemble der Freilichtspiele Schwäbisch Hall e. V., Germany

2020

• HIGH PERFORMANCE, Workshop in collaboration with Circus Schatzinsel, Center for Art and Public Space at Sreepark Berlin, Germany

2019

• SUE – Series of Unexpected Events (Workshop), OSCA – OPEN SPACE CONTEMPORARY ARTS, Adelaide, Australia
• Formate der Kunstvermittlung VI - V I S I O N & P R A X I S, (lecture), Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany
• STATICA - EXPLORING STATIC PHENOMENA WITH THE BODY, Center for Art and Public Space at Sreepark Berlin, Germany

2018

• OPENLab18 / Facilitator as part of the PIKO/PIAD – Platform for Innovation Art Developement, Vryfees/ Art Festival, Bloemfontein, South Africa
• RAGE & ANGER, Workshop on RAGE & ANGER with WAALD GmbH, Berlin & Austria

2016

• OPENLab16 / Facilitator as part of the PIKO/PIAD – Platform for Innovation Art Developement, Vryfees/ Art Festival, Bloemfontein, South Africa

2002

• Guide, Documenta11, Kassel, Germany

2001-2003

• FLUR (Project Space), Berlin in collaboration with Frauke Frötschl

1990-2000

• Initiator Kunst AG at Art Academy of Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein (national exchange program for art students)

BIBLIOGAPHY

2021

• ARTUARIUM – The Grammar of Art School, Grafische Cel, Ghent, Belgium
• STRANGE CARGO, Ashraf Jamal, Essays on Art, (p. 72-75), Skira Editore S.p.A., 2021

2020

• MOVEMENT OF EMOTIONS ELLA ZIEGLER, Artist Book, Edition Taube, Zurich, Switzerland

2019

• ART AFRICA, Open Lab South Africa, March 2019 ISSUE 15, South Africa

2018

• Stone from Tears (Magazine)
• 3min in the 3rd Space (Magazine)

2016

• PUBLIC LIBRARY, Hrsg. Katharina Hohmann / Christiane ten Hoevel, Revolver Verlag
• PUBLIC ABSTRACTION, Hrsg, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Verlag Walther König
• LATITUDES / FIERCE, Interview with Angela Conner, fierceatitudes.com/ella-ziegler
• FEIGNED UNCONSCIOUSNESS (Magazine)

2014

• MEHR ALS NUR PARKEN. PARKHÄUSER WEITERDENKEN, Hrsg. Akademie der Architekten- / Stadtplanerkammer Hessen, Deutsches Architekturmuseum u.a., Jovis Verlag
• TERRA FORMING KI(D)T (with Joel Thomson), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Campus Anthropocen, www.anthropocene-curriculum.org/pages/root/campus-2014/imaging-the-anthropocene/terra-forming/

2013

• Die Besten Kunstbücher 2013, zitty Stadtmagazin, 12/2013

2012

• DAS FIGURATIV VAGABONDAGE / KULTURANALYSEN MOBILER LEBENSWEISEN, Hrsg. Johanna Rolshoven, Maria Maierhofer, transcript Verlag
• BEZIRK LICHTENBERG, Hrsg. Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin
• OBLIQUE, Abrie Fourie, Labor Berlin, Hrsg. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

2011

• ELLA ZIEGLER, ALLES IN ORDNUNG A-Z, Revolver Publishing, Berlin
• Gold für die Geldstadt, Journal Frankfurt 9 / 11, Frankfurt / Main * **
• BILD Frankfurt, 1. April 2010, Frankfurt / Main
• Ella Ziegler, Hrsg. Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin

2010

• ANGST HAT GROSSE AUGEN, Werkleitz Festival 2010, Hrsg. Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Halle / Saale
• Fremd ist sich nur, wer sich nicht kennt, Unabhängige Bauernstimme, September 2010, Hamm * **

2009

• Selected Artists, Ausstellungskatalog der Stipendiaten des Berliner Senats

2008

• COOLING OUT – ON THE PARADOX OF FEMINISM, JRP Ringier, Zürich,

2005

• ARBEITSBLOCK, 48 SEITEN, A4, (Katalog) Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt am Main

• THE NEED TO DOCUMENT, JRP Ringier, Zürich

• Was Wäre Wenn?, Veröffentlichung Jet, The Green Box, Berlin

2004

• FAZ, 11.1.2004
• Kollaborationen / Collaborations 1999-2004, Kunstverein Wiesbaden
• Zitty 7 / 2004

2003

• Multisensuelles Design, Eine Anthologie, Hrsg. P. Luckner
• ALLES IN ORDNUNG, Hrsg. Goldrausch Art IT, Berlin

2002

• Kölner Stadtanzeiger vom 3.5.2002
• 40 Jahre: Fluxus und die Folgen, Kurzführer und Katalog

2001

• Kunststudenten stellen aus, Katalog zur Ausstellung, Bonn
• material 5, migros museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich