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Freya Hattenberger

Think of me when you are in glorious sunshine, light object, 2016, 62 x 30 x 90 cm
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Vita

1978 born in Offenbach am Main
2001-2006 Studies of Media Art, Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne
with Jürgen Klauke, Marcel Odenbach and Matthias Müller
2007-2009 Postgraduate Master in Fine Arts, Sandberg Institute Amsterdam, Netherlands
lives and works in Cologne

Scholarships and grants
2019 bangaloREsidency (with Peter C. Simon), Goethe-Institut
2018 Gerd Ruge Grant by the Film and Media Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia (with Peter Simon and Marita Loosen-Fox)
2018 Travel grant for the Georgian Republic/Armenia by the Women's Cultural Office of North Rhine-Westphalia
2012 Artist-in-Residence, Centre de la Photographie Nord Pas-de-Calais, Douchy les Mines, France
2010 Transfer France-NRW, work stay at FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
2008 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff scholarship
2008 Grant of the federal state North Rhine-Westphalia for Media Art
2007 Award Winner EXPANDED MEDIA, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
2004-2006 Scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation
2005 Studio scholarship, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

Collections
Musée des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France
Museum Ostwall, Dortmund
Foundation IMAI – inter media art institute, Dusseldorf
V-Tape, Toronto, Canada
Private Collections

Solo exhibitions (selection)
2020 BEWEGGRÜNDE, Photoszene Festival, artrmx e.V., Cologne
2016 Think of me when you are in glorious sunshine, Bräuning Contemporary, Hamburg
2012 Freya Hattenberger - Solo, Galerie Petra Nostheide-Eycke, Dusseldorf
2011 Metaphorical Staircase, Galerie Alexander Lorenz, Frankfurt am Main
2010 CASAMATTA, Kunst. Unterirdisch, Bunker Tullstraße 5, Dortmund
2007 Höchstpersönlich, Galerie Uschi Kolb, Karlsruhe

Group exhibitions (selection)
2020 Body Soul, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund
2019 Lo Spirito del Lago / Asilo Bianco: di lago, Villa Nigra, Miasino, Lago d´Orta, Italy
2019 Videoarchive erzählen, Videonale, Ludwig Forum Aachen / Kunstmuseum Bonn
2019 Zeit & Raum, Bräuning Contemporary, Hamburg
2018 Tbilisi Triennial, Tiflis, Georgia
2017 5, Bräuning Contemporary, Hamburg
2017 Channeled Tensions, performance as LES ÉCLAIRS, Museum Folkwang, Essen
2017 Gesellschaft zur Wertschätzung des Brutalismus, HMKV, Dortmund
2016 Vom Heiraten – On Marriage, Fotoraum Cologne
2015 Rates of Exchange – MSU Zagreb
2015 DAILY SOUNDS ALL AROUND, Weltkunstzimmer Dusseldorf
2015 Meander Tapes, Museum Ostwall Dortmund
2015 Dusseldorf Photo Weekend 2015 – same same but different, imai, Dusseldorf
2014 SOUND ART WDR / Lange Nacht der Museen, Performance as LES ÉCLAIRS
2014 Tacit in Nature, video installation Cinema Endstation, Blicke aus dem Ruhrgebiet, Bochum
2013 Anybody can have an idea, Museum Ostwall Dortmund
2013 LOOP POOL, Barcelona, Spain
2013 Filmabend, curated by Gudrun Kemsa, PSA / Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum
2013 Lieux de Vie - Lebensorte, Goethe Institute Lille, France
2013 Performance as LES ÉCLAIRS, Art Center Le Pavé dans la Mare, Besancon, France
2012 ARTE Video Night, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin and Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2012 Faces – The phenomenon of Face in Videoart, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
2012 Images against the Darkness – Bilder gegen die Dunkelheit, KIT Kunst im Tunnel, Dusseldorf
2012 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf
2011 Der zweite Blick – Sammlung in Bewegung, Museum Ostwall Dortmund
2011 Franchement Enervé, Musée des Beaux Arts, Tourcoing, France
2011 Transfer, Musée des Beaux Arts Nantes, France
2010 4 x 6 inch, Galerie Alexander Lorenz, Frankfurt am Main
2010 Passage, Museum Ostwall im U, Dortmund
2010 VideoFormat_CORPUS, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2010 Das Museum als Kraftwerk, Museum Ostwall im U, Dortmund
2010 3 pieces for feedback, Performance as LES ÉCLAIRS, Glaskasten Skulpturenmuseum Marl
2010 Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen
2009 A tribute to Terry Fox, Performance as LES ÉCLAIRS, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
2009 Kunstfilmtag 09, Malkasten Dusseldorf
2009 Better than any Weihnachtsfeier, Performance als LES ÉCLAIRS, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
2009 Radical Performance, video exhibition IMAI at ART COLOGNE 2009
2008 Recently seen and admired, Galerie Kunstagenten, Berlin
2009 Video Performance – Modelle der Selbstbetrachtung, Kunsthalle Münster
2009 Attr:Action – October Contemporary 2008, Videotage, Hongkong, China
2009 You can miss things you never had, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China
2009 Videoperformances, Mediations Biennale Poznan, Poland
2007 INTIMACY, Goldsmith College London, UK
2007 Artspace CONSORTIUM, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007 Der verborgene Sinn weggeworfener Dinge, MARTa Herford
2007 Videonale 11, Kunstmuseum Bonn
2007 Expanded Media – Medien im Raum, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart