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Kai Zimmer (2014)

Kai Zimmer (born June 7, 1964 in Kiel ) is a German media artist.

life and work

Kai Zimmer's works, which deal with the analysis of culture and history, consist of found footage, TV snippets, documents and self-made material that is organized into rhythmic, often hypnotic montages.

Zimmer lives in Berlin.

Awards / prizes / grants

• Nomination for the 1st German Video Art Prize, ZKM Karlsruhe (1992)
• Working grant at the 6th Marl Video Art Prize (1994)
• Nomination for the International Video Art Prize, ZKM Karlsruhe (1994)
• Gottfried Brockmann Prize of the City of Kiel (1999)
• 3rd jury award short cuts cologne short film festival (2002)
• Working grant Künstlerhaus Lauenburg / Elbe (2002-03)
• Nomination for the Berlin Art Prize (2014)
• Marl Video Art Prize (2014)

Work (selection)

• Like a complete unknown, photography (since 1993)
• One Minute in America, Video (1993)
• Seven Minutes in America, Video (1995)
• Tvoyeur Video (1995)
• Two Minutes in America, Video (1996)
• 3 Minutes in America, Video (1996)
• Combination 1, installation (1999)
• Powercut, Mixed Media (since 1999)
• Zimmer Frei, Photography (since 1999)
• End of the story, video (2000)
• Transitions, video (2002)
• River, video (2003)
• Taumel, video (2008)
• Revolution 18, video (2012/14)
• Kantdada, video (2013)
• On Horseback, Video (2014)
• Findings, video (2014/18)
• Flanders Series, Photography (since 2015)
• Disciplina, video (2018)
• Ritual, video (2019)

Exhibitions (selection)

• "World wide tuned parking lot", Escale Gallery, Düsseldorf (1997)
• "Video works 1990-97", Bahnwärterhaus, Gallery of the City of Esslingen (1998)
• "No Questions", Escale Gallery, Düsseldorf (1999)
• "15 year service anniversary", Künstlerhaus Lauenburg / Elbe (2003)
• "Peut-être", Galerie Berliner Parkstudio, Berlin (2005)
• "20", retrospective, cinema in the pump, Kiel (2008)
• "Notes", Overbeck Society, Lübeck (2008)
• "On Horseback", video installation and retrospective, gallery and cinema in the pump, Kiel (2014)

Works in collections

• City Gallery Kiel
• Kiel art gallery
• Gallery of the city of Esslingen am Neckar
• Ministry of Justice, Culture and Europe of the State of Schleswig-Holstein
• Investment Bank Berlin
• Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl
• New Berlin Art Association

literature

• Kai Zimmer catalog # 1, 72 pages, German / English 2001, ISBN 3-925957-20-0
• "Moving Pictures" Sparkassen Kulturstiftung Stormarn Catalog 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816634-6-4
• Berlin Art Prize Catalog 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-042453-3

Web links

• http://www.kaizimmer.de/
• http://www.revolution18.de/
• http://www.kantdada.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/kai.zimmer.14?fref=ts
• https://twitter.com/kaizimmer
• http://vimeo.com/kaizimmer/videos
• https://www.youtube.com/user/KaiZimmer
• http://www.infomedia-sh.de/index.php?page=nl_0409_blaue_blumen
• http://www.infomedia-sh.de/index.php?page=nl_1010_zimmer_l
• http://www.infomedia-sh.de/index.php?page=nl_0811_zimmer_werkschau
• http://www.infomedia-sh.de/index.php?page=nl_0508_zimmer_mu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 56th Nordic Film Festival Catalog 2014 (short text Eckhard Pabst)