Martin Brand
Martin Brand (* 1975 in Bochum ) is a visual artist in the fields of video art and photography .
life and work
Martin Brand studied art and German at the Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Dortmund .
His works are video installations , short films and artistic photographs , often of a documentary nature. His works often move between documentation and fiction, random observation and staging. The main topics are the observation and representation of youth culture, the search for identity, orientation towards role models, influence through media and advertising, clique and scene formation, violence, group hierarchies and mechanisms.
2009 - 2010 the artist taught at the Hansagymnasium Cologne , since 2012 he has been teaching at the University of Cologne .
In recent years he has carried out a large number of projects in which he was based on observations and reflections on societal and political processes and conditions.
Martin Brand lives and works in Cologne .
Works
- Breakdance , single-channel video, Germany 2003/2004
- Pit Bull Germany , video installation, Germany 2004
- Station , documentary short film, Germany 2005
- Driver , single-channel video, Germany 2005
- Match , video installation, Germany 2005
- Fight for your Right , inkjet prints and video installation, Germany 2005
- Bleach , single-channel video, Germany 2006, with Tommy Finke
- Turku Portraits , single-channel video, Finland 2006
- Remote , single-channel video, Netherlands 2007
- MySpace , video installation, Germany 2007/2008
- Eyes Wide Shut , video installation, Germany 2008
- Nampa Bridge , video installation, Japan / Germany 2008/2009
- Portraits of Young Men , single-channel video and photo series, Germany 2009/2010
- Ganja , documentary short film, Germany 2010
- Punks , single-channel video, Germany 2011
- Horse , single-channel video, Germany 2012
- Rebel Rebel , video installation, Germany 2012
- I'll Be Your Mirror , video installation, Germany 2014
- Role play , video projection, multi-channel monitor loops, photo series, Germany 2014/15
- Shefighter , single-channel video, Germany 2015
- Sense of Doubt , multi-channel video installation, Germany 2016
Catalogs
- Eyes Wide Shut. Kerber, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86678-221-1 .
- Portraits of Young Men. Kettler, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86206-052-8 .
- RICOCHET # 6 Martin Brand. Villa Stuck Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-923244-30-0
Awards, grants and grants
- 2004: Sponsorship award from the city of Dortmund for young artists
- 2006: Sponsorship award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for media art
- 2007: European Media Artists in Residence Exchange (EMARE), Impakt Festival Utrecht / Netherlands
- 2008: Working grant for young artists from the Kunststiftung NRW
- 2008: Exhibition and catalog funding from the Art Fund Foundation
- 2010: Project funding U-Westend , a RUHR.2010 project by Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U and TU Dortmund
- 2010: Project and catalog funding Hot Spots 2 , Galerie Münsterland Emsdetten and DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst
- 2011 and 2013: Funding program of the Sparkasse KölnBonn , supervised by the SK Stiftung Kultur
- 2015: Foundation Art Fund Bonn
Solo exhibitions
- 2005: Fight for your right. Art Association Bochum Cultural Council
- 2005: Fight for your right. Zapp Gallery Berlin
- 2008: Eyes Wide Shut. Dortmund Art Association
- 2010: Hot Spots 2nd Gallery Münsterland Emsdetten
- 2010: Portraits of Young Men. Headegg Munich
- 2011: Portraits of Young Men. Olaf Stüber Berlin
- 2011: Parque de Iturriza. Art Association Bochum
- 2011: Through the Looking Glass. Kunsthaus Wiesbaden
- 2012: Rebel Rebel. Temporary Gallery Cologne
- 2013: Ricochet # 6. Martin Brand. Museum Villa Stuck Munich
- 2015: I'll Be Your Mirror. Moltkerei workshop Cologne
- 2015: Role Play. Art Church of Christ-King Bochum
- 2016: The youth of today. Cuxhaven Art Association
Group exhibitions
- 2006: Expanded Media. Media in space. Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
- 2007: In a moment. brot.undspiele Galerie Berlin
- 2008: Young Identities - Global Youth. EMAF European Media Art Festival Osnabrück
- 2008: glamor and globalization. PROGR Bern
- 2009: Boyz n the Hood. Gallery Olaf Stüber Berlin
- 2010: Kick Off. Kunsthallen Nikolaj Copenhagen
- 2010: Inter-Cool 3.0. HMKV Hartware Medien Kunstverein im Dortmunder U
- 2011: Fear in the Black Box. Trafo Gallery Budapest
- 2011/12: Nothing in the World but Youth. Turner Contemporary Margate, Kent, UK
- 2011/12: Views of the I. Schader Foundation and Hessian State Museum Darmstadt
- 2011/12: Why I never became a dancer. Goetz Collection in the Haus der Kunst in Munich
- 2012: Megacool 4.0 - Youth and Art. k / house Vienna
- 2012: until here ... 50 years of the Kunstverein Bochum. Bochum Art Museum
- 2013: Anybody can have an idea. Permanent exhibition Museum Ostwall in Dortmunder U
- 2013: Foreign & Own. Gallery in the Taxispalais Innsbruck
- 2013: Per Speculum Me Video. Frankfurter Kunstverein
- 2013: Forever Young. Nuremberg Art Gallery
- 2014: love. Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen
- 2014: Permanent exhibition Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
- 2015: Pader-Kultour. Paderborn Art Association
- 2015: Gropius Stories. Studio in the high-rise Berlin
Screenings
- 2004: Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin
- 2005: VideoLisboa Lisbon
- 2006: Cinéma du réel, Center Georges Pompidou , Paris
- 2006: Festival Videoformes Clermont Ferrand
- 2006: Viennale Vienna International Film Festival
- 2007: Impakt Festival Utrecht
- 2007: International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
- 2007: KunstFilmBiennale Cologne
- 2007: Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
- 2008: European Media Art Festival Osnabrück
- 2008: International Documentary Film Festival FID Marseille
- 2009: International Short Film Festival Hamburg
- 2010: Video Folkwang / Olaf Stüber, Museum Folkwang Essen
- 2010: Werkleitz Festival Halle (Saale)
- 2011: transmediale Berlin
- 2012: Darklight Festival Dublin
- 2014 Unlooped cinema at Manifesta 10 , St. Petersburg
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- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Brief description of the style
- ↑ biography and exhibitions. RICOCHET # 6. Martin Brand. Villa Stuck, accessed on January 16, 2014 (German).
- ↑ http://www.u-westend.de/index.php?id=80 U-Westend
- ↑ http://www.galerie-muensterland.de/ Hot Spots 2
- ↑ http://www.dortmunder-kunstverein.de/structure_default/main.aspx/G/111327/S//L/1031/LT/118229/R/-1/A/1/ID/118998 ( page no longer retrievable , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Eyes Wide Shut
- ↑ http://www.galerie-muensterland.de/ Hot Spots 2
- ↑ http://www.headegg.com/
- ↑ http://www.galerieolafstueber.de/
- ↑ http://www.kunstverein-bochum.de/ausstellungen/2011/brand_parque_de_iturriza.php
- ↑ http://www.kunsthauswiesbaden.org/
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.villastuck.de/ausstellungen/2013/ricochet_6/index.htm
- ↑ http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/programm/2006/ausstellung/expanded-media/ Expanded Media
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In a moment
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Young Identities - Global Youth
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Glamor and globalization
- ↑ http://www.galerieolafstueber.de/ Boyz n the Hood
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated August 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. kick off
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Inter-Cool 3.0
- ↑ http://www.trafo.hu/
- ↑ http://www.turnercontemporary.org/exhibitions/nothing-in-the-world-but-youth
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.sammlung-goetz.de/de/Ausstellungen/Archiv/2011-2012/Why_I_Never_Became_a_Dancer.htm
- ↑ http://www.k-haus.at/de/ausstellung/19/megacool-4.0.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.kunstverein-bochum.de/ausstellungen/2012/bis_hier.php
Web links
- Literature by and about Martin Brand in the catalog of the German National Library
- Martin Brand's website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brand, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bochum |