Mikael Mikael

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Mikael Mikael (* 1974 ) is a German artist .

Life

Mikael Mikael grew up in Wiesbaden. He studied fine arts at the Berlin University of the Arts and at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . He then worked as a VJ in the Berlin club scene. In 2009 he received a scholarship from the Berlin Senate for a stay in New York. In 2011 he was a scholarship holder of the Akademie Schloss Solitude .

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Mikael Mikael's works are designed as interventions in physical and discursive public space. Installative settlements are documented in photography and video, whereby the documentations can be regarded as independent works. In November 2011, a work by Mikael Mikael appeared in a photo of Israeli activists who used the poster with the words "Show you are not afraid" to show their solidarity with the Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy .

Exhibitions

2011

2013

  • Clouds of smoke and castles in the air , GAK Society for Current Art, Bremen
  • Show you are not afraid , Akademie Schloss Solitude , Stuttgart

Awards, grants, awards

  • 2011: Scholarship from Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
  • 2009: New York scholarship from the Berlin Senate

Publications

  • Jean-Baptiste Joly, Akademie Schloss Solitude (ed.): Easy To See Who Is Coming and Going , Stuttgart: Edition Solitude, 2012, ISBN 978-3937158693
  • Mikael Mikael: WHITE OUT , Berlin: Merve, 2011, ISBN 978-3883963129
  • Felix Hoffmann (ed.): Weirdly familiar - Pictures of Terror , Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2011, ISBN 978-3863350826

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Website of the Akademie Schloss Solitude
  2. ↑ Blog post Mikael Mikael. Show you are not afraid ( Memento of the original from July 20, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.herrenzimmer.de
personal data
SURNAME Mikael, Mikael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1974