Moki

Moki (born May 1, 1982 in Brilon ) is a German artist .

life and work

Moki is the stage name of a German artist who was born in Brilon in the Sauerland in 1982. She lives and works in Berlin.

Between 2001 and 2007, Moki studied fine arts at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts , thanks to a scholarship from the Cusanuswerk in Bonn .

During her studies she was part of an international artist network (frombeetobee) as well as a member of a group of friends who run the independent gallery Hinterconti in Hamburg. Since 2006 she has also participated in international exhibitions, for example in Copenhagen in 2006 , in Hong Kong in 2008 , in the USA in 2009 and 2010 and in Japan in 2012 and 2014 . Further fields of activity were performances in self-made costumes and own masks as well as street art work .

After her diploma and her final project with the title To disappear completely , she published her monograph How to disappear with Gingko Press in 2010 . In 2011, after a few shorter comic publications in anthologies such as Orang and Spring , her first comic novel followed, which was published by Reprodukt Verlag under the title Wandering Ghost . Following this publication, Moki turned to her new series of pictures Shelter , in which she dealt with the subject of how people create shelters and the technique of which is reminiscent of inlaid work. Her more recent large-format acrylic paintings, which show makeshift places of refuge, pick up on the theme from the Shelter series .

Awards

• 2004 Scholarship from the Cusanuswerk , Bonn
• 2006 Sondermann in the Newcomer category for Asleep in a foreign place
• 2006 ICOM Independent Comic Prize in the Outstanding Artwork category for Borderland
• 2007 Special Prize of the Ditzestiftung, diploma exhibition, University of Fine Arts Hamburg

Publications (selection)

• Wetland, Reprodukt , Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95640-179-4
• Artwork for Sweet Apocalypse, Lambert , 2017, Mercury KX 2017
• Yo, Future !, Spring Magazin , Mairisch Verlag , Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-938539-46-0
• Shelter , Gingko Press, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-1-58423-578-1
• Privée, Spring Magazin , Mairisch Verlag , Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-938539-36-1
• Wandering Ghost , Reprodukt , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941099-79-1
• Orang 9 , Reprodukt , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941099-78-4
• How to disappear , Gingko Press, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-1-58423-417-3
• Orang 7 , Reprodukt , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938511-92-3
• Garden of Eden, Spring Magazin , Mairisch Verlag , Hamburg 2007
• Orang 6 , Reprodukt , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-938511-80-0
• Asleep in a foreign place , Kiki Post, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-938511-30-5
• Special Places, Spring Magazin , Mairisch Verlag , Hamburg 2006
• Changes, Spring Magazin , Mairisch Verlag , Hamburg 2005

Web links

• Official website
• Moki at Gingko Press
• Moki at Reprodukt
• Literature by and about Moki in the catalog of the German National Library
• Anne Backhaus: Pictures that make music , Spiegel Online , December 20, 2006

literature

• Clemens Heydenreich: Outstanding artwork: "Borderland" by Moki. An interview . In: Comic! Yearbook 2007 . Stuttgart 2006, pp. 188-193.
• heliumcowboy artspace (ed.): "moki: mume". Exhibition catalog. Hamburg 2008.