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1988 born in Berlin, lives and works in Berlin

2022 - 2023 Master Class Studies in Fine Arts / Sculpture at Weissensee Art Academy Berlin, class of Prof. Albrecht Schäfer and Antje Engelmann

2014 - 2022 Fine Arts / Sculpture, Weissensee Art Academy Berlin, class of Prof. Albrecht Schäfer, Diploma

2019 - 2020 DAAD scholarship at the New Media Department of Instituto Superior de Arte, class of Prof. Luis Gómez, Havana, Cuba

2009 - 2013 Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spanish Philology, Madrid, Spain, Bachelor



artist statement

In my videos and installations I treat topics like time (memory in its fragmented and subjective state, the process of growing up, and the inner monsters we are carrying within) and different spaces, e.g. the concept of home and workplace where the setting serves as a constant that holds together fragmented pieces of a story. Another topic is identity: my personal history, my body as a protection shield or a liberating tool; as well as the question of authorship of memories and lived moments, the roles we consciously or unknowingly adopt. My subjects become actors with their workplaces as a backdrop and perform scripts based on completely different contexts such as other person's stories and memories.


By combining a documentary approach with staged elements I want to create surreal worlds of impossible realities where the known can be questioned and rethought. Where a collective memory exists, hidden sides of personalities become visible, and where I present a way of seeing reality as a puzzle of memories and personal experiences.



scholarships / residencies

 2022 Art und Zukunft, Frauenalia, Berlin

 2021 - 2022 DIP Residency: audiovisual work between documentation, intimacy and staging by Manuel Abramovich

 2019-20 DAAD scholarship for Fine Arts/Design/Film at New Media Department of Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, CU

 2018-19 Mart-Stam-Scholarship / Deutschlandstipendium, Berlin



awards 

 2022/23 nomination for 26. Bundespreis für Kunststudierende

 2022 shortlist of erostepost literature prize, Salzburg, AT

 2021 3rd Gautinger literature prize, Gauting near Munich

 2018 project grant of the Karin Abt-Straubinger Foundation

 2018 project grant of the Mart Stam Foundation, Berlin

 2018 L102 Art Prize for the video installation a true story, Berlin

 2018 Introducing Program for young talents, Performing Arts Festival, Berlin



group exhibitions (selection)

 2023 „Havanna Berlin stories“, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin

 2023 ART Kreuzberg“, former Autohaus Prinzessinnenstraße, Berlin

 2023 U8 Untergrundminauturen“, Projektraum Walden, Berlin (reading)

 2023 „Tumult", Master Class exhibition, Alte Münze, Berlin

 2023 „Touch My Mumblings, Hug My Words, Kiss My Singing", Denchu Hirakushi House and Atelier, Tokyo, JPN

 2023 „Zur Zwischenmiete“, Galerie KUB, Leipzig (reading)

 2023 „Ideentität“, Mikrokosmos, Berlin
 2022 „Mit Parallelität von Widersprüchen wird Komplexes missverständlicher“, Galery Schiefe Zähne, Berlin
 2022 „Yet Yet“, Diploma exhibition, Kühlhaus, Berlin
 2020 „Emerging Lines“, exhibition of the winners of the artist exchange program ParisXBerlin, Art Academy Riga, LV (c)
 2019 „deutsche wohnen (was singen die diven)“, Art in Public Space, collaboration with Ulf Aminde and Christoph Grund, Hansaplatz, Berlin
 2019 „Lichtblick Muted Video Exhibition“, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin
 2019 „Freigänger / Åpen soning“, former women's prison SÖHT7, Berlin (c)
 2019 „No sé qué es una casa“, Artist Residency La Fugitiva, Havana, CU
 2018 „Visions4People“, Art Space Brunnenstraße, Berlin (c)
 2018 „Waiting for“, ParisXBerlin, Galerie du Crous, Paris, FR (c)

 2018 „Dear mom, what do people cross when crossing a boundary?“, ParisXBerlin, Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße, Berlin (c)

 2018 „Friends with books“ Kunstbuchmesse, presentation of a book object from the project a true story, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
 2018 „Moments of change“, L102 Art Prize, Berlin (c)


(c) = catalogue



art and film festivals (selection)

 2021 Visionär Film Festival, Berlin

 2021 KAHO Interim, Berlin

 2021 48h Neukölln, Berlin

 2019 Video Art Screening / 41st Havana Film Festival, Arthaus, Havana, CU

 2018 Performing Arts Festival, Berlin

 2017 Outnow International Performing Arts Festival, Bremen

 2017 Forum Biotopia / Aufwind Festival for Urban Impulses, Vienna, AT

 2017 Arena International Festival for Dance, Theatre and Performance, Erlangen

 2017 YUP: Young Urban Performances Festival, Osnabrück

 2016 Zeitzeug Theatre Festival, Bochum



publications

 Umlaufbahnen, in: U8 Untergrundminiaturen Anthologie, Berlin: Kopf und Kragen Literaturverlag, 2022

 Erst dachte ich Krieg, in: erostepost #64 Literaturzeitschrift, Salzburg, 2022

 100 Tage, in: Postkartengeschichten, Literaturhaus Freiburg, Freiburg, 2021

 Pahlenberg, Marlies. Un Puente Contracorriente, Ediciones el Puente: un esfuerzoliterario dentro y fuera de Cuba, Madrid: Editorial Betania, 2014



contact

marliespahlenberg(at)gmail.com

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