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1988 born in Berlin, lives and works in Berlin
since 2022 Master Class Studies in Fine Arts / Sculpture at Weissensee Art Academy Berlin, class of 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 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 „Ideentität“, Mikrokosmos, Berlin
2022 „Mit Parallelität von Widersprüchen wird Komplexes missverständlicher“, Galery Schiefe Zähne, Berlin
2022 „Yet Yet“, 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