Marcelina Wellmer

Marcelina Wellmer is operating at the edge of video, installation and painting. The works are dealing with the relation of humans and technology and with the interference of information and media, crossing the border from analog to digital and vice versa. The randomness is a important key element of creation. Pieces are controlled and displayed through self written software that works with random seeds.

Marcelina Wellmer graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan/Poland in 2000 with a degree in video and drawing. She is a conceptual artist and photographer based in Berlin.
Selected exhibitions and events

Solo exhibitions

2022: “Solid Landscapes – loose parts” / NON Berlin – Asia Contemporary Art Platform c/o Meinblau Projektraum / Berlin
2021: “Privat” / Ortstermin Festival / Kommunale Galerie Nord und Kunstverein Tiergarten / Berlin
2021: “Wund[er]mal” / Berlinerpool, Sorbische Institut Bauzen / Underground Station Kurfürstendamm / Berlin
2018: “52.5200° N, 13.4050° E 52.2297° N, 21.0122° E” / La Chapelle Sainte-Marthe / Montbron / France
2016: “52.5200° N, 13.4050° E 52.2297° N, 21.0122° E” / Foundation for public space research “TU” / Warsaw / Poland
2013: “Missing Files” / Staycation Museum / Berlin
2012: “About Random” / Communal Gallery Weisser Elefant / Berlin
2011: “Destroyed” / Hoffmann + Weiss Gallery/ Berlin
2010: “Shadow Box”/ Funke Gallery / Berlin
2003: “Long Live Battery” / Szyperska Gallery/ Poznan / Poland
2001: “From Jupiter to Comets ” / ON Gallery/ Poznan / Poland

Group exhibitions

2023
– Werkleitz Media Center / Videorama Festival + Mediathek / Halle (Saale) / DE
2022
– “Elfte Tempelhofe Kunstausstellung” / Haus am Kleistpark & Museum Tempelhof / Berlin
– “Lines Fiction” / Galerie im Körnerpark / Berlin
– “Unter der Brücke – auf der Schwelle” / Draussenstadt Festival / Communal Gallery Neukölln “Wildenbruchbrücke” / Berlin
2021
– “Cyberfeminism – Unbounded Unleashed Unforgiving” / online exhibition / New Art City and the College Art Association / New York
– “Never ending story” / Irrgang Gallery / Leipzig
– “Sehnsucht” / SCOTTY Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst und experimentelle Medien / Berlin
2019
– “Peripheries” / The Glucksman Gallery / Cork / Ireland
– Alliance Woman in Media and Technology / University of California / Santa Barbara / US
– “Futures of our Past” / weisse elefant Gallery / Berlin
– Abschlussschau 2019 / Das Weisse Haus / Vienna, Austria
– “In Wege der Linse” / Kunstverein Lauenburg / Germany
2018
– “Mind the Gap!” / Centre de Design, University du Montreal / Montreal / Canada
– LAB 30 / Augsburg / Germany
– “Scope Sessions”/ Spektrum / Berlin
– “33° 33′ 14″ N, 130° 11′ 52″ E” / Studio Kura Gallery / Fukuoka / Japan
2017
– “Portraits” / CICA Museum / Gyeonggi-do / South Korea
– “Dark Ecologies” / Spektrum / Berlin
– “Sound in the Xity” Festival / Beijing / China
– “Mapping the City”/ Gallery Wedding / Berlin
– “Silent Empire” / Funkhaus Nalepastrasse / Berlin Art Week / Berlin
– “Voltaire Truth” / Rainbow Unicorn / Berlin
2016
– “Illusion” / Science Gallery Dublin&Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig / Leipzig / Germany
– “Polythene” / with Mario de Vega / Sound Art Laboratory / Sokolowsko / Poland
– “Real Deal”- Festival / with Mario de Vega / Vienna / Austria
2015
– ISEA / Simon Fraser University / Vancouver / Canada
– LAB 30 / Augsburg / Germany
– “Die Spuren des Anderen” – Für Emmanuel Levinas / weisser elephant Gallery / Berlin
– “B-Seite” Festival / Mannheim / Germany
2014
– Unrender#2 / Lehrter Siebzehn / Berlin
– MAAJAAM residency and project space / “Woodpecker” permanent intervention / Estonia
– Summer show / SomoS Gallery / Berlin
2013
– “Parerplace Urban Screens” / Queensland University of Technology / Australia
– “Resonant Bodies” / Institut for Cultural Inquiry / Berlin
– “CODE D.” / Manifest Gallery / Cincinnati / US
– “Underline” / Communal Gallery Tempelhof- Schöneberg / Berlin
2012
– “Re-new” / Digital Arts Festival / Copenhagen / Denmark
– Paraflows 7 / “Reverse Engineering” / Vienna / Austria
– “Linie, Fläche, Zeit – ein Abstecher”/ Communal Gallery Lichtenberg / Berlin
– Transmediale – “Dark Drives”, HKW Exhibition / Berlin / Germany
2011
– 48 h Neukölln / Berlin / Germany
– “Shadow Box”/ Tape Modern / Berlin / Germany
2010
– “Dark Light”/ “Energetische Vorhersagen”/ Federal Ministry for the Environment / Berlin
2009
– Videoscreening “Noise of City “/ 1 st Video Festival Damaskus / Syria
– Videoscreening “Noise of City “/”Trampoline”, Radiator Festival / Nottingham / UK
2008
– Videoinstallation “Noise of City “/ Free Form Festival / Warsaw / Poland
– Video stage design for Polish Dance Theater / “Ephatta” directed by E. Wycichowska / Lodz, Poznan / Poland
– Videoanimation “RaumKlang” present by Future Shorts Films – Poland Edition / Poznan, Wroclaw / Poland
2007
– Videoinstallation “RaumKlang” / Illustrative 07 / Berlin
– “Transvisualia – New Media Festival “/ Gdynia / Poland
2005-2007
– Video screenings as VJ MORRA : Universität der Künste, Grüner Salon, SO36, M12, NBI, Zentrale Randlage, Electronic Church / Berlin

Grants / Prizes :
2022: Havremagasinet Länskonsthall / Region Norrbotten / Sweden
2022: Stiftung Kunstfonds / Neustart Kultur
2022: IASPIS / with Andrzej Raszyk / Visiting Expert Programme / Sweden
2020: Stiftung Kunstfonds / Neustart Kultur
2019: Exhibition travel grant / A. Mickiewicz Culture Institut / Warsaw / Poland
2019: The Trust for Mutual Understanding Foundation / Mobility Grant / NY/ US
2018: Exhibition grant / Electronic Literature Organisation / Canada
2018: Exhibition travel grant / A. Mickiewicz Culture Institut / Warsaw / Poland
2018: Can Serrat residency grant / Spain
2017: Exhibition travel grant / A. Mickiewicz Culture Institut / Warsaw / Poland
2016: City of Warsaw, Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery Berlin / project and exhibition realisation grant – Warsaw-Berlin.
2015: Lumen Prize Gallery nomination

Residencies :
2022: Konsthall Havremagasinet / Lapland Air / Boden / Sweden
2018: “Das weisse haus” / Vienna / Austria
2018 : Kura Studios / Fukuoka / Japan
2018: Can Serrat / El Bruc / Spain
2016 : TU foundation / Warsaw / Poland
2016 : Sokolowsko / Sound Art Laboratory / Poland
2014 : Maajaam / Tech Lab / Estonia

Talks / Presentations:
2016: DYI and Networking Strategies / TU foundation / Warsaw / Poland
2016: About Random / Science Gallery Dublin & Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig / DE
2014: Scope Sessions / Crossing the borders – Random in analog and digital media / Berlin
2013: Node Centre for curatorial studies / Curator talk / Error&Glitch / Berlin
2013: Re – New / “Science and Art” / Aalborg University Copenhagen

Catalogues:

Group catalogues:

2015: ISEA2015 / Vancouver / Canada
2014: Frauenmuseum Berlin / Berlin
2013: CODE D. / Manifest Gallery / Cincinnati / US
2012: Paraflows 7, “Reverse Engineering” / Vienna / Austria
2012: Transmediale / Afterglow / Berlin

Solo catalogues:

2012: About Random / Galerie weisser elefant / Berlin

Books, publications (about):

– “Art in post media culture” / Sztuka w Kulturze Mediow / E. Wojtowicz / “Katedra” Press
Buy: http://wnkatedra.pl/pl/p/Sztuka-w-kulturze-postmedialnej-Ewa-Wojtowicz/22522494
– “Conceptual”, Silvia Colombo, Antonio Muratore / LoosenArt 2018 Press
Buy: https://www.loosenart.com/blogs/books/conceptual
– ” Smoke City” / Silvia Colombo, Antonio Muratore / LoosenArt 2018 Press
Buy: https://www.loosenart.com/products/book-smoke-city
– “Noise aesthetics” Ha!Art / Art Magazine 2014
https://issuu.com/korporacja_haart/docs/ha_37_estetyka_szumow
– “Topographie des Gedächtnisses im alten Hafenspeicher Bremen-Vegesack”. Polnische Kunst der Gegenwart. Diverse Autoren
Press: Agentur für Kulturaustausch, Bremen 2001