Tina Sauerlaender

Tina Sauerlaender (she/her) is an art historian, curator, speaker and writer. She holds a PhD from The University of Arts, Linz, Austria. The title of her dissertation is PERFORMING IDENTITIES. Self-Representation in Art from the Renaissance to Virtual Worlds. In conjunction with her PhD she curated the online exhibition performingidentities.net. With her curatorial work, she focuses on the impact of the digital and the internet on individual environments and society as well as on virtual reality in visual arts. She is Artistic Director of the VR ART PRIZE by DKB in Cooperation with CAA Berlin. With her independent exhibition platform peer to space she has been curating and organizing international group shows since 2010, e.g. The Unframed World. Virtual Reality as Artistic Medium for the 21st Century at House of Electronic Arts Basel in 2017. She is Co-founder of Radiance VR, an international online platform and research database for virtual reality experiences in visual arts as well as the Radiance VR App, an app for VR Art for Meta Quest headsets. Together with curator Erandy Vergara she developed the exhibition series Critical Approaches in Virtual Reality Art and realized projects like Speculative Cultures. A Virtual Reality Art Exhibition (Kellen Gallery, Parsons/The New School, New York, 2019). She is the Founder of the SALOON, an international network for women working in art. She is a lecturer for Digital Art History at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld, Germany. She gave talks on Virtual Reality & Art at re:publica (Berlin), ZKM (Karlsruhe), New Inc (New York), Kunsthalle (Munich), University of Applied Arts (Vienna), Digifest (Toronto), Technical University (Prague) or Roehrs & Boetsch (Zurich).

Portrait: (c) J. Pegman

TINA SAUERLAENDER, PhD
CURATOR, SPEAKER AND WRITER FOR DIGITAL AND IMMERSIVE ART

CO-FOUNDER, DIRECTOR & HEAD CURATOR OF PEER TO SPACE
CO-FOUNDER & CEO OF RADIANCE VR
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, VR ART PRIZE by DKB in Cooperation with CAA
FOUNDER OF SALOON Berlin
LECTURER FOR DIGITAL ART HISTORY at FH Bielefeld
PhD > Performing Identities: https://www.performingidentities.net

CURATED IRL EXHIBITIONS

SKIN DEEP, Solo exhibition of Jonas Blume, at SCOPE BLN, April 29 to May 27, 2022

Resonanz der Realitäten - Resonant Realities, Exhibition of the VR ART PRIZE by DKB in Cooperation with CAA Berlin, with Banz & Bowinkel, Evelyn Bencicova, Armin Keplinger, Lauren Moffatt and Patricia Detmering, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, April 16 - July 4, 2021

COLLIDING HUMANS. Social Interaction on the Internet, curated by peer to space, in collaboration with medienkunstverein.com, at Raum für Drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin, September 27 - October 6, 2019

Radiosands, sound installation by Thom Kubli, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, August 23 - September 1, 2019

SPECULATIVE SPECIES. VR Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, curated with Erandy Vergara and Peggy Schoenegge, at ESPRONCEDA - Center for Art & Culture, supported by the Goethe Institut Barcelona, June 20- July 1, 2019

So Far, Still So Close, VR exhibition with the artists Yu Hong and Nikita Shalenny, curated with George Vitale, organized by Khora Contemporary & Radiance VR & Synthesis Gallery, Kopernikusstr 14, Berlin, April 26-28, 2019

Touching From A Distance 2. Transmediations in the Digital Age, Goethe Institut Toronto, March 22 to May 23, 2019

SPECULATIVE CULTURES - A Virtual Reality Art Exhibition, curated with Peggy Schoenegge and Erandy Vergara, The New School / Parsons, New York, February 7 to April 14, 2019

ENVISIONING THE FUTURE – VIRTUAL REALITY ART EXHIBITION, curated w. Erandy Vergara, Halcyon Arts Lab, Washington DC, Oct 23 - 28, 2018

TOUCHING FROM A DISTANCE. Transmediations in the Digital Age, curated with Manja Ebert and Peggy Schoenegge, for medienkunstverein.com, in cooperation with Literaturhaus Berlin, September 20-October 14, 2018

PENDORAN VINCI. Art and Artificial Intelligence Today, curated with Peggy Schoenegge, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, June 8-Aug 19, 2018

Deep Water Cultures, Goethe-Institut, Montréal, November 23, 2017 to February 24, 2018

RESET III and Virtual Reality, group exhibition, at PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne, Germany, September 8 until October 28, 2017

Uncanny Conditions - A Virtual Reality Exhibition, curated with Peggy Schoenegge whiteBOX, for FNY Festival, Munich, Sep. 1 - 10, 2017

The Unframed World. Virtual Reality as Artistic Medium for the 21st Century, Catalog, House of Electronic Arts Basel, Jan 18 - Mar 5, 2017

LAYERED LANDSCAPES, Galerie Philine Cremer, Düsseldorf, Germany, Opening & Artist Talk, Sept 2, show until October 21, 2016

SOMETIMES YOU SEE YOUR CITY DIFFERENTLY, group exhibition, FEINBERG PROJECTS, Tel Aviv, Israel, 5-7/2016

WHEN THE CAT’S AWAY, ABSTRACTION, group exhibition, Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 4-6/2016

SHARE YOUR TEETH (WITH THE ONES YOU LOVE), solo show Aviv Benn, Art von Frei, Berlin, 3-4/2016

Between Her Own Viewpoint and Authentic Reality. The Photographic Oeuvre of Hildegard Ochse, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin, 11/2015-2/2016

PORN TO PIZZA—Domestic Clichés, group exhibition, at DAM Gallery, Berlin, 9-10/2015

SALOON, group exhibition, Sexauer Gallery, Berlin, 4-5/2015

DARK SIDES OF..., group exhibition, TS art projects, Berlin, 2-4/2015

Across the Lines – Jennifer Oellerich and Prajakta Potnis, insitu, Berlin, 10-11/2014

DIVIDED AND REUNIFIED, group exhibition, works from Haupt Collection, Images, Budapest, 10/2014

Money Works Part 2, group exhibition, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, 8-10/2014

Haupt Collection, group show at Verband Dt. Bürgschaftsbanken, Berlin, 3-12/2014

VISUAL NOISE – Diana Artus and Ornella Fieres, Lage Egal, Berlin, 2-3/2014

MONEY WORKS | KUNST MIT GELD, group show, curated with Nicole Loeser, White Concepts, Berlin, 11/2013

Entering Space, group exhibition, Kunsthalle M1 Mengerzeile, Berlin, 10/2013


TALKS (selection)

Virtual Worlds - Curating and Creating Digital Art. Harvard University, 29.3.2022

Digital Futures. European Cultural Centre, Venice, 7.7.2022

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow in the Metaverse. Digital Studies Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 17.2.2022

Digitale Kunst Kuratieren, Wavelab, Art & Tech Talks, November 18, 2021

Virtual Worlds - Curating and Creating Digital Art, Bard College, Berlin, November 4, 2021

Virtual Worlds - The future of SocialVR and WebVR in art and society, 55 Min of Reinvention series by 1000Vordenker, June 16, 2021

Reflecting Life On The Internet. Webcam Artists 1997 - 2017, MDPI book launch of Self-Representation in an Expanded Field, May 14, 2021