About
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
Portrait: (c) J. Pegman
CV
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
Works
News
29.06.2023
Echoes From The Future - Upcoming Virtual Exhibition
Echoes from the Future. Speculative Creatures & Post-Human Botanicals; Artists: Aviv Benn, Laura Colmenares Guerra, Reiner Maria Matysik, Sarah Oh-Mock, Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes, Sabrina Ratté, Tamiko Thiel; Virtual exhibition, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina (Saskatchewan, Canada), Opening, June 29, Duration: June 29 – September 25, 2023, more information on https://www.peertospace.eu/blog
Echoes From The Future - Upcoming Virtual Exhibition
Echoes from the Future. Speculative Creatures & Post-Human Botanicals; Artists: Aviv Benn, Laura Colmenares Guerra, Reiner Maria Matysik, Sarah Oh-Mock, Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes, Sabrina Ratté, Tamiko Thiel; Virtual exhibition, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina (Saskatchewan, Canada), Opening, June 29, Duration: June 29 – September 25, 2023, more information on https://www.peertospace.eu/blog
Exhibitions & Events
2019
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Publications & References
Sauerlaender, Tina. »Reflecting on Life on the Internet: Artistic Webcam Performances from 1997 to 2017.« Self-Representation in an Expanded Field, Ace Lehner (Ed), MDPI, 2021 (2021).
Sauerlaender, Tina and Sabine Himmelsbach and Domenico Quaranta, ed. Resonanz der Realitäten - Resonant Realities. Berlin: DKB, 2021.
Sauerlaender, Tina. »A Short History of Self-Representation in Digital Art.« DAHJ (2020).