@less_legs

Born in Dresden, Germany. Lives and works in Los Angeles.

Education

  • 2012-2015 MA degree in Media Art, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, DE
    2005-2006 Visiting Student, Chelsea School of Art & Design, London,Uk
    2001-2007 Fine Arts Degree at Universität der Künste Berlin, DE

Scholarships/ Fellowships/ Residencies

    • 2014 WAI Residency, Saint Lunaire, FR
    • 2013 Residency Institut Sacatar Bahia, BR
    • 2009 Fellowship at Sommerakademie Bern, CH
    • 2008 Residency, Creative Lab, CCA Glasgow, UK
    • 2007-2008 Scholarship Nafög , Senat Berlin, DE
Solo Shows
  • 2024 “Utility Fatigue”, the box L.A., US
  • 2023 “transparent translation”, changing room, Berlin, DE
  • 2016 “access to nameless hazards”, MaRS Gallery, L.A., US
  • 2014 “Having a foot doesn`t mean you know how to walk”, Installation, Studio Nihil Baxter,Berlin,DE
  • 2009 “aftereight”, Galerie Eva Bracke, Berlin, DE

exhibitions/ screenings/ festivals

2024 

  • Live Performance ” Proof of Life” at the box L.A., US
  • Group show at Last Projects L.A., US
  • Group show at Laband Ar gallery L.A., US

2022

  • Performance “to go to” at Neon Museum, L.A., US
  • Micrologies at Irenic Projects, L.A., US
  •  Part of the community bureau of grassroots beautification at OPAF, L.A., US

2020

  • Performance “skeleton key” at Pluto Projects, L.A., US
  • Sound Installation “modern ruins” Partykeller, Soest, DE
  • Performance “nothing belongs to you” as part of the Maha Pavillion, Bangkok Biennale, TH 

2019

  • Performance “in one year you could still be here” at Irrational Exhibits 11: place-making  and social memory at Monte Vista Gallery, L.A., US
  • Performance “in one year you could still be here” at Femmebit Festival at Civic Center, L.A., US
  • Performance/ Musical Fragment “I was never told that I need money” at PAM Residencies, L.A., US
  • Screening “Can´t stop” at “Symposium for Performative Computation” at Navel, L.A. US
  • Screening “deutsche Körper” at Critical Forum in PAM, L.A., US
  • Installation ” Let´s enter” as part of “Autobodies” at OPC Collective, L.A., US

2018

  • Screening “circle” at Califonia Conversations, Last Projects, L.A., US
  • Screening “das Bild der Frau” at Nothing Personal, Last Projects, L.A., US
  • Performance “in one year you could still be here” as part of subcotanious metamorphosis roof top L.A., US

2017

  • Live performance “Das Bild der Frau” , mic drop Festival, Innsbruck, Austria

2016

  • Screening “deutsche Körper” Montage Forum, Filmuniversität Konrad Wolf Babelsberg, DE
  • Screening “deutsche Körper” showcase, Cinema Cinenova, Cologne, DE
  • Screening “ in but is” & “ could real today” Cinema Latino Festival, Cologne, DE
  • Screening “Inland Freaks” digital bodies, CCA- Center of Contemporary Art Tbilisi, Georgien
  • Screening “could real today” Eaudecologne, Cinecycle 129 Spadina Ave,Toronto, CA

2015

  • Videoinstallation “Can´t stop” at Cynetart, Trans Media Akademie Hellerau, Dresden,DE
  • Live performance, 25 Karat, Kunstquartier Bethanien , Berlin, DE
  • Videoinstallation “Inland Freaks” bei Werkleitz Festival “Move On”, Halle, DE
  • Screening “Inland Freaks” Museum at Retail Space, L.A., USA
  • Installation with Live Performance, Cheers for Fears Festival, Oberhausen, DE

2014

  • “Can´t stop” at Htmlles Feminist Media Art Festival, Goethe Institut Montreal, CA
  • Screening “You as an anarchistic dynamo” Kino Central, Berlin, DE
  • Screening “could real today” radical software, Amsterdam, NL
  • Could real today, Art Cologne, DE
  • “Full Saturation” Kunstpavillion Munich, DE
  • Live Performance POV, Simultanhalle, Cologne, DE

2013

  • Screening at Soma Mexico City & Museu de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, MEX
  • “On Looking” Galapagos Art Space, New York, USA
  • Screening at File Festival, Sao Paulo, BRA
  • Screening at Undo Film,Opekta Atelier, Cologne, DE
  • “How the fuck did I end up here”, Studio Nihil Baxter, Berlin, DE
  • “Lost Body Parts” Performance at Mauritius Hotel, Cologne, DE

2012

  • FRAME_Birmingham, UK
  • Exhibition and performance as Karen Eliot, BBK Cologne, DE
  • Screening at Krasnoyarsk, SIB
  • “ About the things we used to touch” Exihibition and performance at Westgermany, Berlin, DE
  • Screening at Impakt Festival, Utrecht, NL
  • Skype Performance, L.A. Artfair, USA
  • “Joint Stock” Clarke Gallery, Birmingham, Uk
  • Screening at KUB Gallery Leipzig, DE
  • Performance with Lisa Jugert at Infernoesque, Berlin, DE
  • Screening at 34th Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow, RU
  • Screening at Piet Zwart Institut, Rotterdam, NL
  • Screening at Setup, Utrecht, NL
  • “ letters to my dog” Performance at Worm, Rotterdam, NL
  • Screening at 65 Grand, Chicago, USA
  • “Hotspot Berlin” Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, DE
  • “picturing the body” lecture at Coventry University, UK

2011

  • “Testing the Stage at HAU live performance, Hau 1- Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
  • “Navigating the Extreme” live performance, Arthouse Lewisham, London, Uk
  • “how to become collective in four easy lessons”, Forum Factory, Berlin
  • “me means machine” Screening VBK, Berlin, DE

2010

  • “glass crash feeling”, Schaulager Barbara Thumm, DE
  • “tracker”, Galerie Eva Bracke, DE
  • “the automatic theater- a performance”, Hbc, Berlin, DE
  • Enovos Kunstpreis “junge kunst 2010”, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwighafen, DE
  • “ I was there”, Galerie Stedefreund, Berlin, DE
  • “Carte Blanche”, Clarke Gallery, Berlin, DE
  • “This is red”, group show, Halle 10, Cologne, DE
  • “reduplication of the real”, Cardiff, UK

2009

  • Les portes de paradies” Galerie Eva Bracke, Berlin, DE
  • “truestories.truesuccess” Freies Museum, Berlin, DE
  • “Ringen”, Galerie Cream Contemporary, Berlin, DE
  • “wild”, Residency Programm- CCA Creative Lab, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK

2008

  • “bad weather” installation with Live Performance and video projection, Domaquaree, Berlin, DE
  • “fast forward”, Live Performance, GfgBK, Berlin, DE
  • “reason of absence” video installation, Galerie Deiglan, Akureyri, IS
  • “HelsinkissBerlin” Collaboration “Transidency” live performance, Myymäla, Helsinki, FI
  • “hallo!?” Solo Show, installation with live performances, Galerie Friedman, Berlin
  • “persisting uncertainties”, showroom, Berlin, DE

2007

  • “ Labo VI, Strong Art Research” Ghent, BE
  • filmstills, at Jiksiten Gallery, Nogoya, JP
  • “berlin – alaska” live performance, Galerie Delta 35, Augustr.35, Berlin, DE
  • Eine grosse Frau singt ein trauriges Lied” Rondell, Maastrich, NL