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Artist Profile: Martin A. Dege


Location: Kassel and Berlin, Germany

Education
1964
1993-2000
2000-01
since 2001
since 2003


born in Nuremberg, Germany
Fine Art studies at the School of Art and Design Kassel under Prof. Urs Lüthi
Master class of Prof. Urs Lüthi
Freelance artist in Kassel
Research Assistant at the School of Art and Design Kassel

Solo Exhibitions
2007
2004
2003
2002
2000
1998
1997
1996


"what a day, 2006", Galerie Loyal, Kassel
"screening", Goethe Institute, Bangkok, Thailand
"screening", jour fixe, School of Art and Design Kassel
"groupshow", room installation, Pavillon Unterneustadt, Kassel
".one day", room installation, Room for Contemporary Art, KulturBahnhof Kassel
"FOUR SEASONS", video installation, Internat. Videofenster, Basel, Switzerland
"ma chère", room installation, Galerie Stellwerk, Kassel
"LES DEUX BLEU", room installation, Galerie Panorama, Kassel

Group Exhibitions
2007
2007
2007

2006
2006
2006
2006
2006

2005
2005
2005
2005
2005

2004
2004

2003

2002
2002
2002
2002

2001
2001
2001
2001

2000
2000

1999
1999
1999
1999

1998
1998


1997
1997

1996
1995 -96
1995


Media-Lounge Meta-House, Phom Phen, Cambodia
product - festival of contemporary art Varna, Bulgaria
"loyal_rooftops_2007", Galerie Loyal, Kassel

"Wonderland", Horsham Art Gallery, Horsham, Australia
"4th project in Holy Ghost", VOORKAMER, Lier, Belgium
"Nur im Flur", Akademie Schule & Wirtschaft, Oldenburg
"40jahrevideokunst.de – was fehlt?", Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
Thailand New Media Art Festival 2006, Bangkok Thailand

“Tombola“, KasselerKunstverein
“adventadvent´05“, Salon Elitär Kassel
“The international collections”, Nationalgalerie Bangkok, Thailand
Nomination for the "Prix Europe - Internet", Berlin
Prize Question Essay competition, Academy of Sciences, Berlin

“Schlossasyl”, lange Museumsnacht, Schloss Bad Arolsen
Thailand New Media Art Festival 2004, Thailand

"modell Q", Wacker-Kunst, Mühltal

"one moment passes, another comes on", Galerie Schickler, Nuremberg
"MONITORING", Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival
"link 2000-2005", Pavillon Unterneustadt, Kassel
"Geschwindigkeit - Terrain der Zeit", Galerie kunstadapter, Wiesbaden

"jetztkunst. in Nürnberg", Z-Bau, Nürnberg
"Videonacht", Lichtstraße, Düsseldorf
european media art festival, Kunsthalle Osnabrück
"Mövenpick Hotel Kunstpreis 2001", Hotel Mövenpick, Kassel

"ArtKino", art frankfurt 2000,
"huit jeunes artistes allemands", Centre d’arts plastiques, Saint-Fons, France

Internat. Videofenster, Langenthal, Switzerland
" Chronos & Kairos" - Die Zeit in der zeitgen. Kunst, Museum Fridericianum Kassel
"Wie+Macht+Kunst", Videobar, Kasseler Kunst Verein
"Kiss", interactive floor sculpture, KulturBahnhof Kassel

"Kasseler Künstler stellen aus", ICE-Galerie Schmidt- Gaussmannn, Kassel
"Das Verschwinden der Kunst wird aus gesellschaftlichen Gründen
auf unbestimmte Zeit verschoben"
, Kasseler Kunst Verein

7th International Video Festival Bochum
3rd Göttinger Low-Budget Film Festival

"Kunst und gekauft", Kunstverein Kassel
"Kunsteintrag", Reinhausen/Göttingen
"Überall", Kunstmuseum Bonn


Prizes and Scholarships
2004
2004
2001/02
2001
2001
2000
1999
1998

Collection of Young Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Purchase by Artothek, City of Kassel
Hessian Scholarship for Fine Art
Nuremberg jetztkunst Prize
Mövenpick Hotel Art Prize, Kassel
Otto-Braun Scholarship, Kassel
Prize of the Kasseler Hochschulbund

Catalogues and Publications
Prix Europe 2005?, Berlin
Schlossasyl, Schloss Bad Arolsen, 2004
"MONITORING", Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Kassel, 2002
"Geschwindigkeit - Terrain der Zeit", kunstadapter, Wiesbaden, 2002
"(k) Kultur Magazin", July/August #72, Kassel, 2001
"European Media Art Festival", Osnabrück, 2001
"huit jeunes artistes de la kunsthochschule de kassel", Saint-Fons, France, 2000
"Chronos & Kairos" - Die Zeit in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Museum Fridericianum Kassel, 1999
"Internationales Videofenster", Basel, Switzerland, 1999
"Das Verschwinden der Kunst wird aus gesellschaftlichen Gründen auf unbestimmte Zeit verschoben", Kasseler Kunst Verein, 1998
"Kunsteintrag", Rheinhausen/Göttingen, 1996


Artist Statement
:
I’m a graphic artist at heart.
Admittedly, not in the usual way... Rather, I’m an employer of graphic means: by cutting and combining and superimposing different images, I endeavour to breathe new meaning into them. In their new-found constellations, the images enable us to access previously unfamiliar glimpses of the world as we do not yet know it.

I also employ the so-called "new media" in my work. The result of my research finds expression in the form of
installations, photos, videos, pictures and writings on the wall or works of art working with the wall or the space around and in them. My work is unpredictable, but almost always incorporates an undeniable reference to its immediate surroundings through its realization.


Web Site:
http://www.madege.de/