About
Linda Havenstein (* 1984) is a German video and media artist. She lives and works in Berlin.
According to her own statements, her work deals with the relationship between humans and technology and the cultural implications of the post-digital age.
She graduated with a Master of Arts degree in Japanese Studies, Comparative Literature and Journalism from the University of Leipzig in 2011. Havenstein also attended courses in Cultural Studies at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa and Art Theory at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig.
Linda Havenstein is concerned with processes and structures that underlie everyday experience. In videos and installations, which are based on rhythmic sequences or signal sequences, she condenses cultural and social processes. They are attempts to condense the totality of thought fields into small gestures and thus reflect on the human desire for meaning, cause, and identity. Havenstein deals with codifications and algorhithmic orders and transfers them to language and objects.
Havenstein exhibits in international museums and galleries, including Aomori Contemporary Art Centre Japan, How Art Museum China, NYIT Auditorium in New York, Seoul Museum of Art, and Kunstraum Bethanien in Berlin.
Linda Havenstein has been nominated or awarded various prizes, such as the Changdong Fellow Grant, associated with an artist-in-residency program in Seoul, or the Future Storytelling Production Grant from the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
Leveling – Video Work 2015-2019
Education
Japanologie, Komparatistik, Journalistik, Magister Artium, Universität Leipzig, Germany, 2004 – 2011
Cultural Studies, (Guest Auditor) University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan, 2010 – 2011
Art Theory, (Guest Auditor) Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB), Leipzig, Germany, 2020
Artist Talks, Lectures, Presentations
Platform Enterprise Podcast, Interview Linda Havenstein 2021
DIGITAL STORYTELLERS, Sehsüchte Festival, Filmhochschule Konrad Wolf Babelsberg- Potsdam, Deutschland 2019
SCOPE SESSIONS, Somos Gallery, Berlin, Deutschland 2019
FREIE WISSENSCHAFTSAKADEMIE, Nürnberg, Deutschland 2019
CONVERSAS BERLIN, Berlin, Deutschland 2018
AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE, Nürnberg, Deutschland 2018
UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS, Okinawa, Japan 2018
PECHA KUCHA NIGHT VOL 16, Bonar Hall, Dundee, UK 2017
ARTIST CONFERENCE, Korean Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium 2015
YAIR, Kofu, Japan 2010
Awards, Grants and Residencies
SLANT PROJECTS, online residency programm, Taiwan-UK 2021
SEOUL MUSEUM OF ART, Residency Grant, Seoul, Korea 2020
SOCIAL ART AWARD, short list, Berlin 2020
NEON DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL, Commission grant, Dundee, UK 2016
CHANGDONG FELLOW GRANT, National Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 2015
FUTURE STORYTELLING AWARDS, 2. Preis, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 2014
FUTURE STORYTELLING PRODUCTION GRANT, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 2014
AOMORI CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE, Residency Grant, Aomori, Japan 2013
THE LUMEN PRIZE DIGITAL ART AWARD, short list, UK 2013
DAAD RESEARCH GRANT, DAAD, Germany 2008
Publications
Social Art Award 2020, Social Art Award eV, Berlin, Deutschland (Catalogue) 2020
Marzahner Mischung, Der Tagesspiegel, 04.11.2018 (Newspaper)
Walking Art, Interartive, 12/18, ISSN 2013-679X (Magazine) 2018
New Visual Culture, Daegu Art Space, Daegu, Korea (Catalogue) 2016
New Cartographers, Songwon Art Center, Seoul, Korea (Catalogue) 2015
MMCA 2015, National Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (Catalogue) 2015
Artist’s Portfolio, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea (Catalogue) 2015
The Lumen Prize Digital Art Award 2014, Lumen Prize, UK (Catalogue) 2014
Linda Havenstein, LandEscape Art Review, 8/2013, LandEscape Art Review, UK (Magazine) 2013
Nichidoku Yonnin no Geijutsuka, Aomori de Kyôsakuten, Asahi Shinbun Digital, 2013/12/3, Asahi, Shinbun, Japan (Zeitung)
Aomori Contemporary Art Center Report 2013, Aomori Public University, Japan (Catalogue) 2013
Exchange – Planting the seed, Aomori Public University, Japan (Catalogue) 2013
100g Durchschnitt, bitte! Begehungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Deutschland (Catalogue) 2010
Curatorial Work
SOFT CITY, Co-Curator, Schloss Biesdorf Berlin, Deutschland 2018
PLATFORM PROJECT, Co-Curator, Murata & Friends, Berlin 2012
GALLERY ASSISTANT, Murata & Friends, Berlin, Deutschland 2011
ASSITANT TO THE CURATOR, Art Autonomy Network, Yokohama, Japan 2009
ASSITANT TO THE CURATOR, WANAKIO 2008, Maejima Art Center, Okinawa, Japan 2008