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Linda Havenstein


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.

Work


Leveling – Video Work 2015-2019

The artist applies facial cream to her face. Applying more and more, she levels out her face and disappears into the
background. First inspired by observations of modern cityscapes and beauty ads, the work is a reflection on human
interference in our living environment and with it eventually ourselves.

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Education

2004-2011 Japanologie, Komparatistik, Journalistik, Magister Artium, Universität Leipzig, DE

2010 – 2011 Cultural Studies, (Guest Auditor) University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, JP

2020 Art Theory, (Guest Auditor) Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB), Leipzig, DE

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

2022

In Tongues, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, DE

2018

LEVELING, Gallery Baton – Observation Deck, Seoul, KR

2016

ONE ONE OH THREE, S45, Berlin, DE          

WATERS HIGH, Front, Berlin, DE

2014    

ON UNIQUENESS, S45, Berlin, DE

2013     

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, Art Space Tetra, Fukuoka, JP

2009            

INTERVENTION SERIES IN PUBLIC SPACE, Tokyots, Tokyo, JP

2008           

MARRY ME, Rehab, Naha, JP            

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2024

Hope, Yamamura Koichi Gallery, Tokyo, JP (Multimedia installation featuring work of Jaeduk Kim)

2023

‚La mer‘ – Yuken Teruya, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, UK

2021

OPEN ART LAUSITZ, Atelierhof Werentzhain, Doberlug-Kirchhain, DE

OFFENE ATELIERS BRANDENBURG, Atelierhof Werentzhain, Doberlug-Kirchhain, DE

KIZ WINDOWS, Ringcenter 1, Berlin, DE

2020

BANGKOK BIENNALE 2020, Bangkok, TH (Kollaborationsprojekt mit Yuken Teruya)

OPEN SOURCE STUDIOS, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR

EVERYONE’S SO SOFT, Sosho Space, Seoul, KR (verschoben) 

BEYOND THE ROOTS OF OUR ORIGIN, Auabit Gallery, Berlin (verschoben), DE

KANTA’S, Raum Vollreinigung, Berlin (verschoben), DE

2019

SOFT CITY, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin, DE

2018

BEGIN THE FALL INTO MY ARMS, Kookoo, Gallery Ohm, Berlin, DE

2017                         

ANXIETY RULES THE WORLD, Hongik Museum of Art, Seoul, KR 

YEONNAM-DONG 566-55 ANTHOLOGY, Chapter II, Seoul, KR

BEWARE, UTOPIA!, Halle 18, Nürnberg, DE 

I THINK WE SHOULD PUT SOME MOUNTAINS HERE, Kookoo, OHM, Berlin, DE

2016

SPACE/TIME BERLIN, Tatwerk, Berlin, DE 

CHANG DONG, Korean Cultural Centre, Brussels, BE

NEON DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL, Dundee, UK     

NEW VISUAL CULTURE, Daegu Art Space/Daegu Art Fair, Daegu, KR

2015

NEW CARTOGRAPHERS, Songwon Art Center, Seoul, KR

BEYOND THE HORIZON, Art Studio Changdong, National Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR

DIO HORIA IN MYKONOS, Dio Horia Contemporary Art Platform, Mykonos, GR 

MOVING STUDIOS, HOW Art Museum, Wenzhou, CN

2014

THE LUMEN PRIZE DIGITAL ART AWARD EXHIBITON, Auditorium on Broadway, New York Institute of Technology, NY, USA

FUTURE STORYTELLING, The Anthropocene project, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE

2013     

DISTANT OBSERVATIONS – FUKUSHIMA IN BERLIN, Kunstraum  Bethanien, Berlin, DE

EXCHANGE – PLANTING THE SEED, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, JP

THE COSMOS, New York Hall of Science, New York City, USA 

TSUSHIMA ART FANTASIA, Tsushima, JP

TO.BE, Giomisti Kefali Galery, Apollonia, Sifnos Island, GR

2012

INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION 2012, Art Gallery Le Logge, Assisi, IT

PLATFORM PROJECT, Collaboration with Movement & Sound Improvisation Berlin, Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin, DE

2011

HOFFEST 2011, Haus Schwarzenberg, Berlin, DE

6X6X2011, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester NY, USA 

2010

KOFU ART FESTIVAL 2010, Kofu, JP

BEGEHUNGEN CHEMNITZ NO.7, Chemnitz, DE

2009

PORTFOLIO MEETING, Two Meetings for the Arts, Yokohama, JP

Artist Talks, Lectures, Presentations

2022

Thinking Out Loud by Linda Havenstein (artist talk), Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, UK

2021

Platform Enterprise Podcast, Interview Linda Havenstein     

2019  

DIGITAL STORYTELLERS, Sehsüchte Festival, Filmhochschule Konrad Wolf  Babelsberg- Potsdam, DE   

SCOPE SESSIONS, Somos Gallery, Berlin, DE    

FREIE WISSENSCHAFTSAKADEMIE, Nürnberg, DE

2018

CONVERSAS BERLIN, Berlin, DE                 

AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE, Nürnberg, DE

UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS, Okinawa, JP

2017          

PECHA KUCHA NIGHT VOL 16, Bonar Hall, Dundee, UK 

2015    

ARTIST CONFERENCE, Korean Cultural Center, Brussels, BE

2010  

YAIR, Kofu, JP

Awards, Grants and Residencies

2021

SLANT PROJECTS, online residency programm, Taiwan-UK 

2020          

SEOUL MUSEUM OF ART, Residency Grant, Seoul, KR       

SOCIAL ART AWARD, short list, Berlin, DE

2016             
NEON DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL, Commission grant, Dundee, UK 

2015      

CHANGDONG FELLOW GRANT, National Museum of Modern &    Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR 

2014           

FUTURE STORYTELLING AWARDS, 2. Preis, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE         

FUTURE STORYTELLING PRODUCTION GRANT, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE

2013

AOMORI CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE, Residency Grant, Aomori, JP       

THE LUMEN PRIZE DIGITAL ART AWARD, short list, UK 

2008         

DAAD RESEARCH GRANT, DAAD, DE

Curatorial Work

2018

SOFT CITY, Co-Curator, Schloss Biesdorf Berlin, DE

2012          

PLATFORM PROJECT, Co-Curator, Murata & Friends, Berlin, DE       

2011

GALLERY ASSISTANT, Murata & Friends, Berlin, DE          

2009

ASSITANT TO THE CURATOR, Art Autonomy Network, Yokohama, JP

2008

ASSITANT TO THE CURATOR, WANAKIO 2008, Maejima Art Center, Okinawa, JP    

Publications

2020

Social Art Award 2020, Social Art Award eV, Berlin, DE (Catalogue)         

2018

Marzahner Mischung, Der Tagesspiegel, 04.11.2018, DE (Newspaper)

Walking Art, Interartive, 12/18 (Magazine) 

2016

New Visual Culture, Daegu Art Space, Daegu, KR (Catalogue)            

2015

New Cartographers, Songwon Art Center, Seoul, KR (Catalogue)          

MMCA 2015, National Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR (Catalogue) 

Artist’s Portfolio, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, KR (Catalogue)

2014            

The Lumen Prize Digital Art Award 2014, Lumen Prize, UK (Catalogue) 

2013      

Linda Havenstein, LandEscape Art Review, 8/2013, LandEscape Art Review, UK (Magazine) 

Nichidoku Yonnin no Geijutsuka, Aomori de Kyôsakuten, Asahi Shinbun Digital, 2013/12/3, Asahi, Shinbun, JP (Zeitung)

Aomori Contemporary Art Center Report 2013, Aomori Public University, JP (Catalogue)              

Exchange – Planting the seed, Aomori Public University, JP (Catalogue)                

2010

100g Durchschnitt, bitte! Begehungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, DE  (Catalogue)