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
CV
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)