Gloria Zein
Born 1970 in Hannover, Germany.
Works and lives in Berlin, Germany and Paris, France.
2001 International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg (Austria): studied with Ilya Kabakov + Emilia Kabakov and with Boris Groys.
1998 Master of Architecture, Technical University of Vienna (Austria)
1989-1998 studied Philosophy and Architecture in Darmstadt (D), Vienna (A) and Paris (F).
1995-1998 first assistant stage director and first assistant stage design at Festspiele Bad Hersfeld (D) and Schauspielhaus Hamburg (D).
Lectures/Seminars/Teaching:
2008 parkingallery, Tehran (Iran): Lecture
2005-2007 and 2009 Technical University Braunschweig (D), Institute of Fine Art: Tutor/Workshops
2006 Educational Center for the Arts - ECA, New Haven (USA): Workshop
Awards/Prices/Grants:
2008 Artist in residence at the Emiliy Harvey Foundation, Venice
2008 Project support Tehran, Goethe-Institut
2004 Szpilman Award - Best Seven. www.award.szpilman.de/best04.zei.html
1995/96 Erasmus Grant for Paris, Ecole d'Architecture Paris La Villette
Exhibitions (selection): GE=group / SE=solo / cat=catalogue
2010
> Kunstverein Tiergarten/Galerie Nord, Berlin (D), "Niederlassung" curator: Ralf Hartmann GE
> Lithuanian National Gallery of Art (LT) "Body. Gestures, Postures and Beyond"
curator: Dovile Tumpyte, Egle Mikalajunaite and Tautvydas Bajarkevicius (video screening) GE
> Madrid Abierto, Madrid (E), curator: Cecilia Andersson GE
2009
> Emily Harvey Foundation, New York City, USA, "A book about death" a project by Matthew Rose GE
> Trendwände, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, curator: Katja Schlenker GE
> Galerie Rossella Junck, Berlin :"incantato" GE
2008
> NGBK Berlin, "Glück gehabt. Art underground." GE
> Iranian Artists' Forum, Teheran, Iran: "philosophers' beds/bedding philosophers" SE
> Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Rostock, Germany: "3xF_Fußball_Frauen_Fotografie" GE
2007
> Galerie Rossella Junck, Berlin: "p h i l o s o p h e n b e t t e n (philsophers' beds / bedding philosophers - Concepts of individual positionning)" SE
> Künstlerhaus Dortmund (Artist House Dortmund, Germany): "COPYCATS - vom B.Nutzen" GE
(with Jan Bauer, Astrid S. Klein, Jurgen Ostarhild, Thomas Raschke and Sebastian Rogler)
2006
> NGBK, Berlin, Germany : "SEXWORK Art Mythos Reality" GE (cat)
> Frauenmuseum Wiesbaden, Germany: "3xF_Fußball_Frauen_Fotografie" GE (cat)
> ARD Hauptstadtstudio, Berlin, Germany: "3xF_Fußball_Frauen_Fotografie" curator: Judith Metz GE (cat)
> ArtSpace, New Haven, USA: "Confinement and the Art of Decoration." (with Caterina Verde and Elise Martens) GE
2005
> Cache Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, USA GE
> INAFF, Berlin, Germany GE
> Kunsthalle Arnstadt, Germany: "Blue Hall - Market Place Europe," GE (cat)
2004
> Mittelrhein-Museum Koblenz, Germany: "Die Loreley: Ein Fels im Rhein. Ein deutscher Traum," GE (cat)
> DESIGNMAI 2004, Berlin, Germany, SE
> Factor 44, Antwerp, Belgium. SE
2003
> Goethe Institut Paris, France SE
> German-French Cultural Institute, Aachen, Germany SE
2002
> Syrius, Düsseldorf, Germany SE
Radio- and Broadcast:
"The Breathing Project," since 2001
> new haven breathing, ultra radio, 16.03.2006
> antwerp breathing, radiocentraal Antwerp, 23.04.2004
> washington breathing, art@radio Washington DC, 04.12.2002
> ny breathing, WKCR radio station, NY, 13.09.2002
> frankfurt breathing, free manifesta frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, july/august 2002
