Kilian Kretschmer
Performance and media artist Kilian Kretschmer was born in Northeim in 1983 and grew up in Kassel before studying at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design from 2005 to 2011.
His work challenges supposed realities by playfully exploring recorded and transmission media. The intersection of the virtual world and reality plays an important role in this. He sets out to identify the differences between recording and experiencing, documenting and enacting, and how experience changes through reproduction or duplication.
Through his installation performances, Kretschmer transforms realities in the here and now into unrealities in the “there”. He has held scholarships at both the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and the Karlsruhe Cultural Scholarship. He lives and works in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg.
Artworks
Vita
Creative Director | M-A-U-S
Workshop leader | ZKM Karlsruhe Masterclass Video (2018 -2019)
Workshop leader | Kulturkreis der dt. Wirtschaft | Bronnbacher Scholarship (2018)
Lecturer | Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design | Department of Media Art (2015 - 2018)
Lecturer | Fresenius University of Applied Sciences Munich | Department of 3D Media & Mind (2015 - 2016)
Videographer & Designer | M-A-U-S
Assistant web management / press office | dOCUMENTA (13) Kassel
Independent artistic work
Study of Media Art | University of Arts and Design | Karlsruhe (GER)
Exhibitions (selection)
Nordbecken Fest | Karlsruhe (GER)
ßpace | Karlsruhe (GER)
cc99 | Karlsruhe (GER)
Reallabor | Karlsruhe (GER)
art KARLSRUHE | Karlsruhe (GER)
ZWEI PFUND SIND NICHT DAS KILO WERT | Karlsruhe (GER)
Das Wollen vom Sollen ohne zu wissen, das man muss | exhibition with Nemanja Sarbajic | Karlsruhe (GER)
PLAY 3 | Galerie ampersand | Cologne (GER)
METASPACES | Galerie ampersand | Cologne (GER)
DREHARBEITEN | Galerie ampersand | Cologne (GER) (Solo exhibition)
THE WRONG CLUB | Galerie ampersand | Cologne (GER)
WHIRR | 5,26 m3 | Cologne (GER) (Solo exhibition)
NORDBECKEN FEST | Karlsruhe (GER)
ENDLICH | Luis Leu | Karlsruhe (GER) (Solo exhibition)
ROTATION | Kulturbahnhof Kassel | Kassel (GER)
ON/OFF | Galerie ampersand | Cologne (GER) (Solo exhibition)
DC OPEN | Galerie ampersand | Cologne (GER)
PLAY 2 | Galerie ampersand | Cologne (GER)
JUST | Stuttgart (GER)
FOLGE | Villa Gellertstraße | Karlsruhe (GER) (Solo exhibition)
NOW ON VIEW | The Lab | San Francisco (USA)
PLAY | Galerie ampersand | Cologne (GER)
ALL IN | Galerie ampersand | Cologne (GER)
BEYOND FESTIVAL | ZKM | Karlsruhe (GER)
UNTERNEHMUNG DREI - VON_KRAFT | Gellertstrasse | Karlsruhe (GER)
NACHTFAHRT | Bonnefantenmuseum | Roermond (NL)
STEINZEIT | Tokonoma Apartment | Kassel (GER) (Solo exhibition)
VIDEO ETC. | NCCA | St. Petersburg (RUS)
VIDEOFORMES FESTIVAL | Clermont Ferrand (FRA)
EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL | Osnabrück (GER)
THE FIRST ON MARS | Yekaterinburg (RUS)
BEYOND 3D FESTIVAL | ZKM | Karlsruhe (GER)
STAGE THE SPACE | Betahaus | Berlin (GER)
BLAUBART | Schloss Werderberg (CHE)
VISION. DAS SEHEN | Neues Museum Weimar (GER)
IN DER KUBATUR DES KABINETT | Kunstsalon im fluc | Vienna (AUT)
RUH KARLI RUH | Ve.Sch | Vienna (AUT)
ART FACTORY | Yekaterinburg (RUS)
SUPERPOSITION Premiere | Hochschule für Gestaltung | Karlsruhe (GER) (Solo exhibition)
QUI VIVE? / MARS | Gallery Moscow (RUS)
MIXED MEDIA | Raumkalk | Cologne (GER)
OHNE TON | Auslage XI Karlsruhe & Kunsthalle Vienna | Vienna (AUT)
KUNSTCOMPUTERWERKE | ZKM | Karlsruhe (GER)
Projects
AUTOMATION smartphone performance | COIN NFT
3rd Jam of the band group | video performance
SERIOSITÄT | video installation
NOW | smartphone performance
SUPERPOSITION | video performance
K-Shirt | performance
COPY | video installation
2nd Jam of the band group | video performance
1st Jam of the band group | video performance
Scholarships & Residences
UNESCO City of Media Art
Karlsruhe Cultural Scholarship (GER)
Advanced Scholarship | IOW Schloss Werdenberg (CH)
Residency | FLACC workplace for visual artists | Genk (BEL)
Scholarship of the International Opera Workshop | Schloss Werdenberg (CH)
Scholarship holder | Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
Scholarship | Society for the Promotion of Art and Media Technology eV.