Künstler Kilian Kretschmer

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.

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Artworks

Vita

since 2018

Creative Director | M-A-U-S

Workshop leader | ZKM Karlsruhe Masterclass Video (2018 -2019)

Workshop leader | Kulturkreis der dt. Wirtschaft | Bronnbacher Scholarship (2018)

2015

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

2012

Assistant web management / press office | dOCUMENTA (13) Kassel

since 2011

Independent artistic work

2005 - 2011

Study of Media Art | University of Arts and Design | Karlsruhe (GER)

Exhibitions (selection)

2022

Nordbecken Fest | Karlsruhe (GER)

ßpace | Karlsruhe (GER)

cc99 | Karlsruhe (GER)

Reallabor | Karlsruhe (GER)

art KARLSRUHE | Karlsruhe (GER)


2021

ZWEI PFUND SIND NICHT DAS KILO WERT | Karlsruhe (GER)


2020

Das Wollen vom Sollen ohne zu wissen, das man muss | exhibition with Nemanja Sarbajic | Karlsruhe (GER)


2017

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)

2016

WHIRR | 5,26 m3 | Cologne (GER) (Solo exhibition)

NORDBECKEN FEST | Karlsruhe (GER)

ENDLICH | Luis Leu | Karlsruhe (GER) (Solo exhibition)

ROTATION | Kulturbahnhof Kassel | Kassel (GER)

2015

ON/OFF | Galerie ampersand | Cologne (GER) (Solo exhibition)

DC OPEN | Galerie ampersand | Cologne (GER)

PLAY 2 | Galerie ampersand | Cologne (GER)

2014

JUST | Stuttgart (GER)

FOLGE | Villa Gellertstraße | Karlsruhe (GER) (Solo exhibition)

2013

NOW ON VIEW | The Lab | San Francisco (USA)

PLAY | Galerie ampersand | Cologne (GER)

ALL IN | Galerie ampersand | Cologne (GER)

BEYOND FESTIVAL | ZKM | Karlsruhe (GER)

2012

UNTERNEHMUNG DREI - VON_KRAFT | Gellertstrasse | Karlsruhe (GER)

NACHTFAHRT | Bonnefantenmuseum | Roermond (NL)

STEINZEIT | Tokonoma Apartment | Kassel (GER) (Solo exhibition)

2011

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)

2009

IN DER KUBATUR DES KABINETT | Kunstsalon im fluc | Vienna (AUT)

RUH KARLI RUH | Ve.Sch | Vienna (AUT)

ART FACTORY | Yekaterinburg (RUS)

2008

SUPERPOSITION Premiere | Hochschule für Gestaltung | Karlsruhe (GER) (Solo exhibition)

QUI VIVE? / MARS | Gallery Moscow (RUS)

MIXED MEDIA | Raumkalk | Cologne (GER)

2007

OHNE TON | Auslage XI Karlsruhe & Kunsthalle Vienna | Vienna (AUT)

2006

KUNSTCOMPUTERWERKE | ZKM | Karlsruhe (GER)

Projects

2023

AUTOMATION smartphone performance | COIN NFT


2022

3rd Jam of the band group | video performance

SERIOSITÄT | video installation

NOW | smartphone performance

SUPERPOSITION | video performance

K-Shirt | performance 


2021

COPY | video installation

2nd Jam of the band group | video performance


2020

1st Jam of the band group | video performance


Scholarships & Residences

2022

UNESCO City of Media Art


2013

Karlsruhe Cultural Scholarship (GER)

2011

Advanced Scholarship | IOW Schloss Werdenberg (CH)

Residency | FLACC workplace for visual artists | Genk (BEL)

2010

Scholarship of the International Opera Workshop | Schloss Werdenberg (CH)

2009-2011

Scholarship holder | Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

2008

Scholarship | Society for the Promotion of Art and Media Technology eV.