KERSTIN HONEIT
works | about | cv
Born in 1977, lives and works in Berlin.
EDUCATION
2010
Master Student (Meisterschülerin) of Else Gabriel | Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
2009
Diploma / MA (by Inge Mahn) | Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
2003–2009
Sculpture and Stage Design | Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
SOLO SHOWS
2018
A STRONG DESIRE | PS120 | Berlin | Germany
Architekturen der Segregation | Bärenzwinger | Berlin | Germany
Lesbian Visions | Schwules Museum | Berlin | Germany
Ich muss mit Ihnen sprechen | balzer projects | Basel | Switzerland
2017
12 x12 | Berlinische Galerie (video room) | Berlin | Germany
Drag Kings, Phantoms, Mirrors, Hands (one hundred years of dis/ appearance) | SixtyEight Art Institute | Copenhagen | Denmark
Terra Incocnita | Musrara Mix Festival | Jerusalem
2016
A Game between I and me | balzer projects | Basel | Switzerland
Projections | Rotterdam | Netherlands
Knock-Knock | Lovey Town | Madison | USA
1.-3. Person singular / plural | Kunstverein Leipzig | Germany
2015
Talking Business | cubus-m | Berlin
2014
Motives? That’s an ugly implication | Sonntag | Berlin
2013
say it like it is | cubus-m | Berlin
Prolog | Les Complices* | Zurich
2012
Showtime (with Alison J. Carr) | SIA Gallery | Sheffield
2011
Ambiguity is My Weapon | Gallery 400 UIC | Chicago
Showtime (with Alison J. Carr) | LoBe Art | Berlin
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS | SCREENINGS
2018
A Strong Desire | PS120 | Berlin | Germany
We can’t come from nothing – eight strategies of undoing borders and rethinking identities | Haohaus | Taipei
Welcome New World | CAA | Hangzhou | China
Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media | Stuttgart | Germany
Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche | Regensburg | Germany
2017
Drag Kings, Phantoms, Mirrors, Hands (one hundred years of dis/appearances) | SixtyEight Art Institute | Copenhagen | Denmark
International Short Film Festival | Oberhausen | Germany
German Federal Foreign Office | Berlin | Germany
Terra Incocnita | Musrara Mix Festival | Jerusalem
Museum Folkwang | Essen | Germany
Tape/Basel | Basel | Switzerland
2016
1.-3. Person plural | Kunstverein Leipzig | Leipzig
Projections | Art Rotterdam | Rotterdam
Monitoring, Kasseler Kunstverein / Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- uVideofest | Kassel
Works | Concordia University | Montreal
Videonale.15 | Kunstmuseum Bonn | Bonn
History is a Warm Gun | Neuer Berliner Kunstverein | Berlin
2014
Inheritance / act_out | gls Projekt | Berlin
Hausbesetzung | Nassauische Kunstverein | Wiesbaden
2012
Frame_ | Clarke Gallery | Birmingham
The Mobility Project | Clarke Gallery | Meter Room | Coventry
Das Gehorsame Walross und seine Betrachter | Turtle Lab | Berlin
2011
The Mobility Project | Clarke Gallery / Galerie Suvi Lehtinen | Berlin
Other Places | Camera Club | New York
Fast and Furious (Goldrausch art IT 2011) | Halle am Wasser | Berlin
2010
Proscenium | Atelierhof Kreuzberg | Berlin
Test (Master Student Show) | Uferhallen | Berlin
2009
Phoenix Radio – Politics of Queer-Feminist Space | Kunstraum Bethanien | Berlin
1,2,3 Diploma show | Projektraum Adalbertstraße | Berlin
2008
Gfest | McKenzie Pavilion Gallery | London
Trans.Ver 68 | Galerie der ver.di Bundesverwaltung | Berlin
Artikel 0 | German Federal Ministry of Justice | Berlin
Grey Area. Banality of Violence | Galerie der Künste | Berlin
SELECTED FESTIVALS | SCREENINGS
2018
D’EST – Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
ZK/U – Center of Art and Urbanistics, Berlin
Fajr International Film Festival, Teheran
Recontres Internationales – New Cinema and contemporary Art, Paris/Berlin
Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart
Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche, Regensburg
2017
LIFT / Pix Film Gallery, Toronto
International Short Film Festival (German Competition), Oberhausen
ASFA Athens (documenta14 Public Education), Athens
German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
Museum Folkwang, Essen
tape, photo basel (Art Basel), Basel
Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel
KFFK Short Film Festival, Cologne
2016
Musrara Mix Festival | Jerusalem
Stuttgarter Filmwinter
Sprach / Welten – drehbuchForum Wien | Wien
2015
Image Movement (MOVES#102) | Berlin
Arsenal | Institut für Film und Videokunst
2014
International Short Film Festival | Oberhausen
International Womens Film Festival IFFF | Cologne
Entzaubert Filmfestival | Berlin
Medienwerkstatt Berlin | Cinema Central | Berlin
Midnight Sun Film Festival | Finnland (Luosto-Sodankylä)
2013
Dokumentarfilm und Videokunst Fest | Kassel
Site Gallery | Sheffield
2012
Tegel – Flights of Fancy | Babylon / L40 | Berlin
Medienwerkstatt Berlin | Cinema Central | Berlin
2009
Elles Tournent | Brussels
Political Shortcuts | Koblenz
2008
London Film Festival | National Film Theatre | London
MIX Film Festival | Milan | Italy
MIX Experimental Film Festival | New York
2007
New Fest Film Festival | New York
Outfest | Los Angeles
Hong Kong Film Festival | Hong Kong
London Film Festival | National Film Theatre | London
SCHOLARSHIPS | RESIDENCES | FELLOWSHIPS
2018
Project Funding by the Senatskanzlei für Kultur und Europa Berlin
Project Funding by the Goethe Institut Montreal
2017
Research Grant by the Senatskanzlei für Kultur und Europa Berlin
2016
Artist in Residence and Scholarship holder of the German Federal Foreign Office | Berlin
2015
DAAD Travel Grant | Montreal
2014
Scholarship for Fine Artists from the City of Berlin
2013
Scholarship for female film and video maker from the City of Berlin
Werkleitz – Centre for Media Art, Halle (S.)
Citodruck – Artist in Residence | Zurich
2012
Mart Stam Foundation | Berlin
LoBe Art – London / Berlin – Artist in Residence | London / Sheffield
2011
Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art IT | BerlinIfA (Institute for Foreign Affairs) | Stuttgart
Travel Grant (Chicago) City of Berlin
Mart Stam Foundation | Berlin
2008
RLS-Foreign-Scholarship | New York
2007–2010
Scholarship holder of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (RLS)
TEACHING
Since 2014
MA Fine Art course ‚Virtuelle Realitäten’ together with Bjørn Melhus, Kunsthochschule Kassel
LECTURES | TALKS
2016
Züricher Hochschule der Künste | Zurich
Picture Berlin Sommerakademie | Berlin
2015
Concordia University Montreal | Montreal
‚Voice Drag: Germany’s culture of film dubbing – from political censorship to aesthetics of queer empowerment’
CCA (California College of the Arts) in Berlin | Berlin
Picture Berlin Sommerakademie | Berlin
2014
Picture Berlin Sommerakademie Berlin
2012
University of Coventry | Coventry
Hallam Sheffield University – Lecture series ‚Catastrophies’ | Sheffield
2011
University of Illinois at Chicago – Lecture series ‚Voices’ | Chicago
University of Birmingham – Lecture series ‚Zeitgeist – Film and Visual Culture’ | Birmingham