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CV Philipp Geist
Philipp Geist, born in Witten in 1976, grew up in Weilheim and moved to Berlin in 1999. As an artist and autodidact, he works internationally with the mediums video installation, audio/ visual performance, painting and photography,
Philipp Geist, geboren 1976 in Witten, aufgewachsen in Weilheim (Obb.), lebt seit 1999 in Berlin, als Künstler und Autodidakt. Er arbeitet international in den Medien Videoinstallation, Audio/ Visuelle Performance, Malerei und Fotografie
TEACHING ACTIVITY / LECTURES / scholarship / award
07/09 2010 Arbeitsstipendium Künstlerhaus Lukas
gefördert durch das Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
02-06/2009 Berlin Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule BTK - Lecturer
Kurs: Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft' / course: Long Night of Science'
11/2008 Montreal Goethe Institut artist talk
06/2008 Hamburg Elektrohaus artist talk
06/2008 Berlin Universität der Kuenste UdK "videokunst machen zeigen kaufen"
06/2008 Weilheim - Stadtmususeum lectures
05/2008 Berlin - Berliner Technische Universität - Baupiloten
03/2008 Bucharest - Transcities
08/2007 Lecturer for Video/ Film at Camp Festival Dresden
03/2007 Videoabend - Motorhalle Dresden
07/08 2006 Lecturer for Video/ Film at Int. Dresdner Sommerakademie
During the 'Long Night of the Museums', which is a special event taking place twice a year when most of Berlin's museums are open till 2 a.m., the Berlin-based artist Philipp Geist showed his video installation 'time fades' at the Kulturforum. In his installation Geist interprets the themes of space and time. He avoids using canvasses and projects directly on parts of the fadade of the architecture and on transparent grounds like sheets of gauze and fog. The result is an interplay between the concrete, tangible wall and the transparent, dissolving ground of projection. This
concept refers to the characteristics of history as experienced in a museum: history and the notion of it mainly develop subjectively in the mind of the onlooker. The representations of history are being animated in the moment of the visitor..s reflections. The dissolving projection ground symbolizes not only the fragmentary knowledge and understanding of the life in the past, which is to be completed, but also the memory which must be saved from disappearing and dissolving. Thus, Geist develops a dialogue with the location, his artistic work and the people who are entering and leaving the building. The visitor himself becomes part of the projected image at the threshold between the outside and inside.
Starting point of his video work were the collections of the museums, which Philipp Geis had filmed and photographed. The ancient art objects, as for example statues, sculptures, busts, paintings, gold decoration and mosaics in Rome and Berlin, were transformed with modern digital techniques (hard- and software) to manipulate the filmed images by abstracting, recolouring and overlaying them. Elements of the art pieces were separated from their context and arranged in new picture variants and artistic compositions. In the video installation, art pieces of the same and different epochs were combined. This conceptualisation emphasizes the simultaneous xistence of successive times and events in the visitor..s mind and the coexistence of different epochs in the historical knowledege of our time. The collections of the museums in Berlin are experienced from a contemporary perspective and interpreted in an artistic way.
7th REOPENING with Walter Valtroni (Mayor/ Rome)
8th Notte Bianca
To celebrate the reopening of one of Rome's most important cultural centres, on the night of September 7th, a video installation by Philipp Geist will transform the monumental facade of the building into video-architecture of dreamy digital settings and fragments of classical art
Video Installation - TIME LINES by Philipp Geist (VIDEOGEIST/ Berlin)
For his Video Installation TIME LINES in Rome, the Berlin-based artist Philipp Geist (born 1976) deliberately avoids the use of canvases and instead projects directly onto the concrete building facades of Plazzo delle Esposizioni. On 7th/ 8th of September, visitors can expect to see a selection of images alternating between purist, dreamlike and intangibly fragile compositions. The starting foundation for all of Philipp Geist's work is video material solely filmed and produced by himself.
Philipp Geist filmed ancient art objects, as for example statues, antique sculptures, busts, paintings, gold decoration and mosaics in Rome and Berlin, from unusual perspectives. Geist used modern digital techniques (hard- and software) to manipulate the filmed images by abstracting, recolouring and overlaying them. Elements of the art pieces are seperated from their context and arranged in new picture variants and artistic compositions. In the video installation art pieces from same and different epochs are combined. The projected moving images can be seen only on smooth surfaces in a clear and unbroken way. This fragmentary effect refers to the partial, only incompletely preserved antique art objects, and thus develops a symbiosis between the projection wall and the video art. An interaction emerges between the antique works and the contemporary, digital medium videoart on the architecture and the spectators, which both serve as projection ground.
By opting to use the three-dimensional, defined structure contours as projection surfaces instead of canvases, Geist increases the motifs abstraction while simultaneously regaining depth and diversity. In this way, Geist initiates a dialogue between the historically architecture, his artistic work and the people going in and out of the structure: The visitor himself becomes part of the projected image on the threshold between the inside and outside of the building.
The visitors make a time journey within picture worlds, which range from antiquity to the digital age.
NEW PHILLIP BOA & THE VOODOOCLUB VIDEO by PHILIPP GEIST
"On Tuesdays I'm not as young"
Philipp Geist (VIDEOGEIST) was born on February 28, 1976, in Witten, Germany. He grew up in Weilheim (Upper Bavaria). Since 1999, he has been living and working in Weilheim and Berlin.
Philipp Geist works internationally as a multi-media artist in the mediums of video, performance, photography and painting. In September 2007, he realized the video installation 'Time Lines' on the entire front of the Palazzo delle Espozioni in Rome at its re-opening after it had been closed for five years. The installation was opened by the mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, and was seen by approx. 20.000 visitors. In 2005, he realized the large project 'Winterzauber' ('Winter Magic') for the Lake Side Restaurant in Zurich and in 2006, he opened the Salon Noir within the context of the exhibition 'Melancholie, Genie und Wahnsinn' ('Melancholy, Genius and Insanity') in the Berlin Neuen National Galerie. Together with the symphony orchestra OBC Barcelona and the Finnish sound ensemble Pan Sonic, Geist opened in 2004 the Sonar Festival in Barcelona. His works were shown at the Dissonanze Festival in Rome, at Clubtransmediale in Berlin and at the Mutek Festival in Montreal which is renowned for new media. He has exhibited his live video performances internationally at the Central House of Artists (CHA) in Moscow, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London, the National Gallery in Warsaw (Zacheta) and at the opening of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.
In his video-room-installation 'RIVERINE' Geist shows video recordings of rivers from different international locations. With underwater-video-cameras, he records the world under water. It is an attempt to get in touch with our immediate, but distant reality, an artistic discussion with the element water. Geist points out a part of our reality that is usually hidden from us. As in Geist..s other art projects, the form and content of RIVERINE is conditioned by the place where the work is being presented, most of all in art galleries, but also in other places like Club11 in Amsterdam. The project has passed the following stations so far: Colone, Berlin, Munich, Chiemsee, Bremen and Dresden. A highlight was the exhibition in the Three-Walls-Gallery in Chicago in April 2007, supported by the Institut fuer Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA).
He has been invited to give courses and workshops, for example in the summer academy in Dresden in 2006 and in the 'Wuerttembergischen Kunstverein' in Stuttgart in the context of the interdisciplinary festival CAMP in August 2007. In the same year he joined the jury of the BackUp-Festival in order to evaluate the submitted films.
He has taken part in various group exhibitions, for example in the Illustrative 2007 in Berlin where he presented his his multi-channel-Installation 'Paradise Lost' based on the engravings by Gustave Dore.
Further projects are characterized by their complexity and the integration of the location, the sound and moving images. In the end of 2006 he contributed visuals to the DOM-project, performing with the saxophonist Johannes Enders in a church in Weilheim.
Music and sound play an important role in Philipp Geist..s works. The music influences the speed of the images, the intensity of its effects, its colours and contents. In the course of this process an audo-visual merging is created, leading to the fact that images, music and the location can be experienced in a new, synaesthic way. Geist selects the images live and as the music is generally improvised, the images are found and modified spontaneously.
Geist worked together with zither soloist/composer Leopold Hurt and electronic musicians Hannes and Andi Teichmann (Gebr. Teichmann) for the project Hurt Teichmann Geist. Moreover, his collaborative work with Dirk Dresselhaus (SchneiderTM) and Ilpo Vasaeinen (Pan Sonic) resulted in the 'noise' music project 'Angel'.
It was through photography and painting that Geist gradually made his way to video art. He had his debut as a painter at the age of 18. For the presentation of his artworks he selected an unusual location: a forest in Polling, Upper Bavaria. A number of exhibitions of his pictures and photography followed thereafter in the Stadtmuseum Schonau and Munich (slideshow with Console/Martin Gretschmann),
In the year 2000 Geist created a video composition for the musical piece 'Jolanda' by the Weilheimer Avantgarde jazz ensemble Tied & Tickled Trio (with Markus and Micha Acher ('The Notwist') as well as with jazz saxophonist Johannes Enders and others). From that time onward his works have been sought after at international video and digital art festivals such as the Biennale in Santiago de Chile, 'Kurzfilmtagen' in Regensburg, the media tower in Graz, 'Filmwinter' in Stuttgart and the Electronic Art Festival in Warsaw. Geist's subsequent projects included the production of music video clips for Phonem, Tied & Tickled Trio, Console, Philip Boa, Angel, beigeGT, Ephy and Kpt.michi.gan.
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