Martin Brand
1975 Born in Bochum
1996 - 2002 Study of Art and German, Ruhr Universität Bochum and Universität Dortmund
Currently Lives and works in Cologne
Awards, Fundings, Residencies and Scholarships (Selection)
2011 Project and Exhibition Funding, SK-Stiftung Kultur Köln
2010 Project and Catalogue Funding, Galerie Münsterland and DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst
2010 Project Funding, Museum Ostwall Dortmund
2008 Exhibition and Catalogue Funding, Stiftung Kunstfonds
2008 Artist in Residence, CAS Osaka, JP
2008 Scholarship for Young Artists, Kunststiftung NRW
2007 Artist in Residence, Pilotprojekt Gropiusstadt Berlin
2007 European Media Artists in Residence Exchange (EMARE), Impakt Utrecht, NL
2006 Funding Award of North Rhine-Westphalia for Young Artists
2006 SUMU Residence for New Media Artists, Gallery Titanik Turku, FI
2004 Funding Award of Dortmund for Young Artists
Solo Shows (Selection)
2011 Through the Looking Glass. Kunsthaus Wiesbaden
2011 Parque de Iturriza. Kunstverein Bochum
2011 Portraits of Young Men. Olaf Stüber Berlin
2010 Portraits of Young Men. Kunstverein Galerie Münsterland Emsdetten
2010 Portraits of Young Men. Headegg München
2009 Boyz n the Hood. With Mirko Martin. Olaf Stüber Berlin
2008 Eyes Wide Shut. Dortmunder Kunstverein
2005 Fight for your right. Kunstverein Bochumer Kulturrat
2005 Fight for your right. Zapp Galerie Berlin
2004 Still. Galerie am Rathaus Bochum
Group Shows (Selection)
2011/12 Why I never became a dancer. Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst München
2011/12 Ansichten des Ich. Schader Stiftung and Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
2011/12 Nothing in the World but Youth. Turner Contemporary Margate, Kent, UK
2011 Die Dritte Mitte. Neues Problem Berlin
2011 Fear in the Black Box. Trafo Gallery Budapest
2010 Inter-Cool 3.0. HMKV Hartware Medien Kunstverein im Dortmunder U
2010 Blickwechsel. Kunstverein Paderborn
2010 U-Westend. Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U
2010 Kick Off. Kunsthallen Nikolaj Kopenhagen
2008 CASO Contomporary Art Space Osaka
2008 Shift Electronic Art Festival Basel
2008 Glanz und Globalisierung. PROGR Bern
2008 Young Identities - Global Youth. European Media Art Festival Osnabrück
2007 100 Days = 100 Videos. GL Strand Copenhagen
2007 Ida Gerhardi Förderpreis. Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid
2006 Open Call Förderpreis. Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster
2006 Marler Video-Kunst-Preis. Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl
2006 Glanz und Globalisierung. Hartware Medien Kunstverein Dortmund
2005 Expanded Media. Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
2004 Gewalt.Macht.Spaß. Galerie der Evangelischen Stadtakademie Frankfurt a.M.
Screenings (Selection)
2011 Transmediale Berlin
2010 Werkleitz Festival Halle (Saale)
2010 Video Folkwang, Museum Folkwang Essen
2009 International Short Film Festival Hamburg
2008 International Documentary Film Festival FID Marseille
2008 European Media Art Festival Osnabrück
2007 KunstFilmBiennale Cologne
2007 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
2007 Impakt Festival Utrecht
2006 International Short Film Festival Leuven
2006 Viennale Vienna International Film Festival
2006 Festival Videoformes Clermont Ferrand
2006 Cinéma du réel, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2005 Filmfestival Münster
2005 VideoLisboa Lisbon
2004 Documentary Film and Video Festival Kassel
2004 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin