LENA DITTE NISSEN
BIO / CV
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The Danish-German artist and filmmaker Lena Ditte Nissen studied film and media art at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
Her films, performances and installations have been shown at international institutions and film festivals such as the Museo de Arte Moderno Rio de Janeiro, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Museo del Banco de la República Bogotá, film museums in Frankfurt and Düsseldorf, KAI10 Arthena Foundation, Rubenstein Art Center, CCA Center for Contemporary Art Tbilisi, the International Film Festivals in Edinburgh and Belo Horizonte, DOK Leipzig, CPH:DOX, WNDX Festival of Moving Image, 25FPS Zagreb, Festival de nouveau cinéma Montréal and the Anthology Film Archive NYC amongst others.
Lena has been artist in residence at SOMA Mexico, LightCone Paris, and lugar a dudas in Cali, Colombia, and has given artist talks and presentations at various institutions such as ART HUB Copenhagen and ICI Institute for Cultural Inquiry Berlin.
2019/20 she was a fellow at the international Art & Theory program at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen in Innsbruck, Austria. She is a Berlinale Talents alumna from 2022, where she presented her first feature experimental film in development, for which she received research funding from the Film und Medien Stiftung NRW. 2021/22 Lena is a fellow at Sommerakademie Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland where she was selected by artist Dora Garcia. For 2022/23 she received the renowned annual working grant by Stiftung Kunstfonds.
Larger projects and stays abroad have been funded by the Film- und Medien Stiftung NRW, Kunststiftung NRW, the Danish Arts Foundation, the DAAD, and the Kulturbüro NRW. She is currently a junior research fellow at IFK Vienna (International Research Center for Cultural Sciences) and her artistic research is funded with a three-year grant by the Austrian Academy of the Sciences. Lena is working on her first feature-length documentary about a female perpetrator from National Socialism with the German production companies pong and Blinker, production is planned for 2023.
In addition to her artistic career, since 2013 she has also curated various film and video programs that have been shown at international venues including Cinemateca Nacional de Colombia and the FAR OFF fair for contemporary art in Cologne, Germany. In 2018 she held a studio scholarship at Bonner Kunstverein together with Alisa Berger, with whom she works in the artist-duo ‘bergernissen’ since 2011.
. screenings / performances / exhibitions / online (s/p/e/on)
2022
Goethe Center Maputo . MOZ (e)
Filmmuseum Potsdam . DE (on)
Gemeinde Köln . DE (solo - e)
2021
PRISME . Nantes . FR (s)
FRACTO . Acud Macht Neu . Berlin . DE (s)
Experiments in Cinema . New Mexico . USA (s)
IDENTITY IS UNCERTAINTY #2 . Kunstpavillon . Innsbruck . AT (e)
Window Videos . Buchhandlung Walther König . Cologne . DE (e)
2020
DOK Leipzig . DE (s) (German Premiere of short film THERE IS)
A Handful of Dust . Berlin . DE (p) (in collaboration with historian Sandra Franz
KinoviSIEon LEO Kino. Innsbruck . AT (solo screening night)
CPH:DOX . Copenhagen . DK (s) (World Premiere of short film THERE IS)
Geumcheon Art Space . Seoul . CO (with Alisa Berger) (e)
2019
Premierentage (Gallery Weekend) . Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen . Innsbruck . AT (s)
Cicuito Nomadica . Bologna . ITA (s)
Galerie der Künstler . München . DE (with Alisa Berger) (e)
Queer Experimental Shorts . Filmpalette . Köln . DE (s)
FRACTO at ACUD MACHT NEU . Berlin . DE (s)
AWAKENING DESTRUCTION . Gemeinde Köln . Köln . DE (with Alisa Berger) (p/e)
Vorspiel/Transmediale&CTM . Berlin . DE (s
2018
Die Freiheit erhebt ihr Haupt . Rathausgalerie . München . DE (e)
Fragen ohne Antworten . München . DE (with Carl Nissen) (p/e)
The Hub Gallery . München . DE (p)
SURVIVING THE FITNESS - Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel . DE (with Alisa Berger) (e)
FRACTO at ACUD MACHT NEU . Berlin . DE (s)
DA! Art Award . Düsseldorf. DE (e)
Open Studios . Atelierhaus des Bonner Kunstvereins . DE (e)
Rubenstein Arts Center . Duke University . Durham . USA (s)
Schmalfilmtage Dresden . Dresden . DE (s/p)
2017
De Ateliers . Amsterdam Gallery Weekend . NL (e)
Museo de Arte Moderno . Rio de Janeiro . BRA (s)
Espectro Electromagnético with Goethe Institut Mexico . Mexico City . MX (s)
25FPS . special screening programmed by Mads Mikkelsen of CPH:DOX . Zagreb . HR (s)
HOW TO AVOID TRAUMA . SOMA . Mexico City . MX (e)
La Lumière Collective . Montreal . CA (s)
Pärnu International Documentary Film Festival . Pärnu . EST (s)
Edinburgh International Film Festival . UK (s)
Chicago Underground Film Festival . USA (s)
PLAY - Video&Performance Festival . Cologne/Düsseldorf . DE (e)
Meconio - Muestra de Nuevos Artistas . Madrid . ES (s)
EVA13 . Freies Atelierhaus Graz . A (e)
pixfilm . Toronto . CA (s)
CPH:DOX . Danish Artists film/video . Copenhagen . DK (s)
Scratch Projection . LIGHT CONE . Paris . FR (s)
EVA13 / Media Conference2017 . BACC Bangkok Art and Culture Center . Bangkok . THA (e)
Gaze As Metaphor . DISPLAY . Berlin . DE (e)
2016
aCinema . Milwaukee . USA (s)
Galerie Januar . Bochum . DE (e)
Festival de nouveau cinéma . Montreal . CA (s)
KAI10 | Arthena Foundation - TAKE UP YOUR SPACE . Düsseldorf . DE (with Alisa Berger) (p)
Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival . BRA (s)
Chicago Underground Film Festival . USA (s)
Edinburgh International Film Festival . UK (s)
Anthology Film Archives . AXWFF . NewYork . USA (s)
CCA - Center for Contemporary Art . Tbilisi . Georgia (s)
THE PLACE I WILL HAVE LEFT . Glaasmoog . Köln . DE (e)
Experiments in Cinema . Albuquerque . New Mexico . USA (s)
Tiefgarage . Köln . DE (with Alisa Berger) (e)
2015
CPH:DOX . Danish Artists film/video . Copenhagen . DK (s)
Videonale Scope . Köln . DE (s)
Beat the silence . Filmmuseum Düsseldorf . DE (with Alisa Berger) (e/p)
191° . Weltkunstzimmer . Düsseldorf . DE (with Alisa Berger) (e/p)
B3 Biennale . Filmmuseum Frankfurt . DE (s)
Transient Visions - Festival of moving image . NY . USA (s)
Festival de nouveau cinéma . Montreal . CAN (s)
Selbes und Anderes . Moltkerei . Köln . DE (e)
Knapp aber möglich . W57 . Düsseldorf . DE (e)
Time Based Academy . Kunsthalle Düsseldorf/Salon des Amateurs . DE (with Alisa Berger) (e)
Believing History . Kloster Lorsch . DE (with Alisa Berger, Mira Sattelberger, Katharina Zink) (e)
Supercopy . Mannheim . DE (e)
European Media Art Festival EMAF . Osnabrück . DE (with Alisa Berger) (e)
Art Cinema 3.5 . Ved siden af . Svendborg . DK (s)
Videonale Parcours . Fabrik45/LVR-Museum . Bonn. DE (e)
Baustelle Schaustelle . Essen . DE (p)
Le Clignoteur . Brussels . BE (s)
Kunstverein Jahnstraße . Braunschweig . DE (with Alisa Berger)(e)
2014
COPY&PASTE . Karlsruhe . DE (e)
ART CINEMA . Habitat . Odense . DK (s)
Kunstfilmtage . Düsseldorf . DE (with Alisa Berger) (e)
Lichterfest . K21 . Düsseldorf . DE (with Alisa Berger) (p)
EVA . Bangkok Art & Culture Centre . THA (e)
Filmabend der Kunstakademie . Kunstfilmkino Black Box . Düsseldorf . DE (s)
Visions . The Picture Show . Brooklyn . USA (s)
Personal Films . Art und Amen . Cologne . DE (s)
Heidelberger Kunstverein . Heidelberg . DE (with Alisa Berger in an exhibition of Joscha Steffens) (p)
Another Place/Another Space/Together . Quadriennale . Düsseldorf . DE (e)
Experiments in Cinema . Albuquerque . New Mexico . USA (s)
KunstHoch 46 . group-exhibition . Braunschweig . DE (s)
Directors Lounge . Berlin . DE (s)
FULL SATURATION . Kunstpavillon . München . DE (e)
2013
CPH:DOX . New Danish Artists . Copenhagen . DK (s)
Festival de nouveau cinéma . Montreal . CAN (s)
European Short Film Festival MIT . Cambridge . USA (s)
Searching for the white cube . Bochum . DE (with Alisa Berger) (p)
Friday Lights . Herz Jesu Church . Cologne . DE (with Alisa Berger) (p)
Kühlhaus . Berlin Art Week Program by team titanic . Berlin . DE (with Alisa Berger) (p)
WNDX - Festival of Moving Image . Winnipeg . Canada (s)
open studio . Lugar de dudas . Cali . CO (with Alisa Berger) (p)
Subrefugios . Taller Abierto . Manizales . CO (s)
Museo de Arte del Banco de la Republica . Bogota . CO (with Alisa Berger) (p)
Camp/1 - Festival für künstlerischen Film und Performance . Halle-Leipzig . DE (s)
Anthology Film Archives . NYC . USA (s)
My Eyes Hurt KHM exhibition . Art Cologne . Cologne . DE (e)
Festival Internacional de la Imagen . Manizales . CO (with Alisa Berger) (p)
Avantgarde, Politik und Psyche . Kunstwerke . Cologne . DE (with Alisa Berger) (p)
2012
We are Karen Eliot . Bundesverband Bildender Künstler . Cologne . DE (e)
Kunstwerke . Cologne. DE (s)
KUB Gallery . Leipzig . DE (s)
Galerie Frei . Cologne . DE (with Alisa Berger) (p)
Bundeskunsthalle . Bonn . DE (e)
2011
Höre auf Sehen . Bocklemünd . DE (s)
Girls on throat . Sint Lukas Akademie . Ghent . BE (with Alisa Berger and Margarita Maximova) (p)
2010 Malmö Festival . Malmö . SE (with Caroline Arvidsson) (p)
. curatorial projects
2018 HELLO FROM THE OTHER SIDE . experimental videos and films by Jakob Ohrt, Ana Vaz,
Lisa Rave, Mike Scholz . FAR OFF art fair . Cologne . DE
2017 THAILIFE . experimental videos from students of King Mongkut Institute of Technology
Ladkrabang and Chiang Mai University in Thailand . FAR OFF art fair . Cologne . DE
2015 The Other; I . experimental video and film . Art und Amen . Cologne . DE
2014 Avistamientos II . Cinemateca Distrital de Bogota . experimental video and film . in
collaboration with Andrés Jurado and Alisa Berger . CO
Personal Films . Experimental films by Evamaria Schaller, Kerstin Neuwirth, Alisa Berger and
Gunvor Nelson . Art und Amen . Cologne . DE
2013 Danish Dawn . GOLD+BETON . danish experimental video program from students and alumni
of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art . Cologne . DE
Avistamientos . Mapa Teatro (Bogota) / Cinemateca de la Universidad del Valle (Cali) .
experimental video and film from Mexico, Colombia and Germany . in collaboration with
Andrés Jurado (CO), Erik Tlaseca (MX) and Alisa Berger (DE) . CO
2012 Experimental Cologne . Zaija Lab . Experimental film and video of students and alumni of the
Academy of Media Art Cologne . Beijing . CH
. publications/releases
2020 AGENDA - Business Magazine . Interview about working conditions for artists (printed only)
2019 Die Tirolerin - Lifestyle Magazine . Studio Visit with interview
2019 Perisphere Blog . interview on the exhibition/performance AWAKENING DESTRUCTION w. Alisa Berger
2017 HOW TO AVOID TRAUMA . publication of the residency at SOMA . Mexico City
2017 THAI-EU Media Conference . foreword in the publication . BACC . Bangkok
2015 Kopenhagen Art Institute . interview on occasion of the screening of my film ANÓME at CPH:DOX
2015 Landscapes of fear. sound-art compilation with various artists . Grünrekorder Records
2015 BELIEVING HISTORY . catalog of group exhibition . Kerber Verlag
2014 KUNSTFILMTAGE DÜSSELDORF . catalog of group exhibition
2014 FULL SATURATION . postcard-edition of group-exhibition, Kunstpavillon München
2013 MY EYES HURT . catalog/postcard-edition of the KHM-exhibition at ART COLOGNE 2013
2012 Echo . catalog of exhibition-series ECHOraum of KHM in the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
… and various Filmfestival catalogs, among others CPH:DOX, VIDEONALE, Festival de nouveau cinéma,
Experiments in Cinema, WNDX - Festival of Moving Image, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival,...
. education
since 2019 PhD in practice Kunstuniversität Linz . AU
2010-2016 Academy of Media Art Cologne KHM . Cologne . DE
2014-2016 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf . Düsseldorf . DE
2013 Universidad Nacional de Bogotá . Fine Art Department . Bogotá . CO
. residencies / further education
2020/2021 DOK ART, development program for feature documentaries, Bavaria, DE
2019/2020 KÜNSTLERHAUS BÜCHSENHAUSEN, art & theory fellowship, Innsbruck, AU
2019 Ji.hlava Film Festival Academy, development program for documentaries, Jihlava, CZE
2019 MUSENRAUM, development program I for feature documentaries, Chiemsee, DE
2018 TRAVERS, Copenhagen, DK (interdisciplinary residency)
2017 SOMA Summer, Mexico City, MX (residency)
2016 LIGHT CONE; Atelier 105, Paris, FR (post-production residency)
2013 lugar a dudas, Cali, Colombia (residency in collaboration with Alisa Berger)
2012 International Summer Academy Salzburg (fully funding scholarship, course by Mara Mattuschka)
2012 Künstlerdorf Schöppingen (residency as member of the ‘Raumfaltung’ collective)
2011 Kolleg für Musik und Kunst Montepulciano, Italy
2011 Videonale (Kunstmuseum Bonn) (workshop in Kattowitze, Poland)
. teaching / research / talks / jury
summer 2021 teaching Artistic Research course at Katholische Hochschule NRW Münster . DE
february 2021 artist talk at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen . AU
december 2020 artist talk at ART HUB . Copenhagen . DK
winter 2020/21 teaching Experimental Documentary Film at Katholische Hochschule NRW Münster . DE
july 2020 jury-member for open call exhibition . NKR Düsseldorf. DE
march 2020 Project-Presentation at the Nordic Summer University . Berlin . DE
february 2020 Lecture at UTOPIA Symposium . Filmbüro NW . DE
december 2019 screening and master class at FAMU - Film and TV School . Prague . CZ
winter 2019 teaching Experimental Documentary Film at Katholische Hochschule NRW Münster . DE
october 2019 artist talk at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen . AU
february 2019 talk at Kunstspeisen, an event organized by Pinakotheken München
january 2018 Jury-member of the international short film competition at Dresdner Schmalfilmtage . DE
september 2017 Talk and presentation of works at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos at
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (CUEC - UNAM) . MX
jan - april 2017 Guest Teacher/Researcher at King Mongkut Institute of Technology . Bangkok . THA
Video-Art course for B.A.-students and advisor for M.A.-students
june 2012 Presentation of work at Kolloquium Kunst und Wissenschaft . Kunstakademie Münster . DE
. scholarships / funding
2021 Scholarship by the City of Cologne (research grant)
2021 Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (travel funding)
2020 Kunststiftung NRW - Junge Szene (project funding)
2020 Danish Arts Foundation (production grant)
2019/20 Government of Nordrhein-Westphalia (individual travel scholarship)
2018 Film und Medien Stiftung NRW (film-production grant)
2018 Danish Arts Foundation (production grant, solo-performance at The Hub Gallery, Munich)
2018 Danish Arts Foundation (production grant for the exhibition SURVIVING THE FITNESS)
2018 Danish Arts Foundation (general working grant)
2018 Danish Arts Foundation (3 week travel-grant,Greece)
2017 Bonner Kunstverein, Germany (studio stipend)
2017 DAAD (research scholarship for Mexico, 6 months)
2017 Kunststiftung NRW - Junge Szene (project funding)
2017 Danish Arts Foundation (travel-grant, research phase, Mexico)
2016 AG Kurzfilm - Bundesverband Deutscher Kurzfilm (travel-grant, Montreal)
2016 NRW Kultur Sekretariat - PerformAktiv (project funding with Alisa Berger)
2016 Danish Arts Foundation (residency grant)
2013 DAAD (scholarship for the international exchange to Bogotá, Colombia)
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