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Kerstin Honeit
Lives and works in Berlin
Email: mail(at)kerstinhoneit.com
Website: www.kerstinhoneit.com
TEACHING
2021 – 2022
Visiting Professor for Virtual Realities at the Faculty of Visual Arts, Kunsthochschule Kassel
2020 – 2021
Visiting Lectureship for Media Art, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
STUDY
2010
Master Student (Meisterschuelerin), Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
2003–2009
Sculpture and Stage Design, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
THIS IS POOR! Patterns of Poverty, KINDL / M1 Video Space, Berlin
2022
VOICE WORKS, VOICE STRIKES – DIE STIMME ALS ARBEITER*IN, Filmhaus / KFFK, Cologne
2021
The Viral City, Goethe Institut Montreal, Montreal
2020
Video of the Month: PANDA MOONWALK, HMKV, Dortmund*
Fondation Phi pour l’art contemporain, Montreal (postponed)
2019
Videorama: PANDA MOONWALK, Werkleitz, Halle (Saale)
2018
Architecture of Segregation / Swinger (with Paetzung-Hertweck), Bärenzwinger, Berlin*
2017
12 x12, Berlinische Galerie (video room), Berlin
2016
A Game between I and Me, balzer projects, Basel
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 ‚Pigs in Progress‘, Les Complices*, Zurich
2012
Showtime (with Alison J. Carr), SIA Gallery, Sheffield
2011
Kerstin Honeit – Ambiguity is My Weapon (Solo Show), Gallery 400 UIC, Chicago*
Showtime (with Alison J. Carr), LoBe London/Berlin/Art, Berlin
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Monitoring Exhibition – Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Kassel
Art Speaks Through Us – Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival 2024, Berghain, Berlin
2023
REMEMBER, PERFORM, FORGET: Binding Space Through Utopia, PHI Foundation, Montreal
2021
Artists’ Film International at:
Whitechapel Gallery, London / Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin / Ballroom Marfa, Texas / Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm / Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius / Belgrade Cultural Center, Belgrade / Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires / GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo / Hammer Museum, Los Angeles / Hanoi Doclab, Hanoi / MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia, Lissabon / Istanbul Modern, Istanbul / Museum of Modern Art, Warschau / Para Site, Hongkong / Project 88, Mumbai / Tromsø Center for Contemporary Art, Tromsø / Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
iruru, muyu, perímetro, umfang – Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (CAC), Quito
2020
Uferhallen Manifest, Uferhallen Berlin, Berlin
BEING LAID UP WAS NO EXCUSE FOR NOT MAKING ART – CHAPTER 1 Humor post-#MeToo, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg
Far away, so close – Scholarship holders of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, HaL, Berlin
2019
Palast der Republik – Utopie, Inspiration, Politikum, Kunsthalle Rostock,* Rostock
On Destruction and Preservation, balzer projects, Basel
2018
Something Else – Off Biennale, Cairo
And what about your ‚Good Morning, New World?‘, CAA Art Museum, Hangzhou*
A Strong Desire, PS120, Berlin
Lesbian Visions, Schwules Museum, Berlin
We can’t come from nothing – eight strategies of undoing borders and rethinking identities, Haohaus, Taipei
Throwing Gestures, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin*
2017
Drag Kings, Phantoms, Mirrors, Hands (one hundred years of dis/ appearance), SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen
Terra Incocnita – Musrara Mix Festival, Jerusalem
2016
Projections, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam*
Knock-Knock, Lovey Town, US
1.-3. Person singular / plural, Kunstverein Leipzig, Leipzig
2015
Monitoring, Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Video Fest, Kassel*
Videonale 15, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn*
History is a Warm Gun, n.b.k., Berlin*
2014
inheritance / act_out, gls Projekt, Berlin
Squatting, Nassauische Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
2012
Frame_ , Clarke Gallery, Birmingham
The Mobility Project goes Coventry, Clarke Gallery at Meter Room, Coventry
Das Gehorsame Walross und seine Betrachter, Turtle Lab Berlin, Berlin
2011
The Mobility Project, Clarke Gallery at Galerie Suvi Lehtinen, Berlin
Other Places, Camera Club, New York
Fast and Furious, Halle am Wasser, Berlin*
*Catalogue
SELECTED FESTIVALS / SCREENINGS
2024
Favoriten Festival, Dortmund
2023
Goethe Institut, Oslo
Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Berlin
Crossing Film Festival, Vardø
dotdotdot, Vienna
IFFF (International Womens Film Festival), Dortmund
2022
KFFK – Spotlight 2022 – Kerstin Honeit (Retrospective), Cologne
IFFF (International Womens Film Festival), Cologne/Dortmund
Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart
2021
Werkleitz & IFFF Köln/Dortmund Filmreihe: Was wir filmten – Regisseurinnen mit ostdeutschen Perspektiven, Zazie Kino, Halle
Blonde Cobra Open Air Summer Special, Cologne
Recontres Internationales – New Cinema and contemporary Art, Berlin
Xposed, Queer Film Festival, Berlin
Hong Kong Independent Film Festival, Hong Kong (online)
Recontres Internationales – New Cinema and contemporary Art, Paris (online)
Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart (online)
2020
30 Years Goldrausch Artist Program, Berlin (online)
Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel (online)
KFFK – Short Film Festival Cologne, Cologne (online)
International Womens Film Festival IFFF, Cologne (online)
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (online blog)
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Hamburg (canceled)
Freie Akademie der Künste, Hamburg (postponed)
Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche, Regensburg
Filmfest Dresden, International Short Film Festival, Dresden
2019
Blonde Cobra #2 – Festival for queer & experimental cinema, Cologne
KFFK – Short Film Festival Cologne (Awarded), Cologne
Interfilm – International Short Film Festival, Berlin
FilmPlus-Editing Awards, Cologne
International Short Film Festival São Paulo, São Paulo
Ruhrtriennale, Third Space, Bochum
Interiors to Being Festival, Berlin
International Short Film Festival (German Competition), Oberhausen
International Womens Film Festival IFFF, Dortmund
Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart
2018
VAM Festival, Babylon Cinema, Berlin
#99 Videoart at Midnight, Babylon Cinema, Berlin
Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel
MMOMA Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
La Centrale / Powerhouse, Montreal
Code Art Fair, Copenhagen
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
Filmakademie Wien –‚I turn over the pictures of my voice in my head‘ curated by Brainin-Dannenberg
Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart
Musrara Mix Festival, Jerusalem
2015
Image Movement (MOVES#102), Berlin
Arsenal, Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin
2014
International Short Film Festival (German Competition), Oberhausen
International Womens Film Festival IFFF, Cologne
Entzaubert Film Festival, Berlin
Grand Filiale Film Festival, Speyer
2013
Site Gallery, Sheffield
Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel
2012
TEGEL – Flights of Fancy, Babylon Cinema Berlin*
Medienwerkstatt Berlin at Cinema Central Berlin
2010
100 Grad, HAU1, 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, USA
Hong Kong Film Festival, Hong Kong
London Film Festival, National Film Theatre, London
SCHOLARSHIPS / GRANTS / RESIDENCIES / AWARDS
2023
Film funding by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg for the project ‚THIS IS POOR! Patterns of Poverty‘
2022
Scholarship for Artists by Kunstfonds Foundation, Bonn
2021
Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media – Awarded with the Norman Jury Prize (International Competition), Stuttgart
2020
Scholarship for Artists (Sonderfoerderprogramm 20/21) by Kunstfonds Foundation, Bonn
Project Funding (catalogue funding) by the Senatskanzlei für Kultur und Europa Berlin
2019
KFFK – Short Film Festival Cologne Awarded with the Jury Prize (German Competition), Cologne
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
Aritst in Residence, German Federal Foreign Office
2015
DAAD Travel Grant (Montreal)
2014
Scholarship for Artists by the Senatskanzlei für kulturelle Angelegenheiten Berlin
2013
Scholarship for female film- and videomaker by the Senatskanzlei für kulturelle Angelegenheiten Berlin
Werkleitz – Centre for Media Art, Halle (S.) (Project Funding)
Citro Druck+Studios, Zurich, CH (Residency)
2012
Mart Stam Gesellschaft, Berlin (Project Funding)
LoBe Art London / Berlin (Residency)
2011
Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art IT (Scholarship), Berlin, Germany
Supported Solo Show in Chicago by Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen,
Senatskanzlei für kulturelle Angelegenheiten Berlin, Mart Stam Gesellschaft, Berlin
2008
RLS-Foreign-Scholarship (New York)
2007–2010
Scholarship holder of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (RLS)