Tina Zimmermann

BIO

Tina Zimmermann

is an interdisciplinary artist living in Berlin.
>> installation, sculpture, media art, digital video, photography, drawing, painting << mixing and matching her manyfold creative skills and passions according to the need of the hour.
The fact that she was born ambidextrous - which means that both her neural brain hemispheres are equally developed - //writing with the right hand, drawing with the left, or vice versa// - might be the foundation of her wide range of artistic expression. From highly technical logical leftbrain digital art to totally intuitive and highly emotional drawing and painting she is more creative "Universalgenie" than "Fachidiot".
Her distinct style of "organic media art" is applied in such diverse projects and environments as gallery shows, permanent and temporary site-specific video mapping installations, urban intervention, stage design for opera and theatre productions, and live VJ performances for clubs and festivals.
She is a digital hunter and gatherer of images, video and artefacts of the natural and cultural worlds. She recontextualizes and rearranges common sights of nature and civilisation into new sensory and conceptual phenomena - sometimes soothing, sometimes disturbing while always poetic and referencing the potential of everyday objects to awe-inspire.

After studying Industrial Design at Art Center College of Design in Switzerland and Pasadena/Los Angeles, she worked as Product Designer in an international design agency for global tech industry clients like Toshiba and Samsung. Being bored of designing plastic boxes for technology she decided to take on a Master of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Art at San Francisco State University, while immersing herself in the thiving underground techno scene in San Francisco and being the Art Director of a local independent electronic music record label, experimenting very early with the then completely new technologies of digital video, web design, 3D digital graphics and animation.
When in 2000 Bush junior came to powerin the U.S., the first bubble of the Dotcom industry as well as the Twin Towers collapsed, it was time to leave California and settle in Berlin, where she has been working as an independent artist since 2001. She has produced installations and live visuals for some of the most famous buildings in Germany - The Berlin TV Tower, the Schloss Bellevue ( residence of the German president) and historic locations like the Bode Museum (German National Sculpture Museum) and Berliner Dom (Berlin Cathedral) She was commissioned to create video art for corporate clients like ADAC, Huawei, Beiersdorf, Zalando, Boston Consulting Group while at the same time working for the biggest alternative culture and music festivals like Fusion Festival, Boom or Burning Man Festival.
Being born and raised in the beautiful lush nature of the Bodensee region close to Switzerland (Lake Constance, the biggest lake in Germany), having gazed at the big lake and eternal snow caps of the Alps in the bakground through all her childhood and having lived on the shores of California for many years - WATER has been her ongoing artistic theme- it is her continuous passion to record and represent Water in all its different physical aggregates and cultural appropriations. Being both connected deeply to nature and living the big city life of LA, SF and Berlin she is immersing herself creatively in the eternal attractiveness of natural phenomena as well as the subtle beauties of man-made messyness . The intersections of biomass and civilizational debris in the age of the antropozen have become her main artistic focus. Her sign-of-the-times organic media art illustrates situations of our emerging hybrid life form - when techne and physis, artificial and organic substance inevitably merge and - for better or worse - dissolve the boundaries of man-made and natural realms.

Education

San Francisco State University 1998-2001
Master of Arts with Honors in Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Art

Art Center College of Design, Pasadena/Los Angeles 1993-1995
Bachelor of Science with Honors in Industrial Design/Product Design

Art Center (Europe), Vevey Switzerland 1992-1993
Industrial Design/Product Design

Mercedes-Benz – Sindelfingen 1992
Bozell Jabcobs - New York 1992
Siemens – München 1994
Internships in design departments

Selected Exhibitions and Projects

2020
Landesgartenschau Baden-Württemberg, Wasseraltar and two more Public Art Installations, Überlingen Bodensee
Sydney Contemporary - Jake Hoerner Gallery, solo artist show at Sydney Art Fair,

2019
Art Base Festival - Installation for Urban Art Festival at historic lunatic asylum Neustrelitz
Unter Strom - Endmoräne Sommerwerkstatt, Turbinenhalle am Stienitzsee
Litfaßsäulen Berlin, Urban art intervention on 50 Berliner Litfaßsäulen, Collection at Deutsches Historisches Museum
Fusion Festival - Videomapping and Installation of Theatre Plaza, Lärz

2018
Niko and the Navigators - Video stage design for theatre show, Sophiensääle Berlin
Asia Pacific Week - Videomapping and Installation at ESMT and Heiligkreuzkirche, Berlin
Fusion Festival - Concept and Installation of Theatre Plaza, Lärz

2017
Festival of Lights Award 2017 - Special Award winnner for "Democracy" Videomapping on Schloss Bellevue (Federal presidential residence)
Videomapping on Berliner Dom (Berlin Cathedral) finalist Festival of Lights Award
GlasGrenze - Installation with used glas elements in homeless shelter, Berlin
Weisse Schatten (White shadows) -Endmoräne Sommerwerkstatt, Installation in historic paper factory, Eberswalde
BYOB - Visuals at Platoon Cultural Development, Mexico City

2016
Festival of Lights - Videomapping on Berlin TV Tower, finalist of Festival of Light Award, Berlin
Beethoven Next Level - Stage Visuals for Deag Classics Tournee Show Beethoven and Breakdance, Gemany/ Swistzerland/Austria
Die Gärtnerin - Opera by W.A. Mozart, Videomapping in Entry hall of Bodemuseum ( National Sculpture Museum), Berlin
Huawei - Beyond Horizons Event, all night live VJ Set, E-Werk, Berlin
Widerkunst - Video/Mixed Media Sculptures in first Art Show at Holzmarkt curated by Viva con Agua, Berlin
Garbicz Festival - Ambient Floor Video Mapping, Garbicz/ Poland
Fusion Festival – Visuals mix for 20th anniversary Festival, Lärz Germany

2015
Holzmarkt - Videomapping on Event Hall and Kindergarten Building (under construction) for "Richtfest" (roofing ceremony), Berlin
Trümmern und Träumen - Water screen Video projection on Spree (Berlin river) about 25 years of reunited Berlin techno and alternative Culture, collaboration with Light Art Projects, funded by Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Berlin
Garbicz Festival- Surround Projection on 7m Projection balloon for Techno festival by Kater/ Bachstelzen, Berlin/Poland
Fusion Festival, Videomix for outdoor Theatre Screen, Lärz, Germany
Amecko - Visuals Mood Mix for Medical Industry Trade Show, Basel, Switzerland
Zalando - Event visuals for Zalando Blogger Awards, Kopenhagen/Brussels/ Amsterdam

2014
Farbiarnbia - Music video release on FAT0012/Freude am Tanzen-record label
Toskana Therme Bad Schandau– new permanent wellness visuuals installation in spa, Saxony, Germany
Unrender#2 – video installation, Lehrter17 Project Space, Berlin Germany
Fusion Festival – Live VJ Set und precomposed Visuals mix for Festival, Lärz Germany
Verflixt und Zugenäht - Videomapping on Industrial Structure in former Veritas Sewing machine Company, Endmoräne Sommerwertkstatt 2015, Wittenberge/ Brandenburg

2013
Palas Iasi – Christmas Show – Video Mapping on facade on Cultural Palace Iasi, Romania
Verlandet 1.0 –Park Hoppegarten, Berlin, outdoor installations, group exhibition with artist group “Endmoräne”, Berlin
Hüftgold Art Collection – Berlin, Digital collages for Silk Scarf Collection of Berlin fashion label
Beiersdorf / Nivea - Live Visuals for Beiersdorf marketing conference, Berlin
Liquid Sound Festival - Video installation and Live VJ in Liquid Sound Spa, Bad Schandau, Germany

2012
Platoon Kunsthalle –Resident VJ @ Platoon Donnerstagsbar, Berlin
Dormero Hotel Stuttgart – permanent 9-channel Full-HD Video mapping Installation in Hotel Lounge, Stuttgart, Germany
Figaro's Hochzeit– National Sculpture Museum, video mapping stage design for opera production, Berlin
Der grosse ADAC-Ball - Keyvisuals and live VJ for gala event of Automobile Club Deutschland, Berlin
Apolda Weltglockengeläut- 4 channel video mapping in neogothic church, Luther Church, Apolda, Germany
Liquid Sound Festival - Video installation and live VJ in Liquid Sound Spa, Bad Sulza, Germany
LineaRES – Villa Heinersdorf, Brandenburg - group exhibition with artist group “Endmoräne”, Brandenburg, Germany

2011
- River Zen – Pantocrator Gallery/M50 – Solo exhbition, Video and Prints, Shanghai, China
- Die Schöpfung von Joseph Haydn, video mapping for oratorio “The Creation” in Berlin Cathedral, Berlin
- Abgeräumt, Imbiss geplant..., outdoor installation with artist group “Endmoräne”, former Military Base Neuhardenberg, Germany
- Jimei University, creation of mural on facade of cafe on university avenue, Xiamen, China
- Liquid Sound Festival - Video installation and Live VJ in Liquid Sound Spa - Bad Orb, Germany
- ADAC Berlin/Brandenburg - Production of Key Visuals Animations - Potsdam, Germany
- Deshalb Stadt - Goethe Institute - selected Artist für Interview on Urban living - Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Liquid Sound Festival- Video installation and Live VJ in der Therme, Bad Orb, Germany

2010
- Titus im Bodemuseum, prolog for opera production, 4-channel video installation, National Sculpture Museum, Berlin
- Ein BachSpiel, stage design and video production for theatre play, ufa-Fabrik, Berlin
- gesternMONTFORTheute, video sculpture, group exhibition by kunst.Vorarlberg, Feldkirch, Austria
- Church of the poisoned mind, 5-channel video installation, Capuchin Church, Überlingen, Germany

2009
- Cosi Fan Tutte im E-Werk, large scale outdoor projection installation for opera production, Berlin
- Freitag, der 13. - ein Operettenkrimi , stage design and video for theatre play, ufa Fabrik, Berlin
- Turbine Murmelbahn, site-specific video installation,former power plant KW Rummelsburg, Berlin

2008
- Orpheus und Eurydike im Bodemuseum, multimedia prolog and video elements for opera, National Sculpture Museum, Berlin
- The magic flute in the subway, video stage design for opera by W.A. Mozart, Subway Station Bundestag, Berlin
- Hänsel und Gretel – an opera for children, video stage design and animation, various locations in Europe
- Wellness Visuals, permanent video installation in spa, Therme am Park Bad Nauheim, Germany
- Birth of daughter Marlene, 26.9.2008, Berlin

2007
- Der Sommer, der jetzt nicht war, music video for electro-pop band “2raumwohnung”, Berlin
- Dreamcatcher, sculpture for communal sculpture garden, County Oder-Spree, Schöneiche, Germany
- Strictly Berlin, video sculpture, group exhibition, Galerie der Künste, Berlin
- Matrices, Electrographic Art Association, digital art group exhibition, Budapest, Hungary

2006
- Biomorph, video production for ADLIP-surround technology, Zeiss Planetarium Jena, Germany
- Liquid VJ Fountain, water screen video installation with live VJ mix, Boom Festival, Idana-a-nova, Portugal
- Nachsommer, solo exhibition - video collage, prints and outdoor installation, Kulturgut Höribach, Austria
- BioProp, solo exhibition - digital prints and video installation, City Gallery im Prater, Berlin
- Reservoir X, site-specific multimedia installation with moving sculptures, former Water Reservoir Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin
- Kunstnacht, multimedia installation in vaults of town hall, Überlingen, Germany

2004
- Liquid Sound Visuals, site-specific permanent video installation for spa, Toskana Therme, Bad Schandau, Germany
- Wellness Visuals, site-specific permanent video and slide installation for spa, Bodenseetherme, Überlingen, Germany
- Kunstnacht, projection collage in medieval storage vaults, Überlingen, Germany
- Designmai,video sculpture and projection collage in former slaughterhouse, Alte Schlachthöfe, Berlin
- Birth of son Linus, 3.9.2004, Berlin

2003
- Natur Struktur, solo exhibition, Städtische Galerie Überlingen, Germany
- Liquid Sound VJ, resident video artist in spa, Liquidrom Therme, Berlin
- Global Eyes, digital art exhibition and print publication, Melbourne, Australia
- IDAA - International Digital Art Awards, group exhibition and print publication, Melbourne, Australia

2002
- Nature, solo exhibition, Städtisches Museum Engen, Germany
- Tina Zimmermann, solo exhibition, Kunstverein Genthiner Elf, Berlin
- Psychonautic Landscape, digital art group exhibition, Incontro Galerie Zurich, Switzerland
- Kunst in der Region 2002, group exhibition, Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Singen
- IDAA - International Digital Art Awards, group exhibition and print publication, Melbourne, Australia
- X-Mode, music video for techno compilation DVD, Tokyo, Japan

2001
- Organic media collage, solo exhibition in culture center, Lagerhaus Davidstrasse, St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Wolkenwände, projection collage und digital prints in new Berlin offices, Boston Consulting Group, Berlin
- Technart, digital art group exhibition, Off Corso Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Digital Art Show, digital art group exhibition, Chicago School of Art, Chicago, USA
- Zavtone, resident graphic artist of digital art and culture magazine, Tokyo, Japan

2000
- Aion, 2-artist exhibition at Abraham Lubelski Gallery, New York, USA
- Cal Trance, solo exhibition and resident artist, Ceiba Gallery, San Francisco, USA
- SFSU Selection, group exhibition at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA

VJ-Sets/Visuals for Clubs and Festivals

San Francisco: Burning Man Festival, Thump Radio, Ceiba Records, Oxygen Bar, CCC, Three
Berlin : Platoon, Fusion Festival, Voov Experience, Maria am Ufer, Spindler+Klatt, Love Parade, Tempodrom, Tacheles, ADC , about:blank etc.
other:Boom Festival - Portugal, Zoom - Zürich, Exodus - Byron Bay, Rainbow Serpent - Melbourne

Stipends/Awards/Residencies

Platoon Kunsthalle – Resident Video Artist 2012
3rd WardNew York, Artist Residency Competition, Top Ten winner 2011
Liquid Sound – Berlin/Thüringen – Resident Video Artist 2002-2012
Sculpture Symposium- Landkreis Oder/Spree Brandenburg 2007
IDAA International Digital Art Awards Melbourne, Australia 3rd Prize/Top ten 2002/2003
Zavtone Magazine – Tokyo Japan Resident Artist 2001

Teaching

Art Academy Hangzhou China – Lecture organzied by Qiu Zhi Jie on “Public Media Art in Germany” 2011
Jimei University Xiamen, China - Teaching of 6 week workshop on “Public Art” 2011
Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule Berlin, Lehrauftrag in “Experimental Design” 2008

Clients/Locations

about:blank, Berlin
ADAC, Automobile Club Germany
ADC, Art Directors Club Germany
Amecko
Apothekenverband Germany
Art Base Festival
Aviareps
Beiersdorf AG
Berliner Dom
Bikini Haus Berlin
Boom Festival, Portugal
Boston Consulting Group
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung
Burning Man Festival, Nevada
CCC, San Francisco
DEAG Classic
Deutsches Historisches Museum
DFPF e.V.
E-Werk, Berlin
e.on
Fernsehturm Berlin
Festival of Lights
Friedrich Liechtenstein
Fusion Festival
Garbicz Festival
Holzmarkt, Berlin
Huawei
InMind Event Agentur
Jake Hoerner Gallery
Jimei University Xiamen, China
Landesgartenschau Baden-Württemberg
Liquidrom, Berlin
Liquid Sound Festival
Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin
Mercedes Benz
Nico and the Navigators
Pantocrator Gallery/M50, Shanghai
Optimal Systems
Platoon Kunsthalle, Berlin
Rainbow Serpent Festival, Melbourne
Reformation500.org
Schrenk und Schrenk Events
Schloss Bellevue
Siemens
Sydney Contemporary
Tacheles, Berlin
Tempodrom, Berlin
Three, San Francisco
Turbinenhalle Stienitzsee
TOCC Concept
Voov Experience, Hamburg
Zalando
Zoom Festival, Zurich