Janne Höltermann’s work observes how technology and capitalism abstract and restructure movement, space and time. Her recent videos examine the rhythm of container ships, precision in robotics, and automated warehouses and look at how the transfer of our digital world is projected into physical space. The videos take standardized formats and automatization as a starting point to organize physical space by virtual means. The spaces that arise are hybrid, alienated spaces and tip between real-physical and virtually constructed environments. They emphasize how a neoliberal dynamic deconstructs and transforms space and time and how virtualization, digitization, and optimization of processes foster the creation of mobile topologies.
janne.hoeltermann@googlemail.com
Studio:
Tegeler Str. 6
13353 Berlin
based in Berlin
Education
2008 | MFA, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, USA |
2005 | Diplom FH, Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel, Germany |
1. Staatsexamen, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany | |
2002-2003 | Studies of Fine Arts, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain |
Awards / Grants / Residencies
2023 | Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt Berlin, DE |
2022 | KuRoBi4all, interdisciplinary Robotics Project Berlin, DE |
2021 | Projektförderung BBK-Bundesverband, Projektbüro NEUSTART für Bildende Künstlerinnen und Künstler, Berlin, DE |
Recherchestipendium Bildende Kunst 2021, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Berlin, DE | |
2020 | Studio 170 Residency, Goethe-Institut Boston, MA, US |
2018 | Cuts and Burns Residency, Outpost Artists Resources, NYC, US |
2014/15 | Research grant Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein GmbH, DE |
2013 | HomeBase Nano Residency (funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation), Jerusalem, IL |
2012 | AIM Fellowship, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC, US |
2011 - 2013 | Luther Gregg Sullivan Visiting Artist, Wesleyan University, CT, US |
2010 | Artist in Residence, Yaddo, NY, US |
Artist in Residence, Flux Factory, NYC, US | |
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), travel grant for NYC, US | |
2008 | Artist in Residence, Yaddo, NY, US |
2006 - 2008 | Graduate Scholarship Massachusetts College of Art and Design, US |
2005 | Muthesius Preis, NordwestLotto Schleswig-Holstein GmbH & Co. KG, DE |
2002 - 2003 | Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), study grant for Madrid, ES |
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions (C = catalog)
2024 | Planes, Videorama, Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Halle, DE |
2022 | … kann man so machen, aber hat seine Nachteile., Stadtbibliothek Berlin Pankow, DE (with Friedrich Weber and Max Mathot) |
Physical Twin, Lycra Raum, Hamburg, DE (with Katja Staudacher) | |
2020 | Quiet Fulfillment, Studio 170 Goethe Institut Boston, MA, US |
2018 | TEU, Videorama, Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Halle, DE |
Trajectories, Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College, MA, US | |
2017 | Lines that Fade and Flutter, Proof Gallery Boston, US (with Billie Mandle) |
Janne Höltermann, Sandor Gallery, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art University of Oklahoma, US | |
2016 | Re: AW: Re: belle continu, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg, DE (with Swen-Erik Scheuerling) |
Afterglow, Filmfest Schleswig Holstein, Kiel Germany, DE | |
2013 | Remodeling Zilkha, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, CT, US |
2011 | sicht.linie.blick.feld. Westwerk e.V., Hamburg, DE (with Swen-Erik Scheuerling) |
Group Exhibitions / Screenings (selection)
2024 | A Question of Intervals and Scales, SAP Space, Berlin, DE |
Mit lebendigen Strukturen oder festen Elementen, Architektur Galerie Berlin, curated by artburst, DE (C) | |
2023 | Goldrausch 2023 - on the edge of, galerie weisser elefant, Berlin, DE |
2022 | LUX, artspring Lichtkunstfestival, Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin, DE |
2021 | Sehnsucht, Scotty, Berlin, DE |
2020 | Cuts and Burns Screening Series, Outpost Artists Resources, NY, US (online screening) |
Area Code Art Fair, Video/Digital Art Drive-in Project, Salem State University, Salem, MA, US (screening) | |
33. Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, DE (screening) (C) | |
2019 | 23rd International Video Festival Videomedeja, Novi Sad, SRB (screening) |
Sargassomeer, Frappant e.V., Hamburg, DE | |
2017 | 20/92 Video Festival, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, US |
Through a Honeycomb, Treslte Projects, Brooklyn, NY, US | |
2016 | 20/92 Video Festival, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, US |
Have you ever heard of happiness springing from a deep well of sorrow?, Mountain Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, US | |
Centering, Landmark College, VT, US (C) | |
2014 | the sun is when calling, Frappant, Hamburg, DE |
Mon amie – l´image, VKunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt, DE (C) | |
Value Systems, New Haven Museum, New Haven, CT, US | |
Bremer Kunstfrühling (group project with Westwerk Hamburg), Gleishalle am Güterbahnhof, Bremen, DE | |
27. Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, DE | |
2013 | Betreff 28, Westwerk, Hamburg, DE |
AIM Biennial, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC (C) | |
Bronx Calling, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY, US (screening) | |
Bronx Calling, Wave Hill, NY, US (screening) | |
Unsichtbar, Westwerk, Hamburg, DE | |
OVC, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, US | |
2012 | OVC Screening, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, US (screening) |
Videorover: Season IV, NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY, US | |
2011 | Facing the Artwork, Videokunst- und Kurzfilmfest, Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Halle Saale, DE |
Körpersichten, Lessingbad Kiel, DE (C) | |
2010 | Communicating Forms: Aesthetics, Relationality, Collaboration (collaboration Flux Factory), DoVA Temporary, Chicago, US |
Quadratkubikmeter hoch eins, Nachtspeicher 23 e.V. Hamburg, DE | |
contemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.), Forum and Media-Art Fair, Welterbe Zollverein Essen, DE (C) | |
2009 | Experimental Media Series, Washington Project for the Arts at the Phillips Collection, MICA Baltimore, US |
SAMPLE #2, Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin, DE | |
2008 | MFA thesis show, Bakalar & Paine Galleries Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston US (C) |
SAMPLE #1, Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin, D (screening) | |
2007 | Miradores, Matadero Madrid, ES |
Kunst machen Kunst lehren, Kunstraum B, Kiel, DE | |
2006 | Body in the Blue - part IV, Theaterhalle Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, DE |
40 Jahre Videokunst - was fehlt?, Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund Berlin, DE | |
Videoformes 2006, Clermont Ferrand, FR | |
Viper 2005, [ plug.in ], Basel, CH | |
2005 | Miradores, Berzosa del Lozoya, Madrid, ES |
Muse heute, Kunsthalle Bremen, DE (C) | |
Gottfried Brockmannpreis 2005, Stadtgalerie Kiel, DE (C) | |
Diplomausstellung, Vortragshalle Kunsthalle zu Kiel, DE | |
2004 | Viper 2004, Kunstmuseum Basel I Gegenwart, CH (C) |
Weisse Nächte, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, DE | |
2003 | Miradores, Berzosa del Lozoya, Madrid, ES (C) |
Public Collections
VideoArtBar, digital video archive, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin |
Werkleitz-Archive, Werkleitz - Centre for Media Art, Halle Saale |
Publications
Katharina Deppisch: „Physical Twin - Janne Höltermann, 2-Kanal Videoinstallation, 2022/23“, published by artburst e.V. Berlin |
Johanne Mohs: „Choose Control Lose Control“, in Goldrausch 2023 – on the edge of, Berlin 2023 ("Kontrolle auf/geben"), ISBN 978-3-941318-81-6 |
Lines that Fade and Flutter at Proof Gallery, Boston Art Review bostonartreview.com, by Avery Robertson and BAR, Editorial 2018 |
Centering, Landmark College, VT, 2016 |
Mon amie – l´image, VKunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt, 2014, ISBN 978-3-9814828-7-4 |
Aspect- A Chronicle of New Media Art, Volume 4 Deja Vu (DVD), 2012 |
Körpersichten/Dokumentation zur Ausstellung, Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel, 2012, ISBN 978-3-943763-03-4 |
Lorenz Müller: Crossing the line – Janne Höltermanns Videoinstallation "kacheln" im Lessingbad Kiel, infomedia-sh.de, 2011 |
MFA Thesis ’08, Massachsetts College of Art and Design, Boston, 2008 |
Petra Gördüren: Die Kamera filmt die Kamera, die filmt, Gottfried Brockmann Preis 2005, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 2005, ISBN 3-927979-68-6 |
Muse Heute? Inspirationsquellen aktueller Kunst, Wulf Herzogenrath und BarbaraNierhoff, Städtische Galerie im Buntentor and Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, 2005, ISBN 3-89757-318-0 |
Media at Muthesius.05 (DVD), Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel, 2005 |
backup, festival.neue medien im film 2005, netzwerk filmfest e.V., Weimar, 2005 |
Manipulation der Zeit, Alumni Magazin der Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Ausgabe 5, Kiel, 2005 |
Generations on the Move - Viper Basel, Internationales Festival für Film Video und Neue Medien, Basel, 2004 |
Mirador, María García Ibañez, Iván Gomez-España del Val, Alonso Ruíz Falcon, Madrid, Spanien, 2003, ISBN 84-609-0541-1 |
Frei.machen, Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur des Landes Schleswig Holstein, MuthesiusHochschule Kiel, Fachklasse für Medienkunst, Kiel, 2002, ISBN 3-00-009576-4 |
Visiting Artist Lectures
2021 | Europa-Universität Flensburg, Irgendwas-mit-Medien-Zentrum Filmgesprächsreihe, Flensburg, DE |
2020 | Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Cine Culture, Boston, US |
2019 | Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Alumni Panel, Boston, US |
2018 | Amherst College, Art & the History of Art Department, Amherst, US |
2014 | University of Oklahoma, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, US |
2013 | Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Media Art Department, Kiel, DE |
State University of New York (SUNY), Art Department, Digital Photography and Digital Video class, New Paltz, US (online) | |
Grinnell College, Department of Art, German Department, Grinnell, US | |
Ball State University, Department of Art, Video and Intermedia Art class, Muncie, US | |
2010 | Ball State University, Department of Art, Video 1 class, Muncie, US (online) |
2009 | Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts Kiel, Sculpture Department, DE |
2008 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Photography and Related Media class, Boston, US |
Teaching 2011-2021
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston MA (Film/Video Department and PCE) |
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston MA (Media Arts) |
Boston College, Boston MA (Art, Art History, and Film Department) |
Drew University, Madison NJ (Art Department) |
Wesleyan University, Middletown CT (Art Studio Department) |
Impressum und Datenschutz
Education
2008 | MFA, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, USA |
2005 | Diploma FH, Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts, Kiel, Germany |
Staatsexamen, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany | |
2002-2003 | Studies of Fine Arts, University Complutense, Madrid, Spain |
Awards / Scholarships / Residencies
2023 | Fellow Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt Berlin, DE |
2022 | Fellow interdisciplinary Robotics Project KuRoBi4all, Berlin, DE |
2021 | Project grant Neustart Kultur, BBK-Projektbüro, Berlin, DE |
Research grant Bildende Kunst 2021, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Berlin, DE | |
2020 | Studio 170 Residency, Goethe-Institut Boston, MA, US |
2018 | Cuts and Burns Residency, Outpost Artists Resources, NYC, US |
2014/15 | Research grant Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein GmbH, DE |
2013 | HomeBase Nano Residency (funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation), Jerusalem, IL |
2012 | Artist in the Marketplace (AIM), Bronx Museum of Art, NYC, US |
2011 - 2013 | Luther Gregg Sullivan Visiting Artist, Wesleyan University, CT, US |
2010 | Artist in Residence, Yaddo, NY, US |
Artist in Residence, Flux Factory, NYC, US | |
Travel grant NYC, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), US | |
2008 | Artist in Residence, Yaddo, NY, US |
2006 - 2008 | Graduate Scholarship Massachusetts College of Art and Design, US |
2005 | Muthesius Preis, NordwestLotto Schleswig-Holstein GmbH & Co. KG, DE |
2002 - 2003 | One year scholarship Madrid, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), ES |
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2022 | … kann man so machen, aber hat seine Nachteile., Stadtbibliothek Berlin Pankow, DE (with Friedrich Weber and Max Mathot) |
Physical Twin, Lycra Raum, Hamburg, DE (with Katja Staudacher) | |
2020 | Quiet Fulfillment, Studio 170 Goethe Institut Boston, MA, US |
2018 | TEU, Videorama, Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Halle, DE |
Trajectories, Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College, MA, US | |
2017 | Lines that Fade and Flutter, Proof Gallery Boston, US (with Billie Mandle) |
Janne Höltermann, Sandor Gallery, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art University of Oklahoma, US | |
2016 | Re: AW: Re: belle continu, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg, DE (with Swen-Erik Scheuerling) |
Afterglow, Filmfest Schleswig Holstein, Kiel Germany, DE | |
2013 | Remodeling Zilkha, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, CT, US |
2011 | sicht.linie.blick.feld. Westwerk e.V., Hamburg, DE (with Swen-Erik Scheuerling) |
Group Exhibitions / Screenings (selection)
2022 | LUX, artspring Lichtkunstfestival, Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin, DE |
2021 | Sehnsucht, Scotty, Berlin, DE |
2020 | Cuts and Burns Screening Series, Outpost Artists Resources, NY, US (online screening) |
Area Code Art Fair, Video/Digital Art Drive-in Project, Salem State University, Salem, MA, US (screening) | |
33. Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, DE (screening) | |
2019 | 23rd International Video Festival Videomedeja, Novi Sad, SRB (screening) |
Sargassomeer, Frappant, Hamburg, DE | |
2017 | 20/92 Video Festival, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, US |
Through a Honeycomb,Treslte Projects, Brooklyn, NY, US | |
2016 | 20/92 Video Festival, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, US |
Have you ever heard of happiness springing from a deep well of sorrow?, Mountain Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, US | |
Centering, Landmark College, VT, US | |
2014 | the sun is when calling, Frappant, Hamburg, DE |
Mon amie – l´image, VKunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt, DE | |
Value Systems, New Haven Museum, New Haven, CT, US | |
Bremer Kunstfrühling (group project with Westwerk Hamburg), Gleishalle am Güterbahnhof, Bremen, DE | |
27. Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, DE | |
2013 | Betreff 28, Westwerk, Hamburg, DE |
AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum of Art, NYC | |
Bronx Calling, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY, US (screening) | |
Bronx Calling, Wave Hill, NY, US (screening) | |
Unsichtbar, Westwerk, Hamburg, DE | |
OVC, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, US | |
2012 | OVC Screening, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, US (screening) |
Videorover: Season IV, NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY, US | |
2011 | Facing the Artwork, Video Art Festival, Werkleitz - Centre for Media Art, Halle Saale, DE |
Körpersichten, Lessingbad Kiel, DE | |
2010 | Communicating Forms: Aesthetics, Relationality, Collaboration (collaboration Flux Factory), DoVA Temporary, Chicago, US |
Quadratkubikmeter hoch eins, Nachtspeicher 23 e.V. Hamburg, DE | |
contemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.), Forum and Media-Art Fair, Welterbe Zollverein Essen, DE | |
2009 | Experimental Media Series, Washington Project for the Arts at the Phillips Collection, MICA Baltimore, US |
SAMPLE #2, Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin, DE | |
2008 | MFA thesis show, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston US |
SAMPLE #1, Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin, D (screening) | |
2007 | IFCT Screening, Monkey Town, Brooklyn NY, US |
Miradores, Matadero de Legazpi, Madrid, ES | |
Kunst machen Kunst lehren, Kunstraum B, Kiel, DE | |
Augenweide, Film festival, Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, DE | |
2006 | Incoming, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, US |
Body in the Blue - part II, Halle Electron, Breda, NL (screening) | |
Body in the Blue - part IV, Theaterhalle Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, DE | |
40 Jahre Videokunst - was fehlt?, Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund Berlin, DE | |
Videoformes 2006, Clermont Ferrand, FR | |
Viper 2005, [ plug.in ], Basel, CH | |
2005 | Miradores, Berzosa del Lozoya, Madrid, ES |
Muse heute, Museum of Fine Arts, Bremen, DE | |
Gottfried Brockmannpreis 2005, Stadtgalerie Kiel, DE | |
Thesis show (diploma), Museum of Fine Arts Kiel, DE | |
2004 | Viper 2004, Museum for Contemporary Art, Basel, CH |
Weisse Nächte, Museum of Fine Arts Kiel, DE | |
Augenweide, Film festival Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, DE (screening) | |
2003 | Miradores, Berzosa del Lozoya, Madrid, ES |
Emergencias 2, Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES (screening) |
Public Collections
VideoArtBar, digital video archive, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin |
Werkleitz-Archive, Werkleitz - Centre for Media Art, Halle Saale |
Visiting Artist Lectures
2021 | Europa-Universität Flensburg, Irgendwas-mit-Medien-Zentrum Filmgesprächsreihe, Flensburg, DE |
2020 | Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Cine Culture, Boston, US |
2019 | Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Alumni Panel, Boston, US |
2018 | Amherst College, Art & the History of Art Department, Amherst, US |
2014 | University of Oklahoma, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, US |
2013 | Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Media Art Department, Kiel, DE |
State University of New York (SUNY), Art Department, Digital Photography and Digital Video class, New Paltz, US (online) | |
Grinnell College, Department of Art, German Department, Grinnell, US | |
Ball State University, Department of Art, Video and Intermedia Art class, Muncie, US | |
2010 | Ball State University, Department of Art, Video 1 class, Muncie, US (online) |
2009 | Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts Kiel, Sculpture Department, DE |
2008 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Photography and Related Media class, Boston, US |
Publications
Lines that Fade and Flutter at Proof Gallery, Boston Art Review bostonartreview.com, by Avery Robertson and BAR, Editorial 2018
Centering, Landmark College, VT, 2016
Mon amie – l´image, VKunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt, 2014, ISBN 978-3-9814828-7-4
Aspect- A Chronicle of New Media Art, Volume 4 Deja Vu (DVD), 2012
Körpersichten/Dokumentation zur Ausstellung, Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel, 2012, ISBN 978-3-943763-03-4
Crossing the line – Janne Höltermanns Videoinstallation 'kacheln“ im Lessingbad Kiel, infomedia-sh.de, Lorenz Müller, 2011
MFA Thesis ’08, Massachsetts College of Art and Design, Boston, 2008
Die Kamera filmt die Kamera, die filmt, Gottfried Brockmann Preis 2005, Petra Gördüren, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 2005, ISBN 3-927979-68-6
Muse Heute? Inspirationsquellen aktueller Kunst, Wulf Herzogenrath und BarbaraNierhoff, Städtische Galerie im Buntentor and Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, 2005, ISBN 3-89757-318-0
Media at Muthesius.05 (DVD), Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel, 2005
backup, festival.neue medien im film 2005, netzwerk filmfest e.V., Weimar, 2005
Manipulation der Zeit, Alumni Magazin der Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Ausgabe 5, Kiel, 2005
Generations on the Move - Viper Basel, Internationales Festival für Film Video und Neue Medien, Basel, 2004
Mirador, María García Ibañez, Iván Gomez-España del Val, Alonso Ruíz Falcon, Madrid, Spanien, 2003, ISBN 84-609-0541-1
Frei.machen, Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur des Landes Schleswig Holstein, MuthesiusHochschule Kiel, Fachklasse für Medienkunst, Kiel, 2002, ISBN 3-00-009576-4
Teaching (2011-2021)
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston MA (Film/Video Department and Professional and Continuing Education)
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston MA (Media Arts)
Boston College, Boston MA (Art, Art History, and Film Department)
Drew University, Madison NJ (Art Department)
Wesleyan University, Middletown CT (Art Studio Department)