MONIKA OECHSLER
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​Born Munich, Germany, lives and works in London
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  • Education
2012            ​PhD Art and Media, Brighton University and University College of the Creative Arts, Farnham
​1996            MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London
​1990            BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London
  • Teaching
Senior Lecturer, BA Fine Art, University of the West of England, Bristol
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Associate Lecturer, BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
  • Awards/Residencies/Memberships
2014
CMIR Moving Image bursary award, University of the West of England
2012
Artist Residency, I-A-M, Berlin
2012
​Higher Education Academy
2010
Artist Residency, C4D Centre for Drawing, London
2007
Subjectivities and Feminisms Research Group, Chelsea College of Art and Design
2006
Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle, Germany
2005
Postgraduate Research Scholarship, University College of the Creative Arts
2002
Artist Residency, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2002
MFG Filmfoerderung, Baden Wuertthemberg, Germany
2000
South West Media Arts Development Agency, UK
1994
New Technology Award, Arts Council of Great Britain
1993
Artist Residency, Council of Greenwich, London
1993
Film and Video Award, Arts Council of Great Britain
  • Commissions
2015
Uneven Development, Beaconsfield Gallery, London
2010
Rights of Way, Café Gallery, Southwark Park, London
2006
Happy Believers, 7. Werkleitz Biennale, Halle, Germany
2005
Parallel Worlds, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
2004
At the Far and Farthest, Edith Russ Media Art Gallery, Oldenburg, Germany
2004
‘VideoDictionary’, the VideoArtFoundation, London
2003
Parallel Worlds, Site Gallery, Sheffield
2001
Screen and Screen Again, Picture This & Watershed Arts Centre, Bristol
2000
Remote Sensing: outlook and observation, Picture This, Bristol
2000
Zero, Video Positive 2000, FACT & Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1998
SELECT, Film and Video Umbrella, London
1994
Beyond Borders, Context Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland
1992
​Abstract Still Life Portrait, Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge
  • Collections
Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, UK

Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria

Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden

James Moore Collection, London, UK
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Various private collections
  • Solo Exhibitions
2012
Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury
2008
James Hockey and Foyer Galleries, Farnham
2007
James Hockey and Foyer Galleries, Farnham, Live Performance
2005
Lentos, Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
2004
Edith-Russ-Site for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany
2003
Site Gallery  Sheffield ​
1998
Conductors Hallway, London
1996
LXX Udstillingsstedet, Arhus, Denmark
1994
Context Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland
  • Group Exhibitions/Screenings/Events
2017
Moving Image Art: THREE, Centrespace, Bristol
2016
Immerse, Sandnes Kulturhus, Sandnes, Norway
2015
Harnessing the Wind, Beaconsfield Gallery, London;
Public Address, premier at the Cube Cinema, Bristol as part of “Back to the Future”, with Ergin Cavosuglu, Breda Beban, Katie Davies, Rose Butler;
Apartment
, AS collaboration with Alex Hidalgo, London;
2014
Transversals, premier at Cube Cinema, Bristol as part of “History Repeating” wit Uriel Orlow, Mikhail Karakis, Rod Dickinson, Ruth Mclennan, Katie Davies;
Black Cube Collective, Edinburgh, Scotland;
2012
Games People Play, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World
Haldon Forest Park;
The Name of the Game
, Stephen Lawrence gallery, London.
2011
badge… beacon… bell… mark… node… note, MOCA, London;
Ueber Dinge, Kunsthaus, Muerz, Muerzuschlag, Austria;
Fraternise, Beaconsfield, London;
Visual Thinking 1: One’s Own Room, Camden Art Centre, London

Film Screening and Seminar, 3 March 2011;
2010
Here there everywhere, C4D, Centre for Drawing C4D, London;
Shop Shop, Clerkenwell Road, London;
Territorien des In/Humanen, Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany;
Territorien des In/Humanen, Film Screening: June - July 2010,
Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany;
Kristeva Performance Event, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
9 July 2010;
2009
The Eagle Document: The New Collection of Enumerated Things, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London;
Evil, Hochschule fuer Graphic und Buchkunst, Leibzig, Germany;
SCUM Manifesto, Performance Event, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London;

Beat Bullying Anti-bullying exhibition and auction, Draper’s Hall, London;
2008
Host, Performance Event, Banqueting Hall, Chelsea College of Art & Design;
The Eagle Document: Enumerated Parts 1 and 2, The Gallery at Epsom, UCA UK;
Golden Rain, Collaborative Project by Michael Petry, Eigersund Lighthouse, Norway;
Time Unfolding Screening and DVD Publication Launch, Curzon Cinema Soho;
Phenomenal Exchange, on-line exhibition, Slashseconds 7, magazine, issue 06: 04/2008 London;

Peer Esteem, Five Years Gallery, London;
Art-Video, Landmark@ Kunsthalle, Bergen, Norway;
Rights of Way, Southwark Park, Around Café Gallery, London;
War of the Buttons, Arhus Kunstbygning, Centre for Contemporary Art, Denmark and Landesgalerie, Linz, Austria;
Slashseconds 5, on-line magazine, issue 04: 12/2007 London;

Flagmetamorphosis, presentations at: Blindemuur, Chassé Cinema, Breda, Netherlands; Traverse Video, Toulouse, France, The Digital Hub, Dublin, Ireland: Projected Weekends; DUTA Biennale des arts visuels, Duala, Cameroon; FLEFF Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca, NY, USA; Victory Plaza, big screens, Victory Park, Dallas, Texas, USA; One Minute Film & Videofestival, Kunstraum Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland commissioned by the Swiss Federal Office for Culture.
2006
Artissima 13, Turin, Italy;
Happy Believers, 7. Werkleitz Biennale, Halle, Germany;
War of the Buttons: Children and War, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Stuttgart, Germany;
Risk and Allure, Haus fuer Kunst Uri, Altdorf, Switzerland;
Coolhunters, Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary;
Flagmetamorphesis, “State of the Image”, Square Eyes Festival, Arnhem, The Netherlands,
Paraflows 06, Vienna Austria and Progr – centre for cultural productions, Bern & screenings at central stations in Bern, Zuerich, Basel & Geneva;
2005
Loop Festival/Fair, Barcelona, Spain;
Videodictionary, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain;
Coolhunters Kunstverein Wien, Austria;
FAIR PLAY, PLAY gallery for still and motion pictures, Berlin, Germany;
Transmission Portfolio, Haus am Luetzowplatz, Berlin, Germany;
Sometimes lovers, sometimes friends, Lentos, Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria;
Coolhunters, Staedtische Gallerie, Karlsruhe, Germany;

2004
“TAINMENT” NGBK, Neue Gesellschaft fuer Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany;
No Pre No Con, Moriarty Gallery, Madrid, Spain;
In-Between, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada;

Videodictionary, Prenelle Gallery, Premiere at UGC Cinema, London;
2003
Sharjah International  Biennial 6, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UEA;
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany;
Videowineart, Budapest, Hungary;
“Platz da” STRICTLY PUBLIC, Duesseldorf, Germany;

“There’s no accounting for other peoples relationships”,  Ormeau Bath Gallery,
Belfast, Irland;
Strictly Public, Frankfurt, Germany, and other major German cities;
Voltti, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland;
The difference between you & us, FIVE YEARS, London;
Neverland, Cell Project Space, London;
Inglesia Universal, Open Air cinema event, London, curated by artlab;

Kunstkanaal Amsterdam, Cable TV Screenings in Amsterdam, Rotterdam & The Hague, The Netherlands;
2001
The Inner State, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz, Lichtenstein;
 Gymnasion,  Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria;
Videonale 9, Kunstverein Bonn, Germany;
Voltti , The Loennstroem Art Museum, Rauma, Finland;
As far as the eye could see, Stark Gallery, New York, USA;
Remote Sensing, Touring exhibition, Prema, Uley, Gloucestershire;
Screen and screen again, Touring exhibition, Watershed Arts Centre, Bristol;
Please disturb me, Great Eastern Hotel, London;
Forever Yours, Woodenheart, London;
Teeth & trousers, Cell Project Space, London;

Break in Theatre 2, Video screening events at Yokohama Trienale, Tonchiki House, Prefectual Hall, Kanagawa & Kobo & Toma, Ginza, Chu-oh ku, Tokyo, Japan;
2000
The Other Side of Zero, Video Positive 2000, Tate Gallery Liverpool;
Blue Screen at Levi’s, Levi’s Store Regent Street, London;
Camera con vista, Teatro Valle, Rome, Italy;
Docudrama, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery;
warningShots, Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds;
Unit 26 com ,  the new art democracy, a web based exhibition project;
Remote Sensing: outlook and observation, Spacex Gallery, Exeter and screening at d-net, LUX Centre, London;
Performing Bodies, Tate Modern, London;
<hers>  - Video as a Female Terrain, Joanneum, Graz, Austria;
Break in theatre 1, Gallery Le Deco, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan and Yokohama

Triennale, Kanagawa Prefectual Hall, Kanagawa, Japan;
1999
Loved Up, Artesium Gallery, Luton;
Sweetie , The British School in Rome, Italy (and other venues);
Video Cult/ures, Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany;
Fourth Wall, Royal National Theatre, London;
M’sieur Tarzan, Perugi artecontemporanea, Padova, Italy;
Manufacturers. The Paper Factory, London;
MAN, Museo d’Arte Nuoro, Sardinia;
This Other World of Ours, Art Media Centre - TV Gallery, Moskow, Russia;
Fjar-skyn, Nylistasafnid, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland;

UK/NY, Film and Video Umbrella touring programme, Brazil, South America
1998
​SELECT, Arnolfini, Bristol: Camden Arts Centre, London, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, Greater Manchester;
What difference does it make , Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge;
East International, Norwich Gallery, Norwich;
SORTED, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham;

Cluster Bomb, Morrison Judd Gallery, London;
1997
UK/NY, Film and Video Umbrella touring programme, various venues, UK, USA,South America
Jason & Rhodes Gallery, London;

New Video from Great Britain, The Museum of Modern Art, New York;
1996
Pandaemonium, Institute of Contemporary Art, London;
New Contemporaries 96, Tate Gallery, Liverpool and 
Camden Arts Centre, London;
1995
AVE, Arnhem, The Netherlands;
Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia;
Multimedia Centre, Zagreb, Croatia;
Gang Warfare, IAS, London and The Mc Kiney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas;

LXX Udstillingsstedet, Arhus Denmark;
1994
Potato, Independent Art Space, London;
10' Video Brazil: Festival International de Arte Electronica,

SESC San Paolo, Brazil;
1992
 Abstract Still Life Portrait, Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge and
Blue Coat Gallery, Liverpool;
  • Curatorial Projects
2015
Back to the Future, Film screening programme for the Cube Cinema, Bristol
2014
History Repeating, Film screening programme for the Cube Cinema, Bristol
2009
​The Eagle Document: The New Collection of Enumerated Things, Exhibition, Live Performances and Symposium, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London
2003
Artists’ Film & Video Programme, Site Gallery, Sheffield
2002
Neverland, Cell Project Space, London
1995
Knoby Stiles, Vandy Street, London
1991
 The Archaeology Of Silence, Hornsey Road, London
  • Publications
Monographs
Parallel Worlds, Site Gallery, Sheffield and Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria, 2005
Monika Oechsler: At The Far and Farthest Point, Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Germany, 2004

Books and Journals
The Performance Dinners, The Subjectivities and Feminisms Research Group, ed. Mo Throp, CCW Graduate School, University of the Arts London, 2013

The Art of not making: The new artist/artisan relationship, ed. Michael Petry, Thames & Hudson, London, 2011

A History of Artists Film & Video in Britain, David Curtis, British Film Institute, London, 2007

Video Art, Sylvia Martin, Taschen, Koeln, Germany 2006

Transmission, Volume 4, published by Sheffield Hallam University & Site Gallery, Sheffield 2004

New screen media : cinema, art, narrative, ed. Martin Rieser and  Andrea Zapp, British Film Institute, London, 2002

Ultime generazioni e new media L’arte europea alla fine del XX secolo, published by CLUEB, Bologna, Italy 2002

MediaArt Interaction - Germany in the 80’s/90’s,   Book and CD-ROM  produced by  Goethe Institute and ZKM Zentrum for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe,  Germany, Springer Wien, New York, 2000
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‘Gamecode’, Interview with the artist by Iris Kadel, Ammunition factory, issue 06, University for Art & Design, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2001
 
DVD Publications
Time Unfolding, curated by Lucy Reynolds, published by Picture This, Bristol, distributed by Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester, 2008
 
 
Group Catalogues 
Ueber dinge, Publisher: Kunsthaus Muerzzuschlag GmbH, Muerzzuschlag, Austria, 2011

Golden Rain: A Project for on the Edge and Stavangar 2008 by Micheal Petry, MOCA London & Hå gamle prestegard, 2008

Risk and Allure, Haus fuer Kunst Uri, Altdorf, Switzerland, 2006

War of the Buttons – Children and the world of war, Ursula Blickle Stiftung & Die Oberösterreichische Landesmuseen, 2006

Happy Believers, 7. Werkleitz Biennale, Halle, Germany, 2006

VideoDictionary, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain, 2005
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TAINMENT, RealismusStudio, NGBK, Berlin, 2004

Break in Theatre, Video Art Show 2000-2003, Break in Theatre, Tokyo, Japan, 2003


Sharjah International Biennal 6, Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates, 2003

Videonale 9, Videonale Bonn, Germany 2001

Gymnasion, Kunstverein Bregenz, Austria, 2001

Voltti, The Loennstroem Art Museum, Rauma, Finland 2001

The Inner State, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz, Lichtenstein 2001

The Other Side of Zero, Video Positive 2000, FACT, Liverpool 2000

warningShots! , Royal Armouries Museum Leeds 2000

<hers> Video as a Female Terrain,  Steirischerbst, Springer Wien New York 2000

Video cult/ures, ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany 1999

SWEETIE, Feminine Identity in British Video, The British School at Rome, Italy, Castelvecchi Arte 1999SELECT, Film and Video Umbrella, Arnolfini, Bristol & Camden Arts Centre, London 1998

East International 98, Norwich Gallery, Norfolk 1998London Electronic Arts, LEA distribution, London 1997

Pandaemonium, ICA Galleries, London 1996

New Contemporaries 96, New Contemporaries Ltd, Manchester 1996

Gang Warfare, IAS London and McKiney CCA, Dallas 1995

Potato, IAS London 1994

Judith Goddard Katherine Meynell Monika Oechsler, Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge1992

The Archaeology of Silence, curated by Christobel Harley and Monika Oechsler, catalogue published by Monika Oechsler, London 1991

Online Publication/Exhibitions
 “Archetype  - Going Underground - The Cruel Scene of the Image”.
 /seconds, Issue 08, online artist publication/exhibition, launch event September 2010, E:vent Gallery, London.
 
“Phenomenal Exchange“ /seconds Issue 07, on-line artist publication/exhibition;

“Multidudes” /seconds Issue 05, on-line artist publication/exhibition;
 
“The Problem of Evil, a politics of the Aesthetic” /seconds Issue 4, online artist publication/exhibition, ed. Peter Lewis and Derek Horton, 2008, supported by Leeds Metropolitan University;
 
 
Brochures/Essays
Parallel and Oblique and Overlapping,  Essay by Edgar Smitz, published by Site Gallery, Sheffield for the exhibition Parallel Worlds, 2003

Screen and Screen Again , Picture This & Watershed Arts Centre, Bristol 2001

Remote Sensing,  Spacex Gallery, Exeter 2000

Performing Bodies,  Tate Modern  2000

Video cult/ures,   ZKM, Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany 1999

FOURTH WALL,   PADT & NT, London 1999

SORTED,   Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 1998

UKNY, Film and Video Umbrella, London 1998
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Never A Dumb Moment,   Film and Video Umbrella, London 1997
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  • Artist Presentations/Lectures/Talks
2014
​University of South Wales, Newport, Wales BA Fine Art
2005
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, MA Fine Art
2004
Christies Education, Post-graduate Studies
2003
Sheffield Hallam University, MA Fine Art                       
Nottingham Trent University, BA Fine Art                       
Northumbria University, MA Fine Art     
Kunstakademie Stuttgart, Germany                       
Tuebingen University, Drama Department              
Chelsea College of Art and Design, BA Fine Art                       
Kent Institute of Art and Design, Rochester School of Photography      
2002
Royal College of Art, Department of Photography                     
The University of Reading, BA Fine Art, Reading  
1997
Royal Holloway University of London, Drama and Media Studies, Egham
1996
Chelsea School of Art and Design, Part-time BA Fine Art
  • Public Presentations & Screenings
2004
Edith-Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany
2003
Site Gallery, Sheffield, Artist talk
Transmission: Utility and Ornament, Showroom, Sheffield
2002
Tonight, Artist presentation at Schnittraum, Koeln, Germany
Interview for German Television for Strictly Public, Koeln, Germany
2001
Interview for SwissTelevision, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
2000
Artist Discussion Panel at Video Positive, Tate Liverpool
Interview for Radio, Television and the Liverpool Post, VP 2000, Liverpool
Artist Presentation at Schraegspur Video Festival, Oberstdorf, Germany
Symposium Blackout: Cinema and Contemporary Art, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
Interview for Austrian Television, Steirisherbst, Joanneum, Graz, Austria
1998
 Film & Video Round Table Discussion, SELECT, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Talk Performance engendered
, at Camden Arts Centre, London
1992
Forum Art And Its Audience, at Kettle’s Yard Gallery
Interview for Wide Angle, East Anglia Television Broadcast
Forum Language, Knowledge and Interpretation
, Metalex, Newcastle
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