Daniel Blochwitz
| 1973 | geboren in Ilmenau / Thüringen |
| 1995 | Stipendium für bildende Kunst mit Schwerpunkt Fotografie in den USA |
| 1999 | Kunst-Bachelor in Fotografie an der Eastern Kentucky University |
| 2000 | Assistent bei Media Image Photography in Gainesville (Florida) |
| 2001 | Master-Studium an der University of Florida, bei Sergio Vega, Nora Alter und Alexander Alberro (Beratungs- und Prüfungsgremium) sowie bei Barbara Jo Revelle, Valerie Mendoza und Max Becher. Er gab während der drei Jahre des Masterstudiums als selbstständiger Lehrassistent verschiedene Fotografiekurse für Bachelor-Studenten der Kunstfakultät |
| 2003 | Master-Abschlussarbeit "Portiers und Gatekeepers" Master in Fotografie mit Nebenfach „Deutsche Literatur und Film“. |
| 2003/04 | Besuch des „Whitney Independent Study Program“, New York |
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Ausstellungen
| 2010 | "Salon für Kunstbuch" An Artwork as Enterprise; Group Exhibition, curated by Nini Palavandishwili, Brigitte Schöppner, and Barbara Steiner, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (Germany) "Exquisit Corpse" group project organized by David Salle and Tanja Grunert, Armory Show, New York (USA) "Critical Distance" art KARLSRUHE (Galerie Vayhinger), Karlsruhe (Germany) |
| 2009 | "Critical Distance: Daniel Blochwitz, Otto Dix und Erich Heckel" Galerie Vayhinger, Radolfzell am Bodensee (Germany) "Moolah" Group Exhibition, curated by Lawrence Cappiello Arts Guild of Rahway, Rahway, NJ (USA) "Critical Distance" VBKTh Galerie, Erfurt (Germany) "Triptych YouTube Party" Collaboration with ArtistsMeeting (AM) and you3b.com, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY (USA) "Contemporary Flânerie: Reconfiguring Cities" Group Exhibition, curated by Vagner Whitehead, Oakland University, Rochester, MI (USA) "On the Prairie" Group Exhibition, curated by Summer Zickefoose, WARPhaus, Gainesville, FL (USA) "Triptych YouTube Party" Collaboration with ArtistsMeeting (AM) and you3b.com, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY (USA) |
| 2008 | "Not Public!" Project as part of Public Exhibition Space, Collaboration with ArtistsMeeting (AM) in conjunction with CONFLUX, Downtown District 1, New York, NY (USA) "Utopia of Space" Group Exhibition, curated by Maxim Neroda Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek (Kyrgyz Republic) |
| 2007 | "mixed messages" Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (USA) "gumbo(at)dumbo" Collaboration with ArtistsMeeting (AM) Art Under the Bridge Festival (DUMBO Arts Center), Brooklyn, NY (USA) "Snap to Grid" Group Exhibition, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA (USA) "Addressing Iraq" Group Exhibition, curated by Barbara Jo Revelle, Reitz Gallery, Gainesville, FL (USA) "Team Players for Plausible Artworlds" Curated Group Exhibition (BASEKAMP), ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA (USA) |
| 2006 | "Utopia" Juried Group Exhibition, Jurors: Mark Greenfield, Mark Vallen, Alice Wexler, A Shenere Velt Gallery of The Workmen’s Circle, Los Angeles, CA (USA) "mapquest" Group Exhibition, curated by Elena Sorokina, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY (USA) "Free Beer" Group Exhibition, Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (USA) "See How It Feels" 3-day Slide Projection (looped) in Conjunction with BildKonText Conference, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Institut für Medienwissenschaften, Bochum/Mühlheim (Germany) "On the Road" Juried Group Exhibition, Juror: Karen vanMeenen (Afterimage), The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO (USA) "American Confluence" Group Exhibition, Edsvik Konsthall, Sollentuna (Sweden) |
| 2005 | "Everything Goes In Circles" Group Exhibition, curated by Almut Haboeck , Affordable Art Fair (AAF), New York, NY (USA) "New Directions" Group Exhibition, Nelson Hancock Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (USA) "Moving..On…" Group Exhibition, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK) Galerie, Berlin (Germany) "Utopia Station (auf dem weg nach porto alegre)" Collaboration with Martha Rosler and the FLEAS Collective, Haus der Kunst, Munich (Germany) |
| 2004 | "We Could’ve Been Friends" Group Exhibition, Box Space, Miami, FL (USA) "Open Studio/Final Exhibition" Group Exhibition, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, NY (USA) |
| 2003 | "Utopia Station" Collaboration with Martha Rosler and the FLEAS Collective, Venice Biennale, Venice (Italy) "RADARRETURNS" 24/7, Wilno/Nueva York Collaboration Contemporary Art Center Vilnius (Lithuania) "Portiers and Gatekeepers" M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Transdisciplinary Panel Discussion, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (USA) |
| 2002 | "Empathy - An Exercise in Location" Collaboration with Nikki Schiwal and Robyn Mericle, Art Store, Gainesville, FL (USA) "Künstler der Galerie" Group Exhibition, Galerie Vostry, Erfurt (Germany) |
| 1997-2001 | "When Art has Politics" Group Exhibition, Focus Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (USA) "Insight from Outside: East German Memories in Havana" Solo Exhibition, Media Image Photography Gallery, Gainesville, FL (USA) "B.F.A. Exhibition" Group Exhibition, Giles Gallery, Eastern Kentucky University (USA) "Annual Juried Student Exhibition" Giles Gallery, Eastern Kentucky University (USA) |
Aktivitäten
| seit 2000 | Teaching a variety of photography courses and workshops, University of Florida (Gainesville, FL), Bauhaus University (Weimar) and others |
| seit 2007 | Co-Founder and Member of the Artists Group ArtistsMeeting (AM) |
| 2007 | Contemporary Artists Workshop: Perspectives on Communication, Criticality, and Exchange, Panel (Organizer: Daniel Quiles), CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY (USA) |
| 2005 | Diskurs Festival ‘05, surviving europe, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaften, Symposium, Giessen (Germany) |
| 2005 | Curator, cul-de-sac (Artists: Laura Kleger, Stephen Hilger, Nikki Schiwal), Nelson Hancock Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2003-2006 | Member of the Editorial Board and Co-Founder of the Online Journal TJE - Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence, Milan (Italy) |
| 2003 | Transdisciplinary Panel Discussion: Portiers and Gatekeepers, In Conjunction with M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL |
| seit 2002 | Co-Founder and Member of the International Artists’ Collective FLEAS |
| 2002 | Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL (USA), Residency with Martha Rosler |
Veröffentlichungen
| 2010 | Reflections, Issue: Economy (Vol. 97, No. 1), images from mixed messages and Critical Distance, Ray Waddle (ed.), Yale University, New Haven (USA) Südkurier, Neue Ausstellung in der Galerie Vayhinger, Suzanne Glocker, Südkurier GmbH, Konstanz (Germany) |
| 2009 | SHIFTER, Issue: Will, image (triptych): Engineered Desire (from Critical Distance), Avi Alpert, Sreshta Rit Premnath (ed.), New York (USA) parallax, Disturbing Spaces, Impossible Strategies (Issue 53), cover image and portfolio, Eve Kalyva (ed.), Rouledge and Centre for Cultural Studies / University of Leeds, Leeds (UK) DISKURS 25th Anniversary, Unheimisch (preface text from Critical Distance), Daniel Franz and Johanna Manzewski (ed.), Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft, Giessen (Germany) |
| 2008 | Drain: A Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture, Issue: Psychogeography, images from mixed messages, Avantika Bawa (art ed.) |
| 2007 | Revue Textimage, Détournement, image from mixed messages and Heim|Fern|Weh, Dr. Aurélie Barre and Dr. Olivier Leplatre (ed.), Lyon (France) Artworld Digest Magazine, Image from Heim|Fern|Weh, David Cohen (ed.), page 32, Spring, New York (USA) |
| 2006 | New York Times, Review: Mapquest, Holland Cotter, New York (USA) |
| 2005 | Linguablanca #1 Online Journal, edited by Jukka Lehmus, Heim|Fern|Weh, Espoo (Finland) |
| 2004 | H! (Edition 1: “Moments of Monuments”), Philippe van Cauteren (ed.), Portiers and Gatekeepers (text), Hamburg (Germany) |
| 2003 | ARTFORUM, In the beautiful future, page 153 (image), New York Contemporary (Number 51), In the Promised Lands, page 51 (image), London (UK) Der Standard, New World, page 8 (image), Austria Respekt (Number 28), New World, page 17 (image), Czech Republic |
| 1996-99 | Eastern Progress, Student Paper, various texts/images, Richmond, KY (USA) |
