Martina Wolf was born in Wurzen (Saxony).
From 1997 until 2002 she studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.
In 2002 she was awarded her degree in Lutz Dammbeck’s New Media class,
before completing her studies as a master pupil there in 2005.
She lives and works primarily in Frankfurt am Main.


GRANTS / PRIZES

2020
Grant: Hessische Kulturstiftung

2015
Grant: Stiftung Kunstfonds

2012
Artists-in-Residence Scholarship: Deutsche Akademie Rom, Casa Baldi, Olevano Romano (I)

2011
Artists-in-Residence Scholarship: City of Frankfurt am Main in Art Lazareti, Dubrovnik (HR)

2009
Videoprojekt Algier: Goethe Institut Algiers (DZ)

2008
Studio Scholarship: Hessische Kulturstiftung, Moscow (RU)
Videoprojekt Almaty: Goethe Institut Almaty (KZ)

2007
Artists-in-Residence Scholarship: Freistaat Sachsen, International Artist Exchange Program, Columbus/Ohio (USA)

2006
Research Grant: Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Video Projekt in Moscow (RU)
Research Grant: DEFA-Stiftung, Video Projekt in Moscow (RU)

2004
Studio Scholarship: dynamo.eintracht, Kulturstiftung Dresden, Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt am Main

2003
Grant: DAAD, École Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (F)

2002
Grant: Stiftung Kunst und Kultur der Stadtsparkasse Dresden

2002
Penta Park Photo Prize – Dresden

2002
Grant: Erasmus – École Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (F)


WORKS IN COLLECTIONS

Kunstfonds / Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden – Art Collection
National Centre for Contemporary Arts – NCCA, Moskau
Städtische Galerie Dresden – Art Collection
Kunstsammlung der Dresdner Bank / Art Collection, Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt am Main
Hessisches Baumanagement, Frankfurt am Main
Kunstsammlung der Ostsächsischen Sparkasse Dresden / Art Collection
Art Collection of Manuel de Santaren, New York, Guggenheim
Collection Finstral, Friedberg(Augsburg)
Private Collections in: Miami, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Dresden, Antwerp


SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Extract)

2018
EINZIGARTIG – Weißfrauen Diakoniekirche Frankfurt – Partial Reproduction of a Building Wall - Room and Video Installation

2017
so – Victoria Bar – Berlin – Space Installation / Photo Installation

2017
Wall Works #3 – Daniel Marzona – Berlin – Video Installations

2016
Reise nach Arglosen – Museum Bad Arolsen – Photo- and Video Installations – with Laura J. Padgett

2015
Meno male che ora è tutto diverso – Kunstverein, Rostock – Photo- and Video Installations

2014
ХОТЕЛИ КАК ЛУЧШЕ … – Oberfinanzdirektion, Frankfurt am Main – Photo- and Video Installations

2013
LESS – Bunker / Schauraum Wiensowski & Harbord – Berlin – Video Installations – Exhibition Project of Dr. B. Brunn with Charlotte Posenenske, Michael Reiter

2013
ZWISCHENDURCH: Konkrete Wände – galerie baer – Dresden – Photo- and Video Installations – with Hannes Broecker

2011
Fenster, Wände (Windows ans Walls) – Weißfrauen Diakoniekirche – Frankfurt am Main – Photo- and Video Installations
PLAZA SHOWS – Commerzbank Headquarters – Frankfurt am Main – Photo- and Video Installations

2010
Martina Wolf – Goethe Institute – Moscow (RU) – Video Installations
Sturm auf Berlin (Storming of Berlin) – Galerie Anita Beckers – Frankfurt am Main – Video Installation

2010
Tag des Sieges (Day of Victory) – Städtische Galerie Dresden – Video Installation

2010
КУДА / WOHIN – Motorenhalle – Dresden – with Ine Lamers – Video Installation
Lenin, Sieg und Wahrheit – galerie baer – Dresden – Photo- and Video Installations

2009
Tag des Sieges – VIDEOSPACE – Dresdner Bank / Commerzbank – Frankfurt am Main – Video Installation
ОБЪЕКТ ВООБРАЖЕНИЯ / Object of imagination – NCCA – National Centre for Contemporary Arts – Moscow (RU) – Video Installations – with Herbert Warmuth

2008
ALMATY_house – Project Space dof the Hess Cultural Foundation – Frankfurt am Main – Video Installation

2007
ZWIELING – Galerie STATION – Mousonturm – Frankfurt am Main – Photo- and Video Installations – with Herbert Warmuth

2006
Der eigene Doppelsinn – galerie baer – Dresden – Video Installations – Photo- and Video Installations – with Herbert Warmuth

2005
sicht.auf.bau – galerie baer – Dresden – Photo- and Video Installations
Topografische Auslassungen – Ideenlabor – Frankfurt am Main – Photo Installations

2004
Martina Wolf – Hochhaus der Dresdner Bank – Frankfurt am Main – Photo- and Video Installations

2003
Martina Wolf. RAUM II.2 – galerie gauche – ENSBA – Paris (F) – Video Installation

2002
RAUM II – Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Dresden – Video Installation


GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Extract)

2020
IMPLICIT MOVEMENT – Sofie va De Velde Gallery – Antwerpen – Video Work

2019
TROMPE-L’ OEIL – Gallery Mathias Güntner – Hamburg – Video Work
Memento mori – Daniel Marzona – Berlin – Video Works

2018
THERE WILL BE LIGHT – Gallery Nikolaus Ruzicska – Salzburg – Video Installation
Notes on the beginning of the short 20th century – Artist House – Tel Aviv – Video
BACKSTAGE: die Rückseite / the rear side – Thomas Rehbein Gallery: Köln – Video
BACKSTAGE: die Rückseite / the rear side – Mehdi Chouakri – Berlin – Video

2017
Soft Architecture – Collection Finstral – Friedberg / Augsburg – Photographs
BACKSTAGE: die Rückseite / the rear side – Gallery Sofie Van de Velde – Antwerp – Video Work

2016
Conceptual Landscapes – Galerie Mathais Güntner – Hamburg
REDUCING –  Daniel Marzona – Berlin

2015
Notes on the beginning of the short 20th century – Emil Filla Gallery – Ústí nad Labem (CZ)
That’s all – G262 – Sophie van de Velde – Antwerpen (BE)
Just That – Galerie Martina Detterer – Frankfurt am Main

2014
UPDATE/POSTMEMORY – International Video Art – Motorenhalle Dresden

2013
jetzt hier – Staatliche Kunstsammlungen – Dresden

2012
Addition – galerie baer – Dresden
dasselbe anders / immer dasselbe – Kunsthalle – Wiesbaden
OPEN STUDIOS – Deutsche Akademie Rom – Villa Massimo

2010
The king of the Forest – Playing the City 2 – SCHIRN Kunsthalle – Frankfurt am Main
house party – come as you are – galerie baer – Dresden
Fishing a Dragon – Video Block Display – Barockschloß Mannheim
Unter Oberflächen – Galerie Delikatessenhaus – Leipzig

2009
OHNE UNS! – Motorenhalle – Dresden
ВИДЕО ФОРМАТ [Linearity] – National Centre for Contemporary Arts – Moskau (RU)

2008
Moves – Kunsthalle Koidl – Berlin – Auszüge aus der Kunstsammlung der Dresdner Bank
remarks on color_part II_german tendencies – Priska Juschka Fine Art – New York (USA)

2007
HOT.DESTINATION IV – Motorenhalle – Dresden – Galerie Filla – Usti (CZ)

2006
Kulturinvest Dresden – Stipendiaten der Kulturstiftung Dresden der Dresdner Bank – Dresden
diStilled – Internationales Ausstelungsprojekt – Izmir (TÜ)

2001
screenings 08 – MMK – Frankfurt am Main


SCREENINGS

2011
Sąsiedzi / Neighbors / Nachbarn 2.0 – WAWEL Illumination – Façade Projection on the Wawel Castle – Show of the ctiy of Frankfurt am Main – Krakau (PL)

2009
The (re)production of space – VisualContainerTV – www.visualcontainer.tv

2008
directors lounge – Berlin – Festival for Video and Medien Art

2004
Angleichung – Photo Installation on the LED Wall of the Dresdner Bank – Frankfurt am Main

2003
The New York Expo – Anthology Film Archiv New York (USA)


LECTURES / SEMINAR / WORKSHOPS

2015
Video Workshop: Moving Stills – Faculty Of Fine Arts And Design – IZMIR ECONOMI ÜNVERSITESI (TR)

2010
Moscow Video Works – Lecture / Seminar – RGGU, Russian State University of the Arts, Moscow (RU)
Videoarbeiten und Urbane Fotografie – Lecture / Seminar – Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee – Berlin

2009
Городское пространство – Lecture / Seminar – MARCHI, Moscow Architecture Institute, Moskau (RU)

2008
L‘objet de l‘imagination – Lecture / Seminar / Workshop – Goethe Institut, Algiers (DZ)
Bildraum / Videoraum – Lecture / Seminar Serial – SOROS Centre, Almaty (KZ)
Oбъект воображения – Lecture / Seminar – State Art Academy Almaty (KZ)

2007
Martina Wolf. Video Works – Lecture / Seminar – Art Department der Ohio State University, Columbus/Ohio (USA)
Moving Images – Vorlesung / Seminarreihe – Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus/Ohio (USA)


BOOK PROJECTS (Concept / Design / Layout)

Martina Wolf. STILLE BEWEGTE BILDER. Arbeiten / Works. 2000–2014. Verlag für moderne Kunst
https://vfmk.org/martina-wolf

Charlotte Posenenske. Die frühen Arbeiten The Early Works. DISTANZ
http://www.distanz.de/de/books/new-publications/charlotte-posenenske

Charlotte Posenenske. manifesto. DISTANZ
http://www.distanz.de/de/books/new-publications/charlotte-posenenske