Martin EBNER

Profile

Berlin – Tokyo Exchange Residency Program (2017)

Born in 1965. Lives and works in Berlin.

Recent major exhibitions:
2021
“How to find meaning in dead time,” Savvy Contemporary, Berlin

2020
“Palydos,” Swallow, Vilnius, Lithuania
“Walking in Ice,” XC.Hua Gallery, Berlin
“Stadt und Knete,” After the Butcher, Berlin

2019
“Starship. Die nahe Zukunft. The Near Future.” LVX, Pavillon der Volksbühne, Berlin
“Walter Benjamin in Bern,” International Walter Benjamin Conference 2019, University of Bern, Switzerland 

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Final educational background

1988 - 1993: University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Visual Media

Recent 5 main activities (personal exhibitions, group exhibitions, concerts) are

- Palydos, Swallow, Vilnius, 2020

- Walking in Ice, XC.Hua Gallery, Berlin, 2020

- Stadt und Knete, After the Butcher, Berlin, 2020

- Starship. Die nahe Zukunft. The Near Future., LVX, Pavillon der Volksbühne, Berlin, 2019

- Walter Benjamin in Berlin, International Walter Benjamin Conference 2019 University of Bern

Other activities are

- Recycling Plastic Inevitable (RPI), West Germany, Berlin, 2020

- Starship Magazine 19, Spring 2020 176 pages, English/German

- Release: Starship Magazine 19, TV, Berlin, 2020

My work for the past decade has focused on film and video, installation, images and sound.
I am also a publisher and editor of Starship Magazine, together with Gerry Bibby, Nikola Dietrich, Ariane Müller and Henrik Olesen. Other recent collaborations include artists Kitty Kraus, Judith Hopf and Florian Zeyfang.

About works / performance

D'Izi, 2017, Installation video, Espace d'Art Contemporain 14°N 61°W, Fort de France

Look Left Look Right, 2016, Lightbox installation, Galerie Bernhard, Zürich

2 Large Metal Tables, 2016, Aluminium, Polyester, 600x320x380 cm, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius

Light Door (after George Brecht), 2016, Animated light installation, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius

Marinoni Tennis Club, 2015, Installation, with Ariane Müller, Pane Per Poveri, Lido di Venezia

Starship Magazine 16, Spring 2017, 128 pages, German / English, www.starship-magazine.org