Klara Hobza

STATEMENT/BIO:

Klara Hobza is a Berlin-based artist who likes to pursue self-imposed, large-scale endeavors.

For the next 25 years, she will be scuba diving through Europe, entering the Rhine River at the mouth of the North Sea until she hits the Main River in Mainz, Germany, through to the Main-Danube-Canal, diving through the Danube River all the way to the Black Sea. Hobza uses her many challenges and encounters along the way as raw material for images and narratives articulated as films, drawings, sculptures, texts and lectures. Her work furthers the performative and social aspects of sculpture.

Hobza received her MFA from Columbia University in 2005. Since then, she has been exhibiting internationally and has been awarded several prizes and fellowships including: Ars viva/BDI (Germany), Stiftung Kunstfonds (Germany), DIVA (Denmark), NYFA (NY) and SculptureCenter Prize (NY), amongst others.

Hobza´s work has been reviewed by numerous print, online and TV media, including the New York Times, Artforum, art - Das Kunstmagazin, frieze magazine, Monopol, Architectural Digest, Modern Painters, Scientific American and Popular Mechanics. The artist is represented by Soy Capitán, Berlin, Waldburger Wouters, Brussels and Galerie fuer Landschaftskunst, Hamburg.

 

CV:

Born 1975 in Pilsen (CZ)

2002 Munich Academy of Fine Arts, Diploma of Fine Arts, Meisterschüler of Olaf Metzel, Munich

2005 Columbia University, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), New York

2012 Werner Herzog´s Rogue Film School, Los Angeles

Lives and works in Berlin

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2017 Research and project grant 2017 for the developent of new work by the Berlin Senate

2016 Residency Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

2012 Stifung Kunstfonds, work fellowship 2012, Germany

Stiftung Kunstfonds, solo exhibition fellowship at Künstlerhaus Bremen

Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung, grant catalogue for young artists, Germany

2010 ars viva – art grant, Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft (BDI), Berlin (cat.)

Fleetinsel Residency Stipend, City of Hamburg, Hamburg

2009 DIVA / Danish Arts Council, artist in residence, Copenhagen

2007 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Fellow in Cross-Disciplinary / Performative Work, New York

Seven Below Arts Initiative and Burlington City Arts, Artist in Residence, Burlington, Vermont

2006 Finalist, Rolex Mentor and Protégé Program, New York

2005 SculptureCenter Prize, New York

Elaine and Werner Dannheisser Emerging Artist Fellowship, New York

Emerging Artist Fellowship Program, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York

2003 Dean’s Scholarship, Columbia University, New York

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship, New York

2002 Meisterschüler, Prof. Olaf Metzel, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich

2000 Leonhard und Ida Wolf Gedächtnispreis, Munich

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 Animaloculomat, Gallery Soy Capitán, Berlin

2017 Animaloculomat, Künstlerische Interventionen III, curated by Bergit Arends, Museum für Naturkunde (Natural History Museum), Berlin

2016 You came here for the killing, didn‘t you?, Gallery Waldburger Wouters, Brussels

2015 Ich halte das Rheingold für eine gute Investition, Gallery Soy Capitán, Berlin

2014 Diving Through Europe, curated by Jacob Lillemose, Syndhavn Station, Copenhagen

Die große Basler Gipfelbergung, deuxpiece bei St. Clara, Basel

On Display, basis, Frankfurt am Main

2013 12x12 | IBB-Videolounge, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

ZuSpiel (with Johanna Bartl), Stiftung Moritzburg, Halle

The Great Entry, Galerie Waldburger, Brussels

Der Totale Horror, Soy Capitán, Berlin

Salvaging Morse Code, curated by Georg Elben, Skulpturmuseum Glaskasten, Marl

2012 Diving through Europe, curated by Stefanie Boettcher Künstlerhaus, Bremen

Moving with Fervor into Moments of Levity, curated by Bettina v. Dziembowski, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen

Biography, Raum 58, Munich

2011 Prequel, Soy Capitán, Berlin

Paper Airplanes, Kunstverein Ruhr, curated by Peter Friese, Essen

2009 Klara Hobza, Galerie Für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg

Nay, I‘ll Have A Starling, Koh-I-Noor, Copenhagen

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017 Die Idee der freien Flusszone (The Idea Of The Free River Zone), organized by Galerie für Landschaftskunst GFLK, Kunstverein Heidelberg

Karin Sander: ZEIGEN, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig

2016 Land für 5 finale Handlungen (Land For 5 Final Acts), organized by Galerie

für Landschaftskunst GFLK, Kunstverein Langenhagen

Dominium Terrae. Landschaft am Jadebusen – 4 künstlerische Experimente

(Jade Bight Landscape – 4 Artistic Experiments), organized by Galerie für

Landschaftskunst GFLK, Schillig Campsite, Wangerland

Wasserfest, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel

Residence in Nature, Växjö Konsthall, Sweden

Prinzessinnenstrasse 29 DE-10969 Berlin | info@soycapitan.de phone +49 30 80921977

2015 Europa – Die Zukunft der Geschichte, curated by Catherine Hug, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland

The World was Flat, Now it‘s Round and it will be a Hologram, curated by Francois Bucher and Lina Maria Lopez, Mild Museet, Umea, Sweden

2014 Monolithic Water, curated by Claire Hoffmann, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

La Biennale de Montréal, Montréal, CN 

Narracje Festival, curated by Anna Smolak, Gdańsk, Poland

Sagen und Schreiben - Schrift in der Kunst, curated by Notburga Karl, Stadtgalerie Villa Dessauer, Bamberg

The Transportation Business curated by Gregory Volk, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York

Satellite Affects and Other Lines of Flight, curated by Andrea Caroline Keppler and Susanne Husse, District, Berlin

Who makes Europe, Gdańsk City Gallery, Gdańsk

The Colours of the Labyrinth, WaldburgerWouters, Brussels

Kirunatopia, Kunsthaus Dresden

Bewegte Bilder, curated by Jorn Ebner, Galerie Marstall, Ahrensburg / Galerie in der Wassermühle, Trittau

Trockene Wahrheiten, Schau Fenster. Schauraum für Kunst, Berlin

2013 EPISODE 4: tireless workers, insitu, Berlin

WHO MAKES EUROPE, curated by Susanne Hinrichs, Matadero, Madrid

Die Irregulären, NGBK, Berlin

The Art Of Escaping By A Hairsbreadth, Soy Capitán, Berlin

Through This to That, Present Co., New York

2012 Drifting Edges, curated by Stefanie Trojan and Notburga Karl, ATELIER FRANKFURT, Frankfurt

Versuchsanordnung Kunst, curated by Rike Zoebelein, Bayer Kulturhaus, Leverkusen

Expedition of Slowness, QUARTAIR Contemporary Art Initiatives, The Hague / NL

2011 Ars Viva. 10/11. Labor/Laboratory, curated by Daniel Spanke, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart

Oceanomania: Souvenirs from a Mysterious Sea, curated by Mark Dion and Sarina Basta, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco

Voyage on Uncanny Seas, curated by Mark Dion, Gallery Diet, Miami

Ars Viva 10/11. Labor / Laboratory, curated by November Paynter, SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul

2010 Ars Viva. 10/11. Laboratory, Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz

Wandelhalle GFLK, curated by Till Krause, Bad Toelz

Drifting Edges curated by Notburga Karl, Kunst / Gewerbeverein Regensburg

Weil auf mir, Du dunkles Auge, bauer&ewald, Berlin

Zur Nachahmung empfohlen, curated by Adrienne Göhler, Uferhallen, Berlin

fünfmaldrei, curated by Michael Voets, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf

Serpula lacrymans, Galerie Fuer Landschaftskunst, Hamburg

Small Circles, curated by Annie Shaw, New York City

Ich Tier Du Mensch, curated by Isabel Reiss, Cathérine Hug, and Dimitrina Sevova, Dienstgebäude, Zurich

2009 The New Millennium Paper Airplane Book, Public Art Fund, New York

Tuesdays on the Terrace Dia at The Hispanic Society, curated by Andrea Grover, New York

Exhibition 211, Initiators: Bajo, Schillinger, Neidich, E. / N. Anglès, New York

2008 In The Public Realm, Public Art Fund, New York

Subject Index, curated by Gabrielle Giattino, Museum for Fine Arts Malmoe, Malmoe (cat.)

Sound Design for Future Films, Museum Moderna Museet, Stockholm

2007 writing in light, Kunstlicht in de Kunst, Eindhoven

700 show, curated by Annie Shaw, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York City

2006 GLOW festival of light, Eindhoven

2005 Make It Now, curated by Anthony Hubermann, Sculpture Center, New York (cat.)

Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York

German Romance, curated by Notburga Karl, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin

Linux Virgin, curated by Isabel Reiss, Galerie Roemerapotheke, Zurich

One Minute At Orchard, curated by Jason Simon, Orchard, New York

Travelling Tales, curated by C. Marambio, Masterton, A. Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, New Zealand

LOOP The Video Art Festival‘05, Barcelona

2004 Delight, Elizabeth Art Foundation, New York

Space Camp, curated by Robert Barta, Prague

2002 Oltre il Giardini, curated by Florian Matzner and M+M, Rimini

 

LECTURES

2016 Münster Lectures, Kunstakademie Münster

Visiting artist, seminar Eli Cortinas, Kunsthochschule Kassel

An den Grenzen, podium discussion with Ruediger Zill, Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin

2015 Visiting artist, seminar Petra Lange-Berndt, University Hamburg

Visiting artist, seminar Eli Cortinas, Kunsthochschule Mainz

Tolka Nights, Botanic Museum, Dublin

Nature after Nature, Whitechapel, London, in discussion with curator and lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at UCL, Petra Lange-Berndt

2014 Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden Visiting artist, seminar, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Biennale de Montréal, McCord Museum, Montréal

Visiting artist, seminar Andy O‘Neill, New York University, Berlin

Academy of Art and Design, Prague

Die große Basler Gipfelbergung, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin

Die große Basler Gipfelbergung, deuxpiece/ St. Claire Cloisters, Basel

2013 Early Endeavors, Künstlerhaus Bremen

Doing Nerd Symposium, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin

Diving through Europe, Tschk!Talks, Berlin

2012 Klara Hobza, Performing Politics / Institut fuer Raumexperimente, Berlin

Klara Hobza, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen

2011 Klara Hobza, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen

Klara Hobza, Soy Capitan, Berlin

2010 St. Pauli Kunstverein, Hamburg

The Cloud Maker, curated by Annie Shaw, Small Circles, Brooklyn

Nay, I’ll Have A Starling, curated by F. Oloveira and M. Amado, Just Madrid Art Fair, Madrid

2009 The Cloud Maker, curated by James Walsh, Observatory, Brooklyn

Nay, I‘ll Have A Starling, curated by Gudrun Hasle, Gudrun‘s Salon, Copenhagen

2007 Nay, I‘ll Have A Starling, Fivemyles, Brooklyn

Nay, I‘ll Have A Starling, Firehouse Gallery, Burlington

2006 Morsen und Samuel Morse, curated by Christian Goegger, ZKMax, Munich

Morsen und Samuel Morse, Reception Trustees of the Sculpture Center, New York

 

CURATORIAL

2014 Great Expectations, Soy Capitán, Berlin

2011 Tales of Lived Wonders, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen

2007-2008 founder and co-author of Naked Attic, a performance art review platform, New York

2004-2005 MFA program – co-organiser of the Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Columbia University, New York

1999-2001 Co-founder and co-curator of Lothringer13 / LADEN, Munich

 

PUBLICATIONS

2017 Dominium Terrae. Landschaft am Jadebusen – 4 künstlerische Experimente (Jade Bight Landscape – 4 Artistic Experiments), exhibition catalogue

2015 An den Grenzen, herausgegeben von der Deutschen Kinemathek, Verlag Bertz+Fischer

2012 Klara Hobza: Early Endeavors, Distanz Verlag (solo)

Moving with Fervor into Moments of Levity, published by Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen (solo)

2010 Labor/Laboratory, Hatje Cantz Verlag

2009 The New Millennium Paper Airplane Book, published by the Public Art Fund, New York (solo)

2006 World‘s Best New Art, Unreal Projects, Cornerhouse Verlag

2005 Make It Now: New Sculpture in New York, published by SculptureCenter, New York

 

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Soy Capitán, Berlin

Waldburger Wouters, Brussels

Galerie fuer Landschaftskunst, Hamburg