Curriculum vitae Zora Volantes instagram@zoravolantes
I create a second skin for myself, that's why I build paper clothes and paper dwellings. The paper dwellings I call "WOMBS". These "objects" are either sculptures and installations or serve me as performance objects.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS
2023 Invitation of the Performance: Bounty Hunter at the Art Basel Miami Beach from Jörg Starke, curator of Stiftung Starke Berlin and Red Bull.
2023 Art in Construction: design creation of the floor (800 sqm) of the main hall of the new building Am Postbahnhof in Berlin, realization 2024, www.driessenarchitekten.de
2023 Invitation: Residency at the Galerie Netzwerk Trier with solo exhibition 2024
2023 Funding of the performance project in public space: Into the colors of the trees, Käthe-Dorsch-Stiftung, Berlin
2020 Award for a photo of the street art performance "don't touch me", on the Corona theme of Draussen Stadt, by the Berlin Charlottenburg district office. Sponsored by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Berlin, Else Heiliger Fund.
2019 Funding for the spatial installation and performance: "Planet Lost?", at Goethe Park in Weimar by Klassik-Stiftung-Weimar.
2014-2015 Eight-month fellowship at the Tarabya Cultural Academy, Istanbul, several solo exhibitions, e.g. at MIXER Gallery, Istanbul.
Further scholarships, e.g. DAAD for London 2003, scholarship according to the young artist program of the Berlin University of the Arts 2000, Erasmus scholarship for studying with Michelangelo Pistoletto at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Numerous solo exhibitions at home and abroad, cooperation with various galleries and festivals. Upcoming
2023 Performance at the Art Basel Miami Beach, invited by Red Bull and Jörg Starke, curator, 2024 solo exhibition at Stiftung Starke Berlin. Presentation of the floor design (800 sqm) of the main hall of the new building Am Postbahnhof in Berlin. Solo exhibition at Galerie Netzwerk in Trier.
STREET ART Since 2020 I show my sculptures = "Wombs" and performances in public space in Berlin and other cities. The award-winning performance: "Don't touch me", on the Corona theme, I showed in 2020 at night on the Museum Island. The performance: "Bounty hunter" 2022 at night in front of the Federal Chancellery. A still ongoing performance series is: "Into the colors on the trees" on the discoloration of the leaves of the trees in the changing seasons. Awarded by the Käthe-Dorsch-Stiftung, Berlin.
2023-2017 Lectureships at the University of Applied Sciences and the EC-Europa Campus, Frankfurt.
STUDIES AND EDUCATION
1996-2000 Studied at the Berlin University of the Arts with Katharina Sieverding and Rebecca Horn. 2000 Master student of Rebecca Horn