Anna Lena Seiser

Managing Director at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Head of collection n.b.k. Video-Forum, Curator

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

About

Curator for Contemporary Art, Media and Cultural Scientist (M.A.).

Experience

  • Managing Director n.b.k., Head of collection n.b.k. Video-Forum, Curator at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
    Apr 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 4 mos

    Conceptualization, Coordination and Curation of site specific exhibitions, programs and talks with international artists such as Rosa Barba, Loretta Fahrenholz, Claire Fontaine, Sharon Hayes, Christine Sun Kim & Thomas Mader, Les Levine, Herta Müller, Trevor Paglen, Natascha Sadr Haghigian, Karin Sander, and Sung Tieu. Thematic group shows with Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani, Astrid Heibach, K.H. Hödicke (with Cornelia Balcerowiak and Helmut Wietz), Ken Kobland, Gordon Matta-Clark, John Miller, Urlike Rosenbach, Ira Schneider, Stuart Sherman, Shelly Silver, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lawrence Weiner, a.o. Public Screenings in Berlin and abroad with Vito Acconci, Endre Alrust, Maria Thereza Alves, Robert Ashley, Dario Azzellini & Oliver Ressler, Denis Beaubois, Ursula Biemann, Dara Birnbaum, Claus Böhmler, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Peter Callas, Anetta Mona Chişa, Eli Cortiñas, Kajsa Dahlberg, Annika Eriksson, Antje Ehmann und Eva Stotz, Harun Farocki, Paul Garrin, Michael Geißler / Rosalia Müller, Patricja German, Niklas Goldbach, Asta Gröting, K.H. Hödicke, Christian Jankowski, Joan Jonas, Wolf Kahlen, Allan Kaprow, Alicja Kwade, Maria Lassnig, Les Levine, Bjørn Melhus, Yoko Ono, Stefan Panhans, Rotraut Pape, Kristina Paustian, Alexandra Pirici, M. Raskin Stichting, Ulrike Rosenbach, Martha Rossler, John Serra / Nancy Holt, Tomas Schmit, Ira Schneider, Corinna Schnitt, Lerato Shadi, Adnan & Nina Softić, Hito Steyerl, Pilvi Takala, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Robert Wilson, YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, a. o.

  • Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf)
    • Curator
      Nov 2016 - Jan 2020 · 3 yrs 3 mos

      FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN - MEGAN ROONEY 18.5. - 11. 8. 2019 Site specific solo exhibition and performance series by canadian artist Megan Rooney WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE 3.3. - 21.5. 2018 International group show featuring large scale room and video installations by: Jonathas de Andrade, Kristina Buch, Otto Hudec, Laura Lima, Cynthia Marcelle, Mario Pfeifer, Liu Shiyuan, Kota Takeuchi, Alvaro Urbano Co-curated with Jasmina Merz AKADEMIE [ARBEITSTITEL] 21.10. 2017 - 7.2. 2018 Experimental and process-based exhibiton with weekly changing installations and performances by professors and students of the art academies in Düsseldorf, Münster and the media arts academy Cologne. The exhibition presented around 80 projects among them over 50 newly produced works and has been accompanied by the longterm research-based programme „Performing Archive“. SIMON FUJIWARA. FIGURES IN A LANDSCAPE 16.12. 2016 - 5.3. 2017 KARL SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF STIPENDIUM. DIE AUSSTELLUNG 2016 16.7. - 11.9. 2016 With: Eli Cortiñas, Mariechen Danz, Antje Engelmann, FORT, Pauline M’barek, Anna Möller, Konrad Mühe, Jens Pecho, Jonas Weichsel, Pablo Wendel (Performance Electrics) Co-curated with Dr. Julia Apitzsch-Haack, Dr. Gregor Jansen MUR BRUT 08: Damaris Kerkhoff: Parkhaus Kunsthalle 26.10. 2016 - 29.1. 2017 MUR BRUT 07: Tim Löhde: In guter Gesellschaft 27.6. - 11.11. 2016 MUR BRUT 06: Christine Moldrickx: Caput 20.4. - 12.6. 2016 MUR BRUT 05: Alexander Pascal Forré: Tür Dur 7.12. 2015 - 13.3. 2016

    • Assistant Curator
      May 2015 - Oct 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos

      WIRTSCHAFTSWERTE / MUSEUMSWERTE 8.4. - 25.6. 2017 with: Giovanni Anselmo, Art & Language, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Christo, Tony Cragg, Hanne Darboven, Braco Dimitrijević, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Barry Flanagan, Lucio Fontana, Gilbert & George, Hans Haacke, On Kawara, Yves Klein, Imi Knoebel, , Bernd Lohaus, Richard Long, Nam June Paik, Blinky Palermo, Panamarenko, Gerhard Richter, Dieter Roth und Andy Warhol, Room-Intervention: Richard Venlet. SCHAF UND RUDER / WOOL AND WATER 1.10. - 27.11. 2016 with: Lili Dujourie, Isa Genzken, Astrid Klein, Mischa Kuball, Aron Mehzion, Reinhard Mucha, Sturtevant, Rosemarie Trockel, Gerhard Richter RITA MCBRIDE. GESELLSCHAFT 9.4. - 26.6. 2016 SONG DONG 6.12.2015 – 12.3. 2016 AVATAR UND ATAVISMUS 22.8. - 8.11. 2015 with: Kai Althoff, Siegfried Anzinger, Georg Baselitz, John Bock, Louise Bourgeois, André Butzer, Walter Dahn, Martin Disler, Georg Jiri Dokoupil, Günther Förg, Antonius Höckelmann, Andy Hope 1930, Mike Kelley, Alfred Klinkan, Eva Kot'átková, Maria Lassnig, Sarah Lucas, Bruce Nauman, Tal R & Jonathan Meese, Thomas Schütte, Dana Schutz, Franz West, Thomas Zipp. Curated by Dr. Veit Loers *PROJECT MANAGEMENT SPECIAL EVENTS*: ALEXANDRA PIRICI: Delicate Instruments of Engagement, 2017 in cooperation with Impulse Theaterfestival and FFT Düsseldorf TIME BASED ACADEMY - FESITVAL FÜR ZEITBASIERTE MEDIEN 2015, 2016 in cooperation with KHM Köln, Open Source Festival and Julia Stoschek Foundation MIT/VON/ÜBER/NACH, 2015: #1 PROSEPECTS curated by Petra Ponte #2 ZUSAMMENHANG GESAMTKUNSTWERK curated by Sonja Lau in cooperation with Schloss Ringenberg Stipendium / plugin

  • Assistant for the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship and Visual Arts and Design Scholarship Program at Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
    Nov 2011 - Apr 2015 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Assistant in the Program team, responsible for the Conference, Awards, and Awards Exhibition at transmediale - art & digital culture
    Aug 2009 - Mar 2010 · 8 mos