Monika Bohr - kontakt@monika-bohr.de
Installations, Video, Digital Prints and Photography


1991-1997 Student of Fine Art and Media Arts at HBK Saar (Saar Art College)
1997 First class degree, MA
   
Prizes, Grants, Funding and Awards
   
1995 Holder of the town of Saarbrücken’s art scholarship
1997 Funding granted to the art group Kunstmanöver by the Goetheinstitut Göteborg and the UN
2006 Art Prize, 1st place, Trier-Saarburg
   
Projects
   
1996-1998 Founding member of the Kunstmanöver group.
Events are set in places experiencing transition, former barracks and industrial sites in Rhineland-Palatinate, Brandenburg (Germany) and Sweden; co-operation with artists from France, Sweden and Belarus; video art, video installations, sound installations
1997-2000 Founding member of the producers’ gallery O.T., Saarbrücken
Exhibition program specializing in media art and performance, video art events, exchange projects with France, Italy, Spain and Morocco; objects and painting
2000-2001 Conception and organisation of the international media art project "Gegenort - The-Virtual-Mine"; curatorial work together with Claudia Brieske, Leslie Huppert, Fevzi Konuk and Gertrud Riethmüller – database-supported Internet platform and exhibition in the shaft complex Gegenort / Neunkirchen
2006-2007 Conception and organisation of the international media art project "Virtual Residency" curatorial work together with Claudia Brieske, Leslie Huppert and Gertrud Riethmüller – database-supported Internet platform and exhibition in Lublin/Poland, Völklingen/Germany and Metz/France
   
Exhibitions (selection)
   
1992 Kunstsupermarkt (Art Supermarket), Saarbrücken
1993 Pfingstrot (Whitsunset), Johanniskirche, Saarbrücken (Cat.)
1994 Saar Ferngas "Junge Kunst" (Young Art), Kaiserslautern (Cat.)
Videonale 6, Bonn (Cat.)
1996 Venezia 1991-1995, Galerie Entreé, Saarbrücken
KM (Art Manoeuvre), Holtzendorffkaserne, Kaiserslautern
1997 UN Konferenz zur Konversion, Kaiserslautern
KM (Art Manoeuvre), Rote Kaserne, Neuruppin
KM (Art Manoeuvre), Röda Sten, Göteborg
1998 KM, (Art Manoeuvre), Schlossberghöhlen, Homburg
1999 Geheimnis Landleben (The Secret of Rural Life), O.T. Gallery, Saarbrücken
Linientreu und Kugelsicher (Loyal to the Party Line and Bullet Proof), Schwabenrepro Project, Stuttgart
Venezia Due, Associazione Culturale Italo-Tedesca, Venice
Sans titre (Untitled), Ancienne Trésorerie, Epinal
Sandwich, Install, Bad Kreuznach
2000 Visionen 2000, Moderne Galerie des Saarlandes
The-Virtual-Mine (TVM) 2000-2001 (K)
2001 Realisation of the project The-Virtual-Mine in Gegenort, Neunkirchen Saar (TVM)
Biennale for Digital Media Art, Manila (TVM)
Symposium DigitalArt Sao Paulo (TVM)
2003 Gehäuse (Housing), Eisenturm, Mainz
2004 Farbecht (Colourfast), Landeszentralbank, Mainz
Kunstszene Saar, Saarländisches Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken
“Postalisch” (Postal) Galerie Wengihof - Zürich (Cat.)
2005 Forum Vebikus, Schaffhausen
cubus Kunsthalle, Duisburg
Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken
Kulturverband Favoriten, Wien
Great to be at home, Saarländisches Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken (E) (K)
2006 Visionen Europa, Eisenturm, Mainz
2006 Realisation of the project Virtual Residency in Galeria Biala, Lublin/Poland
2007 Realisation of the project Virtual Residency in Handwerkergasse - Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte – Europäisches Zentrum für Kunst und Industriekultur, Völklingen, Germany
2007 Realisation of the project Virtual Residency in Galerie Faux Movement, Metz, Germany
2008-2010

"Venezia tre"
Venedig, Associazione Culturale Italo-Tedesca Venezia, Palazzo Albrizzi
Saarlouis, Kaserne VI
Berlin, Saarländische Galerie – Europäisches Kunstforum e.V.
Luxemburg, Kulturzentrum Abtei Neumünster
Dagstuhl, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH