Shortbio:
*1980 Tobias Rosenberger studied "Applied Theatre Studies" in Giessen / Germany and works at the crossroads of theatre, new media art and installation. Besides various performances (Festival Junger Talente, Frankfurter Positionen, Körber Studio Junge Regie) he realized i.a. installations for the German + French Embassy in Sana'a / Yemen, the Goethe Institut in Barcelona and Franken Architekten. He was three times participant of Luminale Frankfurt (2006, 2008, 2010) and exhibited widely, including Lyon (Les Subsistences), Copenhagen (re-new-DigitalArtsFestival), Liverpool (Moves10), Katowice (Galeria Rondo Sztuki), Mexico-City (solo in Galería A/B del CENART), Osnabrück (European Media Art Festival, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche), and Esslingen/Neckar (solo in Villa Merkel). Rosenberger has been awarded grants from Goethe Institut and Werkleitz (1. Mexico-scholarship for German New Media artists, Centro Multimedia del Centro Nacional de las Artes), the City of Esslingen (Esslinger Bahnwärter Visual Arts) and Foundation Künstlerdorf Schöppingen. He has held residencies at European Mobile Lab for Interactive Media Art (e- MobiLArt, 2008/2009) and at Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes, map-extension 2009- 2010 programme (Festival Okuparte, Huesca/Spain).
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Tobias Rosenberger (*1980) is a German Media Artist.
The works of Tobias Rosenberger are multilayered and multidimensional, they impress with consequent composition and the cross-linking of complex media systems. His installations mirror the world into spaces, they are stage and action space at the same time. [...]
Thereby he is not so much concerned with social criticism, the narration of stories or the expression of concrete ideas. Instead, it is about the creation of spaces, where visitors become invited to think on their own.
(Elke Eberle, Esslinger Zeitung)
After a humanistic school education (main subjects: Ancient Greek + Literature), he studied Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen / Germany i.a. with Helga Finter, Samuel Weber and Heiner Goebbels, for whom he also worked some times (2006/2007).
During university he realized several theatre performances and scenic concerts, i.a. at Festival Junger Talente (Antigone by Sophocles with Chinese actors), Frankfurter Positionen (with Ensemble Modern / Jonathan Bepler), Ferienkurse Darmstadt (Esquisse), Pact Essen, and Körber Studio Junge Regie (Herakles 2 by Heiner Müller).
Breathing City (2007), his first multichannel video-installation (Sound: Elad Shniderman) was developed during an university project in Lyon (Grammaire de la ville, Goethe Institut). This work was exhibited in Lyon (Les Subsistences), Tel Aviv (Alfred Gallery), New York (Harvestworks exhibition room), Barcelona (Goethe Institut), Copenhagen (re-new-Festival), Düsseldorf (Kunstfilmtag Kunstverein Malkasten) and Liverpool (Moves-Festival).
Also in 2007 he worked three months in New York with different artists at Harvestworks Digital Arts Center (Interactive Programming / Physical Computing) and spent 2 months in Sana'a, where he realized together with René Liebert Sana'a - City of Light (Music: Matthias Mohr), an audiovisual installation for public space in the capitol city of Yemen. This project was commissioned by the Foreign Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of France and highlighted the significance of the Bab Al-Yemen.
Further works at the crossroads of public space and light art were presented at the Luminale Frankfurt (2006 Bypass, university project under the direction of Prof. Heiner Goebbels, 2008 Cold Lights in collaboration with René Liebert and Maximilian Haas, 2010 Misere(re) commissioned by Franken Architekten).
Tobias Rosenberger was a participant of E-mobilArt (European Mobile Lab for Interactive Media Artists, 2008 - 2009), an international project tailored around the process of collaboratively creating interactive installation artworks with workshops in Athens, Rovaniemi and Vienna and subsequent exhibitions in Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki Biennial) and Katowice (Gallery Rondo Sztuki).
While also working as a freelancer for 3deluxe in Wiesbaden and Franken Architekten in Frankfurt, in 2009 he began to create media sculptures. Theatrical machines such as Projektion 1675 (realized in Schöppingen with a grant of the Stiftung Künstlerdorf) or The An-Archic Device (realized at the Centro Multimedia in Mexico-City within the framework of the first Mexico-Scholarship for German Media Artists, Goethe Institut, Werkleitz; first exhibited in a solo exhibition in the Galeria A/B del Cenart) reflect in a playful manner the relation between scale and imagination.
In 2010 he completed the Esslinger Bahnwärter-scholarship for Visual Arts with the installation The Grand Defender (based on a text fragment by Chinese philosopher Mozi), which he presented with earlier works at a solo-exhibition in the Villa Merkel (07.02 - 07.03). The Grand Defender and The An-Archic Device were subsequently part of EMAF`s 2010 MashUp exhibition in the Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche in Osnabrück (21.04 - 25.05). The Roxy-Theater in Basel-Birsfelden also shows some of his works (Tobias Rosenberger: Theatermaschinen / Theatermodelle, 14.04 - 20.06).
His latest work, Large scale / La canción de la gran promesa is a 15 channel-video-installation, that was created in the framework of the Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes, map-extension 2009-2010 programme, in Huesca / Spain (Festival Okuparte, 08.05 - 06.06).
Selected Press:
- Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (21.04.2010)
- Catalogue text Emaf (21.04.2010)
- Stuttgarter Zeitung (06.02.2010)
- Esslinger Zeitung (12.11.2009)
- Video Interview Centro Multimedia (28.06.2009)
- Video Interview BTV Barcelona (28.04.2008)
- Yemen Times (26.09.2007)
- Yemen Observer (22.09.2007)
2010:
LARGE SCALE / La canción de la gran promesa
08.05 - 06.06, Festival Okuparte, Huesca (Spanien)
The Grand Defender + The An-Archic Device
21.04 - 23.05, 23. European Media Art Festival, MashUp
Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück
Lecture
22.04, European Media Art Festival (The Grand Defender / CCO Malte Scholz)
Breathing City
21.04 - 25.04., Moves10, International Festival of Movement on Screen, Liverpool
Theatermaschinen / Theatermodelle (solo)
14.04 - 20.06, Theater Roxy, Basel-Birsfelden
Misere(re)
11.04 - 16.04, Luminale Frankfurt
"The Grand Defender. Theatermaschinen und -modelle" (solo)
07.02 - 07.03, Villa Merkel, Esslingen / Neckar
2009:
Real Estate
28.10 - 15.11, Galeria Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, Poland
The An-Archic Device
30.06 - 31.07, Galería A/B del CENART, Mexico-City
Lecture
20.11.2009 Beyond Lectures, Franken Architects, Frankfurt, Germany
12.09.2009 Instinc, Singapore
30.05.2009 Dorkbot Co. De Mexico, Central del Pueblo Venezuela, Mexiko-City
Projektion 1675 / Leibnizmonument
15.5.2009 - 12.06.2009 "Labor Schöppingen: Das Universum nebenan"
(Jubiläumsausstellung 20 Jahre Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, NRW)
Breathing City
19.12.09 Kunstfilmtag Düsseldorf, Kunstverein Malkasten
24.09.09 - 26.09.09 namaTRE.ba 3, Trebinje, Bosna i Hercegovina (Screening)
18.05.09 - 22.05.09 re-new-DigitalArtsFestival Copenhagen
Herakles 2 / Hydra
05.04.2009 Lofft Leipzig, 3xMüller
31.03.2009 Körber Studio Junge Regie Hamburg, Thalia Gaußstrasse, 3xMüller
05.03 - 07.03.09, Mousonturm Frankfurt, 3xMüller
14.02.09 Pact Essen, Symposium "Unter dem Blick der Sphinx"
2008:
Sana'a / Aden 2009
Preparing visit to Sana'a + Aden on an invitation by German embassy;
Herakles 2 / Hydra
Herbstfestival der Hessischen Theaterakademie", Hfmdk Frankfurt
Internationales Heiner Müller Symposiums", Giessen
Cold Lights
Festival Junger Talente, Mainhafen Offenbach, Germany
Luminale Frankfurt, Physikalischer Verein, Germany
Breathing City
Goethe Institut Barcelona, Spain
2007:
Sana'a - City of Lights
Bab al-Yemen, Sana'a, Yemen
Breathing City
Harvestworks, New York City, USA
Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Les Intranquilles Festival #6, Les Subsistances, Lyon, France
Studierzimmer / Nachts
Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaften, Giessen
2006:
Equisse
Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Internationale Musiktage Darmstadt
Der Mann mit dem Tornister
Festival Junger Talente, Capitol Offenbach
Bypass
Nordseite Mainufer / Alte Brücke, Luminale Frankfurt
Fascia
Frankfurter Positionen, Schauspiel Frankfurt
