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'''Inke Arns''' (1968, Duisdorf/Bonn) is a curator and artistic director of Hartware MedienKunstVerein in Dortmund since 2005. She has worked internationally as an independent curator, writer and theorist specializing in media art, net cultures, and Eastern Europe since 1993. She lived in Paris (1982–86), graduated from highschool in West-Berlin in 1988, studied Russian literature, Eastern European studies, political science, and art history in Berlin and Amsterdam (1988–96) and in 2004 obtained her PhD from the Humboldt University in Berlin, with a thesis focusing on a paradigmatic shift in the way artists reflected the historical avant-garde and the notion of utopia in visual and media art projects of the 1980s and 1990s in (ex-)Yugoslavia and Russia.
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'''Inke Arns''' (1968, Duisdorf/Bonn) is a curator and director of [http://www.hmkv.de HMKV (Hartware MedienKunstVerein)] in [[Dortmund]], where she worked as artistic director from 2005-2017. She has worked internationally as an independent curator, writer and theorist specializing in media art, net cultures, and Eastern Europe since 1993. She lived in [[Paris]] (1982-1986), graduated from high school in West-Berlin in 1988, studied Russian literature, Eastern European studies, political science, and art history in [[Berlin]] and [[Amsterdam]] (1988-1996) and in 2004 obtained her PhD from the Humboldt University in Berlin, with a thesis focusing on a paradigmatic shift in the way artists reflected the historical avant-garde and the notion of utopia in visual and media art projects of the 1980s and 1990s in (ex-)Yugoslavia and Russia.
  
She was a member of Fischbüro, Berlin (1987-88), founding member of the [[Syndicate]] network (1996-2001), founding member of the ''Who by Fire?'' network initiated by the ICA-Dunaujvaros (12/1997), co-founder of the Berlin-based [[mikro]], association for the advancement of new media cultures (3/1998) as well as a co-founder of ''[[Spectre]]'', a mailing list for media culture in Deep Europe (08/2001).
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She curated exhibitions at home and abroad, a.o. at the Bauhaus (Dessau), Moderna galerija (Ljubljana), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum (Hagen), Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade), HMKV (Dortmund), Centre for Contemporary Arts – CCA (Glasgow), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Videotage (Hong Kong), Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina (Novi Sad), Centre for Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski (Warsaw), Contemporary Art Centre CAC (Vilnius), La Panacée (Montpellier), Jeu de Paume (Paris), Autocenter (Berlin), Kunsthall Charlottenborg (Kopenhagen), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Muzeum Sztuki (Łodz), NCCA (Yekaterinburg), La Gaîté Lyrique (Paris), BOZAR (Brussels), [[MU]] (Eindhoven).
  
She curated exhibitions at Bauhaus (Dessau), n.b.k. (Berlin), Moderna galerija (Ljubljana), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum (Hagen), Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade), Hartware MedienKunstVerein (Dortmund), Centre for Contemporary Arts CCA (Glasgow), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Videotage (Hong Kong), Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina (Novi Sad), Centre for Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski (Warsaw), Centre for Contemporary Art “Znaki Czasu” (Toruń), Contemporary Art Centre CAC (Vilnius), Muzeum Sztuki (Łodz), La Panacée (Montpellier), Jeu de Paume (Paris), Autocenter (Berlin).
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International exhibitions include, e.g. ''[[Ostranenie]]'' (1993), ''[[Medienbiennale Leipzig]]'' (1994), ''[[V2 East Meeting on Documentation and Archives of Media Art in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe]]'' (1996), ''[[Update 2.0]]'' (2000), ''IRWIN: Retroprinciple 1983-2003'' (2003-2004), ''[[Readme]]'' (2005), ''What is Modern Art? (Group Show)'' (2006), ''The Wonderful World of irational.org'' (2006-2012), ''History Will Repeat Itself'' (2007-2008), ''Anna Kournikova ... Art in the Age of Intellectual Property'' (2008), ''“Awake are only the Spirits” – On Ghosts and their Media'' (2009), ''Building Memory'' (2009-2010), ''Arctic Perspective'' (2010), ''Barbara Breitenfellner: Traum einer Ausstellung'' (2011), ''The Oil Show'' (2011), ''Artur Zmijewski: Democracies'' (2012), ''Suzanne Treister: HEXEN 2.0'' (2012), ''Francis Hunger: History has left the Building'' (2012), ''Sounds Like Silence (John Cage 4’33” – Silence today / 1912 – 1952 – 2012)'' (2012), ''His Master’s Voice: On Voice and Language'' (2013-2015), ''INDUSTRIAL (Research)'' (2013), ''Evil Clowns'' (2014), ''Whistleblowers & Vigilantes'' (2016), ''The World Without Us'' (2016), ''Dan Perjovschi: The Hard/er Drawing'' (2016), ''alien matter'' (transmediale, 2017), ''The Brutalism Appreciation Society'' (2017), ''Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention'' (2017), ''The Border'' (2017-2019), ''The Storming of the Winter Palace – Forensics of an Image'' (2017-18), ''Computer Grrrls'' (2018-19), ''The Alt-Right Complex'' (2019), ''The 12th Time Zone'' (2019), ''Artists & Agents: Performance Art and Secret Services'' (2019).
  
International exhibitions include ''IRWIN: Retroprinciple 1983-2003'' (Berlin 2003, Hagen 2003-2004, Belgrade 2004), ''What is Modern Art?'' (Group Show) (Berlin 2006), ''The Wonderful World of irational.org'' (Dortmund 2006, Glasgow 2007, Novi Sad 2008, Leuven 2012), ''History Will Repeat Itself'' (Dortmund 2007, Berlin 2007-2008, Warsaw 2008, Hong Kong 2008), ''Anna Kournikova ... Art in the Age of Intellectual Property'' (Dortmund 2008), ''“Awake are only the Spirits” – On Ghosts and their Media'' (Dortmund 2009, Toruń 2010), ''Building Memory'' (Vilnius, Lodz, Tel Aviv, Dortmund 2010), ''Arctic Perspective'' (Dortmund 2010), ''Laure Prouvost: Monolog'' (Bielefeld 2011), ''Barbara Breitenfellner: Traum einer Ausstellung'' (Dortmund 2011), ''The Oil Show'' (Dortmund 2011-2012), ''Artur Zmijewski: Democracies'' (2012), ''Suzanne Treister: HEXEN 2.0'' (2012), ''Francis Hunger: History has left the Building'' (2012), ''Sounds Like Silence (John Cage – 4’33” – Silence today / 1912 – 1952 – 2012)'' (2012-13), ''His Master’s Voice: On Voice and Language'' (Dortmund 2013, Montpellier 2015), ''INDUSTRIAL (Research)'' (2013-14), ''Evil Clowns'' (Dortmund 2014, Erlangen 2015).
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Awards: In 2019, together with Igor Chubarov and Sylvia Sasse, Inke Arns was awarded the [https://www.hmkv.de/_pdf/Presse/2019/PM_Justus-Bier-Preis-2018.pdf Justus Bier Award for Curators 2018] for the project The Storming of the Winter Palace. HMKV received the [https://kunstvereine.de/en/adkv-art-cologne-award-for-kunstvereine?id=20 ADKV-ART COLOGNE Award for art associations 2017]. In 2017, HMKV was nominated for the sixth time for this Award (after nominations in 2007, 2008, 2011, 2013, and 2014). In 2013 HMKV reveived an Honorable Mention in the framework of this Award. In 2013, HMKV’s exhibition ''Sounds Like Silence. John Cage – 4’33” – Silence Today'' was awarded the [http://aica.kuk.net/english/meld/index.php?id=186 Exceptional Exhibition of the Year 2012] prize by the German section of AICA (International Art Critics’ Association). In 2011 HMKV received the JUMP Annual Sponsorship Award for Art Organisations funded by the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia (Kunststiftung NRW).
  
She also co-organised media art exhibitions and conferences like ''[[Ostranenie]]'' (1993), ''[[Medienbiennale Leipzig]]'' (1994), ''[[V2 East Meeting on Documentation and Archives of Media Art in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe]]'' (1996), ''[[Update 2.0]]'' (2000), and ''[[Readme]]'' (2005).
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Inke Arns taught at universities and art academies in Berlin, Leipzig, Zurich, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam (2000-2017), and has lectured and published internationally. Books include ''Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) – eine Analyse ihrer künstlerischen Strategien im Kontext der 1980er Jahre in Jugoslawien'' (Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, 2002), ''Netzkulturen'' (Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 2002), ''Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear! Die Avantgarde im Rückspiegel'' (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2004).
  
Inke Arns has been teaching at universities and art academies in Berlin, Leipzig, Zurich, and Rotterdam (2000-2011), and has lectured and published internationally.  
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Member of the ADKV Board of Directors, Berlin; Advisory Committee of the Net Art Anthology, Rhizome, New York; Board of Trustees of the Kunststiftung NRW, Düsseldorf; Advisory Board of the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht; Advisory Board (Visual Art) of the Goethe-Institute, Munich; Board of Trustees of the Stiftung Choreographisches Zentrum NRW, Essen; International Editorial Board of Maska, Journal of Performing Arts, Ljubljana. She was also a member of Fischbüro, Berlin (1987-1988), founding member of the [[Syndicate]] network (1996-2001), founding member of the ''Who by Fire?'' network initiated by the ICA-Dunaujvaros (12/1997), co-founder of the Berlin-based association for the advancement of new media cultures [[Mikro e.V.]] (3/1998), and a co-founder of the mailing list for media culture in Deep Europe ''[[Spectre]]'' (08/2001). [http://en.inkearns.de/home/contact/cv/ (2019)]
  
 
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Revision as of 12:44, 25 September 2019

Inke Arns (1968, Duisdorf/Bonn) is a curator and director of HMKV (Hartware MedienKunstVerein) in Dortmund, where she worked as artistic director from 2005-2017. She has worked internationally as an independent curator, writer and theorist specializing in media art, net cultures, and Eastern Europe since 1993. She lived in Paris (1982-1986), graduated from high school in West-Berlin in 1988, studied Russian literature, Eastern European studies, political science, and art history in Berlin and Amsterdam (1988-1996) and in 2004 obtained her PhD from the Humboldt University in Berlin, with a thesis focusing on a paradigmatic shift in the way artists reflected the historical avant-garde and the notion of utopia in visual and media art projects of the 1980s and 1990s in (ex-)Yugoslavia and Russia.

She curated exhibitions at home and abroad, a.o. at the Bauhaus (Dessau), Moderna galerija (Ljubljana), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum (Hagen), Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade), HMKV (Dortmund), Centre for Contemporary Arts – CCA (Glasgow), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Videotage (Hong Kong), Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina (Novi Sad), Centre for Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski (Warsaw), Contemporary Art Centre CAC (Vilnius), La Panacée (Montpellier), Jeu de Paume (Paris), Autocenter (Berlin), Kunsthall Charlottenborg (Kopenhagen), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Muzeum Sztuki (Łodz), NCCA (Yekaterinburg), La Gaîté Lyrique (Paris), BOZAR (Brussels), MU (Eindhoven).

International exhibitions include, e.g. Ostranenie (1993), Medienbiennale Leipzig (1994), V2 East Meeting on Documentation and Archives of Media Art in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe (1996), Update 2.0 (2000), IRWIN: Retroprinciple 1983-2003 (2003-2004), Readme (2005), What is Modern Art? (Group Show) (2006), The Wonderful World of irational.org (2006-2012), History Will Repeat Itself (2007-2008), Anna Kournikova ... Art in the Age of Intellectual Property (2008), “Awake are only the Spirits” – On Ghosts and their Media (2009), Building Memory (2009-2010), Arctic Perspective (2010), Barbara Breitenfellner: Traum einer Ausstellung (2011), The Oil Show (2011), Artur Zmijewski: Democracies (2012), Suzanne Treister: HEXEN 2.0 (2012), Francis Hunger: History has left the Building (2012), Sounds Like Silence (John Cage – 4’33” – Silence today / 1912 – 1952 – 2012) (2012), His Master’s Voice: On Voice and Language (2013-2015), INDUSTRIAL (Research) (2013), Evil Clowns (2014), Whistleblowers & Vigilantes (2016), The World Without Us (2016), Dan Perjovschi: The Hard/er Drawing (2016), alien matter (transmediale, 2017), The Brutalism Appreciation Society (2017), Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention (2017), The Border (2017-2019), The Storming of the Winter Palace – Forensics of an Image (2017-18), Computer Grrrls (2018-19), The Alt-Right Complex (2019), The 12th Time Zone (2019), Artists & Agents: Performance Art and Secret Services (2019).

Awards: In 2019, together with Igor Chubarov and Sylvia Sasse, Inke Arns was awarded the Justus Bier Award for Curators 2018 for the project The Storming of the Winter Palace. HMKV received the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Award for art associations 2017. In 2017, HMKV was nominated for the sixth time for this Award (after nominations in 2007, 2008, 2011, 2013, and 2014). In 2013 HMKV reveived an Honorable Mention in the framework of this Award. In 2013, HMKV’s exhibition Sounds Like Silence. John Cage – 4’33” – Silence Today was awarded the Exceptional Exhibition of the Year 2012 prize by the German section of AICA (International Art Critics’ Association). In 2011 HMKV received the JUMP Annual Sponsorship Award for Art Organisations funded by the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia (Kunststiftung NRW).

Inke Arns taught at universities and art academies in Berlin, Leipzig, Zurich, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam (2000-2017), and has lectured and published internationally. Books include Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) – eine Analyse ihrer künstlerischen Strategien im Kontext der 1980er Jahre in Jugoslawien (Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, 2002), Netzkulturen (Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 2002), Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear! Die Avantgarde im Rückspiegel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2004).

Member of the ADKV Board of Directors, Berlin; Advisory Committee of the Net Art Anthology, Rhizome, New York; Board of Trustees of the Kunststiftung NRW, Düsseldorf; Advisory Board of the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht; Advisory Board (Visual Art) of the Goethe-Institute, Munich; Board of Trustees of the Stiftung Choreographisches Zentrum NRW, Essen; International Editorial Board of Maska, Journal of Performing Arts, Ljubljana. She was also a member of Fischbüro, Berlin (1987-1988), founding member of the Syndicate network (1996-2001), founding member of the Who by Fire? network initiated by the ICA-Dunaujvaros (12/1997), co-founder of the Berlin-based association for the advancement of new media cultures Mikro e.V. (3/1998), and a co-founder of the mailing list for media culture in Deep Europe Spectre (08/2001). (2019)

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