Rebecca Ann Tess
born 1980 in Annweiler am Trifels, lives and works in Berlin
EDUCATION
2007–2009 Study of fine art, HfBK Städelschule Frankfurt am Main
2004–2005 Study of fine art, Chelsea College of Art and Design London
2002–2007 Study of fine art, University of the Arts Berlin
TEACHING
2023 Lecturer, Academy of the Arts, Nürnberg, Germany
2022 Studio visit by the students of KV Konstskola, Göteborg
2020 Guest lecture, in Case…, Art Academy for Media, Cologne
2015–2016 Assistant Professor, Photography Department, Chung-Ang University, Seoul/Anseong South Korea
2017 Workshop, Museum Huset for Kunst og Design, Holstebro
2008–2009 Pedagogic employee, Museum for Modern Art, MMK, Frankfurt am Main
WORK EXPERIENCE
2018 Product photography, furniture label Neue Tische, Berlin
2017–2018 Artistic assistance, Studio Haegue Yang, 3D simulation and exhibition planning
2017 Technical staff, exhibition Forum Expanded, Berlinale, Berlin
2009–cont. Presented by the gallery Philipp von Rosen, Cologne
2007–2014 Production assistant for the artist Judith Hopf
2007 Film production assistant for Deborah Schamoni, Henrik Oleson, Mario Pfeiffer and Birgit Rathsmann
AWARDS / SCHOLARSHIPS
2022 Meijburg Art Commission (shortlist), Unseen, Amsterdam
2022 Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop
2020/21 Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Project Scholarship
2019 Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Global Scholarship for Chile
2019 AiRE – Artist-in-Residence, Valparaíso, Chile
2019 MAM, Museo de Arte Moderno, Chiloé, Chile
2012 MMCA Seoul Residence Program Goyang Studios, Cultural Office Frankfurt
2012 Studio Scholarship, Aus der Stadt aufs Land, Open-air Museum Hessenpark
2011 Villa Romana Fellowship, Florence
2011 Lichter Art Award, Filmtage, Frankfurt am Main
2010 Schloss Balmoral Fellowship, New York
2006–2008 German Academic Scholarship Foundation
2004–2005 Erasmus/Sokrates Scholarship, London
SOLO SHOWS
2024 2Dbody3Dcode, Philipp von Rosen Galerie, Köln
2020 The Tallest, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen
2020 Open to the Public, Philipp von Rosen Galerie, Cologne
2018 New Positions, Art Cologne, Cologne
2017 Art-O-Rama, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille
2016 Alpha++, Philipp von Rosen Galerie, Cologne
2016 Upper, Space One, Seoul
2016 12 x 12, IBB-Videoraum, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
2013 Home Time Show Time, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Berlin
2013 Container. A video installation by Rebecca Ann Tess, basis e.V., Frankfurt am Main
2013 Rebecca Ann Tess, Open-air Museum Hessenpark, Neu-Anspach
2012 “It takes a company to make art great”, lampione, Frankfurt am Main
2011 A Crime must be Committed, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Berlin
2010 Not Dad Yet Sad!, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne
2010 Dad Dracula is Dead, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
GROUP SHOWS
2025 Archistories, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (upcoming)
2024 In the Process of…, Cullity Gallery, Perth, Australia
2023 Straight Flush, Philipp von Rosen Galerie, Cologne
2022/23 Startpunkt, LUX, Östersund, Schweden
2022 Meijburg Art Commission, Unseen, Amsterdam
2022 Made in Balmoral, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems
2022 New Anatomies, Galerie Feldbusch Wiesner Rudolph, Berlin
2021 Lichter Art Award Retro Kino, basis e.V., Frankfurt am Main
2021 Longing for the Now, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
2020 Lichter Art Award Retro Kino, basis e.V., Frankfurt am Main
2020 Longing for the Now, GEH8, Dresden
2020 Longing for the Now, Schloß Biesdorf, Berlin
2019 Muestra Regional de Arte Contemporáneo, MAM – Museo de Arte Moderno Chiloé, Chile
2019 Stop talking, let´s play!, Kunsthalle Lingen
2018 Deutsche Bank Client Lounge, Frieze London
2018 Stadtansichten, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
2017 On the Possibility of Life in Ruins, Museum Huset for Kunst og Design, Holstebro
2016 Collection presentation (»Orchids«), LWL-Museum for Art and Culture, Münster
2015 Monitoring, 32. Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel
2015 Open Days #3: Collocation Colloquium, Turtlelab Studios, Berlin
2014 High Today What’s Tomorrow?, sign CIAT – Contemporary Institute for Art & Thought, Berlin
2014 Big Picture, part of 11th Fair of Culture, Zagreb
2014 pop up nak, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich
2013 Villa Romana 1905–2013. The Artists House in Florence, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
2013 Risk Society, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
2013 Qual & Wahl, Pflicht, Freiheit, Zwang, Kunstverein Wolfsburg
2012 AIR – Artist in Residence, Atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt am Main
2012 Jahresgaben 2012, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
2012 BCC #10: The Gap, Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt am Main
2012 Open Studios, National Art Studio, Seoul
2012 Etna Carrara, Ludwigforum, Aachen
2012 Reality Manifestos – Can Reality Break Bricks?, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2011 km 500 4, Kunsthalle, Mainz
2011 Monitoring, 28. Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel
2011 Filmtage – Lichter Art Award, Saasfee Pavillon, Frankfurt am Main
2011 Villa Romana – Fellows 2011, Villa Romana, Florence
2010 New Frankfurt Internationals: Stories and Stages, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
2010 A Thousand Endless Tales – Dancing the Line of Flight, White Space, Zurich
2010 11 Frankfurter Gegen Uni, Institut für vergleichende Irrelevanz, Frankfurt am Main
2010 Krise / Kriza, Goethe-Institut Belgrad
2010 Filmtage – Kunstlichter: Stimulus Kino, Frankfurt am Main
2010 Astronomical Frontiers, BKS Garage, Copenhagen
2010 Das ist die Lebenswelt, NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
2009 Videonale 12, Kunst Museum, Bonn
2009 Queer Arts Festival – Threads, QCC/SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco
2009 SMart Festival, Open Concept Gallery, Grand Rapids
2009 Naneci Yurdagül zeigt Angst, Geburtshaus Adam Opel, Rüsselsheim
2009 Past Imperfect, European Media Art Event Beursschouwburg, Brussels
2009 Dude, where´s my career?, MMK Zollamt, Frankfurt am Main
2008 Teleport Färgfabriken, Färgfabriken Norr, Östersund
2008 Vertrautes Terrain – Aktuelle Kunst in und über Deutschland, ZKM, Karlsruhe
2008 Tormpe-loeil Polizei, Realism Working Group, Free Class FMM, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
2008 Farnsworth Galleries, Project Space Rungestrasse, Berlin
2008 Gender*d*rama, Statthaus Böcklerpark, Berlin
2007 Altenburg: Provinz in Europa, Lindenau Museum, Altenburg
2007 Student Show, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2006 Ausser Haus, Berlin
2006 The Courtesy of Thorsten Eyer, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
SCREENINGS
2019 Expanding Bauhaus – New Reflections on the Bauhaus Movement in Time-Based Media Art, Goethe-Institute, Rotterdam
2018 Videoart at Mindnight Festival, Kino Babylon, Berlin
2018 7 Yarns – A Weave of Corresponding Video and Film Expressions, Marrickvile Garage, Airspace Projects, Sydney
2017 In Situ: Out of Place, Villa Romana in Collaboration with the Florence Architecture Foundation, Palazzina Reale, Florence
2016 High and Low – Festivalrückblick der Extreme, KurzFilmFestival Hamburg, B-Movie, Hamburg
2015 7th Cairo Video Festival, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo
2015 Message to Man International Film Festival, St. Petersburg
2015 International Short Film Festival, Hamburg
2015 Cinema Akil – Outbox Short Film Festival, Dubai
2014 In the Heat of the Night, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg
2014 Short Films by German and Israeli filmmakers, Kunstmuseum, Bochum
2013 Kunst im Kino, Munich
2012 Videoart at Midnight #40, Kino Babylon, Berlin
2012 Wisdom of Shadow, Sinopale 4 (Sinop Biennale), Sinop
2012 Home Time Show Time, Villa Romana, Florence
2012 Films by Kerstin Cmelka, Keren Cytter, Rebecca Ann Tess, Elaine MGK, Basel
2012 Rencontres International Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2012 Basel Art Week, Elaine MGK, Basel
2012 New Codes, Athens Video Art Festival, Stoa Kourtaki, Athens
2011 Rencontres International Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Gaité Lyrique, Paris
2011 Videovisionen, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg
2011 Lichter Kurzfilmnacht, Hafen 2, Frankfurt
2009 Queer cafe, Copenhagen
2009 Entzaubert – Queer DIY Film Festival, Schwarzer Kanal, Berlin
LECTURES
2022 Artist talk, Startpunkt, LUX, Östersund, Schweden
2020 The Tallest, Artist Talk, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen
2020 Artist Talk, Philipp von Rosen Galerie, Cologne
2019 Artist Talk, AiRE – Artist-in-Residence, Valparaíso, Chile
2017 Book Launch »Templates – Classic, Culture, Minimal, Nature«, Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin
2017 What is Public Space?, Talents Academy, Holstebro
2016 Photography and Film: An Artwork Comes into Being, Beomeo Library, Daegu
2014 Artist Talk, Black Sheep Lecture, Panic Blossom, Seoul
2014 Artist Talk, Abteilung Kultur und Bildung des Generalkonsulats der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Shanghai
2012 Reenactment in Video Art, film seminar, Freie Universität, Berlin
2012 Symposium Reality Manifestos – Can Reality Break Bricks?, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2011 Screening and Artist Talk, Residency Unlimited, New York City
2009 Free Class/FFM, Academies – Along the Rhine, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023 Hosting #6 – wind-blown, Barbara Proschak, Inyoung Yeo
2021 Hosting #5 – Urban Voids, Diana Artus, Studio Tess, Berlin
2020 Hosting #4 – Backyard, Elizabeth Raven, Studio Tess, Berlin
2019 Hosting #3 – Pronounced, Inbar Kubi, Studio Tess, Berlin
2019 Hosting #2 – Faces & Circumstances, Silke Briel, Studio Tess, Berlin
2019 Hosting #1– see-through, Kerem Shemi, Inbar Kubi & Elvina Pinto, Studio Tess, Berlin
2016 Slices – On time, Master students Chung-Ang University, in collaboration with Angelika Stepken and Flo Maak, Villa Romana, Florenz
2016 Photo book Show, Master students Chung-Ang University, Seoul
2016 Video screening, Bachelor students Chung-Ang University, RAT school of Art, Seoul
2015 Video screening, Bachelor students Chung-Ang University RAT school of Art, Seoul
2014 High Today What’s Tomorrow?, Jeamin Cha, Sophie-Therese Trenka-Dalton and Rebecca Ann Tess sign CIAT – Contemporary Institute for Art & Thought, Berlin
PUBLICATIONS
2020 The Videoart at Midnight Artists’ Cookbook
2016 Templates – Classic, Culture, Minimal, Nature, StrezeleckiBooks, Köln
2014 High Today What’s Tomorrow?, sign CIAT – Contemporary Institute for Art & Thought, Berlin
2014 Risk Society, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
2013 Villa Romana 1905–2013. Das Künstlerhaus in Florenz, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
2013 Container, Rebecca Ann Tess, Freilichtmuseum Hessenpark
2013 Kino der Kunst, Hg. Heinz Peter Schwerfel
2013 km 500, 2008-2012, Stipendiaten Rheinland-Pfalz Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Kunsthalle Mainz
2012 Artist in the Art Studio of National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea 2012
2012 Edition der Villa Romana-Preisträger 2011, argobooks
2012 Reality Manifestos, or Can Dialectics Break Bricks?, Dietmar Schwärzler, springerin, Heft 2/2012
2012 Reality Manifestos, or Can Dialectics Break Bricks? Franz Thalmair, Kunstforum International, Bd. 214 3-4 2012
2011 20 Kunstinvestments: Vom Uecker für Einsteiger bis zu Bourgeois für Sammler,
2011 28. Kasseler Dokfest, Filmladen Kassel e.V.
2011 Jahrbuch Balmoral 2010/2011, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral
2010 New Frankfurt Internationals: Stories and Stages, Frankfurter Kunstverein / MMK
2010 Krise / Kriza, Goethe-Institut Belgrad
2009 Dude where´s my Career?, Städelschule Frankfurt
2009 Videonale 12, Kunstmuseum Bonn
2008 Altenburg: Provinz in Europa, Lindenau-Museum Altenburg
SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Helaba, Frankfurt am Main
Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster
KAT_A, Collection Andra Lauffs-Wegner, Bad Honnef
Villa Romana, Florence