CV / Sebastian Ziegler
08/09/1978 / Victorville /USA
Koroistentie 2
20380 Turku / Finland
Webpage:
www.videokaffe.com
Education:
2000 – 06 at the University of Arts Bremen, Germany
Diplom in Fine Arts = Master of Fine Arts (Film Class/ Atelier for time media/ Prof. J.F.Guiton)
Member of:
BBK-Bremen / Germany
Arte ry Turku / Finland
MUU, Helsinki / Finland
EKKy Turku / Finland
Projects:
2024 See, Saw, Seeds exchange project C.A.P. Kobe/ 8 Artist coming to Turku. (videokaffe)
2022 C.A.P., Residency and Exhibition, Public sculpture, Kobe / Japan (videokaffe)
2021-22 Interactive Public art sculpture, title “Fungi Luciferin” for Turku 2029 foundation (solo)
2021 Supermarket 2021 Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Exhibition /Sweden (videokaffe)
2021 Northern Lights” video screening, Chicago IL, Duluth MS, MING Studio, Boise,ID, U.S.A.
2021 Open Source Gallery, Stream performance, Brooklyn, NY / USA (videokaffe)
2020 New Performance Turku Festival / Space Between Us / Turku, Finland (videokaffe)
2020 CICA Museum, project Art Teleported, Queens / New York (videokaffe)
2019 “Wallstreet” Stockholm, Nacka Joshua Tree, Public Sculpture commission (videokaffe)
2019 Supermarket Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Exhibition/Sweden (videokaffe)
2018 LIFT- New Dimension of Media, Arts & Culture, Helsinki /Finland(videokaffe)
2018 Artist talk/ Performance at Open Source Gallery in Brooklyn/ New York (videokaffe)
2017 New Performance Turku Festival 2017, Finland (AKUvisualacupuncture)
2017 Work for the project “In Public- In Particular,” Turku, Finland (AKUvisualacupuncture)
2016 Art project at PARSONS, The new school of Design/ New York
2014 Organizing an experimental art Seminar “City as a living organism.”
Pro artibus and Novia in Tammisaari/ Ekenäs/ Finland (Aku visual acupuncture)
2014 Performance at “Craft of use” Seminar, London College of fashion/ London/U.K.
2013 Performance at Fashion and Social design Seminar, Aalto University, Helsinki
2011 “Flux Aura” environmental art festival/performance/Finland/Turku
2010 “A.K.U. – visual acupuncture” environmental art/ performance/U.S.A./ New York
2008 “Ich Liebe Dich”/Audio Installation in 3 public streets/Germany/funded by city Bremen
Exhibitions:
Solo
2025 Galerie Herold / Tor 40, Bremen, (videokaffe)
2023 MOM Galerie, Exhibition/Residence, Gängeviertel, Hamburg, (videokaffe)
2023 MUU Helsinki “Digital Entities & Analog Beings” Exhibition & Performance (videokaffe)
2021-22 Interactive Public art sculpture, title “Fungi Luciferin” for Turku 2029 foundation (solo)
2019 Supplyframe, DesignLAB Gallery, Exhibition, Pasadena/ Los Angeles (videokaffe)
2018 AAVE festival, Exhibition in gallery Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki /Finland(videokaffe)
2016 Gallery Anhava, Exhibition Helsinki, Finland (videokaffe)
2016 TI-LA, Yväskylää, Exhibition Finland (videokaffe)
2016 One Art Space gallery in Manhattan, Exhibition/ New York (videokaffe)
2016 Open Source gallery in Brooklyn, Exhibition/ New York (videokaffe)
2015 Sika gallery exhibition + residency on Bali / Indonesia (AKU visualacupuncture)
2015 Titanik gallery exhibition / Turku, Finland (videokaffe)
2015 HUUTO gallery exhibition/ Helsinki, Finland (videokaffe)
2014 Phihatalo exhibition/ Rauma/ Finland (videokaffe)
2013 “forming of Videokaffe” exhibition / Finland/ Turku, Galleria Titanik
2012 “Licht über Licht” sculptures/ Finland/ Helsinki, Galleria Huuto- Uudenmaankatu
2009 “Befehl zur Freiheit” kinetic sculptures/ Finland/ Helsinki, Kaapelin Galleria
2008 “Under the surface” installation/ Latvia/Riga, Latvijas Makslinieku savieniba
2007 “will you live with me …” sculptures, with Aho/ Germany/Bremen, gallery Herold
2006 “it´s easy, it´s like breathing” video/ Canada/Quebec city, L`oeil de poisson
2006 “Melted Paradise” sculptures, with Aho/ Finland/ Helsinki, gallery Myymälä2
group
2021 NOMAD by Torrance Art Museum, Exhibition / Los Angeles, CA, USA
2020 SIGN+, Exhibition, Groningen / Netherlands (videokaffe)
2014 ÄäniKuvaKokemus” WAM Turku,Finland (videokaffe)
2014 “videokaffe” at Wassaic project, art&music festival/U.S.A./ New York
2013 “Foerderpreis 2012” sculptures/ Germany/ Städtische Galerie Bremen
2012 “Fluxations” environmental art festival/performance/ Finland/Turku
2011 “Live Herring” interactive sculpture”Puhelinpuu”/ Finland/ Saarijärvi Museum
2011 “T[raum]a – Die Phobie als Muse” Kunstfrühling 2011/ Germany/ Bremen
2010 “Erased Walls” video work/ Germany/ Berlin, Mediations Biennial
2009 “SKjL 09 VUOSINÄYTTELY” Finland/ Kouvola Art Museum
2009 “The Crisis of the Genre” International Sculpture Triennial/ Poland/ Poznan
2009 “Ecology of the Emotions”with Heini Aho/Finland/ XIV MÄNTTÄ Art Festival
2007 “2007 Luleå Summer Biennal” sculptures, with Aho/ Sweden/ Luleå art hall
Residence:
2025 Güterbahnhof Bremen Tor 26, (videokaffe)
2023 MOM Galerie, Exhibition/Residence, Gängeviertel, Hamburg, (videokaffe)
2014 SAARI production Residence/ KONEEN SÄÄTIÖ/Finland (videokaffe)
2013 2-month residence on Tammisaari/ PRO ARTIBUS/Finland (A.K.U. visual…)
2012 Sfakiotes residence/ Greece
2008 1 month stipend residence in Riga/ from B.B.K. Bremen/ Latvia
Scholarship:
2025 Turku Art Museum, Ellen and Magnus Dahlström Fund, travel grant to Bremen
2023 Frame travel grant to Hamburg
2023 KONE foundation (workgoup: Elonkirjo-puisto) 25 % for 2-year video documentation
2022 Taike,Turun Kaupunki, SKR – travel grant workgroup videokaffe (C.A.P. Kobe, JAPAN)
2021 Taike/ Näyttöapuraha,Turku 2029 foundation, Taike, travel grant L.A. U.S.A.
Frame travel grant, Turun Taideyhdistys, (U.S.A. trip, short-film screening)
2020 Alfred Kordelin,Turun Taideydistys ry, Taike, Frame
2019 Turun Taideydistys ry, Taike
2018 Taike, SKR
2017 Taike/ Näyttöapuraha,
2016 Taike, travel grant NY, work group videokaffe
Frame, travel grant N.Y., work group videokaffe
Taike, The Arts Council of Varsinais-Suomi
2015 Taike, workgroup videokaffe (LUDA st.Petersburg)
Svenska Kulturfonden, workgroup Aho, Nyberg, Ziegler (Bali)
Taike, workgroup Krappala, Kela, Aho, Ziegler
KONE foundation, Frame
2014 Taike/ Näyttöapuraha, Frame workgroup videokaffe,
2013 Suomen Taideyhdistys, Paulon Säätiö, Varsinais-Suomen taidetoimikunta,
Turun kaupungin kultturilautakunta, Avek, Taiteen edistämiskeskus
2012 Visek, Varsinais- Suomen taidetoimikunta, Taiteen keskustoimikunta
2010 SKR Myrsky 1year Photo/Video art workshop with youngsters, “LOOPI-Kids”