Curriculum Vitae
LAURA HORELLI (s. 1976, Helsinki) asui lapsena Nairobissa ja Lontoossa ja on elänyt Berliinissä vuodesta 2001. Kuvataiteilijana ja elokuvantekijänä hän on kiinnostunut menneisyyden tapahtumien välittämisestä sekä representaatioista mikrohistoriallisesta näkökulmasta. Hän on tarkastellut yksityisiä ja julkisia arkistoja taiteellisessa tutkimuksessaan, jonka tuloksena syntyy usein valokuvista koostuvia ja niitä käsitteleviä elokuvia. Horellille myönnettiin Taiteen edistämiskeskuksen kolmivuotinen mediataiteen apuraha 2023-2025.
Solo Exhibitions
| 2022 | Philemon’s Photographs or Through an African Lens, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki (with Philemon Sheya Kaluwapa) |
| 2019 | Changes in Direction, John Muafangejo Art Centre Gallery, Windhoek |
| Changes in Direction, Galerie für Gegenwartskunst E-Werk, Freiburg, curator: Heidi Brunnschweiler | |
| 2017 | Namibia Today, Kunst im Untergrund, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst Berlin (U5 Schillingstraße), nGbK project group: Jochen Becker, Eva Hertzsch, Karin Kasböck, Folke Köbberling, Adam Page, Valeska Peschke |
| 2016 | Jokinen, Muu galleria, Helsinki |
| 2014 | Returns, Badischer Kunstverein, Lichthof, Karlsruhe, curator: Anja Casser |
| 2013 | Laura Horelli, 12 x 12, IBB-Videolounge, Berlinische Galerie, curator: Anne Bitterwolf |
| 2012 | Shedding Details, Ludlow38 Curatorial Residencies, New York (with Gerhard Friedl), curator: Clara Meister |
| 2011 | Hannah-Höch Förderpreis, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, curators: Sophie Golz, Kathrin Becker |
| The Terrace, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin | |
| 2010 | Translating Experiences, Goethe Institute Nairobi, Kenia, curator: Christian Hanussek |
| 2008 | I Have Been Considering Making a Video about a Ski Resort in Northern Finland and Showing it in a Gallery in Berlin, Pimiö, Turun taidemuseo, Turku Art Museum, curator: Kari Immonen |
| 2007 | I Have Been Considering Making a Video…, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin |
| 2005 | Reports and Diaries, Galerie Ilka Bree, Bordeaux |
| 2004 | Laura Horelli, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, curator: Silvia Eiblmayr |
| 2003 | You Go Where You’re Sent, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin |
| 2001 | Social Distances, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin |
| Nykyiset naispresidentit (10/2001), Kluuvin Galleria, Helsinki | |
| 2000 | Artists-in-Residence, AIAV, Yamaguchi, curator: Noriyuki Tsuji |
| Raum06, Städelschule, Frankfurt/M | |
| 1999 | Installaatio, Kuvataideakatemian Galleria, Helsinki |
Group Exhibitions
| 2024 | Philemon’s Photographs or Through an African Lens, Echoes of the Brother Countries, HKW, Berlin, followed by a discussion with Paz Guevara and Philemon Sheya Kaluwapa, 18.5 |
| 2023 | Namibia – the Forgotten Colony, the Project Room, Windhoek, 8.10 & 10.10 |
| Knowledge Ties #5: Family Stitches, Triple Feature with Azin Feizabadi, Assaf Gruber, Laura Horelli and Philemon Sheya Kaluwapa, Sinema Transtopia, Berlin, 12.7, organiser: Berliner Förderprogramm künstlerische Forschung | |
| 2022 | Decoloniality, International Solidarity and Transnational Collaboration between Namibia and Germany, Vierte Welt, Berlin, 4.12, organisers: Therese Koppe and Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja |
| echos, Ortstermin 22, Afrika-Haus, Berlin, 27.8, curator: Ellen Martine Heuser | |
| 2021 | Territories under my Skin / Re-Visited, City Kino Wedding & Changing Room, Berlin, 5.9, Goethe Institut, Windhoek, 21.10, curators: Caspar Stracke, Jaro Straub |
| TALA Namibia Film Festival, 12-19.5, curators: Namibia Film Commission | |
| Kino Siemensstadt – Der Komplex Arbeit, Programm #2, Scharaun, Berlin, 8-15.5, curators: Jaro Straub, Olaf Stüber | |
| Films by Laura Horelli, Archive Books Screening Room, 20.2-3.4, curator: Chiara Figone | |
| 2020 | Imagined Community IV: Broadcasting, etc. gallery, Prague, 12.11-9.12, curators: Markéta Jonášová, Tomáš Kajánek |
| Online Cinema Arsenal 3, Kino Arsenal, Berlin, 15.8-15.9, curators: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Milena Gregor, Birgit Kohler | |
| Online Cinema Arsenal 3, Week 5 & 6, Kino Arsenal, Berlin, 17.4-1.5, curator: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus | |
| The Berlin Sessions, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, www.kw-berlin.de, 14.4-31.5, curator: Kathrin Bentele | |
| Online Cinema Arsenal 3, Week 1, Kino Arsenal, Berlin, 20-27.3, curator: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus | |
| 2019 | Gerhard Friedl, Buchpräsentation und Filme, Austrian Film Museum and Kino Arsenal, Berlin, 22.11 & 7.12, curator: Volker Pantenburg |
| Namibian Students in Finland 1969-1990: The Film Newstime and Ellen Namhila’s Autobiography The Price of Freedom, Etmu Conference, Tampere University, 15.11, panel: Jimmy Amupala, Olli Löytty, Anna Rastas | |
| Best Nordic Documentary Nominee, Nordisk Panorama, Malmö, 21 & 23.9, curators: Hussain Currimbhoy, Nadia Abraham | |
| Short But True, Helsinki International Film Festival Love & Anarchy, 29.9 | |
| trans/national, Revolverkino, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 27.6, curator: Nicolas Wackerbarth | |
| Korrespondenzen, KulturRaum Zwingli, Berlin, 13.6, curators: Stefanie Gaus, Lilli Kuschel, Sonya Schönberger, Isabell Spengler | |
| Shorts Competition, Docaviv, 25 & 31.5 | |
| 69. Berlinale, 14. Forum Expanded, 10 & 11.2, curators: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Anselm Franke, Maha Maamoun, Ulrich Ziemons | |
| 2018 | Kolonial, Exground Filmfest 31, Wiesbaden, 24.11 |
| Valta & vastarinta, Rex Fest, Helsinki, 5.11, curator: Av-arkki | |
| Experimenta, 62. BFI London Film Festival, ICA, 16.10, curator: Tendai Mutambu | |
| Panorama, 9. Festival Internacional CineMigrante, Buenos Aires, 25.9 – “Mención CineMigrante” | |
| Zerrissene Gesellschaft, F/Stop, 8. Festival für Fotographie, Leipzig, film program, 26.6, curators: Leif Magne Tangen and Sarah Schipschack | |
| Then / Now – Perspectives on Memory, Alvar Aalto Library, Vyborg, 6.6, curators: Marketta Haila and Alexandra Maximova | |
| Deutscher Wettbewerb, 64. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, 5.5 | |
| New acquisitions by the n.b.k. Video-Forum 2017, Berlin, 25.1 | |
| 2017 | Little Cinema International Festival, Kolkata, 8-10.12, curator: Bandhu Prasad Aleyamma |
| Vibgyor, The largest alternative film festival in South Asia, Thrissur, Kerala, 26.8, curator: Bandhu Prasad Aleyamma | |
| Screening und Talk Laura Horelli, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Cooperation of Kunstraum D21 and Expanded Cinema Class/Clemens von Wedemeyer, 26.6, curators: Lena Brüggemann, Lena von Geyso, and Elisabeth Pichler | |
| Performing History, Filmforum der HBK Braunschweig, 19.6, curator: Philip Widmann | |
| Silvestre, 14th IndieLisboa – International Independent Film Festival, 3.5 & 5.5, curators: Nuno Sena, Miguel Valverd, Carlos Ramos | |
| Berlinale Spotlight, Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016, Pavilion / Cabral Yard / Fort Kochi, 11.3, curator: Ulrich Ziemons | |
| 67. Berlinale, 12. Forum Expanded, 12.2 & 13.2, curators: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Khaled Abdulwahed, Anselm Franke, Nanna Heidenreich, Ulrich Ziemons, Bettina Steinbrügge | |
| Shorts on Wheels Nairobi Edition, Goethe-Institut Kenya – Pawa 254 – The Elephant – The Alchemist, 29.1, curators: Mbithi Masya, Sheba Hirst | |
| Screening #2, Cample Line, Mid-Nithsdale, UK, 15.1, curator: Tina Fiske | |
| 2016 | Hybrid Architectures: Case Studies on the African Continent, Hangar, Lisbon, curator: Marta Jecu |
| EMAP 2016: S.O.S. Save Our Souls Art For a Time of Urgencies, Ewha Womans University Campus, Seoul, curator: Pontus Kyander | |
| UdK Seminar: Faire un Effort!, Kino Arsenal, Berlin, 12.5., curator: Stefanie Gaus | |
| 2015 | Wenden, Indisziplinäre Tagung, Film-Screenings, Schloss Wahn, Köln-Porz, 17-18.4, curator: Karina Nimmerfall |
| Architektur-Visionen #1, dokART// Metropolis Kino, Hamburg, 6.5, curator: Janina Kriszio, Cornelia Lund, Vanessa Weber | |
| 2013 | Stolpersteine, Kasseler Dokfest, 16.11 |
| Haus im Film, L40, Berlin, 1.12, curator: Susanne Bürner | |
| Back When Pluto Was a Planet, Transmediale, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Imaginary Lives, 3.2 | |
| 2012 | Liquidity, Vladivostok Film Festival |
| International Competition, Timishort Film Festival, Timisoara | |
| in/compatible, Transmediale, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Parallel Worlds, 4.2 | |
| 2011 | The Film is Social Practice, 3rd Off and Free International Film Festival, Seoul |
| Our Darkness, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart/Gdansk City Gallery, curator: Victor Neumann | |
| 2010 | Recontres International Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris |
| Survival Kit, Riga, curator: Agnese Luse | |
| The Akward Scene, MAB Film Exercise, Arnolfini, Bristol, curator: Richard Birkett | |
| Event Site, Picture This Atelier, Bristol, curator: Maeve Connolly | |
| 2009 | New Visions, CPH:DOX, The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, 8.11 & 15.11 |
| Measures series 3, no.w.here, London, curator: Fatos Ustek | |
| Im Andenken an Gerhard Friedl, Filmmuseum Wien, Zeughaus Kino, Berlin | |
| Underdoxs, München | |
| North Wave, Nordic Video Art, Venice Biennale, curator: Lorella Scacco | |
| What am I doing here?, Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, curator: Kerstin Meyer | |
| Diagonale Film Festival, Graz, 20 & 22.3 | |
| 2008 | Contemporary Library, Pristina, Kosovo, curator: Judith Raum |
| Nordic Panorama Festival, Malmö, curator: Johanna Billing | |
| 2007 | Virtuosic Siblings: Berlin/ LA Festival of Film/ Art, Red Cat, Goethe Institute, Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, curator: Ariane Beyn |
| 2004-06 | Criss Cross, NIFCA, Helsinki, various locations, curators: Thierry Jousse, Åsa Nacking, Cristina Ricupero, Mats Stjernstedt, Cilla Werning |
| 2003 | 10. Biennial of Moving Images, Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine, Saint-Gervais, Genf, curator: Charles Esche |
Film Festivals, Screenings
| 2022 | echos, Ortstermin 22, Afrika-Haus, Berlin, 27.8, curator: Ellen Martine Heuser |
| 2021 | Territories under my Skin / Re-Visited, City Kino Wedding & Changing Room, Berlin, 5.9, Goethe Institut, Windhoek, 21.10, curators: Caspar Stracke, Jaro Straub |
| TALA Namibia Film Festival, 12-19.5, curators: Namibia Film Commission | |
| Kino Siemensstadt – Der Komplex Arbeit, Programm #2, Scharaun, Berlin, 8-15.5, curators: Jaro Straub, Olaf Stüber | |
| Films by Laura Horelli, Archive Books Screening Room, 20.2-3.4, curator: Chiara Figone | |
| 2020 | Imagined Community IV: Broadcasting, etc. gallery, Prague, 12.11-9.12, curators: Markéta Jonášová, Tomáš Kajánek |
| Online Cinema Arsenal 3, Kino Arsenal, Berlin, 15.8-15.9, curators: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Milena Gregor, Birgit Kohler | |
| Online Cinema Arsenal 3, Week 5 & 6, Kino Arsenal, Berlin, 17.4-1.5, curator: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus | |
| The Berlin Sessions, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, www.kw-berlin.de, 14.4-31.5, curator: Kathrin Bentele | |
| Online Cinema Arsenal 3, Week 1, Kino Arsenal, Berlin, 20-27.3, curator: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus | |
| 2019 | Gerhard Friedl, Buchpräsentation und Filme, Austrian Film Museum and Kino Arsenal, Berlin, 22.11 & 7.12, curator: Volker Pantenburg |
| Namibian Students in Finland 1969-1990: The Film Newstime and Ellen Namhila’s Autobiography The Price of Freedom, Etmu Conference, Tampere University, 15.11, panel: Jimmy Amupala, Olli Löytty, Anna Rastas | |
| Best Nordic Documentary Nominee, Nordisk Panorama, Malmö, 21 & 23.9, curators: Hussain Currimbhoy, Nadia Abraham | |
| Short But True, Helsinki International Film Festival Love & Anarchy, 29.9 | |
| trans/national, Revolverkino, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 27.6, curator: Nicolas Wackerbarth | |
| Korrespondenzen, KulturRaum Zwingli, Berlin, 13.6, curators: Stefanie Gaus, Lilli Kuschel, Sonya Schönberger, Isabell Spengler | |
| Shorts Competition, Docaviv, 25 & 31.5 | |
| 69. Berlinale, 14. Forum Expanded, 10 & 11.2, curators: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Anselm Franke, Maha Maamoun, Ulrich Ziemons | |
| 2018 | Kolonial, Exground Filmfest 31, Wiesbaden, 24.11 |
| Valta & vastarinta, Rex Fest, Helsinki, 5.11, curator: Av-arkki | |
| Experimenta, 62. BFI London Film Festival, ICA, 16.10, curator: Tendai Mutambu | |
| Panorama, 9. Festival Internacional CineMigrante, Buenos Aires, 25.9 – “Mención CineMigrante” | |
| Zerrissene Gesellschaft, F/Stop, 8. Festival für Fotographie, Leipzig, film program, 26.6, curators: Leif Magne Tangen and Sarah Schipschack | |
| Then / Now – Perspectives on Memory, Alvar Aalto Library, Vyborg, 6.6, curators: Marketta Haila and Alexandra Maximova | |
| Deutscher Wettbewerb, 64. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, 5.5 | |
| New acquisitions by the n.b.k. Video-Forum 2017, Berlin, 25.1 | |
| 2017 | Little Cinema International Festival, Kolkata, 8-10.12, curator: Bandhu Prasad Aleyamma |
| Vibgyor, The largest alternative film festival in South Asia, Thrissur, Kerala, 26.8, curator: Bandhu Prasad Aleyamma | |
| Screening und Talk Laura Horelli, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Cooperation of Kunstraum D21 and Expanded Cinema Class/Clemens von Wedemeyer, 26.6, curators: Lena Brüggemann, Lena von Geyso, and Elisabeth Pichler | |
| Performing History, Filmforum der HBK Braunschweig, 19.6, curator: Philip Widmann | |
| Silvestre, 14th IndieLisboa – International Independent Film Festival, 3.5 & 5.5, curators: Nuno Sena, Miguel Valverd, Carlos Ramos | |
| Berlinale Spotlight, Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016, Pavilion / Cabral Yard / Fort Kochi, 11.3, curator: Ulrich Ziemons | |
| 67. Berlinale, 12. Forum Expanded, 12.2 & 13.2, curators: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Khaled Abdulwahed, Anselm Franke, Nanna Heidenreich, Ulrich Ziemons, Bettina Steinbrügge | |
| Shorts on Wheels Nairobi Edition, Goethe-Institut Kenya – Pawa 254 – The Elephant – The Alchemist, 29.1, curators: Mbithi Masya, Sheba Hirst | |
| Screening #2, Cample Line, Mid-Nithsdale, UK, 15.1, curator: Tina Fiske | |
| 2016 | Hybrid Architectures: Case Studies on the African Continent, Hangar, Lisbon, curator: Marta Jecu |
| EMAP 2016: S.O.S. Save Our Souls Art For a Time of Urgencies, Ewha Womans University Campus, Seoul, curator: Pontus Kyander | |
| UdK Seminar: Faire un Effort!, Kino Arsenal, Berlin, 12.5., curator: Stefanie Gaus | |
| 2015 | Wenden, Indisziplinäre Tagung, Film-Screenings, Schloss Wahn, Köln-Porz, 17-18.4, curator: Karina Nimmerfall |
| Architektur-Visionen #1, dokART// Metropolis Kino, Hamburg, 6.5, curator: Janina Kriszio, Cornelia Lund, Vanessa Weber | |
| 2013 | Stolpersteine, Kasseler Dokfest, 16.11 |
| Haus im Film, L40, Berlin, 1.12, curator: Susanne Bürner | |
| Back When Pluto Was a Planet, Transmediale, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Imaginary Lives, 3.2 | |
| 2012 | Liquidity, Vladivostok Film Festival |
| International Competition, Timishort Film Festival, Timisoara | |
| in/compatible, Transmediale, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Parallel Worlds, 4.2 | |
| 2011 | The Film is Social Practice, 3rd Off and Free International Film Festival, Seoul |
| Our Darkness, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart/Gdansk City Gallery, curator: Victor Neumann | |
| 2010 | Recontres International Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris |
| Survival Kit, Riga, curator: Agnese Luse | |
| The Akward Scene, MAB Film Exercise, Arnolfini, Bristol, curator: Richard Birkett | |
| Event Site, Picture This Atelier, Bristol, curator: Maeve Connolly | |
| 2009 | New Visions, CPH:DOX, The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, 8.11 & 15.11 |
| Measures series 3, no.w.here, London, curator: Fatos Ustek | |
| Im Andenken an Gerhard Friedl, Filmmuseum Wien, Zeughaus Kino, Berlin | |
| Underdoxs, München | |
| North Wave, Nordic Video Art, Venice Biennale, curator: Lorella Scacco | |
| What am I doing here?, Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, curator: Kerstin Meyer | |
| Diagonale Film Festival, Graz, 20 & 22.3 | |
| 2008 | Contemporary Library, Pristina, Kosovo, curator: Judith Raum |
| Nordic Panorama Festival, Malmö, curator: Johanna Billing | |
| 2007 | Virtuosic Siblings: Berlin/ LA Festival of Film/ Art, Red Cat, Goethe Institute, Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, curator: Ariane Beyn |
| 2004-06 | Criss Cross, NIFCA, Helsinki, various locations, curators: Thierry Jousse, Åsa Nacking, Cristina Ricupero, Mats Stjernstedt, Cilla Werning |
| 2003 | 10. Biennial of Moving Images, Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine, Saint-Gervais, Genf, curator: Charles Esche |
Residencies
| 2013 | International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York |
| 2007 | Villa Aurora, Los Angeles |
| 2006 | Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo |
| 2003 | Rooseum, Malmö |
| 2003 | Nifca, Helsinki |
| 2000/4/5 | Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi |
Teaching
| 2018-24 | Lecturer, Intermedia, Universität zu Köln |
| 2022 | Lecturer, Institut für Künste und Medien, Universität Potsdam / Fachhochschule Potsdam |
| 2007 | Guest professor, film and photography, Universität der Künste, Berlin |
| 2006-09 | Advisor, Research Fellowship in the Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Bergen |
Workshops, lectures or studio visits in Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Aalto University Helsinki, Academy of Contemporary Art Tromsø, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, University of Goethenburg, Universität zu Köln, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Lucerne School of Art and Design, Barnard College (NYC), Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main, Katutura College of Art, Windhoek, Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Geneva University of Art and Design, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden.
Works in Collections
Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki
Collection of The State Art Commission, Helsinki
Video-Forum, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
Irish Consulate, Cologne
Private collections in Germany, France, UK