La galleria Muratcentoventidue Artecontemporanea prosegue il programma espositivo con la prima mostra personale in Italia di Johanna Reich , giovane video artista tedesca di grande talento che ha intrapreso un originale percorso nella video arte lavorando nel campo della performance e della sperimentazione.
L’artista ha partecipato a numerose esposizioni e festival nazionali e internazionali di video arte ricevendo tra l’altro importanti premi come il Naim June Paik Award (2005), The Excellence Prize (Japan Media Art Festival, Tokio), The Media Art Award NRW (2009).
I suoi video con cui coinvolge il pubblico provocandone il senso visivo con risultati inaspettati, sono molto più vicini alla performance che alla video arte.
In tempi di onnipresenza dell’immagine in movimento , caratterizzati dalla fugacità , l’artista ha deciso di usare la video camera come mezzo principale per esplorare la relazione tra l’uomo e il mondo virtuale ed indagare i limiti della tecnologia digitale.
Nel video “Line” una persona vestita di nero dipinge una linea nera su di un muro. A causa delle condizioni di luce la video camera non può distinguere la differenza fra il nero della persona e la parete nera che è sullo sfondo.
La persona sembra alla fine scomparire davanti alla video camera . In tempi in cui siamo osservati ogni istante dalle telecamere ,“Line” sembra suggerire con ironia una strategia di fuga e far riflettere sull’enorme quantità di immagini che percepiamo ogni giorno.



Johanna Reich
Johanna Reich was born in Minden, Westphalia; Germany
STUDIES
2000
Student at the Academy of Fine Arts Muenster (Kunstakademie Münster) | student of Paul Isenrath, Andreas Köpnick and Peter Schumbrutzki
2003
Since Oktober 2003: student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg (HfbK Hamburg) | student of Gerd Roscher and Wim Wenders
2006
Meisterschülerin
2007
Diploma
Postgraduate studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (2007-2009)
Johanna Reich currently lives and works in Barcelona, Spain and Cologne, Germany.

Awards & scholarships
2010
Prize for the best video artist, Crosstalk Festival Budapest, Hungary
GWK Art Award 2010
Artist-in-residence at Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral, Bad Ems
2009
Advancement Award Media Art, NRW, Germany
Collaboration “Tachsisim/Doppelspiel”, a Schir Art project with Tzachi Buchbut at Freshpaint Art Fair, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007
artist-in-residence, DAAD, Barcelona, Spain
Premi d´art digital, Spain
Exellence Prize, Japan Media Arts Festival
2006
Exellence Prize, Japan Media Arts Festival
Nam June Paik Award Förderpreis, Cologne
artist-in-residence, Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes, CCRN, Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxemburg
travel grant, DAAD, desert expedition, California, Utah, Nevada, USA
2005
Scholarchip award 2005, AZKM, Münster
Exchange student at the Facultat de Belles Arts, Erasmus, Barcelona, Spain
2004
travel grant, Academy of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey
Exhibitions (selection)
2010
Temps d´images, tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf
Culture Shock: Video Interventions at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Vancouver, Canada
Videolounge 2010|Intriguing pictures, Steinle Contemporary, Munich
a fleeting glimpse, FAK, Münster
Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Russia
freshpaint, Tel Aviv, Israel
Werkleitz Center for Media Art, Halle a. d. Saale
2009
Along the rhine, KIT, Düsseldorf, Germany
Performance//frame, Galerie Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
Ida Gerhardi Preis, Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid, Germany
Hafnarhus – Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
ZKMax München, Germany
“Höhepunkte der KunstFilmBiennale in Berlin”, Kunst-Werke Berlin, Germany
“Höhepunkte der KunstFilmBiennale in Paris”, Centre Pompidou, France
Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
European Media Art Festival Ausstellung, Osnabrück, Germany
Temps d`images, tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008
Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong Gah Museum, Taiwan
Art Tech Media, Puerto de la cruz, Tenerifa, Spain
Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland
FULLSCREEN – 13. Marler Videokunst-Preis, Foro Artistico, Hannover, Germany
Nam June Paik Award Ausstellung, Wallraf-Richartz Museum Cologne, Germany
VideoPerformance, AZKM Münster, Germany
Urban Screens Melbourne, Australia
VIDEOAKT International Videoart Show, Berlin, Germany
Dislocate, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
Illuminators, International terminal of the airport, Yekateringburg, Russia
Exhibition of the Marler Video art price, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl, Germany
SIGGRAPH Traveling Art Show, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
The Future Was Then ….. so now what, SCOPE New York, USA
“You talkin’ to me?”, Oporto, Portugal
2007
Les Instants Vidéo, Galerie SoiXante AdaDa, St. Denis, France
Köln Quartett, Fuhrwerkswaage, Germany
Altered Esthetics Gallery, Minneapolis, USA
Flaneur Screening, Galeria Noa, Barcelona, Spain
Incheon Woman International Biennal, Korea
10th International Istanbul Biennial, Nightcomers, Istanbul, Turkey
SIGGRAPH, Art Gallery, Global Eyes Programm, San Diego, USA
Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
2006
selfportrait, Officya Kunstverein, Szczecin, Poland
selfportrait, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum Naples, Italien
selfportrait, MAC – Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Santa Fe, Argentinien
selfportrait, MACRO – Museum de Arte Contemporaneo Rosario, Argentinien
Art Tech Media 2006, Presidencia Gobierno de Canarias, Tenerifa
Art Tech Media 2006, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Unión Fenosa – MACUF, A Coruña, Spanien
Art Tech Media 2006, Museo Vasco Artium, Vitoria, Spanien
Art Tech Media 2006, Museo Da2, Salamanca, Spanien
Art Tech Media 2006, Centro Párraga, Murcia, Spanien
Art Tech Media 2006, Bilbao Arte, Spanien
Art Tech Media 2006, Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spanien
Art Tech Media 2006, CCCB Barcelona, Spanien
Art Tech Media 2006, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spanien
selfportrait – a show for Bethlehem, Al Kahf (CAVE) Art Gallery Bethlehem, Israel
Social Games, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Armenien
am berg, Kunstverein Drensteinfurt, Deutschland
2005
vorübergehend in betrieb, Stadt Münster, Deutschland
17 Gründe…, Kunstwerk Köln, Deutschland
Feldstärke, Pact Zollverein, Essen, Deutschland
Traumzentrum, Galerie der HfBK Hamburg, Deutschland
Raketenkino, screening, 4.4.2005, Münster, Deutschland
Förderpreisausstellung, Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössischer Kunst Münster, Deutschland
2004
freundschaftsspiel, Dolmabahce-Serail Museum, Istanbul, Türkei
co_op, Film, Video, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Deutschland
im wort, Kunst in Evangelischen Kirchen, Münster, Deutschland
screening Schloss Ringenberg, Ringenberg, Deutschland
und ich hoffe, es geht dir gut, Prima Kunst Container an der Stadtgalerie Kiel, Deutschland
Stand der Dinge, Metropolis Kino Hamburg, Deutschland
zu zweit allein, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Deutschland
Jour Fixe, 18.4.04, Kunstverein Münster, Deutschland
Film festivals
2010
Oslo Screen Festival, Oslo, Norway
IFFF, Filmforum, Museum Ludwig, Colgne, Germany
Crosstalk Festival Budapest, Hungary
700IS Hreindýraland, Iceland
IFFF Dortmund-Köln, Germany
Loop Festival, Optica Screening, Hotel Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Fonlad Festival, Portugal
Lange Nacht der Kulturen, Emaf, Osnabrück, Germany
Visual Container TV Screening, Italian Video Art Distribution
Emscher.Kunst 2010, Screening, Germany
Rain of Down 2/3, Linnagalerii, Tallinn, Estonia
2009
IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands
Kunstfilmbiennale, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
CologneOFF V, Online Festival
Plektrum Festival, Tallinn, Estland
Video Bardo, Girona, Spain
Lowave, Goetheinstitut Osaka, Japan
Elektronentoto, Düsseldorf, Germany
Optica, Buenos Aires/ Optica, Bolivien
Art Video Screening, Riga
CASZuidas Urban Screen Festival, Amsterdam
Konstfrämjandet, Bergslagen, Sweden
Athens Video Art Festival, Greece
European Media Art Festival Ausstellung, Osnabrück, Germany
LOOP Festival Barcelona, Spain
Bolzano ShortFilmFestival, Italy
13th Media Art Biennale WRO 09, Poland
2008
VideoFest 2K8, Baja California, Mexico
Pantheon International Xperimental Film Festival, Cyprus
One Minute Filme & Video Festival Aarau, Switzerland
Miniminutes – das Festival des kleinen Films, Münster, Germany
Abstracta, International Abstract Cinema Exhibition, Rome, Italy
Internationales Videofestival Bochum, Germany
Athens Video Art Festival, Greece
Video-Lab, Porto, Portugal
700IS film festival, Egilsstadir, Iceland
Video-Lab, Lagos, Portugal
The 5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Bangkok
Video Art Screening, Örebro, Sweden
2007
D-NEFF European Experimental Exhibition, Spain
Kunstfilmbiennale Köln, Germany
The consequence, Edinburgh, Scottland
Seoul International Filmfestival, Korea
Sueños de una noche en verano, Madrid, Spain
Outvideo 2007, Moskau, Russia
Videolab Rio, Brasil
loop-pool, Festival-Lounge Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
Temps d`images, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Videoformes, Vidéothèque Éphémère, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Festival Loop 07, Barcelona, Spain
Mostra Internazionale del Cinema Astratto, Rom, Italy
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2006
VAD Video and Digital Arts International Festival, Girona, Spanien
Video Bardo, II Festival Internacional de VideoPoesia 2006, Buenos Aires, Argentinien
Mostra Internazionale del Cinema Astratto, Rom, Italien
Shorts at moonlight, Bad Soden, Deutschland
Vienna Independent Shorts, Wien, Österreich
OVNI 2006, CCCB Barcelona, Spanien
D-NEFF European Experimental Exhibition, Spanien
Naoussa International Film Festival, Griechenland
Athens Video Art Festival, Griechenland
cellu l`art, Jenaer Kurzfilmfestival, Jena, Deutschland
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Deutschland
Internationales Videofestival Bochum, Bochum, Deutschland
Videonale 2006, Berlin, Deutschland
Festival Envideo, Gran Teatro de Cáceres, Spanien
EMERGEANDSEE, Berlin, Deutschland
700IS Festival, Culture Centre of Fljótsdalshérað, Island
EMERGEANDSEE, Budapest, Ungarn
Concurso de Cortometrajes Albolote, Granada, La Fundación francisco Carvajal, Spanien
2005
Tirana International Film Festival, Albanian Art Institute & Eds Foundation, Albanien
VAD Video and Digital Arts International Festival, Girona, Spanien
EMERGEANDSEE, Berlin
Kunstfilmbiennale Köln, Köln
Video Lisboa, Lissabon, Portugal
Island Art Film and Video Festival, Prenelle Gallery, London, GB
Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yereva, Armenien
Internationales Videofestival Bochum, Bochum
Young Collection, Bremen



Muratcentoventidue-Artecontemporanea è un’Associazione Culturale nata nel 2007 per iniziativa di Emanuele Gonnella e Angela Gonnella per promuovere la ricerca artistica e diffondere la conoscenza dell’arte contemporanea, in particolare per offrire più spazio ai giovani e alla sperimentazione, con l’obiettivo di favorire la crescita di una realtà artistica giovane attraverso esposizioni mirate a sperimentare le potenzialità di nuovi percorsi artistici nei diversi linguaggi dell’arte, promuovendo esperienze che utilizzano nuove tecniche e nuovi materiali, come video, fotografia digitale, videoinstallazioni, assemblaggi, apparecchi elettronici.