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Hoffmann, Bettina

Autre nom
Hoffman, Bettina
Associations

A été ou est actuellement encore membre de :

Apprentissage et enseignement
Formation académique
  • 1985-1992 - Master of fine arts, Hochschule der Künste (University of the Arts), Berlin, Germany
  • 1989-1990 - California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, USA
  • 1987 - Exchange with Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Dance, Theatre and Movement Training

  • Capoeira training with Team Capoeira Brasileira, Montreal, 2023
  • Booth & Noguchi Taiso, Mohammadreza Akrami, Studio 303, Montreal, 2021
  • Presence / Focus / Availability, Peter James, Studio 303, Montreal, 2018
  • Body Resonance + Butoh, Yuminko Yoshioka, Studio 303, Montreal, 2018
  • The falling body, Dana Gingras, Studio 303, Montreal, 2018
  • Contact Improvisation with Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood, Studio White Wall, Montreal 2017
  • Butoh training with Tadashi Okamura (Atelier Beni), Yuri Nagaoka and Seisaku, Natsu Nakajima, and Yoshito Ohno, Tokyo, 2016
  • Laban Technique at Tanzraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, 2015
  • Action Theatre with Sarah Bild, Studio 303, Montreal 2013
  • Directing I and II at IATI Theatre with Marin Balmaceda, New York City, 2012
  • Alexander Technique at Movement Research, New York, 2012
  • Contact Improvisation with Catherine Lessard, Montreal, 2011
  • Acting, Behaviour 1, at ASM performing arts, Montreal, 2011
Enseignement
  • 2008- John Abbott College, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Qué

Workshop instructor

  • A subjective view onto bodies in movement + stillness - in proximity + distance. Workshop for theatre, dance + cinema students, Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico, 2017
Expositions
Groupe
  • 2023 - Variabilities in echoes, International Encounters Traverse, Toulouse, France
  • 2021 - Festival Oodaaq, Rennes, France
  • 2021 - The intentionality that seeks..., Gallery GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany
  • 2017 - This is not a Selfie, Photographic Selfportraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, San Jose, Museum of Arts, USA
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  • 2016 - L’atypique trouble, Traverse Vidéo 2016, Toulouse, France
  • 2014 - Exhibition of Media Art Awards, Museum of Sculpture in Marl, Germany*
  • 2014 - Home Sweet Home - à propos de l’(in)quietude, Dazibao, Montreal, Canada*
  • 2012 - From High Speed to Slow Motion, Festival Internacional de Vídeo i Arts Digitals, Girona, Spain*
  • 2011 - In Between Frames, Muzeul National de Arta Contemporana, Bucharest, Romania
  • 2010 - Péripéties, Maison de la culture, Montréal
  • 2010 - Works from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, Los Angeles County Museum, USA
  • 2009 - Seoul International Photography Festival, South Korea
  • 2009 - PHOTODIMENSIONAL, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
  • 2009 - Still Revolution, Toronto (Contact Photo Festival)
  • 2008 - Rien ne se perd, rien ne se crée, tout se transforme. The Quebec Triennial. Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal*, Canada
  • 2008 - Intrus/Intruders, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Commissariat: Mélanie Boucher, Québec, Qué du 24 avril 2008 au 8 février 2009
  • 2008 - Double Space, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
  • 2008 - What We Bring to the Table, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
  • 2007 - Squirm, Open Space, Victoria, Canada
  • 2006 - Bridge Art Fair Miami, Kristi Engle Gallery, USA
  • 2005 - document, EMAF, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück, Germany*
  • 2005 - DIVA art fair (Gallery Michael Cosar), New York
  • 2004 - Sans souci, Galerie B-312, Montréal
  • 2003 - Puppy Love, Pelham Art Center, New York
  • 2003 - Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria*
  • 2001 - Visions of me, Contact 2001, Zsa Zsa Gallery, Toronto, Canada*
  • 2001 - The end is nigh, CSKX Studios, London, United Kingdom
  • 2000 - in every dream home a ..., Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 2000 - Fotografie an der Schwelle zum neuen Jahrtausend, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle*
  • 1999 - crosslinks, Galerie im Marstall, Berlin, Germany*
  • 1999 - space place, Kunsthalle Tirol, Hall, Austria
  • 1999 - Private eye - crimes & cases, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin*
  • 1999 - Positionen in der Farbfotografie, Galerie in der Alten Schule, Berlin*
  • 1999 - Ego Alter Ego - the self portrait in contemporary photography, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden,Germany*
  • 1998 - Bauen und Bauten, Galerie Klaus Fischer, Berlin
  • 1998 - Untersicht, Galerie Weißer Elefant, Berlin*
  • 1998 - Outfit - Authentizität und Maskerade, Kunsthaus Rhenania, Cologne, Germany
  • 1997 - Der rettende Engel, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany
  • 1996 - Holländisches Bad, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany*
  • 1995 - Urbane Legenden - Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany*
  • 1995 - Cherchez la femme, Kunsthaus, Hamburg*
  • 1995 - 66 = 69, GALERIE +/-, Basel, Switzerland
  • 1994 - Einschritt, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden, Germany
  • 1994 - Multiples, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Solo
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  • 2009 - Émile, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
  • 2008 - Parallax, Truck Gallery, Calgary
  • 2008 - Décalages, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Images Festival, Toronto
    Cette exposition fut également présentée à
    – 2008 - L’Oeil de Poisson, Québec
    – 2007 - Le mois de la photo à Montréal, Galerie Dazibao
  • 2008 - Parallax, Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
  • 2008 - Too Close for Comfort, AxeNéo7, Hull/Ottawa, Canada
  • 2007 - La Ronde, Séquence, Chicoutimi, Canada
    Cette exposition fut également présentée à
    – 2007 - Gallery Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 2007 - Sweets, Gallery Lee-Ka-sing, Toronto, Canada
  • 2004 - Loop - video art fair (Gallery Michael Cosar), Barcelona, Spain
  • 2004 - Spoilsport/Trouble-fête, Liane and Danny Taran Gallery, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal
  • 2004 - Spoilsport, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada*
  • 2003 - The Social Reason, Gallery TPW, Toronto
  • 2003 - La raison sociale, Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal
  • 2002 - Affaires Infinies et Maître et chien, Galerie VU, Québec*
  • 2001 - Infinite stories, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto
  • 2000 - Project, CSKX Studios, London, United Kingdom
  • 2000 - Affaires infinies, Centre Optica, Montreal, Canada
  • 1998 - Fotoarbeiten, Galerie in der Brotfabrik, Berlin
  • 1998 - Bettina Hoffmann, Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf, Germany*
Actions, performances et événements:

Performances

  • 2023 - Drift/Dérive, Expression - Centre d’exposition de Ste-Hyacinthe, Canada
  • 2020 - People in the Dunes II, DAÏMÔN, March 2020, live streaming
  • 2019 - Embodiment I – Strings, Tama Festival, Tokyo
  • 2018 - People in the Dunes, Physical theatre - Interactions of Movement and Sound at Tamagawa University

Visionnements

  • 2023 - VLX5, VASTLAB Experimental. VLX5, Los Angeles, USA
  • 2023 - FOTOGENIA, International Filmpoetry and Divergent Narratives Festival, Vol. 5.
  • 2023 - 16th Cinetoro Experimental Film Festival, PHASES OF FACES: Official International Competition, Cali and Toro Valle del Cauca, Colombia
  • 2023 - XXVIe Rencontres Internationales Traverse - Variabilités en échos in Toulouse (France)

Video work for theatre

  • 2015 - Yoleros, director Martin Balmaceda, IATI Theatre, New York City
  • 2015 - Curing the Void, Rabbit Hole Alternative – RHA Theatre, Fringe NYC
  • 2013 - Curing the Void, Rabbit Hole Alternative – RHA Theatre, Dixon Place NYC
  • 2013 - Not a Leg to Stand on, director Martin Balmaceda, Frances Anne Cannon Theatre at Sarah Lawrence College, NY, USA

Lectures/presentations

  • Chiba University, Tokyo, 2019
  • Presentation at Pecha Kucha Night, Tokyo, 2016
  • Université de Montréal, Département d'histoire de l'art et d'études cinématographiques, 2012
  • Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2009
  • Sheridan College of Art and Design, Oakville, Ontario, 2008
  • Cegep Edouart-Montpetit, Logueuil, 2008
  • Sheridan College of Art and Design, Oakville, Ontario, 2008
  • The Getty Museum, Department of Photography, Los Angeles, USA, 2006
  • Université Laval, Québec, 2006 - and 2007
  • University of Ottawa, 2005
  • Université du Sherbrooke, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Université du Québec à Montréal 2004
  • Gallery TPW, Toronto, 2003
  • NBK (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein) Berlin, 1999
  • ACC (Autonomes Cultur Centrum), Weimar, Germany 1995

Jury + Comittee member

  • Conseil des arts et de lettres du Québec (Bourse A) 2006
  • Canada Council for the Arts (Research and production grants) 2006
  • Comité artistique, gallery VOX, Montreal, 2003-2006

Curatorial and Co-curatorial practice

  • Exhibition Sans souci at Gallery B-312 in Montreal, 2004
  • Exhibition Private Eye - Crimes and Cases at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, in collaboration with Elisabeth Hautmann and Patricia Pisani, catalogue participation Michael Glasmeier 1999
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Performances (suite)

  • 2018 - Music Day, Kunitachi College of Music and Terpsichore studio theatre, Tokyo
  • 2016 - Freitod – Interference with happy memories, Occurrence, Montreal
  • 2015 - Curing the Void, Rabbit Hole Alternative – RHA Theatre at Fringe New York City
  • 2014 - Isolation – performance for 4 dancers, Tangente, Montreal
  • 2013 - Isolation – performance for 4 dancers, Darling Foundry, Montreal
  • 2013 - Curing the Void, Rabbit Hole Alternative – RHA Theatre at Dixon Place, New York City

Visionnements (suite)

  • 2023 - Tranås Festival, Sweden
  • 2023 - Festival international du film sur l’art, Montreal, Canada
  • 2022 - Revolutions per Minute Festival, Boston, USA
  • 2022 - WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg
  • 2022 - BIDEODROMO Internacional Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao, Spain
  • 2022 - Split Videoart Festival, Croatia
  • 2022 - Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
  • 2021 - Crossroads, Film Festival at Cinematheque San Francisco, USA
  • 2021 - Videodance Festival, São Carlos, Brazil
  • 2020 - Film festival dança em foco, Brazil
  • 2020 - Goldrausch, Berlin
  • 2019 - Recent Videos, Tangente, Edifice Wilder, Montreal
  • 2018 - Your eye would glide over the grey, San Francisco Cinematheque at the David Ireland House, San Francisco
  • 2016 - Crossroads, Film Festival at Cinematheque San Francisco, USA
  • 2016 - L’atypique trouble, Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse
  • 2015 - Gallery 1038, San Francisco, USA
  • 2014 - Crossroads, Film Festival at the Cinematheque San Francisco, USA
  • 2014 - Montreal Underground Film Festival
  • 2013 - Antimatter (Media Art) film festival, Victoria, BC, Canada
  • 2011 - Movement on Screen, Liverpool, UK
  • 2009 - Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Montreal
  • 2007 - Stand By, Netwerk, center for contemporary art, Aalst, Belgique
  • 2007 - EMAF, European Media and Film Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
  • 2007 - Repéres du reel, Réflexion sur la fiction contemporaine, Usine C, Montreal
  • 2007 - International Film festival in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, L'ÉCART, Rouyn-Noranda, QC
  • 2007 - Opere Nuove - No Words, Centro Culturale Trevi, Bolzano, Italy
  • 2007 - VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Gerona, Spain
  • 2007 - Première vue Montreal, Espace SD, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 2007 - Loop, Barcelone and Inventario, Zaragoza, Selection from the VAD Festival 2004/05, Spain
  • 2005 - VideoLisboa, Lisbon, Portugal and Asagaya Art College, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2005 - Images Festival, Toronto and Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Montreal
  • 2005 - International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
  • 2004 - VAD video festival, Girona, Spain
Musées et collections
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  • Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
  • Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
  • Photographic collection of the Deutsche Genossenschafts Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
  • The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, Los Angeles County Museum, USA
Distinctions et prix
  • 2023 - Prix CINETORO for Memories of Touch, 16th Cinetoro Experimental Film Festival, PHASES OF FACES: Official International Competition, Cali and Toro Valle del Cauca, Colombia
  • 2004 - Special award, VAD Festival Internacional de Vídeo i Arts Digitals, Girona, Spain
  • 2000 - Award for digital photography, third price, ig medien (union of the media industry), Germany
Résidences, bourses et subventions
Résidences
  • 2020 - Residency at DAÏMÔN, Gatineau, collaboration with Haruka Hirayama (Tokyo)
  • 2016 - Residency at the Tokyo Wonder Site, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
  • 2012 - Artist residency in New York City (Quebec Studio), Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
  • 1995 - Residency at the ACC (Autonomes Cultur Centrum) in Weimar, Germany
  • 1994 - Residency in Istanbul, Municipal Office of Cultural Affairs in Berlin and the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
Bourses et subventions
  • 2021 - Grant (research and production), Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
  • 2013 - Grant (research and production), Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
  • 2009 - Grant (research and production), Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
  • 2006 - Grant (research and production), Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
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  • 2005 - Grant (research and production), Canada Council for the Arts
  • 2003 - Grant (research and production), Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Canada
  • 2003 - Grant (research and production), Canada Council for the Arts
  • 2001 - Grant (research and production), Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Canada
  • 1998 - Grant (research and production) from the Municipal Office of Cultural Affairs in Berlin
  • 1997 - Project grant from the cultural foundation ‘Stiftung Kulturfonds’, Berlin
  • 1994 - Grant (research and production) from the Municipal Office of Cultural Affairs in Berlin
Bibliographie
Catalogues
  • Rien ne se perd, rien se crée, tout se transforme. The Quebec Triennial. Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, 2008
Monographies
  • Bettina Hoffmann, Monographie, Dazibao, Montreal and VU, Quebec, 2011
Revues et articles de journaux
  • Silent Office, Das Wespennest – Zeitschrift für brauchbare Texte und Bilder, Vienna, 2018
  • This is not a Selfie, Photographic Selfportraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA, 2017
  • Teoria I estetyka fotografii cyfrowej, Narodowe Centrum Kultury, Warsaw, Poland 2017
  • Exhibition of Media Art Awards, Museum of Sculpture, Marl, Germany, 2014
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  • Home Sweet Home - à propos de l’(in)quietude, Dazibao, Montreal, 2014
  • Seoul International Photography Festival, South Korea, 2009
  • Theatroclasm , MacKenzie Art Gallery, 2009
  • Intrus/Intruder, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, 2008
  • Still Lifes - The Disappearance of Interiority, Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles
  • Sagamie - L’imprimé numérique en art contemporain, , Éditions d’art Sabord, 2008
  • Explorations Narratives, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Marie Fraser, 2007
  • Carte Blanche – Photography 1, Magenta Foundation, Toronto 2006
  • Fuori di me (Out of myself) by Cecilia Casorati, Johan & Levi, Milan, Italy, 2006
  • Feintes, doutes & fictions : réflexions sur la photographie et les nouvelles technologies, Éditions J’ai VU,2006
  • Document, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, 2005
  • Autoportraits dans la photographie canadienne contemporaine, Éditions J’ai VU, 2004
  • Spoilsport/Trouble-fête, Liane and Danny Taran Gallery, Montreal and Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, 2004
  • Ich bin ich weil mein kleiner Hund mich kennt, Copyright, Berlin 2002
  • Fotografie an der Schwelle zum neuen Jahrtausend, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle, 2000
  • Körperinszenierung, Oper Frankfurt, 1999
  • Ego Alter Ego, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, 1999
  • Privat Eye - crimes & cases, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, 1999
  • Positionen in der Farbfotografie, Galerie in der Alten Schule, Berlin, 1999
  • crosslinks, Galerie im Marstall, Publ. B. Stammer, K. Becker, Berlin,1999
  • Bettina Hoffmann, Galerie Cosar, Düsseldorf, 1998
  • Istanbul in Berlin, Kulturamt Kreuzberg, Berlin, 1998
  • Untersicht, Kulturamt Mitte, Galerie Weißer Elefant, Berlin, 1998
  • Holländisches Bad, Kunsthaus Hamburg, 1996
  • Cherchez la femme, Kunsthaus Hamburg, 1995
  • Urbane Legenden - Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 1995

Reviews in art magazines and newspapers

  • Touch, CV Photo, fall 2016
  • La caméra émancipée de Bettina Hoffmann, Sylvain Campeau, Huffington Poste, 17.2. 2014
  • Chorégraphie de corps et de caméras, Marie-Éve Charron, Le Devoir, 16.2.2014
  • Éloge de la lenteur, Nathalie Côté, Le Soleil, Quebec 1 March 2008
  • In absentia, Alexandre Motulsky-Falardeau, VOIR, Quebec 21 Feb. 2008
  • Des lieux de l’ambiguïté du temps et de l’espace, ETC, Sylvain Campeau, spring 2008
  • Made in Quebec, VIEW photography magazine, Belgium
  • Une video qui effleure et d’autres qui scrutent, Marie-Ève Charron, Le Devoir, 23.9.07
  • États multiples, Sylvain Campeau, Le Sabord, No 76, March 2007
  • Spoilsport, Marie Fraser, CV Photo, No 66, May 2005
  • Lieux d’inconfort, Bernard Lamarche, Le Devoir, Sept. 18/19, 2004
  • Spoiled Subjects Sport Scowls, Henry Lehmann, The Gazette, July 31, 2004
  • Le drame, toujours de la fête, Jérôme Delgado, La Presse, August 22, 2004
  • Party-pooper portraiture, by Julia Dault The National Post, 22.01.2004
  • Contact photo festival in NOW, Toronto, May 2003
  • Rôles et fictions, by David Cantin, Le Devoir, 26.01.2002
  • Infinite Stories by Benny N. Ramsay, Lola, summer 2001
  • Bettina Hoffmann, Etc. Montréal by Josee Vinette, Montréal, summer 2000
  • Moi...et moi by Jennifer Couelle, La Presse, Montréal 12.2.2000
  • Traité des passions by Bernard Lamarche, Le Devoir, Montréal, 13.2.00
  • Bettina Hoffmann, Camera Austria (Forum) by Andrea Roedig, September 1999
  • Alltäglichkeiten, wohlkalkuliert by Helga Meister, WZ, Düsseldorf, 1999
  • Was, wenn es Wirklichkeit wir? E. Hautmann, Starship Nr.1, 1998
  • Das Schweigen der Bilder, by A. Roedig, Die Tageszeitung TAZ, 1998
  • An event of art in public space (Art in an unfriendly area) by Zvi Shir, STUDIO, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1997