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SONJA LAU
BORN 1981 IN DÜSSELDORF.
LIVES AND WORKS IN BERLIN.
WWW.SONJALAU.COM
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Education
2007
Masters in Curatorial Practice & Critical Writing, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (with: Distinction)
2003 – 2006
Studies of Art History, Humboldt-University, Berlin
2001 – 2003
BA Film, Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français, Paris, and extension classes at UCLA, Los Angeles
1999 – 2001
Studies of Literature, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf
Awards and Invitations
Research position at the Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, with a focus on ‚political music‘ (from: March 2013)
Politics of the Small Act, Workshop and roundtable, GFZK Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (October 2012)
ICI Independent Curators International ; participation at the Summer Curatorial Intensive, New York (July 2012)
Award of Robert Bosch Cultural Management Fellowship
(2011 – 2013)
Award of Alfred Toepfer F.V.S. Foundation Fellowship for Cultural Innovation (2008 – 2010)
Curatorial Work (Selection)
June 2013
FIEND. [Cables. The 21 Seconds Piece]
Performance, National Theatre Tirana
With: Armando Lulaj, John Tilbury
May 2013
Der Zaudernde Körper |The Hesitating Body, performance and theory forum, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
With: Kathrin Busch, Günther Heeg, Mala Kline, Bojana Kunst, Patrick Primavesi, Jeremy Wade, Eike Wittrock, a.o.
June 2012
TRY…AGAIN…BETTER. Cornelius Cardew in Tirana, context-specific performance of Cardew’s compositions. With: Christian von Borries, Vasil S. Tole. In collaboration with the Goethe-Institute; National History Museum, Tirana
May 2012
TIRANA THRASH, Re-Enactment of Tirana’s first punk concert from 1989, with: Attila the Stockbroker (UK)
January 2010 – October 2010
Project Assistant at the artistic office at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, amongst for:
Wystawa, guest exhibition at the Muzeum Sztuki
Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, Warsaw;
Early Years; 6. berlin biennale; Highlights of the Cologne Kunst Film Biennale; MISS READ Artist Book Festival;
Renata Lucas;
Absalon
August 2009 – November 2009
Guest Curator/Project Development of the touring exhibition Nomadic Archives, BookWorks, London
August 2008 – July 2009
Guest Curator at the National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, for the exhibition Ri-Pikturim (Engl.: Re-Paintings)
2007
Gallery Assistant at Matts Gallery in the context of Susan Hiller’s solo exhibition The Last Silent Movie, London
2007
Guest Curator of the video installation Samantha Singing by Claire Wheeldon, LATE AT TATE, TATE Britain, London
2003
Internship at Gallery Yvon Lambert in the context of Christian Boltanski’s solo exhibition Entre Temps, Paris
Talks and Publications (Selection)
September 2013 / forthcoming
Catalogue essay for the monograph Delirium of denying on artist Thomas Trinkl, published by the KHM, Cologne
April 2012
Laudatio in the context of the exhibition Delirium of Denying by Thomas Trinkl, MIII Kunstverein Mönchengladbach e. V.
March 2012
Talk on Alternative Exhibition Formats, Tetovo, Macedonia, Together with: Christoph Tannert and Suzana Milevska
March 2011
Talk and screening It felt like a Kiss – Individualism, Revolt, and Appropriation (Adam Curtis, 2009)iat the faculty of Media Science, German University Cairo (GUC), Cairo