Bio
Kim Collmer creates animations and videos which are shown in galleries and museums, film festivals and urban screening events. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she also taught before relocating to Berlin, Germany. In 2004 she accepted a post as Guest Professor in Media Studies at the University of Applied Arts in Schwaebisch Hall. She left in 2008 to Cologne where she continues to work on her art and lives with her husband and daughter.
Recent highlights: her new short, "Head Room" was showcased at the Haus der Kultur der Welt, Berlin as part of the exhibition Tracing Mobility; her video, "the Lighthouse" was in the exbibition Surface Tension at the Science Gallery in Dublin; the installation film "Berlin Skin" was part of the BBC's Big Screens shown throughout England; She also curated the screening "Liminal Loopholes" for the 2011 Director's Lounge. And in 2011 she started the design studio Studio Cha-Cha.
Selected Screenings- the Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago; Flik Film Festival ("Best of Show" 2008); Directors Lounge, Berlin; Arsenal, Berlin; Darklight Festival, Dublin; San Diego Women's Film Festival; Trampoline Urban Screens (Nottingham & Sydney). Selected exhibitions- Museum of New Art, Detroit; Project Room, White Columns, New York; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle; Platform Festival- Installation Animation Exhibition, Portland. Selected reviews - the New York Times and the New Yorker magazine.
Link to Artist Statement
Contact
kcollmer(at)yahoo.com