Jens Sundheim, born 1970 in Germany
EDUCATION
2013 MA Photography, HAW Hamburg
2010 Masterclass Arno Fischer, Ostkreuzschule, Berlin
2002 Diploma Photography, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund
1997 Erasmus Scholarship, University of Plymouth, Exeter, England
TEACHING
2023-24 Teaching assignment photography, Department for Art and Art Science, Technical University of Dortmund
2022 Teaching assignment »Camera Obscura«, Technical University of Dortmund
2021–22 Teaching assignment »Manipulation!«, Technical University of Dortmund
2019–20 Teaching assignment »Das Fotogramm (100 Jahre Bauhaus)«, Technical University of Dortmund
AWARDS & GRANTS
2024 Project grant, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation
2023 Kunststein competition, 3rd prize
2022 Förderkorb artist grant
2022 »Songs of Concrete« project grant
2022 Georg Koppmann prize, nomination
2022 NRW artist grant
2021 CityArtists 2021 award
2021 Stiftung Kulturwerk artist grant
2021 NRW artist grant
2020 NRW artist grant
2020 Förderkorb artist grant
2020 »Eisen im Feuer« project grant
2019 Kolga Photo Award, shortlisted
2017 PhotoIreland Festival, exhibition award
2015 LWL Gotland grant and artist residency
2014 Plat(t)form, Fotomuseum Winterthur, nomination
2012 Grant, Goethe-Institut Moscow
2011 Grant, Kulturstiftung Sparkasse Unna
2010 DEW21 art prize, finalist
2009 Grant and artist residency, Linz AT
2007 Photo España Descubrimientos Award, finalist
2007 BFF Trend Award
2006 Japan Media Arts Festival, jury recommendation
2006 Fotoprojekt Emscher Zukunft, winner
2005 Backlight Award, nomination
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Traveller, Galerie AK2, Stuttgart, Germany
2022 Shadows of a Distant Truth, KIKA Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2018 The Traveller, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, USA
2018 Captain Future, with Dagmar Lippok, Katholische Akademie Schwerte, Germany
2017 Of Ants and Star Polyhedrons, PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin
2016 Wandel, with Dagmar Lippok, Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany
2015 Westfalenstipendiat 2015, Gocart Gallery, Visby, Sweden
2014 Captain Future, with Dagmar Lippok, Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid, Germany
2013 Vom Zustand der Menschen und dem Leben auf dem Mars, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund, Germany
2011 Mixed Media – Grenzgänge, Kulturstiftung Sparkasse Unna, Germany
2010 Landschaften SIEBEN, Alte Brüderkirche, Kassel, Germany
2005 Summerlin – a community for the 21st century, Galerie Rebekka Kraft, Munich, Germany
2004 Der Reisende, Kunstverein Hildesheim, Germany
2004 Der Reisende, EZG Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Two Decks Networx, Atelierhaus Altes Güteramt, Mannheim, Germany
2024 Denk ich an Dich, Europa, Gildenpark, Dortmund, Germany
2024 The World Between Us, Laden 1A, Dortmund, Germany
2023 KIKA collection, HIGURE 17-15 contemporary art space, Tokyo, Japan
2023 Kontrolliert bis Wuchernd, Olpe 12, Dortmund, Germany
2023 Fotozofio, Arles, France
2023 Fotozofio, Kyoto, Japan
2022 Blickfelder, Museum Schloss Moyland, Kleve, Germany
2022 Städtischer Kunstankauf, Superraum, Dortmund, Germany
2021 Mensch Arno, siehste …!, Treptow Ateliers, Berlin, Germany
2021 Galeria Czynna: By the way, Fotofestiwal, Lódz, Poland
2021 Mãn Nhãn / Voyeuristic, Goethe-Institut Hanoi, Vietnam
2020 NewMediaFest 2020 – the retrospective, online
2020 Licht an, 44309 Gallery, Dortmund, Germany
2020 Grafik aus Dortmund, Kulturort Depot, Dortmund, Germany
2019 Kolga Tbilisi Photo, Tbilisi, Georgia
2018 Tiamat – All These Worlds Are Yours Except Earth, 7 Mallory St, Hong Kong
2018 #fernweh, Drive Forum, Berlin, Germany
2018 Stadtoasen, Nordico Museum, Linz, Austria
2017 STARS – Cosmic Art from 1900 to the Present, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria
2017 Expanding Photography, Mestrovic Pavillon, Zagreb, Croatia
2017 Landscapes: New vision through multiple windows, Japan Media Arts Festival, Singapore
2016 Absence of Logic, Despacio, San José, Costa Rica
2016 Expanding Photography, Galerija Meno Parkas, Kaunas, Lithuania
2015 Public Eye: 175 Years of Sharing Photography, The New York Public Library, New York, USA
2015 When we share more than ever, Triennale der Photographie, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany
2015 Profiled: Surveillance of a Sharing Society, apexart, New York, USA
2015 (No) Privacy, Fotodok, Utrecht, Netherlands
2015 Surveillance Blind, Goethe-Institut Washington, USA
2014 An Ocean of Possibilities, Singapore International Photography Festival
2014 An Ocean of Possibilities, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
2014 Photographing the Future, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
2013 Photographing the Future, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
2013 40x50x60, aff Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2013 Concrete Poetry, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany
2013 Photographing the Future, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2013 From Here On, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
2013 100% LINZ, Nordico Museum, Linz, Austria
2012 Visions in Media Art: The Mechanical Eye, Medienwerkstatt Wien, Vienna, Austria
2012 From Here On, Foto Museum Antwerpen, Belgium
2011 From Here On, Rencontres d’Arles Photographie, Arles, France
2011 Trophäen, Nordico Museum, Linz, Austria
2010 DEW21 Kunstpreis, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund, Germany
2010 Duets and Duels, M.K. Ciurlionis National Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
2010 Landpartie, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany
2010 NO ISBN, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
2010 Nature, Culture and History of the Ruhr Area, permanent exhibition, Ruhr Museum, Essen, Germany
2009 Vision – Aussicht aufs Leben, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie Festival, Germany
2009 space shuttle 2.0, Fotogalerie, Vienna, Austria
2009 The Pursuit of Happiness, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, Netherlands
2009 Kaunas Photo Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania
2009 International Photobook Festival, Kassel, Germany
2008 transmediale.08 Festival for art and digital culture, Berlin, Germany
2008 Glanz und Globalisierung, Progr, Bern, Switzerland
2007 Photo Espana Descubrimientos Award, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain
2006 Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2006 Glamour and Globalisation, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany
2006 Travelling New Territories, Zurich, Switzerland
2006 Sanjiangyuan International Photography Festival, Xining/Qinghai, China
2006 Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie Festival, Darmstadt, Germany
2006 International Festival of Photography, Lódz, Poland
2005 Untouchable Things, Backlight Festival, Museum Centre Vapriikki, Tampere, Finland
2005 Wiesbadener Fototage, Landesmuseum Wiesbaden, Germany
2005 Private Space, International Festival of Photography, Ikona Gallery, Lódz, Poland
2003 INOUT Festival of the Digital Image, Prague, Czech Republic
2003 Festival Voies Off, Arles, France
ARTIST TALKS
2024 The Traveller, Galerie AK2, Stuttgart, Germany
2021 Guest lectures, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund, Germany
2020 GPS lecture series: The Traveller, Hanover, Germany
2018 Tiamat Artist Talk, 7 Mallory St, Hong Kong
2017 PhotoIreland Festival, Marsh’s Library, Dublin, Ireland
2016 Frascati Issues: The End of Privacy, Frascati Theater, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015 Gotlands Konstskola/Gocart Gallery, Visby, Sweden
2015 Data Gathering: A Public Conversation, apexart, New York
2013 Photographing the Future, panel discussion and workshop, Siberian Centre for Contemporary Arts, Novosibirsk, Russia
2013 Life on Mars, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Dortmund, Germany
2011 The Traveller, 18³ Fotoshow, Dock 18, Zurich, Switzerland
2009 The Traveller, live performance, Dock 18, Zurich, Switzerland
2006 The Traveller, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie Festival, Germany
2005 The Traveller, Backlight Festival, Tampere, Finland
2003 Summerlin – a Journey to the Ideal City, Auslandsgesellschaft NRW, Dortmund, Germany
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2024 Der Reisende – ein Kunstprojekt über Sicherheits-Webcams in der Welt, radio feature by Andreas Langen, SWR Kultur
2023 Public and security cameras in the work of contemporary photographers, Irina Rusakova & Petr Skovorodnikov, HSE University
2022 Complete Amateur – a pro’s guide, book publication by Erik Kessels, Corraini Edizioni, Milan
2021 A World Full of Cameras, newspaper feature by Denise Felsch
2020 Bodies of Knowledge, Der Greif online exhibition, curated by Mariama Attah
2019 Der Reisende – Multimodale Praktiken der Subjektivierung, essay by Dr. Beate Ochsner, Augenblick. Konstanzer Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft 74, Schüren Verlag, Marburg
2017 STERNE – Kosmische Kunst von 1900 bis heute, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna
2016 Wandel – Performance und Fotografie, Elisabeth May, Neuer Folkwang Verlag, Hagen
2015 Die Zukunft fotografieren, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg Berlin
2015 OjodePez Magazine, Madrid, edited by Joerg Colberg
2015 The Traveller, Appropriation and remix, ZoneZero E-Zine, Mexico
2015 Captain Future, with Dagmar Lippok, Seltman Verlag Lüdenscheid/Berlin
2015 The Traveller 2001-2014, HD-Video, 63:07min, edition of 6
2015 Art Projects That Toe the Line Between Sharing and Surveillance, text by Jeremy Polacek, hyperallergic.com
2014 Eerie, Playful Webcam Portraits by Jens Sundheim, Time Magazine online feature, text by Erik Kessels
2014 MAS Context Issue #22: Surveillance, MAS Studio, Chicago, USA
2013 C-Photo #6: Observed, edited by Joerg Colberg, Ivorypress, Madrid
2013 The Traveller, Conscientious Photography Magazine, text by Joerg Colberg
2012 Digital Appropriation as Photographic Practice and Theory, text by Helen Westgeest, Depth of Field Vol. 2, Leiden University Press NL
2011 Pantopie. Jeder Ort. Überall. Betrachtungen über den Beobachter, text by Anna Zika, Bildkulturen II, VDG Verlag, Weimar
2011 Photographers without camera, radio feature by Sascha Renner, SRF 2 Kultur, Switzerland
2011 Clownfisch Magazin #4: Utopia
2010 Interview with Jens Sundheim and Bernhard Reuss, Mindaugas Kavaliauskas, kaunasphoto.info
2009 The Traveller. 143 Places of Global Importance, artist book, self published
2007 Der Reisende, text by Sara Burkhardt, Netz Kunst Unterricht – Künstlerische Strategien im Netz, Kopäd Verlag, Munich
2006 Visual Moments of Germany. 37 photographers and an unknown country, Bilderberg Verlag, Hamburg
2005 A Book Designed to Help, Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin
2004 EIKON Magazine for Photography and Media Art, Vienna, text by Inge Nevole
2002 Camera Austria International, Graz
CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES
2023 dis/appear, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, with Arno Schidlowski
2021–24 Jury member, apexart, New York
2021 All Tomorrow’s Parties, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, with Pit Schmieder
2021 Eisen im Feuer, f² Fotofestival, with Peter Lutz
2020 Jury member, apexart, New York
2019 Human Impact, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, with Pit Schmieder
2017 Everyday Is Like Sunday, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, with Pit Schmieder
2015 Jury member, apexart, New York
2015 wirklich wirklich – Spielarten der Realität, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, with Willi Otremba
2013 Das Nahe und die Ferne – Fotografie und Raum, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, with Arno Schidlowski
2011 Hinterhalt – Manipulation und Subversion in der Kunst, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, with Barbara Koch and Dirk Pleyer
2009 genau. – mathematische Strukturen und künstlerische Prozesse, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, with Willi Otremba
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Chairman of Künstlerhaus Dortmund artist association
member of Westdeutscher Künstlerbund
member of LAG Kunst und Medien NRW
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
The New York Public Library
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Nordico Museum, Linz AT
Ruhr Museum Essen
Kulturstiftung Sparkasse Unna