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Brief Biography

Kristina Paustian (lives in Berlin) began her career in film as a cinematographer and editor. She studied Art and Media at the Berlin University of the Arts. Her films are characterized by a strong visual signature. She examines anthropological and socio-political topics in her works.

In 2015 Kristina released her first feature-length documentary SWIMMERS (2015), which premiered at Visions du Reel and was awarded with the ARTE Documentary Prize. In 2017 Kristina was part of the Berlinale Talents program.

 

For the development of her debut feature film Velimir's Prophecy, she received the Elsa Neumann scholarship and the Robert Bosch grant. Her film essay Timekeeper is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe. She is co-founder of the Media Art Association (mkv) for the promotion of contemporary art with new media, dedicated to the development of experimental narrative and exhibition formats.

Kristina Paustian's films and video art works were exhibited at Les Rencontres Internationales, Arsenal Berlin, Maxxi Museo Rome, ArtDocFest, Rome Independent Film Restival, Torino International Film Festival, European Media Festival Osnabrück, Odessa Biennale, Tashkent Biennale and others.

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Awards · Grants · Public Collections · Teaching · Exhibitions · Screenings

Exhibitions

Awards, Residency & Teaching

2024

            International Human Rights Film Festival Albania       

 

2023

            How to Stay Tuned – Programm in den Uferhallen

            RIFF – Rome Independent Film Festival
            "Timekeeper" will be part of the International Competition

 

            Window Projections

            Goethe Institut Montreal

            curated by Anna Lena Seiser (Head of Collection n.b.k. Video-Forum)

2021

            Deep States

            Bärenzwinger Berlin

             PAF – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art

             Screening "Time Pieces" curated by  Anna Lena Seiser, n.b.k.

             Czech Republic

2020

            Sirene – Goldrausch 2020

            Kunstraum Kreuzberg

            Tag der offenen Tür

 Künstlerhaus Lukas

           Videokunstnacht Kleinmachnow

 Kunstverein "Die Brücke"

Secure the Lines!

SCOTTY, Berlin

2019

Korrespondenzen

KulturRaum Zwingli-Kirche e.V. Berlin

Laws of Time. The future calculations by Velimir Khlebnikov

Solo exhibition

Feld Fünf Berlin

Polar Lands

Muratcentoventidue - Galleria Arte Contemporanea, Bari, Italy

2018 

Meinblau Gallery 
Berlin, Germany

 

CHEAPART 
Evagoras Lanitis Centre, Limassol, Cyprus

 

Lessing Festival 
Wolfenbüttel, Germany

 

TOUCHING FROM A DISTANCE 
Transmediations In The Digital Age 
Literaturhaus Berlin

 

VIII Tashkent International Biennale of Contemporary Art
Tashkent, Uzbekistan

2017 

Volksbühne 
Berlin, Germany

 

Espacio KB 
Bogota, Columbia

 

Media Art Festival 
Maxxi Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo 
Rome, Italy

 

Mitte Media Festival 
Fata Morgana Gallery Berlin, Germany

 

TWIXTlab 
Athens, Greece

 

At least we know that we don`t know
Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel, Germany

C.A.R. Contemporary Art Ruhr 
Zeche Zollverein 
Essen, Germany

 

FABRIKA Center of Creative Industries 
Moscow, Russia

 

Art Center d`Alexandrie 
Egypt

 

Transacciones Informales 
KB - espacio para la cultura 
Bogotá, Colombia

 

Whenever the Heart Skips A Beat 
Berlin, Germany 

 

Biennale 6 
Museum of Byzantine Culture. Thessaloniki, Greece

 

2016 

Stuttgarter Filmwinter 
Festival for expanded media, Germany
January 14-17th

 

Berlin Premiere of ZAPLYV (SWIMMERS) 
Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V..
January 18th

 

Echos of Jihlava 
Nova Cinema. Brussels, Belgium
January 31th

 

Tulsa Overground
USA 
March 24th-27th

 

Hamburger Dokumentarfilmwoche
Germany
April 6th-10th

 

Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival
Hawick, Scotland
April 14th-17th

 

Video art festival Miden
Greece
July 7th-8th

 

JAJAJA NENENE
Fata Morgana Galerie. Berlin, Germany
July 15th-29th 

 

Kalamata Street Festival
Kalamata, Greece
July 28th-31st

 

Action Field Kodra
Thessaloniki, Greece
September

 

mtv! - media art televise. Franz Reimer presents 
Bremen, Germany
October 21st-24th

 

Now & After festival
The State Darwin Museum. Moscow, Russia
October 22nd - November 29th 

 

29. Instants Video numériques et poétiques
Marseille, France
November 10th - December 4th 

 

Espacio Enter
Tenerife Espacio de las Artes. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain 
December 12th-18th

 

Centrul Cultural German Sibiu
Romania
December 16th – 18th


2015

FEMEA: Feminism, Experimental Media & Electronic Arts

Curated by Annie Goh
Aula UdK Berlin, Germany.
February 6th 

 

Andere Räume curated by Niklas Goldbach
Freies Museum, Berlin Germany
February 13rd-15th

 

UNST Nº1 in conflict
Studio Mitte. Berlin, Germany
March 13rd-15th 

 

Your Skin Makes Me Cry Video art review 
A cooperation between Goethe Institut and Olaf Stüber
Video Art in Chicago. Goethe-Institut Chicago, USA
March 20th 

 

Your Skin Makes Me Cry Video art review 
A cooperation between Goethe Institut and Olaf Stüber
Gallery LOOP Seoul, South Korea
March 19th - April 5th

 

Visions du Réel International documentary film festival
Nyon, Switzerland
April 17th-25th 

 

BLUE + PINK >>> RETHINK!
Designtransfer. Berlin, Germany
April 23rd - May 15th 

 

Your Skin Makes Me Cry Video art review
A cooperation between Goethe Institut and Olaf Stüber
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts. Taipei, Taiwan
May 7- 15

 

Russian Contemporary Art Week
United Untitled
Panke e.V. Berlin, Germany
May 23rd-29th 

 

Your Skin Makes Me Cry 
Goethe-Institut Johannesburg

 

ArtDocFest 
Documentary Film Festival 
Moskau, Russland

 

33. Torino Film Festival
Turin, Italien

 

39. Duisburger Filmwoche
Deutschland

19. Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
East Silver Market
Jihlava, Czech Republic

 

25. Message to Man International Filmfestival
St. Petersburg, Russia

 

Visions du Réel. International Filmfestival
Nyon, Switzerland

 

LIGHT YEAR 8: New Video Art from Berlin
Curated by Leo Kuebls
Manhattan Bridge Projection
New York, USA

 

Victoria Art Center
Bucharest, Rumänien

 

Galerie januar
Verein zur Förderung junger Kunst e.V.
Bochum, Deutschland

 

UNST Nº2 / drama baby! on staging the self
Kühlhaus Berlin, Deutschland

 

Berlin Art Week
Positions Art Fair
Berlin, Deutschland

 

Time Space Sound
Video Art Channel
Germany, Norway

 

2014

European Media Art Festival 
Osnabrück, Deutschland

 

Backup Festival
Weimar, Deutschland 

 

VKunst
Frankfurt, Deutschland

 

Ausland Berlin
Deutschland

 

The Idling Gallery
Berlin, Deutschland

 

48-Stunden-Neukölln. Mein Eigen Fleisch Und Mut
Berlin, Deutschland

 

Holzmarkt25
Berlin, Deutschland

 

Klunkerkranich
Berlin, Deutschland

 

Deutscher Künstlerbund
Berlin, Deutschland


2013

Classic Clip
Kassel Germany

 

48-Stunden-Neukölln
Berlin Germany

 

International Video Art Review
Poland

 

Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art
Krakow

 

Olsztyn, Colony of Artists
Gdansk

 

Labirynt Gallery
Lublin 

 

Contemporary Museum
Wroclaw

 

Bureau for Art Exhibitions
Kielce

 

Municipal Cultural Center Sokol
KOT Film Society. Nowy Sacz

 

Museum in Koszalin
Koszalin

 

Bielska Gallery BWA
Bielsko-Biala

 

Centre For Contemporary Art
Ujazdowski Castle

 

KINO.LAB.
Warszawa

 

Arsenal Gallery
Bialystok

 

13 Muses Gallery
Szczecin

 

Municipal Gallery BWA
Bydgoszcz

 

Contemporary Art Gallery
Przemysl

 

Bureau for Art Exhibitions
Zielona Gora

 

Centre For Contemporary Art Kronika
Bytom

 

Art Centre – Sielecki Castle
Sosnowiec

 

Cultural Centre
Suwalki

 

Centre Of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu
Arsenal Gallery, Poznan

 

City Art Gallery
Czestochowa

 

Museum of Art
Lodz

 

Contemporary Art Gallery
Opole


2012

HTZ Berlin
Installation Polis Collaboration
Berlin, Deutschland

 

Limited Space Berlin Sarajevo
Galerie Designtransfer
Berlin, Deutschland

 

Film Leben Festival
Ilmenau, Deutschland

 

Patras International Festival of Film & Culture
Patras, Griechenland

 

STIFF
Rijeka, Kroatien

 

Instants Vidéo Marseille
Marseille, Frankreich

 
 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
 

 

 

2024
        Grant: Arbeitsstipendium Bildende Kunst

        Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion

2022

        Cutting Edge Talent Camp

        Project: "Twenty-Fourth"

        International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg

        19th Sofia Meetings Works in Progress

         Project: "Timekeeper"

         International Coproduction Market, Bulgaria

 

        Agora TDF24. Doc Market

        Project: "Timekeeper"

        Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

2021

        Artist in Residency

        Urbane Künste Ruhr

        1st prize for the pitch to the feature film

       "Velimir's Prophecy"

        43 Moscow International Film Festival

        Salzwedel Scholarship

        Germany

2020

         Research Stipends in Fine Art

         Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe

 

        Goldrausch

         Postgraduate professional development

         programme for female artists, Germany

 

         Residency at Künstlerhaus Lukas

          Germany

2019

          Residency at Tissardmine

          Morocco

2018

           KKWV funding

           Commission for artistic and scientific research

2017

DAAD Grant 

Kalmykia

Elsa Neumann Scholarship (NaföG)

Artistic and scientific promotion of young talents

Berlinale Talents 

Germany


2016

Goethe-Institut Residency
Rome, Italy


Research grant for UNST

Senate Department for Culture and Europe
 

Research funding
Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, Robert Bosch Stiftung.

 

2015

Arte Documentary Award

For the feature documentary ZAPLYV (Swimmers)
 

2013

International Video Art Review
Poland 


1st Prize for Wälder & Steppen (Minstrels)
Classic Clip Videofestival
Konzertverein Kassel, Germany

 

2012

1st Prize for Space Spa.
Category experimental film

FilmLebenFestival
Ilmenau, Germany 

Teaching and curated screenings

            About Film

            Seminar at the Burg Giebichenstein,

            University of Art and Deisgn Halle, Germany

            From October 2021

 

            Media Art. Dramaturgy and Editing

            Workshop at the New Media Laboratory 

            Alexandrinsky Theatre. St. Petersburg, Russia

            April 2020

Die Inszenierung des Urbanen
Video screening at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)

with Sophia Gräfe

October 2019

Videokunst. Einblicke in ein Medium
Video screening at Kunsthaus SansTitre, Potsdam

with Kathrin Becker

April 2019

Video - Art - History with Kathrin Becker
Berlin University of the Arts
October 2016 - January 2017 

Public Collection

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)

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