Bio – Erika Hock
1981 born in Dschangi – Dscher, Kyrgyzstan
2001 – 2003 Studies of History at the Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster and
Visual Arts at the Kunstakademie Münster
2004 Internship at acp – Australian Center for Photography, Sydney
Guest Student at the National Art School, Sydney
2004 – 2009 Visual Arts at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2006 Internship at Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm
2008 Meisterschülerin (honorary titel)
2009 Akademiebrief (diploma)
AWARDS/ SCHOLARSHIPS
2012 North Rhine – Westphalia Award for Visual Arts
2012 Shortlisted for Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpreis
2012 TRANSFER – Korea/NRW, Seoul
2012 – 2013 HISK – Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium
2011 Project Scholarship Kunststiftung NRW
2010 Nam June Paik Young Talents Award
2010 Working Grant Kunststiftung NRW
2009 – 2011 Wilhelm- Lehmbruck Scholarship
2009 Audi Art Award
2009 Award for Visual Art of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selection)
2013 NRW Förderpreisträger, Kornelimünster, Aachen/ Germany (mit Jan Paul Evers)
Architecture, Anyone? Het Paviljoen, Ghent/ Belgium (in collaboration with Clare Noonan)
New Positions, Art Cologne with COSAR HMT, Cologne/ Germany
2012 Rehearsal, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf/ Germany
CINEORAMA – Pavilion of Moving Images, a project at the Jacobigarten, Düsseldorf/ Germany (in cooperation with Philipp Fürnkäs)
2011 Hosted by/ Dissolved Territories, MAP – Markus Ambach Projekte, Düsseldorf/ Germany (with Kasper Akhoj)
Erika Hock: Shifters, Wilhelm Lehmbruck – Museum, Duisburg/ Germany (C)
2010 Substitute & Replacement, Kuttner Siebert Gallery, Berlin/ Germany
clear of clouds, Bell Street Project Space, Vienna/ Austria (with Frauke Dannert)
2009 Playstation, Fons Welters Gallery, Amsterdam/ Netherlands (with Sarah-Jane Hoffmann)
002 – FAK, Förderverein für aktuelle Kunst e. V., Münster/ Germany (with Andreas Kurz)
2008 CoolTools, Baustelle Schaustelle, Raum für Junge Kunst, Essen/ Germany
würdest du bitte, Garage/ DinA4 Projekte, Munich/ Germany (with Sebastian Wickeroth)
2007 Okzident grotesk, reinram e. V., Düsseldorf/ Germany (with Klara Adam)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selection)
2013 Diplomats and Martyrs, German Embassy, London, UK (upcoming)
blowing the whistle, Philara – Collection of Contemporary Art, Düsseldorf
Defining Space, Die Bastei, Cologne/ Germany
Geometrie Variable, Les Crayeres, Reims/ France
2012 Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpreis 2012, Kunstmuseum Bonn/ Germany (C)
Nam June Paik Award 2012/ Förderpreis 2010, Kunstmuseum Bochum/ Germany (C)
The Reality of the Unbuilt, Haus für Musiker/Raketenstation, Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Neuss/ Germany
he/she/it/did/said/would, Tenderpixel Gallery, London/ UK (curated by JL Murtaugh)
Orchesterwechsel, Sammlung Rheingold at Schloss Dyck, Germany (C)
2011 Sammlung im Prozess: Neupräsentation und Leihgaben, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl/ Germany
the shape of forms to come, Kuttner Siebert Gallery, Berlin/ Germany
sunbeam in the glasshouse, a project at the former US Consulate General, Düsseldorf/ Germany (curated by Julia Ritterskamp for 701. e.V.) (C)
Sample, Galeriehaus in der Lindemannstraße, 2 OG, Berlin/ Germany (curated by J. Wielgus and J. Wiedenhoeft)
2010 5 X 3, Kunstraum, Düsseldorf/ Germany (curated by Gunnar Friel)
Unser System, Kuttner Siebert Gallery, Berlin/ Germany
2009 along the rhine, KIT – Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf/ Germany
19. Bundeswettbewerb: KunststudenInnen stellen aus,
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der BRD, Bonn/ Germany (C)
2008 kleinere Arbeiten, raum500, Munich/ Germany
unsculptured, Galeria Atelier35, Bukarest/ Romania
High Beam, A Temporary Project at the Immermannstraße, Düsseldorf/ Germany
Highlights of German Academies, atelierberlin, Dina4 Projekte, Berlin/ Germany
62. Bergische Kunstausstellung, Museum Baden, Solingen and
Städtische Galerie Remscheid/ Germany (C)
2007 KlasseKamp, Seewerk, Moers/ Germany (C)
Thick cut, KIK Projektraum Düsseldorf, Germany
as Gesetz der guten Gestalt, KunstKlubBerlin, Berlin, Germany