About The Artist

Sebastian Neubauer works as an artist in the fields Video/Film and Performances and lives as a writer, independent filmmaker, audio/video producer and teacher in Hannover, Germany. !!!! Collective powers with romantics and humour bestowed !!!!! ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Poem and Collage start, jump in, quote, copy, collage, recontextualize, repoetify, repositionize, stick, glue, reassemble, cut, recycle, amplify, sample, lobbywork, analyse, reanalyse, categorize, have discourse, collect, hoard, worship, copy (sic!), sum up and throw away ________________________________________________________________________________________________ The artistic practice of Sebastian Neubauer is not limited to Film/Video and performances. But certainly it is the core or root of the body of work. Adjacent fields are experimental writings, conceptualistic sculptures, musical events, staged photography or philosophical analysis. Those get connected and mixed together to a multi layered chaos. The détournements are often full of references to pop music and pop culture. Sebastian Neubauer produces new collages, that creates links of associations in the eyes of the beholder. Although it is often deconstructed right away. In centre of his production there is this intertwining of texts and images, that seems to be a constant testing of pop cultural references and analytical critique. There is this lustfull and humourous affirmation and appropriation of existing things and cultures that brings up the question of identity itself. Neubauer enjoys to get in touch with the randomness and with chance. To be no lonesome wolf. If chance or randomness isn‘t available he will cooperate with other artists and non-artists to form temporary collectives. Right now Neubauer produces interactive installations and kinetic sculptures that are exhibited in shows for people to activate in a poetic sense. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Education 2002 Study of Visual Arts, Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Braunschweig with Birgit Hein, Josephine Pryde und Shimabuku 2007 Diploma passed with distinction (Filmclass) 2009 Meisterschüler (Filmclass) Prizes/Grants 2016 Working Stipend Stiftung Kunstfonds 2014-15 Artist in Residence Stuhr/Heiligenrode (Sculpture) 2012 Work Stipend Fine Arts, Lower Saxony 2008-10 Prize of Kunstverein Hannover, Villa Minimo Stipend 2010 Nomination Editing Award (Filmplus 2010) 2011 Special Mention for „Gabi or Two Colours Yellow“ Shortfilm Festival Hamburg Projects 2017 Founder and Curator of @&, Hannover ( website: http://www.10000000100110.net/ ) 2008-10 Co-Founder and Co-Curator of Villa Vaudeville, Hannover (with Dennis Bettels, Samuel Henne, Per Olaf Schmidt and Tom Schön) 2008 Co-Founder and Co-Curator of „broken english and the missing piece“ Filmfestival Göteborg (with Attila Urban and Joszef Amado) 2007 Co-Editor and writer of the magacine „When I was 23 I decided to dedicate my life to art“