Education:
Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, MFA (Timm Rautert), University + Academy of Fine Arts Berlin (Free Class) + (Karin Sander), Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg (Diet Sayler), Georg-Simon-Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, (Economics)
Grants:
2010 – Nomination for a Scholarship to Moscow through the Senate Berlin
2010 – Nomination for a Scholarship at Parsons School of Design NY through the Photography Department
2007 – International Curatorial & Studio Program New York, Ministry of Culture Saxony
2005 – Project-related Scholarship, Käthe Dorsch Stiftung Berlin
2004 – Scholarship for Postgraduates, Ministry of Culture Saxony
2003 – Scholarship, European Social Fund
2001 – Graduate Prize of Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg
1996 – Award of Danner-Stiftung, Munich
Solo Exhibitions (Selection):
2010 – To Think the Outside, Scotty Enterprises, Berlin
2007–2009 – dialogue, relentless structure, Business (after London + New York), Scotty Enterprises, Berlin
2006 – off text, Academy of Visual Arts (MFA), Leipzig
2006 – Vor aller Augen (In Front of Everybody; Film - Still), Goethe Institute, Paris (Cat.)
2003 – Print/Video, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig (Cat.)
Group Exhibitions (Selection):
2011 – Landscape 2D, Zentrifuge, Nuremberg
2010 – The Art of Speculation, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, curated by Justin Hoffmann
2010 – Art Date # 2 (Spatial Relations), Centrum Berlin, Berlin curated by Waffelfisch
2010 – Operation Video Tag, 2010 Independents Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool curated by Deena DeNaro
2010 – COMVIDEO, Apexart, New York
2010 – stadt land film (filmprogram), Kino Arsenal Berlin organized by Madeleine Bernstorff in connection with University of Arts Berlin
2010 – Swimming Backwards (filmprogram), Bauhaus University Weimar organized by Constanze Fritzsch and Nadin Reschke in collaboration with Bétonsalon Paris
2010 – 10 Years Kunstverein Glückstadt, Kunstverein „Palais für aktuelle Kunst“, Glückstadt (Cat.)
2010 – VisualcontainerTV, Mailand curated by Oliver Möst
2010 – Jenga, forgotten bar project, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin curated by Viktoria Volozhynska, us and ourselves
2010 – Remix 7, forgotten bar project, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin
2010 – Preview (The Emerging Art Fair), Berlin (Cat.)
2010 – Kiezbiennale 2010, Berlin-Lichtenberg curated by Anke Fischer & Waltraud Maria Weiland
2010 – Ana Doma II, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig (Cat.)
2010 – .mov, (filmprogram), studio plusnull, Tapetenwerk Leipzig
2009 – It’s All Yours Now, Sculpture Center, New York, curated by Sarina Basta
2009 – Sorgenfrei von Anfang an (Without Care from the Beginning), dieschönestadt (thebeautifulcity), Halle
2008–2009 – Sudden White (after London), Royal Academy of Arts, London,curated by Mark Beasley (Creative Time NY) (Cat.)
2008 – Scrawl, Apexart, New York, curated by Mark Elijah Rosenberg
2008 –The (Self) Promotion Show, Apexart, New York
2008 – Open Studios (Poll of Push and Pull), International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, curated by Esther Lu, Rakett and Kristine Siegel
2007 – The Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe, Apexart, New York
2007 – Open Studios, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York
2007 – Business and Pleasure, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York
2007 – Woman at the Crossroad of Ideologies, Salon Galic, Split (Cat.)
2006 – Merry Go Round, Projectspace Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, curated by Claudia Kugler
2004 – Just Good News for People Who Love Bad News, Galerie Eigen + Art, Leipzig
2001 – Show, (Berlin-People with David Lamelas) University of Arts, Berlin (Fanzine)
Collections:
Museum Bildende Künste Leipzig, Museum Folkwang Essen, Arario Gallery Seoul, Stiftung Sachsen LB Leipzig, Different Private Collections, The Poll of Push and Pull Archive NY, Videoarchive Deutscher Künstlerbund Berlin, Brooklyn Art Library New York
Bibliography (Selection):
2008 – Mark Beasley, Sudden White (after London), Dexter Sinister, New York (Cat.)
2008 – Roberta Smith, Srawl, The New York Times, New York
2008 – Carlo McCormick, Ad-Vice, apexart, New York
2007 – Ana Peraica, Woman at the Crossroad of Ideologies, Split (Cat.)
2006 – Hans-Jürgen Hafner, Merry Go Round, “Kunst, Kino, Karussell” (“Art, Cinema, Merry-Go-Round”), Kunstforum, Bd. 180
2006 – Thomas W. Kuhn, „Satelliten mit eigener Schwerkraft“ („Satellites with Autonomous Gravity“), Kunstforum, Bd. 183
2003 – Linda Weiss (Thesis) Le Mépris - FEMMEIMAGE - About the Image of Women in the Film “Le Mépris” by Jean-Luc Godard in Relation to the Film “Riddles of the Sphinx” by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
2001 – KünstlerInnengespräche + “Freie Klasse e.v.“ + Interflugs, BERLIN/PEOPLE David Lamelas, University of Arts, Berlin (Fanzine)
Linda Weiss lives and works in Leipzig and Berlin, Germany.
