Ari Merten CV, Email
Ari Merten (*1987, GDR) is an intermedia artist based in Berlin. Their practice revolves around music, exploring personal history, identity, and collective experience.


Selected Work:


Scenic Concert Love Songs For a New Future 2021
Video
Sketches For a New Love Song 2021

EP/ Music Video
Cake/ Bel Air 2020

Hybrid Performance
Peeling Fruit in Front of Strangers  
2020

Dance PerformanceNudes 
2019

Audio Installation
Clitorian Reading Room2019

Live Visuals
Bodies of Discourse2017

Desktop Performance
What’s Good?2017

Meisterschüler Project
The Secret Life of Arabia (Rework)2015

Diploma Exhibition
Poptraumatic2012

CV

Photo by Eden Jetschmann



Education

Master’s Program in Art Education
Universität der Künste Berlin
2023 — Present

Postgraduate Master Class (Meisterschüler)
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
2012 – 2015

Studies in Conceptual Art (Erasmus Programm)
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
2011

Studies in Media Arts (Diploma)
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
2006 – 2012




Work Experience

Freelance Intermedia Artist
Specializing in interdisciplinary projects
2018 — Present

Resident DJ
Cry Baby, Institut für Zukunft (IfZ), Leipzig
Genre-Bending Electronic Music Event Series
2016 — 2019

Staff Member
Video Department,  Schauspiel Leipzig
Technical and artistic support for large stage productions
2015 — 2018



Teaching Experience

Guest Lecturer
Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle
2023 – 2024

Tutor for the UNESCO project Querklang+
2023 – 2024

Lecturer at Abendakademie
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
2013 – 2015




Scholarships & Residencies

BV POP
Scholarship
2022

Planeta Manas
Residency
Lisbon, Portugal
2021

soft power
Residency
Berlin, Germany
2021

Musikfonds
Scholarship
2021 & 2022

Fonds Darstellende Künste
Scholarship
2021

Musicboard
Residency
Marseille, France
2021

Skulptur Projekte
Residency
Münster, Germany
2017

Schleswig-Holsteinisches Künstlerhaus
Residency
Eckernförde, Germany
2013




Workshops & Artist Talks

This House Is Not A Home
Workshop
Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich
2020

Kur und Kür
Artist Talk
Skulptur Projekte Münster
2017

Babelsprech
Artist Talk
Literarische Gesellschaft Thüringen, Weimar
2015

Artist Talk
Halle 14, Leipzig
2013              





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