Portrait, Dominik Geis

Portrait, Dominik Geis | Photo: Ivo Farber

CV

*1985 in Würzburg, lives and works in Düsseldorf.

2018: Graduation at the Academy of Fine Arts Dusseldorf (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf), master student of Prof. Marcel Odenbach.
2010 - 2018: Fine Art the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Prof. Marcel Odenbach.
2011: Graduation at the fadbk Essen, master student of Prof. Stephan P. Schneider and Michael Seeling
2007 - 2011: Painting and sculpture at the fadbk Essen

Teaching:

2023-2025: Teaching assignment at the Düsseldorf Art Academy
2023: Lectureship at the University of Paderborn

awards + scholarships:

2022: Recognition prizes Diocesan Museum Rottenburg
2019: NRW.Bank Art Award
2019: LKART Fellowship of the Julia Stoschek Collection
2018: Baker Tilly Artist Fellowship

Solo exhibitions (selection):

2023:

  • STEREOTYPES, with Nara Bak, AURA Kunstraum, Düsseldorf
  • isn't it erotic, Neuland_Prjektraum, Bochum
  • EMBODIMENTS, with Caroline Singeisen, Grand Palais, Bern

2020:

  • STUDIO 54: works by Dominik Geis / Screening, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf

2019:

  • PULSE, david behning galerie, Dusseldorf
  • figure 0100110, Düsseldorf Photo Weekend, Engelage & Lieder Gallery, Dusseldorf

2015:

  • The 'me' in motion, Junges Museum Bottrop, Bottrop

Group exhibitions (selection):

2023:

  • NAK Benefiz Auktion 2023, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
  • The queer family room, Elsa Kunstraum, Bielefeld
  • Arcus Art Pride, Clifford Chance, Dusseldorf
  • Hochkantfilmfest, Bremen
  • Temps d`Images, Tanzhaus NRW, Dusseldorf

2022:

  • ins nirgendwie, die digitale, Weltkunstzimmer, Dusseldorf
  • Ansbach Contemporary, 4th biennale for Contemporary Art, Ansbach
  • after crossing the river, Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe, Ettlingen
  • Untergrund: inside – mental health, Screening, Situation Kunst (for Max Imdahl), Bochum
  • Vulnerable – Verletzlich, Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg, Rottenburg

2021:

  • VIDEODOX - 4th Video Art Biennale, Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich
  • Journey Through a Body / NEON GREY, performance, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf
  • Schaufenster-Ausstellung, NRW.BANK, Dusseldorf, Münster

2020:

  • Date me Digital - Story, Q18 Quartier am Hafen, Cologne
  • Untitled Reality, david behning galerie, Dusseldorf
  • CONVERSATION / Screening by Wilko Austermann, ART BALI, Badung, Bali, Indonesia

2019:

  • Psifiakos - Digital Destruction / Screening, Daily Lazy Projects, Athens
  • NRW.BANK.Art Award NRW.Bank, Düsseldorf
  • Planet 58, K21, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf
  • Ho̱chmut // Temps d ́Images, Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf

2018:

  • digital gods, the digital, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
  • WATCH OUT! imai Foundation and KIT show young media art, KIT - Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf.
  • Ho̱ ch-mut & Something // Temps d ́Images, Tanzhaus NRW, Dusseldorf.

2017:

  • Ornament and Obsession, Building Bridges Art Exchange, Los Angeles.
    (in cooperation with KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION, Düsseldorf)
  • Hochmut, Filmwerkstatt, Düsseldorf

2016:

  • Rundblick Reloaded, Kirschenpflücker e.V., Cologne
  • splinter & amalgam, the digital, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
  • Ornament and Obsession, Goethe Institute, Paris
    (in cooperation with KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION, Düsseldorf)

2015:

  • scarce but possible, Gallery AM MEER W57, Düsseldorf

2014:

  • Schichtwechsel, Wuppertal

2013:

  • Probability of rain, Philara Collection, Düsseldorf
  • Congratulations, Graben2, Stuttgart
  • BODY LIGHT, Venus & Apoll, Düsseldorf

2012:

  • 13 out of 317, Krefelder Kunstverein, Krefeld

2011:

  • Enter the Threshold, Galerienhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart
  • le grand malaise, group "without space", FKT, Bochum

2010:

  • "raum eins", group "ohne raum", gallery KU28, Essen