Maria Korporal

Born in 1962

Paesi Bassi

https://www.mariakorporal.com/

date of inserition in W.A.D. 12/2022

Biography

I was born 1962 in Sliedrecht, the Netherlands. I studied graphics, painting photography and film at the St. Joost Academy of Fine Arts in Breda, graduating with (among other things) a video installation. After my studies, in 1986, I moved to Italy. In 1989 I founded with Gerrit Van Oord the Italian publishing house Apeiron Editori, directing the production and book design. In this environment I became involved with the use of computers, and I began applying digital techniques also in my art work. Since 1998 I have dedicated myself to using mainly the new media arts for my expression.

Until 2013 I lived in Italy in Sant’Oreste (RM). Since 2014 I have lived and worked as a freelance artist and web designer in Berlin.

My artistic production includes video art, interactive projects, installations. My multimedia work has been designed using a wide variety of techniques. The narrative aspect, both personal and social, plays a major role in my work and, together with the directness of the images and the sounds, leads to a great participation of the viewer. My interactive installations in particular invite the viewer to participate. In my work I play with virtuality and reality, with undergone and artificially generated experiences. Most of my projects deal with social and environmental issues.

I experienced the world as very turbulent in the last years 2020-2022, and this had a direct impact on my work as an artist. After many years of focusing almost exclusively on digital forms of expression, I started working with analogue charcoal drawings again during the lockdown, in the form of animation sequences. Thus, in the intimate atmosphere of my studio, many charcoal and pastel animations were created. Spontaneous ideas and associations that have been processed in my most recent video works, such as “Pervitin Power” (2021) and “Wandel” (2022), in combination with film footage and digital media on specific themes.

The threat of climate change has been on my mind for some time, but the war in Ukraine and the resulting crisis in the Western world, have changed my thinking more radically in relation to digital development and our dependence on technology. The core question of my multidisciplinary project “Qorporal Qodes” (2022) is: how would we interpret digital signs if we were locked in a bunker without electricity and internet? In this work, I try to find solutions to this problem in an interplay of analogue and digital – from flipbooks to virtual reality video.

Curriculum

Maria Korporal is an active member of the Verein Berliner Künstler (Association of Berlin Artists) and of the artists’ group Group Global 3000 – Art and other sustainabilities in Berlin. Her videos are distributed in Italy by VisualContainer, Milan.

Since 1990 her works have been shown and awarded in various exhibitions and festivals all over the world.

Among the numerous international festivals where her videos were presented: FIVAC (Cuba), Fest Miden (Greece), Madatac (Spain), Now & After (Russia), Unabhängisches Medienfestival Tübingen (Germany), WRO Media Art Biennale (Poland), InVideo (Italy), Bolzano Short Film Festival (Italy), Les Instants Vidéo (France), Proyector (Spain), Magmart (Italy), MashRome FilmFest (Italy), Mediawave Festival (Hungary), Strangloscope (Brasil), Cyberfest (Russia/USA), ReggioFilmFestival (Italy), Over the Real (Italy), Ibrida (Italy), Vierte Welle Festival (Germany), The Quarantine Festival (Bulgaria), the W:OW Project (global), FONLAD (Portugal), Fest Anča (Slovakia)

Other exhibitions and presentations (selection of the last years)

2022 – «Digital Media Fest», Casa del Cinema, Rome

2022 – «außer ich – inner ich / part 2», INSELGALERIE, Berlin

2022 – «FUENF VOR 12», Galerie mp43, Berlin

2022 – «Under the Subway Video Art Night», St. Nicholas Park, New York City, USA

2022 – «The Short Nights of Berlin», Kino Central, Berlin

2022 – «First Book Night», BBK Kunstforum Düsseldorf, Germany

2022 – «Lines Fiction», Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
2022 – «Klimakipppunkte», Galerie VBK, Berlin

2022 – «Transformation», GG3 / Group Global 3000, Berlin

2022 – «Ghê Gaia Terra», Museo delle Mura, Rome

2022 – «SCHÖN», Projektraum Galerie M, Berlin

2021 – «Nature and Culture – Poetry Film Festival», The Poetic Phonoteque, Kulturhuset Islands Brygge, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2021 – «Videograma, Festival Internacional de Videoarte», Bogotà, Colombia

2021 – «Transborda III, Q-TV», curated by Alberto Guerreiro in the Festival Books & Movies, Alcobaça, Portugal

2021 – «Rome Art Week incontra Miami New Media Festival», Rome/Miami

2021 – «5° Festival Ecrã», Rio de Janeiro

2020 – «Green iDeal», Biennale della Tecnologia, Politecnico, Turin.

2020 – «contemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.), INNOVATIVE ART FAIR», Essen, Germany

2020 – «Wild & Connected Plus», BBK-Kunstforum Düsseldorf + Galerie VBK Berlin

2020 – «Im bewegten Labyrinth. Videokunst und andere Aktionen von Maria Korporal», LortzingART, Hannover, Germany

2020 – «Maria Korporal Monography. Selected works 2008-2020», VisualcontainerTV

2019 – «La Videoperformance Internazionale 2019», Museum Macro, Rome

2019 – «100% Female», Stichting White Cube, Grand Church of Alkmaar, the Netherlands

2019 – «CONNECT 2019», International Video Arts Festival, University of Tampa, USA

2019 – «Empört Euch!», Interdisziplinäres Kunstprojekt von 68elf im Bunker K101, Cologne, Germany

2019 – «36. Neuenburger Kunstwoche», Neuenburg – Zetel, Germany

2019 – «Zeitverschiebung», Galerie VBK, Berlin

2019 – «Maria Korporal: Lines in Between the Maze», Directors Lounge Screening, Z-Bar, Berlin

2018 – «Under Another Roof», IA&A at Hillyer, Washington DC, USA

2018 – «Kunst im Dialog», curated by Stichting White Cube, Landshut, Germany

2018 – «Il mio corpo poetico, il mio corpo politico», curated by Francesca Lolli, Pacta, Milan.

2018 – «Under the Same Roof», gallery Sala 1, Rome.

2018 – «Posun v čase / Zeitverschiebung», galleries NSPU + ABF, Prag.

2018 – «Maria Korporal: 6x5video», gallery Studio TiEpolo38, Rome.

2017 – «Video Vortex XI», Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India.

2017 – «Breathe water in… breathe water out…», curated by Miden Festival, Open Air Water-Power Museum, Dimitsana, Greece.

2017 – «B.A. Film Festival 2017», Milan.

2016 – «AVI Festival 2016» Jerusalem, Israel.

2016 – «XX Rassegna Massenzio Arte», Istituto Superiore Antincendi, Rome.

2016 – «HearteartH Berlin Milan 2016», Group Global 3000 and Medienwerkstatt Bethanien in Berlin, [.BOX] Videoart Project space in Milan.

2016 – «Oltre i libri – l’arte del presente incontra i libri del passato», Biblioteca Angelica, Rome.