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Imke Kreiser has been working as conceptual artist in the media of installation, printmaking, photography and artist book in Germany and Switzerland since 1999.

Entry in the Artist Database and Estate Archive of Lower Saxony

Memberships:
Federal Association of Visual Artists BBK Oldenburg
Until 2023 Federal Association of Visual Artists BBK East Frisia,
2021/2022 also board member
Collecting Society VG Bild-Kunst

2019 Advanced training Federal Academy Wolfenbüttel on the subject of book and experiment: nature in a book, Odine Lang.

2008 to 2015 Head of art school and gallery gomale.ch, Kt. Zürich and Kt. St. Gallen, Switzerland

2014 to 2015 director koinobion, social art project, Switzerland

2004 to 2006 Project developer and scientific collaborator of the Zurich Forum for the exhibition Phänomena.

Winner of the Art Concepts 2004, competition of the city of Brandenburg, joint project with Constanze Kreiser on the topic of body perception 

2002 to 2004 cultural manager at NÀWÁO Produktion, Zurich, association for international cultural exchange projects and consultancy 

2004 Collaboration on the exhibition Autre Monde, Contemporary Photography from Africa at the Kornhausforum, Bern 

2002 Collaboration on the exhibition TRANS-FORMA at the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva 

2002 Production management of the theater tour KING BAABU in South Africa and Lesotho, directed by Wole Soyinka 

2002 PHD in Aesthetics after studies in English/ Romance Studies/ History of Art

c o l l a b o r a t i o n s / e x p o s i t i o n s 

n a t i o n a l 

2025 Participation groupshow In the shade of trees. Jewish cemeteries in East Frisia. Leer 24.04. – 23.05.2025, Emden 07.09. – 28.09. 2025

2024/25 Juried nationwide exhibitions «ZEITGLEICH ZEITZEICHEN – experimental artprints, Portfolio Lower Saxony, Federal Association of Visual Artists, Germany

2024 Participation Ego ipse, a groupshow juried and curated by Dr. Dieter Rammlmair, Produzentengalerie 4h-art, Hannover

2024 Participation in the international groupshow EVERYONE BUT CASPAR! Kunsthalle Niendorf, organised and curated by Gesa Lange and Peter Nikolaus Heikenwälder, Hamburg

2024 Juried and curated Double-Exhibition Paper. Language. Form. Irmtraut Fliege / Imke Kreiser at the BBK Oldenburg Gallery

2022 Participation in the annual exhibition of the BBK Ostfriesland entitled Illusion, Galerie Ulbargen

2022 Participation in the exhibition and exchange project NORTH OVERSEE,                             Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, idea and coordination: artist and Curator Maik Schierloh, Berlin

2021 Participation in the group exhibition on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the federal association of visual artists bbk Eastern Frisia titled Turning Point?, Gallery of  Raiffeisen-Volksbank, Remels

 

i n t e r n a t i o n a l 

2024 Collaboration in the inclusive and participatory project A Letter from a Friend, idea and coordination: Bacio Collective Bern, international group-show 9.11. to 6.12.24, Bern, Switzerland

2020 Participation in the art project La Palabra Del Agua, a collective digital artist book, Programa internacional ARTE/AGUA/SOCIEDAD, idea and coordination: Mariana Felcman, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2020 Participation in the exhibition and exchange project Swarm Intelligence, idea and coordination Carsten Borck, Berlin, exhibition at Centro d’Arte e Cultura Torchio e Pennello, Albenga, Italy (postponed)

2019/2021 Participation in the project Postales desde el Limbo, Centro de Solidaridad de Zaragoza, Spain

p u b l i c a t i o n s 

 

  • Digital archive at kuniweb. Access upon request. 

  • Kreiser, Constanze, Kreiser, Imke: TOTEISSEE: Ein bibliophiles Künstlerbuch mit Original-Graphiken in Kleinstauflage, 
2013  

  • Kreiser, Imke: Laokoon im 21. Jahrhundert oder die Neurobiologie der Ästhetik. Bochumer Universitätsverlag, 2002, Kommunikationsforschung aktuell, Band 7, ISBN: 3-934453-85-6

  • Kreiser, Imke: Das Gedicht 2002, (Beitrag in Anthologie mit Vorwort von Hilde Domin) Hockenheim: Czernik-Verlag, 2002, ISBN: 3-934960-14-6

  • Kreiser, Imke: Die Lüge als anthropologisches Prinzip und ihre Korrelate in W. H. Audens The Age of Anxiety. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 1999, ISBN: 3-932602-43-9

  • Kreiser, Imke: Mutabor: Transsexuelle Ästhetik in Federico García Lorcas Poeta en Nueva York. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 1999 ISBN: 3-932602-58-7

     

b i b l i o g r a p h y

Walter Baumfalk: Bildende Kunst in Ostfriesland im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Encyclopedia of Artists, 3rd ed., OLVV, Aurich Germany, 2025, ISBN 978-3-940601-78-0, S. 288 ff.

Im Schatten der Bäume. Jewish cemeteries in East Frisia. Exhibition catalogue, edition lichtblick. Oldenburg Germany, 2025, ISBN 978-3-9826382-2-5, p. 14 f.

Revue Poésies Plastiques, article by Fréderic Chauvreau, editor, 15th edition , 2024, ISSN 2727-9855 , p. 34. 

Kunst. Wort.: Discovering the world through the graphic works of Imke Kreiser, article by Alessandro Chiodo, editor, 2nd edition, 2024, ISBN 979-8-3388416-1-7, p. 78 

BBK Ostfriesland (ed.), 75 Jahre BBK Ost-Friesland 1946-2021, 2021, ISBN 978-3-9818227-4-8, p. 74 

ICH LIEBE KUNST, artblog, Interview, 2020