[email protected] +4915141259888 www.eldagsen.com CURRICULUM VITAE 8.5.1970 born in Pirmasens / Germany EDUCATION 2013 Roger Ballen Masterclass Photofestival Belfast / UK 1992 - 98 Visual Art (Prof. Vladimir Spacek & Prof. Klaus Vogelgesang) Akademie für Bildende Künste Mainz Philosophy Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz / Germany 1995 Conceptual Art and Intermediate Studies (Prof. Miloš Šejn & Prof. Milan Knížák ) Academy of Fine Arts Prague / Czech Republic 1994 Visual Art (Prof. Laxma Goud) Sarojini Naidu School of Performing Arts, Fine Arts & Communication Hyderabad / India 1991 - 92 Media & Drama, Philosophy and German Studies Albertus-Magnus-Universität Cologne / Germany GUEST PROFESSORSHIPS, WORKSHOPS & LECTURING 2015 „Hijacking Lluernia“ (workshop) Escola d'Art i Superior de Disseny, Olot / Spain “Hijacking Reality” (workshop) “Light of the Night” (workshop) PhotoWerkBerlin, Berlin / Germany “EyeEm Masterclass” (lecture) EyeEm, Berlin / Germany 2014 “Hijacking Reality” (workshop) PhotoWerkBerlin, Berlin / Germany 1 “No-Budget Staged Photography” (workshop) Sommerakademie Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main / Germany 2013 “Creativity in Branding” (lecture) Bauhaus Universität, Weimar / Germany “How to disappear completely” (lecture) Deutsche Fotografische Akademie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Germany 2012 - “Creativity in Branding” (seminar, all years) ongoing Hochschule Furtwangen, Fakultät Digitale Medien / Germany 2010 “How to disappear completely” (lecture) Deutsche Fotografische Akademie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Germany “An Accelerated Course in Reality” (seminar 2nd year) “Lose Yourself” (lectures 3rd - 4th year) Photography Studies College Melbourne / Australia “Lose Yourself” (lecture) “Directing Models and Amateurs” (workshop 2nd year) School of Art, RMIT University Melbourne / Australia “Style Sucks” (lecture) Sommerakademie Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main / Germany Universität Paderborn / Germany 2009 “No-Budget Staged Photography” (workshop 2nd year) Faculty of Art, Monash University Melbourne / Australia Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne / Australia Sommerakademie Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main / Germany Westlicht – Schauplatz für Fotografie, Wien / Austria F/Stop – Internationales Fotografie-Festival, Leipzig / Germany 2008 Guest Professorship “Art Photography” (3rd & 4th year) Guest Professorship “Photomedia” & “Contemporary Theory and Culture“ (4th year) Photography Studies College Melbourne / Australia 2007 “No One Here Gets Out Alive?” (seminar 2styear) “The Artist in the World” (tutorials 1st year) The Centre for Ideas / Victorian College of the Arts and Music, Melbourne / Australia “Poetics Of The Body” (seminar 1st- 2nd year) University of Melbourne / Australia “No-Budget Staged Photography” (workshop – all years) Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne / Australia New Media Scotland, Edinburgh / UK 2005 - 06 ”Simulation” (seminar 2styear) “The Happiness Show - a self-experimental journey ” (seminar 2styear) “The Artist in the World” (tutorials 1st year) The Centre for Ideas / Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne / Australia 2004 - 05 “Evil is Evil - An Interactive Multimedia Cyber Classroom” (seminar 2styear) “Innovation & Inspiration” (professional development for teachers) “Good & Evil as presented by Media, Arts & Philosophy” (seminar 2styear) The Centre for Ideas / Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne / Australia Guest Professorship Photography (1st – 4th year) “Inszenierte Kunst“ (Staged and Conceptual Art) (tutorials 1styear) Akademie für Bildende Künste Mainz / Germany 2 (SELECTED) SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 “The POEMS”, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin / Germany Galerie Petit Espace, Paris / France 2014 “The POEMS”, The WYE, Berlin / Germany Galerie Voies Off, Arles / France 2009 “The Promise”, Centre for Contemporary Photography Melbourne / Australia “Great Fun Or Your Money Back”, Städtische Museen Pirmasens / Germany 2008 “SPAM the musical”, Edinburgh Art Festival & New Media Scotland, Edinburgh / UK “Secret”, Gallery Herrmann & Wagner, Berlin / Germany “Monitoring“, Kunstverein Kassel / Fridericianum, Kassel / Germany (B+N) “Fusion 5 Festival”, 3.14 Hotel, Cannes / France (B+N) 2007 “No Cure”, Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney / Australia “I took a deep breath”, Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts / Australia (B+N) 2006 “If you leave me can I come too”,Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney / Australia (B+N) 2005 “Go For Gold“, Margaret Lawrence Galleries at the VCA, Melbourne / Australia (SELECTED) GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 “Singapore International Photography Festival”, Singapore / Singapore “SUPERHIGH Yourself”, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn / Germany “Projektion – Fotografische Behauptungen“, Kunsthalle Darmstadt / Germany “I am drunk and you are insane, who is going to lead us home?“, Fenster61, Berlin / Germany “Video Art Festival Miden“, TWIXTlab, Athens / Greece “TIME is Love 9“, Plateau Gallery, Berlin / Germany “Other Identity”, Loggia della Mercanzia, Genoa / Italy 2015 “KIK 7: Time Lies”, Kino International, Berlin / Germany “Sacro E Profano”, Photolux Biennale, Lucca / Italy “Testosterone”, Warsaw Photo Days, Warsaw / Poland “Language of Memory”, PhotoVisa, Krasnodar / Russia “Turn Around Blind Eyes”, Berghain, Berlin / Germany “Simultan Festival”, Timisoara / Romania “Festival International de Fotografia”,Belo Horizonte / Brasil “Just Another Photo Festival”, New Dehli / India “Night of Emerge”, Organ Vida, Zagreb / Croatia “Slideluck Roma II”, Arena Chiostro Di San Pietro In Vincoli, Rome / Italy “Photosemana 2015”, Thousandfold, Manila / Philippines “PULSE”, Noorderlicht Festival, Groningen / Netherlands “In Ambience”, Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, Dhaka / Bangladesh “Slideluck Hamburg”, Phototriennale Hamburg, Containercity, Hamburg / Germany “Fotonai”, State Small Theater, Vilnius / Lithuania “Blink, Wink, Close Your Eyes”, Arles / France “Portrait of the World”, Barbado Gallery, Lisbon / Portugal “Conversation Room”, Zebrastraat, Gent / Belgium “Festfoto“, Porto Algre, Brasil “Bruissements“, Galerie Voies Off, Arles / France “The Jury’s Projection“, Les Boutographies, Montpellier / France “Evidence”; Format International Photography Festival, Derby / UK 2014 “CROSSWORDS 2″, LAGE EGAL & Galerie Jordan/Seydoux, Berlin / Germany (B+N) “Galerie Voies Off”, Slick Art Fair, Paris / France “Collection Voies Off”, Galerie Binôme, Paris / France “Hope & Faith”, Encontros da Imagem, Braga / Portugal 3 “STILL/DYNAMIC: A SCORE IN THREE MOVEMENTS“, NONBerlin, Berlin / Germany “TJockTV”, Femtech, Uppsala / Sweden “4 Solo Shows”, The WYE PLATFORM Gallery @ Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin / Germany “It needs some silence to make sound”, ArtWall, Athens / Greece “Typologien” Galerie Pavlova, Berlin / Germany “SCHAU”, Dortmunder U, Dortmund / Germany “VKunst,” Galerien Fahrgasse, Frankfurt / Germany “O’Nacht“, Festival OBLICK, Offenburg / Germany “Captured Nature”, Fellini Gallery, Berlin / Germany “Photoszene Edition“, The QVEST, Cologne / Germany “Young Art Night“, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven / Netherlands “KIK ONE“, Kino International, Berlin / Germany 2013 “Best of Voies Off”, Parobrod, Belgrade / Serbia “SUPERHIGH Weltpremiere & Release Party”, Platoon Kunsthalle, Berlin / Germany “Naoussa International Film Festival”, Naoussa / Greece “Wunderland Festival”, Babylon, Berlin / Germany “Kunst braucht Fläche”, public space, Berlin / Germany “Festival Miden”, Kalamata / Greece “Prix Voies Off”, Voies Off, Arles / France “The Night”, Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne / Germany “Fünf Jahre photo Edition”, Photo Edition berlin, Berlin / Germany "Kolga Award", Kolga Tbilisi Photo, Tbilisi / Georgia "Konzert: Sandra Hüller & Tom Schneider" (VJ-ing), Münchner Kammerspiele, München / Germany “Strange Representations”, Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa / Canada “(No) Public Space”, Frappant Galerie, Hamburg / Germany “Loopingstar Videoartfestival“, various venues, Saarbrücken / Germany + Sarregumines / France 2012 “p.s.”, Joao Cocteau, Berlin / Germany “Espacio Enter Canarias”, Tenerife Espacio De Las Artes, Tenerife / Spain “The Memory Palace”, WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg / Canada “Storytellers”, Progretto Superfluo, Padua / Italy (B+N) “Faraway, So Close!”, Fichte-Bunker, Berlin/Germany “V-Kunst Frankfurt”, Galerien Fahrgasse, Frankfurt / Germany “Whatever happened to God?” Halle 14, Leipzig / Germany 2011 “Material Conversion”, Grimmuseum Berlin / Germany (B+N) “3rd MADATAC Mostra”, Matador & Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid / Spain “MAK Oracle Nite”, Museum für angewandte und Gegenwartskunst, Wien / Austria (B+N) “Video Row”, Torrance Art Museum, California / USA “What Happened to God?" ACC , Weimar / Germany “Expanded Cinema”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow / Russia “2nd Internet Pavilion for the Venice Biennale”, Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Venice / Italy “Fantômes et Cauchemars / Nightmares and Ghosts”, City Art Gallery, Beauvais / France (B+N) “FestArte Video Art Festival”, Teatro delle Muse di Ancona / Italy “Enigmatic - Videoart from Germany”, City Art Gallery, Kharkiv / Ukraine + Goethe Institut, Kiev / Ukraine “Shadows of the Bright”, Berlin Art Projects, Berlin / Germany “6th Carnival of e-Creativity”, Sattal Estate, Bhimal / India “7th International Director's Lounge”, Meinblau, Berlin / Germany “Andachtsraum für Kunstverrückte”, Galerie Jarmuschek & Partner, Berlin / Germany “See You on the Flip Side”, AC Institute, New York / USA “The Art of Love”, 27th International