| Curriculum Vitae | |||||
| Vocational Formation | 2001 - 2002 |
Central Saint Martins College | London | ||
| Postgraduate One Year Course Scenography | |||||
| Course Director Pete Brooks | |||||
| Masters Degree completed September 2002 | |||||
| 1996 - 2001 | Academy of Fine Arts | Hamburg | |||
| Diploma Course Fine Art, Specialisation Scenography | |||||
| Diploma Degree 2001 ‘ With Distinction’ | |||||
| 1993 – 1995 | Kaiser-Wilhelms-University | Münster | |||
| Foundation Studies in Art History, Musicology and Romance Languages | |||||
| Projects | |||||
| September 2008 | |||||
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Instructions for a Wake
the re-enactment of a family dinner |
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Martina is collaborating with artist Mark Butcher on this project
Commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre for their Scratch Festival |
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| July 2008 | |||||
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my site I in space 3
a site-specific performance adventure |
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| Martina is collaborating with other live artists on Battersea Barge London during a three day intensive workshop process and presentation | |||||
| Boudoir Rouge - The First | |||||
| a cooking event by the artist collective with the same name | |||||
| Martina is collaborating with other artists and cooks to produce the first evening of fabulous food at Bonniongton Cafè in Vauxhall / London | |||||
| June 2008 | Plum Flower in the Snow | ||||
| a new performance by Greta Mendez | |||||
| Martina is collaborating designer for the Londonartistsprojects production at HOME in Camberwell /South London | |||||
| May 2008 | She and Her Sleepwalking | ||||
| a performance piece commissioned by Brighton Festival | |||||
| The artist duo Martina and Dianna have been invited to create a new work based on the fairy tale of The Princess on the Pea | |||||
| April 2008 | She and Her Her and There | ||||
| a new performance piece for Brighton Festival 2008 | |||||
| Based on the fairy tale The Princess on the Pea She and Her are creating a piece using strange shaped mattresses, transporting them through St Anne`s Well Gardens and piling them up in unusual ways | |||||
| weblink Brighton Festival | |||||
| April 2008 | She and Her Exchange | ||||
| a new performance piece for Greenwich Foot Tunnel | |||||
| Deriving from a mysterious encounter between two women at the low point of the tunnel the artist due She and Her are creating a visual installation in the lift cupboard spaces on either side of the River. | |||||
| weblink cupboardlove | |||||
| January - May 2008 | A Load of Rubbish | ||||
| an eco-play with songs by Sue Gordon | |||||
| Design workshop leader for the Lower School project at Alleyn's School / Dulwich | |||||
| December 2007 | Intimacy | ||||
| Across Visceral and digital Performance | |||||
| Martina has been invited to show the one to one encounter THE SEAL OF CONFESSION at the three day symposium and conference | |||||
| www.intimateperformance.org | |||||
| October / November 2007 | Ripe and Rotten | ||||
| Battersea Arts Centre YPT project | |||||
| Artist and workshop facilitator for the BAC Youth Theatre project which creates a performance installation at SHUNT Lounge London Bridge | |||||
| www.shunt.co.uk | |||||
| myspace weblink | |||||
| August and September 2007 | Fassaden | ||||
| Greizer Theaterherbst | |||||
| Workshop facilitator and designer for the six-week workshop project resulting in the opening ceremony of Greizer Theaterherbst/Greiz, Germany | |||||
| www.theaterherbst.de | |||||
| July and August 2007 | The Dong with a Luminous Nose | ||||
| London Bubble Theatre Company | |||||
| Set and Costume designer for London Bubble's Summer show directed by Karen Tomlin | |||||
| www.londonbubble.org.uk | |||||
| June 2007 | Ya'akobi and Leidental | ||||
| Oval House Theatre | |||||
| Set and Costume designer for the revival of the play with songs by Hanoch Levin, directed by Ariella Eshed of Tik-sho-ret Theatre Company | |||||
| www.ovalhouse.com | |||||
| June 2007 | Camberwell Arts Festival | ||||
| She and Her Crossing | |||||
| She and Her have been commissioned by Camberwell Arts to create a new piece of work for the Live Art Programme of the Festival. She and Her Crossing will explore the transitory spaces of traffic light circuits. Between green and red, walk and wait, travel and rest the two performers are embariking on a continuous journey from one axis to the next. | |||||
| www.camberwellarts.org.uk | |||||
| May 2007 | Farnham Maltings Festival, Farnham | ||||
| Eat what you love | |||||
| Martina has been commissioned to create a new piece of work for Rules and Regs, a practice-led development platform supporting artists to create new work in response to rules that challenge habits and stimulate creativity | |||||
| www.rulesandregs.org | |||||
| January to May 2007 | Trafalgar Square London | ||||
| EAT LONDON - a culinary community project produced by LIFT in collaboration with 14 London comunities who during a workshop proccess created a large scale edible model of London | |||||
| Martina has been one of six artist workshop facilitators on the project (SBTD) | |||||
| www.liftfest.org.uk | |||||
| January 2007 | Nottingham Trent University | ||||
| Collaborators Exhibition - UK Design for Performance 2003-2007 | |||||
| presentation of The Seal of Confession as part of the national exhibition produced by Society of British Theatre Designers (SBTD) | |||||
| November 2006 | Camden People's Theatre London | ||||
| The Seal of Confession | |||||
| a One to One performance between one member of audience and the performer in a Confessional | |||||
| as part of A Festival of contemporary Performance | |||||
| September 2006 | New End Theatre London Soho Theatre Studio London | ||||
| Ya'akobi and Leidental | |||||
| Set and Costume Designer | |||||
| directed by Ariella Eshed | |||||
| July 2006 | Tate Modern Gallery, London | ||||
| Behind the scenes of the Museum | |||||
| Participant in a one week collaborative workshop exploring public interventions in the gallery spaces | |||||
| led by the Sevensistersgroup | |||||
| June 2006 | State Theatre Munich | ||||
| Moses and Aron | |||||
| Set Design Assistant to Designer Raimund Bauer | |||||
| Director David Pountney | |||||
| April 2006 | Arcola Theatre London | ||||
| The Hypochondriac by Molière | |||||
| Set and Costume Design | |||||
| Directed by Leyla Nazli | |||||
| April 2006 | Private home, North London | ||||
| The Tasseographer | |||||
| a One to One Performance based on the Art of Tea Leaf Reading | |||||
| Devised by Martina von Holn and Caroline Steinbeis | |||||
| Performed by Imogen Smith and Hakan Silahsizoglu | |||||
| 2005 | The Old Marshall Street Baths, Soho London | ||||
| Deepend | |||||
| a site-specific Performance created and directed by Geraldine Pilgrim | |||||
| Assistant Designer on the Project | |||||
| 2005 | Site-specific Performance, North London | ||||
| The Tasseographer | |||||
| a One to One Performance based on the Art of Tea Leaf Reading | |||||
| Performed by Imogen Smith and Hakan Silahsizoglu | |||||
| Devised by Martina von Holn and Caroline Steinbeis | |||||
| 2004 | Edinburgh Fringe Festival | ||||
| Venus, Mars and Chocolate Cake | |||||
| A hilarious two women cabaret show | |||||
| Performed by Emma Finley and Airlie Scott | |||||
| Devised by Graham Hubbard | |||||
| A CabarAct Production | |||||
| 2004 | Battersea Arts Centre London | ||||
| The Play about the Baby by Edward Albee | |||||
| A Goldsmiths College Collaboration | |||||
| Directed by Ashlie Corcoran | |||||
| Opening night 11.06.2004 | |||||
| 2004 | Truman Brewery Brick Lane, London | ||||
| Carneskys Ghost Train | |||||
| A dark ride across haunted borders | |||||
| Assistant Designer to Laura Hopkins | |||||
| A Londonartistsprojects and Marisa Carnesky Company Production | |||||
| 2003 | The Actors Centre London | ||||
| Crocodile seeking Refuge | |||||
| An Ice and Fire Theatre Company Production | |||||
| Devised by Sonia Linden and Ariella Eshed | |||||
| 2003 | National Theatre London | ||||
| Linbury Biennial Prize Exhibition for Stage Design | |||||
| Design Proposal for Jeff Koons by Rainald Goetz | |||||
| 2003 | Hanbury Gallery, Truman Brewery Brick Lane, London | ||||
| 9birds&adog PROJECT_01 | |||||
| A group exhibition | |||||
| 2002 | Central Saint Martina College London | ||||
| ISITME | |||||
| Performance for two actresses and a man | |||||
| Adaptation of texts by Sarah Kane and Martin Crimp | |||||
| 2002 | ENDANZA Lugar de Creaciòn | Sevilla | |||
| The worst is Security / Lo Peor es la Seguridad | |||||
| Adaptation of texts from the Spanish Baroque | |||||
| Performance for one actress and two actors inside and outside a bar | |||||
| Installation for one sleeping bag with sound | |||||
| 2001 | Opera Amsterdam | Holland | |||
| Turandot by Giaccomo Puccini | |||||
| Design Assistant to Raimund Bauer | |||||
| Directed by Nikolaus Lehnhoff | |||||
| 2001 | Academy of Fine Arts | Hamburg | |||
| The Signalwoman | |||||
| Diploma Project Fine Art | |||||
| Performance and Installation on the grounds | |||||
| of an abandoned rail station | |||||
| 2000 | Wolfgang Borchert Theatre | Münster | |||
| When the Puppets had it their own way | |||||
| Magic Piece for Children by Rafik Schami | |||||
| Directed by Markus Dietze | |||||
| 2000 | Ausstellungsraum Taubenstrasse 13 | Hamburg | |||
| 12.000 Square Millimetres | |||||
| Site-specific Installation | |||||
| in Collaboration with Geelke Gaycken | |||||
| For the duration of the exhibition the entire gallery floor and partly walls were covered with carefully fitted fish-bone parquet and various objects made of cardboard. Visitors were allowed to enter the Gallery only with felt slippers. | |||||
| 2000 | Deutsches Schauspielhaus | Hamburg | |||
| The Guard's Box | |||||
| Installation about a mysterious scientist researching the life and death of Gustav Gründgens | |||||
| The Hymn | |||||
| Concept and Realisation of a Hymn for the 100th Anniversary of Deutsches Schauspielhaus | |||||
| Both projects for the Group Exhibition New Gazes New Spaces | |||||
| 2000 | Zeisehallen Altona | Hamburg | |||
| The Turn of the Screw | |||||
| Opera by Benjamin Britten | |||||
| Directed by Volkmar Erdmann | |||||
| 1999 | Kampnagel Factory | Hamburg | |||
| Demetrius - From Russia with Love | |||||
| Adaptation of the Demetrius Fragment by Friedrich Schiller | |||||
| Directed by Claudia Brier | |||||
| 1999 | Deutsches Schauspielhaus | Hamburg | |||
| Heat! | |||||
| BACKSTAGE Production | |||||
| Devised by Muriel Nestler/Martin Pawlowsky | |||||
| 1999 | OperaStabile / Studio Opera | Hamburg | |||
| Four Note Opera | |||||
| by Tom Johnson | |||||
| Directed by Ann-Christin Mecke | |||||
| 1998 | Thalia Theatre | Hamburg | |||
| Fat men in skirts | |||||
| by Nicky Silver | |||||
| Design Assistant to Christin Vahl | |||||
| Directed by Beate Andres | |||||
| 1997 | Institute for Theatre, Music Theatre and Film | Hamburg | |||
| Lear's Daughters | |||||
| Adaptation of King Lear by William Shakespeare | |||||
| Directed by Claudia Brier | |||||
| 1997 | Ernst-Deutsch-Theatre | Hamburg | |||
| A Streetcar named Desire | |||||
| by Tennessee Williams | |||||
| Design Assistant to Matthias Möbius | |||||
| Directed by Peter Heinrich | |||||
| 1996 | Prinzregenten Theatre | Munich | |||
| The Hour we knew nothing of each other | |||||
| by Peter Handke | |||||
| Design Assistant to Monika Schübl | |||||
| Directed by Anna Maslowski | |||||