Tanita Olbrich Tanita Olbrich (*1991) is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. Her video installations and films deal with processes of truth production and surveillance technologies. In her work, she analyzes images of surveillance systems and landscape representations, treating them simultaneously as producers and as expressions of territorial and power structures. Using poetry, text or humor she criticizes these structures and conjures new perspectives on ways of perceiving them.
Group exhibitions/
Screenings
2024
Feelers, Sensors, Kunsthalle Osnabrück
Stipendiatenausstellung, Sammlung Falckenberg, HH
Lange Nacht der Museen, Kunstverein Hamburg
Seating Arrangement, UA26, Wien
2023
NOMINEES, Kunsthaus Hamburg
Monitoring, Kasseler Kunstverein
Labor, Papiripar Festival, Hamburg
Mind in the Cave, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn
39. International Short Film Festival Hamburg
40. Kasseler Dokfest
2022
THIS IS SHORT Festival Favorites
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Channel
Graduate Show, ICAT Hamburg
Was kann Film?, Makroskop Kunsthaus, Mülheim
2021
68. International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Online)
37. International Short Film Festival Hamburg
Lichtspiele Kalk, Köln
Roter Salon, Volksbühne Berlin
Trauma Team, Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg
Sunsets, Radialsystem, Berlin
2020
Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof
Münchener Kammerspiele
28. Blicke Filmfestival, Bochum
Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen
2019
Concentrate, Fort Mason, San Francisco
36. Kasseler Dokfest
Hiscox Art Prize Exhibition, Hamburg
Golden Pudel Club, Trauma Team, Hamburg
Graduate Show, HFBK Hamburg
Vita
2019 – 2022
MFA HFBK Hamburg
Prof. Angela Schanelec
Prof. Dr. Hanne Loreck
2014 – 2019
BFA HFBK Hamburg
Prof. Angela Schanelec
Prof. Jeanne Faust
2019 – 2020
San Francisco Art Institute
2012 – 2014
Philosophy
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Awards/
Scholarships
2023
Golden Cube for best Media Art Installation, Monitoring Kassel
Arbeitsstipendium for Fine Art, Hamburg
Projektförderung, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung
2018 – 2022
Scholarship
German Academic Scholarship Foundation
(Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
2021
1st Prize of German Online Competition, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen