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Capitana F is a visual artist.
Born Karin Felbermayr in 1976 in Munich, Germany. Early artwork published as Karin Felbermayr.
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria since 2020.
Previously from 2006 to 2019 based in Berlin.
Since 2019 Membership in the IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna.
Since 2010 Membership in the bbk berlin.

Education
2003 – 2005 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, diploma supervised by Heimo Zobernig
2002 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Intermedia Department, János Sugár
1998 – 2003 Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Olaf Metzel

Selected solo exhibitions/ solo projects/ two-person exhibition
2024 … ongoing since 2021
Bounty CMYK neon, Mobile Art in Public Space, Click & Become Art Collector
2015
AXOPn, Kunstverein Bellevue-Saal, Wiesbaden, DE (Two-person show with Levent Kunt)
2011
MASK, Kunstraum Bernsteiner, Vienna, AT
2010
Same Same But Different, Raum 58, Munich, DE
2009
Multiple Masks, Weltraum, Munich, DE
2007
Performative Elements, Art Award of Tisa von der Schulenburg-Stiftung, Ausstellungsetage im Woolworth-Haus, Dorsten, DE
2006
Gender Gamble, Lothringer 13, Städtische Kunsthalle München, Munich, DE
2005
oberflächenaktive elemente, Raum 58, Munich, DE
2004
Wartende, Scope – art in public space, curator: Spunk Seipel, Berlin, DE (performance)
Köder_ _ _ _ , Ex-flat, Vienna, AT
2003
Damenwahl, Schikaneder-Fenster, Vienna, AT (performance)
2002
Damenwahl, KIRAKAT, Budapest, HU (performance)
2000
Welde Kunstpreis 2000, Kunstverein Schwetzingen, DE

Selected group exhibitions/ projects
2023
Color Theory, Juried by Kaegan Sparks, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, New York City, US
2022
International Moving Film Festival, Arvand Free Zone, Iran
My mama told me I’m experimental, Satellite Program accompanying the Saigon Experimental IV, Location: 76 Ngọc Lâm, Long Biên District, Hanoi, Vietnam
SOMETHING AND POST-SOMETHING, presented by BINNAR, Galeria Casa-Museu Soledade Malvar, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal
BLICK FANG , Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, DE
A A TO T V (CLADINORO) GIORGIO SADOTTI, being part of Giorgio Sadotti’s A A TO T V (CLADINORO) Collection, No Show Space, London, UK (catalogue: KK1)
2021
InkMasters Print Exhibition 2021, Tanks Arts Centre Tank 4, Cairns, Australia
30th Anniversary #100 tea towel, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK
2020
The Fourth International PrintMaking Biennial, Cacak, Serbia
2019
Mykonos Biennale Apathia, Mykonos, GR
2018
Projected.Capital, Roehrs & Boetsch, Zurich, Switzerland
2017
20th Japan Media Arts Festival, NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo, JP
3 DARTBOARD (CONSTELLATION) GIORGIO SADOTTI, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, UK
Werte_Gemeinschaft, Galerie Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin, DE
2016
Visions in the Nunnery, presented by Dryden Goodwin 5-20 October, Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
Inkmasters 2016 Print Exhibition, Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns, AU
Space/Time Berlin, curated by Steffi Kowalski & Matt Wilson, TATWERK | Performative Forschung, Berlin, DE
Keine Zeit, concept and organization: Cornelius Grau, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, DE
2015
DIE LICHTENBERG NORM A4 Quer, Zwitschermaschine, Berlin, DE
Sphinx 2015 | The hidden Thebes festival, Thiva, GR
Graphics Interchange Format: 25 Years of Focal Point Gallery, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK
Medienfestival plattform:[no budget]#12, Leibnizhaus, Tübingen, DE
2014
Digital Marrakech Festival Edition 4, organized by ARAB MEDIA LAB, Galerie Rê, Marrakech, MA, catalogue p. 42
20 Jahre WeldeKunstpreis. Eine Retrospektive, Stadtgalerie Mannheim, Mannheim, DE
5th Cairo Video Festival – Re-screening, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo, EG, catalogue p.210-211
The One Minute Film Festival: 2003 – 2012, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, US
2013
Physical digital graffiti, Visualcontainer@VideoBabel, Cuzco, PE
5th Cairo Video Festival, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo, EG, catalogue p.210-211
Espace [im] Média: Optische – Berlin Video Art, Sporobole centre en art actuel, Sherbrooke, CA
Space-Time: Convention T, THIS THIS MONSTER THIS THINGS, included by Giorgio Sadotti, Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, UK
SUSPENSION ​SCENERIES, special selection by Visualcontainer; Video Art Festival Miden, Kalamata, GR
LIQUID IMAGE, Visualcontainer Selection curated by Gabriela Diana Gavrilas, Tarii Crisurilor Museum, Oradea, RO
THIS THIS MONSTER THIS THINGS, included by Giorgio Sadotti, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
One Minute Film Festival 2003 – 2012, MASS MoCA, North Adams, US
2012
FlashForward 5, [.BOX] Videoart project space, Milan, IT
THIS THIS MONSTER THIS THINGS, Shelly Manor, Bournemouth, UK
RAPID PULSE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL, curated by Steven L. Bridges, Julie Laffin, Joseph Ravens & Giana Gambino, DEFIBRILLATOR performance art gallery, Chicago, US
Elita Festival, Action Frame, Video Screening, curated by Philip Tonda Heide, Teatro Franco Parenti, Milan, IT
THIS THIS MONSTER THIS THINGS, included by Giorgio Sadotti, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK
2011
LETS GET READY… , 12th edition of Pixxelpoint 2011, curated by Gülsen Bal and BridA / Jurij Pavlica, Sendi Mango, Tom Kerševan, City Gallery Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica / Gorizia, SI, catalogue p.36
Fazebuk Network, Invalidenfriedhof Berlin, Berlin, DE
Pixelpops!, curated by Philip Tonda Heide, Nouvel Organon, Paris, FR
OK. Video FLESH, 5th Jakarta International Video Festival 2011, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, ID
2010
Zum ersten Mal, Art-Report Projects in der K4 Galerie, Munich, DE
loop pool looping, Raum für Projektion @ the knot, Flugfeld Tempelhof, Berlin, DE
/+\=X,  serialworks studio, curated by Christian Nerf and Spunk Seipel, Cape Town, ZA
2009
1. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Biennale, initiated by Spunk Seipel and Edmund Piper, Klein-Zetelvitz, DE
One Minute Film & Video, organised by Jason Simon and Moyra Davey, Narrowsburg, NY, US
Szpilman Award Show #4: Schöfferhof, Atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt on the Main, DE
Weltraum – Jahresüberblick, Lothringer 13, Städtische Kunsthalle München, Munich, DE
2008
Knorke Gören, Kwadrat, Berlin, DE
2007
Loop pool, Video-Forum Treffpunkt NBK, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, DE
Loop pool, Raum für Projektion in the lounge of 53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, DE
viewing club, Hats/Plus, organised by Philippa Horan, London, UK
2006
viewing club 09: Küss die Hand – After Waldheim, Secession Wichtelgasse, Vienna, AT
viewing club 07, Lovelite, Berlin, DE
Manpower, Bétonsalon, Paris, FR
2005
Part Three, ‘Last Minute’, Orchard, New York City, US
The Brazilian Expedition of Thomas Ender – Reconsidered, project with Mark Dion, Exhibition spaces of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, AT
2004
Raumpool showroom, Frankensteiner Hof, Frankfurt on the Main, DE
One Minute Film & Video, organised by Jason Simon and Moyra Davey, Narrowsburg, NY, US
The Brazilian Expedition of Thomas Ender – Reconsidered, project with Mark Dion, Bienal de São Paulo, BR
2001
Boppstrasse 13b, Boppstrasse 13b, Mainz, DE

Lectures/ Talks
2010
Artist talk with Heinz Schütz, Raum 58, Munich, DE
2004
Frischfleisch und der Goldene Schnitt, institute for sociology, LMU Munich, DE
18:27, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT
2003
Konkurrenz belebt das Geschäft, Burg Giebichenstein, Halle/ Saale, DE
2002
forum Der schöne Körper, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, DE

Awards and scholarships
2019
Shortlist, 2019 China Guanlan International Print Biennial
2017
Jury Selection, Art Division, 20th Japan Media Arts Festival
2013
CCA Andratx – Artist in Residence scholarship, Andratx, Mallorca, ES
2007
Art award of Tisa von der Schulenburg-Stiftung
2003/ 2004
Hölderlin – scholarship for the academic year in Austria
2002
Deutscher Studienpreis, Bodycheck, Körber Stiftung
Auslandsstipendium der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes for Budapest

ERASMUS/ SOKRATES for Budapest
2001-2005
scholarship of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2000
Welde art award, Schwetzingen
1999
New York – travel scholarship, Marschalk-von-Ostheim’sche Stiftung

Selected bibliography
Individual exhibition catalogues
2007
Karin Felbermayr, Performative Elements, Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin, with contributions by Sabeth Buchmann and F.E. Rakuschan, ISBN 978-3-935843-98-0.
2006
Karin Felbermayr, Stereotype as a Masquerade, Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin, with contributions by Michael Meuser and Yanping Wu, ISBN 978-3-935843-78-2.

Group exhibition catalogues / contributions in publications
2022
GIORGIO SADOTTI A A TO T V (CLADINORO), London, 2022.
PDF
2021
5th Biennial Inkmasters Print Exhibition 2021, Ink Masters Cairns, Cairns, Australia
2020
The Fourth International PrintMaking Biennial 2020, Cacak, Serbia, ISBN 978-86-900635-2-9.
2017
20th Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo 2017.
WERTE_GEMEINSCHAFT, Galerie Schwartzsche Villa, Bezirksamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf von Berlin, Berlin.
2016
Bellevue-Saal 2014-2015, Ulrich Meyer-Husmann, Kunstverein Bellevue-Saal, Wiesbaden, ISBN 978-3-939236-24-5.
3rd Biennial Inkmasters Print Exhibition 2016, Ink Masters Cairns, Cairns, Australia, ISBN 978-0-646-95854-5.
2014
Digital Marrakech Festival Edition 4, p. 42.
5th Cairo Video Festival, p. 210-211.
2013
The One Minute Film Festival 2003-2012, Published on , MASS MoCA.
2011
Pixxelpoint 2011 – 12th International New Media Art Festival, Kulturni dom Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, SI, ISBN 978-961-6783-09-5, p. 36-37.
OK. Video FLESH, 5th Jakarta International Video Festival 2011, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, ID, PDF p.21.
2007
Karin Felbermayr: embaixadora-ambassadress-botschafterin. In: Thomas Ender, Abre Alas, Österreichisches Kulturforum Berlin, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-9502417-4-7.
2004
26ª Bienal de São Paulo, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
2002
Karin Felbermayr: OP. In: Vorstand der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Zwischen Kassandra und Prometheus, Gegenworte N° 10, Berlin.
2000
Weldekunstpreis 2000, Kunstverein Schwetzingen, Schwetzingen.

Selected articles/ press
2016
Tilman Abegg, Der Mund von Heidi Klum, Ruhr Nachrichten, 19 February 2016
2015
Christine Dressler, Anfängliches, Variables und Unendliches, Wiesbadener Kurier, 14. Oktober 2015
Christine Dressler, AXOPn von Karin Felbermayr und Levent Kunt im Bellevuesaal, online issue of Wiesbadener Kurier, 14 October 2015
2010
Slash Plus BackSlash Equals X, LAS magazine, 22 March 2010
2009
Christoph Schütte, Eier für den Kunstbetrieb, FAZ, 09 July 2009
Johannes Löhr, Zu Gast in Münchner Wohnzimmern, Münchner Merkur, 30 April/ 1 May 2009
2008
Katrin Pinetzki, Schwarze Masken, heiße Posen, Ruhr Nachrichten, 12/13 February 2008
Nadine Albach, Rosa Häschen trifft auf Bohrmaschine, Westfälische Rundschau, 13 February 2008
2007
Spannungsreiche Trennung, Dorstener Zeitung, 10 December 2007
Die Hefe im Teig, Dorstener Zeitung, 10 December 2007
Ich sehe in ihr eine Tisa, WAZ, 10 December 2007
Spiel mit Masken und Geschlechterrollen, Dorstener Zeitung, 08 December 2007
Ralph Wilms, Das Poltern zwischen zwei Posen, WAZ, 07 December 2007
Ralph Wilms, Die Posen der Mode-Models, WAZ, 10 December 2007
Mario Alexander Weber, Click-Clack, Literaturkritik.de, No. 6, June 2007
Georg Kasch, Spiderwoman lädt zum Spiel, Abendzeitung, 04 January 2007
Cornelia Gockel, Im Grenzgebiet, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 02 January 2007
2006
Dörthe Bäumer, Starke Frauen, In München, 21 December 2006
Freia Oliv, Kneifen zwecklos, Münchner Merkur, 13 December 2006
2002
Maike Schiller, Wer schön sein will, muss diskutieren, Hamburger Abendblatt, 25 May 2002

TV/ Radio
2020
OTVORENO 4. MEĐUNARODNO BIJENALE GRAFIKE, Televizija Telemark, 5 September 2020
TV Informator – BIJENALE GRAFIKE, 4. September 2020
Kulturni dnevnik, TV RTS, 3. September 2020
2016
Keine Zeit – Videokunst-Ausstellung in Dortmund, WDR 5 Scala – aktuelle Kultur, 19 February 2016
Peter Backof, Austellung “Keine Zeit”: Kein Video länger als drei Minuten, Deutschlandfunk, 19 February 2016
2003
TV report on Damenwahl/Ladies’ Choice by Arwid Holtenau, Vienna, ZIB 3, ORF 2, 27 February 2003
2002
12-minute TV-interview by Anna Heesch, Nachgefragt, Hamburg 1, 23 May 2002


Public collections
CCA Andratx, Andratx, ES
Iziko South African National Gallery of Cape Town, ZA
Collection of the International PrintMaking Biennial Cacak, Serbia