born 1964 in Aachen, lives and works in Cologne

Achim Mohné's interdisciplinary, media-artistic research into the extension of photography and its paradigmatic change through digitality is constantly evolving with new media and their apparatuses. In multimedia installations, sculptures, performances, sound and video works, interactive 3D visualizations with augmented reality or in VR game engines, as well as sculptural translations between digital and real space, works in public space and publications, he calls for a critical distance to the authenticity of the post-photographic image. His complex interventions address media-immanent issues of surveillance, manipulability, artificial intelligence, and virtuality, and examine our interaction with the world in terms of pressing social, technological, geopolitical, ecological, or cultural issues, with a particular focus on nature and environmentalism.

Post-photographic research he also pursues in development and teaching, since 2017 as head of the 3D Research Department at ETH Zurich, since 2021 as interim professor of photography in the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, where he was appointed as Professor for documentary photography & transmedia publishing in 2023. His artistic work is marked by numerous international awards and grants, research stays, lectures, teaching assignments and collaborations in interdisciplinary collectives. He has exhibited worldwide in institutions such as ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, HEK Basel, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Eesti Kunstimuuseum Tallinn, Arts on Main Johannesburg, Ghetto Biennale Haiti, Center for Land Use Interpretation Los Angeles, and the University of São Paolo.

He studied at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne with Jürgen Klauke and VALIE EXPORT.

Vita

 

2023 Professor for Documentary Photography & Transmedia Publishing at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund
2021 Professorship for Photography (interim) at  für Fotografie (i. V.) at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund
  Teaching assignment at HSLU, Luzern (SS)
  Teaching assignment at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund (SS)
2019-2020 Head of 3D modeling / 3D printing research at the Chair of Art and Architecture at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
2013-2018 Lecturer in Photography & New Media at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
2013 Teaching assignment at Münster Art Academy
2011 Teaching assignment at Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen
2007
Guest Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington
2006
Teaching assignment at Münster Art Academy
Leading a USA excursion with the "Film Class" of the Münster Art Academy
2004 Appointed member of the "German Photographic Academy"
2003 Teaching assignment at Münster Art Academy
1998
Diploma (postgraduate) at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne
1995-1997
Postgraduate studies with Jürgen Klauke and Valie Export, Academy of Media Arts Cologne
1994 Diploma in Communication Design Folkwang University of the Arts
1990-1994 Photo essays / commissioned work for Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin, among others
1989-1992 New York stay
1986-1988 Communication Design studies, University of Essen

 

Collectives

Collectives

2018 Founding member of darktaxa-projects
2007 Founding of REMOTEWORDS with Uta Kopp
1998
Founding of artist group Autopsi

 

 

Scholarships and Awards

2021 Environmental Art Award, Kummer - Vanotti - Stiftung
2020 Monograph "DI_GI_TA_LIS" awarded with the German Photo Book Prize Gold 20|21 in the category "conceptual-artistic photo book"
2009 Artist in residence at jozi art:lab, Johannesburg
2005 Artist in residence at Center For Land Use Interpretation, L.A.
2004
Artist in residence at Galerie Futura Prag / Goethe Institut, Prag
2002 Working Stipend by the Kunststiftung NRW
2001 Nomination for the ZKM Media Art Prize
2000 Villa Aurora Stipend
1999 Chargesheimer Stipend
1997

Hermann Claasen Award

 

Collections (selection)

Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Collection Städtische Galerie im Leeren Beutel Regensburg
Collection Geste Paris
Collection Andreae
Collection Fuhrwerkswaage Kunstraum Cologne
Collection Kummer-Vanotti-Foundation
private Collections

 

Solo Projects (selection)

2023

Low_Poly_Tree
Umwelt-Skulpturenpark
Bad-Honnef

The_World_seen_through_the
_algorithmic_Eyes_of Google_Earth
Galerie Judith Andreae, Bonn

2020

REMOTEWORDS#38
Hsinchu City Zoo, Taiwan

3D-Google-Earth-Model #7
a collaboration with Peter Weibel

DI_GI_TA_LIS
Galerie Judith Andreae, Bonn

REMOTEWORDS#37
galerie januar, Bochum

2019

darktaxa project
curated by F. Kuhlmann and M. Reisch
The Wrong Biennale
NRW Forum, Düsseldorf

REMOTEWORDS#36
Shenzhen Pingshan Sculpture Exhibition

2018

THE_PLANT_SCANS
Galerie Judith Andreae, Bonn

2017

REMOTEWORDS#35
Institute of Fine Arts, Tétouan

0,0064 Megapixel – Planet Earth Is Blue And There’s Nothing I Can’t Do
Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn

REMOTEWORDS#34
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

2016

REMOTEWORD#33
Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich

REMOTEWORDS#32
235 MEDIA, Cologne

Zone, with Naoko Tanaka
Echigo-Tsumari Satomaya Museum
of Contemporary Art, Kinare

2015

REMOTEWORDS#31
Ghetto Biennale, Port-au-Prince

REMOTEWORDS#26-30
ZKM, Karlsruhe

Laser_Graphs
Galerie Judith Andreae, Bonn

REMOTEWORDS#25
Academy for Media Art Cologne

2014

REMOTEWORDS#24
Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel

Musik in den Häusern der Stadt, with Ayumi Paul, Cologne

REMOTEWORDS#23
Wewerka Pavillon, Münster

Fuhrwerkswaage Köln
Westwandprojekte, Cologne

Fringe, Orangerie Köln
LiveSet with Yoshie Shibahara, Cologne

2013

Visual Sounds/On
Neue Musik, Cologne

Museum Ostwall
Dortmunder U, Dortmund

REMOTEWORDS#22
GEKUK, Essen

Noises Festival
LiveSet, Montabaur

TimeSlices
LiveSet, Fabrica Europa Firenze

Just Push Play
LiveSet Karel Ball Brussels

Nema Tog Podruma
LiveSet, Antwerp

2012

Nocturne
LiveSet with Bruce Gilbert,
Academy for Media Art Cologne

TimeSlices
The Japan Foundation, Cologne

SoundArt. Klang als Medium der Kunst. LiveSet with Philip Jeck
IMA/ZKM, Karlsruhe

Denovali Swingfest
LiveSet with Philip Jeck, Essen

REMOTEWORDS#21
LX Factory, Lissabon

REMOTEWORDS#20
Max Ernst Schule, Cologne

REMOTEWORDS#19
Bar Estrella, Stresa Lago Maggiore

Music for dust and tuntable
LiveSet, Kunsthaus Dresden

Vinyl+Studio 67
LiveSet with BJ Nilsen, Cologne

2011

REMOTEWORDS
Kunst:Raum, Sylt

REMOTEWORDS#18
Whitecube, Munich

REMOTEWORDS#17
GrenzKunstRouten, Aachen

REMOTEWORDS#16
KUMU Art Museum Tallin

REMOTEWORDS
Fuhrwerkswaage Kunstraum Cologne

2010

Elektroakustischer Salon LiveSet with Fennesz, H. Gudnadottir, Sohrab,
BerlinBerghain Berlin 2010

Redifining an urban landscape
jozi art:lab, Johannesburg

REMOTEWORS#15
Unperfekthaus, Essen

REMOTEWORDS#14
with Arne Rautenberg
Stadtgalerie Kiel

Fische, Krebse, Schalentiere und Erzeugnisse daraus
Neues Kunstforum, Cologne

REMOTEWORDS#13
Lagerhalle Aachen

2009

REMOTEWORDS#12
with Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zielinski
Universität der Künste Berlin

REMOTEWORDS#11
with Prof. Dr. Mario Ramiro
Universidade De Sao Paulo

REMOTEWORDS#10
with Tanja Dückers
Zeche Lohberg Dinslaken

REMOTEWORDS#9
Mauermann Exhibition Space, Essen

REMOTEWORDS#8
with Niq Mhlongo
Arts on Main, Johannesburg

REMOTEWORDS#7
with Niq Mhlongo
jozi art:lab, Johannesburg

REMOTEWORDS#6
with Niq Mhlongo, Soweto

2008

REMOTEWORDS#5
with Klaus Staeck
Akademie der Künste Berlin

REMOTEWORDS#4
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein

REMOTEWORDS#3
Edith Russ Haus für Medienkunst,
Oldenburg

REMOTEWORDS#2
Kunstraum Syltquelle, Sylt

REMOTEWORDS#1
with Joachim Heufelder
Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne

2007

Goesmin
Gallery On, Seoul

House Dust Analysis
Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl

2006

Laserzeichnung#2
Galerie Kai Brückner, Düsseldorf

The Lemay Island Remote Location Project
The Center For Land Use Interpretation,
Los Angeles

Fireflies, with Denzel + Huhn
Galerie Schmidt- Maczollek, Cologne

2004

Böhmische Dörfer
the Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA and Goethe Institute, Prague

2003

Beobachtung von Helix Pomatia
Mehrwert E.V., Aachen

Fireflies with Denzel + Huhn
Off Broadway Cinema, Cologne and B-Film Festival, Berlin

Wer das liest, ist doof!
Jette Rudolf Galerie, Berlin

2002

Goesmin
Galerie Kai Brückner, Düsseldorf

2001

Zu Ihrer Eigenen Sicherheit sind diese Räume videoüberwacht
Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen

 

Group Projects (selection)

2024

Reality Check, Kunstmuseum Ahlen

darktaxa-project: phtoograify, Düsseldorf photo+ Biennale for Visual and Sonic Media, Düsseldorf

darktaxa-project: Welt anschauen - Positionen der aktuellen Postfotografie und digitalen Bildkultur, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz

2023

darktaxa-project: the Regensburg-constellation, Internationales Festival Fotografischer Bilder, Städtische Galerie im Leeren Beutel Regensburg

Kunsträume der Michael Horbach Stiftung, Köln, Photography in Progress: Fragile Infrastrukturen

Kunstforum TU Darmstadt, 12. Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie: TILT/SHIFT – Experiment als Normalzustand

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Expect the Unexpected - Aktuelle Konzepte für Fotografie

2022

düsseldorf photo+, Biennale for Visual and Sonic Media, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, The Düsseldorf Constellation, darktaxa-project

Forum für Fotografie Köln, ALLEEN, BLUMEN, FRAUEN UND SCHNEE, kuratiert von Dr. Norbert Moss

2021

Art Cologne, Köln, Moff, 10 years–10 artists

Biennale de l’Ìmage Tangible, Atelier Basfroid, Paris

Future conditional, Geste, Paris
2020

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, SUBJECT and OBJECT. PHOTO RHINE RUHR

darktaxa-project: the Berlin-constellation, Schierke Seinecke Galerie, Frankfurt and DAM Galerie, Berlin

2019

20 Jahre Villa Aurora Stipendium des Kunstsalons, Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne

Galerie Falko Alexander, Cologne, Photo | Icon

Galerie Judith Andreae, Bonn, Stadtlandschaften/Landschaften

2018 Neuer Norden Zürich, Zurich
2017

Luther and the Avangarde, Historic Prison in Lutherstadt, Wittenberg

Galerie Judith Andreae Bonn, The planet is blue

Globale / Infosphere
Centro Multimedia National de las Artes, Mexiko City

Touch Quadrophonic
Palm Springs, California

Medienfassade PSD Bank Münster

Taipei Art Taiwan, Positions

Desert X Palm Spring Touch-Quadrophonic

2016

Cabaret Voltaire Zürich, KREV.25

Orangerie Köln, Terahertz

2015

Ghetto Biennale Port-au-Prince, Haiti

ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe Infosphere / Globale

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Bodenlos - Flusser and the Arts / Globale

AdK | Akademie der Künste Berlin Bodenlos - Flusser and the Arts / Globale

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe Tag der offenen Tür

2014

Haus für elektronische Künste Basel HeK Opening Exhibition

Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen Die Welt von oben

2012

ZKM/IMA, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe - SoundArt. Klang als Medium der Kunst

HeK | Haus für elektronische Kunst Basel Gateways

Kunsthaus Dresden How to make it

2011

4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

KUMU Art Museum Tallinn Estonia, Gateways

Noordkaap Whitebox Munich - Adios Hollanda

GrenzKunstRouten Aachen

2010

Museum Folkwang Essen Hacking the City

Berghain Berlin Elektroakustischer Salon

Dortmunder U E.Culture Fair / ISEA

 

2009

Shedhalle Zürich Lands End

Sofa Gallery Bloomington, Indiana

Spirito Del Lago Isola Bella Italien

2007

Glow Forum For Arts And Architecture, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Projektions-Bienale Bad Rothenfelde

Fuller Project Room Indiana University

Le Spirito Del Lago Isola Bella Italia

2006

NGBK Berlin Rauschen,
Le Spirito Del Lago Isola Bella Italia

2005

Gropius Bau Berlin Transatlantische Beziehungen

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe Light Art from artificial light

2004

Lichtrouten Lüdenscheid

Superwerft Mannheim

2003

Galerie Lichtblick Köln, Images against war

Kunstverein Januar Bochum

2002
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe Iconoclash
2001
NAK | Neuer Aachener Kunstverein Superstrings

GAK | Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen 10 Jahre Videokunst Förderpreis

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe Controlled Space

Galerie Susanne Vielmetter,
Los Angeles

2000
Museum Folkwang zu Gast in einer ehemaligen Metzgerei, Essen - Hoch lebe…

Museum Ludwig, Köln, Wie man sieht …

Galerie Fiebach und Minninger, Köln - Your chat may be monitored to ensure customers quality

Kunstraum Innsbruck,

The invisible Touch

1999
Arlington Art Center, Washington

BBK Stapelhaus, Köln

1998

Kölner Stadtmuseum Museum der Wünsche - 40 Jahre Kunst aus Köln

Videonale 8, Bonn

Künstlerhaus Dortmund Veräumlichung – Verzeitlichung

1997

La Chaufferie, Straßbourg - Aus Köln

55 X 22 X 87, Artomaten: Lehmbruck Museum, Kunstverein Essen, Glaskasten Marl, Kunstverein Düsseldorf

7 Todsünden, Kunstverein Germersheim

Art Cologne KHM | Kunsthochschule für Medien

1996-

1992

Stadtmuseum Münster, 199

Photoszene Köln, 1995/1994

Videofestival Köln Wer nicht kommt, ist selber Schuld, 1995

Stadtmuseum Köln Stadtstreichereien, 1992

 

live performances / sound (selection)

2021 Reihe M, Alte Feuerwache, Köln, LiveSet
2017 Iklectic Art Lab, London - Tapeworm 100, LiveSet
2016

Echigo Tsumari Satoyama Museum, Tokamachi, Japan - Zone, LiveSet

Periskop, Orangerie Theater Köln - TeraHertz, LiveSet

Cabaret, Voltaire Zürich - Krev.25, LiveSet

2015

HeimArt Festival Izumo, Japan, LiveSet

Projektraum Schilling Köln, LiveSet

2014

Musik in den Häusern der Stadt, Köln - LiveSet with Ayumi Paul

Kölner Musiknacht, Köln, LiveSet

Museum Ostwall, Dortmund - Favouriten with Yoshie Shibahara

Kunstwerk Deutz, Köln - Raummusik, LiveSet

Orangerie im Volksgarten - Fringe, LiveSet with Yoshie Shibahara

2013

On _ Neue Musik Köln - Visuals Sound / Live Set Lutherkirche Köln

Ausland Berlin - Touch presents… , LiveSet

Café Oto London - Touch presents… , LiveSet

Noises Festival Montabaur - LiveSet with Mike Harding

Fabrica, Europa Firenze - TimeSlices, LiveSet with Egbert Mittelstaedt and Yoshi Shibahara

Karel Bal, Brussels - Just Push Play, LiveSet with Dale Cornish and Philip Marshall

Nema Tog Podruma, Antwerp - Just Push Play, LiveSet with Dale Cornish and Philip Marshall

Japan Foundation Cologne - TimeSlices, LiveSet with Egbert Mittelstaedt and Yoshi Shibahara

 

 

2012

IMA / ZKM 2012 - SoundArt. Klang als Medium der Kunst with Philip Jeck and Mike Harding

KHM / Academy for Media Arts Cologne - Nocturne with Bruce Gilbert and Mike Harding

Denovali Swingfest Essen - with Philip Jeck and Mike Harding

Kunsthaus Dresden - Music for Dust and Turntables, LiveSet

Studio 672, Cologne - Touch, LiveSet with BJ Nilsen, Mike Harding, Ash International

Berghain Berlin - Touch, (LiveSet with Fennesz, Hildur Gudnadottir, Kai Aune, Sohrab

2007-

1997

Indiana University - Time Lapse, LiveSet, 2007

NGBK Berlin - Rauschen, LiveSet, 2006
LichtRouten, Lüdenscheid – LiveSet, 2004

Museum Ludwig Cologne - Wie man sieht, LiveSet, 2000

Trinitatiskirche Cologne - Herman Claasen Award, LiveSet, 1998

KHM / Academy for Media Arts Cologne - Sozialisationsmuik, LiveSet, 1997

 

 

Lectures (selection)

2022

Bauhaus Universität Weimar (Algorithmen als Mittel der Kunst)
FH Dortmund Ringvorlesung (Digitale Détournements)

2021

HSLU, CH, in collaboration with Swiss Universities (Parasitäre Strategien)

2020

KHM Köln (3D-Modelling / 3D-Printing)

2019

FH-Dortmund (Postfotografische Methoden)
DFA, Deichtorhallen Hamburg (Darktaxa)

2018 Photobastei Zürich (Fotografie im digitalen Zeitalter)
2016

Burg Giebichenstein, Universität für Kunst und Design (REMOTEWORDS)
TBA / Kunsthalle Düsseldorf mit Marc Glöde (Kunst / Politik / öffentlicher Raum)

2015

BuchLabor / FH Dortmund (Die Zukunft des Lesens)

2014

Tag der offenen Tür / ZKM / Karlsruhe (REMOTEWORDS)
TED Conference Essen / Germany (REMOTEWORDS)

2013 Stadtgalerie Kiel / Muthesius Kunsthochschule (Kunst im öffentlichen Raum)
2011

National Gallery Vilnius / Goethe Institut (Digitale Strategien)
Folkwang Universität der Künste (Land Art / Media Art)

2010

Universität Essen Duisburg (REMOTEORDS)

2009

Deutsche Fotografische Akademie (Luftbild)

2008

Edith Russ Haus für Medien Kunst (Überwachungstechnologie als künstlerisches Mittel)

2007

Indiana University, Indiana (Land Art Media)

2006

California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts) (Land Art Media)
University of San Diego (Land Art Media)

2004

Goethe Institut Prag (Online Translation)
Deutsche Fotografische Akademie (Mediale Installationen)
Fachhochschule Ottersberg (Land Art Media)

2003

Mehrwert E.V. (Helix Pomatia)
Fachhochschule Ottersberg (Bewegt-Stillbild)

2002

Fachhochschule Münster (Lichtarbeiten)

2001

Schmalspurvideofestival Oberstdorf (Surveillance Works)
Forum Ludwig Aachen (Surveillance Works)

2000

Kunstraum Innsbruck (Surveillance Works)
Kunstsalon Köln (Fireflies)

1998

Videonale Bonn (Cinecorpse CD-Rom)

 

Vita