Artist and Designer Desiree Kabis lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Desiree's works lie at the intersection of media art and graphic design, combining generative image production, narrative and material quality. Desiree's speculative scenarios engage with themes of cultural and social displacement in the form of projections, spatial installations, sculpture and performance.
EDUCATION
2020 Graduation University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe, Diploma in communication design and media art,
„Electric Animal“, installation, 2-channel-video and book
2017 Exchange semester Kyushu University, Institute of Design, Fukuoka, Japan, supported with a PROMOS scholarship
2015 Pre-Diploma University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe, in communication design and media art
„orbit and stellar“, experimental typeface design with projections
2012 General higher education entrance qualification (A-levels)
EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS + PROJECTS
2023 Feb THINK TANK: SAILOR MERKEL - Performative Spekulationen zu Machtvakuen, Quartiershalle, KoFabrik, Bochum
2022-23 Dec-Jan "Fig.", Mitgliederausstellung Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
2022 Nov "KOSTKA", atelier automatique Bochum, Märkisches Museum Witten
2022 Jul Rundgang, with Messy Archive Group, HfG Karlsruhe
2022 Jul "All that you touch Changes You", 20-rOundbaOut-22, Kinemathek Karlsruhe
2022 May "The Feminist Anarchists: Kathy Acker (unplugged)", with Messy Archive Group at HABIBI KIOSK, Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich
2022 May "The Feminist Anarchists: Kathy Acker (unplugged)", FLINTA*-Tag im Café Noir, Karlsruhe
2022 May "All that you touch Changes You", ßpace Karlsruhe
2022 Apr-May Momentography of a Failure [Translocal], atelier automatique Bochum
2022 Jan-Apr Momentography of a Failure [Translocal], Rosa-Luxemburg-Stifung, Berlin
2022 Jan-Feb „Electric Animal: Reflection“, exhibition space Laube, Karlsruhe
2021 Nov-22 Feb Restart Projektionstriennale Lichtsicht 7 in Bad Rothenfelde, „Circular Transmigration“ and „Electric Animal“
2021 Sept "The Feminist Anarchists: Kathy Acker", short film, schwere reiter, München
2021 Jul "Messy Archive: Rundgang", public intervention mit der Messy Archive Group, atelier automatique, Bochum
2021 May Closed Caßa Rona 2, ßpace Karlsruhe, „Circular Transmigration“
2021 Apr Ecotopia - Lichtblicke und Projektionen, Leerstand als Freiraum, Pforzheim, „Electric Animal“
2020-21 Dec-Feb graduation.studio, University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe, Stretching Life / Finite Heights, „Electric Animal“
2021 Nov Projektionstriennale Lichtsicht 7 in Bad Rothenfelde (canceled), „Circular Transmigration“ and „Electric Animal“
2020 Feb „Electric Animal“, Book release, diploma show, University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe
2019 Feb „Sorry, My Phone Died“, ZKM Karlsruhe, part of “Open Codes: DADATADA – Dada is Nada: What is Data?”
2018 Feb „Cortex“, experimental game „Making Games“, gamelab, University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe
2017 Jul Chikara no Kashika, Visualizing Power, Kyushu University Satellite, Fukuoka, Japan „sound wave“
2017 Jun Essences of Media Art, Sound Studio, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, „Upside Down Room – Mikami Seiko“
2017 Jun „nami“, prints, „WAVE Exhibition“, Aalto x Kyushu, START-UP CAFE, 1F Fukuoka Growth Next, Fukuoka, Japan, organised by KID NEXT, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University
2016 Jun You Hang Up, No You Hang Up!, ßpace, Karlsruhe „M-C-Q“
GRANTS / PRIZES / RESIDENCIES
2023 Culture moves Europe, mobility grant of the European Commission
2022 Work Grant Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg
2022 Workshop Schauspiel Leipzig with Messy Archive Group
2022 Residency Impossible Library Hamburg with Messy Archive Group
2021 Residency atelier automatique Bochum with Messy Archive Group
2021 Work Grant Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg
2017 PROMOS scholarship
PUBLICATIONS
2022 THINK TANK: SAILOR MERKEL - das Zine zum Stück
2022 Messy History Report #2, Messy Archive Group
2022 Momentography of a Failure [Translocal]
2022 Electric Animal: Reflection, Intonation-Sourcing-Bundling-Naming
2020 Electric Animal, self published
2020 Messy History Report, Messy Archive Group
2019 Questions? Looking for answers in the middle of nowhere, Spector Books
2017 Slanted Magazine Special Edition: Portugal
2017 hack-museums-gARTen, orange press
Artist and Designer Desiree Kabis lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Desiree's works lie at the intersection of media art and graphic design, combining generative image production, narrative and material quality. Desiree's speculative scenarios engage with themes of cultural and social displacement in the form of projections, spatial installations, sculpture and performance.
EDUCATION
2020 Graduation University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe, Diploma in communication design and media art,
„Electric Animal“, installation, 2-channel-video and book
2017 Exchange semester Kyushu University, Institute of Design, Fukuoka, Japan, supported with a PROMOS scholarship
2015 Pre-Diploma University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe, in communication design and media art
„orbit and stellar“, experimental typeface design with projections
2012 General higher education entrance qualification (A-levels)
EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS + PROJECTS
2023 Feb THINK TANK: SAILOR MERKEL - Performative Spekulationen zu Machtvakuen, Quartiershalle, KoFabrik, Bochum
2022-23 Dec-Jan "Fig.", Mitgliederausstellung Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
2022 Nov "KOSTKA", atelier automatique Bochum, Märkisches Museum Witten
2022 Jul Rundgang, with Messy Archive Group, HfG Karlsruhe
2022 Jul "All that you touch Changes You", 20-rOundbaOut-22, Kinemathek Karlsruhe
2022 May "The Feminist Anarchists: Kathy Acker (unplugged)", with Messy Archive Group at HABIBI KIOSK, Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich
2022 May "The Feminist Anarchists: Kathy Acker (unplugged)", FLINTA*-Tag im Café Noir, Karlsruhe
2022 May "All that you touch Changes You", ßpace Karlsruhe
2022 Apr-May Momentography of a Failure [Translocal], atelier automatique Bochum
2022 Jan-Apr Momentography of a Failure [Translocal], Rosa-Luxemburg-Stifung, Berlin
2022 Jan-Feb „Electric Animal: Reflection“, exhibition space Laube, Karlsruhe
2021 Nov-22 Feb Restart Projektionstriennale Lichtsicht 7 in Bad Rothenfelde, „Circular Transmigration“ and „Electric Animal“
2021 Sept "The Feminist Anarchists: Kathy Acker", short film, schwere reiter, München
2021 Jul "Messy Archive: Rundgang", public intervention mit der Messy Archive Group, atelier automatique, Bochum
2021 May Closed Caßa Rona 2, ßpace Karlsruhe, „Circular Transmigration“
2021 Apr Ecotopia - Lichtblicke und Projektionen, Leerstand als Freiraum, Pforzheim, „Electric Animal“
2020-21 Dec-Feb graduation.studio, University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe, Stretching Life / Finite Heights, „Electric Animal“
2021 Nov Projektionstriennale Lichtsicht 7 in Bad Rothenfelde (canceled), „Circular Transmigration“ and „Electric Animal“
2020 Feb „Electric Animal“, Book release, diploma show, University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe
2019 Feb „Sorry, My Phone Died“, ZKM Karlsruhe, part of “Open Codes: DADATADA – Dada is Nada: What is Data?”
2018 Feb „Cortex“, experimental game „Making Games“, gamelab, University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe
2017 Jul Chikara no Kashika, Visualizing Power, Kyushu University Satellite, Fukuoka, Japan „sound wave“
2017 Jun Essences of Media Art, Sound Studio, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, „Upside Down Room – Mikami Seiko“
2017 Jun „nami“, prints, „WAVE Exhibition“, Aalto x Kyushu, START-UP CAFE, 1F Fukuoka Growth Next, Fukuoka, Japan, organised by KID NEXT, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University
2016 Jun You Hang Up, No You Hang Up!, ßpace, Karlsruhe „M-C-Q“
GRANTS / PRIZES / RESIDENCIES
2023 Culture moves Europe, mobility grant of the European Commission
2022 Work Grant Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg
2022 Workshop Schauspiel Leipzig with Messy Archive Group
2022 Residency Impossible Library Hamburg with Messy Archive Group
2021 Residency atelier automatique Bochum with Messy Archive Group
2021 Work Grant Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg
2017 PROMOS scholarship
PUBLICATIONS
2022 THINK TANK: SAILOR MERKEL - das Zine zum Stück
2022 Messy History Report #2, Messy Archive Group
2022 Momentography of a Failure [Translocal]
2022 Electric Animal: Reflection, Intonation-Sourcing-Bundling-Naming
2020 Electric Animal, self published
2020 Messy History Report, Messy Archive Group
2019 Questions? Looking for answers in the middle of nowhere, Spector Books
2017 Slanted Magazine Special Edition: Portugal
2017 hack-museums-gARTen, orange press
