Karl Heinz Jeron

1962 Born in Memmingen, Germany

Lives in Berlin.

1994 -1996 founding member of Internationale Stadt

since 1999 Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Berlin

1993-2005 working with Joachim Blank as Blank & Jeron

since 2004 Deutscher Künstlerbund

1999-2006 Lecturer for Multimedia Art at the University of Arts Berlin

Awards

1998 Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria: honorary mention for the category interactive arts for Scanner++;

1998 Comtec Art, Dresden, 1. price in the category computer aided installation for Scanner++.

2006 net_sight, 2. price for mur.knoten, mur.at, graz austria

Grants

1995 working grant Kulturfonds Berlin-Brandenburg

1998 working grant EMARE (European Media Art in Residence Exchange) at MUU Media Base, Helsinki (Finland)

1999 working grant Senat for Culture, Sience und Research, Berlin

2008 working grant Meantime Cheltenham UK

2009 Pilotprojekt Gropiusstadt Residency

2011 Horizon Residency Stadtwerkstatt Linz Austria

2011 Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen

2013 Serde Residency Latvia

2013 GeoAir Residency Tiblisi Georgia

Exhibitions and presentations (selection)

1993 Ostranenie, Bauhaus Dessau

1994 MedienBiennale Leipzig

1995 Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria

1996 European Media Art Festival Osnabrück; Telepolis, Luxemburg

1997 Documenta X, Kassel

1998 Ortsbegehung, NBK Berlin; Global Fun, Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen

1999 Expo Destructo, London; Internet Art Exhibition, Machida City, Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo; Viper festival, Luzern, Switzerland; Comtec Art, Dresden; Net_condition, ZKM, Karlsruhe; Cyber Arts 99, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz

2000 Network Art Entertainment, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA; tech_nicks, Lux Gallery, London; Inventions, Berlin- Hongkong, HKW, Berlin; Open Art, Belle Etage, Munich; log. in, Institut für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg

2001 GeldLust: Modellbanking, Kunsthalle Tirol, Hall, Austria; Berlin – London, Institut of Contemporary Art, London; Trade, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; 1st Public White Cube, Projektraum Berlin, Galerie M. Kampl; Unusual portraits, Galerie M. Kampl

2002 Galerie im Park, Bremen

2003 Written in Stone. A netart archaeology, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway;

2004 fast umsonst, NGBK Berlin; subduktive Maßnahmen, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn; Kunstverein Leipzig

2005 Boxen für den Frieden, German-Russian- Museum Karlshorst Berlin; A la recherche du temps perdu, allgirls gallery, Berlin;

2006 A la recherche du temps perdu, SPACE gallery, London; Horde, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam; A la recherche du temps perdu, paraflows, Vienna; Radio Vehicles, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Hydepark Art Center Chicago, dVdFaN allgirls gallery berlin, mur.knoten, medien kunstlabor graz austria

2007 Will Work For Food, HTTP gallery, London; Will Work For Food, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Türkei; KunstRaum Goethestrasse Linz, Austria; Blumberg, Vienna, Austria; Ausland, Berlin; Surveillance City, Trampoline Nottingham, UK;

2008 The Whole World As A Google Image Search, Tank.tv; Will Work For Food, 20th Filmwinter Stuttgart, Kunstforum Hellerau, Dresden; A la recherche du temps perdu, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana; Pole Position, Kunstinvasion, Berlin; Meantime, Cheltenham, UK; 1st Public White Cube, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Horde, Netherlands Media Art Institute

2009 Entweder/Oder, allgirls gallery, Berlin; Will Work For Food, Dock 18, Zurich; Pilotprojekt Gropiusstadt, Berlin; 9to5, Alexandra Gallery Lancaster, Temporary Art Space Halifax UK; Die Verbesserung des Fernsehens am Nachmittag, I-machine/Ich-Maschine, Edith-Russ-Haus Oldenburg; Wir müssen reden, Zagreus Projekt, Berlin; Will Work For Food, Lab30 Augsburg

2010 Entweder/oder, Crunchtime, York UK; Entweder/Oder, Tank Gallery, London UK; Energie, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; Will Work For Food, Biennale Poznan;

2011 Narrative/Identity, AC Institute NY; Transmediale, Berlin; Sounding, Freies Museum Berlin; Dingliebe Marzahn, Galerie M Berlin; Fresh Music For Rotten Vegetables, Tank London, MAFF Almelo/NL, EMAF Osnabrück, WRO Biennale PL, Hot Wire Shedhalle Zurich

2012 Blower, ŠKUC Ljubljana; Hermes Opera, EMAF, Osnabrück; Fresh Music for Rotten Vegtables, Experimental Electronics Interventions, Čakovec Croatia; Hermes Opera, Lab30 Festival Augsburg; Hermes Opera, Haus für elektronische Künste Basel; Hermes Opera, Walcheturm Zurich; 9to5, km temporaer Berlin; Biotec Orchestra, Ausland Berlin;

2013 Sounding Young Plants of the Prinzessinnen Gärten, Kreuzberg Pavillon; Hermes Opera, WRO Biennale

Works in public collections

Museum for Applied Arts, Frankfurt am Main: Digital Craft; Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM): mediaart- net, Karlsruhe; Barbarastollen, Oberried: participation in the exhibition “Subduktive Maßnahmen – 1500 Jahre UNESCO-Sonderschutz für 50 zeitgenössische Kunstwerke” (Subductive measures – 1500 years special protection for 50 contemporary art works); Kunst im Bau, GASAG Berlin, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; thepixelcollection, Stefan Riebel

Publications

2003 »Software Art – A Reportage about Source Code« with Gerrit Gohlke published by Media Arts Lab / Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

2004 »No Such Thing« with Gerrit Gohlke published by Media Arts Lab, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin