ORNELLA FIERES
1984 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Represented by Sexauer Gallery Berlin & signs and symbols New York City
Ornella Fieres’s multimedia installations have been exhibited internationally at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Goethe Institut Toronto, Literaturhaus Berlin, NurtureArt Gallery New York, Kunstverein Speyer, and Fotografie Forum Frankfurt. She has given lectures and presentations at Volksbühne Berlin, Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin, Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach, and at New Lab New York, where she had a research residency in 2017.
Education
to date: PhD studies on AI as a Hidden Presence in Art Production, HfG Offenbach
2012: Diploma in Visual Communication with the majors Conceptual Photography in the class of Prof. Martin Liebscher and Theory of Perception in the class of Prof. Hans Zitko. Graduated with honors at the HfG Offenbach
2005: Macquarie University Sydney, Australian Media and Australian Art
Honorary work
2017-2023: Board Member of SALOON Network - a free network for women in the Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Dresden, Hamburg, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, London, Montreal, Munich, Paris, Praha, Toronto, & Vienna art industry
Presentations / Lectures
2024: Guest Lecture: Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
2022: Guest Lecture & Publication: KU, Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany
2022: Presentation & Panel: Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
2021: Guest Lecture: HFBK Hamburg Pop & Squat Festival, Germany
2021: Guest Lecture: HfG Offenbach, Germany
2021: Portfolio Consulting: HfG Offenbach, Germany
2019: Presentation: (Dis)abled Technobodies, Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany
2018: Guest Lecture: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, US
2018: Presentation & Panel: Why have there been no great women artists?, ACUD Macht neu, Berlin, Germany
2017: Presentation: New Lab, NYC, US
2016: Presentation: Pecha Kucha Art Night, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
Solo-shows
2024: Possibly from Natural Light, Klotzshows, Brussels, Belgium
2023: We will all be here always, signs and symbols, NYC, US
2021: Letters to M_HTR (online exhibition), signs and symbols, NYC, US
2021: INTERACTIONS 4 (two-person exhibition with John Isaacs), SEXAUER, Berlin
2021: LIGHT SHINES THROUGH THE CURTAINS OF TIME (two-part online and physical exhibition), curated by Tina Sauerländer, PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne, Germany
2020: Ich halte es für eine Tragödie, daß wir uns nicht gefunden haben, SEXAUER, Berlin
2020: A group of people walking down a snow-covered street, signs and symbols NYC, US
2018: The recurring Frequency of a fading Moment, SEXAUER, Berlin
2018: The Structure and Function of hidden Things, signs & symbols, NYC, US
2017: As if we are passing through tunnels, Studio Picknick, Berlin
2017: The Structure and Function of hidden Things, New Lab, NYC, US
2016: Looks like you tried to go somewhere that does not exist, SEXAUER, Berlin
2014: Not found, 1822-Forum, Frankfurt, Germany
2012: Focus Academy, PREVIEW Berlin Art Fair, Berlin, Germany
Group-shows (selection)
2024: TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES: Visions of the Postdigital, STATION Berlin, DE
2024: Summer Show, SEXAUER, Berlin, Germany
2023: INSIDE / OUTSIDE, PRISKA PASQUER, Paris, France
2023: THE DELICATE THINGS THAT GIRLS DO, signs and symbols, New York, NYC, US
2022: World of Networks, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FRANCE
2022: artists & allies V, signs and symbols, NYC, US
2021: That was then, this is now, signs and symbols, NYC, US
2021: CLUSTERED MINDS (online exhibition), organized by mkv Medienkunstverein
2021: PARADOXICAL OBJECTS. Video Sculpture Art from 1968 to Today (online)
2021: WINDS OF CHANGE - Priska Pasquer (online)
2020: Bunch of Kunst in Quarantine // Paradox Paradise (online exhibition), curated by Mara-Johanna Kölmel and Tina Sauerlaender, KARA AGORA
2020: COME TOGETHER, Sexauer Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2020: Tape Modern #27, Berlin
2019: Smoke Screen, Berlin
2019: Touching from a Distance II - Goethe Institut Toronto, CA
2019: Artists & Allies, signs and symbols, NYC, US
2019: Ostrale Biennale, Dresden
2018: Recipes for Madeleines, SITE Galleries, Art Institute of Chicago, US
2018: The Missing Room, LAGE EGAL, Berlin
2018: Touching from a Distance, Literaturhaus Berlin
2018: WorksOnPaper, Gussglashalle, Berlin
2018: Code Art Fair, SEXAUER Gallery, Kopenhagen
2018: Call & Response, NurtureArt Gallery, NYC
2018: WorksOnPaper, Gussglashalle, Berlin
2017: Lecture Performance and screening „STARDUST – The Imaginary Universe" by Bjørn Melhus, Kepler 452b, Berlin
2017: SMALL – an exploration of miniature, SEXAUER, Berlin
2017: Mermaids and Unicorns, online-exhibition
2016: Ron McNair, United Artist Theatre, Los Angeles
2016: Liaison, Uferhallen, Berlin
2016: 2nd Pecha Kucha Art Night, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
2016: Cat Heroicus Sublimis, online-exhibition
2015: Saloon, SEXAUER, Berlin
2015: Acquisition of Signal, Satellit Berlin
2015: Digital // Analog: Indifferenz, Motorenhalle, Dresden
2014: Mon amie, l'image, vkunst, Frankfurt
2014: Visual Noise, Lage Egal, Berlin
2013: Heimgesucht, Art Van Demon, Berlin
2013: All Hands Manöver, Kunstverein Speyer
2012: Spieglein, Spieglein …, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
2012: Remote Control, Satellit Berlin
2012: Kunsträume II, Frankfurt
2012: Giphantie, Satellit Berlin
2012: On-Off-On, Stammhaus, Wiesbaden
2011: Aufbruch/Umbruch, Museum für Kunst & Kulturgeschichte, Marburg
2010: Lost in Motion, Frankfurter Kunstblock, Frankfurt
2010: White Cube vs. QEK Aero, Photokina, Köln
2009: Klingspor Musuem, Offenbach
Bibliography & Press (selection)
2024: Wynants, Jean-Marie, “Trompe-l’oeil, pretense and other distortions in the galleries of Espace Rivoli,” Le Noir, May 21
2023: Schoenegge, Peggy, „(IM)MATERIAL MATTER: About curating online exhibitions,“ Kunstforum, Mixed Realities, Issue 290, July/August
2023: Tuteja, Simran, “Review: THE DELICATE THINGS THAT GIRLS DO,” Musée Magazine, June 21
2023: Duray, Dan, “Five Things to Do in New York’s Art Scene June 12-16,” The Observer, June 12
2021: Bell, Andrew, “What Do AI and Big Data Mean for Artists and Brands?,” UP Magazine, November 8
2021: Schlücker, Robert, „A Computer-Kunst im Paradies,“ Kölner Kurier, March 23
2021: „Review: Ornella Fieres,“ EXBERLINER, Issue 201, February 2021
2021: Rieger, Birgit, „Blumen im Cyberspace,“ Der Tagesspiegel, February 13
2021: Wahlich, Maximilian, „Und wieder kann ich mir kein Bild von Ihnen machen.“ Art-In-Berlin, December 3
2020: „Couch Gallery Crawl,“ Thomas Benfield, Vulture, April 16
2018: “Abwesenheitsnotiz: Ornella Fieres, New Yorks Sommer hinterlässt Spuren,” Monopol Magazin für Kunst und Leben, July 11
2018: “Art Out: Ornella Fieres: The Structure and Function of Hidden Things,” Musée Magazine, June 19
2018: Kotz, Genevieve, “NYC Gallery Scene- Highlights Through June 17,” Hamptons Art Hub, June 11
2018: Colas, A.E., “Art Break: Ariel DeAndrea’s Photorealism at Louis K. Meisel and ‘Charting the Divine Plan’ at the American Museum of Folk Art,” ZEALnyc, June 11
2018: “Ornella Fieres,” Wall Street International Art, June 6
2017: Art Value 18
2016: PANTA Magazine – Issue 8
2016: Spex Nr. 366 - Flashback 2015 (Jan./Feb. 2016)
2015: art – Das Kunstmagazin Edition 2/2015
2015: Looks like you tried to go somewhere that does not exist – Katalog
2014: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Freitag, 31. März 2014 - Nr. 76)
2014: vkunst - Mon amie, l'image, Katalog (ISBN: 978-3-9814828-7-4)
2014: Not Found - An exploration of space, Katalog (ISBN: 978-3-945243-022)
2013: :output 16 - the world's best student work in the 2013
2013: Form – The making of Design (ISBN: 978-3-943962-04-8)
2012: Preview Berlin Art Fair Katalog 2012 (ISBN 978-3-942831-46-8)
2012: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Freitag, 6. Juli 2012 - Nr. 155/27 R1)
2009: Goût - Ausstellungskatalog, Offenbach (ISBN 978-3-921997-76-5)