Lucia Mendelova

1983

born in Bratislava, Slovakia, lives and works in Bremen

2001 - 2006

studies of Philosophy at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

2006 - 2013

doctorate in Philosophy at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

2008 - 2009

graduate research at the  'Zentrum Gender Studies' Universität Bremen

2009 - 2013

studies of Integrated Design at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen (HfK) and the HSLU Lucerne, Switzerland

2013 - 2017

masters program of Digital Media at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen

Grants and Awards

2015

University Award for Digital Media for the work 'Nice Nice Very Nice'

2012 - 2013

Artist in residence at 'Gelbes Haus' Lucerne, Switzerland

2012

scholarship of the European Association of Animation

Solo Exhibitions

2013

CafeTERRORia – satellite exhibition within the Fumetto Comix Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland

Group Exhibitions

2017

Metaphors for Immersive Software Visualisation – Handelskammer Hamburg

 

Metaphors for Immersive Software Visualisation – VR Scientific Festival at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

2016

CYBER ISLAND – One-Night Art Show, Halle

2015

Nice Nice Very Nice – GENERATE! Festival for Electronic Arts, Tübingen

 

As If – Office Gallery in Bremen

2014

YOU DON'T DREAM ABOUT THE INTERNET – Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin

 

WONDERFUEL ZEROMONEY – Gelbes Haus, Lucerne, Switzerland

2013

I've got the Power – exhibition project in the Kunstraum Teiggi, Gelbes Haus, Lucerne, Switzerland

 

Un/möglich. Kreuz und Queer. 
–  Galerie Herold, Bremen

Lectures

2017

European Media Art Festival: WYDSIWYG - What You Do Not See Is What You Get: Software in VR, Osnabrück

 

ArtCenter College of Design (USA): Guest speaker and mentor at Media Design Practices VR/AR Lab

2016

ZKM Karlsruhe: Virtual Reality - Affects or Reflection? - Lecture at the Philosophy Symposium 'The Real of Reality' (with Tobias Matzner)

 

Chaos Computer Club Conference Hamburg: 'VR and Surveillance' Assembly Group lecture and discussion

 

Spectrum - Stiftung Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin: 'What Is it Like to Be a ... Lobster? 90s and the hidden side of virtual materiality'

 

Public Urban Lab Bremen: Zillion City - Visuelle Semiotik der Gouvernementalität

2015

Kunsthalle Bratislava: 'Visual Semiotics of Governmentality: Art, politics and criticism'

Collaborations

since 2014

artistic direction at D.O.C.H.

2010

co-founder of Kultur im Bunker e. V., Bremen