Statement
There are a number of things, sounds and places that create a special atmosphere and inspire me in particular. All are connected by my interest in the relationship between human and animal, human and nature, human in their built world. It is the impulse to understand my world and to process it artistically that conditions these materials. My stories and memories shape their physical form. I work on each of my works intuitively and over a long period of time, multiplying or altering its components until it has undergone its own development, conditioned by me, and can tell a completely new story of its own.
Pai Litzenberger (they/them)
lives and works in Cologne, Germany
Education
2014–20 Fine Arts in the class of Prof. Franka Hörnschemeyer, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2019 guest student class of Prof. Manfred Pernice, Berlin University of the Arts
2016 guest student documentary film making, Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Scholarship & Residency
2024 Research scholarship city of Cologne
2023 „Shaping the invisible“ at Fraunhofer ENAS, FUNKEN European Summer School, Chemnitz
2022 Neustart Kultur -Kickstarter-, Stiftung Kunstfond
2020 Promotion prize for graduationshow, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2019–20 BMBF Deutschlandstipendium
2019 PROMOS DAAD scholarship for project in Uzbekistan
2016 W57, Düsseldorf
Publication
2017 „pia litzenberger die decke aus beton“, 68 pages, Edition of 200, W57 Düsseldorf
Exhibition (selection)
2024 „Hope – who will turn the tide“, ars electronica Linz (AU)
2024 „In Ortlosigkeit“, Hans A Dortmund (DE)
2024 „porous repair“, Petershof Cologne (DE)
2024 „Ich gebe Dir ein Wort“, Simultanprojekte Simultanhalle Cologne (DE)
2024 „Mattermorphosis“, WRO Art Center Breslau (PL)
2024 „Schwerelos“, Atelier Wäscherei Öffenbach a.M. (DE) solo
2022 „Down the Rabbit Hole“ KIT Düsseldorf (DE)
2022 „Schwerelos wandernde Töne bis sie sich zu eigenen Worten formen“, Baustelle Schaustelle, Essen (DE) solo
2022 „object permanence/ velocity of inhalation“ G10 Darmstadt (DE) solo
2021 „WERDEN“, Ferdinandeum Innsbruck (AU)
2021 „Die Blauen Stunden“, Künstlerverein Malkastenpark Düsseldorf (DE)
2021 „Coming to Voice“, K21 Düsseldorf
2020 „Eine selbstverständliche Ortsbezeichnung“, K51 Düsseldorf (DE)
2020 „WHITE SPACE“, WP5 Düsseldorf (DE)
2019 „Whence comes the rush of wings?“ Künstlerstätte Stuhr Heiligenrohde (DE)
2019 „FastVltSogarAuch“, Am Ende des Tages Düsseldorf (DE)
2018 „freedom explained logically“, Weltkunstzimmer Düsseldorf & Sint Laurentius Kirke Antwerp (BE)
2017 „Akademie [Arbeitstitel]“, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (DE)
2017 „Artist’s Books for Everything“, Zentrum Museum Weserburg Bremen (DE)
2016 „die decke aus beton“, W57 Düsseldorf (DE) solo