Education

2013-2019

Fine Arts/Stage and Costume, weissensee school of art and design Berlin, Germany Scholarship, Diploma

2010

Film/Media Art, Bilgi University Istanbul (TR)

2008-2013

Film and Theatre Studies, Free University Berlin, Bachelor of Arts

Awards

2024

Lumen Prize – Gold Award (London/UK) for DECODING BIAS

2024

BBA Artist Prize (Berlin, international award) – 2nd winner for DECODING BIAS

2019

Mart Stam Prize (Berlin) for SLOW ROOMS

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

Soon/2027

THE WORLD WITHIN – THE WORLD WITHOUT (wt), solo exhibition following a 2025 residency at Haus for Media Art Oldenburg (formerly “Edith Russ“)

Soon/2026

INTERNET EXPLORER, interactive game essay and spatial installation, HAU – Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Berlin Art Week

2025

ON THE INTERNET NOBODY KNOWS YOU’RE A DOG (residency showing),
interactive game essay, Schauspielhaus Graz (AT)

2024

LASTING GENERATION, interactive 5-channel video and spatial installation,
HAU – Hebbel am Ufer “Spy on Me Festival – Enter AI“, Berlin

2023

DECODING BIAS, 8-channel video and spatial installation, Holzmarkt Berlin

2021

SOCIAL CAPSULE, site-symbiotic spatial video inst. & AR App, Monopol Berlin

2020

DESERT FUTURE, VR Film, Haus der Statistik, Berlin

2019

SLOW ROOMS, site-specific spatial video inst. & AR App, private flat, Berlin

Group Exhibitions / Festivals (selection)

soon/26

Aargauer Kunsthaus (CH) “Künstliche Kreativität [...]“: LASTING GENERATION
soon/26 Zitadelle Spandau/Mart Stam Prize, Berlin “Experiment und Eigensinn“: tba

2026

Chengdu Biennale (CN) “Pulse of Life“: DECODING BIAS (8-ch.), 2025 iteration

2026

STRP Eindhoven (NL) “Soft, Slow and Powerful“: LASTING GENERATION

2026

After the Algorithm Festival, Zurich (CH): DECODING BIAS (1-ch.)

2026

Digithalia Festival #3/Schauspielhaus Graz (AT): ON THE INTERNET [...]

2025

Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid (ES) “Today is A Good Day to Discuss Digital Rights“: DECODING BIAS (8-ch.), 2025 iteration

2025

Kassel Doc. Film Fest/Monitoring Media Art Exh. (D): LASTING GENERATION 2025 Humboldt University Berlin/psychology conference: DECODING BIAS (1 ch.)

2025

REFRESH Festival/Zurich School of the Arts (CH): LASTING GENERATION
2025 Asia Digital Art Exh./Three Hills a. Five Gardens Mus., Beijing (CN): D. B. (8-ch.)

2025

Republica 25, Berlin “Generation XYZ“: LASTING GENERATION (3-ch.)

2025

Prater Digital/SOMA Art, Berlin “Thirsty Machines: AI on Tap“: L. G. (3-ch.)

2024

Beyond Basel, Miami (USA): LASTING GENERATION (1-ch. excerpt)

2024

Next Level Festival, Dortmund (D): DECODING BIAS (8-ch.)

2024

BBA Artist Prize – Shorlist Exhibition, Kühlhaus Berlin: D. B. (1-ch.)

2024

Ars Electronica Export/Piksel Creative Solutions, Çubuklu Silolar, Istanbul (TR) “Re Cognition: What is real?“: DECODING BIAS (8-ch.)

2024

KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, 48h NK/main exhibition, Berlin: NEW WAYS OF URBANITY, (3-ch. video/spatial installation)

2024

NAOM Media Art Museum, Stockholm (SE): DECODING BIAS (8-ch.)

2024

Digithalia Festival #1, Schauspielhaus Graz (AT): DECODING BIAS (8-ch.)

2024

Bahidorá Festival, Mexiko: DECODING BIAS (1-ch.)

2024

Kaserne Basel (CH): DECODING BIAS (8-ch.)

2023

Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (AT)“Who Owns The Truth?“, Animation Festival– Human and AI: DECODING BIAS (1-ch.)

2023

Ars Electronica/DEEP SPACE: DECODING BIAS (2-ch. large scale short video)

2023

“100 y. airport Tempelhof“/Timelab Slow Future, Berlin: D. B. (1-ch.)

2023

Berlin Art Week/Monopol Berlin: DECODING BIAS (1-ch.)

2023

End of Nations Festival/Monopol Berlin: DECODING BIAS (8-ch.)

2022

RAW.OST, Berlin: SOCIAL CAPSULE (XR-/spatial installation)

2022

XR Unites/FEZ Berlin “Interagieren statt nicht berühren“: EMOTIONS ON DEMAND, (AR App)

2021

XR Unites/HU Berlin “Extended Reality – Code and Materiality in Art and Culture“: EMOTIONS ON DEMAND (AR App, spatial installation)

2021

Gallery Parterre Berlin/Mart Stam Prize 19: EMOTIONS ON DEMAND (AR App)

2021

Marburger Kunstverein/Mart Stam Pr. 19: EMOTIONS ON DEMAND (AR App)

Further Recognition / Grants (selection)

2026

Capital Cultural Fund (D)

2026

Collide Residency Award – Shortlist, Arts at CERN (CH)/Nobel Pr. Museum (SE)

2025

Golden Cube Award – Finalist, Kassel Doc. Film Fest/Monitoring (D)

2025

Circa Art Prize – Shortlist (UK)

2025

Grant Haus for Media Art/Foundation Lower Saxony (D)

2024

Capital Cultural Fund (D)

2023

Research Grant of Fund Performing Arts (D)

2023

Project Grant of Fund Performing Arts (D)

2022

Work and Research Grant Senate Berlin

2022

Project Grant of Fund Performing Arts (D)

2021

Research Grant of Academy of the Arts/Neustart Kultur (D)

2020/21

Elsa-Neumann-Stipend/“NaFöG“, postgrad./1-y. promotion for artists (Berlin)

2018/19

Residency at Production Lab of AURORA - School for ARtists (EFRE-funded)

Talks, Teaching and Publications (selection)

2026

Artistic guest teaching assignment “AI Filmmaking [...]“, University Oldenburg

2025

Jury Member of AI short film award “AI:solation“ by Goethe-Institut China

2025

Artistic guest teaching assignment (SS 25) “AI & Water [...]“, HTW Berlin

2025

Talk “AI as mirror. AI as canvas [...]“ and panel discussion, manifest.io symp., B.

2025

PHD by Felix Stenger (FU Berlin, metaLAB Harvard) “Theater der Alienation.
Ästhetische Entfremdungen [...] Theresa Reiwer [...]“ about SOCIAL CAPSULE

2024

Panel “Risky Scenarios of Reality: Re Cognition – What is Real?“, Istanbul (TR)

2024

Speaker at the Symposium “LLMs in the Performing Arts“, ZhdK Zürich (CH)

2024

Article by Maja Stark “Bodies and Embodiment in Immersive Art” about DECODING BIAS in anthology „Atlas of Data Bodies“

2023

Artistic guest teaching assignment (WS 23/24) “AI & Water [...]“, HTW Berlin

2023

Speaker at Expanded Animation Programm/Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (AT)