Sylvie Boisseau and Frank Westermeyer are artists, they live and work in Berlin and Geneva. 

PAST EVENTS

Exhibitions, screenings, conferences

2024

Your Own Spaces: Multiperspectivity and Spatial Practices in Audio/Visual Forms of Knowledge Production, HSLU, Lucerne, CH

2023

Videocity - Kino Rex, Bern, CH

The Secret Life Of Us All: Poetiken eines Ineinandergehens. Filmscreening Irma Republic, Worblaufen / Bern

Screening at the Colloquium „Helmuth Plessner and the French thinking“, EHESS and Ecole Normale, Paris

2022 

Exhibition "Der Neue Mensch" (The New Human),  Museum Große Kunstschau Worpswede, 27 March - 6 November

Films by Anu Pennancen and Boisseau Westermeyer, Cinéma Dynamo, Centre d‘art contemporain, Geneva

Shorties, Film Dance Théatre, FITZ, Stuttgart, Allemagne

Perform Her, Projection à la Residence d‘artiste Domus, Galatina, Italie

Festival international del Cine del Cono Sur, Valdivia, Chili

Alles VI, Hochhaus, Berlin

Various Fields, research conference, Latvian Academy of Music, Riga, Latvia

artgenève, Geneva art fair, 2-6 March 2022

Screening at the Filmforum of the HBK - Braunschweig University of Arts. Short film program: Grauzonen.

Monday, 7th February 2022, 7pm. Curated by Michael Brynntrup

2021

IRL é RL Effondrement des Alpes, Musée d‘art contemporain, Lyon

The Wild Out Video Festival, Taipei, Taiwan (festival competition)

Vision of Clouds, Digital Italian pavilion of the 17th International Architecture Venice Bien­nale, as part of Arts, Letters and Numbers’ intervention

Sacramento Underground Film & Arts Festival, Sacramento, California (festival competition)

VR Symposium Articulations, 24 + 25 November 2021, Malmö, Sweden

4th Renewable Futures Conference - Futures of Living Technologies 4th to 6th of November 2021, Oslo, Norway

Videocity, Geneva. Video exhibition in public space, city of Geneva

Videocity, Dresden, Germany. Video exhibition at the outside of Motorenhalle, Dresden

Screening at Cinema Dynamo, Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva

2020

Kino der Kunst, Munic
transmediale, Volksbühne, Berlin
Arsenal 3, Arsenal Corona Kino, Berlin

2019

Reclaim Context, HFG Archiv, Museum Ulm 
Swiss Art Awards, Art Basel
videocity.bs projections in public space: eboard, Messe Basel and window of Globus departement store
Studio 100 –100 Tage, 100 Akteure, Gaswerk, Weimar

2018

Slightly slipping on a banana skin, Fond Municipal d‘art Contemporain, Geneva

2017

Die Weltwirtschaft kann nur gerettet werden, wenn sie endlich kapitalistisch wird Denkerei, Berlin (solo)

„The very very best of“, program anniversaire, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany

DokumentART, Neubrandenburg, Germany (festival competition)

2016

Identität im Close-Up, Videos von Boisseau & Westermeyer, Motorenhalle, Dresden (solo)
Belong and Observe, Fond Municipal d‘art Contemporain, Geneva
Agents Provocateurs: Künstler, Strategien, Objekte, Arsenal, Berlin
Personal Research on Personal Matters, German Film Week, Mexico
Mythos Freiheit: Seele, Cinématèque, Leipzig, 

2015

The Translator‘s Voice, SFKM, Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Førde, Norway
The Translator‘s Voice, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea, Vigo, Spain
The Translator‘s Voice, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France

2014

Folded / Unfolded Space, Galerie Cubus-M, Berlin

VideoEX Zürich, CH (festival competition)

2013

Hausgemeinschaft (family affairs) Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig and Cinemateque Leipzig

2012

TV Chain Arte. Screening: Court Circuit: Le court métrage politique 

2011

Neue Brüder, Vtape, Toronto, Canada (solo)
Dislocacion, Kunstmuseum, Bern
Schon wieder und noch mal? – Handlungsspielräume“, Medienturm, Graz, Austria
Between document and fiction, Maus Hábitos Porto, Portugal
Das Gastmahl 1+1=3, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig

Rencontres International Paris - Berlin (festival competition)

2010

Chinese is a plus, Kunstmuseum @ PROGR, BernDislocacion, Kunstmuseum, Bern (solo)
Atlas : truths, details, intervals and the afterlives of the image, Screening. Centre d‘art Contemporain, Geneva
Barierre (-frei), Kunstraum Rathaus Lichtenberg, Berlin
Dislocacion, Museeo Allende, Santiago de Chile
Cinémas, dans le contexte d‘une exposition de Christian Boltanski, Mac-Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, F
2009

Chinese is a plus, Vtape, Toronto, Canada (solo)

Egomania, Agent Double, Geneva
Zonoff café, labo, Geneva
Arsenal-Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin
Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, Korea

Chinese is a plus, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (solo)

Blicke, Bochum, Germany (festival competition - winner of the Media art prize)

Documentary festival, Hamburg, Germany (festival competition)

2008

Mobility - Chinese is a plus, 1a : space, Hong Kong (solo)

Video: Düsseldorf / Riga, Kunstraum, Düsseldorf, catalogue

Video: Düsseldorf / Riga, ANDREJSALA / LCCA Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Riga

Fetish and consumption, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, catalogue

Die Angst reist immer mit, neues Problem, Berlin

Screening and Talk, Kubrick, Hong Kong

Filmwoche Duisburg, Germany (festival competition)

2007

Sterne aus dem Videopalast, General Public, Berlin

 Sterne aus dem Videopalast, Galerie NoD, Prag

Je est il, Je sont ils ?, Centre d’art contemporain Meymac, F

Eroi! Come noi…? (Heros! Like us...?), Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, It, catalogue

Der zweite Blick, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Erfurt, D

Art_Clips ch.at.de, ZKM, Karlsruhe, D

Videos by Boisseau & Westermeyer, Frise, Hamburg 

Goethe Institut, Mexico City

Werkschau Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart

2006

Copy & Paste, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Geneva, CH (solo)

Happy Believers, 7th Werkleitz Biennale, Halle, D

Art_Clips ch.at.de performativ, Kunstraum Innsbruck, At

Eastern Alliance, National museum for contemporary art, Bucharest, Romania

Eastern Alliance, Center of contemporary art,CHIŞINĂU, Moldova

Kyoto Seika, Cinema, Kyoto, Japan

Loop Pool, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, curated by raumfuerprojektion

Glückauf, Neues Problem, Berlin


2005

Take Care, ACC Galery Weimar, Germany (solo)

Verpasste Gelegenheiten, Kunstverein Potsdam

La Bauhaus si muove, Chiesa di San Paolo, Modena, It

Heimat Moderne. Experimentale 1, Leipzig

Carte Blanche to Corinna Schnitt, Film Museum Vienna, Austria Die neue (Un)-Sicherheit? Taktiken der Ver(un)sicherung Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany

Biennale Image en mouvement, Centre pour l’image contemporain, Geneva

30+, neues Problem, Berlin

VAD Festival, Girona, Spain (festival competition)

European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, Germany (festival competition)

transmediale, Berlin, Germany

Mediaart Friesland, Leuwarden, NL (festival competition)

International Shortfilmfestival Hamburg, Germany (festival competition)

2004

eof, Paris, France

Zebra Poetry Clip Festival, Berlin, Germany (festival competition)

III International Video Art Show of Alcoi, Valencia, Spain (festival competition)

Video- und documentary filmfestival Kassel, Germany (festival competition)

Filmwinter Stuttgart, Germany (festival competition)

2003

Black Nights Filmfestival, Talinn, Estland

Shortfilmfestival Hamburg, Germany (festival competition)

Red Bank Filmfestival, New Jersey, USA (festival competition)

Visionaria Festival, Siena, Italy (festival competition)

6th Bienal de Video y Nuevos Medios, Santiago, Chile

2002

Goethe Institute Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt

Europa Video Arte, Chiesa di San Paolo, Modena, I, catalogue 

Filmwinter Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany (festival competition)

Filmfestival Dresden: Experiments, Germany (festival competition)

48th Shortfilm Festival Oberhausen (festival competition)

Int. Bochumer Videofestival, Germany (festival competition)

Filmfestival Munic, Experimental Film and Video Art, Germany (festival competition)

Cinematexas Int. Filmfestival, Austin, USA (festival competition)

Mediaart Festival Friesland, NL (festival competition)

Film Festival Flensburg, Germany (festival competition)

Interfilm Festival Berlin, Germany (festival competition)

International Filmfestival Winterthur, CH (festival competition)

Back-Up Festival Weimar;, Germany (festival competition)

Videofestival Kassel, Germany (festival competition)

International Filmfestival Rotterdam, NL (festival competition)

2001

Leposte, Galerie Public, Paris, catalogue

Art in General Galery, New York City

New German Video, Goethe Institute Lille, France 

Cinematexas, Austin, USA

Transmediale Berlin, Germany

2000

The Void, New York City

Kunstkino, Art Frankfurt

Festival Ovarvideo, Ovar, Portugal (festival competition)

Video Festival Bochum, Best Video, Germany (festival competition)

46th Shortfilm Festival Oberhausen, Germany (festival competition)

European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany (festival competition)

Back-Up Festival Weimar, Germany (festival competition)

Video- und Documentary Festival Kassel, Germany (festival competition)

23rd Int. Sehsüchte Film Festival Potsdam, Germany (festival competition)

1999

Lothringer 13, München

MK2 Project Café, Paris

Transmediale Berlin, Germany

Hors Circuit, Paris/Berlin

1998

4th Manifestation for Video and Electronic Art, Montreal, Canada

Cinematexas, Austin, USA Best Film award

Video Festival Bochum, Award Winner, International Competition

Videonale 8, Bonn, Germany (festival competition)

46th Shortfilm Festival Oberhausen (festival competition)

Frankfurter Filmschau

1995

Vom Einspänner zur Melange, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany

Art Prize of the city of Herne, VHS Herne-Wanne, Germany

Awards, Grants, Competitions:

2009

Grant Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany

Fellows at Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Germany

Media Art Prize Ruhr, Blicke Festival

2008

Fellows at Akademie Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany

Competition monument for Willy Brandt, Erfurt, Germany, last round

2004

DAAD 3 months grant for Chicago, USA

Residency Sylvie Boisseau, Pilotprojekt Gropiusstadt, Berlin

2003

First Prize for Sylvie Boisseau „Mimikry“ Competition, Kunstfest Weimar

Best foreign film, The Free Man, Red Bank Int. Filmfestival, Red Bank, New Jersey, USA

2002

Cineric Prize for The Free Man at the New York Film and Video Expo, NYC, USA

2000

Major Award of the Jury for Moi vu par... at 10th Int. Bochum Videofestival

1999

DAAD 1 year grant for Paris, France

1998

Best Film Award for My family and I at Cinematexas Int. Filmfestival, Austin, USA

Award for My family and I at Views from the Ruhrgebiet Festival 

Collections

Fonds Municipal d'art contemporain, Geneva, CH (2020, 2013, 2012, 2010); Museum for Communication, Berne, CH (2019) CNAP, Paris (2018);  Fonds Cantonal d'art contemporain, Geneva (2017)
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