Anja Erdmann (*1976, Erfurt) is a sound and media artist.
She studied Media Art and Design at Bauhaus-University Weimar with focus on sound art and electroacoustic sound design. Her installation works are often an interplay of acoustic and visual elements. Sound objects, dynamic lighting as well as electromechanical movement are used to create spatialized environments. In addition to sound and media space installations, she also works with electronic DIY instruments as well as field recordings and radio art.
Her artistic works have been exhibited in Germany, France, Finland, and the Netherlands.
The work “Luftikus-Installation with moving fans” was acquired by the Musée Réattu Arles in France in 2012 for their collection. In 2015 she received the Special Prize for her installation „Raumsucher“ at the Fönkunstpreis #4 in Erfurt.
In several artist residencies she discovered the musical live improvisations as a further artistic form. With her own sound objects or DIY instruments, Erdmann plays and improvises together with other musicians and artists.
She lives and works in Weimar (Thuringia) also as a graphic and media designer.
# Further activities:
2020 and 2021: Research projects: on the women of the Weimar National Assembly.
From 2016 to 2019, she was member of the project team for the exhibition project “Radiophonic Spaces” and responsible for the conception, development, and organization of the touring exhibition and website on radio art. The project was funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and presented at Museum Tinguely in Basel, HKW Berlin and Weimar.
She also works as an assistant for sound artist Robin Minard.
Since 2019 she is part of the music collective “lurch”.
In 2018 she was media art jury member for German Multimedia Award mb21 Dresden.
And since 2014 member of the DEGEM.
In 2011 she conceived and designed the website concept for the radio art online platform “sonosphere.org”.
CV (German)
GRANTS
Grant of the Musikfonds e.V. (Neustart Kultur), 2023
Grant of the Musikfonds e.V. (Neustart Kultur), 2022
Special grant of the Cultural Foundation of Thuringia, 2021
Grant of the Cultural Foundation of Thuringia, 2021
AWARD, FUNDING
Funding program 20×1000, 100 years of the Weimar Republic, Weimarer Republik e.V., 2020
FÖN Art Award #4 – Special Award 2015, Erfurt
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COLLECTION
Luftikus – Installation with moving fans
Anja Erdmann, Maxie Götze [2010/2012]
La collection d´art sonore, Musée Réattu Arles, France
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ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Artist Residency, Künstlerhaus Lauenburg, 2023
Interdisciplinary Artist Residency, Thüringer Theaterverband, 2022
SOCCOS micro.residency, Hailuoto, Finland, 2016
MusicMakers HackLab “A score for Uncertainty” ICAS Festival Dresden, 2015
Field_Notes – HYBRID MATTERs, Finland, 2015
Sound Room Marjaniemi, HaiArt, Hailuoto, Finland, 2013
RADIO BROADCASTS
savvy funk, documenta radio, guest @ radio show by AGF (Antye Greie-Ripatti), 2017
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DeutschlandRadio Kultur: Newcomer Werkstatt – Die Abschiedsgala, 2012
DeutschlandRadio Kultur: Newcomer Werkstatt 2/2010
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CD RELEASE
„Sonic Island“ by HaiArt & Various, AGF Producktion, CD/Digital – 2015
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EDUCATION
2014
Master of Fine Arts – Media Art and Design, Bauhaus-University Weimar
(focus on electroacoustic sound design, sound installation with Prof. Robin Minard)
2009
Bachelor of Fine Arts – Media Art and Design, Bauhaus-University Weimar
2003 – 2005
Study Media Culture, Bauhaus-University Weimar
1998 – 1999
Training as a multimedia designer
1997
Vocational certificate as a manufacturer of sign and light advertising
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