CV SOFIA GREFF
1975 born in Alba Iulia/Romania
1998-2001 fine Arts studies at Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany
2005 Master Class Graduation at prof. Ayse Erkmen in Interdisciplinary Art at the Hochschule für bildende Künste,
Städelschule, Frankfurt, D
2008 MA Visual Performance at Dartington College of Arts, GB
lives in Buchen(Odw.) (D) and works everywhere
Grants, Awards, and Residencies
2009 Reisdency together with Billa Burger at Pilotprojekt Gropiusstadt/Berlin
2008 OZU, Taoh Residency, Italy
2001-2005 Grant of the German National Academic Foundation
2004 Artists Residency at Mariposa,Teneriffe
2003 Studio-Price of the Landwirtschaftlichen Rentenbank at the Rundgang of the Städelschule, Frankfurt
Presentations(selection)
2008 OZU, Taoh Residency, Italy
2001-2005 Grant of the German National Academic Foundation
2004 Artists Residency at Mariposa,Teneriffe
2003 Studio-Price of the Landwirtschaftlichen Rentenbank at the Rundgang of the Städelschule, Frankfurt
Presentations(selection)
2015 Birth of my son Louis
2014 Performance at Brise 2, Performance Festival Flensburg
Performance at the Performance Festival Hannover
Exhibition at the FIA Forum Amorbach together with Thomas Breuer
2013 launch of the Artspace LICHTUNG Breuer & Greff
Natura & Industria, Performance and Exhibition at the Auerbacher Fürstenlager
Performance at Kunstverein Neckar Odenwald Kreis, Buchen
2012 momentum 6, Platform for Performance Art, Bruselles
Birth of my son Valentin
2011 GREIFBARKEITEN, Galerie Saint Gabriel, Frankfurt, Germany
bitte missverstehen sie uns richtig, basis Projektraum, Frankfurt, Germany
Performance for Cornelia, Klosterpresse, Frankfurt, Germany
59seconddreams, Galerie Saint Gabriel, Frankfurt, Germany
2010 Zwischenräume, Kunstbalkon, Kassel, Germany
OUI 01, Performance Night, curated by N. walker and v. Gray, York, GB
Keinklang, KUNSTHALLE m3, Atelierhaus Mengerzeile Berlin, Germany
Performance no3 at momo underground no4 Klosterpresse Frankfurt, Germany
QUALITÉ, Performance at Kiosk Moguntia, Studio Jilavu & Schmelz, Mainz, Germany
Soft Bodies, International Performance Art Festival at Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Herzlic... Soloshow and Performance, Klosterpresse, Frankfurt, Germany
Nur zur Deko Atelier Ostparkstrasse, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2009 Performance, Zeit bleibt, Eschborn K, Germany
EPAF Performancefestival Warsawa, Poland
NOTES on a Return, Commission for new work relating to the recollections of Performances from the 80's in Laing Arts Gallery New Castle, GB
Performance Behandlungsraum, Die Orbitale, Schallkapsel, Friedericianum Kassel, Germany
Performance Hallogehn with Patricia Leinhos at the Project ALODONG, Eulengasse 65, Frankfurt, Germany
Dzjekuje, Performance at the Festival Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland
2008 Der gerahmte Raum, Zeitraumexit, Mannheim, Germany
MASHOW Dartington College of Arts, GB
Performance in Racefastsafecar gallery in Köln, Germany
1.442.666 Steps, Dartington/Frankfurt
Pranzo con L'artista/Artists Lunch, OZU Residency, Italy
Performance at the Ninth Cathedral Arts Festival, Catalyst Arts Gallery,
Belfast, Northern Ireland
2007 Doing I+II, Die Halle, Frankfurt, Germany
2D/3D at Ökohaus, Frankfurt, Germany
Performance for recitation of U.E. Ziegler's Novel Hamburger Hochbahn, Literaturhaus Frankfurt
Reading Dartington Prospectus, Dartington College of Arts, GB
2006 Ich widme mich dir voll und ganz, Forum 1822, Sparkasse Frankfurt
Vis à vis, Gallery Schuster, Frankfurt
2005 Ladenhüter, Kunstverein Viernheim
No big deal, Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen
For interspaces, with Sandra Guyer, Atelier Rafi, Frankfurt
Remote, LOT Gallery, Bristol, GB
Mariposa residency, Teneriffe, Spain
2004 Gallery Schuster, Frankfurt
Art Frankfurt Fair
Birth of my son Anel
2003 Gallery Schuster und Scheuermann, Berlin
Giraffe Woman, Schloß Bellevue, Kriens, Switzerland
Projects
2010 Zwischenräume, Kunstbalkon, Kassel, Germany
OUI 01, Performance Night, curated by N. walker and v. Gray, York, GB
Keinklang, KUNSTHALLE m3, Atelierhaus Mengerzeile Berlin, Germany
Performance no3 at momo underground no4 Klosterpresse Frankfurt, Germany
QUALITÉ, Performance at Kiosk Moguntia, Studio Jilavu & Schmelz, Mainz, Germany
Soft Bodies, International Performance Art Festival at Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Herzlic... Soloshow and Performance, Klosterpresse, Frankfurt, Germany
Nur zur Deko Atelier Ostparkstrasse, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2009 Performance, Zeit bleibt, Eschborn K, Germany
EPAF Performancefestival Warsawa, Poland
NOTES on a Return, Commission for new work relating to the recollections of Performances from the 80's in Laing Arts Gallery New Castle, GB
Performance Behandlungsraum, Die Orbitale, Schallkapsel, Friedericianum Kassel, Germany
Performance Hallogehn with Patricia Leinhos at the Project ALODONG, Eulengasse 65, Frankfurt, Germany
Dzjekuje, Performance at the Festival Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland
2008 Der gerahmte Raum, Zeitraumexit, Mannheim, Germany
MASHOW Dartington College of Arts, GB
Performance in Racefastsafecar gallery in Köln, Germany
1.442.666 Steps, Dartington/Frankfurt
Pranzo con L'artista/Artists Lunch, OZU Residency, Italy
Performance at the Ninth Cathedral Arts Festival, Catalyst Arts Gallery,
Belfast, Northern Ireland
2007 Doing I+II, Die Halle, Frankfurt, Germany
2D/3D at Ökohaus, Frankfurt, Germany
Performance for recitation of U.E. Ziegler's Novel Hamburger Hochbahn, Literaturhaus Frankfurt
Reading Dartington Prospectus, Dartington College of Arts, GB
2006 Ich widme mich dir voll und ganz, Forum 1822, Sparkasse Frankfurt
Vis à vis, Gallery Schuster, Frankfurt
2005 Ladenhüter, Kunstverein Viernheim
No big deal, Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen
For interspaces, with Sandra Guyer, Atelier Rafi, Frankfurt
Remote, LOT Gallery, Bristol, GB
Mariposa residency, Teneriffe, Spain
2004 Gallery Schuster, Frankfurt
Art Frankfurt Fair
Birth of my son Anel
2003 Gallery Schuster und Scheuermann, Berlin
Giraffe Woman, Schloß Bellevue, Kriens, Switzerland
Projects
2012 kikumenta 4, Kunstwerkstatt Königstein
2009 Project ALODONG, Collaborating with Artists from diverse artistical disciplines, Eulengasse 65, Frankfurt, Germany
2008 1.442.666 Steps, Dartington/Frankfurt, exchange Project collaborating with Atelier Rafi Frankfurt, Germany and Dartington College of Arts, GB
2002-2005 Performances with the Group Osmose (together with Judith Röthlisberger, Sheila Mullooly and Sandra Guyer)
2002-2003 Switch Residency Project – living and drawing in twelve different homes troughout Germany (Frankfurt, Aschaffenburg, Dresden,
Göppingen, Hamburg, Albertsahusen, Mannheim, Wilmenrod, Magdeburg, Haibach...)
2003 Performance Total, Project at the College of fine arts, Cluj, Romania (collaborating with Alina Bungardean, Alexandru Mirutiu, Dorel Gaina...)
1999-2002 KEK, cooking-, food- and art- actions Group with presentations in Kassel, Frankfurt, Aschaffenburg and Arnsberg
(together with Elke Mark, Charlotte Busse, Susanne Reichmann)
Publications
Katalog zur kikumenta 4, Kunstwerkstatt Königstein, S. 46-51, 2012
pilotprojekt gropiusstadt, jahrbuch 2009; S. 18/19, published 2010
2009 Project ALODONG, Collaborating with Artists from diverse artistical disciplines, Eulengasse 65, Frankfurt, Germany
2008 1.442.666 Steps, Dartington/Frankfurt, exchange Project collaborating with Atelier Rafi Frankfurt, Germany and Dartington College of Arts, GB
2002-2005 Performances with the Group Osmose (together with Judith Röthlisberger, Sheila Mullooly and Sandra Guyer)
2002-2003 Switch Residency Project – living and drawing in twelve different homes troughout Germany (Frankfurt, Aschaffenburg, Dresden,
Göppingen, Hamburg, Albertsahusen, Mannheim, Wilmenrod, Magdeburg, Haibach...)
2003 Performance Total, Project at the College of fine arts, Cluj, Romania (collaborating with Alina Bungardean, Alexandru Mirutiu, Dorel Gaina...)
1999-2002 KEK, cooking-, food- and art- actions Group with presentations in Kassel, Frankfurt, Aschaffenburg and Arnsberg
(together with Elke Mark, Charlotte Busse, Susanne Reichmann)
Publications
Katalog zur kikumenta 4, Kunstwerkstatt Königstein, S. 46-51, 2012
pilotprojekt gropiusstadt, jahrbuch 2009; S. 18/19, published 2010
INTER art actuel, No 105, Printemps, 2010: 26-33, Review by Slavka Sverakowa
Illustration of the Book Die zwei Leben des Herrn Richie/The two lifes of Mr Richie of B.M. Tang, 2009
race fast safe car Köln, Aardse & Mark, Catalogue, Performance 2008
Dartington College of Arts, Illustration Prospectus 2008
Verein der Tumortherapie mit schweren Ionen, Illustration for Booklet, 2005, p. Cover, 3, 6, 8, 18, 25, 33, 36, 40, 45, 46, 49.
Let's Party for a Piece of Art, Pinakothek der Moderne, Design of Catalogue cover and Invitation card, 2005
Catalogue Mariposa, ArtProject Teneriffe 2005 p.100
Publikation des Quarter Cathedral Arts Festival Belfast Northern Ireland, 2008
Publikation des Quarter Cathedral Arts Festival Belfast Northern Ireland, 2008
Catalogue W 12, Städelschool 2005, Class of Prof. Ayse Erkmen, Projektspace, p. 18-19
Solo Catalogue, Für Zwischenräume/For Interspaces, 2006
RMV Annual Review 2003, Das Ziel ist immer der Teppich zu Hause, p. 54, 55, 57, 60, 61, 67
MA Catalogue 2004, Dartington College of Arts
Catalogue Across the Border, Artig e.V. Hannover 2003, Introduction of the Performancegroup Osmose, p. 23-24
Catalogue of the Manifesta 4, Frankfurt, performed for Tino Sehgal, Instead of allowing some things to rise up to your face dancing bruce and dan and other things, 2002
Catalogue, immer essen, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg e.V., 2002, p. 27
CD ROM, das erste mal, Kunstverein Marburg, 2000
Represented in Collections
Karlheinz Schmidt since 2003
HelaBa (Hessische Landesbank) since 2004
Mariposa, Hans-Jürgen und Helga Müller since 2005
Illustration of the Book Die zwei Leben des Herrn Richie/The two lifes of Mr Richie of B.M. Tang, 2009
race fast safe car Köln, Aardse & Mark, Catalogue, Performance 2008
Dartington College of Arts, Illustration Prospectus 2008
Verein der Tumortherapie mit schweren Ionen, Illustration for Booklet, 2005, p. Cover, 3, 6, 8, 18, 25, 33, 36, 40, 45, 46, 49.
Let's Party for a Piece of Art, Pinakothek der Moderne, Design of Catalogue cover and Invitation card, 2005
Catalogue Mariposa, ArtProject Teneriffe 2005 p.100
Publikation des Quarter Cathedral Arts Festival Belfast Northern Ireland, 2008
Publikation des Quarter Cathedral Arts Festival Belfast Northern Ireland, 2008
Catalogue W 12, Städelschool 2005, Class of Prof. Ayse Erkmen, Projektspace, p. 18-19
Solo Catalogue, Für Zwischenräume/For Interspaces, 2006
RMV Annual Review 2003, Das Ziel ist immer der Teppich zu Hause, p. 54, 55, 57, 60, 61, 67
MA Catalogue 2004, Dartington College of Arts
Catalogue Across the Border, Artig e.V. Hannover 2003, Introduction of the Performancegroup Osmose, p. 23-24
Catalogue of the Manifesta 4, Frankfurt, performed for Tino Sehgal, Instead of allowing some things to rise up to your face dancing bruce and dan and other things, 2002
Catalogue, immer essen, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg e.V., 2002, p. 27
CD ROM, das erste mal, Kunstverein Marburg, 2000
Represented in Collections
Karlheinz Schmidt since 2003
HelaBa (Hessische Landesbank) since 2004
Mariposa, Hans-Jürgen und Helga Müller since 2005