Elke MARHÖFER is an artist based in Berlin and Sicily. She investigates ecological practices that support human and nonhuman communities. She works with notions of self-admitted foreignness and radical othering. Linking, for example, the nonhuman with the postcolonial, she discusses how nature evokes situated testimonies of past and current events while simultaneously surpassing historical formatting, with its unique and machinic mode of constantly mutating into something new. She tests nonhuman perspectives, translating a technology like the camera from a human cultural and technical device into an environmentally intensive force.
Elke Marhöfer studied Fine Art at SAIC Chicago, & ISP Whitney Museum of American Art. She was awarded a PhD & a postdoctoral at the Kyoto University Japan. Her films were screened at the Flaherty NYC, Jeu de Paume Paris, Courtisane Ghent, Cinematek Brussels, Stockholm, Toronto & Tokyo, transmediale Berlin, BFI London, Berlinale Berlin, IFFR Rotterdam, Images Festival Toronto, Berlinische Galerie, Showroom London, Kyiv Biennale, Kaohsiung Taipei, Badischer Kunstverein, FCAC Shanghai, MFA Houston.
TOO CLOSE TOO FAR
2020 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 21' 21 / 87 € distribution: DCP on server or Digital file on USB stick |
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WHO DOES THE EARTH THINK IT IS - BECOMING FIRE
2020 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 56' 11 / 190 € distribution: DCP on server or DCP on USB stick or Digital file on USB stick |
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BECOMING EXTINCT (WILD GRASS)
2017 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 23' 23 / 95 € distribution: DCP on server or Digital file on USB stick |
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SOILS_HABIT_PLANTS
2017 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 11' 21 / 49 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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PRIMATE COLORS
2015 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 30' 50 / 119 € distribution: Digital file on USB stick |
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PRENDAS – NGANGAS – ENQUISOS – MACHINES {EACH PART WELCOMES THE OTHER WITHOUT SAYING}
2014 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 25' 58 / 103 € distribution: Digital file on USB stick |
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NO, I AM NOT A TOAD, I AM A TURTLE!
2012 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 44' 01 / 159 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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NOBODY KNOWS, WHEN IT WAS MADE AND WHY
2012 / 16mm / b&w / mute / single screen / 10' 22 / 45 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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IS THERE SOMETHING ELSE I’VE LOST?
2011 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 34' 52 / 131 € distribution: Digital file on server |