Born in Frankfurt am Main
Hochschule der Künste Berlin (BA and MA) 1985–1990
Royal College of Art London (MA with distinction) 1990-93
Lives and works in London
selected projects and exhibitions
E-makimono and photographic film-strips
Residence Tokyo, Japan
Funded through the Sasakawa Foundation 2010
Stillness and Movement
Conference Tate Modern (curator) 2010
Waver (Westway)
Video Installation Westway/Portobello Road, London
A Streetlight Project 2009
The walking up and down bit
Video installation on Max Wall’s centenary
BFI Southbank, Atrium, London 2008/2009
Glenshaw Mansions, London 2008
Km 500 (group show)
Kunsthalle Mainz 2008
A very short space of time through small times of space (catalogue)
Exhibition including a diorama installation
Gallery of Photography, Dublin 2008
Held together with water / Art from the Verbund Collection (group show)
MAK - Museum for Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, Vienna 2007
heimlich
Series of photographs and videos (catalogue)
Artist in Residence Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral, Germany
Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN) Research Centre, University of the Arts London 2007
walkalone-neverwalkalone 360°film-strip installation in temporal landscapes
with Dan Holdsworth and Jane Prophet
Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston 2005
DinnerFor1, Video installation
British Council Germany, Goethe-Institut London and transmediale 05 - International Media Festival Berlin 2005
film-strips exhibition, Goethe Institute London 2003
The Dialogue of the Dogs Two Channel video installation
Brighton Media Centre Gallery, Trampoline – Platform for New Media Art Berlin,
Cork Film Centre, Ireland 2003
NothingButTheTruth.org.uk Online project
Commission by Lighthouse Brighton
Interfiction IX – arte-Faction, Kassel, Stuttgart Film Winter Festival, media selection 2002
online projects
www.walkalone-neverwalkalone.net 2005
www.dinnerfor1.com 2005
www.nothingbutthetruth.org.uk 2002
commissions
Menschen und Wolken, Lichtkunst Competition, Universitätsklinik Ulm, Germany
With Olafur Eliasson, Stephan Huber, Mischa Kuball, Brigitte Kowanz, James Turell 2009
the moment we knew nothing of each other
Permanent installation of a large scale diorama
for Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton 2007
Multiple slide projection Only the Names have been changed
with Tim Hopkins and Nicholas Ridout
Battersea Arts Centre, London 1996, Munich Opera Festival+, Prinzregenten Theater 2001
Interactive Sound Sculptures Permanent installation Health Centre Peckham, London
commission by The London Arts Board and Southwark Council 1998
Film for Schubert’s Erlking Commission by Opera North
Opera North, The Lowry, Nottingham Theatre Royal, Newcastle Theatre Royal
Installation with film and choreographed movement unbroken view
choreographer Rosemary Butcher, composer Simon Fisher-Turner
Bracknell Gallery, Gulbiankian Gallery, RCA London 1995
Set design for Verdi’s Il Trovatore, director Tim Hopkins
Opera House Graz, Austria 1996
Film Allegories of heavenly Music, composer Michael Finnessy,
commission by the Goethe Institute
Festival of German Romanticism, The South Bank Centre 1994
Film and slide projection Journeyman
Choreographer Darshan Singh Bhuller, composer Neil Kascor
English National Ballet 2002
selected awards and scholarships
Residency Award Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral, Germany 2007
Shortlisted for the Celeste Art Prize 2007
Delfina Studios Award 1994
DAAD scholarship for Great Britain 1990-91
Friedrich Naumann Stiftung 1989, 1992-93
recent bibliography
Short Time Space, catalogue essays by Sean Rainbird published to coincide with solo exhibition at the Gallery of Photography Dublin, 2008
Virtuelle Landschaften, essay by Daniele Perrier in Balmoral Jahrbuch 2007/2008, Band 12, Argobooks Berlin 2008
Sigune Hamann - A very short space of time through very short times of space, Gemma Tipton, Circa, Spring 2008
selected public collections
The Ministry Rheinland Pfalz, Mainz
The Verbund Collection, Vienna
British Airways Art Collection
The Goethe Institute, London
The Ark, Cultural Centre For Children, Dublin
Rhizome virtual art-base collection, New York
The Irish Museum of Modern Art Net, Dublin