Jens Isensee is a multimedia artist with a focus on participative art and interactive video installations. His works are mostly made of temporal materials such as cardboard and plastic in combination with technical elements. These range from motors, loudspeakers and cameras to computer hardware, sensors and screens. He also creates digital prints and experimental shortfilms. Born 1981 in Braunschweig, Germany
2003 – 2011
Fine Arts Studies, Diploma with distinction at HBK Braunschweig, University of Art
Film class – Prof. Michael Brynntrup
Video installation – Prof. Corinna Schnitt
Sculpture – Prof. Thomas Virnich
Grants and Awards
2017
Award winner, game jam, Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft, Berlin
Game Mixer, group show & exchange program, Goethe-Institut Südafrika, Johannesburg
Award Nomination & group show, Azplay Festival, Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao
2015 – 2016
Artist in Residence, Künstlerstätte, Stuhr-Heiligenrode
2014
Shortfilm contest winner, ‘Transit’,Public LED screening, Volksbank Brawopark
2013
LIONEL Award, ‘Das Imaginäre’, Ottmerbau, Braunschweig
Performance Award, ‘Schrödinger’s Birds, Fulldome Festival, Zeiss-Planetarium, Jena
2012
1st Prize Interactive Implementation,
für ‘Das Imaginäre’, Koordinaten Festival for Spacial Media, FH-Kiel
Exhibitions, Screenings, Events
2018
4.2. – 2.4. | Residence II, group show, Syker Vorwerk, Syke
12.8. – 19.9. | Surviving the Fitness, group show, Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel
07.12. – 21.01.19 | Meta, solo show, Kunsthaus BBK, Braunschweig
2017
Money Money Money, group show, Städtische Ausstellungshalle Braunschweig
Reversed Festival, group show, Museumsquartier, Wien
Artcore, group show, Städtische Ausstellungshalle Braunschweig
2016
Kern der Dinge, solo show, Künstlerstätte Stuhr-Heiligenrode
Wechselspiel, group show, Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Braunschweig
Indie Expo, group show, Respawn Conference, Köln
2015
Hier und Jetzt, group show, Konsumverein, Braunschweig
HBK Exhibition, group show, IdeenExpo, Hannover
The Forest, group show, Group Global, Berlin
Neu, group show, Torhaus Galerie, Braunschweig
Nachts sind alle Katzen Grau, group show, Aula Galerie, HBK Braunschweig
2014
Primat des Privaten, exhibtion with Deborah Uhde Malerhof, Voigtholz
Funding aproval by nordmedia for the software project Imagine Earth, Expo Plaza, Hannover
Intensivstation, group show, Raumlabor, Braunschweig
StattLAB Collective No.1, group show, Stattbad Wedding, Berlin
2013
Objekte für Subjekte, solo exhibition, Kunstverein Jahnstraße e.V., Braunschweig
Schrödinger’s Birds, screening, B3 Bienale, Frankfurt
Arbeitskrise & Grundeinkommen, screening, Contravision Filmfestival, Berlin
Quadrature of the Triangle, public LED screening, Volksbank Brawopark
2012
Herbstausstellung, group show, Kunstverein Hannover
Neo Kuben, Winner of Quigo student film contest, HAWK Hildesheim
Too Much, screening, Extra Filmfestival, Kub Galerie Leipzig
Intel LevelUp Award, Winner – Best Simulation, Online Award
Romantik 2.0, group show, Kulturanker e.V., Magdeburg
2011
Zeit ausstellen, group show, Raumlabor, Braunschweig
Das Imaginäre, diploma exhibition, Filmklasse, Rundgang HBK Braunschweig
2010
China Associations, screening, Braunschweiger Filmfestival and Asian Hot Shots Festival, Berlin
Visual Volt Amplified, group show, Haus Nordischer Botschaften, Berlin
The Green Wall, screening, Anadoma Filmfestival, LOT-Theater, Braunschweig
Schnittraum, show with Adrian Schedler, Galerie Schnittraum, Braunschweig
2009
Visit from Braunschweig, group exhibition, Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China
LiS Ensemble, group show, Rebenpark, Braunschweig
The Green Wall, screenings, Various galleries, Peking, Chongqing
Serious Games Award winner – Best Simulation, ceBIT, Hannover
2008
Imagine Cup Finals, group showcase presentation, Le Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
2007
Inside Out, group show, Billboard show in public space, Braunschweig
2005
PLATTFORM #2, group show, Kunstverein Hannover
2004
Grundklassenausstellung der Klasse Nicola Torke, HBK Braunschweig