Sonja Heller (born 1976) artist

Sound/Music/Art
2015
2014
2013-today
2011-today

Screening of Videos at Kino Moviemento, Pizza Suicide Club + Boddinale in Berlin

Beginning of Video Work (especially stop-motion)
Creation of Mixed-media Paintings of the series Cadavre Exquis & other paintings
Participation on Berlin Graphic Days #5;
Exhibition coming up in Uferstudios Berlin, March 2015
Creation of Sound pieces under the name Xolotl

Education Sound/Music/Video/Art (Selection)

2014/2015
2014
2014
2013-2014
2013
2013
1991-2009
2006
2002-2004
2001-2004
2000
1995
1985-1991

Violoncello Lessons with Julia Hecht in Berlin (DE)

Video Mapping with Kalma at Where Is Jesus?, Berlin (DE)
VJ-Workshop (Modul 8) with Kalma at Filmarche Berlin (DE)
Lessons to create electronic music devices with Leo Solter in Berlin (DE)
PhonoSynth-Workshop at Institut fr Neue Medien, Frankfurt (DE)
Max/Msp/Jitter Workshop with Yoan Trellu, NK Berlin (DE)
Guitar Lessons with Friedrich Schapper, Fritz Haas et. al in Berlin + Frankfurt (DE)
Introduction into Adobe Photoshop + After Effects at VHS Berlin (DE)
Jazz Singing Lessons with Silke Breidbach in Berlin (DE)
Lessons in Music Theory and Composition with Robert Mau in Berlin (DE)
Intensive Drawing Course with Christopher Balzer in Berlin (DE)
Oil Painting Course in Mainz (DE)
Piano Lessons with Anne Hundertmark in Bad Nauheim (DE)

Performances (Selection)
2015
2013/2014
2013/2014
2011-2014

2003-2014
2012/2013
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2010
2009-2011

Drawing Sound Performance with Roman

Stolyar
The Discipline of Do Easy, Duo with
Leo Solter
Meals on Wheels, Solo

N.K. Berlin (DE)

Club der polnischen Versager,

Brotfabrik Berlin (DE)
Euro-Scene Leipzig, Sommers End
Festival Berlin (DE)
Nightshade Plants, Solo
Brotfabrik Berlin, Sommerwerft
Festival, Frankfurt (DE),
chileno de las artes, Santiago,
Sala Andes, Concepcin (CL),
Trilhas da Arte, So Paulo (BR),
, Moscow (RU),
Sargfabrik, Vienna (AT)
Videos for Bands and other artists (Madsen, The Go! Team, The Coral,
Deadend Ladies, Ruth Biller, James Slater et. al)
Theory of Relativity, Solo
Trilhas da Arte, So Paulo (BR),
Brotfabrik Berlin (DE)
Heatwave, Duo with Ulrike Kley
ada studio, Berlin (DE)
Russian Roulette with Poema Theater
Project " ", Moscow
(RU)
Architects of Change with Asya Mukhina
Museum of Modern Art Moscow
(Video), Oleg Makarov + Patrick K.-H.
(RU)
(Sound)
Dance of Darkness with Valentin Tzin
Museum of Modern Art Moscow
(Dance), Asya Mukhina (Video), Oleg
(RU)
Makarov + Patrick K.-H. (Sound)
Memorial Carnival with Poema Theatre
Black Box Theater St. Petersburg
(RU)
Campos de Flores with Pamela Lagos
Sala Sergio Aguirre, Santiago (CL)
Bodyscapes with Raven Company
Dansverksti Reykjavk (IS)
Brain Machine with TESTCARD
ausland + RufReaktor, Berlin (DE)
Silence
ada studio, Berlin (DE)
Daily Icarus, Music: Leo Solter
Karlstad (SE) / BaCkStAgE +
Brotfabrik Berlin (DE)

Teaching
2014/2015
2009-2014
2011

Working as private coach in Berlin

Butoh-Workshops in Basel (CH), Karlstad (SE), Reykjavk (IS), Vienna (AT), Berlin,
Bremen, Frankfurt (DE), So Paulo, Salto (BR), Santiago, Concepcin, Talca (CL),
St. Petersburg, Moscow (RU), Palanga (Dance Academy of Lithuania), Riga (LV)
Member of the exam committee for the students of contemporary dance
at the Universidad Mayor, Santiago de Chile

Education Dance/Theater/Performance (Selection)

2010
2009-2010
1999-2012
2008/2009
2008/2009
2009 + 2012
2002-2004
2001 2004
1979-1994

Contemporary Dance with Ori Flomin, Janna Schimka & Klaus Borkens, Berlin +
Bochum (DE)
Body Weather KIM Training with Elias Cohen, Berlin (DE)
Butoh-Workshops with Minako Seki, Atsushi Takenouchi, Yuko Kaseki and Ko
Murobushi et. al in Europe, Santiago de Chile and Moscow (RU)
Noguchi Taiso with Imre Thormann in Berlin (DE)
Teacher Education of Dance of Metamorphoses of Fe Reichelt, Berlin (DE)
Shibari with Dasniya Sommer in Berlin (DE)
Contemporary Dance Training with Friederike Koch in Berlin (DE)
Europisches Theaterinstitut e.V. Berlin (DE)
Graduation: Actress
Ballet-Education at various dance studios in Germany

Other Educations/Jobs
2007-2015
2006-2007

Freelancer at editorial department of Cine Marketing GmbH, working with Indesign,

QuarkXPress & EventX
Freelancer at Popkomm Journal

2006-2007

Freelancer at editorial department of tip and Zitty

2000-2001

6 months tailor internship in Berlin

1996-2000

Studies of German and Romance philology at Johann-Wolfgang-von-GoetheUniversity in Frankfurt, Degree: Intermediate examination

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