Mirjam Kroker works across artistic research, imaginary aesthetics and extra-disciplinary inquiry. Drawing from fine arts, anthropology, collaborative practice and situated forms of knowledge making, her work explores planetary consciousness, relationality and world-making through installations, sound, text, moving image. Her practice unfolds through long-term research ecologies, exhibitions, study groups, assemblies, publications and collaborative constellations situated between art, theory and life.
CURRENT RESEARCH CONSTELLATIONS & STUDY GROUPS
2025 — The (Legal) Person and the Legal Form, Study Group,
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, ES
2025 — Estéticas de la paz y tácticas de deserción, Study Group,
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, ES
2024 — MATERIA ABIERTA, La furia del manto, reclaman las aguas,
independent programme on art, theory and technology, Mexico City, MX
2022 — Derechos Humanos, Arte y Paz, seminar with Roberto Villanueva,
CCEMX, Mexico City, MX
RESIDENCIES
2021 — Ta(r)dino 6 Art Platform, Baku, AZ
2018 — Örö Island Residency, FI, for the projects As Close to the Sea as Possible and Offsides
2018 — Kökar Residency, Åland Archipelago, FI, As Close to the Sea as Possible
2017 — Örö Island Residency, FI, Step Beyond the Mainland: Learning from the Island
2017/18 — CULTURELAND Amsterdam / Starnmeer, NL, Think Like A Mountain / because colonizing heaven might not be such a good idea, within the research framework
The End of Nature As We Know It
GRANTS, AWARDS & COLLECTIONS
2022 — Working Grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds, for the work cycles Planetary Contemplation / Intuition and hearing times (6 month)
2019–2021 — Saxon State Scholarship for advanced Studies in Fine Arts,
The Universe as Your Library and the World as Studio (22 month)
2019 — Caspar David Friedrich Prize, DE
2019 — Federal Prize for Art Students, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, DE accompanying publication
2018 — STEP Travel Grant for As Close to the Sea as Possible and Offsides
2013 — Publication Grant, Austrian Research Association (ÖFG), for Weltwärtige Künstler*_Wege
SELECTED SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
2025 — Chimeric Embassy of Cosmic Concerns: First Assembly of Ideas,
OB Contemporary, Madrid, ES curatorial text
2022 — encuentros frágiles, Galería Aural, Alicante, ES
2021 — “i” is for thinking, Galerie Ursula Walter, Dresden, DE
2021 — Traversing the Unthought, in collaboration with Judith Egger,
Galería Aural, Madrid, ES
2019 — Fieldworks, Caspar-David-Friedrich-Zentrum, Greifswald, DE
2019 — The Intelligent Ear, exhibition and artist talk based on experimental research, Cultureland, Amsterdam, NL
2016 — Juego Puro / Pure Game, ON/OFF Collaboration, Casa del Lago, Mexico City, MX
2016 — Unsolved Equations Do Also Exist, in collaboration with Juan Toro, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2013 — Postcards and Beyond, in collaboration with Juan Toro, IDBA, Cali, CO
2012 — The Dematerialisation of the Art Object, in collaboration with Juan Toro, PzÄ,
Berlin, DE
2007 — The Many Faces of Africa, Club OST in cooperation with Phonetic Art, Vienna, AT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 — ahorita.ahorita, Madrid, ES
2024 — Un gato en un almacén extraño, OB Studio, Madrid, ES
2024 — Under the Same Sky: Patterns and Other Beings, intervention within Dialogue Among Guests, Japanisches Palais, Dresden, DE
2023 — Experimental Film & Video 2023, CICA Museum / Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, KR
2023 — Make Yourself at Home, Ta(r)dino 6 Art Platform, Baku, AZ
2022 — ÖRES 22, Örö Island, FI
2021 — Hoy salí a tu encuentro, ARCO Madrid, represented by Galería Aural, curated by Susana Bañuelos, ES
2021 — Traversing the Unthought, ARCO Madrid, represented by Galería Aural, co-curated by Begoña M. Deltell and Susana Bañuelos, ES
2020/21 — Existenz Chapter 2: Traces, Oktogon, HfBK Dresden, DE
2019 — 24th Federal Prize for Art Students, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, DE
2019 — LIFE SIZE, Weserhalle Berlin / C. Rockefeller Center for Contemporary Arts, Dresden, DE
2019 — Beautiful Failure / Lighter than Air, Senatssaal, HfBK Dresden, DE
2018 — GRAN COLECTIVO, Sexyland / Pantitlán, Amsterdam, NL
2018 — EXISTENZ, Oktogon, HfBK Dresden, DE
2018 — Shelter, HfBK Dresden, DE
2017 — Remembering the Future, HfBK Dresden, DE
TEXTS & SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2025 — UNBURY TOMORROW, aginst the normalisation of war, Madrid
2025 — CHIMERIC EMBASSY OF COSMIC CONCERNS, exhibition catalogue ,
edited ninemoons
2021 — Approximately 87,600 Revolutions in the Same Place. Standing Still – Moving – Rotating, published in mustsee, Publish & Print Verlag, edited by Susanne Altmann, Patricia Westerholz and Galerie Ursula Walter. ISBN 978-3-946339-41-0
2020 — Six Questions Before the Beginning of Something Else, Handkrit, Madrid / Dresden
2018— KILL TIME, Handkrit, Finland
2017 — Music as Organisatori_al Principle, DOCUMNT 1, Spring Edition, Berlin
2016 — Collectivity as a Figure of Thought, in ON/OFF Collectivity and Collaboration, Mexico City
2016 — The Presence of the Absences, RED COLUMN, No. 3, Vol. 1, edited by Mirjam Kroker & Juan Toro in cooperation with Casa del Lago, Mexico City
2014 — RED COLUMN, No. 2, Vol. 1, Projekte für Zeitgenössische Ästhetik (PzÄ), Berlin
2013 — Weltwärtige Künstler*_Wege. Im Kontext der Diskurse über zeitgenössische Kunst aus Afrika, der afrikanischen Diaspora und der Globalisierung visueller Kunst, LIT Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 9783643504760
EDUCATION & TRANSDISCIPLINARY FORMATION
2019–2021 — Postgraduate Studies (Meisterschülerin), Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Dresden (HfBK), Class of Prof. Martin Honert, DE
2014–2019 — Diploma in Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Dresden (HfBK), DE
2016–2017 — Erasmus Programme in Fine Arts, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid, ES
2004–2011 — Diploma in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, AT
2003–2004 — Studies in Ethnology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, DE
RESEARCH, COLLABORATION & COLLECTIVE PRACTICES
Since 2011 — Long-term extra-disciplinary research on world-making practices, forms of knowledge making and situated imaginaries through artistic research ecologies. The work moves between anthropology, speculative aesthetics, collaborative practices and experimental modes of inquiry, engaging questions of planetary consciousness, relationality and other possible worlds.
2014–2019 — ON/OFF Collaboration, Juego Puro / Pure Game, transnational and interdisciplinary collaboration across online/offline formats with Carolina Alba, Jimena Mendizabal, Alejandro Orozco and Juan Toro.
2013–2014 — [~] Archive Flaneurxs, artistic and research collaboration with Juan Toro across Berlin, Lviv and Kyiv.
2013 — Poiesis and Other Languages in Contemporary Aesthetics in Colombia, research project funded by ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, realised in Cali, Medellín and Bogotá, CO.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
State Art Collections Dresden (SKD), DE
Federal Art Collection of Contemporary Art of Germany
MEMBERSHIPS
The New Centre for Research & Practice
BBK Berlin — Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin
EASA — European Association of Social Anthropologists
CO-FOUNDED INITIATIVES
ON/OFF Collaboration (2014–2019)
Projekte für Zeitgenössische Ästhetik / PzÄ (2011–2019)
ninemoons — collaborative editorial project
ART FAIRS
ARCO Madrid — represented by Galería Aural, ES