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Elfi Seidel is an artist-researcher concerned with the materialities and meanings of language. Working with artist’s books, analogue prints, writing and sound, she explores the peculiar beauty that language may reveal beyond semantic clarity. Seidel seeks to create an openness around the acts of reading and listening, creating spaces of poetic ambiguity and highlighting the mystical within the linguistically familiar.
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Current & Upcoming
Alphabet Forest has been nominated for the 8th International Marianne Brandt Award
October 29—November 26: Books, Galerie Vincenz Sala, Berlin, DE
September 30—October 2: Fruit Exhibition—Independent Art Book Fair, Associazione Culturale Crudo, Bologna, IT
September 22—25: Am Anfang war das Wort, Atelier Romain Finke, Ravensburg, DE
Curriculum Vitae
| Education | |
|---|---|
| 2018–20 | Master in Artistic Research, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL |
| 2013–17 | Bachelor of Fine Arts, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL |
| Grants & Nominations | |
| 2022 | Stipendium Neustart Kultur, Stiftung Kunstfonds |
| 2020 | Shortlist, Max Ernst-Stipendium der Stadt Brühl |
| 2019 | DAAD Postgraduate Scholarship |
| 2017 | Shortlist, Gerrit Rietveld Academie Award (Thesis) |
| 2017 | Honorary Mention, Gerrit Rietveld Academie Award (Fine Arts) |
| Exhibitions | |
| 2020 | Graduation Show, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL |
| A Simple Fizz, Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives, The Hague, NL | |
| Max Ernst-Stipendium der Stadt Brühl, Rathaus Brühl, Brühl, DE | |
| 2019 | The Ongoing Conversation #6, 1646 - project space for contemporary art, The Hague, NL |
| I was mostly delighted, but yes, also a little bit afraid, Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives, The Hague, NL | |
| 2018 | Languages of the Sky, RietveldTV, Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam, NL (solo) |
| 2017 | Crypt Feeling, Boekmanstichting, Amsterdam, NL |
| Selected. Gerrit Rietveld Academie Awards, Looiersgracht60, Amsterdam, NL | |
| Graduation Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL | |
| Artists’ Books for Everything, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, DE | |
| Blauwdruk, Lokaal 1B, Amsterdam, NL | |
| Fully Booked Exhibition, Fully Booked Art Book Fair, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE | |
| Time Is the Fire In Which We Burn, SSBA Salon, Amsterdam, NL | |
| Bodies. Eye on Art, Eye Film Institute, Amsterdam, NL | |
| 2016 | Beacons in a Sea of Language, Lokaal 1B, Amsterdam, NL (solo) |
| 2015 | Wander & Wonder, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL |
| Artist Talks, Performances & Lectures | |
| 2018 | Sucking on Words, guest lecture at Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Audiovisual Department), Amsterdam, NL |
| Languages of the Sky, artist talk with C.T.H. Fransen, Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam, NL | |
| 2017 | Radio-Performance als Raum-Klang, performance with Maia Urstad, Künstlerforum, Bonn, DE |
| Crypt Feeling. A score moderated by Ivan Cheng, Boekmanstichting, Amsterdam, NL | |
| Fairs | |
| 2022 | I Never Read, Art Book Fair Basel, Kaserne Basel, Basel, CH |
| Miss Read: Berlin Art Book Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE | |
| 2021 | Freunde Ohne Bücher, HAUNT // frontviews, Berlin, DE |
| Bergen Art Book Fair, Bergen Kunsthall and online, Bergen, NO | |
| 2018 | Bergen Art Book Fair. The Common Table, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, NO |
| Printing Plant, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL | |
| Singapore Art Book Fair, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore, SG | |
| Cologne Art Book Fair, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, DE | |
| I Never Read. Art Book Fair Basel, Kaserne Basel, Basel, CH | |
| Miss Read: Berlin Art Book Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE | |
| 2017 | Beurs van Bijzondere Uitgevers, Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL |
| Toronto Art Book Fair. The Common Table, Toronto, CA | |
| 2015 | Beurs van Bijzondere Uitgevers, Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL |
Publications
- Elfi Seidel, That Which We Call a Rose, in Robida 7, Topolò, IT, 2021
- Anne Thurmann-Jajes (ed.), Artists’ Books for Everything, Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, DE, 2020
- Tine Melzer (ed.), I have the best words, Zurich, CH, 2018
- J. P. Ekker, Gerrit Rietveld Academie is tijdelijk museum: Wanna enter?, in Het Parool, Amsterdam, NL, 2017
Collections
- Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’écriture et la littérature, Montricher, CH
- mumok library, Vienna, AT
- Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US
- Radiceterna Arte e Ambiente, Palermo, IT
- Research Centre for Artists’ Publications, Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, DE