CV

cv | alexander sandy paul omar abdullah kaltenborn

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_ education / training / stipends

1978-82 primary school / essen / d

1982-86 primary school / jeddah / saudi-arabia

1986-89 high school & college / vocational diploma in design / essen / d

1989-90 training / „graphic arts & offset printing“ community college center / san francisco / usa

1994-00 art school / kunsthochschule berlin weißensee / diploma  communication design / berlin / d

2000-01 stipend / akademie schloss solitude / stuttgart / d

2011 stipend / blue mountain center / blue mountain lake / usa

_ work / collaboration

1995-01 member of videocollectiv „ak-kraak“ / berlin / d

1997-99 founding of „zusammen gestalten“ / graphic-design colective / berlin / d

1998,99,02 collaborations with „designarbeid / amsterdam / nl

2001-02 founding of „collective distribution” / international graphic design network

1998-11 member of the migration policy network „kanak-attak“

1999 founding of graphic design studio “image-shift“ / berlin / d

2005-06 art director at „flmh“ / communication agency / berlin / d

2009 office partnership / founding of kaltenborn-maite gbr / „image-shift“ / berlin / d

2015 founding of the non profit association “kotti-coop e.v.” / berlin / d

_ teaching / workshops / seminars (selection)

2000 „declarations!“ symposium / montreal / canada

2001 „collective distribution workshop“ / les halles / brüssel / belgium

2002 „design is not enough“ / london college of printing (lcp) / london / gb

2002 „poster design in social context“/ cooper union / new york / usa

2006 „la revolte des banlieues“ / internationales plakat festival / chaumont / france

2009 „just posters“ / aalto university helsinki / finnland

2011 „visual communication and other misunderstandings“ oddstream festival / nijmegen / nl

2013 identity and other problems („identität und andere wirrungen“) / merz akademie / stuttgart / d

2013 seminar / klasse fons hickmann / udk / berlin / d

2014 seminar / „extra disciplinary – dialogue“ / swinburne university / melbourne / australia

2017 seminar / „design in conflict“ / htw / berlin / d

2019 seminar / foundations class / khb / berlin / d

_ lectures (selection)

2000 declarations! symposium / montreal / canada

2001 les halles / brüssel / belgium

2002 merz akademie stuttgart: „pathway week“ / d

2002 london college of printing (lcp) / london / gb

2002 cooper union school of art / new york / usa

2003 dg 03 conference – monterrey / mexico

2004 fine art university / trivandrum / india

2005 design & people group / cochin / india

2005 lentos museum / linz / austria

2006 städlschule – hfbk / ffm / d

2007 magdalena festival / maribor / slovenien

2008 kreative existenzen / kunsthochschule berlin weissensee / berlin / d

2008 typo konferenz / berlin / d

2009 werktage / burg giebichenstein kunsthochschule / halle / d

2009 aalto universität / helsinki / finnland

2010 cooper union / new york / usa

2011 universität der künste (udk) / berlin / d

2011 casco – office for art, design and theory / utrecht / nl

2014 the royal academy of fine art / kopenhagen / dk

2014 swinburne university / „symposium – dialogue in our times“ / melbourne / australien

2014 dox / prague / czech republic

2017 kunstraum bethanien / “born in the purple” / berlin / d

2019 hebbel am ufer / “gestalten im sozialen handgemenge” / berlin / d

2020 london college of communication / “design in urban conflicts” / gb

_ exhibitions / participation and curatorial activities (selection)

1992 curatorial: „wir sind die guten, und ihr? / offener prozess“ / berlin / d

1997 „alt / use / media“ / shedhalle / zürich / schweiz

2000 curatorial: „street posters from berlin“ in chaumont / france

2000 curatorial: „engagement & grafik design“: ngbk (new society of fine art / berlin / d

2001 curatorial: „collective distribution“/ stuttgart / berlin / d

2001 curatorial: group exibition „collective distribution“ / argos / les hals / brüssel / belgium

2001/02 curatorial: „kanak history revue – opelpitbullautoput“ / volkbühne / berlin / d

2002 „borderpanic“ / performance space, sydney / australia

2002 „tract’eurs 11“ gwangju bienale / south korea

2004 „usted esta aqui“ / exhibition / buenos aires / argentinien

2006 „posterland“ ausstellung brüssel / belgien

_ text / publications (selection)

1999 „design aside of beautiful posters” / hoch die kampf dem / assoziation a / d

2000 „pourquoi présenter les affiches des mouvements allemandes“ / int. poster festival chaumont / f

2000 „remarques et critiques” in catalog of the student competition / poster festival chaumont / f

2000 editor: „engagement & grafik design” / neue gesellschaft für bildende kunst (ngbk) / d

2001 “antiracist posters” / „vorwärts bis zum nieder mit“ / assoziation a / d

2001 editor: „just posters“ / edition solitude / d

2000 editor: design, communication, media („design, kommunikation und medien”) / selbstverlag / d

2002 „interview with sandy k.” in „up against the wall“ / rotorvision / gb

2004 „graphic & agitation 2.“ / phaidon / gb

2006 „influences – a lexicon of contemporary graphic design“ / die gestalten verlag / d

2007 „dear jury, dear …the jury dilemma and some other thoughts“ / „memefest / slovenia

2008 sandy kaltenborn designs / reproduce & revolt / soft skull press / usa

2010 „design is not enough“ / „demonstrating relevance: response-ability“ / slovenien

2015 editor: “and that is why we are here” (“und deswegen sind wir hier”) / spector books / d

2017 the academy of protest & the informal knowledge of the postmigrant city / kotti prinzip / ruby press / d

2017 editor: the legend of social housing (“die legende vom sozialen wohnungsbau”) / berliner hefte / d

2020 gestalten im sozialen handgemenge / hau / berlin / d

2006 „when artists say we“ / artists space, new york. / usa

2008 „nicht alles tun“ / kunstraum emyt / berlin and ig bildende kunst / wien

2009 „signs of revolt“ / festival of radical communication / london / gb

2009 „signs of change“ / exit art / new york / usa

2010 poznan biennale / poznan / poland

2014 dox / “the poster in the clash of ideologies 1914 – 2014“ / prague / czech republic

2015 „wohnungsfrage“ / hkw / berlin / d

2020 gestalten im sozialen handgemenge / hau / berlin / d

in addition: participations in exhibitions in the context of design competitions, for example: the festival international de l‘affiche et des arts graphiques / chaumont (france), the international triennale of political posters / mons (belgium); 100 best posters (d); the most beautiful books in germany (d)

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