INFO
ARTISTIC PRACTICE
Tamara Knapp is a visual artist and visual researcher based in Berlin. Her artistic practice operates at the intersection of nature, technology, the body and the production of visual knowledge. She explores how scientific and technological systems shape our perception of organic forms, materiality and the human body.
Drawing on scientific imagery, historical archives and natural phenomena, Knapp develops multimedia works in which digital imaging techniques intersect with analogue materials, photographic processes, audiovisual media and spatial installations. She is particularly interested in the transitions between organic and synthetic forms, as well as the question of how images generate, store and transform knowledge.
In her long-term artistic research project ‘OVA’, she explores the female body and reproduction as biological, cultural and technological visual spaces. The work combines historical medical depictions and scientific visualisations with contemporary imaging technologies and feminist critique of science.
Knapp’s works often emerge from processes of collecting, archiving, translating and reorganising. She regards artistic practice as a form of research in which scientific, technical, social and embodied knowledge overlap and are translated into new visual forms.
EDUCATION
Year
Place
Type
Title
2019-2020
2016-2019
2013-2016
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Heidelberg
Master of Arts
Bachelor of Arts
Training
Visual Communication/Visual Cultures
Visual Communication
Professionally Trained Photographer
EXHIBITIONS
Year
Date
Place
Type
Title
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
08.05.-08.06.
24.05.
30.04.
25.06.-07.07.
30.08.
17.09.
20.-22.09.
12.-15.09.
26.-27.09.
1.-2.10.
Sep-Nov
28.09.-01.10.
01.09.-17.09.
11.08.-13.08.
13.11.-21.11.
13.07.-15.07.
25.09.
01.10.-20.11.
23.04.
01.11.-20.11.
08.09.
03.07.-15.07.
28.09.
01.07.-05.07.
03.02.-05.02.
01.07.-05.07.
01.07.-05.07.
01.07.
FOMA GALLERY Leipzig
Chaussee 131 - Berlin
B-Dome Berlin
Friedrich-Schiller Uni Jena
Tarmac Festival
Reeperbahn Festival
DING at Vienna Design Week
Dock 11 Berlin
Werk2 & Paulinum Leipzig
Futurium Berlin
Loopart Los Angeles
Dock 11, Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 44a Berlin
Olganitz, Nachtdigital
Galerie HBK Saarbrücken
Theaterapotheke Weimar
UT-Connewitz Leipzig
Trafo Jena
Online Exhibition
Online Exhibition
«4th»Y Show« in Macau
Funkhaus Weimar
Weltformat, Kantonalbank Luzern
Studio Wägetechnik Weimar
Coudraystraße Weimar
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Limona Weimar
Coudraystraße Weimar
Textile Print
Print
Performance
Research
Performance
Performance
Video+Print
Performance
Performance
Video
www
Performance
Print
Installation
Research
Curation
Performance
Video, Image
Research
Research
Research
Installation, Print
Print
Research
Research
Magazine
Image
Image
encoded lithic - the client is dead
OVA II - Encoding Fertility
OVA I - The Eggcell
Technological and natural
Dreamcapsule w/Xaver Hirsch
OVA I - The Eggcell
Decoding Materiality
Kirupark w/Christine Bonansea
Johann2
Segments of a Cell
Roots & origins - digital materiality
Artificial Intelligence
Complex machine to flow
NACHTI w/Xaver Hirsch
Forms of the Formless, SfVR
Space & Matter
Teleskop Radius
Segments of a Cell
«Metalawn» - Marke.6
Forms of the Formless
Funkhaus
The horizon is our boundry
Thermal Printing
Building a Pool with a System
Subkulturelle Formen der Verständigung
Port Magazin w/Lena Weber
Die Macht des Bildes
Mediale Plakate
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
Year
Date
Place
Type
Title
2025
2024
2021
2020
2019
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
Thurungia
Los Angeles USA
Jena
Lucerne
Frankfurt
Hamburg
Prague
Tokyo
New York
Scholarship
Residency
Residency
Award
Award
Award
Award
Award
Certificate
Scholarship of Fine Arts
Loop Art Critique
Künstlerische Tatsachen
Weltformat Newcomar Top 10
German Design Award
ADC-Junior (Silver)
Fedrigoni-Card-Couture (Silver)
TDC Tokyo
TDC New York
TALKS
Year
Date
Place
Type
Title
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
B-Dome Berlin
NCAD - Dublin
Elastique, Köln
republica Hamburg
Trafo Jena
Uni Jena
Bauhaus-Uni Weimar
Designakademie Berlin
Bauhaus-Uni Weimar
Bauhaus-Uni Weimar
Bauhaus-Uni Weimar
Trafo Jena
Trafo Jena
Artist Talk
Guestlecture
Artist Talk
Lecture
Artist Talk
Artist Talk
Artist Talk
Artist Talk
Symposium
Artist Talk
Artist Talk
Trafo Jena
Trafo Jena
Node Session I
Artistic Apporaches
Beam Dream
OVA - the female egg cell
Feminist perspectives on technology
Technological and aesthetical
»Generate, interact, react«
Designing Systems and Tools
(Un)natural phenomenologies
Space for Visual Research
Artistic Systems
Shapes, Cells and Bioinformatics
»Segments of a Cell«
TEACHING
Year
Date
Place
Type
Title
2024
2023
2022
2020
2019
SoSe
07.10.-17.10.
WiSe
WiSe
WiSe
WiSe
SoSe
SoSe
01.04.-31.07.
WiSe
SoSe
WiSe
SoSe
SoSe
SoSe
WiSe
HSBI-Bielefeld
HSBI-Bielefeld
HSBI-Bielefeld
HSBI-Bielefeld
JUBI Juist
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Bauhaus-University Weimar
HSBI-Bielefeld
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Bauhaus-University Weimar
HSBI-Bielefeld
JUBI Juist
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Artistic Staff
Media Art
Coding
Sound Art
Workshops
Crossmedia
Research
Technical
Research
Research
Technical
Workshops
Research
Research
Research
Artistic Staff
Artistic Staff
Artistic Staff
Typedesign
Creative Technologies
Mechanical Sight
Organics in the node systems
Sounds of Nature
Creative Writing
Generate, Interact, React
Hyperspace <> Hyperimage
(De)naturalizing Materiality
Space for Visual Research
Visual Tools
Notation of Flow
Video & Photography
Mixtured Spaces
Space & Matter
Visual Data
Between Spectator, Actor & Space
Fragmenting Chronology
Archiv der Aspekte
Type and Object
INFO
ARTISTIC PRACTICE
Tamara Knapp is a visual artist and visual researcher based in Berlin. Her artistic practice operates at the intersection of nature, technology, the body and the production of visual knowledge. She explores how scientific and technological systems shape our perception of organic forms, materiality and the human body.
Drawing on scientific imagery, historical archives and natural phenomena, Knapp develops multimedia works in which digital imaging techniques intersect with analogue materials, photographic processes, audiovisual media and spatial installations. She is particularly interested in the transitions between organic and synthetic forms, as well as the question of how images generate, store and transform knowledge.
In her long-term artistic research project ‘OVA’, she explores the female body and reproduction as biological, cultural and technological visual spaces. The work combines historical medical depictions and scientific visualisations with contemporary imaging technologies and feminist critique of science.
Knapp’s works often emerge from processes of collecting, archiving, translating and reorganising. She regards artistic practice as a form of research in which scientific, technical, social and embodied knowledge overlap and are translated into new visual forms.
EDUCATION
Year
Place
Type
Title
2019-2020
2016-2019
2013-2016
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Heidelberg
Master of Arts
Bachelor of Arts
Training
Visual Communication/Visual Cultures
Visual Communication
Professionally Trained Photographer
EXHIBITIONS
Year
Date
Place
Type
Title
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
08.05.-08.06.
24.05.
30.04.
25.06.-07.07.
30.08.
17.09.
20.-22.09.
12.-15.09.
26.-27.09.
1.-2.10.
Sep-Nov
28.09.-01.10.
01.09.-17.09.
11.08.-13.08.
13.11.-21.11.
13.07.-15.07.
25.09.
01.10.-20.11.
23.04.
01.11.-20.11.
08.09.
03.07.-15.07.
28.09.
01.07.-05.07.
03.02.-05.02.
01.07.-05.07.
01.07.-05.07.
01.07.
FOMA GALLERY Leipzig
Chaussee 131 - Berlin
B-Dome Berlin
Friedrich-Schiller Uni Jena
Tarmac Festival
Reeperbahn Festival
DING at Vienna Design Week
Dock 11 Berlin
Werk2 & Paulinum Leipzig
Futurium Berlin
Loopart Los Angeles
Dock 11, Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 44a Berlin
Olganitz, Nachtdigital
Galerie HBK Saarbrücken
Theaterapotheke Weimar
UT-Connewitz Leipzig
Trafo Jena
Online Exhibition
Online Exhibition
«4th»Y Show« in Macau
Funkhaus Weimar
Weltformat, Kantonalbank Luzern
Studio Wägetechnik Weimar
Coudraystraße Weimar
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Limona Weimar
Coudraystraße Weimar
Textile Print
Print
Performance
Research
Performance
Performance
Video+Print
Performance
Performance
Video
www
Performance
Print
Installation
Research
Curation
Performance
Video, Image
Research
Research
Research
Installation, Print
Print
Research
Research
Magazine
Image
Image
encoded lithic - the client is dead
OVA II - Encoding Fertility
OVA I - The Eggcell
Technological and natural
Dreamcapsule w/Xaver Hirsch
OVA I - The Eggcell
Decoding Materiality
Kirupark w/Christine Bonansea
Johann2
Segments of a Cell
Roots & origins - digital materiality
Artificial Intelligence
Complex machine to flow
NACHTI w/Xaver Hirsch
Forms of the Formless, SfVR
Space & Matter
Teleskop Radius
Segments of a Cell
«Metalawn» - Marke.6
Forms of the Formless
Funkhaus
The horizon is our boundry
Thermal Printing
Building a Pool with a System
Subkulturelle Formen der Verständigung
Port Magazin w/Lena Weber
Die Macht des Bildes
Mediale Plakate
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
Year
Date
Place
Type
Title
2025
2024
2021
2020
2019
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
Thurungia
Los Angeles USA
Jena
Lucerne
Frankfurt
Hamburg
Prague
Tokyo
New York
Scholarship
Residency
Residency
Award
Award
Award
Award
Award
Certificate
Scholarship of Fine Arts
Loop Art Critique
Künstlerische Tatsachen
Weltformat Newcomar Top 10
German Design Award
ADC-Junior (Silver)
Fedrigoni-Card-Couture (Silver)
TDC Tokyo
TDC New York
TALKS
Year
Date
Place
Type
Title
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
B-Dome Berlin
NCAD - Dublin
Elastique, Köln
republica Hamburg
Trafo Jena
Uni Jena
Bauhaus-Uni Weimar
Designakademie Berlin
Bauhaus-Uni Weimar
Bauhaus-Uni Weimar
Bauhaus-Uni Weimar
Trafo Jena
Trafo Jena
Artist Talk
Guestlecture
Artist Talk
Lecture
Artist Talk
Artist Talk
Artist Talk
Artist Talk
Symposium
Artist Talk
Artist Talk
Trafo Jena
Trafo Jena
Node Session I
Artistic Apporaches
Beam Dream
OVA - the female egg cell
Feminist perspectives on technology
Technological and aesthetical
»Generate, interact, react«
Designing Systems and Tools
(Un)natural phenomenologies
Space for Visual Research
Artistic Systems
Shapes, Cells and Bioinformatics
»Segments of a Cell«
TEACHING
Year
Date
Place
Type
Title
2024
2023
2022
2020
2019
SoSe
07.10.-17.10.
WiSe
WiSe
WiSe
WiSe
SoSe
SoSe
01.04.-31.07.
WiSe
SoSe
WiSe
SoSe
SoSe
SoSe
WiSe
HSBI-Bielefeld
HSBI-Bielefeld
HSBI-Bielefeld
HSBI-Bielefeld
JUBI Juist
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Bauhaus-University Weimar
HSBI-Bielefeld
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Bauhaus-University Weimar
HSBI-Bielefeld
JUBI Juist
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Artistic Staff
Media Art
Coding
Sound Art
Workshops
Crossmedia
Research
Technical
Research
Research
Technical
Workshops
Research
Research
Research
Artistic Staff
Artistic Staff
Artistic Staff
Typedesign
Creative Technologies
Mechanical Sight
Organics in the node systems
Sounds of Nature
Creative Writing
Generate, Interact, React
Hyperspace <> Hyperimage
(De)naturalizing Materiality
Space for Visual Research
Visual Tools
Notation of Flow
Video & Photography
Mixtured Spaces
Space & Matter
Visual Data
Between Spectator, Actor & Space
Fragmenting Chronology
Archiv der Aspekte
Type and Object
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