Philipp Geist (VIDEOGEIST) was born on February 28, 1976, in Witten, Germany. He grew up in Weilheim (Upper Bavaria). Since 1999, he has been living and working in Weilheim and Berlin.
Philipp Geist works internationally as a multi-media artist in the mediums of video, performance, photography and painting. Together with the symphony orchestra OBC Barcelona and the Finnish sound ensemble Pan Sonic, Geist opened in 2004 the Sonar Festival in Barcelona. His works were shown at the Dissonanze Festival in Rome, at Clubtransmediale in Berlin and at the Mutek Festival in Montreal which is renowned for new media.
He has exhibited his live video performances internationally at the Central House of Artists (CHA) in Moscow, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London, the National Gallery in Warsaw (Zacheta) and at the opening of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. In 2005, he realized the large project “Winterzauber” (“Winter Magic”) for the Lake Side Restaurant in Zurich and in 2006, he opened the Salon Noir within the context of the exhibition “Melancholie, Genie und Wahnsinn” (“Melancholy, Genius and Insanity”) in the Berlin Neuen National Galerie.
It was through photography and painting that Geist gradually made his way to video art. He had his debut as a painter at the age of 18. For the presentation of his artworks he selected an unusual location: a forest in Polling, Upper Bavaria. A number of exhibitions of his pictures and photography followed thereafter in the Stadtmuseum Schonau (slideshow with Console/Martin Gretschmann), in gallery Type-E in Munich, and in others.
Geist worked together with zither soloist/composer Leopold Hurt and electronic musicians Hannes and Andi Teichmann (Bros. Teichmann) for the project Hurt Teichmann Geist. Moreover, his collaborative work with Dirk Dresselhaus (SchneiderTM) and Ilpo Vasäinen (Pan Sonic) resulted in the “noise” music project “Angel”. Geist also produced a two-hour art film for the live ensemble SchneiderTM and Kpt.Michi.gan which was shown on the “Zoomer” world tour in 2003/04.
In the year 2000 Geist created a video composition for the musical piece “Jolanda” by the Weilheimer Avantgarde jazz ensemble Tied & Tickled Trio (with Markus and Micha Acher (“The Notwist”) as well as with jazz saxophonist Johannes Enders and others). From that time onward his works have been sought after at international video and digital art festivals such as the Biennale in Santiago de Chile, “Kurzfilmtagen” in Regensburg, the media tower in Graz, “Filmwinter” in Stuttgart and the Electronic Art Festival in Warsaw.
Geist's subsequent projects included the production of music video clips for Phonem, Tied & Tickled Trio, Console, Philip Boa, Angel, beigeGT, Ephy and Kpt.michi.gan.
In his exhibition project “ice age” (working title) in the so called Fischerbau (Upper Bavaria), the former ice cellar of the Polling monastery, built by Johann Michael Fischer in 1745/46, the multimedia artist Philipp Geist puts his focus on the transparent crystalline solid body and its three states of aggregation.
The historical ice cellar building is the starting point of his artistic discussion. In his for the ice cellar designed video-sound-installation, Geist will be responsive to the architecture of the cellar and will explore the rapport between humans and nature.
In his video-room-installation “RIVERINE ZONES CONNECTED” Geist shows video recordings of rivers from different international locations. With underwater-video-cameras, he records the world under water. It is an attempt to get in touch with our immediate, but distant reality, an artistic discussion with the element water.
Geist points out a part of our reality that is usually hidden from us.
_ artists:
_ masayuki akamatsu
_ ricardo caballero
_ fried dähn
_ friedrich förster
_ anja füsti
_ philpp geist
_ paul hubweber
_ kasumi
_ tobias kirstein
_ mark l. kysela
_ thomas maos
_ vj oxygen
_ solu
_ sabine weissinger
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