Anja Mohn

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Born: in Leverkusen, Germany
Lives: in Philadelphia, PA

Education
2003 MFA, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2000 Graduation and title "mastery achievement", State Academy for Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany


Solo Exhibitions
1998 Skulptur und Installation, City Hall Gallery, Odenthal, Germany

Group Exhibitions
2011 Beyond Abstraction, CefA Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
2009 State of Consiousness, Collective Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Unsichtbar, w/Artist Group PaulSchwarzLopez at UND #4, art fair, Karlsruhe, Germany
2009 Unsichtbar, South East Europe Culture Institute, Berlin, Germany
2008 Culture House Dilsberg, Fellows of the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis Foundation, Dilsberg, Germany
2007 States of Longing, Chashama Gallery, NYC, curated by Damien Montalieu and Leah Oats
2006 Temporary Cities, Cultural Communication Center, Klaipeda, Lithuania and National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2006 River�s Edge Film Festival, Paducah, Kentucky
2006 It�s a fine line�, Renate Aller and Anja Mohn, Alp Galleries, New York, NY
2006 AAF - Affordable Art Fair, Chelsea, NYC, A Taste of Art Gallery, New York, NY
2006 "Anja Mohn & friends from New York", Roland Aphold Gallery, Allschwil/Basel, Switzerland
2006 "War, what is it good for?", B.K. Smith Gallery, Cleveland, OH (curated by Lyz Bly)
2005 Caspar David Seance, Jack the Pelican Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005 �Exchange Routes�, Theater Utan Kayu, Jakarta/Kedai Kebun Forum, Yogyakarta/ Gaya Fusion of Senses, Bali, Indonesia
2004 Here - Anja Mohn and Lee Arnold, VertexList, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Art Addict-Pool, New York Art Fair, Four Points Hotel, New York, NY
2003 Gleem, Aronson Galleries, New York, N.Y.
2003 Words, Egizios Project, New York, NY
2002 Dream, Goethe Institute Inter Nationes, New York, N.Y. (two person show)
2000 andernorts � blau, Kulturverein Glashaus, Karlsruhe, Germany (two person show)
2000 15 Positionen � R�ume f�r die Kunst, Gro�e Kunstausstellung, Haus der
Kunst, Munich, Germany
2000 Meistersch�ler 1999/2000, Castle of Bruchsal, Bruchsal, Germany
2000 Kunst im Knast, year�s-exhibition of the Gesellschaft der Freunde junger Kunst at the old jail of Baden-Baden, Germany
1997 Plan B � Klasse Sandle, Suzanne Fischer Gallery, Baden-Baden, Germany


Bibliography
Exhibition Catalogues:
Art Addict - Pool, New York Art Fair, Four Points Hotel, NYC, 2004
Gleem, Edited by Parsons School of Design, NYC, 2003
Anja Mohn, Edited by State Academy for Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2000
15 Positionen, Museum Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, 2000
Kunst im Knast, Edited by Gesellschaft Freunde junger Kunst, Baden-Baden, Germany, 2000 Plan B, Galerie Suzanne Fischer, Baden-Baden, Germany, 1997

Reviews:
Hannes Nuesseler: Wirklich Wahr; In: Basler Zeitung, February 02, 2006
Huebl, Michael: Brooklyn und die Zuversicht. Die Kuenstlerin Anja Mohn arbeitet transatlantisch; In: Badische Neueste Nachrichten, January 07, 2006
LaPrade, Erik: Dream. Multimedia Works by Anja Mohn and Christiane Wetzel; In: NYArts Magazine, Vol. 8, No.1, January 2003 and In: Berliner Kunst,Vol. 8, No.1, January 2003
Huebl, Michael: Zwischen Buchstabe und Koerper. Meisterschueler der Akademie im Schloss Bruchsal; In: Badische Neueste Nachrichten, Nr. 145, 27. Juni 2000
Hommerich, Carola: Mit geschlossenen Augen besser sehen. Anja Mohns Werke strahlen Ruhe aus; In: Koelner Stadt Anzeiger, Nr. 264, 12. November 1998

Interviews:
Zur Kunstfoerderung, Interview with Thomas Nehls, In: Mosaik, WDR3, Western German TV and Radio Station, January 17, 2003
Positively Art, Interview with John Valenti, Channel 57, MNN, June 01, 2004


Grants/Awards
2006 Artist Residency, Culture House Dilsberg, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis Cultural Foundation of the Federal State of Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
2001/2002 DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service, one years grant to New York
1997 Annual award of the State Academy for Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany


Publications
The Artist as a Social Critic, Tout-Fait, on-line Art Magazine for Duchamp Studies published by the Art Science Research Laboratory, NYC, February 2005; www.tout-fait.com