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	Curriculum Vitae / Lebenslauf


	Vocational Formation	2001 - 2002	Central Saint Martins College	London
		Postgraduate One Year Course Scenography
		Course Director Pete Brooks
		Masters Degree completed September 2002

		1996 - 2001	Academy of Fine Arts	Hamburg
		Diploma Course Fine Art, Specialisation Scenography
		Diploma Degree 2001 ‘ With Distinction’

		1993 – 1995	Kaiser-Wilhelms-University	Münster
		Foundation Studies in Art History, Musicology and Romance Languages


	Projects selection
	2011	The Absent Hero leads the Way
		an en-route perfoparticipatory performance in collaboration with director Nai Wen Chang and artist Mahela Rostek The project is part of 48Stunden Neukölln / Berlin / June 2011

		Wunschpflanze
		a participatory performance in collaboration with artist Mahela Rostek during wich visitors were offered an opportunity to plant their written wishes in a public park. The project is part of 48Stunden Neukölln / Berlin / June 2011

		The Collection of Fears and Desires
		Martina collaborated with dutch director and set designer Roos van Geffen for this one to one piece collecting the visitors fears and desires. The project is part of Battersea Arts Centre One to One Festival / April 2011
	2010	Die Fliegende Teegesellschaft / The Flying Tea Party
		a hovering Installation in collaboration with lighting designer Johanna Hermann the project is part of ADVENT Parcours Reuterkiez Berlin / November


		Istanbul Artist Residency
		a ten-day residency at Gallery 5533 Unkapani in collaboration with Malte Zacharias and Per Schumann / November


		Set and Costume Designer for the dance production Choreographer: Anthony Taylor Stadttheater Kobelnz / Opening September

		Johannespassion
		Set and Costume Designer Choreographer: Anthony Taylor Music Director: Bernhard Ott Stadttheater Koblenz / Opening March
		Sunflower House– Divided Skies 60 40 20
		Set and Costume Designer in collaboration with Karoline Young Director: Lydia Ziemke Tristan Bates Theatre London / Opening March

		Neurovisions - A European Touretterie
		Music Theatre on the theme of Eurovision Song Contest Set and Costume Design Director: Hans-Jörg Kapp Kampnagel Fabric Hamburg / Opening night 20th of Januar

	2009
		Verpaßte Weihnacht ? (Missing Christmas ?)
		Set and Costume Designer Director: Sandra von Holn Ballhaus Neue Welt / Zwickau / Opening December

		Sind Wir Helden ? (Are we Heroes ?)
		a dance production for music by Phillip Glass Set and Costume Designer Choreographer: Anthony Taylor Stadttheater Koblenz / Opening September

		The Seal of Confession / Das Beichtgeheimnis
		Design and Performance I CONFESS Symposium / University of Glasgow / Scotland / June

		HUBBUB
		designer for this Musical Project Gainsborough Primary School / London / April Eine timewontwait Produktion

		Instructions for a Wake
		Performance in collaboration with Mark Butcher Battersea Arts Center, London / January

		Instructions for a Wake the re-enactment of a family dinner
		Martina is collaborating with artist Mark Butcher on this project Commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre for their Scratch Festival

	2008
		my site I in space 3 a site-specific performance adventure
	Martina is collaborating with other live artists on Battersea Barge London during a three day intensive workshop process and presentation

	Boudoir Rouge - The First
	a cooking event by the artist collective with the same name
	Martina is collaborating with other artists and cooks to produce the first evening of fabulous food at Bonniongton Cafè in Vauxhall / London

	Plum Flower in the Snow
	a new performance by Greta Mendez
	Martina is collaborating designer for the Londonartistsprojects production at HOME in Camberwell /South London / June

	She and Her Sleepwalking
	a performance piece commissioned by Brighton Festival
	The artist duo Martina and Dianna have been invited to create a new work based on the fairy tale of The Princess on the Pea / May

	She and Her Her and There
	a new performance piece for Brighton Festival 2008
	Based on the fairy tale The Princess on the Pea She and Her are creating a piece using strange shaped mattresses, transporting them through St Anne`s Well Gardens and piling them up in unusual ways
	weblink Brighton Festival / April

	She and Her Exchange
	a new performance piece for Greenwich Foot Tunnel
	Deriving from a mysterious encounter between two women at the low point of the tunnel the artist due She and Her are creating a visual installation in the lift cupboard spaces on either side of the River. / April
	weblink cupboardlove

	A Load of Rubbish
	an eco-play with songs by Sue Gordon
	Design workshop leader for the Lower School project at Alleyn's School / Dulwich / January to May

2007
	Intimacy
	Across Visceral and digital Performance
	Martina has been invited to show the one to one encounter THE SEAL OF CONFESSION at the three day symposium and conference / London / December
	www.intimateperformance.org


	Ripe and Rotten
	Battersea Arts Centre YPT project
	Artist and workshop facilitator for the BAC Youth Theatre project which creates a performance installation at SHUNT Lounge London Bridge / October
	www.shunt.co.uk
	myspace weblink

	Zeitreise / Time Travel
	Greizer Theaterherbst
	Workshop facilitator and designer for the six-week workshop project resulting in the opening ceremony of Greizer Theaterherbst/Greiz, Germany / August-September
	www.theaterherbst.de

	The Dong with a Luminous Nose
	London Bubble Theatre Company
	Set and Costume designer for London Bubble's Summer show directed by Karen Tomlin / July and August tour
	www.londonbubble.org.uk

	Ya'akobi and Leidental
	Oval House Theatre
	Set and Costume designer for the revival of the play with songs by Hanoch Levin, directed by Ariella Eshed of Tik-sho-ret Theatre Company / London / June
	www.ovalhouse.com

	Camberwell Arts Festival
	She and Her Crossing
	She and Her have been commissioned by Camberwell Arts to create a new piece of work for the Live Art Programme of the Festival. She and Her Crossing will explore the transitory spaces of traffic light circuits. Between green and red, walk and wait, travel and rest the two performers are embariking on a continuous journey from one axis to the next / London / June
	www.camberwellarts.org.uk

May 2007	Farnham Maltings Festival, Farnham
	Eat what you love
	Martina has been commissioned to create a new piece of work for Rules and Regs, a practice-led development platform supporting artists to create new work in response to rules that challenge habits and stimulate creativity
	www.rulesandregs.org

January to May 2007	Trafalgar Square London
	EAT LONDON - a culinary community project produced by LIFT in collaboration with 14 London comunities who during a workshop proccess created a large scale edible model of London
	Martina has been one of six artist workshop facilitators on the project (SBTD)
	www.liftfest.org.uk

January 2007	Nottingham Trent University
	Collaborators Exhibition - UK Design for Performance 2003-2007
	presentation of The Seal of Confession as part of the national exhibition produced by Society of British Theatre Designers (SBTD)


November 2006	Camden People's Theatre London
	The Seal of Confession
	a One to One performance between one member of audience and the performer in a Confessional
	as part of A Festival of contemporary Performance


September 2006	New End Theatre London Soho Theatre Studio London
	Ya'akobi and Leidental
	Set and Costume Designer
	directed by Ariella Eshed

July 2006	Tate Modern Gallery, London
	Behind the scenes of the Museum
	Participant in a one week collaborative workshop exploring public interventions in the gallery spaces
	led by the Sevensistersgroup

June 2006	State Theatre Munich
	Moses and Aron
	Set Design Assistant to Designer Raimund Bauer
	Director David Pountney

April 2006	Arcola Theatre London
	The Hypochondriac by Molière
	Set and Costume Design
	Directed by Leyla Nazli

April 2006	Private home, North London
	The Tasseographer
	a One to One Performance based on the Art of Tea Leaf Reading
	Devised by Martina von Holn and Caroline Steinbeis
	Performed by Imogen Smith and Hakan Silahsizoglu

2005	The Old Marshall Street Baths, Soho London
	Deepend
	a site-specific Performance created and directed by Geraldine Pilgrim
	Assistant Designer on the Project

2005	Site-specific Performance, North London
	The Tasseographer
	a One to One Performance based on the Art of Tea Leaf Reading
	Performed by Imogen Smith and Hakan Silahsizoglu
	Devised by Martina von Holn and Caroline Steinbeis


2004	Edinburgh Fringe Festival
	Venus, Mars and Chocolate Cake
	A hilarious two women cabaret show
	Performed by Emma Finley and Airlie Scott
	Devised by Graham Hubbard
	A CabarAct Production


	2004	Battersea Arts Centre London
	The Play about the Baby by Edward Albee
	A Goldsmiths College Collaboration
	Directed by Ashlie Corcoran
	Opening night 11.06.2004


	2004	Truman Brewery Brick Lane, London
	Carneskys Ghost Train
	A dark ride across haunted borders
	Assistant Designer to Laura Hopkins
	A Londonartistsprojects and Marisa Carnesky Company Production


	2003	The Actors Centre London
	Crocodile seeking Refuge
	An Ice and Fire Theatre Company Production
	Devised by Sonia Linden and Ariella Eshed


	2003	National Theatre London
	Linbury Biennial Prize Exhibition for Stage Design
	Design Proposal for Jeff Koons by Rainald Goetz


	2003	Hanbury Gallery, Truman Brewery Brick Lane, London
	9birds&adog PROJECT_01
	A group exhibition


	2002	Central Saint Martina College London
	ISITME
	Performance for two actresses and a man
	Adaptation of texts by Sarah Kane and Martin Crimp



	2002	ENDANZA Lugar de Creaciòn	Sevilla
	The worst is Security / Lo Peor es la Seguridad
	Adaptation of texts from the Spanish Baroque
	Performance for one actress and two actors inside and outside a bar
	Installation for one sleeping bag with sound



	2001	Opera Amsterdam	Holland
	Turandot by Giaccomo Puccini
	Design Assistant to Raimund Bauer
	Directed by Nikolaus Lehnhoff


	2001	Academy of Fine Arts	Hamburg
	The Signalwoman
	Diploma Project Fine Art
	Performance and Installation on the grounds
	of an abandoned rail station


	2000	Wolfgang Borchert Theatre	Münster
	When the Puppets had it their own way
	Magic Piece for Children by Rafik Schami
	Directed by Markus Dietze



	2000	Ausstellungsraum Taubenstrasse 13	Hamburg
	12.000 Square Millimetres
	Site-specific Installation
	in Collaboration with Geelke Gaycken
	For the duration of the exhibition the entire gallery floor and partly walls were covered with carefully fitted fish-bone parquet and various objects made of cardboard. Visitors were allowed to enter the Gallery only with felt slippers.



	2000	Deutsches Schauspielhaus	Hamburg
	The Guard's Box
	Installation about a mysterious scientist researching the life and death of Gustav Gründgens

	The Hymn
	Concept and Realisation of a Hymn for the 100th Anniversary of Deutsches Schauspielhaus
	Both projects for the Group Exhibition New Gazes New Spaces


	2000	Zeisehallen Altona	Hamburg
	The Turn of the Screw
	Opera by Benjamin Britten
	Directed by Volkmar Erdmann



	1999	Kampnagel Factory	Hamburg
	Demetrius - From Russia with Love
	Adaptation of the Demetrius Fragment by Friedrich Schiller
	Directed by Claudia Brier



	1999	Deutsches Schauspielhaus	Hamburg
	Heat!
	BACKSTAGE Production
	Devised by Muriel Nestler/Martin Pawlowsky


	1999	OperaStabile / Studio Opera	Hamburg
	Four Note Opera
	by Tom Johnson
	Directed by Ann-Christin Mecke



	1998	Thalia Theatre	Hamburg
	Fat men in skirts
	by Nicky Silver
	Design Assistant to Christin Vahl
	Directed by Beate Andres


	1997	Institute for Theatre, Music Theatre and Film	Hamburg
	Lear's Daughters
	Adaptation of King Lear by William Shakespeare
	Directed by Claudia Brier


	1997	Ernst-Deutsch-Theatre	Hamburg
	A Streetcar named Desire
	by Tennessee Williams
	Design Assistant to Matthias Möbius
	Directed by Peter Heinrich


	1996	Prinzregenten Theatre	Munich
	The Hour we knew nothing of each other
	by Peter Handke
	Design Assistant to Monika Schübl
	Directed by Anna Maslowski