Clemens von Wedemeyer, born in 1974 in Göttingen, Germany, currently lives and works in Berlin and holds a professorship for media art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. The artist and filmmaker studied photography and media at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld and the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and graduated as Meisterschüler of Astrid Klein in 2005. Clemens von Wedemeyer participated in group shows such as the 1st Moscow Biennale (2005), the 4th Berlin Biennale (2006), Skulptur Projekte Münster in 2007, the 16th Biennale of Sydney (2008) and dOCUMENTA (13) (2012). He had solo shows among others at MoMA PS1, New York, ARGOS Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, the Barbican Art Centre, London, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Hamburger Kunsthalle. “ESIOD 2015” premiered at the 66. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Berlinale) in 2016.

Most recently Wendemeyer´s work has been displayed in solo exhibitions such as Im Kontext der Sammlung: Clemens von Wendemeyer (Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz 2023) and BAKHMUT (Albertinum Dresden 2023).

Full Biography

• Clemens von Wedemeyer, Selected Works, 2013-2016

• Clemens von Wedemeyer, Selected Works, 2006-2012

• Clemens von Wedemeyer, Selected Works, 1998-2006

• Clemens von Wedemeyer, Found Footage, 2008-2010

• Antirepresentationalism 2: Trouble with Realism. Conceptual and Socially oriented Art in Leipzig 1997–2009  ›  Oct 17 – Nov 21, 2009

• Antirepresentationalism 1: Politics of Redescription. Conceptual and Socially oriented Art in Leipzig 1997–2009  ›  Sep 4 – Oct 10, 2009

• Out Of The Dark  ›  Jun 26 – Jul 31, 2016

• Cast Behind You The Bones Of Your Mother  ›  Dec 19, 2015 – Feb 27, 2016

• A Summer Of Films  ›  Jun 28 – Jul 26, 2015

• The Fourth Wall  ›  Jan 23 – Apr 22, 2010

• Antirepresentationalism 3: Issues of Empathy Conceptual and Socially oriented Art in Leipzig 1997–2009  ›  Nov 28, 2009 – Jan 15, 2010

• Online exhibition: The Illusion of a Crowd  ›  Apr 7 – May 31, 2020

• OUT OF THE DARK II  ›  May 23 – Aug 15, 2020

• Social Geometry  ›  Apr 26 – Jun 29, 2024

• Vul|ne|ra|ble  ›  Sep 7 – Nov 16, 2024

• Vienna Contemporary 2024  ›  Sep 12 – Sep 15, 2024

• Social Geometry and its Cracks, Relations, Discontents  ›  Jun 27 – Jun 27, 2024

• Art Basel 2024  ›  Jun 13 – Jun 16, 2024

• ARTISSIMA 2021  ›  Nov 5 – Nov 7, 2021

• ART DÜSSELDORF 2017  ›  Nov 17 – Nov 19, 2017

• ARTSSIMA TURIN 2016  ›  Nov 3 – Nov 6, 2016

• VIENNA CONTEMPORARY 2016  ›  Sep 22 – Sep 25, 2016

• ART COLOGNE 2016  ›  Apr 14 – Apr 17, 2016

• SUMMER FILM FESTIVAL AT KOW  ›  Jun 28 – Jun 28, 2015

• ART COLOGNE 2013  ›  Apr 19 – Apr 22, 2013

• ABC BERLIN 2012  ›  Oct 13 – Oct 16, 2012

• ARCO MADRID 2011  ›  Feb 16 – Feb 20, 2011

• ART BASEL FILM 2010  ›  Jun 16 – Jun 20, 2010