Dr Maxa Zoller is the new Artistic Director of the International Women’s Film Festival Dortmund | Cologne. She also works as a film curator for Art Basel and taught experimental film history and theory at divers universities including the American University in Cairo, Goldsmiths College and Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London. In 2014 she co-curated a major solo exhibition of Anthony McCall at EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. Further, Zoller has presented various experimental film screenings in London and beyond; for instance Tate Modern, South London Gallery, no.w.here, the Munich Filmmuseum and the Centre of Contemporary Art in Geneva. In her writings for MIT, IB Tauris, JRP-Ringier and Hatje Verlag she covered topics ranging from post-socialist identity discourse and feminism to her academic expertise; the history of Western avant-garde and experimental film, its contexts of exhibition and its historiography.

Last update 1st October 2018

Marie Losier (b.France,1972), studied literature at the University of Nanterre (France, BA, 1995) and Fine Arts at Hunter College, City University of New York (MFA, 2003). She has made a number of film portraits on avant-garde directors, musicians and composers, such as the Kuchar brothers, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman, Tony Conrad, Genesis P-Orridge, Alan Vega, Peter Hristoff and Felix Kubin. Whimsical, poetic, dreamlike and unconventional, her films explore the life and work of these artists.

Losier’s films are regularly shown at prestigious venues such as The Cannes Film Festival, The Berlinale, The Rotterdam Film Festival, IDFA, The Tate Modern, MoMA, Le Palais de Tokyo, Le Centre Georges Pompidou and La Cinémathèque Francaise. She was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum, N.Y.C). Losier’s first feature film was a portrait of pioneering musician-artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV) and their partner Lady Jaye.

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2011, winning the Caligary and the Teddy Awards. She also won the Grand Prize at Indielisboa, the Prix Louis Marcorelles and the Prix des Bibliothèques at Cinéma du Réel; the film was released in France, Canada, Mexico, Germany and in the USA. In 2013/14 Losier was awarded the prestigious DAAD Residency Award in Berlin and the Guggenheim Award to work on her new feature film Cassandro The Exotico!, a portraitof the celebrated Mexican wrestler Saul Almendariz.

She is currently an artist-in-residence at La Cité des Arts, Paris and her feature film Cassandro The Exotico! premiered at The Cannes Film Festival in May of 2018. It was released in France in December 2018 and will be in theaters in the US, opening at the Metrograph NYC in the summer of 2019.

Losier recently had a mid-career retrospective at MoMA NY and all of her films were acquired for the museum’s archives in November of 2018. Eric Mangion curated an exhibition with Marie Losier and Pauline Curnier-Jardin at Fondation Ricard, Paris in May 2019.

Marie Losier has just finished a film :Felix in Wonderland, on the German composer and musician Felix Kubin. She presented two retrospectives in 2019, during the Autumn Festival at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, and at the Cinematheque of Athens.

Last update 22nd October 2020

Lives and works in Madrid. As a multidisciplinary artist, his work approaches the artistic processes from a critical point of view; the artist as a promoter of ideas, the political role of creators, the meaning of art pieces, the strategies that allow to bring them to life, their mechanisms of production, promotion and consumption, the efficiency of spaces assigned to art, as well as the analysis and experience of those who watch and interprets them.

His work has been internationally exhibited in places as ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico DF, Centro de las Artes de Monterrey and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Mexico; Boston Center for the Arts, Boston (MA), USA; Ayala Museum, Manila, Philippines; The Whitechapel Gallery in London; Abierto X Obras, Matadero Madrid, Spain; MAC Gas Natural Fenosa, La Coruña, Spain; and in Biennials such as Singapore and Havana’s The End of the World Biennial. And it is also held in collections of museums as MNCARS, MUSAC, ARTIUM, IVAM, and La Caixa, among others.

He is currently presenting “The Reason is a Plant”, a solo show at Max Estrella Gallery in Madrid, which shows the results of the Concert for the Biocene, held on June 22nd at the Liceu Theater in Barcelona.

Last updated: 18th November, 2020

Lisa Long és una comissària especialitzada en art contemporani i time-based art. El seu enfocament curatorial és impulsat per l’artista i busca amplificar les pràctiques transdisciplinàries de tot el món que s’impliquen en formes d’investigació crítica i storytelling. Des de 2018 fins a 2025, Long va exercir com a Directora Artística i Comissària de la Julia Stoschek Foundation, una de les fundacions privades més grans del món dedicades al time-based art. Actualment Long actua com a fundadora i directora de Companion Culture, una agència curatorial que fomenta projectes a l’avantguarda de l’art contemporani, connectant empreses, fundacions, empresaris i mecènics amb artistes i institucions.