*biography

knowbotiq (Yvonne Wilhelm, Christian Huebler)
former: knowbotic research/together with Alexander Tuchacek,  has participated in Documenta fifteen, 49th Venice Biennale (Austrian Pavillon) , Art Encounter Biennal Timisoara, Moscow Biennale, Seoul Biennale, Hongkong Shenzen Biennale, Biennale Rotterdam and exhibited in New Museum New York, Witte de With Rotterdam, MOCA Taipeh, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Skuc Gallery Ljubljana, NAMOC Beijing, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Hamburger Kunstverein, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Oslo, Museum Ludwig Köln and has received major awards including: the Pax Art Award Basel (2019), the Swiss Art Award (2012), the Claasen Prize for Media Art and Photography, Cologne; the international ZKM Media-art award; August Seeling-Award of Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum.
knowbotiq holds a professorship at the MFA program, University of the Arts Zurich.
2024 “X Properties: The film series “, Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), Berlin
“Carbon as Energy, Life and Currency”, Sea World Culture & Arts Center, Shenzhen
“When the Jackal leaves the sun”, Flutgraben Berlin
Wuhan Biennale 2024
2023 “Terra Libra”, Rijksmuseum Twenthe
“Postscript of Silence”, McaM Shanghai
“Gold and Mercury, you can find it when you face the sun”, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai
“SHIFT, AI and a coming community” Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
” My Rhino is not a Myth”, Art Encounter Biennal Timisoara
“Desert Realities”, Aktuelle Kunst in Graz -esc Medien Kunst Labor
“SHIFT, AI and a coming community” MARTA Herford
Swiss Art Award, Basel
Kunstraum Lüneburg, Performance @ DGAE Konferenz, Transcultural media aesthetics
2022 “Compost Network“, 100 days of Documenta fifteen
“Mining the Unconsciousness”, Helmhaus Zurich
“Feedback, Mc Luhan and the Arts”, Fonderie Darling, Montreal
“X Properties–  De-/Financialisation of the City”, NGBK Berlin
Situiert im Gobalen: Konflikte, Kosten, Atmosphären; Kunstuniversität Linz
“The Driving Factor”, NGBK Berlin – Interventionen im öffentlichen Raum Brandenburg und Sachsen
“Kunst fur diese Stadt”,  Kunstankaeufe der Stadt Zuerich
2021 “We = Link: Sideways“, Chronus Art Center Shanghai
“Remote Sensatiions”, Amazonia – Anthology as Cosmology, Culturescapes 21 Basel
“Techno-shamanism”, HKMV Dortmund
“Houses of Kal, a language where yesterday and tomorrow are the same word”, District Berlin

“Seeing Into the Heart of Things: Earth and Equality Within Indigenous and Ancestral Knowledges”, Institut Kunst Basel
“Machines like Us”, Donau Festival Austria
“Postsensorium”, National Library of Latvia, RIXC Riga
“Untooling”, ZHdK Zurich
2020 “Molecular Intimacies”, Timespan, Helmsdale Scotland
“Architecture and Naturing Affairs”, ETH Zurich
“Situations” Fotomuseum Wintherthur
“Appearances”, Upstream Gallery Amsterdam
“Molecular Fabulations”, HeK Basel, Pax Art Award 2020
“We=Link: Sideways“, A Chronus Art Center Shanghai
“Plant Revolutution!”, Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
“Unlikely Encounters”, Mas Arte Mas Accion, Quibdó, Colombia
2019 “The New Alphabet”, HKW Berlin
« Feu Le Genre Humain?”, Centre Culturel Suisse Paris
“Optimization and Its Miscontents: Counterpolitics of Surveillance Capitalism”, Transmediale Berlin
“Pax Art Award Preview”, HEK Basel
“The Atrato River Project”, Mas Arte Mas Accion, Colombia
“Stadt als Fabrik” FFT Düsseldorf
“Blue Skies”, Pact Zollverein Essen
“Before the Sun harms You”, Timespan Helmsdale, Scotland
“Plant Revolution!”, CCIAJG Guimarães
2018 “Amazonian Flesh”, UnCommon Grounds, Interkultur Ruhr und Schauspielhaus Dortmund
“Rage against the Algorithm”, Display Gallery Prague
“manYdancing the digital ornaments”, Archive Kabinett Berlin
“Choreographic Unrest, editing room”, Archive Kabinett/District- Berlin
“Eco-Visionaries”, HEK Basel
“The Psychotropic Gold Refining”, Contemporary Art Center Plovdiv
“Reconfiguring Anonymity”, Kampnagel Hamburg
“oscillating at 40hz – vegetation young men became”, M1, Hohenlockstedt/hamburg, Arthur Boskamp Stiftung
“School of Commons”, HKW Berlin
“Dark Assemblages”, Lisboa
2017 “1948: Technosphere Unbound”, HKW Berlin
“AFRO TECH and the Future of Re-Invention”, HMKV Dortmund
“Amazonian Flesh”, UnCommon Grounds, Interkultur Ruhr
“Passant souviens-toi, dit Sœurette”, La Médiathèque des Diasporas, Cotonou, Benin
“Travels in Trans-sensoriality”, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore
“Psychotropic Gold-Decanonizing University”, Art Program of 7th European Conference on African Studies, Basel
“The PSYCHOTROPIC GOLD REFINING”, Corner College Zurich
“DREXCIYA or becoming transparent, translucent, transmaterial; Salon Bastarde & OOR Zurich
“Translating Pasts into Futures. Dekoloniale Perspektiven auf Dinge in Kunst, Design & Film”, HFBK Hamburg
“Psychotropic Gold”, Valand Academy Gothenburg
2016 “The Secret Life of Algorithmic Plants”, Kultur :: Landschaft, Thaur-Innsbruck/Tirol
“Visualität und Abstraktion”, HFBK Hamburg
“b(l)ack dada”, Schweizer Landesmuseum Zürich
“Vegetal Lives, Global Systems and the Politics of Planting”, Goldsmiths London
“De-neutralize- Planter`s Obsessions”, Johann Jakobs Museum, Zurich
“Ecologies of Existence”, Leuphana Lüneburg
“Swiss Psychtropic Gold”; Draft Zurich
“On the Division of Labour, Work, Knowledge, the Sensible, Spaces and Times”, Akademie Bildende Kunst, Wien
“End!angered Species”, Wagenhalle Stuttgart
“Hier. Zusammen. An den Grenzen. Auf der Reise”, Interkultur Ruhr
2015 “DRAFT”, Khanabadosh Bombay
“S.O.S Dada – The World is A mess”, Salon Suisse, Venice Biennal,
“Wer war Albert Norden?”, Station Urbaner Kulturen, Berlin
“Passagen, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Hamburg seit 1981”, Kunsthaus Hamburg
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Kultur :: Landschaft,Tirol, “The Blackghillie Landscape, ooder was hat das ganze mit Barock zu tun?”
“Bodenlos – Vilem Flusser und die Künste”, ZKM Karlsruhe und Akademie der Künste Berlin
“Ästhetiken des Virtuellen”, HFBK Hamburg
Strelka Institute Moscow
2014 “Why I Changed My Name To Marvin Gaye. Von Zuschreibungen und Entschreibungen”, Station 21, Zürich
“imbued with soft infinities, On the Eventfulness of Assemblages”, Symposium, ZHDK Zürich
2013 Urbane Künste Ruhr / Ringlockschuppen Mülheim, “battle the landscape!” (knowbotiq)
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum 2012, Kultur :: Landschaft,Tirol, “The MacGhillie Hall presents: training landscape” (knowbotiq)
2012 “Swiss Art Awards”, Art Basel, “dancing with/without Darwin” (knowbotiq)
Substitut Berlin, “Act1 und Act2”, (knowbotiq)
St. Moritz Art Master, “MacGhillie”, (knowbotiq)
RIXC Festival, Riga, (knowbotic research)
Cabaret Voltaire Zürich, “Al Dadaida: The Revolution to Smash Global Capitalism”, (knowbotiq)
hmkv Dortmund, “Spektrale Begegnungen”, Labor Urbane Künste (knowbotiq)
Konferenz “reART:the URBAN”, Zürich (knowbotiq)
Ringlokschuppen Mülheim an der Ruhr , “Can´t you crawl to another town…”,knowbotiq)
2011 Moscow Biennale, “Dada Moscow”, (knowbotiq)
Shedhalle Zürich, “connect”, (knowbotiq)
IBA Labor Hamburg, “Verschiedene Ansichten teilen – Kunst in der Stadt”
Institut für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, “Radikal ambivalent. Engagement und Verantwortung in der visuellen Produktion heute”
Museo Maga, Gallarte (I), “kotomisi (knowbotiq)”
2010 Folkwang Museum Essen, “hacking the city” , (knowbotiq)
Shedhalle Zürich, “Überblendungen”,
Edith Russ Haus Oldenburg, “My War – Identity and Appropriation under War Condition”
U – Center for Art Dormund, “TRUST”, (knowbotiq)
FACT Liverpool, “My War – Identity and Appropriation under War Condition”
Kunstmuseum Kanton Thurgau, “Schritte ins Verborgene, Kunst und das Gemeimnisvolle”, (knowbotiq)
Expodium Utrecht, “Mind the Bollocks!”, (knowbotiq)
Tabakalera San Sebastian, “Silicon Dreams”
Netherlands Institute for Media Art “huwwara _ anybody looking”
plug-in Basel, “Beam Me Up”
plug-in Basel, Performance huwwara_ anybody looking”
Rietveld Academy, “Becoming Minority (conference)” (knowbotiq)
Kunsthalle Zürich, “Medienkunst: Europa-China” (conf.), (knowbotiq)
2009 Architecture Biennal Rotterdam, (knowbotiq)
Laboral Gijon, FEEDFORWARD – The Angel of History
ARoS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Enter Action-Digital Art Now
Kunsthaus Mürz, Glanz und Verderben
Kunsttriennale Ludwigsburg
Museumsquartier Wien, Freiraum
Kunstpassanten Zürich, intervention
Beam me up, online exhibition 09, xcult.org/beam.me.up/
2008 NAMOC Beijing, “Synthetic Times”
Kunsthof Zurich, intervention
Cabaret Voltaire Zurich, performance
Center of Contemporary art, Tenerife, “Surveillance and Control”
Centre of Art La regenta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, “Surveillance and Control”
Transmediale Berlin, “Conspire”
WRO Art Center, Wroclaw
, lecture
Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk (PL), lecture
Galerie 5020 Salzburg, lecture
2007 Hongkong Shenzen Biennal
SHIFT Festival, Basel
Gallery Curators without Borders Berlin,
“INVISIBLE INVICIBLE”
Kunsthalle Zurich, Conference/Workshop, Translocal Practices,
DEAF-RO Theater, Rotterdam; “BlackBenzRace-Inauguration Parade”, intervention
2006 Skuc Gallery, Ljubiljana, “Room for Maneouvre”, solo exhibition
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, “Was ist Plastik? Das Jahrhundert moderner Skulptur”
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, “Designing the Truth”
Akzente Duisburg, “PubliCity”

“BlackBenz Race”, Zürich-Pristin, intervention
2005 Kunsthalle St. Gallen, “Mapping New Territories”
Transmediale Berlin, “Naked Bandit v3.0”

ICC Tokio, “Open Nature”
Puls5 Zürich, “lateshift”, performance
2004 TENT, Witte de With Rotterdam, “Tracer”
MOCA Taipeh, Taiwan
“10 years SONAR”, Madrid
ITAU Sao Paulo: ART.FICIAL EMOTION
ArchiLAB Biennale, Orleans
Ciberart Festival Bilbao, ‘Evident Traces’
2003 Palacio Virreina, Instituto Cultura Barcelona, “El banquete”
DEAF Rotterdam, Open Territories
Shopping the virtual, Art Basel
Ars Electronica, CODE Symposium

Videotage Hongkong, MIMAR
Lissabon Biennal, Mille Plateaux, lecture
Third International Image and Electronic Arts Festival, Medellin

“The Conquest of Ubiquity”, Murcia, net.exhibition
Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid
2002 Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul media art biennale, “Luna’s Flow”
Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, “”Sans commune mesure”, web-project
New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, “Open_Source_Art_Hacking”, installation
Barcelona, HAMACA; “miralles”, web.project
Alda Fendi Foundation Rome, “De Re Publica”, solo-exhibition
Walker Art Center, Summer Lectures on Information and Architecture
Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Symposium: “mediations: archaeologies and tranformations in the electronic sphere”
Koelnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, performance lecture
Urban Drift Conference, Berlin
ELIA Conference, Dublin, European League of Institutes of the Arts
New Museum, New York, panel on Open Source, Art Hacking
Institute for Media Theory Basel, conference on netculture

2001 Fondation Beyerle, Basel “Abstraction and Ornament”
Bauhaus Dessau,” Paradiese der Moderne”
LISTE Basel, “anonymous databody muttering
Borderhack 2.0; “Defining Lines, Breaking down borders”, online-exhibition
Biennale for Architecture and Media, Graz, “Infospheres”
Institute for Contemporary Arts, Praha, “Excavating the Future”
Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, “Transurbanism”
Transmediale Berlin, “netbased participation and social software”
Arteleku Bilbao, „cell culture“
Royal Institute of British Architects, London, “E_Futures”
2000 Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle Bonn, “Heute ist Morgen”
Museum Ludwig, Köln, “Kunst mit Fotografie und und andere mediale Eskapaden”
Kunstverein in Hamburg, “Aussendienst”
Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht, “What is enlightment?”
Bauhaus Dessau                                ZKM Karlsruhe, “Sciences of the Interface”
ISEA Paris
1999 Biennale Vendedig (Österr. Pavillon), “IO_lavoro immateriale”
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, “Connected Cities”
ZKM Karlsruhe, “net_condition”
1998 DEAF 98, Rotterdam, “The Art of the Accident”)
Arco Electronico,Madrid, “The best of the 2 Worlds”
Ars Electronica, Linz, “Infowar”
” schau Vogel schau”, Leipzig
Hamburger Woche der Bildenden Kunst, Umzug ins Offene
BLAST, NY, artistic practice in the networks
1997 Steirischer Herbst Graz, on dis/place/ment
Fabrica Europa, Florenz, Anonymous Muttering,
Artlab Tokyo, I0-DENCIES
Dokumenta Kassel, Konfigurationen zwischen Medien und Kunst; lecture
Civic Gallery of Contemorary Art Torino, Shadows of the Networks
1996 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Oslo, Electra
1995 Hamburger Kunstverein, Interface;
Kunstraum Vienna, mobil.machung
ARTEC Biennale, Nagoya City Museum;
1994
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, ISEA;
Karl- Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen, Platons Höhle;