David Buob, 1972 Calw, Germany
lives and works in Dresden/Berlin
1992-94
Study of architecture in Kassel
1994-97 Vocational training as stonemason, Kassel
1998-2003 Study of Sculpture, HfBK Dresden
2001-02 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Prof. Renee Green)
2003 Diploma HfBK Dresden (Prof. Lutz Dammbeck)
2003-05 Meisterschueler HfBK Dresden (Prof. Lutz Dammbeck)
Grants and Prices
2010
Film funding
for the animation project "The HOUSE", Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
2007/08
DAAD grant at the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Finland
2007
Columbus/Ohio 3 months residency, Saechsische Ministerium fuer Wissenschaft
und Kunst
2005
Robert-Sterl-Preis, Naundorf
Caspar-David-Friedrich-Preis, Greifswald
New York City recidence at the ISCP, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
2004
DEFA-Stiftung, grant for an international film project with Anna Blaszczyk
(Lodz/Polen), Babar Naeem Shaikh (Karachi/Pakistan), Vuk Jevremovic (Muenchen/Deutschland)
Project grant, Saechsische Staatsministerium fuer Wissenschaft und Kunst
2001/02
Erasmus grant at the Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste, Vienna
2001
Project grant: Galerie fuer Zeitgenoessische Kunst, Leipzig (with Stef
Burghard)
Exhibition / Screenings / Lectures (selection)
2009
- Manzara Perspectives, Tatar Beyi Sokak 27 Kuledibi Beyoglu, Istanbul
- Sem Tabu 4th International Festival of Animation and Sex Education, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Kunstfilmtag 09, Duesseldorf
- zwergWERK, Oldenburg
- Cinanima -International Animated Film Fest, Portugal
- Pantheon Xperimental Film & Animation Festival, Cyprus
- Sustainable Art Project, Iwasaki-tei, Tokyo
- Regreen, Yamanashi, Japan
- Transient Spaces – The Tourist Syndrome, Palanga, Lithuania (with Susan Schmidt)
- Formation 44 x 16 x 6,5 meter, Uferhallen, Berlin
- Moving Artists, Motorenhalle, Dresden
- I’m my own private dancer, Galerie Jens Fehring, Frankfurt am Main
- Eighteen, Centro de las Artes - Salamanca, México
- Fifteen, Edge Zones Art Space, Miami
2008
- FAFA Gallery, Helsinki
- As Bring Collective - Künstlerhaus Wien, Passagengalerie, Wien
- SIX, CASYC Centro de Acción Social y Cultural, Santander Spain
- Hotel Kyjev - Times Up, Bratislava (with Susan Schmidt)
2007
- Klaustromanie, Lenkraum, Dresden
- Lectures at the CCAD, at the OSU fine arts department, the German department and the film studies department, Columbus/Ohio
- Videoscreening (with Susan Schmidt),Trans-Video Express: Recent Video
Art From Germany, gallery sara meltzer, New York
- Niemals scheitern/Never failure (with Susan Schmidt) curated by Francis
Hunger, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin
- Runder Rand – Peripherie als Zentrum (with Stefanie Busch, Jenny
Rosemeyer, Jan Brokof), Kunstsammlungen Zwickau
- Videoscreening (with Susan Schmidt), European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück
- Videoscreening (with Susan Schmidt) Art Brussels, galerieKleindienst
2006
- 2nd Shumen Biennale for contemporary art “Visual Immortality”,
(with Susan Schmidt), Bulgaria
- Videoscreening, command N, Tokyo
- Screening, Filmfest Dresden
- Junge Kunst 11, galerieKleindienst, Leipzig
- Soziale Einheit, galerie baer, Dresden (with Stefanie Busch, Jenny Rosemeyer,
Jan Brokof)
- basis&igel, Berlin
2005
- profile, Galerie Baer, Dresden
- Kunstsalon, Berlin
- New York Rio Tokyo, Berlin
- Portobello Filmfestival, London
- Videoscreening, ABC No Rio, NYC
- Video Integration, BELEF Center, Belgrad
- Robert-Sterl-Haus, Naundorf
- Caspar-David-Friedrich-Preis, Pommersches Landesmuseum Greifswald
- boofe LE, Delikatessenhaus, Leipzig
- Videoscreening, 16Beaver Group, NYC
- Let’s go Lanke, Schloss Lanke, Berlin
- trans rapid, Frise KŸnstlerhaus, Hamburg
- open studios, ISCP, NYC
2004
- Videoscreening, Rundkino, Dresden
- Screening at the Otis College of Art and Desig, Los Angeles
- open eyes, short film festival, Marburg2003
- New York Expo-Filmfestival, Anthology Film Archive, NYC
- Galerie kraussERBEN, Dresden
- Videoscreening, INT.VS.03 at Platform, Vasa /Finland
- Info Offspring, Dresden
2002
- Schmarotzer, Vienna (with Susan Schmidt, Kerstin Zottl, Stef Burghard)
- ... TROUGH A WINDOW THAT IS. Schleifmuehlgasse, Vienna
(with Susan Schmidt, Kerstin Zottl, Stef Burghard)
Between Prague and Dresden (our balcony is your pleasure), Dresden
(with Stef Burghard)
- Inter-Views, Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste, Vienna (with Susan Schmidt)
2001
- Starky goes Bottrop, Obergraben, Dresden
2000
- Dynamo.Eintracht, Frankfurt a. M. / Oktogon, Dresden (with Stef Burghard)
- Missing Fields, Friedericianum, Kassel
1999
- 19,99 x 20,00, Galerie HausHaltKunst, Hamburg
Filmography
2009
I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. loop, (hand drawn animation)
It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. loop, (hand drawn animation)
2008
Pretending to be Bunny Rabbits, loop, (3D animation)
2007
When I use a word it just means what I choose it to mean - neither more, nor less. 11:00 min
(live action, 3D animation)
My Cousin abroad, 4:02 min, (live action) with Susan Schmidt
2006
Dad’s Cellar, 6:43 min, (live action) with Susan Schmidt
La Profession de Maman, 6:16 min, (live action) with Susan Schmidt
Far Away, 5:15 min, (animation + live action)
The Sheep, 2:57 min (puppet animation)
Django, 2:15 min, (animation)
2005
Emma, Ella, Erika, Egon, Emil, Erich, 20 min (live action)
Welcome to the weak World, 9:55 min, (live actions with 2D and 3D animation)
2003/04
I can’t spend my life only loving you,15 min, (live action, five
parts: Emma, Laura, Gelsomina, Kathy and Scarlett)
2003
Kathy and Johnny, 15 min, (live action)
Conor, Sherly, Jay Jay and Terence, 15 min, (music videos in four parts)
2002
Ende November, 25 min, (drawn animation and live action)
Video - Inter - Views, 25 min, (5 interview clips plus animation) with
Susan Schmidt
2001
diamonds are forever, 6 min, (animation / stop motion)
Bibliography
2006
Filmfest Dresden, Reader
2005
Portobello Filmfestival, London, Reader
Video Integration, BELEF Center, Belgrad, Reader
2003
DRESDENPostplatz. Soweit war ich mit meinen Gedanken gekommen, als ploetzlich
der Fruehling hereinbrach*, Reader 2, Juni/Juli, A3
2000
dynamo.eintarcht, Katalog zur Gruppenausstellung in Frankfurt am Main
und Dresden