Agricola de Cologne

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is a multidisciplinary media artist and founder & director of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne – http://www.nmartproject.net/

As the director of his video films , he is mostly also their producer, editor, composer of music and other film specific functions.

As an artist, he had more than 100 solo exhibitions in cooperation with for than 70 museums throughout Europe, USA and South America, as a curator he organised between 1989 and 1994 several cultural projects in Europe and curates since 2000 the numerous New Media projects of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne.

He is co-organiser and curator of several media festivals and exhibitions, and is participating with his media art since 2000 in more than 400 media exhibitions and festivals around the globe (ISEA 2008 Singapore, Athens Videoart Festival 2008,2007, 2006, Moskow International Film Festival 2006, ZKM Karlsruhe/G 2005, Biennale of Video & New Media Santiago/Chile 2005, Biennale de Montreal 2004, Biennale of Electronic Art Perth/Australia 2004, Biennale of New Media Art Merida /Mexico 2003, Venice Biennale 2003, FILE Sao Paulo 2001-2006, Ars Electronica 2001-2006, Videoformes 2001-2008, Art on the Net 2001, 2002, Mediaterra Athens 2002, ISEA 2002 Nagoya/Japan, SENEF Seoul 2004 & 200, 2007 etc) , details see on:
http://www.agricola-de-cologne.de/blog/?page_id=4
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AGRICOLA de Cologne
“Agricola de Cologne” is an artist brand, as well as a brand for his art, and as such “Agricola de Cologne” as a manifestation as an artist is purely virtual. The first name “Wilfried” was added only for users and partners to deal more properly with the virtual and physical status.

Born 1950 in Black Forest (Southern Germany), the artist started his carreer as an artist directly after his studies as “Wilfried AGRICOLA”
He died as such on 31.12.1998 as the result of a terrorist attack
reborn on 01.01.2000 as the brand “Agricola de Cologne”
living and working as a free lance artist
since 1984 in Cologne (Germany)

Studies

1969-1971 Stuttgart State Academy of Fine Arts (Grafic & Photography)
1971-1974 Munich University (Art History, Journalism and Dramatic Arts)
1974-1978 Rijksakademie Amsterdam (Painting)

Study sojourns

between 1985 and 2000 in Great Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland

Since 1989, he realized several major collaborative and media related projects

1989-1993 Foundation of ARCHA Society- a temporary non -profit organization/cultural exchange between Western and Eastern Europe. As the director of ARCHA, Agricola organized several international conferences and cultural projects in Germany and Poland.

Since 1994 working with New Media
Between 1995 and 1999 realisation of the Memorial project
“A Living Memorial Spaces of Art” in 43 installations at 43 places in Germany, Poland and Czech Republic, including Krakow, Auschwitz, Terezin, Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne and others–>a complex of multi-media art works, including photography, video, computer and sound installations

Since 2000 development of the experimental artistic environment [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - www.nmartproject.net

Solo exhibitions since 1980
festival participations since 2000
curated screenings since 2004