Tina Sauerlaender (born 4 February 1981 in Melsungen, Germany) is an independent curator and writer. She is the co-founder and co-director of peer to space, [1] a platform and exhibition hub for curatorial projects founded in Munich, Germany in 2010.
Tina Sauerlaender studied art history, business economics and Bavarian ecclesiastical history at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. She holds a PhD from the University of Art in Linz, Austria. Sauerlaender's professional career started at the international exhibition space Haus der Kunst in Munich in 2007. In 2011, she moved to Berlin to work at a contemporary photography gallery, Camera Work. Afterwards, she worked as the collection curator of the Haupt Collection from 2013 until 2015. Since 2013, Sauerlaender has worked as an independent curator and writer. She organizes and curates international art exhibitions in the context of the digital age. She primarily focuses on the impact of the digital and the Internet on our society and on individual lives. She curated the exhibition The Unframed World. Virtual Reality as Artistic Medium for the 21st Century at House of Electronic Arts Basel, [2] Switzerland in 2017. She is the co-founder of Radiance, [3] an international online research platform for artistic Virtual Reality experiences. She is the founder and co-director of the SALOON, [4] a network for women in Berlin's the art scene with branches in Hamburg, Paris and Vienna.
Sauerlaender founded the exhibition hub peer to space together with Maja Block in Munich in 2010. From 2014 to 2017, Sauerlaender ran peer to space on her own in Berlin. Since 2017, Peggy Schoenegge has joined as a partner and part of the team. peer to space is a mindset which combines the concept of peer-to-peer networking with the ideas of space, freedom and openness to artistic expression. peer to space is not an actual place but occupies other spaces to realize exhibitions and further projects related to art dealing within the world we live today. [5] Consequently it focuses on contemporary art which reflects and visualizes current affairs and interests of our time, mainly the digital and the internet. Current exhibitions include artistic virtual reality experiences or augmented reality.
Radiance is a research platform and database for VR art. Its mission is to present artists working with VR from all over the world to create visibility and accessibility for VR art and for faster adoption of virtual reality technologies. The platform works closely with artists, institutions and independent curators to select the highest quality of virtual art for public institutional exhibitions. Since 2021, Radiance VR provides a VR App that presents a wide range and curated selection of VR experiences.
Founded by Sauerlaender in 2012, the SALOON is an international network for women working in the art scene as curators, artists, journalists, or in galleries, museums or universities. Sauerlaender and has been running the SALOON Berlin together with Alina Heinze, director of The Kennedys (museum), and the artist Ornella Fieres. The name refers to the former male domains of the Salon (Paris) and the western saloons. According to Sauerlaender, the network gives members a chance for visibility, building trust in one another and having people to rely on. [6]
Peter Weibel was an Austrian post-conceptual artist, curator, and new media theoretician. He started out in 1964 as a visual poet, then later moved from the page to the screen within the sense of post-structuralist methodology. His work includes virtual reality and other digital art forms. From 1999 he was the director of the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.
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