Andreas Troeger
Andreas Troeger is an American artist, born and raised in Munich, Germany. He has been living in the East Village, Manhattan of New York City since 1992. After graduating film school in Munich, he was awarded a scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service to study additional film productions at NYU.
In the early nineties he collaborated with video art superstar Nam June Paik, political video and Internet activist Paul Garrin, avant-garde filmmakers such as Nick Zedd and Iara Lee (Synthetic Pleasures and Architettura).
Best known as avant-garde film and video artist, he was awarded the German-Short-Film-Award, in 1990, for Lifepak, and created plenty of controversy, in 1992, with his unique art-documentary Path, a film about pathology workers performing an autopsy and the video installation Strom, an extremely graphic depiction of missus of electric current in society.
In 1996-1998 he programmed and co-designed the Internet political art project namespace, which was designed to unstrain the Internet from special interest's control and expanded the artificial limitation of TLDs imposed on the Internet users by Network Solutions and IANA. The project was honored by Ars Electronica.[1]
He recently traveled to Cambodia as director of photography to shoot and edit a documentary about Robert Clark (National Geographic Photographer) using a Nokia cellphone camera to document Phnom Penh and Siam Reep (Angkor Wat).
He is currently working as an independent filmmaker, author and video editor and published his second artist-book (Which Once Are the Terrorists) a compilation of unscripted commentaries, collected from the West Bank and from around the world about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, inspired by the prospect of peace in the Middle East, collected from the author's Web installation [West-Bank.cam] from 2000 until 2007, and includes 18 digital paintings by the author.
Film and videography
- Andreas Troeger at the Internet Movie Database
- The Styles of Sahag, 2009
- Alexander Rosenberg - Biography, 2009
- Central European Experience, 2009
- Fred Howard - Biography, 2009
- The Adventures of Señor Littlestone, 2009
- Nokia-Robert Clark in Cambodia, 2008
- Kill the Artist, 2007
- Sahag-Art of Style, 2006
- Alexander Kluge, 2004–2005
- 911, 2002
- Paul and Paik, 1994
- Ex, 1994
- Fin, 1994
- Strom, 1992
- Crossmatch, 1992
- Sidetracked, 1992
- Path, 1992
- Lifepak, 1991
- Staccato, 1989
Troeger's works have been shown at
- SMART Cinema - A new project space in Amsterdam - Netherlands, 2008
- New Filmmakers Series - Anthology Film Archives - New York, NY - USA, 2008
- Newspace Gallery - Manchester, CT - USA, 2005
- Kasseler Documentary Film and Video Festival - Germany, 2002
- Machida City Museum of Graphics Art, Tokyo - Japan, 2002
- Asolo Art-Film Festival - Asolo - Italy, 2002
- Dactyle Foundation - New York, NY - USA, 2002
- The Kitchen Art Gallery - New York, NY - USA, 2002
- Crossroads Film Festival - Jackson, MS - USA, 2002
- File 2002, Electronic - Language Festival, Sãn Paolo - Brazil, 2002
- Pelham Art Center - Pelham, NY - USA, 2002
- Break 21 - Ljubljana - Slovenia, 2002
- Exit Art - New York, NY - USA, 2002
- La Panaderia Gallery - Mexico City - Mexico, 1999
- Krannert Art Museum - Champaign, IL - USA, 1996
- Human Rights Film and Video Festival - Netherlands, 1996
- New York Int. Video and Media Festival - USA, 1996
- Künstlerwerkstatt, Munich - Germany, 1996
- Thread Waxing Space - New York, NY - USA, 1994
- London Short Film Festival - London, United Kingdom, 1994
- Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin - Germany, 1994
- Museum Lenbachhaus. Munich - Germany, 1994
- Fototage Postmuseum, Frankfurt - Germany, 1993
- Facta, Gallery of the City, Prague - Czech Republic, 1992
- Hof Film Festival - Hof, Germany, 1992
- Karlovy Vary Film and Video Festival - Czech Republic, 1992
- Tel Aviv Student Film Festival, Tel Aviv - Israel, 1992
- Munich Documentary Film Festival - Germany, 1992
- Barcelona Documentary Film Festival - Spain, 1992
Publication
- Which Ones Are the Terrorists, 2008 ISBN 1-4404-0320-1
