bjoern's Profile

From: Germany
Joined: July 04, 2008

About bjoern:

Short Bio: Dr. Bjoern Daempfling, married, two children 1949 born in Cologne/Germany 1951 moves to Nordenham/Unterweser 1969 graduates from Gymnasium Nordenham 1969- studies Political Science at the Free University Berlin, Diploma 1975 (drawings, prints, carving, small sculptures and poems) 1981 PhD in Economics, Dr. rer. pol. (many drawings) 1982-1983 research stay in the USA, Cambridge, MA (Harvard), back to Berlin/Germany, scientific work and teaching, (drawings and photography) 1987- 1992 back for research in the USA, Chapel Hill, NC (UNC) and Cambridge, MA (Harvard), returns to Berlin/Germany, research and teaching at the FU Berlin, (drawings, pastells, watercolor, some Oils, many photos 1987-88), 1995-1996 manager of OEKO-TER GmbH (ecological housing development) architectural designs in cooperation with architects, (color pencil drawings) 1997 art takes first place in professional life, creating a virtual gallery for all art related activities in the internet, looking for an adequate digital print technology website www.creativecreatures.com, printing technique, and the computer as main drawing tool are in place, works since most of the time with IRIS-printing technique as final output for his mainly digitally produced graphics und photography, using all possibilities to combine classical and digital forms of producing art 2000 since then numerous exhibitions worldwide (Berlin, London, New York, Beijing.), lives and works as artist und author in Berlin/Germany

Solo or two artist exhibitions (brick &mortar): 2000 September Solo exhibit at Commerzbank Zehlendorf/Berlin November Overview Digital Graphics at Daimler/Chrysler; Niederlehme/Germany (with Rolf Wacker) 2002 November Overview Digital Graphics including Photography, Torstr. / Berlin / Germany (with Goesta Daempfling) 2004 October Solo exhibit Digital Graphics at Artificial Image, Koepenicker Str./Berlin/Germany 2005 April Solo exhibit Overview Digital Graphics and Photography at Kunstverein Nordenham; Nordenham/Germany 2006 October Solo exhibit Overview Digital Graphics at Kunstverein Glinde, Soehnke-Nissenpark, Glinde/Germany 2007 May-June Solo exhibit Overview Digital Graphics and Photography at Haesler Haus, Celle / Germany

Web & Print: 2004 March Direct Art Nr. 10, full page publication (awards 7-16), photography (Competition) 2004 April Donnie-Award, 2. Place, MOCA (New York) 2004 October Calendar Competition (selected for Nov. 2005, photography, Refocus Now, London 2005 January Donnie-Award, Honorable Mention April Joseph Nalven and JD Jarvis, Going Digital: The Practice and Vision of Digital Artists Thomson Course Technology (book project, 17 Artists involved) 2007 February Donnie-Award, 3. Place, MOCA (New Y ork)

Exhibitions(Group, Brick&Mortar): 2000 September Spindel Kunstpreis in Limbach /Oberfrohna, 3.Place 2001 March Digital Salon, Las Cruces/ New Mexico /USA 2002 September Grosse Steglitzer Kunstausstellung. April International Open Image, London, Exhibition: Deluxe Gallery (Competition, 662 participants, 1. Place). June Originate, London, Exhibition: Gallery 47 (Competition; Shortlist) September Grosse Steglitzer Kunstausstellung 2004 January Painting with Pixels, Cork Gallery/Lincoln Center/ New York February UMD Robert Wood Johnson Medical School /New Brunswick/NJ/USA July I like looking at pictures, London, Waterloo Gallery (Photography) July Arts and Illustrators Exhibition, London (Photography) July Digital show from CD, Art -Summer 2004, Bruchsaal September Digital show from CD, Chateau de Saint Auvent, France October Limner Gallery, Phoenicia /NY /USA (Direct Art Nr.11, 2005) December Webism-Exhibition, Gallery Kalina, Regen/Germany 2005 February Dirty Show, 6th Annual Erotic Art Exhibition, Tangent Gallery, Detroit/USA March Landscape: Internal/External, Limner Gallery, Phoenicia/NY/USA (Direct Art Nr.12, 2005) April Geneva Gallery, Morristown/ New Jersey/USA April Fruehlingserwachen -Lebensmomente, Gallery Rodolfo, Berlin-Mitte, Rochstrasse May Digital Extravaganza, , Limner Gallery, Phoenicia/NY/USA (Direct Art Nr. 13, 2005) October Bird 2005, Gufang Gallery, Beijing/China (Competition, 635 participants, Honorable Mention) September Fair at Klagenfurt, Austria, Exhibition Hall Ars Artis November Webism-Exhibition, Laubach Castle/ Hesse/ Germany December Gallery Rodolfo, Berlin-Mitte, Rochstrasse 2006 April-June Electric Paint: The Computer as 21st Century Canvas, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin, USA May Five Years Art-Open Air at Schloss Wolkenburg/Limbach -Oberfrohna/Germany September Fair at Klagenfurt, Austria, Exhibition Hall Ars Artis September Open Air, Moholy-Nagy-Interpretations in the Language of Elektrografik, Elektrografisches Symposion, Szigetvar, Hungary September Alden B. Dow Museum of Art and Science, Michigan, USA, Electric Paint, the Computer as 21st Century Canvas 2007 April FormArt. 15th International Art Exhibition, Marcellin-Verbe-Haus, Glinde/Germany May The 1st International NanoArt Exhibition,“ Kotka, Finland October Webism - a global movement, Ganserhaus, Wasserburg am Inn /Germany September Fair at Klagenfurt, Austria, Exhibition Hall Ars Artis