Mara Pollak lives and works between Munich and the Rhineland. In 2021 she graduated with honours from Academy of Fine Arts Munich, where she studied visual arts with Julian Rosefeldt.

prizes & scholarships

• 2023 NEUSTARTplus Grant for visual artists, Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn
  
• 2022 Artist in Residence Scholarship of Schloss Raitenbuch, Kallmünz
  
• 2021 Neustart Kultur Grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
  
• 2021 Junge Kunst und Neue Wege Grant, Free State of Bavaria
  
• 2019 Meisterschülerin of Professor Julian Rosefeldt, Academy of Fine Arts Munich
  
• 2018 Prize for Photography, Förderpreis der Stadt München 2018
  

exhibitions (selected)

• 2023 firne, Goethe-Institut Paris
  
• 2023 Encontros da Imagem, International Photography & Visual Arts Festival, Portugal
  
• 2022 Rencontres Internationales, Louvre Paris
  
• 2022 Jahresgaben (annual gifts), Kunstverein Munich
  
• 2022 Lassitude, Goethe-Institut Paris
  
• 2022 Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
  
• 2022 Der Einfluss des Raumes, Rinde am Rhein, Düsseldorf
  
• 2022 Tacker Preselection, Galerie der Künstler:innen, Munich
  
• 2022 Reconstructions, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
  
• 2022 Roter Reiter, Mohr-Villa, Munich
  
• 2021 Jahresgaben (annual gifts), Kunstverein Munich
  
• 2021 Videodox Biennale, Promotion Prize 2021, Galerie der Künstler:innen, Munich
  
• 2021 Ihr kommt auch noch in Mode, Direkte Auktion, Die Möglichkeit einer Insel, Berlin
  
• 2021 Of Things Baroque, Kunstverein Leipzig
  
• 2021 Zurückgebaut, Degree show, Academy of Fine Arts Munich
  
• 2021 Ich bin so entspannt, ich spüre wie meine Zähne [...], Kunstarkaden Munich
  
• 2021 for free, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
  
• 2021 Spannungsfeld Energie, Akademie Galerie, Munich
  
• 2020 Le magnétophone ne marche pas (1 ͬ ͤpartie), Goethe-Institut Paris
  
• 2020 In the dark times [...], Blitz Music Club, Deutsches Museum Munich
  
• 2020 Hasankeyf, Köşk Munich
  
• 2020 Menschenbilder, Neues Rathaus, Munich
  
• 2019 Strata, School of Architecture, Biberach an der Riß
  
• 2019 meze evi, Villa Stuck, Munich
  
• 2019 Die Kunst verbindet alle Welt, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich
  
• 2018 das kleine format, Kunstverein Aichach
  
• 2018 iV-Kunstpreis, Shortlist, iV Kunst und Forum, Munich
  
• 2018 Kunstfilmtage, KMMN, Kassel
  
• 2018 Förderpreise 2018 der Landeshauptstadt Munich, Lothringer 13, Munich
  
• 2017 Jahresgaben (annual gifts), Kunstverein Munich
  
• 2017 So gut wie nichts hat alles gut gemacht, Kulturwerkstatt 10, Fürstenfeldbruck
  
• 2016 Hayward & Tamayo, Kunstverein Munich
  
• 2016 There will be blood, Kirche St. Ludwig, Munich
  
• 2016 If you still see her, then housekeeping did not do their job, Notel Prinzregent, Munich
  
• 2016 Falsche Vorstellungen kuratiert von Martin Fengel, Lothringer 13, Munich
  

libraries & collections

Collection of the Central Institute for Art History, Munich, DE
Library of Galeria da Estação, Braga, PT

contact

• mail
• instagram
• vimeo

currently

• FIRNE, Goethe-Institut Paris, 6. Juli 2023

Downloads / Press

• Musarion, Louvre Paris, 8. May 2022
• L'assitude, Goethe-Institut Paris
• Künstliche Paradiese, Kunstverein Leipzig
• Den Fluch gebannt, Süddeutsche Zeitung
• Liebe auf Leinwand, Süddeutsche Zeitung
• Förderpreise 2018 Munich
• Das Werk wird Ware, Süddeutsche Zeitung

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