Maya Schweizer
www.mayaschweizer.com
www.afava.com
participant in
VAD – Video Art Database
CologneOFF V – 5th Cologne Online Film Festival 2009
SFC – Shoah Film Collection 2010
short bio
February 2007 Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Master Degree
January 2005 Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Diploma
April 2003 Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Fine art School, Berlin
In the class of Lothar Baumgarten and Katharina Sieverding.
2000-2002 Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany
School of visual arts, Leipzig
June 1998 Licence, Degree of Visual arts
1998-1995 Université d´Aix-en-Provence
Visual arts.
June 1995 Bachelor´s degree, option Visual arts, Aix-en-Provence, France
Residency Programm, Prizes :
2009 Grant for film and video from the Senat Berlin,
Künstlerinnenprogramm für Film und Video, Senat Berlin
Fountainhead residency, Miami, USA
2008 Villa Aurora, Artits Grant from the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
Formation of the associacion afava (artists film and video
association) with Yael Bartana, Guy Ben-Ner, Koken Ergun,
Laura Horelli, Norman Richter, Hito Steyerl, and Clemens von
Wedemeyer. http://www.afava.org/
2008-2010 Karl-Hofer Stipendium, Grant from the Karl-Hofer
Gesellschaft, Berlin
2006 First Prize of the German Programm Kurzfilmtage
Oberhausen
2006 Grant from the DAP, (Department of the visual arts)