GlobalPrayers
2012/ 2013

Elke Marhöfer

Cities and Places of God: Chinafrika

Elke Marhöfer (*1967 in Baracoa/Cuba) studied Fine Art at the University of the Arts in Berlin, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City. Since 2010, she has been  a Doctor of Arts student at the University of Gothenburg.

Via moving images and text, Marhöfer experiments with notions of radical othering, post-exoticism, post-colonial ecology, the (a)historical and disorientations of narratives.
Marhöfer’s work is shown nationally and internationally: recently at the IMAGES, film and art festival, Toronto (CA); Archive Kabinett, Berlin (DE); FCAC, Shanghai (CN); Manufactura's Studio, Wuhan (CN); Sprengel Museum, Hanover (DE); Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Ittingen (CH); Edith Ruß Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg (DE); Periferic 7 - Focussing Iasi, Biennal (RO); Röda Sten, Gothenborg (SE). Grants she has received include: IASPIS Residency, Sweden, 2010; Lukas Cranach Video Art Prize 2007; Cité internationale des arts Paris 2005; Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart 2003; Alfredo Jaar Grant 2002. Since 1990, she has lived and worked in Berlin.

For Global Prayers Elke Marhöfer is pursuing a research with artistic means on African migration to China and their religious communities in the Chungking Mansions.

Cities and Places of God: Chinafrika