Pat Binder

Born in Buenos Aires in 1960. Artistic and pedagogic studies at the National Art Academy in Buenos Aires. Further education in fine arts and art education at the University of British Columbia, and the University of Victoria, Canada. Lives as a visual artist in Berlin since 1996.

1996Togehter with Gerhard Haupt, initiated and developed the Internet Project Universes in Universe. Worlds of Art, an information and communication system for the visual arts of Africa, the Americas and Asia/ Pacific

1997Winner of a public art competition in Berlin/Prenzlauer Berg »Memorial Mark for Käthe Kollwitz«. Since then, artistic direction of the project.

1998Fellowship from the Berlin Senate's Women's Research Program, for preparatory research for an Internet art project on the poetry of women in the Ravensbrück concentration camp

1999Fellowship from the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology (Canada) for the development of the Internet art project »Voices from Ravensbrück«


Solo Exhibitions (selection)

1996Zapping, ifa-Galerie Berlin
Galerie Basta, Hamburg


1994Ausblicke: Landschaften, Galerie Basta, Hamburg

1993Ökoglyphen, City Library Düsseldorf

1992Objekte, El Patio Galerie, Bremen

1990The Tree of Knowledge, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver

1988Arborescencias, Galeria Pacífico, Buenos Aires

1987Element Water - Element Fire, Goethe Institute, Buenos Aires.
From the Existence, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires.



Group Exhibitions (selection)

1998Der Traum vom Sehen, Gasometer Oberhausen

19976th Havana Biennnial, Castillo del Morro, Havana, Cuba
Big Blue Berlin
ArtForum Berlin, with Gallery Trayecto, Spain.


1996Cluster images - 2. Werkleitz Biennale, Werkleitz, Tornitz.
Zweitwohnung, Gehag-Forum, Berlin.


1995Havanna - São Paulo, House of World Cultures, Berlin.
Art Cologne, with Gallery Basta / Hamburg
El Libro - Objeto, Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba.
Das Unendliche, Fabrik Schönau, Wetzikon, Switzerland.


1994Old Object, New Subject, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, U.K.
Kunst und Buch. Kulturgut, Fürth / Kunstverein Erlangen / Galerie plusminus, Walldürn.
5th Havana Biennial, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.
All &Tag,Galerie Rähnitzgasse, Dresden.
5th Havana Biennial, a Selection, Ludwig Forum, Aachen.


19922. Kunstbegegnungen, Logenhaus Fürth.
Hört auf , laßt mich Luft holen..., Gedenkstätte Neuengamme, Hamburg.


1992Urkult, 68elf - Förderverein Junger Kunst, Cologne.
Desde la Tierra, Kunstamt Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin.
Internationales Gaia Symposion (art and ecology) in the Ruhrgebiet.


1991The Works, Churchill Square, Edmonton, Canada.