Jorn Ebner
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Jorn Ebner is a U.K. based artist. Born in Bremerhaven (1966), Germany, he studied English Literature at the University of Hamburg (1990-95) and Fine Art in London at Central Saint Martins’ College of Art 1995-98.

In 1998 he is a warded a Residency by Grizedale Arts (U.K.), and works on Mobile Settlement, which will later be documented in the Handbook for a Mobile Settlement (Grizedale, 1999) and the exhibition Flower Equation (Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2000). In 2001 he features in a number of gallery, museum, and festival-based exhibitions, among which Whatershed in Bristol, [plugin] and the International Film, Video and New Media Festival in Basel. His Internet-based work Lee Marvin Toolbox is awarded the Kunstpreis des Medienforums München. In the following years, his works are on show at the Java Museum (Goethe Institut, Sofia), the Open Museum Net.Art (Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin), and the Electronic Language International Festival (FILE, São Paulo). Among his internationally renowned works are: Life Measure Constructions (2001, New Media Scotland Commission), Leonardo Log (2002-2004), and Leif Codices (2003). In 2004, a catalogue of his works is published “Jorn Ebner: Offline On” (Kulturstiftung Stormarn, Bad Oldesloe).

In 2002-05, Ebner is awarded the prestigious AHRB Fellowship Creative & Performative Arts from Newcastle University of Fine Art. In 2005, he is on show with Portable Landscapes is exhibited at Green Box (Zürich/Belin) and at the Hutton Gallery (Newcastle), and he organizes Instability Experiment at the Ikon Gallery (Birmingham). This was actually cancelled and never occurred, unfortunately. Ebner is currently engaged in a series of projects and temporary exhibitions, among which is the ’Arcadia Id Est: Landscape & the Artist Book project, where his works have been displayed in the U.K., Australia and Cyprus. The next project location will be the Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art in Newcastle, from February 2006.

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