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CONTACT Sebastian Mayer / AEIOU
Visual Arts, Photography, Film
Based in Kyoto, Japan
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EXHIBITIONS 2013 "Sleep Until Your Dreams Come True"
3F Project Room, Kyoto Japan
2011 "Made in West Germany"
Gallery Countach, Tokyo Japan
2011 "F#$%^& West Germany"
Combine Nakameguro, Tokyo Japan
2008 "Absent City"
Gallery Within Assistant, Tokyo, Japan
|  | (w/ Megumi Matsubara, Assistant)
2006 "Standardportraet Tokyo"
Tokyo Design Week, Tokyo, Japan
(w/ Redesign Deutschland, Berlin)
2004 "Moegliche Welten - Possible Worlds"
Fotoforum West, Innsbruck, Austria
(w/ Carolin Hake)
2004 "B/W", Gallery Glue, Berlin
2004 "Nulllinie", Ill Galleries, Berlin
(w/ Markus Krieger)
2003 "Standardportraet", Simultanhalle,
Cologne, Germany
2002 "Aggregat", Pavillon an der
Volksbuehne, Berlin (w/ Dag Przybilla)
2001 "Boys Don't Cry" Installation, Berlin
1998 Galerie BerlinTokio, Berlin
(w/ Evelin Hoehne)
1998 Sirup-Szene, Berlin
1998 Galerie RadioBerlin, Berlin
1997 Bei Renate, comic-library, Berlin
PARTICIPATIONS (SELECTION) 2009 "Nullpunkt. Nieuwe German Gestaltung"
(w/ Redesign Deutschland, Berlin)
MARTa Herford, Germany
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2008 "Post Coitum Omne Animal Triste"
M.H.T., Tokyo, Japan
2001 Aggregat, Pavillon an der
Volksbuehne, Berlin
2000 "Club N Slide", Neue Gesellschaft
Fuer Bildende Kunst NGBK, Berlin
2000 "Z2000", Akademie Der Kuenste
(Academy Of Arts), Berlin
2000 "The Return Of Bewegungselite",
Haus des Lehrers, Berlin
1999 "The Bewegungselite", HdL, Berlin
1999 "ZAG", Musée d’Art Moderne,
Paris (w/ Dag Przybilla)
1999 "Silver Stories – Writing On
Photography", Galerie contact:c4, Berlin
(w/ Dag Przybilla)
1999 "Kuenstler Gegen Den Krieg",
Maria Am Ostbahnhof, Berlin
1999 "Playart", Schwarzenberg, Berlin
1997 Galerie BerlinTokio, Berlin
(Hommage to the artist 4000)
1997 Kuratorenkiller, Kassel, Germany
1996 Allgirls-Galerie, Berlin
|  | 1995 Galerie O/2, Berlin
BIBLIOGRAPHY 2006 "Standardportraet"
published by Simultanhalle,
Cologne, Germany
2003 "Possible Worlds"
published by Fotoforum West,
Innsbruck, Austria
PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION) 032c, Ger
Dazed & Confused, Uk
Odds&Ends, Ger
The Wire, Uk
Spex, Ger
Intro, Ger
Groove, Ger
de:bug, Ger
die tageszeitung, Ger
Der Kulturspiegel, Ger
Spiegel Spezial, Ger
LFI - Leica Magazine, Ger
Revista Trip, Bra
Les Inrockuptibles, Fr
Die Zeit - Magazin Leben, Ger
Neon Magazine, Ger
Tokion Magazine, Jp
Composite Magazine, Jp
Wooly Magazine, Jp
Observer, Uk
Icon Magazine, Uk
Zoo International, Ger
|  | Fashion Magazine, Can
New Scientist, Usa
Nikkei Business, Jp
Pen, Jp
CLIENTS (SELECTION) Adidas, Ger
Honda, Jp
Sony / Epic, Ger
Wacom, Usa
Risky Brand, Jp
Getty Images, Usa
Wall Street Journal, Usa
Fork / 4RK, Ger
101Tokyo, Jp
On Za Line, Jp
Societe Generale, Jp
With Assistant, Jp
Claudio Colucci, Jp
Less Rain, Jp
Julien David, Jp
Dickies, Ger
Jaegermeister, Ger
Nivea / Beiersdorf, Ger
Pentagon, Ger
Minimal Tokyo, Jp
Pingmag, Jp
Louisville, Ger
Cityslang, Ger
Disko B, Ger
Invicta Hifi, Uk
Kitty-Yo, Ger
!K7, Ger
Louisville Records, Ger
Man Recordings, Ger
|  | Moebel Horzon, Ger
Motor Music, Ger
Olympus, Ger
Mute, Uk
Munken, Sw
Redesigndeutschland, Ger
Groenland Rec, Uk
Wandekor, Ger
Moebel Horzon, Ger
Modocom, Ger
Universal Music, Ger
Die Gestalten, Ger
Futuresonic, Uk
Walter Schoenauer, Ger
Eventure, Ger
Morr Music, Ger
Playmbobil, Ger
Schroeder & Schoembs, Ger
amSTARt, Ger
Kunsthalle Brennabor, Ger
Peter Palatsik, Ger
Flittchen Rec, Ger
Labels Germany, Ger
The Crack-Up Collective, Ger
Chisel Rec, Usa
Galerie Neu, Ger
Nadel Eins, Ger
Schaller Inc, Ger
MHT Tokyo, Jp
IMPORTANT EVENTS 1984 first SLR-camera: Exacta.
Sturdy, manual, Czechoslowakian.
1987 first digital manipulation of a pho-
|  | tography on an Atari 1040 ST to impress
a girl from the neighborhood.
1991 Decision to work as a pictorial
artist; serious engagement in photo-
graphy, drawing, painting, silk printing,
sequential art, media arts.
Main influences: Julie Doucet,
Robert Crumb, Edgar A. Poe, George
Bataille, Christian Schad, Bernd & Hilla
Becher, Nobuyoshi Araki, Larry Clark,
Iconography, Situationism, Italian Futu-
rism, Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity)
1994 first publications of sequential art
as member and co-worker of "Renate",
a comic-library and magazine in Berlin.
1996 Founder member of the trash-pop-
bands "Minitchêv", "Metalloops" and the
one-man-electro-project "Disz/Play"
1996 to 1998 Studies of Media Arts at the
private Bauhaus-influenced "bildo akade-
mie berlin", focus on "hybrid photography"
(analogue production, digital post-prod.).
Degrees in Media Arts, Technique and Theory.
1996 to 1999 First exhibitions and contacts
to the berlin subcultural scene at the (in)fa-
mous "Galerie BerlinTokio".
1998 to 1999 Graphic designer at
Die Gestalten, Berlin.
|  | 1999 Founder member of "ag parka", a
berlin-based project-group; organisation
of the first "Ladytron"-concert.
1999 first publication of a photography:
Larry Clark for Spex magazine, Germany;
from then on constant publications in
most of the issues until 2005.
1999 Consultant member of Galerie
Contact:c4, Berlin.
2000 - 2001 Personal assistant of Walter
Schoenauer, Berlin.
2001 Assignment as Photographer by
The Wire, UK. Producing 4 Covers
altogether in the following years.
2001 Member of Berlin-based project-
group Redesigndeutschland;
invention of Standardportraet
2003 Cover of LFI - Leica Fotografie
International with additional feature
about my work as a photographer.
2004 Assignment as photographer at
agency Bransch in Hamburg, Paris and
New York.
2004 Opening of a "Standardportraet
Laden" (a shop for selling the Standard-
portraet to customers) in Berlin
2005 Move to Liverpool to become
|  | interims bass-player of „Ladytron" for the
euopean festival-tour for 10 months.
2005 Decision to concentrate on picto-
rial arts again, move to Rio de Janeiro
to work on new ideas, concepts and projects.
2005 Cover of Revista Trip Brazil with
portraits of Iggy Pop in Rio de Janeiro
2006 Invitation to exhibit Standardportraet
at Tokyo Design Week.
2006 Living in Tokyo, Japan; Cooperation
with Fashion Director Cyril Duval / item idem
2008 Cooperation with Raster Noton
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