Performance Art & Exhibitions

SOLO - PERFORMANCES

2024

Meno-Mosaik-Mix-Mania a 6-hour participatory live performance that brings the unique beauty of each individual experience around the topic of menopause to the fore, Kulturtreff Hainholz, Hannover GERMANY

Nacktrede für das Anrecht auf die dritte Haut 2.0 during the opening ceremony of the exhibition Hundertwasser … Architektur und Projekte in Deutschland, Kunsthalle Hannover GERMANY
queer objects during EPHEM - platform for performative positions curated by Torben Laib and Franz Pester at WRG SENSOR, Braunschweig GERMANY
Sea of broken chains during the group exhibition Honigschleuder curated by Franz Betz & Katrin Hamann in an Air-raid schelter, Hannover GERMANY
I got the posion, I got the remedy during werft fructus, curated by Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith, Museum of Superior Installation (Basement), Braunschweig GERMANY
 
2023
The sound of the dying forest #04 - fragility during BUCH APOTHEKE, curated by Anja Ibsch and Adri Disman, grüntaler9, Berlin GERMANY
The sound of the dying forest #03 - a performative audio walk during EINFACH MACHEN organized by Frauke Materlik, Kunstverein Lunden GERMANY  
The sound of the dying forest #02 during Zinnober at atelier:bettfedernfabrik, Hannover GERMANY 
Schlafwandelnd begegnen sich die Fremden during ART ACTION organized by crane lab, Semur en Auxois FRANCE
The sound of the dying forest #01 during ART ACTION at crane lab, Ancien Château de Chevigny, Millery (Côte-d'Or) FRANCE
Friends - a short intervention during A-I-R MeetFactory - open studio on tour, Galerie Hraničář, Ústí nad Labem CZECH REPUBLIC 
Roots - Weaving Entangled Paths during the launch of the magazine Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition No. 67 with the theme Queer, in cooperation with the SPA (Studio Performance Art) cycle of Studio ALTA, New Libeň Synagogue, Prague CZECH REPUBLIC
Future Sounds - prototype #2 during Open Studios Artist-in-Residence at MeetFactory, Prague CZECH REPUBLIC
 
2022 
tong tong - an immersive sound intervention during ESCH22, Esch-Sur-Alzette European Capital of Culture, opening of SPEKTRUM Creative & Immersive Space of Rumelange LUXEMBOURG
When will I ever learn? a 9 hours performance during Werft Schaum curated by Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith, Werftraum Atelier, Braunschweig GERMANY 
Future Sounds - prototype #1 during Zinnober, Studio: Ilka Theurich - project space, Hannover GERMANY  
 
2021
Blues? during Selfreflection: Corona Feeling organized by Galerie Koppelmann - Kunstwerk Nippes in Cologne and in cooperation with Mediehaus Hannover GERMANY
THE FORGOTTEN ETHICS this is brutal – this is honest – this is live during Pavilion 0/3 - Arche' - Architecture of Universe parallel with 17th Architecture Biennale in Venice, Giudecca Art District in Venice ITALY
TOUCH - screening during Mopomoso TV in April 2021, which is the sister project of the live Mopomoso events - founded in 1991 by guitarist John Russell and pianist, trumpeter and composer Chris Burn with the purpose to promote freely improvised music. In response to the global pandemic COVID-19 Mopomoso moved it’s concert series online and started Mopomoso TV. ONLINE
 
2020
TOUCH #2 Livestream during Zero Platform IV: Life on Screen, International Performance Art Festival organized by New Zero Art Space, Yangon, MYANMAR
TOUCH Livestream during the series Stay Live at Home - no. 84 curated by performistanbul Istanbul, TURKEY
fading #2 during the Performance-Festival "GartenLust" at Kulturwerkstatt Kircheib GERMANY
„entwaffnen“ at atelier:bettfedernfabrik, Hannover GERMANY
 
2019 
 Blow the dust off your soul! during Urban Spheres Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover GERMANY
Die Hölle ist leer, sie sind alle hier during Performance im Hochhaus curated by Anja Ibsch & Jörn Burmester Wium, Studio im Hochhaus, Berlin GERMANY 
Heimat finden im eigenen Körper during the conference Körper, Kult & Tempel, Evangelische Akademie Loccum, Rehburg-Loccum GERMANY
Forward! Come on! during artophil II Artothek, Hannover GERMANY
COLLATERAL DAMAGE - phase I a one year performance art based research between the 1st of March 2018 and 1st of March 2019, Studio: Ilka Theurich, Hannover GERMANY

2018
 white wall during ZERO PLATFORM - International Performance Art Festival 2018
curated by Aye Ko in Yangon, MYANMAR
fading during OPEN International Performance Art Festival curated by Chen Jin, at Jinxiu Villa, Daxu Town, Guilin CHINA 
open secret during OPEN International Performance Art Festival curated by Chen Jin, at U&M Space Guangzhou CHINA 
daily behaviour during MIPAF Macau International Performance Art Festival curated by Ng Fong Chao, Macau CHINA 
atelier:performance #15 during ZINNOBER atelier:bettfedernfabrik, Hannover GERMANY 
COLLATERAL DAMAGE - my new self during PAErsche at AIC ON, Gallery Space - Post Tyler, Cologne GERMANY 
bouncin' around at Atelier Grammophon - Ort für zeitgenössische bildende Kunst & Musik, Hannover GERMANY
 
2017
in hunger for your warmth during ACTUS V curated by Beatrice Didier, at Maison d'Art Actuel des Chartreux (MAAC) Brussels BELGIUM
urban blue #2 - self-portrait with a pink dog a 24 hours performance during sharing 576 organized by PAErsche & Janine Koppelmann at Gallery Koppelmann – Kunstwerk Nippes, Cologne GERMANY
amplify your thoughts #2 - open eyes 2017 during the exhibition konsens - kein konsens City Gallery KUBUS, Hannover GERMANY
unfolding during EIN STELLUNG AUS organized by Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith, Braunschweig GERMANY

2016
PUPPA EXTENDED 6 days á 12 hours at Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo in Montevideo URUGUAY
über der Spur schwimmen 12 hours performance during Kunst im Polizeirevier in Hannover GERMANY

2015
image:archive during Perf15 at Porin lyhytaaltoasema in Pori FINLAND
body:archive during Là-bas→T.E.H.D.A.S. at Studio Là-bas, Kaapelitehdas in Helsinki FINLAND

2014
PUPPA Galeria Lunar, Hannover GERMANY
RAUSCH live drawing as a performative sound installation, atelier:bettfedernfabrik, Hannover GERMANY
Just by simple doing, I got a brother 24h in public spaces, PRIORITY ROUTE - 2nd Cyprus International Performance Art Festival, Nicosia CYPRUS
your body cannot gladden me during Performance Art Festival Excentricités V at ISBA in Besançon FRANCE

2013
HEAL 365 actions (10.03.13–10.03.14) for photo and video camera in Hannover GERMANY

2012
AIR during art-f-air, Hannover GERMANY
Mein Land braucht Künstler during Parallelwelten Afrika Europa, Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover GERMANY
auf die andere Seite legen a 10-month phenomenological exercise in Hannover, Bad Pyrmont & Bad Oeynhausen GERMANY

2011
The City of Dream and Future a 3-month performance art research project in Seoul KOREA
no one to guide us during WOMEN CREATE laughing tree lab, Seoul KOREA
fire jump during Genesis II in the city of Takamori JAPAN
black box during LAPSody - the 3rd International Conference & Festival for Live Art and Performance Studies TEAK, Helsinki FINLAND
Kallio my Kallio a 2-month performance art research project in the district of Kallio, Helsinki FINLAND

2010
 I can only shape silence if I put my care and concentration into every detail TEAK Helsinki FINLAND
Streck dich himmelwärts zum Boden TEAK Helsinki FINLAND
The mystery of the snowflake is unravelled public square in Kallio, Helsinki FINLAND
Gehst Du dann mit in den See? during 3.Performance Festival Blauverschiebungat the NaTo, Leipzig GERMANY
Zoom, not gloom! TEAK Helsinki FINLAND
Speed Dating-or Différance & Dialogues during Art Tuilage#10 CRANE Château de Chevigny FRANCE
I'm pleased to meet you in the mountain a 2 weeks durational performance series in the city centre of Pori FINLAND
invisible action city centre of Plymouth UNITED KINGDOM

2009
 tableaux vivants der Erfahrung Night of Live Art#3, TEAK Helsinki FINLAND
 battleground Night of Live Art#2, TEAK Helsinki FINLAND
 kiss of life Night of Live Art#1, TEAK Helsinki FINLAND
 shinzo no doki MMAC- Performance Festival Sendai JAPAN
 the last flight AAC - Performance Festival Aizu-Mishima JAPAN
 things can happen AAC- Performance Festival Aizu-Mishima JAPAN
 Wenigstens das. Ein Ort. during mind the park at the KUBUS, Hannover GERMANY

2008
 silence is sexy during YAMA - 3.Contemporary Art Biennale Fukushima JAPAN
 Abtanzball atelier:bettfedernfabrik, Hannover GERMANY
 Bewegungsmuster Maschinenhaus Essen GERMANY
 Des PersonenzusammensammlersZAUMzeug during 1.Performance Festival Blauverschiebung at the NaTo, Leipzig GERMANY
 Die Hintergrundlandschaft vom Kopf II Galerie L'art pour Lahr GERMANY

2007
 Wir hatten keine Ahnung, dass eine Frau so gefährlich sein kann Kunsthalle Hannover GERMANY
 überrocken, überrollen, überröten Kunsthalle Hannover GERMANY
 Was kostet schon eine Zwiebel atelier:bettfedernfabrik, Hannover GERMANY
 Too drunk to fuck city of Luzern SWITZERLAND
 wantalunga during art of encounter #2 at the Maschpark, Hannover GERMANY
 Das Leben ist keine Täuschung, das Leben ist wie eine Täuschung Park der Sinne, Laatzen GERMANY

2006
 vooruit LOT-Theater, Braunschweig GERMANY
 Die Tasse absetzten und den Blick heben atelier:bettfedernfabrik, Hannover GERMANY
 Die Hintergrundlandschaft vom Kopf town gallery Petershagen GERMANY
 see me with your ears Kaskadenkondensator, Basel SWITZERLAND
 Liebesleid art IG, Hannover GERMANY

2005
 in einer Weile... city beach at the Leine, Hannover GERMANY
 ehrliche Haut Kurt-Schwitters-Forum, Hannover GERMANY

2004 
 In the end, there is always a return to silence during platform #1 Kunstverein Hannover GERMANY

2003
 1 hour of changing during 1.Internationale Performance Days at the KUBUS, Hannover GERMANY
 Annäherung an den malerische Akt Expo Hannover GERMANY
 solo.body.sound.performance II Stellwerk - Kulturbahnhof Kassel GERMANY
 solo.body.sound.performance during common ground#3, Nds. Landesvertretung, Berlin GERMANY
 one to one, always, forever, now art IG, Hannover GERMANY

2002
to be gentle II Kurt Schwitters Forum, Hannover GERMANY

COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCES
 
2024
The last Delta of Venus in cooperation with mcddavid, atlier:bettfedernfabrik, Hannover GERMANY 

2023
SPA: PerformanceBus (northern route) in cooperation with Adriana Disman, organized by Studio ALTA, Prague, Nový Bor, Kyjov, ... CZECH REPUBLIC

2021

The Lock Unlock Performance Art Project - Episode 14 organized by a cooperation of Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith DE, Beau Coleman CD, Anupam Saikia IND, Hector Canonge US, Dimple Shah IND, Mukesh Singh IND, Rajesh Trilokya IND, Inder Salim IND, Satadru Sovan IND - The program has established itself as continuous zoom gatherings which alternate between simultaneous virtual and recorded performance actions, followed a week later by a discussion amongst the invited participants. Guest Artists at Episode 14 - Marilyn Arsem US, Pascale Ciapp FR, Ilka Theurich DE
 
2019
Strom im Vagus organized by PAErsche Aktionslabor, two days open-source performance in Cologne Ehrenfeld GERMANY
La Bon plays Die schönen Seelen together with Hubertus Dreyer, Tobias Premper & mcddavid at Tonhalle, Hannover GERMANY
Sydney, 1981 - an introspection for two voices in a bar by Pierre Pauline & Maxime Boidy
cooperation with Sif Lindblad during Art.132-75 at Art Association Langenhagen GERMANY

2018
Unreproduzierbare Musik: Das digitale Gewissen steht auf! together with Hubertus Dreyer, Tobias Premper & mcddavid, during Jazzwoche Hannover, at Kino im Sprengel, Hannover GERMANY  
open source performance during art of encountering º7, GoetheExil, Hannover GERMANY
Zellstoffwechsel together with Christiane Oppermann, at Atelier Grammophon - Ort für zeitgenössische bildende Kunst & Musik, Hannover GERMANY
Wombats on the run - Blackjack mit Albrecht Dürer together with ddavid during harvesting mind organized from Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith in Braunschweig GERMANY

 2017
open source performance during ACTUS V, at Square Breughel l'Ancien, Brussels BELGIUM  
Equinox | Day of Public Actions for Freedom and Democracy during boondocks III together with bbeyond and Christiane Oppermann, Küchengarten, Hannover GERMANY
 boondocks III three long durational performances together with bbeyond and Christiane Oppermann, Ihme-Zentrum, Hannover GERMANY
open source performance during PAERSCHE LAB17 organized by PAErsche at Kulturbunker Köln-Mülheim e.V. in Cologne GERMANY
BEING IN PUBLIC Encounters | Outer Place | Inner Space organized by bbeyond at Custom House Square in Belfast NORTHERN IRELAND
atelier:performance #3 together with Christiane Oppermann at studio.ilka.theurich
2016  
in situ together with Christiane Opperman at the Universidad de la Republica - Instituto Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (ENBA), Montevideo URUGUAY
Blind Map together with Christiane Opperman during URBAN TOUCH Kunsthalle Hannover GERMANY
Same Difference: Equinox to Equinox together with Christiane Oppermann during Same Difference: Equinox to Equinox organized by bbeyond Belfast WORLDWIDE 
Aktionslabor // Intervention... together with bbeyond Belfast & PAERsche during explorativ #4 in Mainz, Cochem and Koblenz GERMANY 

2015
 Eile, eile und doch verweile... group performance together with PAErsche, City Gallery KUBUS, Hannover GERMANY
 atelier:performance #1 performance together with Tim Tiedemann, Hannover GERMANY

2011
 imaginary playground #9 group performance during LAPSody - the 3rd International Conference & Festival for Live Art and Performance Studies at TEAK, Helsinki FINLAND
 imaginary playground #8 group performance at the National Theatre, Helsinki FINLAND
 imaginary playground #7 group performance during LÀ-BAS, Ylioppilasteatteri, Helsinki FINLAND

2010
 imaginary playground #5 group performance, MUU Gallery Helsinki FINLAND
 imaginary playground #4 group performance, TEAK Helsinki FINLAND
 imaginary playground #3 group performance, MUU Gallery Helsinki FINLAND

2009
 imaginary playground #2 group performance, Galleria 3H+K Pori FINLAND
 Detached Retina X from Yar Habernagel (USA) KIASMA Helsinki FINLAND
 imaginary playground #1 group performance with artists from 7 different countries, Todellisuuden Tutkimuskeskus Helsinki FINLAND

2006
 my tone, your tone, her tone, his tone concert for 24 Fluxus-silent films with Ben Patterson and Ensemble Stattwerke at the Kino im Sprengel, Hannover GERMANY
 Rondo improvisational opera from Michael Heisch with Ensemble Megaphone at the Cumberlandsche Gallerie inside the playhouse Hannover GERMANY

2005
 Herbstzeitlose with Ensemble Megaphone at the Forum Landesmuseum Hannover GERMANY
 Dummheit ist gefährlich sequences for small ensemble and electronics with Ensemble Megaphone at the district court Hannover GERMANY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011
 The City of Dream and Future Space MASS Seoul KOREA
 Kallio my Kallio TEAK Helsinki FINLAND
GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
Honigschleuder curated by Franz Betz & Katrin Hamann in an Air-raid schelter, Hannover GERMANY
 
2022
Werft Schaum curated by Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith, Wertftraum Atelier Braunschweig GERMANY
 
2021
Pavilion 0/3 - Arche' - Architecture of Universe parallel with 17th Architecture Biennale in Venice, Giudecca Art District in Venice, Italy
ARCHEtypus - utopias of social architecture artistic positions on urban phenomena, Kunsthalle Hannover GERMANY 

2020

Startschuss works from the municipal art collection, artothek, Hannover GERMANY
 
2019
Urban Spheres curated by Harro Schmidt, Kunsthalle Hannover GERMANY

2017
 tiefschlaf curated by M. Brockhaus & A. Steckling, town hall Linden, Hannover GERMANY
 konsens - kein konsens curated by Frank-Thorsten Moll, City Gallery KUBUS, Hannover GERMANY
2016
 Juego de Muñecas at Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo in Montevideo URUGUAY
 URBAN TOUCH Kunsthalle Hannover GERMANY
 Kunst im Polizeirevier old police station, Hannover GERMANY

2014
 Puppenspiel Galeria Lunar, Hannover GERMANY 

2012
 The Times Square Billboard Premier Event New York City USA

2011
 Genesis II in the city of Takamori JAPAN

2010
 co-operation TEAK Helsinki FINLAND
 Art Tuilage#10 CRANE Château de Chevigny FRANCE
 Live Art Generator Generator Galleria Pori FINLAND

2009
 2009 Woman Power Hanjoen Plaza Gallery Seoul KOREA
 Wiedersehn project for the Gartenregion Hannover GERMANY
 LaubenParcours project for the Gartenregion Hannover GERMANY

2008
 Last Minute Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover GERMANY
 YAMA - 3.Contemporary Art Biennale Fukushima JAPAN
 schön-schön fair ground & Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover GERMANY
 Flurstücke Buchdruckwerkstätten, Hannover GERMANY

2007
 Ü-10 Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover GERMANY
 Bon Voyage II KUBUS & Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover GERMANY

2006
 Bon Voyage I Grandes galeries de l'Aitre Saint-Maclou, Rouen FRANCE
 Instrumentarien und Räume – please do not hesitate to ask Kaskadenkondensator, Basel SWITZERLAND

2005
 Die Vorletzten Meisterschülerausstellung Foro Artistico Hannover GERMANY
 Schwung - Bewegung, Drall, Stoss, Impuls... Ev. Kirchentag, Hannover GERMANY

2004
 Plattform #1 Kunstverein Hannover GERMANY

2003
 Encyclomania - Curiosities Souvenirs and Loot with Mark Dion, Kunstverein Hannover GERMANY
 Club Transmediale 03 Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin GERMANY

2002
 TheGermans Hiroshima City University JAPAN
PUBLIC-ART-COLLECTIONS

Korea Electric Power Cooperation conducted by the Korean Government (KEPCO) KOREA
City-Art-Collection from Hannover GERMANY
New Media Collection, Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl GERMANY

BIBLIOGRAPHY (SELECTION)
 
Fiore Marrese, Vincenzo "Point-of-view Performances" in "Meta.space – Visions of Space from the Middle Ages to the Digital Age", edited by Alfred Weidinger, Fabian Müller-Nittel and Markus Reindl / OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH, published by DISTANZ Verlag GmbH, Berlin, Germany, 2022, ISBN: 978-3-95476-536-2

Schmidt, Dagmar "Leben und leben lassen - Zur wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Situation bildender Künstler*innen" in "KUNSTFORUM International - ÜberLeben und Kunst (274)" edt. by Dieter Bechtloff, KUNSTFORUM International GmbH: Colgone, 2021 - ISSN 0177-3674 


Moll, Frank-Thorsten "amplify your thoughts" in "konsens - kein konsens" ed. by atelier:bettfedernfabrik (Hannover, atelier:bettfedernfabrik, 2017)

Kivinen, Sari T.M . "The presentation has been Shelved, Archived, Forgotten, Dusted, Found and Renamed!" in "Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts - Volume 17 - Special Issue 3 on Technology and Memory". Routledge: London, 2012 - ISSN: 1352-8165 

Georgiou, Christina. “The Moment of Encounter – A Critical Review of the performance practice of Ilka Theurich” in “Converging Perspectives – Writings on Performance Art”. ed. by Annette Arlander. Theatre Academy: Helsinki, 2011 - ISSN: 1459-7349 & ISBN: 978-952-9765-61-4. 

Voss, Oliver. “ZOOM IN – SOCIAL VIBRATIONS” in “Curiosities, Souvenirs and Loot”. Exhibition catalogue - ed. by the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts: (Hannover, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, 2004)

Baalmann, Marije.“Restored to Life (2003) – Ilka Theurich" in "On wave field synthesis and electro-acoustic music, with a particular focus on the reproduction of arbitrarily shaped sound sources" Ph.D.-Thesis - published at the TU: Berlin, 2003 - https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/2180

Baalmann, Marije. “Application of Wave Field Synthesis in electronic music and sound art” online

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