Karla is Alex Zitzmann and that’s the story of her life
1975, Germany. Bachelor in Graphic Design in Bristol’s
UWE School of Art, Media and Design, UK. She studies Fine Arts in Dresden and History of Art in Leipzig. She works in graphic design, animation and illustration in different studios
[1] and freelance. She also creates video installations and live video in various places
[2] such as the
Documenta / Kassel / Germany;
Caixa Forum / Palma de Mallorca;
Fabbrica Europa Festival / Florence / Italy;
Mercat dels Flors / Barcelona / Spain;
Mousonturm / Frankfurt / Germany;
Loop Festival / Barcelona / Spain; amongst others.
[3]
VIDEO/ ART
She works in collaborations with musicians
[4], architects, dance companies
[5], video artists
[6] and programmers. In 2006 she started to collaborate with
Senza Tempo in the show “la Canción de Margarita” and also collaborated in the latest production “A+, lo que nunca te conté”, which received the special award at TAC festival in Valladolid. In 2008 she started a collaboration with the dance-theatre company N Naranja on their piece “La Cena” (the dinner) , which had the premiere at
Temporada Alta in Girona, Spain.
GRAPHICS/ADVERTISING
Since summer 2008 she collaborates with advertising agencies
atletico international and
dutch collective. In 2007 she started a stable freelance relationship with Elephant 7 amd Mezcla. Before that she has been working in various design and advertising agencies.
[9]
Some appearances in the press
[7] and some prices
[8]
1. STUDIOS I HAVE WORK(ED) AT/ WITH Elephant 7 | Citricus | Emascaro | Blackout Station | Salz Kommunikation | Atletico International | Dutch Collective || ↑2. ART CENTRES/ VENUES/ GALLERIES Jogja National Museum | House of Natural Fiber | Caixa Forum | Mercat dels Flors | Mousonturm | maumau bcn | niu | La Nouvelle Galerie, Bordeaux || ↑3. EVENTS AND FESTIVALS YIVF#04 | Portomusical | documenta 12 | Fabbrica Europa Festival | Loop Festival | Varna summer festival | Shining Festival | fete | djs contra la fam | VAD Festival | FESTIVAL TAC | Festival Fiar | Play! | Festival Grec | FERIA DE TARREGA | Festival a Corte|| ↑4. MUSICIANS Ilia Mayer | Arbol | Kindred Spirits | Christian Vogel | Modeselektor | Aparat | Nervous | JoZian | John Smorto aka FkZ | Djeliah | Al Lindrum | TURBO TRIO | takeshi nishimoto | Wakanda | DJ Monne | Hector Pizarro | Adam Colyer | e-rockers || ↑5. DANCE COMPANIES Senza Tempo || ↑6. VIDEO ARTISTS PIXELBIRDS [founding member] | SCHALLBILD | vj. ALBERTO ||↑9. SOME CLIENTS I HAVE WORKED FOR Naif Magazine | Driinn | Fortis Bank | Mercedes | Vodafone | LaCaixa | Tchibo | L’Oréal | Delphi Filmverleih | Arvato | Mutua Universal | Concom Consulting | Menzis | Sanitas | Generalitat de Catalunya | Ajuntamiento de Barcelona | Ajuntamiento de Benicassim | Indian Bar | Ciba Vision | Punto Blanco | Mezcla | Parmigiano Reggiano | H10 Hoteles | Intersalim | My Favourite Things | Deusto | Rossvand | ADC Consulting | Ärzte ohne Grenzen | MAPFRE | FC Barcelona || ↑7. PRESS Interview [PDF 375kB] in Bulgarian Art Magazine [Sofia 2007] | “El Mundo” on the art event “masarte” [Barcelona 2007] || ↑8. PRICES & AWARDS 2008 Special Award at TAC Festival (collaboration in dance piece) | Short listed for VAD Festivals’ International video art competition | 2005 Finalist at Puntmultimedia Animation competition | 2003 Short listed for International Society of Typographic Designers Student Competition | 2003 Shortlisted for Royal Academy of the Arts Students Competition. ↑
