Sweden/Italy Performance- and theatre studies, Commedia School (Copenhagen) Photography studies at Fatamorgana Fotoskole (Copenhagen), SACI (Florence), Lund University
Germany Diploma of Fine Arts Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences
Raphael Beil
Germany Diploma of Fine Arts Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences
Raphael Beil was born in Hamburg. He began his career with a full apprenticeship as a stone sculptor and later studied Fine Arts at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences. He then worked with various artists such as Tony Cragg, Nicolas Bertoux, and Hagbart Sollös, gaining extensive experience in creating monumental sculpture projects.
Since 1992, he has been working as a freelance sculptor based in Berlin, Norway, and Italy. He has collaborated with garden and landscape architects Cornelia Müller and Jan Wehberg (Luetzow7) in Berlin, with whom he has worked on several large garden projects. These include the installation of several stone sculptures in the courtyards of the Federal Ministry of Economics, the creation of the outside stone floor of the Paul-Celan-Hof at the Jewish Museum Berlin, and the "30 Floating Stones" outside the German Reichstag Parliament.
Raphael Beil has participated in exhibitions and symposia worldwide, including in Turkey, Taiwan, India, Guatemala, and China. His works are permanently exhibited at the Uttarayan Art Foundation in India; the National Museums of Guatemala City; Hualien, Taiwan; and Beijing China.
In 1986, he began teaching at the summer academy for sculpture "Campo de'll Altissimo" in Italy and continued teaching there until 2022.
With the aim of sharing his experience, he founded the "School of Sculpture" together with Tobia Silvotti. Located in Monopol in Berlin-Reinickendorf, the school offers workshops and sculpture courses with marble, granite, and other types of stone, teaching traditional and modern techniques to create unique sculptures. The courses are open to everyone, whether young or old, experienced or a beginner.
United Kingdom PhD in Critical Theory Birkbeck, University of London
Sam Dolbear
United Kingdom PhD in Critical Theory Birkbeck, University of London
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Sam Dolbear received his PhD on Walter Benjamin from Birkbeck, University of London and has since held a number of research positions at the Institute of Modern Language Research at London’s School of Advanced Study and at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry in Berlin. He has two books forthcoming, one on the radio producer and composer Ernst Schoen (with Goldsmith Press) and one on the palmist and sexologist Charlotte Wolff (with Ma Bibliothèque). He has published and taught widely, including in the study abroad programmes of UC Berkeley and Skidmore College in London.
Germany MA in Cultural Anthropology and Educational Sciences Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Ariane Friedländer
Germany MA in Cultural Anthropology and Educational Sciences Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Ariane joined Bard College Berlin in 2020. She also teaches German at other language institutes and at refugee reception centers. In addition, she provides advanced training courses at specialist publisher Klett/Langenscheidt and at Berlin School of Economics and Law. Ariane started her career at Carl Duisberg Centrum in Berlin, where she taught German and worked as educational coordinator between 2003 and 2018.
While studying Cultural Anthropology and Educational Sciences at Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Ariane specifically focused on adult educational theory, media aesthetics and the mass media reception of everyday culture. Her master thesis analyses the genesis and operating principles of daily talk shows in German private television in the 1990s against the background of medieval village courts. She then complemented her education with postgraduate studies in German as a foreign language at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in 2003 and with a diploma in Journalism from Freie Journalistenschule Berlin in 2020.
Besides her career as a teacher, Ariane is a keen writer and journalist. Her work mainly deals with the social transformation and cultural evolution of her hometown Berlin over the past three decades, captured in daily life and in the biographies of its inhabitants.
Israel/USA The Juilliard School, Graduate Diploma, Orchestral Conducting Mannes School of Music, Master of Music, Piano The Curtis Institute of Music, Bachelor of Music, Piano
Nadania Idriss is the founder and managing director of Berlin Glas e.V. and Berlin Glassworks GmbH. Born in Berkeley, California, she studied medieval art and architecture of the Middle East. Nadania worked at the British Museum in London, moved to Paris in 1999 to work at UNESCO, and in 2005 she relocated to Berlin. She was always a volunteer in youth clubs and museums, as she enjoys working with communities. Opening Berlin Glas was, therefore, a culmination of everything she considers to be her purpose. Berlin Glas e.V. and Berlin Glassworks provide artist collaborations, classes for the general public, programmes with youth and migrant communities, artist residencies, and bi-lateral exchanges with international universities, as well as teaching sculpture with the art academies in Berlin. Nadania is currently President of the Glass Art Society.
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Contact Nadania Idriss Studio Art n.idriss[at]berlin.bard.edu
South Korea BA in Studio Art and Psychology Boston College
Joon Park
South Korea BA in Studio Art and Psychology Boston College
Joon Park (b. 1986, Seoul, South Korea) earned his BA Degrees in Studio Art and Psychology from Boston College, USA. He is a 2012 recipient of the Mima Weissmann fellowship at the ceramics program at Harvard University. In 2013, he moved to Germany and worked at the historic Bauhaus pottery workshop, Keramische Werkstatt Margaretenhöhe under the master potter Young-Jae Lee, as an intern and, consequently, a freelance potter. His sculptural ceramics work has been exhibited and published in various countries, including the US, the UK, Italy, and China.
Since 2017, he has worked at Bard College Berlin as a studio art manager to facilitate student production and art program logistics.
Germany Film Studies at Freie Universität, Berlin Film Production at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Art Direction at Miami AD School Europe, Hamburg
Germany PhD in Media & Cultural Studies Bauhaus University Weimar
Antonia von Schöning
Germany PhD in Media & Cultural Studies Bauhaus University Weimar
Antonia von Schöning is a scholar of media culture and a historian of science. She completed a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies at Bauhaus University Weimar in 2015, and earned a bi-national MA degree in Media, Culture, and Communication from Bauhaus University Weimar and Université Lumières Lyon II. She has taught media theory, STS, and history of science, as well as courses on the convergence of art and technology and art theory at Bauhaus University Weimar, University of Basel and FHNW Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel. Currently, she is postdoctoral researcher and lecturer of history of science at Humboldt University of Berlin.
Antonia von Schöning’s research interests include cultural techniques of creativity, digital humanities, art theory, and media ecologies.
She is author of Die Administration der Dinge. Technik und Imagination im Paris des 19. Jahrhunderts, diaphanes: Zurich/Berlin 2018.
Italy BA in Fine Arts Central Saint Martins, London
Tobia Silvotti
Italy BA in Fine Arts Central Saint Martins, London
Tobia Silvotti is an artist and co-founder of the School of Sculpture Berlin. Born in New York and with an international upbringing he went on to study Fine Arts in Central Saint Martins college of Arts and Design in London. He has participated in several group exhibitions in London and exhibited at the Intrecciarte Gallery (Pietrasanta, LU, Italy) and in Seravezza during the CibArt Festival. Other projects include a Land Art project such as the installation of a sculpture on a mountain above Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, an artistic joint project with the Japanese artist group SAMPO for the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (2019) and a collaboration with artist Raphael Beil in the creation of a monumental granite sculpture in Norway (2020-21).
He has been collaborating with the summer academy Campo dell’Altissimo (Azzano, LU, Italy) since 2012 and teaching stone carving there since 2018.
Tobia Silvotti founded the “School of Sculpture” together with Raphael Beil within the creative hub and artist community located at the former distillery Monopol in Berlin Reinickendorf, where they offer a guided tutelage for creating individual stone artworks using a variety of techniques and different stones. He wishes to share the beauty he has found in the process of working with stone and in the exploration of one’s imagination and creativity.