Jan Verbeek

1966    born in Bonn
1987-89    Studies of Art History, Linguistics, Communication Research, Bonn University   
1989-96    Studies of Art with Nan Hoover and Nam June Paik, Düsseldorf Art Academy
1993    Meisterschüler / Master Grade Student of Prof. Nam June Paik,
1994    Assistent of Prof. Nan Hoover
1994-96    Assistent of Prof. Nam June Paik
1996    Akademiebrief / Diploma with Distinction
1996-99    Postgraduate studies of Audio-Visual Art, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne
1999    Diploma with Distinction

Prizes and Awards (selection)

1992    Vidéoformes, Clermont Ferrand, 1st Prize
Nominated for Deutscher Videokunstpreis / German Award for Video Art
Nominated for 5th Marler Video-Kunst-Preis
Germinations, scholarship to Budapest

1993     Special Award of German Television SWF, German Award for Video Art
 Bremer Videokunst-Förderpreis / Prize for Video Art, City of Bremen
 
1995     Travel Scholarship, Kunstverein and Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf
1996      European Media Artists in Residence Exchange, Hull Time Based Arts, GB
1997     Transfer Scholarship to Wroclaw, Poland
1998     Scholarship for a Graduated Academic, County of North-Rhine-Westfalia
Nominiated for 1st Marler Video-Installations-Preis

2000     Nominiated for 9th Marler Video-Kunst-Preis
2002     10th Marler Video-Kunst-Preis
2002-3 Scholarship to Japan, DAAD / German Academic Exchange Service

Works in Collections (selection)
Kunstmuseum Bonn; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; Montevideo/Time Based Arts, Amsterdam; Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe; Kunsthalle zu Kiel

Solo Exhibitions (selection)
1995 Kunsthalle zu Kiel; Museum Fridericianum, Kassel 1996 Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen; Eich Gallery, Kingston upon Hull, England; Kunstraum Wuppertal 1997 Heidelberger Kunstverein 1999 Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland
 
Since 1989 participation in about 300 exhibitions and festivals on all the continents

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