ELI CORTIÑAS

*1976 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria/Spain. Lives and works in Cologne/Germany.

2003-2008 Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Prof. Matthias Müller, Prof. Marcel Odenbach
2001-2002 European Film College, DK

AWARDS / GRANTS

2009 Winner of Award for Young Artists 2009 of the Country of NRW Düsseldorf/Germany
(section Media Arts)
2009 Winner of the 19th Art Students Competition by the States Department for Education and
2009 Research, Kunst- u. Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik, Bonn/Germany
2009 Short List Nomination for the Columbus Art Foundation Project
2008 Nominated for the German Shortfilm Award in Gold for experimental film, Berlin
2005 Promotion Price of the Big Art Exhibition North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf
2001 Grant from the Film foundation MSH, Lübeck


FILM / VIDEO

2009 "FIN" 2009, single channel video, 4min./ loop, stereo sound
2009 "Sortie! -Play and forward", 4 channel video, collage, (work in progress)
2008 "Das Kaninchen bin ich" ("I am the rabbit"), 3 channel video installation (to be completed 2009)
2008 "Dial M for Mother", 2 channel video installation, 11´00´´/ loop
2007 "Lovers – all the same in front of G.O.D.", 1 channel video, 3´/loop
2006 "2 or 3 Things I Knew About Her", experimental film, 12´30´´
2006 "No Place Like Home", 2 channel video installation for monitor, 2´20´´
2003 "Familiar Faces", 1 channel videocollage, 9´
2001 "Buñuel´s Dream", experimental film, 9´

EXHIBITIONS

2009 "Footloose", Galerie Waldburger Brussels/Belgium (group)
2009 "Moon Star Love", Marcelle Alix Paris/France (group)
2009 "+10/ Shortlist Columbus Art Foundation Project", Halle 14, Spinnerei Leipzig
2009 "Regarding Düsseldorf 4", Düsseldorf (group)
2009 LISTE 09 The Young Art Fair in Basel (solo)
2009 "Dial M for Mother", Galerie Michael Wiesehöfer, Cologne/Germany (solo)
2009 Art Students Competition Exhibition, Kunst- u. Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik, Bonn/Germany (group)
2008 "Recently seen and admired", Gallery Kunstagenten Berlin (group)
2008 "Cinéma Revisité", Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (group)
2008 Documental: Contemporary Video Art from Europe, Guggenheim Gallery, L.A. (group)
2008 "There will be no funeral", e*raum, Cologne/Germany (solo)
2008 13. Marler Video Art Price, Glaskasten Marl, Marl/Germany (group)
2008 Art Cologne, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne/Germany (group)
2008 "Lies. Nowhere. Between fiction and reality", exhibition screening, Ausstellungshalle für
zeitgenösische Kunst Münster, Münster/Germany (group)
2008 "Family Matters", Gallery NB8, Oslo/Norway (group)
2008 "Zur Zeit",Künstlerhaus Bregenz, Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz/Austria (group)
2008 "Minus Eins", Minus Eins experimental Lab, curated by Mischa Kuball, Cologne/ Germany (group)
2007 "Rettung ohne Untergang", Deutzer Brücke, Cologne/Germany (group)
2008 "CROPPED", Figge von Rosen Gallery, Cologne/Germany (group)
2006 Exhibition due to Promotion Price of the Big Art Exhibition North Rhine-Westphalia,
Düsseldorf (December 2005 - January 2006)
2005 Köln Kunst 7, Cologne/Germany (group)
2005 5. Augsburger Art Lab (LAB 30), Augsburg, Germany (group)
2005 "Guten Tag: Auf Wiedersehen", Rutgers Arts Center, New Jersey/U.S.A. (group)


SCREENINGS

2009 CINÉMA REVISITÉ Centre Pompidou Paris (“FIN“, 2009) (in prep.)
2009 7th Torino Film Festival November 2009, Torino/Italy
2009 Norwegian Short Film Festival Grimstad, Norway
2009 Reel to Real, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main/ Germany
2009 ZKMax showroom: Passage Maximilianstrasse, Landeshauptstadt München Kulturreferat in
cooperation with ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, München
2008 CINÉMA REVISITÉ Centre Pompidou Paris ("DIAL M FOR MOTHER“)
2008 Int. Women Film Festival Dortmund, Panorama section, Dortmund, Cologne/Germany
2008 "LUX" Max Ophüls Price, Experimental Film / Video, Saarbrücken/Germany
2008 Short Cuts Cologne, Cologne/Germany
2007 LOOP, video art fair, Barcelona/Spain
2007 European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück/Germany
2007 Int. Short Film Festival, Oberhausen/Germany
2007 L´Alternativa, Barcelona/Spain
2006 XXX Forum – Video Art, Museum Ludwig, Cologne/Germany
2006 Geladen: Videokunst", Junge Kunstfreunde, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (Germany
2006 "Traveller auf Reise wohnen", Galerie Sammler, Leipzig/Germany
2003 Oldenburg Film Week, Oldenburg/Germany
2003 Filmfest Augenweide, Kiel/Germany
2003 Int. Leipzig Festival for Documentary & Animated Film, (Competition), Leipzig/Germany
2003 Film Tournee Unterwegs, Germany
2002 Feminale, Cologne/Germany
2002 Nordic Film Week, Lübeck, Germany
2002 Mediawave, Ungarn
2002 International Women’s Film Festival, Seoul/Korea


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Museum Kunst Palast Düsseldorf
Kunst aus Nordrhein-Westfalen, Aachen-Kornelimünster