Danielle de Picciotto
Danielle de Picciotto ( born February 19, 1965) is a Berlin-based American multi-media artist. She works as a painter, illustrator, musician, author and filmmaker, her work has been exhibited internationally. In 1987, she moved from New York City to Berlin. Along with her then-boyfriend Matthias Roeingh - aka Dr. Motte - she initiated on July 1, 1989, the first Love Parade in Berlin.
Life
As a singer she was from 1990 to 1995 a member of the Berlin-based band Space Cowboys. She established in 1997 together with Gudrun Gut the Ocean Club (an open place, are presented in the art and music - later, the project turned into a radio broadcast). She participated in 1995-2000 instrumental in the " Berlin club culture art " movement as an artist / curator and founded in 1998 as "the Institute ", a gallery in which she represented more than 150 artists, musicians and writers. In 1999, she founded the regular exhibition and event series "Art or king" and presented Berlin artists, musicians and DJs in an international setting in group exhibitions, concerts and cultural projects - often in collaboration with the Goethe Institute (Rome, Milan, Naples, Hong Kong, Osaka, Tokyo, Sarajevo). She was regularly called as an artist and curator to present Berlin in his versatility and creativity. In 2005, she initiated "Art or Queen ", an exhibition series in which only artists are introduced. In 2005 she produced together with Alexander Hacke and the Tiger Lillies audiovisual stage play Mountains of Madness.
In 2006, she married her longtime partner Alexander Hacke, the bassist of the band Einstürzende Neubauten. Developed in 2007, de Picciotto and Hacke the work of Sebastian Brant " The Ship of Fools ", which was published the following year as a DVD and CD. Both toured with the work world. 2008 Danielle de Picciotto was commissioned by the German Federal Foreign Office, to make a film clip about European dances. The clip "Star Dance " illustrates how traditional dances can be worked out "club -friendly" and jugendnah. In 2009 she was once again commissioned by the Foreign Office with a short film for over 20 years fall of the wall. In May 2009, Hacke and de Picciotto were presented in the documentary In Berlin, directed by Ciro Cappellari and Michael Ballhaus as a dazzling pair of Berlin artists. 2011, they were invited to a four -month stay in the " Meet Factory " by David Cerny in Prague in order to build an audio- visual installation and puts your Berlin memoirs " The Beauty Of Transgression" out ( Gestalten Verlag ). 2012 Danielle member of Cultband "Crime & The City Solution". 2013 brings the interdisciplinary artist Her second book ( Metrolit publisher) - out as a Graphic Diary " We are Gypsies Now The path into the unknown ." 2014 Danielle is invited to compose music for the play " Republic of the Wolves" ( Theater Dortmund ) together with Mick Harvey, Alexander Hacke and Paul Wallfisch and during the term perform live. A new band "Ministry of Wolves " arises from this cooperation with the four musicians.