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Ari Merten (*1987, GDR) is an intermedia artist based in Berlin. Their practice revolves around music, exploring personal history, identity, and collective experience.




Scenic Concert Love Songs For a New Future 2021
Video
Sketches For a New Love Song 2021

EP/ Music Video
Cake/ Bel Air 2020

Hybrid Performance
Peeling Fruit in Front of Strangers  
2020

Dance PerformanceNudes 
2019

Audio Installation
Clitorian Reading Room2019

Live Visuals
Bodies of Discourse2017

Desktop Performance
What’s Good?2017

Video Installation
The Secret Life of Arabia2015

CV

Photo by Eden Jetschmann



Education

Master’s Program in Art Education
Universität der Künste Berlin
Since 2023

Postgraduate Master Class (Meisterschüler)
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
2012 – 2015

Studies in Conceptual Art (Erasmus Programm)
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
2011

Studies in Media Arts (Diploma)
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
2006 – 2012




Work Experience

Freelance video and sound artist
since 2018

Resident DJ for Cry Baby
Institut für Zukunft, Leipzig
2016 — 2019

Staff member video department
Schauspiel Leipzig
2015 — 2018



Teaching Experience

Guest Lecturer
Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle
2023 – 2024

Tutor for the UNESCO project Querklang+
2023 – 2024

Lecturer at Abendakademie
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
2013 – 2015




Scholarships & Residencies

BV POP Scholarship
2022

Planeta Manas Residency
Lisbon, Portugal
2021

soft power Residency
Berlin, Germany
2021

Musikfonds Scholarship
2021 & 2022

Fonds Darstellende Künste Scholarship
2021

Musicboard Residency
Marseille, France
2021

Skulptur Projekte Residency
Münster, Germany
2017

Schleswig-Holsteinisches Künstlerhaus Residency
Eckernförde, Germany
2013




Workshops & Artist Talks

This House Is Not A Home Workshop
Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich
2020

Kur und Kür Artist Talk
Skulptur Projekte Münster
2017

Babelsprech Artist Talk
Literarische Gesellschaft Thüringen, Weimar
2015

Artist Talk
Halle 14, Leipzig
2013              





Last Updated 22.11.25