Catriona Shaw is a Scottish artist and musician who grew up on the Orkney Islands.
She is currently based in Berlin.
Using drawing, performance, music and video Catriona Shaw creates interactive or set
environments which engage audiences throughout the creative process. As her main
starting point, Shaw's drawings connects her different creative outputs and makes visible
her interest in popular culture, anthropomorphism, absence and social politics. As the live
performer, Miss le Bomb, her stage shows draw the audience mentally and physically closer,
investigating public expectation, pop myth and the ‘star’ as a consumer item.
CV - Catriona Shaw
Born Edinburgh, Scotland (1975)
Education
1997 Drawing and Painting (BA Hons), Edinburgh College of Art
2002 Sculpture (Diploma), Klasse Asta Gröting, Akademie der Bildende Künste, Munich
2010 Kunst im Kontext (MA), UDK, Berlin
Selected Exhibitions
2017 Cool and in the cool dark, Cashmere Radio, Berlin
2017 Das Goldene Dreieck, Salon Plastique, Berlin
2017 Bilaga - To Whom it May Concern, Gothenburg International Biennial Extended
2016 Radiophrenia 2, CCA, Glasgow
2016 6 Women, 6 Nights, 6 Performances, Tête, Berlin
2015 Radiophrenia Festival, CCA, Glasgow
2014 Phishing the Landscape, Verksmi∂jan, Hjalteyri, Iceland
2013 Intermezzo, Trajector Art Fair, Brussels
2013 A Gilded Age that Glitters (solo), Centrum, Berlin
2012 Coeur de Silex, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec
2011 I'll be your mirror, AMU, Tokyo
2010 Screen Realities, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna
2010 Groupshow (with Parents), Niklas Schechinger Fine Art, Hamburg
2010 Outlands, Vegas Gallery, London
2010 In a shadow box, Galerie Crystal Ball, Berlin
2010 Zeigen, curated by Karin Sander, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
2010 Casting, Visite ma tente, Berlin
2009 Bootleg - the A-Side, Fred Gallery, London
2009 Jahresgabe, Badische-Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
2009 Fliegen Zu (Zeichnungen & Servietten Plus Diverses), General Public, Berlin
2009 Islands & Ghettos, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
2009 On Clouds, Observatory, New York
2008 Indifference (is bliss), Forum Kreuzberg, Berlin
2008 Pop Goes the Weasel, Badische-Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
2008 My Computer, Artspace 300m3, Gothenburg
2008 Album (solo), General Public, Berlin
2007 Art4Lux - Emerging European Creation, Casino, Luxembourg
2007 Common Ground, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
2007 Exodus (screening), Blue Herring Film Festival, Rauma, Finland
2007 Summer Camp, Visite Ma Tente, Berlin
2006 Freeze Frames (solo), Lönnström Taidemuseo, Rauma, Finland
2006 Pigment Piano Marble, (virtual performance), curated by Mandla Reuter, Buenos Aires
2005 Posted, Hiscox arts centre, London
2004 Heraldic Pomp, Brooklyn Fireproof Gallery, New York
2004 Club le Bomb, Radio Delay, Lokaltermin, Munich
2004 Strips and Characters, Kunstraum München u. Kunstverein Wolfsburg
2004 Lokaltermin, Villa der Künstler, Stuttgart
2004 Connect the Dots, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York
2003 Kunstpraxis, Siemens, München
2002 Let's twist Again, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien
2002 On Paper, Galerie Andreas Grimm, München
2001 Hi Mom (solo), Galerie Hinterkonti, Hamburg
2001 A piece of chewing gum stuck to the bottom of your trousers, Maximilliansforum, Munich
2001 Kunstranch, Kampfnagel, Hamburg
2000 Club le Bomb World Tour (solo), Lothringer13/Ladengalerie, München
2000 Gestrandet in Schiffscontainern, Odeonsplatz, Munich
1999 Old Hippie Scandalistic (Spiel 99), CREDO, Alte Rathaus, München
1999 Old Hippie Stylistic (Spiel 99), Christof Schlingensief's Chance 2000, Berlin
1999 Artists Books, Kirkwall Museum, Orkney Islands
1999 Club le Bomb - a night behind the scenes,installation/performance, Akademiegalerie, Munich
1999 Ins, Haus der Kunst, München
1998 D.E.D.O.G., with Emanuel Guenther, Akademigalerie München
1998 Recent Graduates, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney Islands
1998 Klinischer Kontakt, interactive installation, (Spiel 99) Ultraschall, München
1998 In-Transit Out-takes und You're Parallel, Screenings, Ultraschall, München
1997 Gang from Munich, Galerie 03 Würzburg; Pudel Club Hamburg; Shedhalle Zürich
Selected Performances
2016 A table for voices, 6 Women, 6 Nights, 6 Performances, Tête, Berlin
2015 Speech of the Ignorant, Gallery Weekend, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin
2015 Speech of the Ignorant, Les Visiteurs du Soir, Le Dojo, Nice
2015 Speech of the Ignorant, 6 Women, 6 Nights, 6 Performances, Tête, Berlin
2015 Hektor & Rositha, Queer Aesthetics, Kunsthalle Luzern
2014 Frau Dulles waves her hat, Returning to Sender, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2014 Hektor & Rositha, Glück, Theater am Neumarkt, Zürich
2013 If I could turn back time, (with Mouthfrog), Clockwork Gallery, Berlin
2012 Peace and Love (with JOKAklubi), Baltic Circle Theatre Festival, Helsinki, Finland
2011 The Hunt for the Berlin Artist (with JOKAklubi), Based in Berlin, Kunstwerken (KW), Berlin
2011 The Ends (with JOKAklubi), W139, Amsterdam
2011 X and the End (with Fred Bigot), It’s all about the core, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
2011 EUR.APP (with Malve Lippmann), Ballhaus-Ost, Berlin
2011 Enterface, Villa Arson Academy of Fine Arts, Nice
2011 Xana-do (with Malve Lippmann), NGBK, Berlin
2010 The Ends (with JOKAklubi), Baltic Circle Theatre Festival, Helsinki
2010 The Unclassifiable Romanesco (with Pauline Curnier Jardin), Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin
2010 A Table for Voices, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe;
2010 A Table for Voices, Voice, Centrespace, DCA, Dundee
2010 Doing the Gooey (with Malve Lippmann), Cryptic Nights, CCA, Glasgow
2009 The unclassifiable Romanescu (with Pauline Curnier Jardin), 104 (Centquatre), Paris
2009 Miss le Bomb, Circuito OFF Festival, Venice
2009 Miss le Bomb, Galerie am Taxispalais, Innsbruck
2009 Doing the Gooey, (with Malve Lippmann), Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin
2008 Nordic Chaud, (with Pauline Curnier Jardin), My Computer, Artspace 300m3, Gothenburg
2008 Miss le Bomb, Architectures of Survival, Sparwasser HQ Berlin
2008 Miss le Bomb, Tramway, Glasgow
2007 Miss le Bomb, The World as A Stage, Tate Modern, London
2007 Miss le Bomb, Guggenheim museum, Bilbao, Spain
2007 Miss le Bomb, Borderline Festival, Beijing, China
2007 Nordic Chaud (performance with Pauline Curnier Jardin), Titanik gallery, Turku; Lönnström Musuem, Rauma; Pispala arts, Tampere, Finland
2006 Miss le Bomb, Exit Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
2006 Miss le Bomb, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
2006 Hektor & Rositha, Rauma Art Museum, Finland
2006 Hektor & Rositha, ABC Brecht Festival, Augsburg
2005 Miss le Bomb, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
2005 Elend und Vergeltung showcase: Bosch Bar Zürich; Kammerspiele München
2005 ISM showcase, (Miss le Bomb, Kevin Blechdom, Planningtorock), ROXI Frankfurt, Pudel Club Hamburg, Registratur Munich
2004 Miss le Bomb, Trollofon Festival, Kunsthalle/Landmark Bergen, Norway
2000 EMBY, Project with GMAM, Zucker and Danger Museum, Munich, Singapore, Berlin
Discography
Catriona Shaw
2012 Apartment song, (The Marnies), Rock ‘n’ Roll People # 2, 12” Vinyl, (Pico’s Yodelin Beat); 2011 Milk & Stones, (The Marnies), Collection Amplifée, 12” Vinyl & Catalogue (Les Disques en Rotin Reunis); 2010 La Salon d'Alone, Fred Bigot & Catriona Shaw, 12” vinyl (published by Pauline Curnier/Palais de Tokyo); 2009 Tee-Rocket, Tribute to Gustav Metzger, CD, (Strunz! Enterprises)
Miss le Bomb
2008 Rakehand Dance EP, (Wired Records); 2007 No picture of the Hero - Acid Shmacid remix, 12" (Kitty-yo) ; 2006 Sexual A-tension, Roxi Music, (Reis) ; 2006 Jealousy, 12” (Careless records) ; 2006 Pinkitan, Girl Monster compilation (Chicks on Speed Records) ; 2006 Vampire-moped-dead, The Wired Ones compilation (Wired Records) ; 2006 Lost Gigabyte, Pudel compilation #4, 12" & CD (Pudel Produkte) ; 2005 Cats want to have birds, Re:Bird, (AK) ; 2004 Eyes Off, Favorit Bar compilation #2 (Favorit)
Club le Bomb
2002 Club le Bomb 12", (Erkrankung durch Musique)
Hektor & Rositha
2001 Purple Haze/Somebody's watching me split 7" with Kamerakino (Bodensatz)
Queen of Japan
2004 Foreign Politics CD/LP, (Echokammer/EDM) ; 2003 Kings, Queens, Wasps and Lust LP, (Echokammer) ; 2002 Headrush CD/LP, (Echokammer/EDM); 2001 I was made for loving you 12", (Hausmusik) ; 2001 Physical 12", (Echokammer) ; 2001 Nightlife in Tokyo CD/LP, (AK/EDM) ; 2000 Cool Cat/Total Eclipse 10", (Fortina); 1999 Mercury Rising CD, (AK)
Publications/Catalogues
2013 Kombiticket 2010 - 12, catalogue documenting the education project at NGBK, (NGBK)
2012 KIOSK 27 Catriona Shaw & Morven Crumlish, print with limited edition CD (Del'Art & KIOSK)
2009 Orkney Futures – A Handbook, (Brae Editions)
2006 Pigment Piano Marble, exhibition catalogue, (Revolver)
2006 Let's Twist Again - If You Can't Think It, Dance It. Performance in Vienna from 1960 until today, exhibition catalogue (deA publishing pool)
2005 Elend und Vergeltung, Fanzine (Publishers: Catriona Shaw, Jürg Tschirren and Isabel Reiss)
2004 Strips and Characters, Ausstellungskatalog (Kunstraum München)
2000 Club le bomb is dead, long live Club le bomb, Fanzine (self-published)
1999 – 2001 Old Hippie Stylistic, Fanzine (self-published)
Awards & Residencies
2017 Cashmere Radio Artist Residency, funded by Music Board Berlin
2009/15 Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung awards for gooeyTEAM, Berlin Senate for Culture
2013 Residency, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney
2013 Production residency, Centrum, Berlin
2010/12 Kunstvermittlungsstipendium, (Education programme stipend), NGBK
2010 KünstlerInnen kuratieren KünstlerInnen award, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna
2010 Alt –W Prize, Scottish Arts Council/New Media Scotland for 'Doing the Gooey'
2008 Production residency, 300m3 Art Space, Gothenburg
2006 Pépinières Européennes Pour Jeunes Artistes, Map XXL residency at Raumars, Finland
2004 Production grant for the project 'Radio Delay’, Kulturreferat München
2002 DAAD graduate award
1997/8 DAAD scholarship
1997 Helen A. Rose Bequest
Other activities (Teaching, Workshops, Talks, Commissions)
2017 Wie wir die Sternen am nächsten kommen, dance & artistic workshop, Sternberg Grundschule & Danceworks Berlin, Funded by Kultur Macht Stark!
2015 Wenn du present bist, bist du online (if you’re present you’re online), workshop, Akademie der bildende Künste Stuttgart
Complaints Choir, composer & choir leader, Winterakademie, Theater an der Parkaue, Berlin
Complaints Choir, composer &choir leader, Wir Haben Es Satt!, Demonstration, Berlin
2014 From fat to flat, block seminar, University of applied arts, Dortmund
From fat to flat, Teacher training, Europaschule Aachen
Flatland / Fatland, Workshop, Jugendkunstschule Charlottenburg, Berlin
2013 Giving Voice/Deutlich Machen, Workshop in the conference „Fragen ans Curriculum“, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Touching Moments, Workshop with elderly people and teenagers, gooeyTEAM, Jugendkunstschule Charlottenburg & Museum für Kommunikation Berlin
Doing the Gooey, Explore - Hand's On International Children's Museum Conference, Stockholm, Sweden
Kooperationsprozessor, commission for the Kulturagenten conference in Dortmund
Complaints Choir, composer and musician, Nordwind Festival, Hau 2, Berlin
Lecture, Pixelache Festival, Pixelversity, Helsinki
2012 Impress Me – artists as (self) publishers, NGBK, Berlin
Mediation as art – talks and workshops as part of the Kombiticket Clubroom project at NGBK Berlin with Children's Creativity Museum, San Francisco;
A*Bout, Berlin; Galeria Skuç, Ljubliana
Parade of the interfaces, Workshop with gooeyTEAM, Kunstherbst für Kids, Berlin
Der Hyperlink Generator, Workshop, cooperation with Stiftung Deutsches Technik Museum
Clubroom Channel Tunnel, Workshops with Rhona Byrne, Ich Spiel AG, Christian Vialard
2011 Fat Screen, workshop with students from the Villa Arson art academy, Nizza
Clubroom, Workshop, conference 1+1=3, Kulturprojekte Berlin, Podewil, Berlin
2010 Kombiticket, education program at NGBK, Berlin
Artist talk, Extra Radio – Cultural Action and City Symposium, Barcelona
2008 Lecture/workshop, Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Denmark
Standing other stones, Workshop, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh
A Complaints Choir in 9 Easy Steps, Workshop m. Oliver Kochta Kalleinen, 5. Berlin Biennale , Philharmonie Luxembourg und auf der
'Kunstvermittlung zwischen Konformität und Widerständigkeit', Bundesakademie Wolfenbüttel
2007 Artist talk, Art4EU-exhibition, Casino, Luxembourg
2006 Artist talk, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
1999 Artist talk on virtual club spaces and Club le Bomb, Medienwerkstatt der Akademie der Bildende Künste, München; Proto Academy, Edinburgh College of Art
Events / Curatorial practice
2014 Co-curator of the exhibition ‘Phishing the Landscape’, Verksmi∂an, Hjalteyri, Iceland;
2010 Curator of exhibition Screen Realities and accompanying programme, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna;
2005-06 Galeri Baberton, real/virtual private views and programme, Post 26, Berlin; Artklub, Vienna
2003 Anville, music and performance event series in 'Wiener Freiheit', Wien;
2001 ‘A piece of chewing gum...’, events series, Maximilliansforum, München;
1999-04 Club le Bomb, events and concerts in diverse venues throughout Europe & USA
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Catriona Shaw by Ken Pratt
