oben links: Alisa Berger, unten links: Julia Tielke, mitte: Vera Shchelkina, rechts: Doireann O’Malley
Für das Sommersemester 2026 freuen wir uns, unsere vier Gastdozent*innen für das Programm „Time Based Media“ begrüßen zu dürfen, Alisa Berger, Doireann O’Malley, Julia Tielke und Vera Shchelkina .
Alisa Berger was born in 1987 in Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan, and raised in Lviv, Ukraine. She studied film and fine arts at the Academy of Media Art Cologne (KHM) and at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotá. With her diploma film and fiction feature debut, ‘The Astronauts‘ Bodies’, she was nominated for the Max Ophüls Prize and for the FIRST STEPS Award of the Deutsche Filmakademie. She was also the recipient of the Best Film Award for New Directors at Int. Film Festival Uruguay and the Screenplay Award of H.W. Geißendörfer.
Alisa Berger creates films and installations, often in a collaborative process, that are accompanied, created, changed or destroyed within performative interventions. She has had solo exhibitions at Seoul Art Space Geumcheon (Seoul), HMKV (Dortmund), or PATARA Gallery (Tbilisi) and participated in many group shows like the Museum Biennale (Krasnoyarsk), Kindl – Center for Contemporary Art (Berlin), KAI 10, Arthena Foundation (Düsseldorf), MMOMA – Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow) or the BACC Bangkok Art & Culture Center (Bangkok).
Since 2011 she has collaborated with Lena Ditte Nissen under the name bergernissen. She is co-founder of the international film production company FORTIS FEM FILM, which dedicates its work to increasing the visibility of women and their stories in film. Additionally, Berger works in sound performance and hosts a monthly show on dublab.de as a DJ.
Doireann O’Malley is an Irish artist based in Berlin. Their research-led practice explores the intersections of collaborative methodologies, meditative and visualization practices, writing, and auto-theory. Working primarily with film, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, 3D, and video installation, O’Malley’s work investigates the porous boundaries between technology, embodiment, and transformation.
O’Malley was shortlisted to represent Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2024, longlisted for the Preis der Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 2021, and received the Berlin Art Prize in 2018. They have been awarded numerous grants and fellowships, including Künstlerische Forschung (Berlin Senate, 2020–2021), Stiftung Kunstfonds, the Edith-Russ-Haus Award for Media Art, and the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation and Bursary Awards.
O’Malley has held teaching and mentoring positions including Guest Professor on the MFA at ZHdK, Zurich (2020–2024); Professor of Gender & Space at the Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna; and Guest Mentor for the Live Art MA at AdBK Nürnberg (2021). They were also a fellow of BPA // Berlin Program for Artists (2019–2020).
Their work has been exhibited and presented internationally at institutions including the Goethe-Institut Dublin; The Granary Theatre / National Sculpture Factory, Ireland; the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin; Art Institute Basel, Switzerland; Biennale Zielona Góra, Poland; Goethe-Institut Montreal and New York; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin; Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Sweden; Mumok Kino, Vienna; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; the Berlin Art Prize exhibition (2018); and the Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg.
Julia Tielke has a Master of film and fine arts from HFBK Hamburg. Before she studied spanish and social anthropology in Freiburg and Mexico. She works as a freelancer director, cinematographer and video artist. Marked by fine observations her films look at different aspects of everyday life like rooms, bodies and human relations.
Julia Tielke hat einen Master im Film und Freie Kunst von der Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. Davor studierte sie Spanische Literatur und Kultur sowie Ethnologie in Freiburg und Mexiko. Sie arbeitet als freischaffende Regisseurin, Kamerafrau und Videokünstlerin. Gezeichnet durch feine Beobachtungen betrachten ihre Arbeiten unterschiedliche Aspekte des alltäglichen Lebens wie Räume, Körper und Beziehungen.
Vera Shchelkina is a dance artist, choreographer (MA Choreography graduate from HZT Berlin), and somatic movement educator (Somatic Academy Berlin).
They work as facilitator and curator for professional and non-professional dance and performance programs, including Contemporary Dance for Deaf Community at GES-2 (Moscow), Summer School for Performance at HFBK (Hamburg), and Here + Now + Everyone at Kampnagel Sommerfestival (Hamburg).
Their choreographic and collaborative projects include CO-TOUCH, My Ex(body), The Imposture Lab, SMRTъ, Vibrant Matter, Witnessing it all happening for the last time, and Everyone here is a bit of a horse, as well as choreography for a musical film “Songs of hope and despair” by Chto Delat.
Vera’s artistic research investigates the body as a political and transpersonal agent, where touch, perception, and form reveal states of rebellion and intimacy. They research and teach perception as a form of action in different contexts.