Sabrina Labis (*1990 in Zurich) lives and works in Berlin.
Sabrina Labis works with video, installation and performance. Her artistic practice deals with concepts and processes of digital imagery, which she uses to understand value systems, gender relations, power structures or social mechanisms. In this context the internet is an important source of inspiration and material for her. From a profound research her poetic, multimedia pieces are a combination of divers materials through which she shares her personal observations with the viewer.
Sabrina has presented her videos and installations in Solo Shows and Group Exhibitions at Museum of Art Lucerne, Museum of Art Bonn, Literaturhaus Berlin, Sodu4 Vilnius, German House New York and many more. She has been awarded with the Exhibition Prize of Museum of Art Lucerne and the Elsa-Neumann-Grant of the State of Berlin. Currently she is a Guest Lecturer for Video Art at Lucerne School of Art and Design.
She holds a Bachelor degree in Fine Arts from Lucerne School of Art and Design and is a Graduate of University of the Arts Berlin, where she studied Experimental Video and Media Art.
GRANTS / AWARDS
2019
Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium des Landes Berlin / Elsa-Neumann-Grant of the State of Berlin
2016 – 2018
Deutschlandstipendium / Scholarship
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung / German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
2016
Projektbeitrag / Project Grant
Fachstelle Kultur, Kanton Zürich / Department of Culture of Canton Zurich
2016
New York University – Berlin Culture Prize 2016
New York University, New York
2015
Ausstellungspreis der Kunstgesellschaft Luzern / Exhibition Prize of the Art Society Lucerne
Kunstmuseum Luzern / Museum of Art Lucerne
CV
2019 / 2020
Guest Lecturer
Lucerne School of Art and Design
2017 – 2018
University of the Arts Berlin
Meisterschülerin
2014 – 2017
University of the Arts Berlin
Graduate of Experimental Video Class
with Prof. Nina Fischer
2011 – 2014
Lucerne School of Art and Design
Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Personal Color Correction, o.T. Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Luzern
2017
You are the only one, Kunstmuseum Luzern
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2020
The things I tell you will not be wrong, Scope Biennale für Medienkunst & Fotografie, Hannover (online due to Covid-19)
SUPERFREIGHT, ArcadeCampfa, Cardiff, Wales
2019
Transmediale Vorspiel, Acud Berlin Mitte - with panke.gallery
Young Talents, SAP Headquarters, Walldorf - with galerie burster Berlin
2018
Touching from a distance, Literaturhaus Berlin, Berlin Art Week
2017
PERFORM!, Videonale.16, Kunstmuseum Bonn
Revising Landscapes, Sodu4, Vilnius, Lithuania
Current Situation, Zwingli Kirche, Berlin
2016
Guest as a Host, Deutsches Haus, New York
Jahresausstellung 2015, Kunstmuseum Luzern
2015
Plattform 15, EWZ-Unterwerk Selnau, Zürich
Arte Tutoriales, Laagencia, Bogotá
Andere Räume, Freies Museum, Berlin
2014
(?)-!-? - Carte Blanche, Nextex, St. Gallen
RoundAbout, Kunstplattform akku, Emmenbrücke
2013
Anstelle von Tisch, Erfrischungsraum, Luzern
Aufräumen, Offspace Tatort, Luzern
Painthings, Guido Zäch Institut, Nottwil