DAVID SCHIKORA

Curriculum Vitae

David Schikora

Born 1983 in Bremen, Germany

2006 – 2009 Apprenticeship as digital media designer

10/2009 – 02/2010 Guest student at the University of the Arts Bremen

10/2010 – 01/2017 Student at the University of the Arts Bremen (Course of studies: Integrated Design)

11/2011 – 01/2017 Student job at the Robotics Innovation Center of the German Research Center For Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) in Bremen

04/2012 – 01/2017 I mainly studied photography after I joined my first photography course of Prof. Peter Bialobrzeski

02/2013 – 06/2013 Erasmus at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland

09/2014 Bachelor of Arts

10/2014 – 01/2017 Master programme Culture and Identity of Prof. Peter Bialobrzeski and Prof. Andrea Rauschenbusch at the University of the Arts Bremen

01/2017 Master of Arts

Since 04/2017 I live in Berlin


Nominations

Unseen Dummy Award 2016, shortlisted →

Fotobook Dummy Award Kassel 2016, shortlisted →

Moscow International Foto Awards 2016, 3rd place for the category Architecture—Industrial →

University Price 2016, Integrated Design, 2nd place for the group project CRISIS — WHAT CRISIS

Deutschlandstipendium of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (scholarship), 2015/16 →

Fotobook Dummy Award Kassel 2015, shortlisted →

„Die besten deutschen Fotobücher 2015“, Goethe Institut Russland →

2016 PhotogrVphy Grant, Nominee for the category Outdoor →


Exhibitions

2017

Format Festival, Derby

Belfast Photo Festival

2016

Photokina, Cologne

Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum

Markuskirche, Hanover

Galerie FLUT, Bremen

8. Fotobookfestival Kassel/Beijing

PhotoIreland, Dublin

Fotoleggendo, Rome

Fotogalleriet, Oslo

Organ Vida Festival, Zagreb

Encontros da Imagem, Braga

Photobook Week Aarhus, Galleri Image

IED, Madrid

Unseen Book Market, Amsterdam

2015

Kammer 36, Bremen

7. Fotobookfestival, Kassel

Fotoleggendo, Rome

IED, Madrid

PhotoIreland, Dublin

Kaunas Photo, Kaunas

Fotobokfestival, Oslo

Encontros da Imagem, Braga

Fotobok Gbg 15, Gothenburg

Photobook Week Aarhus, Galleri Image

Fotoistanbul, Istanbul

galerie mitte, Bremen

2012

„Best of HFK Design“, Wilhelm-Wagenfeld-Haus, Bremen

2011

„Best of HFK Design“, Wilhelm-Wagenfeld-Haus, Bremen


Published

ZEITSCHRIFT DER STRASSE
Issue: Sodenmatt (2014)

ZINEMAKK
Issue: May, 2015

CRISIS — WHAT CRISIS
Ten days in Athens (2015)

Spiegel Online
Armes Athen — Bilder einer Stadt

Conflict?
Exhibition catalogue (2016)

Schönhässlich (2017)


Self-published photobooks

Autolose Autoreifen in der Ukraine (2014)

Rotten Vehicles & Parking Defence Systems (2015)

No Tips No Show (2016)