Eleni Trupis

* 1976
in Dresden, lives and works primarily in Dresden

2011–2014 
Postgraduate studies at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (Meisterschülerin of media artist and media scientist Prof. Lutz Dammbeck)

2011
Diploma of Fine Arts at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts – studies in fine arts, art history, aesthetics, philosophy, interdisciplinary anatomy, and architecture (art history degree: M.A.)

2006–2011
Fine Art Studies at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (Prof. Lutz Dammbeck – media art, Prof. Elke Hopfe – graphics, Prof. Christian Sery – interdisciplinary painting, Prof. Ulrike Grossarth – performance)  

2005–2006
Culture studies at the Dresden University of Technology (Literature and Linguistics in Slavic and German languages) 

scholarships and project grants (selection)

research fellowship Denkzeit Stipendium of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony (Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen)

project grant of the Department for Culture and Monument Protection of the Saxon State Capital Dresden (Amt für Kultur und Denkmalschutz der Landeshauptstadt Dresden)

project grant of the Foundation Art & Culture of the East Saxon Trustee Savings Bank (Dresdner Stiftung Kunst und Kultur der Ostsächischen Sparkasse Dresden)

scholarship of the Department for Culture and Monument Protection of the Saxon State Capital Dresden

scholarship received from the Circle of Friends of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (Freundeskreis der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden)

art science and university lectures

since 2019 
research, cataloguing, and conservation at the Archiv der Avantgarden of the Dresden State Art Collections

since 2016
concept and realization of the workshop "Performative Introduction in Architecture and History of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts"

2007–2014
preparation of lectures and workshops, curating assistance, documentation and evaluation for the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts: 

2012–2014
for the workshop "Introduction in Chinese Calligraphy"

2007–2008 
for Prof. Christian Sery

public relations and image editing

since 2020
public relations (social media and others), image editing, and networking for the Archiv der Avantgarden of the Dresden State Art Collections

2016–2017 
public relations, image editing, marketing, and archiving for Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden

solo exhibitions (selection)

9/2021–3/2022
"LYRICA 2021 * Octopodidea" (Palais Brühl-Marcolini, Dresden)

2018
"rhythm studies * shadow knows" (photography, presented at the 14. Bundeswettbewerb für Schulpraktisches Klavierspiel Grotrian Steinweg, University of Music Franz Liszt, Weimar)

2017 
"notes from the octopuss' office" (Palais Brühl-Marcolini, Dresden)

2013 * ongoing
"Die Rückkehr der Pfote * Return of the Paw" (Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, foyer, permanent installation)

2013
"PygmaLion" (Sculpture Collection, Schaudepot "Antike bis Barock", Albertinum, Dresden State Art Collections)

"Entropical Seasons I" (Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, sculptors' location, temporary public intervention)

performances (selection)

2012  
"up 'n' down 'n' round" (3 solo dancing performances, Atelier 322, Dresden Academy of Fine Arts)

2010  
"up tight and down" (solo dancing performances, Atelier 322, Dresden Academy of Fine Arts)

2008  
"Bruises and Blues" (solo dancing performance, Atelier 322, Dresden Academy of Fine Arts)

2007 
"Baerformance" (eat art performance with T. Mende, Freitagsküche, Frankfurt Main)

2004  
"Love For Sale" (tableau vivant, solo performance in context of the exhibition "Born in the GDR / Von Osten nach Boston", JP Artmarket, Boston)

2019
Participation in Yoko Ono's Water Event as part of her retrospective PEACE is POWER (MdbK, Museum für bildende Künste, Leipzig)

2017
"Everything Is Connected" (Galerie Rotklee, Putbus, Germany)

2014
"New Masters So Far" (Städtische Galerie Kunsthaus Dresden)
"geradezu momentan" (exhibition in context of the 250th anniversary of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts)
"Kunstlotterie" (Galerie m2a)

2011 
"Paws pro toto. II" (presentation in context of the monument protection conference "Kommunizieren – Partizipieren. Neue Wege der Denkmalvermittlung" at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts)

2010 
"Café Aussig" (Motorenhalle, Dresden)
"Zwischenstand" (Gallery at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts)

2008 
"Hotel Vladimir" (Motorenhalle, Dresden)
"20/10" (Heizkraftwerk Mitte, Dresden)

2007  
"Produktionsprozesse" (Heizkraftwerk Mitte, Dresden)

2004  
"Born In The GDR / Von Osten nach Boston" (JP Artmarket, Boston) 

music

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since 1993
songwriting for several musical acts (Martin Rose, The Radiation Kings, The Venusshells, Tav Falco's Panther Burns) 

2000–2005
interview research and camera for alternative music television channel Viva Zwei, later Viva Plus (interviews and filming with Marianne Faithfull, Patti Smith, Charles Neville, Dave Davies of The Kinks, Euro Boys, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Schorsch Kamerun, King Rocko Schamoni, Sven Regener and others)

2009
"Early Bird Special Night" (musical performance with H. Schramm, Side Door, Dresden)

2009  
"Thee Songs" (musical performance with H. Schramm, at the exhibition opening of "Kleine Haie" at Kunstbahnhof, Dresden)

2010  
"Gloom Blooms" (musical performance with H. Schramm at the exhibition opening of "Farben des Todes", Uniwerk, Pirna)

2018
collaboration with ORG Music, regarding licensing and publication of my song "Nobody's Baby", as opener on Tav Falco's album Cabaret of Daggers. To listen to the original version of "Nobody's Baby", written and recorded in 1996 by Tanja Wackwitz and me, > click here <

2016–2019
song writing for Berlin based bass player and singer Martin Rose, for his first album solo album Heaven's Estate