LIVE ART

ABSTRACT BODIES videostill performing in the no-mans-land between Jordan and Israel

YAMA KOWA

STUDIES
1993-97 ERNST BUSCH academy of performing arts Berlin (Diploma)
1994-98 studies with Nan Hoover, Vallie Export and Ellen Cantor in Salzburg, Austria
1998 artistic assistant at the Wooster Group Performing Garage New York
AWARDS
2010 best feature film for DREAMING MALI at the TBFF Dallas,USA
Presented in collaboration with the Dallas Museum of Art
2011 best feature nominations at the ÉCU fest Paris and New Jersey filmfest
2022 best experimental for FACELESS in Athens/ London/ Porto/ Andalusia
LIST OF WORKS select
2005-6 performer/dancer in „Takemitsu–my way of life“ Opera-Berlin
Paris (Theatre du Châtelét) Tokyo (Bunka Kai Kahn)
2005 video-interlay performance Transit Station Berlin
2007 MIND AND MATTER with Markus Schaller,Transit Station Edinburgh
2008 ONEAN(D)OTHER live-art in Mali, with Markus Schaller
2010 HEART VENTRICLE Royal Danish academy Copenhagen/Transit Station
2011 Live-art-project WATER WISDOM China/Shanghai/ Beijing
2012 E.V.E. fest female performers from New York + Berlin,curated by SilverSilver
2013 SEVEN SEALS performance (art.endart and Uferhallen Berlin)
2014 MAO+TAO Feature Film on „water wisdom“ shown at art.endart Berlin
2015 SEVEN SEALS at New Healing festival Germany
curated by Jens Zygar
New Zealand (Prana festival) +Lithuania (Yaga Gathering)
ABSTRACT BODIES site specific in the dead sea, Israel
SKIN at Cell 63 Berlin wopa curated by Dagmar-Glausnitzer Smith
SEEDS AND EGGS at open-air-arts museum pédvale, Latvia
2016 SEVEN SEALS – Gili Air Indonesia
V.U.P. Live-art Berlinale Festival, Berlin
2017 SEVEN SEALS in Nazaré, Portugal
PERIPHERIE WITHOUT CENTER at gr_und Berlin opening, curated by L.Hungh

TREE TALS of the cycle UNTIL DEATH DO US PART 2006-2018 picture: Markus Schaller

2018 THE CALCULATING MIND CAN NOT BE TRUSTED 42 days non-stop-gallery durational and solo show, Luisa Catucci Gallery Berlin

SKIN,HEART, BRAIN at ANGST festival Paris
by Action Hybrid with Ely Daou
I COUNT ON YOU at starptelpa Riga in with Ely Daou
SEVEN SEALS in spain La Gomera Magic Tree Festival
2019 VIRGIN MARY AT THE CRADLE OF AI in Vienna Künstlerhaus 1050
at the NCW6° festival by Nina Fountedakis
THE ICONIC TURN durational performance at Riga performance festival
2019 LIBERATION IN PANOPTICON durational and Installation Not Kapelle Berlin
2020 COSMIC GRAVITY int.week of performance, Venice curated by Marilyn Arsem
2020 SUNGATE durational at Marzona Art Park Verzegnis, Italy
2021 CONTEMPORARY RAPUNZEL Künstlerhaus KuLe Art Week Berlin
2022 HOW LONG IS NOW? Künstlerhaus KuLe Art Week Berlin
FACELESS in collaboration with filmmaker Giorgis Fotopoulos, Berlin/ Athen 2023
INFINITY site specific durational at Almsee Austria
2023 CREATIVE CREATURES durational Galerie Tanglberg, Austria
2024 DER LUX UND SEIN FLUXUS 1&2 participative mail-art d.i.y. Bartlhaus und
Guerilla Ausstellung auf der Seisenburg Ruine im Rahmen von Salzkammergut
Kulturhauptstadt Europa
2024 CURRENCIRCULATION 5 h durational Schloß Hochhaus Tanglberg Austria
2024 HIGH SOCIETY Schloss Hochhaus Austria
2025 I AM NOTHING EVERY THING IS ME Starptelpa Riga Performance Festival
2025 BOUNDLESS 5 hour site specific durational at Yaga Gathering

EXHIBITIONS select
2002 Videoinstallation SEVEN STEPS AND BEYOND Kunstraum Berlin (Solo show)
2008 Video installation BASIC KNOWLEDGE Bologna, Giardino del Guasto
2018 UNTIL DEATH Luisa Catucci Gallery Berlin (Solo show)
2019 L I P Notkapelle Berlin
2022 HOW LONG IS NOW KuLe Berlin Art Week
2024 L I P 2 Modell im Museum Schloss Hochhaus
im Rahmen von Salzkammergut Kulturhauptstadt Europa

NOMINATIONS SCREENINGS AND AWARDS
of the collaborations with Giorgis Fotopoulos in 2025/26
Lebenskünstler
- Rome Outkast Independent Film Awards
- Hollywood Best Indie Film Awards
- Skopje Art Film Awards
- Leeds Independent Film Awards
  
  BrAIn
  Worldthreading Fstival Kopenhagen
  Inspire Festival Petrosophy
  Marathonfestival Athens