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Jürgen Trautwein

1958 born in Bruchsal, Germany
1980-83 Roedel art college, Mannheim
1984-90 University of the Arts Berlin with Prof. Bachmann, Chevalier, Koberling
1990 Meisterschüler @ University of the Arts in Berlin
1992 Relocated to San Francisco
1997 Founding of jtwine.com

Lives and works in San Francisco and Germany

One person exhibitions (selection)

2011 S
itting quietly doing nothing, Indian Valley Outhouse shows, Indian Valley, California
2009 Combines, Bel Mondo, Heidelberg
2007 R
ien plus, Basement incorporated, San Francisco
2005 The sleep of reason, Margit Haupt Gallery, Karlsruhe
2003 NIESATT, The Rat Pack Lounge, Berlin
2002 Living by numbers, Place Pigalle Gallery, San Francisco
2001 Narragonia, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles
2001 The post biological plenitude of ultimate emptiness, The Gallery, Hollywood
1998 Fresco y natural, Galeria El Pobre Diablo, Quito
1996 New paintings, Aigle Soft, San Jose, Ca
1995 Miles ahead, ABB research center, Heidelberg
1993 Investing in the future, Siemens AG, Bruchsal

Group exhibitions (selection)

2012 Convergence/Divergence, curated by Suzon Fuks, Los Medanos College Gallery, Pittsburg, CA
2012 Wb12-Web Biennial, museum of contemporary art, Istanbul
2012 Festival of digital culture, Espacio Enter, Teneriffa, Canari Islands
2012 File 2012, SESI Cultural center, Sao Paulo (catalog)
2012 Revolution Now and forever, curated by N.&B. Kadin, VN gallery Zagreb, Croatia (catalog)
2012 European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany (catalog)
2012 Re: Referendum, New media Gallery, Split, Croatia (catalog)
2012 25th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany (catalog)
2012 Conflux, University of Ohio - Pearl Conard Gallery, Mansfield , Ohio
2011 Du Soleil en Hiver, Hans Benda gallery, Verviers, Belgium
2011 File 2011, SESI Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo, Brazil (catalog)
2011 Synthetic Zero, Bronx Art Space, NY
2011 Sketchbook project, the Brooklyn art library, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Regeneration.011, politics and poetry in net-art, Plato Sanat, Istanbul (catalog)
2010 WB 10, Web Biennial, museum for contemporary art, Istanbul
2010 Festival of digital culture, Espacio Enter, Teneriffa, Canari Islands
2010 No Food No Drink No Sticky Lollies, curated by F. Leuthaueser, Stattbad, Berlin
2010 FAD - Festival Arte Digital, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (catalog)
2010 SONIK1- Climate Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2010 Java museum (net art features), Cologne
2009 DIWO at the dark mountain, HTTP Gallery , London
2009 A book about death, Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery (A book about death), New York (catalog)
2008 Astriking twelve, Live worms Gallery, San Francisco
2008 Rhizome Art base, white noise and movie-machine, New York
2008 Sight Sound Interaction, MICA, Rosenberg gallery, Baltimore
2007 San Francisco Arts commission (Breakthrough a jpg magazine project), SF
2006 Night of thousand drawings, Artists Space, New York
2006 Artconcept festival @ the manhattan club, Saint Petersburg
2006 Nova Art fair, represented by San Francisco based Bucheon Gallery, Chicago
2005 Ephemeral Cities, Deptford X festival, London
2005 Bayennale, Bay area international arts festival, San Francisco
2004 Art and free expression, California Lawyers for the Arts, San Francisco
2004 War peace and civil liberties, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley
2004 Field of vision,The Lab Gallery, New York
2004 NIESATT parallel worlds, Coded Cultures, Vienna
2003 Perspectives '03, Java museum, Cologne
2003 Summer show, Denise Bibro Fine Art Inc., New York
2003 Net art open, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2003 New media festival, Chiang Mai, Thailand (catalog)
2003 Furtherfield.org, power and jtwine, London
2002 Art on the net 2002 "9.11.", Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo
2002 Parallel connections, Korean cultural center, Los Angeles
2001 Micromuseum - Medi@terra , Athens, Lavrion (catalog)
2001 25 years Jan Baum, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles

2001 Net_Working @ Watershed Media Center, Bristol
2001 Micromuseum - Medi@terra (International Art and Technology Festival), Athens
2001 Net Art Guide, Fraunhofer Electronic Business Innovationszentrum, Stuttgart (catalog)
2000 net-art.org, Barcelona
2000 Kunstverein Sulzfeld (10 years anniversary), Sulzfeld
1999 Viewers choice electronic art, Manchester
1999 Dusk, Center on Contemporary Arts, Seattle
1998 The best of the two worlds, Aleph Arts, Barcelona
1996 Shades, SomArts, San Francisco
1995 Unity transcending boundaries, SomArts Gallery, San Francisco
1994 Gallery Marc Mace, San Francisco
1993 Basement Gallery, Kupferzell
1992 TATTACK, San Francisco
1991 FBK, freie Berliner Kunstaustellung, Berlin
1990 Blickfang, Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Berlin
1988 4 painters, Kunsthaus Schaller, Stuttgart
1987 Die Anweisung, art on billboards, Yorkbrücken, Berlin (catalog)


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