Yvonne Mohr

Year of birth, place
1966, Germany
Role at the ZKM
Guest Artist
Institute / Department
Institute for Music and Acoustics
At the ZKM

    September 2007

Biography

Yvonne Mohr (*1966), media artist and filmmaker, studied visual communication at the École des Arts Décoratifs Strasbourg (HEAR) and the UdK Berlin, where she also studied experimental and documentary film with Valie Export, Heinz Emigholz, and Elfi Mikesch. Since 1993, Mohr has realized interdisciplinary freelance and commissioned projects ranging from interactive CD-ROM and DVD productions, video installations and video stage sets to concert and exhibition documentaries as well as films for cinema and television (for, among others, the ZKM | Karlsruhe, the Berliner Festspiele and the Donaueschinger Musiktage as well as for NDR, SWR, ZDF and Arte). The collaboration with composers in the field of music theater is of particular importance in her work: Mohr has realized numerous video installations in collaboration with and documentaries about composers such as Olga Neuwirth, Bernhard Lang, Jorge E. López, Lucia Ronchetti, Amelia Cuni & Werner Durand, Charlotte Hug, Stevie Wishart, Richard Barrett, Pierre Henry, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.