*1990 in Bonn, Germany
Based in Glasgow, UK and Cologne, GER
↳mail[at]eleniwittbrodt.de
↳@wttbrdt
EDUCATION
2019 | MLitt Fine Art Practice, The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland |
2018 | Diplom Bildende Kunst, Kunsthochschule Mainz, Germany |
RESIDENCIES, GRANTS
2025 | LUX Scotland Research Bursary |
2024 | Artist in Residence, →Atelierprogramm Ismaning, Kallmann-Museum, Germany |
2024 | Alexander Tutsek Foundation Project Grant |
2024 | →Riverside Topographies, Creative Scotland Open Fund |
2022 | Artist in Residence, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France |
2021 | Artist in Residence, Royal Drawing School, Dumfries House, Scotland |
2021 | Artist in Residence, Paper Residency, Haus des Papiers, Berlin, Germany |
2020 | Creative Scotland Bridging Bursary, Scotland |
2019 | →XXV. Artists Research Laboratory, Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy |
2016 | Cusanuswerk Künstler*innenförderung (until 2019), Germany |
2015 | Deutschlandstipendium, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 | →First Light/High Tide, 16 Collective, Glasgow, Scotland |
2025 | fern von (Duo with Denise Winter), Galerie im Schlosspavillon, Ismaning, Munich, Germany |
2024 | →Feeler, OxfordBerlin, Berlin, Germany |
2023 | →Thingish, Intermedia Gallery, CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland |
2021 | Ghostwriting (Duo with Birgit Grashopf), Enūma Eliš, 1070 Vienna, Austria |
2021 | Nook and Cranny, 2-2-2, Stuttgart, Germany |
2021 | →Jiffy, L187, Offenbach, Germany / (→Edition) |
2019 | Too Little, Too Late (Duo with Siri Black , Outlier, Glasgow G1 5NB, Scotland |
2017 | s fort (Duo with Andrea Farrenkopf), Show Me, 55112 Mainz, Germany |
2016 | Cruise, Ausstellungshalle Sophienstrasse, 60487 Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selected)
2025 | →oxfordberlin editions/Editionen, Linienstraße, Düsseldorf, Germany |
2025 | Best Regards, Edmund Felson Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
2024 | →Five Minutes (Late), various locations in public space, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
2024 | →Out of Focus, Kunstverein Friedberg, Germany |
2024 | Trying to find the one by seeking and hiding, B12, Bottrop, Germany |
2023 | Trage ein Trikot von Tipico, Q18 Quartier am Hafen, Cologne, Germany |
2023 | Sofort so fort, Neuer Kunstverein Mittelrhein, Neuwied, Germany |
2023 | Vom Spielen, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany |
2023 | La Réciproque, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France |
2021 | Wir leben auf einem Stern, Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany |
2020 | Emy-Roeder-Prize Shortlist, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, 67059 Ludwigshafen, Germany |
2020 | The Sill-Grill: Barbecue for Beginners, hosted by Leonie Licht, Angewandte Festival, Vienna, Austria |
2019 | I Engineer, Spinnerei, 04179 Leipzig, Germany |
2019 | Chains, Zine published by Julia Gerke and Julia Carolin Kothe, Scotland |
2018 | Helios (Moving Cinema), 55116, 55118, 55122 Mainz, Germany |
2018 | The Tell Tale Heart Museum, Apotheke, 55116 Mainz, Germany |
2018 | Verstehen, nicht verstehen, Kantonsspital Bruderholz, 4101 Basel, Switzerland |
2018 | Strangers on a Train, 64. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, 46045 Oberhausen, Germany |
2017 | Let’s See, Where Were We? In the Pit of Despair, De Ateliers, 1073 AT Amsterdam, Netherlands |
2017 | Strangers on a Train, Kunsthalle Mainz, 55118 Mainz, Germany |
2017 | Chambers A User’s Manual, Passe-Avant, 60594 Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
2016 | Makes Your Soul Feel Good Forever, Good Forever, 40211 Düsseldorf, Germany |
2016 | One Month: After the Materialization of the Art Object, Temporary Gallery, 50676 Cologne, Germany |
PUBLICATIONS
2026 | [Upcoming] Glasgow, published by →N2H4, Brussels, Belgium |
2025 | Riverside Topographies: Phase I, A Reader for the Govan Graving Docks, Scotland |
2023 | Vom Spielen, Salon Verlag, Germany |
2020 | Causal Loops / Time Squiggles, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Italy |
PRESS, FEATURES
2026 | |
2023 | →Do only interesting people get interested? |
2021 | →Die Gesteinsflüsterin |
2018 | →Turning Pages, Turning Blue |
2017 | →“You Lost Me at ‘I don’t like reading’”, Passe-Avant, Germany |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2021 | Haus des Papiers, Berlin, Germany |
2021 | Dumfries House Collection, Scotland |
OTHER PROJECTS
2025 | Visiting Lecturer at Glasgow School of Art, Scotland |
2022 | Participant of the →Crown Letter Project |
2021 | Editor at →NOTES Photography Journal, Scotland |
2016 | Founder of →Organized Orgasms, interdisciplinary collective in Mainz, Germany |
2015 | Founder of →Ruelle e.V., offspace for contemporary arts in Mainz, Germany |
*1990 in Bonn, Germany
Based in Glasgow, UK and Cologne, GER
↳mail[at]eleniwittbrodt.de
↳@wttbrdt
EDUCATION
2019 | MLitt Fine Art Practice, The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland |
2018 | Diplom Bildende Kunst, Kunsthochschule Mainz, Germany |
RESIDENCIES, GRANTS
2025 | LUX Scotland Research Bursary |
2024 | Artist in Residence, →Atelierprogramm Ismaning, Kallmann-Museum, Germany |
2024 | Alexander Tutsek Foundation Project Grant |
2024 | →Riverside Topographies, Creative Scotland Open Fund |
2022 | Artist in Residence, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France |
2021 | Artist in Residence, Royal Drawing School, Dumfries House, Scotland |
2021 | Artist in Residence, Paper Residency, Haus des Papiers, Berlin, Germany |
2020 | Creative Scotland Bridging Bursary, Scotland |
2019 | →XXV. Artists Research Laboratory, Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy |
2016 | Cusanuswerk Künstler*innenförderung (until 2019), Germany |
2015 | Deutschlandstipendium, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 | →First Light/High Tide, 16 Collective, Glasgow, Scotland |
2025 | fern von (Duo with Denise Winter), Galerie im Schlosspavillon, Ismaning, Munich, Germany |
2024 | →Feeler, OxfordBerlin, Berlin, Germany |
2023 | →Thingish, Intermedia Gallery, CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland |
2021 | Ghostwriting (Duo with Birgit Grashopf), Enūma Eliš, 1070 Vienna, Austria |
2021 | Nook and Cranny, 2-2-2, Stuttgart, Germany |
2021 | →Jiffy, L187, Offenbach, Germany / (→Edition) |
2019 | Too Little, Too Late (Duo with Siri Black , Outlier, Glasgow G1 5NB, Scotland |
2017 | s fort (Duo with Andrea Farrenkopf), Show Me, 55112 Mainz, Germany |
2016 | Cruise, Ausstellungshalle Sophienstrasse, 60487 Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selected)
2025 | →oxfordberlin editions/Editionen, Linienstraße, Düsseldorf, Germany |
2025 | Best Regards, Edmund Felson Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
2024 | →Five Minutes (Late), various locations in public space, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
2024 | →Out of Focus, Kunstverein Friedberg, Germany |
2024 | Trying to find the one by seeking and hiding, B12, Bottrop, Germany |
2023 | Trage ein Trikot von Tipico, Q18 Quartier am Hafen, Cologne, Germany |
2023 | Sofort so fort, Neuer Kunstverein Mittelrhein, Neuwied, Germany |
2023 | Vom Spielen, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany |
2023 | La Réciproque, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France |
2021 | Wir leben auf einem Stern, Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany |
2020 | Emy-Roeder-Prize Shortlist, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, 67059 Ludwigshafen, Germany |
2020 | The Sill-Grill: Barbecue for Beginners, hosted by Leonie Licht, Angewandte Festival, Vienna, Austria |
2019 | I Engineer, Spinnerei, 04179 Leipzig, Germany |
2019 | Chains, Zine published by Julia Gerke and Julia Carolin Kothe, Scotland |
2018 | Helios (Moving Cinema), 55116, 55118, 55122 Mainz, Germany |
2018 | The Tell Tale Heart Museum, Apotheke, 55116 Mainz, Germany |
2018 | Verstehen, nicht verstehen, Kantonsspital Bruderholz, 4101 Basel, Switzerland |
2018 | Strangers on a Train, 64. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, 46045 Oberhausen, Germany |
2017 | Let’s See, Where Were We? In the Pit of Despair, De Ateliers, 1073 AT Amsterdam, Netherlands |
2017 | Strangers on a Train, Kunsthalle Mainz, 55118 Mainz, Germany |
2017 | Chambers A User’s Manual, Passe-Avant, 60594 Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
2016 | Makes Your Soul Feel Good Forever, Good Forever, 40211 Düsseldorf, Germany |
2016 | One Month: After the Materialization of the Art Object, Temporary Gallery, 50676 Cologne, Germany |
PUBLICATIONS
2026 | [Upcoming] Glasgow, published by →N2H4, Brussels, Belgium |
2025 | Riverside Topographies: Phase I, A Reader for the Govan Graving Docks, Scotland |
2023 | Vom Spielen, Salon Verlag, Germany |
2020 | Causal Loops / Time Squiggles, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Italy |
PRESS, FEATURES
2026 | |
2023 | →Do only interesting people get interested? |
2021 | →Die Gesteinsflüsterin |
2018 | →Turning Pages, Turning Blue |
2017 | →“You Lost Me at ‘I don’t like reading’”, Passe-Avant, Germany |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2021 | Haus des Papiers, Berlin, Germany |
2021 | Dumfries House Collection, Scotland |
OTHER PROJECTS
2025 | Visiting Lecturer at Glasgow School of Art, Scotland |
2022 | Participant of the →Crown Letter Project |
2021 | Editor at →NOTES Photography Journal, Scotland |
2016 | Founder of →Organized Orgasms, interdisciplinary collective in Mainz, Germany |
2015 | Founder of →Ruelle e.V., offspace for contemporary arts in Mainz, Germany |