curriculum

and Bodies and Places….at and in and with that place DFS have been so far, neither in chronological nor alphabetical order: Guiomar Arjona López (Munich), Edith Mirwald (Munich), Philipp Imdahl (Cologne), David Galbraith (NYC), Asana (Berlin), Bene Abel (Berlin), Marita Barnett (Berlin), Ines Gerdes (Berlin), Cristina Gómez Barrio (Berlin), Wolfgang Mayer (Berlin), Imadi (Berlin), Birgit Kramer (Berlin), El Arroyo los Cagaos (Cáceres), Marianne Kirch (Munich), Tom Früchtl (Munich), Stephan Schessl (Munich), Ignaz Schick (Berlin), Rita McBride (NYC), Michael Mahalchick (NYC), Jim Galbraith (NYC), Michael Schultze (Berlin), Dorothy Vallens (Berlin), Circo Interior Bruto (Madrid), Bernd Sevens (Berlin), Helge Slaatto (Kopenhagen), Franz Reinecke (Munich), Ursula Rogg (Berlin), Kerstin Rautenberg (Berlin), Laurie Young (Berlin), FP Boué (NYC), Susan Oetgen (NYC), Xenia Riemann (Munich), Elyce Semenec (NYC), Elwood Klyap (NYC *1970-2019+), Blain Kennedy (NYC), Darshan (NYC), Gulsaya Tuleubayeva (NYC), Sera (NYC), Wolfram Dratwa (Berlin), Jo Mitchell (London *1965-2024+), Ginger Brooks Takahashi (NYC), Stefan Kürten (Düsseldorf), Maren Maurer (Düsseldorf), Catriona Miss le Bomb Shaw (Berlin), Johannes Raether (Berlin), Andrea Mesch (Berlin), Emma Hedditch (London), Ines Schaber (Berlin), Olga Probst (Rennes), Francesco Finizio (Brest), Horst Döll (Hamburg), Murali Balachandran (NYC), Alvaro Cajon (Madrid), Sara Pereira (Berlin), Gustavo Costa (Porto), Fernando Guerra e Paz (Porto), Victor Pimstein (Barcelona), Toni Crabb (Barcelona), Voin de Voin (Berlin), Astrid Aguirre Reyes + Cristian Munilla Larenas + Daniel Leiva Alvarado + Eduardo Zamudio Oyarzo + Francisco Pavez + Jose Llano + Valentin Keller + Pamela Diez Lobos (Valparaiso), Dagmar Gabler (Berlin), Elvira Barrio Traspaderne (Florence), Anna Heidenhein (Florence), Robert Burghardt + Jan Rolletschek + Kieran Lilwall + Kim Coleman (Berlin), Manuela Lomba (Berlin), Joao Alves (Berlin), Marian Cocis (Berlin), Isabel Aerenlund (Mexico DF), Sofia Lomba (Berlin), Loreto Solis (Berlin), Nadja Schmelzer (Berlin), Ulrike Müller (NYC), Jerlyn Jareunpoon (London), Jan Köhler + Michael Hofmeister + Xue Liu (Frankfurt), Dagmara Bak + Fuentes Glogowska + Jacek Glogowski + Lukasz Cieslak (Lodz), Matthew Lutz-Kinoy (Berlin), Celine Condorelli (London), Esther Röhrborn (Berlin), Marc Golamco (NYC), Alena Williams (Paris), Anike Joyce Sadiq (Stuttgart), William Wheeler (Berlin), Stefan Pente (Berlin), Kate Hers (Berlin), Robin Arthur (Berlin), Klara Hobza (Berlin), Gitte Villesen (Berlin), Fred Dewey (LA/Berlin *1957-2021+), Jörg Franzbecker (Berlin), Heidi Sill (Berlin), Michael Birchall (Berlin), Ulf Aminde (Berlin), Maria del Consuelo Guijarro Rincón (Berlin), Helmut Holzapfel + Nupelda Ciftci + Christopher Wittkopp + Sylvie Reimer (Stuttgart), Moran Beeg (Berlin), Irene Gómez Barrio (Madrid), Matthew Lyons (NYC), Annette Koelbl (Immenstadt), Janelle Welch (NYC), Alison Fleming (NYC), Stephan Hafner (Augsburg), Andrés Magdalena Rubio (Guadalix de la Sierra), Sebastian Bodirsky (Berlin), Sergio Zevallos (Berlin), Naomi Rincon Gallardo (Berlin), Silvia das Fadas (Vienna), Sakine Weikert (Berlin), Norbert Witzgall (Berlin), Doug Boatwright (Berlin), Marta Leite (Berlin), Kári Páll Óskarssonori (Berlin), Sara Wahl (Berlin), Andi Stecher (Berlin), Julie Beziat (Berlin), Anna Kasper (Berlin), Anja Weber (Berlin), Stefanie Barz (Berlin), Alisa Margolis (Berlin), Heidi Grandy + Rui Dias (Stuttgart), Claudia Gienger (Stuttgart), Silvia Brosig + Julia Herbrik + Sabrina Karl + Lisa Mühleisen + Sebastian Kaminski (Stuttgart/Karlsruhe), Felix Ensslin (Stuttgart), Jeremiah Day (Berlin), Antonio Ballester (Madrid), Adam Broomberg (Berlin), Donna Ogunnaike (Lagos/London), Frans Jacobi (Bergen), Benedicte Clementsen (Bergen), Sherry Vine (NYC/LA), Rachel Gill, (NYC), Karolina Szymura (Berlin), Jack Waters + Peter Cramer (NYC), Wilder Alison (Marseille), Jenny Perlin (NYC), Glen Rubsamen (LA), Urania Fasoulidou (NYC), Thomas Lempertz (Stuttgart), …

DFS was founded in 1998 by Cristina Gómez Barrio & Wolfgang Mayer

Cristina Gómez Barrio

1973 Born in Alhambra / Spain
1997–02 PHD Program, Departamento de Historia del Arte, Bellas Artes, UCM, Madrid
1998–99 DAAD-Caixa, Grant for the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
2003 ISCP, New York (supported by INJUVE, Spain)
2005 Fundacion Marcelino Botin Grant, Spain
2005–06 Whitney Independent Study Program, New York
2010 Projekt Stipendium, Senat, Berlin (DFS + Johannes Raether)
2013 Fundacion Estrenos Foundation Grant, Spain
since 2011 Lady Discoteca is La Professora for the MFA "Bodies, Theory and the Poetics of the Performative" at the State Academy of fine arts in Stuttgart, Germany

Wolfgang Mayer

1967 Born in Wertach / Germany
1990–95 Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
1993 Scholarship for the Summeracademy in Salzburg to study with Nan Goldin
1996–97 DAAD-Scholarship for New York City (SVA. Dep. for Photography and related media)
1998 Debutant 98, Munich
2005 Prinzregent Luitpold Scholarship, Munich
2005–06 Whitney Independent Study Program, New York
2006–07 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2010 Projekt Stipendium, Senat, Berlin (DFS + Johannes Raether)
2013 Fundacion Estrenos Foundation Grant, Spain
since 2011 Lady Discoteca is La Professora for the MFA "Bodies, Theory and the Poetics of the Performative" at the State Academy of fine arts in Stuttgart, Germany

Curriculum Vitae of the project

2023 Momentum with Arena and Rita McBride and Alexandra Waierstall at DIA Art Foundation Beacon (p) (upcoming)
A Momentum (Hospital(y)tis) at Callie´s Berlin (o) (upcoming)
Sticky Stage and a dollhouse in Spring Never Comes Again in Zacheta, National Gallery, Warsaw (e) (upcoming)
How 2 (Hospital(y)tis). A performance as part of Rodeo, MUSAC, Leon (p)
2022 Attempt Two For A Violent Silent Movie, GUTS, Berlin (e,p)
Eigentlich 12 mal Alissa... in a car as part of Art-Shuttle 2022, at Raum für drastische Maßnahmen hosted by eat – art. biz., Berlin (p)
Attempt One For A Violent Silent Movie, Artists and Allies, Signs and Symbols, NYC (e)
2021 Zin Ex. Body and Architecture, curated by Florian Wüst, Tabakalera, San Sebastian (e,p)
On Illness, Resistance and Modes of Collective (Health) Care, District, Berlin (e,p)
Jeremiah Day/Citoyenne Reprise, Netwerk Aalst, Belgium (e)
Die Balkone 2, Berlin (e)
2020 Touching without Touching (Ingrids Web_Hospital install 3), Artists and Allies, Berlin (p)
Vampire Thrillogy, Kunsthalle Baden Baden (p)
Continuous Rehearsal (Public) / (Ingrids Web_Hospital install 2) at district, Berlin (p)
Schwellkörper*innen und nicht einhegbare Selfies (Ingrids Web_Hospital install 1), BHROX bauhaus reuse, Berlin (e)(p)
Love To Love You Baby 2020, The Last Waltz, General Public in exile at Meinblau, Berlin, (p)(c)
CGB 1-3 at Nacktkantine, Stadtbad Neukoelln, Berlin (e)
Vampire Thrillogy, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (p)
INGRID #54 (Moonearth Il Cielo In Una Stanza) at FFT, Düsseldorf (p)
Monsters & Miracles feat. Anna Bone, 33. Stuttgarter Filmwinter (o)
2019 INGRID The movie 1+2 (2003 - so far), Authentizität und Feedback: Diskurs- und Performance-Festival at Diaphanes, Berlin (p)
A Tier (Space, Berlin)-Banner and the screening of short films, Tier Space, Berlin (e)
INGRID The movie 1+2 (2003 - so far), Ausland, Berlin (p)
Vampire Thrillogy, Rio de Madrid (p)
Briganti for District School, District, Berlin (p)
Sticky Stage, Small Projects for Coming Communities, Hospitalhof, Stuttgart (p)
Vampire Thrillogy at Tier Space, Berlin (p)
2018 DFS + Donna Ogunnaike as part of Never Memorize Poems in Landscape Leeway, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin (p)
Never Memorize Poems in Landscape Leeway (Constanze Fischbeck, Abraham Oghobase, DFS and Donna Ogunnaike), Galerie Nord/Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin (e)
INGRID The movie (2003 - so far), Friends with Books, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (p)
Vampire Thrillogy as part of Invocations at Savvy Contemporary, Berlin (p)
2061 Inmoral Lidos. A selection of short stories and a Performance by DFS / Synsmaskinen Dark Pool Crisis art group, The Performance Project, NYC (p, c)
2061 Inmoral Lidos. A selection of short stories and a Performance by DFS / Synsmaskinen Dark Pool Crisis art group, Volksbühne, Grüner Salon, Berlin (p, c)
Hate Verses, DFS + Felix Ensslin, 48 hours: The Urgency of Scary Intelligence and Glamorous Monsters, Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart
Ode To + Vampire Thrillogy, DFS + Jeremiah Day, as part of Mess With Your Values, n.b.k., Park am Nordbahnhof, Berlin
2017 Love Any Out of (90 Seconds) End, Teatro Del Barrio, Madrid (p)
2061 Inmoral Lidos. DFS / Synsmaskinen Dark Pool Crisis art group, Finish Research Pavillion, Venice (p)
Sticky Stage, District, Berlin (p,e,c)
Love Any Out of (90 Seconds) End, Projektraum Lotte, Land of Temporary Eternity, Stuttgart (p)
Hate Verses, Arthur Boskamp Foundation, Hohenlockstedt
2016 Hate Verses, Friends with Books, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (p)
Sticky Stage as part of Putting Rehearsals to the Test, SBC Gallery, Montreal (e, p)
#work #dance # labor #movements. Discoteca Flaming Star + Johanna Bruckner, Corner College, Zürich (e,p,c)
Sticky Stage in and on Arena by Rita McBride, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (p)
2015 Hate Verses, TBA21, Vienna (p)
Eigentlich 12x Alissa, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (p)
Hate Verses, CA2M, Mostoles, Madrid (p)
Sticky Stage 4, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (e,p,c)
2014 A fragment of Sticky Stage, Altes Finanzamt, Berlin (e, p)
Wright of Derby + Looschen of Berlin (Dierk Schmidt & DFS), After the Butcher, Berlin (e, p)
The Rehearsal, The Kitchen, New York (e,p)
Das stille Leben des Sammlers Kempinski, Exile, Berlin (e)
Not Gentileza & Not Discoteca Flaming Star, Sofia Underground, Sofia (p)
2013 Open Scenario for Future, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (e,p)
Eigentlich 12x Alissa " at KUB Arena, Kunsthaus Bregenz (p)
Intoleranz / Normalität, What, How and For Whom, Zagreb (e)
No Place To Hide - Ort Kontrolle Produktion, Agentur für Arbeit und Regionaldirektion der Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Stuttgart (e, c)
Testing (Re-)Production, Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland (p)
2012 Pop Politics: Activisms at 33 revolutions, Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Mostoles, Madrid (e, c)
Say it loud, District, Berlin (e)
Intoleranz / Normalität, Grazer Kunstverein (e)
Various Stages - Bedingte Bühnen, Kunsthaus Dresden (e, p)
Topsyturvy - Celebrating another World, De Appel, Amsterdam (e)
Herstory Inventory 100 feministische Zeichnungen von 100 Künstlerinnen, Kunsthaus Bregenz (e)
La Mano Gigante (A Musical), Freymond-Guth, Zürich (e)
Demonstrationen. Vom Werden normativer Ordnungen, Kunstverein Frankfurt (e, p, c)
2011 La Mano Gigante (A Musical), Ästhetik des Fleisches, Heusteigtheater, Stuttgart (p)
Flamboyant Body, Arcade, London (e)
Zeig Her, Führ Vor, Tausch Ein by & with DFS & JP Raether, Basso & General Public, Berlin (p, e, o)
La Mano Gigante (A Musical), Galerie September, Berlin (e)
Eigentlich 12 mal Alissa, Basso at HAU 1, Berlin (p)
DFS + Michael Schultze, Der Strich, Berlin
La Chancon, CAAC, Seville (e, c)
La Mano Gigante (A Musical), Monument for Lázaro Cárdenas, Parque España, Condesa, Mexico D.F. (p)
Banner Study for an Agora, Temporary Kunst am Bau Project, District Stiftung, Berlin (e)
2010 Eigentlich 12 mal Alissa, n.b.k. and Raumerweiterungshalle, Berlin (p)
DFS Void of White, former studio of Michael Buthe, Villa Romana, Florence (p)
in FischGrätenMelkStand, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin (e, c)
Jaccouzi of Muddy Tears, in the context of `On rage , Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (p, c)
El Valor de gallo negro (Buthe-Tower-Bolsa), part 2 of Gruppenbild, n.b.k., Berlin (e, c)
Salle des Fetes, Electron Festival, Batiment d'art contemporain, Geneva (e,p)
Valparaiso Intervenciones, Espacio G, Valparaiso, Chile (a,k)
2009 Ingrid (Inzwischen) 2009, The Performance Project, NYC, [Performa 09] (p)
P P Piero und was dazwischen, MACBA, Barcelona, (p)
Für Boris Für Ingrid, Freymond-Guth, Zürich (e)
Seen, Unseen, Scene, Passerelle, Brest (e,p)
Ingrid (Inzwischen), Samsa, Berlin (e)
Reihe: Ordnung sagt Freiheit, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg (e, p, c)
2008 Duett #2 mit Ingrid und dem Squonk, Kunsthalle Bern (p)
A 1000 Squonks & the Erotics of the Eyelid, The Performance Project, NYC (p)
Mil Veras Mil Prinzessinen Mil Centralias, Centro de arte dos de mayo, Museum for contemporary art, Mostoles (Madrid) (e, p, c)
Retriver. Curated by Dani Gal & Achim Lengerer, Smart project space, Amsterdam (p)
Fernando 2, Hermes und der Pfau, Stuttgart (e)
Pop! goes the weasel. Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (e, p)
Palace by The John Institute, Cinema Palace, St. Gallen (e, p)
1, 2, 3… Avantgardes, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (e, c)
2007 Ellipses (Electric Birdhouse), Tate Modern, World as a Stage, Arena by Rita McBride, London (p)
Lost & Found, Collective Gallery / Filmhouse, Edinburgh (p)
Periferiak 07, Sala Rekalde + Amatau TV, Bilbao (e, p)
Lost & Found, Shedhalle, Zürich (e)
Duett #1, Museum X, Mus. Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach (p)
Anitavirginiaalfombras. Freymond-Guth, Zürich (e, p)
MutterReGina. In collaboration with Rita McBride. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (p)
Fernando. Madrid Abierto 07, projects in public places, Madrid (e)
2006 Letzteres aus Neu Jork. General Public, Berlin (e, p)
Terraplane Blues. Curated by Kamen Nedev. La Casa Encendida, Madrid (e, p)
What a Great Space You Have…. Curated by Marc Glöde. Luxe Gallery, New York (e)
Aladlona 2 (I love you green), The Kitchen, New York (p)
Whitney Independent Study Program-Exhibition, Chelsea Museum, New York (e)
Rebours. Escapism and the Terror of the Sublime. Curated by Michael Schultze. General Public, Berlin (e)
2005 With all our love for the love of Orlando. Artist Space, New York [in partnership with Performa 05 (p)
'I beg your pardon.' or The Reestablishing of Cordial Relations. Curated by Andrea Geyer. Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School. New York (e)
Videoarte contemporaneo de Berlin. Curated by Kathrin Becker. Museo Tamayo, Mexico-City (e)
With all our love for the love of Orlando. Ausland, Berlin (p)
Love Party. Ojo Atomico, Madrid (p)
2004 Dance Dance Revolution!. Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York (e)
Sexy Bloody Cat. CD. Monsters & Miracles Musikproduktionen (o)
Discoteca Guitarrera Funkstorm (DFS + El Arroyo Los Cagaos), Plaza del Pueblo, Viandar de la Vera Spain (p, o)
Aladlona (I love you green), Ausland, Berlin (p)
o.T., Big Eden, Berlin (p)
Sexy Bloody Cat (I hope everything you love dies in your arms), Galerie Wieland, Berlin (e, p)
2003 Sexy Bloody Cat on the occassion of `Public Affairs, MUMOK, Vienna (p, c)
Audiovisual injuve 2003, Sala Amadis, Madrid (e, c)
Radio Radio. exhibition. radioprogramm. curated by Mel Brimfield (CD published by Revolver Verlag) (o)
AACB/BDAC, Parlour Projects, New York (e, p)
Hardcore Karaoke, Studio of Rita McBride & Glen Rubsamen, Cologne (p)
2002 DFS plays Kenneth Anger, Praterinsel, Munich (p)
o.T., Cheap Club, Berlin (p)
Königreich eine andere Welt (DFS + Dorothy Ballens), Opernpalais, Berlin (p)
o.T. (about Rock n Roll) (DFS + CIB), Circo Interior Brutto, Madrid (p)
o.T. at Stardust Deluxe, Lisa Lounge, Berlin (p)
2001 Roses and Paradise, Kunsthall, Oslo (p)
Crossing The Line, Cruel but Fair. A Soundtrack for the Installation Waikiki by Rita McBride. Queens Museum, New York (o)
Waveform: Teresa Seemann & David Galbraith. New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (e)
Discoteca Flaming Star & Ignaz Schick: Take a look at me now. Galerie Wieland, Berlin (e,p)
Songs of love and hate. Side A. Bastard. Berlin (p)
55. De Sade Reading. Juliettes Literatursalon, Berlin (p)
The Bridal Kiss. Studio of Tom Früchtl, Munich (p)
2000 Discoteca Flaming Star plays Kenneth Anger. Siberia, New York (p)
Discoteca Flaming Star loves to love you baby. Bar XVI, New York (p)
Discoteca Flaming Star plays Kenneth Anger in Arena seatings by Rita McBride. Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (p)
Discoteca Flaming Star does Electric RocknRoll. Club 2, Munich (p)
Discoteca Flaming Star & Le Oktobre love to love you baby. Kunstverein, Munich (p)
Love & Avantgarde. CD, White Label (o)
1999 Flaming Star at Band Wi(d)th 2000. Atomic Café, Munich (p, o)
Unter Umstaenden mit Frank Reinecke und Helge Slaatto. Atelier von Olaf Probst, Munich (p)
Forget Me Not #3. Bourbon Street Bar, Munich (p)
o.T. (Rote Single). Vinyl-Single, White Label (o)
1998 o.T. Schalterhalle. Elektro Festival, Schalterhalle, Ulm (p)
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Short Story Condensed Cristina Gómez Barrio: Born 1973 in the Alhambra, Spain. Studied in Madrid, Munich, Berlin and did the Whitney ISP in NYC. She works with drawing, studies the color white in performance, takes photographs and dreams. Wolfgang Mayer: Born 1967 in Wertach, Allgäu, in Germany as the illegitimate child of Bonnie Tyler and Scott Walker. He studied at the Academy in Munich, at Bar d´O in NYC and with Ron Clark at the Whitney ISP. He works primarly with drawing, shimmering dust, video and performance. Together they have been working as the foundation of Discoteca Flaming Star, an interdisciplinary artistic and collaborative performance project since 1998. Discoteca Flaming Star aims to be a mental space that all kinds of artists can enter to play with different paths for contemporary aesthetic praxis, searching for its limits and avoiding processes of formalization, creating spaces for experiments and displaced memories. The work has been shown at numerous venues including Artists Space, Whitney Museum, The Kitchen, NYC; MUMOK, TBA21, Vienna; HKW, n.b.k., Basso, KW in Berlin, Ojo Atomico, CA2M, Madrid, WHW, Zagreb, Tate Modern, London, De Appel, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum in Stuttgart They work and live currently in Berlin.