Agnes Meyer-Brandis, born in 1973, first studied Mineralogy at the RWTH Aachen. After one year she transferred to the Art Academy Maastricht, Netherlands to study Sculpture.
Meyer-Brandis` background is both in science and art. Her work combines pure science and creativity to explore the zone between fact and fiction, fantasy and technology...
From 1996 to 2000 she belonged to in the master class at the Art Academy Düsseldorf. After a working stay in New York she attended the Academy of Media Arts Köln from 2001 to 2003.
She was awarded to various scholarships and prizes, e.g.: Villa Aurora resident Los Angeles 2010 // Artist in Residence, National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) Ekaterinburg & Moscow, 2009/Russia // HMKV, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, NRW grant, 2009/Germany, Goethe Institute, Porto Alegre, grant, 2006/Brazil, transmediale06 winner first price 2006/Germany // Kunstraum Aarau, Science & Cite Award, winner first price / 2005/Switzerland, Kunststiftung NRW, grant, Prix Ars Electronica, honorary mention, 2007 and 2003/Austria. Numerous single and group exhibitions: 2009 "Biennale am Ende der Welt", Argentinien, „Art On Site”, 3rd Moscow Biennale, National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) Moskau, Russland 2004 “Transmitter“, emaf - European Media Art Festival, Kunsthalle Osnabrück; 2004 BEAP - Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth, Australia; 2005 Kunstraum Aarau, Schweiz; Kunstraum Düsseldorf; Gallery Kapelica, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
She also holds a teaching position at the university of applied sciences Düsseldorf, is frequently lecturing at other universities and conferences and seems to tour the world to receive awards. She is the founder of the "Forschunsgfloss / Research Raft for Subterranean Reefology", a small institute whose chief aim is to explore and confirm subterranean phenomena.
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