Tobias Hering (right) and Merv Espina, Oberhausen, 2022. Photo: Benjamin Renter.

Tobias Hering (born 1971 in Siegen) is an independent curator and writer living in Berlin and Mecklenburg. This is his personal website. “Andromeda Lodge” refers to a place in W.G. Sebald’s novel, Austerlitz.

I grew up in a village and moved to the city (Frankfurt/Main) when I was twenty. I have a background in philosophy (M.A. from Freie Universität Berlin, 1999) and also some practical experiences in film production, cinema operation and festival organisation. My work these days, however, focuses on curating film & video programmes and exhibitions. It often involves archival research and usually takes shape in collaboration with others, sometimes over many years. I am interested in experimental forms and prefer exploring the peripheries more than the centers, questioning and adding to rather than confirming established histories. I frequently write and occasionally teach and lecture on my research subjects. From time to time something gets published.

Curatorial projects that were important for me in recent years have been: comprehensive retrospectives on Kidlat Tahimik, Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub and the Kassel Film Collective, long-term research on Chetna Vora and Irena Vrkljan, thematic film retrospectives on migrant experiences in East and West Germany, on various facets of international relations in the GDR film industry and on the lives and works of two important film mediators of the 20th century, Amos Vogel and Jay Leyda. The growing importance of archives and archival issues for my work is largely due to the collection-specific projects “Living Archive” at Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin, and “re-selected” at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.

I can be contacted at info@standpunktderaufnahme.de.

Thanks for your interest.