Sandy Kaltenborn

School / University
. Elementary school / Essen / BRD & Jeddah / Saudi-Arabia (1978-82)
. Grammar School / Abitur in Design: Essen / BRD (1989)
. Graphic Arts & Art Printing / CCC - San Francisco / USA (1989-90)
. Art University / Communication Design Diploma / Kunsthochschule Berlin / Berlin (1995-00)

Work / collaborations (selection)
. Founding member of "zusammen gestalten" / Design Studio (collective) / Berlin (1997-99)
. Collaboration with "designarbeid / NL" / Amsterdam / Netherland based Design studio (1998,99,02)
. Founding of "bildwechsel" ("http://www.image-shift.net/">imageshift") / my graphic design studio / Berlin (1999)
. Video works at "ak-kraak" / Berlin based video collective (1995-01)
. Founding member of "Collective Distribution" / international graphic design network (incl.: cactus
network (GB), SKART (JUG), Emigrative Art (BEL), Fantasma de heredia (ARG) (2001-02)
. Scholarship / Akademie Schloß Solitude / Stuttgart / BRD (2001)

Exhibitions / Curatorships / Participations (selection)
. Curatorship of "street posters from Berlin" in Chaumont / France (2000)
. "wir sind die guten." ("we are the good ones - and you?") Exhibition project / Berlin(1992)
. "Engagement & Grafik Design" / project: exhibition, poster action, book, events / NGBK (New Society
of Fine Art (NGBK) / Berlin (2000)
. "borderpanic" / exhibition contribution / Sydney / Australia (2002)
. exhibition contributions on several international posterfestivals / Chaumont / France, Mons / Belgium
and Berlin / Germany (2000,01,02)
. juror / "festival de affiches / etudiants, tous a Chaumont" / Chaumont / France (2000)
. group exhibition "collective distribution" (with: headmade/Warsaw, cactus network/London, fantasmas
de heredia/Buenos Aires, skart group/Belgrad, Antonio Gallego/Paris / Stuttgart (2001)
. two exhibitions with "collective distribution" / "argos" and "les hals" / Brussels / Belgium (2001)
. "tract'eurs 11" / exhibition contribution / Gwangju Biennale / Korea (2002)
. "usted esta aqui" / exhibition / Buenoa Aires / Argentinia (2004)
Sandy k. Alexander, Sandy, Paul, Omar, Abdullah Kaltenborn
* November 18th / 1968 / Essen / Germany
Adress: Wrangelstr. 86 / 2HH / 10997 Berlin / Gemany

Publications / Writings (selection)
. "hoch die kampf dem" / Production and Text work / book on posters of social movements in
Germany / ISBN: 3-922611-73-7 / Berlin (1999)
. Writing for the catalogue of the international Poster exhibition in Chaumont: "pourquoi presenter
les affiches des mouvements autonomes allemandes dans un festival de graphic
design?" / ISBN 2-9511428-2-X / France (2000)
. "remarques et critiques" in catalogue of the Student competition / Chaumont / France (2000)
. Publication: "Engagement & Grafik Desgin" / Interviews with French graphic design groups in
the "Grapus" tradition / New society of fine Art / ISBN 3-926796-62-6 / Berlin (2000)
. Publication: "Just posters." / Edition Solitude / ISBN: 3-929085-75-5 / Berlin (2002)
. Publication: "Design, Kommunikation und Medien" / self published booklet on design, media
and communication ("banalities, stories and other misunderstandings") / Berlin (2001)
. "Interview with Sandy K." in "up Against the Wall" / Rotovision / Great Britain (2002)
. contributions in "graphic & agitation 2." / Phaidon / Great Britain (2004)
Teaching / Lectures (selection)
. "Declarations!" Symposium / workshop & Symposium presentation / Montreal / Canada (2000)
. "Atelier de invisible" / workshop / presentations / Brussels / Belgium (2001)
. "Image, Image-inventions, text, poster" / "pathway week" Merz Akademie / Stuttgart / FRG (2002)
. "Design is not enough" / London colleague of printing (LCP) / Workshop / London / GB (2002)
. "One week of posters" / Merz Akademie / Workshop / Stuttgart / FRG (2002)
. "Design in social context" / cooper union / New York / USA (2003)
. "dont talk shit" / Monterrey design conference / Monterrey / Mexico (2003)
. "Design is not enough" / Fine Art University / Trivandrum / India (2004)
. "questions on culture jamming" / Lentos Museum / Linz / Austria (2005)