Pat Binder was born in 1960 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has studied Visual Arts and Art Education at the National Arts School in Buenos Aires (Argentina), the University of British Columbia, Vancouver and the University of Victoria (Canada). She has held residencies in Germany, Great Britain and Switzerland. She presently lives as a visual artist in Berlin. She has participated in, amongst other exhibitions, the 1994 and 1997 editions of the Biennial of Havana, the selection of the 5th Havana Biennial at the Ludwig-Forum Aachen, Germany and the exhibition Heimat/Kunst at the House of World Cultures Berlin early this year. Her most important solo show was at the ifa-Galerie Berlin (the gallery of the Institute of Foreign Affairs) in 1996.
In 1996, she initiated and developed with G. Haupt, the Internet project Universes in Universe, an information and communication system dedicated to the presentation of art from the Americas, Africa and Asia-Pacific.
In 1997, she won the public art competition in honor of Kaethe Kollwitz in Berlin for the project Foto/Graphik Galerie Kaethe Kollwitz, which she now curates.
In 1998, she obtained a fellowship from the Women’s Research Program of the Berlin Senate to study the historical, socio-cultural context of the women detained at the Ravensbrueck concentration camp, as well as the lyrical documents that they produced there.
In 1999, she obtained a fellowship from the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, Montreal, for the development of the Internet-project Voices from Ravensbrueck.
In 2000, she curated and realized the virtual exhibition: Threads of the Woven Maze for the International Women University, Hannover, Germany. She also received a grant from the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, Montreal, for the restructuring and updating of the Internet-project Universes in Universe in collaboration with Gerhard Haupt.
7 February 2001
