sputnic visual arts
sputnic represents the collective endeavours of three media artists and designers: Malte Jehmlich, Nicolai Skopalik and Nils Voges.
Visual communication: As qualified graphic designers, we create visual identities for various actors from the cultural and social sectors. Our customers include Dortmund City Theatre, Essen City Theatre, KRESCHtheater and the Union des Théâtres de l’Europe.
Film & animation: We conceive and produce product and explanatory films for diverse branches and target groups. Our customers here include LG Electronics, DHL and Stiftung Mercator.
Stage & space: Our artistic work encompasses the realisation of installations, the staging of extensive productions and the development of medial and stage concepts for international directors, theatres and opera houses.
Our work has been presented in the past at Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld, at the European Media Art Festival Osnabrück and at Vienna’s Leopold Museum. In 2010, the New York Times reported on our interactive game installation “Racer 0.2”. In 2011, we received the Critics’ Award of the City of Dortmund for our staging of the series “Stadt ohne Geld”. Our animated film “Südstadt” won the GrandOff Award in 2007 for best European animation and received a “worthwhile” rating.
With our 2015 staging of “Die Möglichkeit einer Insel” (“The Possibility of an Island”), we created a new genre in the area of theatre and film: live animation cinema, for which we received the Critics’ Award of the City of Dortmund for the second time.
Awards
2015 Critics’ Choice Award Dortmund for “Die Möglichkeit einer Insel”
2011 Critics’ Choice Award Dortmund “Stadt ohne Geld”
2008 Grand Off Award „Südstadt“ Best European Independent Animation
2008 Prädikat wertvoll „Südstadt“ Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden
2007 Senate Award HS Niederrhein „Südstadt“
2005 Animago Award „Ein gutes Leben“
2005 Animago Award „kleines Universum“
2004 Toleranzen Award HS Niederrhein for „KRIEG™“
Exhibitions
2017 DARK, Lichtforum NRW, Arnsberg
2016 Studio 2, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum
2014 Lentekabinet Festival, Amsterdam
2014 Tonton Gallery, Einzelausstellung, Amsterdam
2011 AMAZE Berlin
2010 BOHÈME PRÉCAIRE 2, Sense of Wonder Dortmunder U -Zentrum für Kunst und Kreativität
2010 Linde Waber, Retrospektive und Weggefährten Leopold Museum, Wien
2010 Herz|Zeit|Reisen Kulturhauptstadt 2010, Peschkenhaus, Moers
2009 Quergeschnitten – Kunst aus Krefeld heute Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld
2009 Ton und Tun Festival, Krefeld
2008 Nico – Köln, Berlin, Paris, New York – Stationen einer Popikone Kölner Museum für Angewandte Kunst
2008 Nibelungen – Mythos, Kitsch, Kult Siebengebirgsmuseum Bonn
2007 emaf – european media art festival Osnabrück
2004 co_op_Film, Video Künstlerhaus Dortmund
Film festivals
2014 International Filmfestival, St. Petersburg
2014 Artodocs International Filmfestival, St. Petersburg, Russia
2014 Theaterfilmfestival, Düsseldorf
2012 GARAGE EXPLOSION Festival, Maribor, Slovenia
2010 International Fest of Cinema and Technology, Portland, USA
2009 Jury Member at Lago Film Fest, Revine Lago, Italy
2009 City Film Festival, Teheran, Iran
2009 International Videofestival Bochum
2008 Heinrich-Heine FilmFest, Düsseldorf
2008 Int. Animated Film Festival ReAnimacja, Lodz, Poland
2008 Shoot Me, Den Haag, Netherlands
2008 Lago Film Fest, Revine Lago, Italy
2008 Film Sharing, Trier
2008 OFF ON Festival, Warschau, Poland
2008 CAN2008 International Short Film Festival, Leicester, UK
2008 Novara Cine Festival, Italy
2008 Film and Media Arts Festival, Berwick upon Tweed, UK
2008 Kyoto internationales Studentenfilm Festival, Kyoto, Japan
2008 GRAND OFF European Off-Film Award, Warschau, Poland
Instruction
2013 bis 2015 Dozent Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2013 Université Yaoundé, Cameroun
2010 bis 2012 Hochschule Niederrhein
2010 bis 2012 AMD – Akademie für Mode und Design, Düsseldorf
2009 Hochschule Niederrhein
2008 Hochschule Niederrhein