EBBA ROHWEDER. Born in Hamburg/Germany 1966. Lives in Madrid.
1985-1991
Folkwang University of the Arts Essen, Germany, faculty of music.
1987
Co-founder of the ConGioco Ensemble for contemporary music.
1991
Moved to Berlin working as musician, improviser, performer and composer.
Since 2004 lives in Madrid
SCHOLARSHIPS
1997
Scholarship for the ConGioco Ensemble of the Senate in Berlin
2001
Composition Scholarship of the Senate of Berlin
2003
Scholarship of the International Foundation for Artists Die Hoege, Germany
PERFORMANCES IMPROVISATIONS EXHIBITIONS PROJECTS
2024
El Grito exhalado - performance by Silvia Reneses, Luis Elorriaga, Ebba Rohweder
6º
anniversery P.E.P.A., EST_ART SPACE, Madrid
2022
METANOIA
Exposition Espacio Intermitente, Madrid
2021
Postcards
Metanoia Project
Letters to the Queens
Metanoia Project
2020
The first wave - every 8 days a work of art
Project in progress from March until July 2020
Metanoia
Al di là dell'aldilà
Video project by cri du coeur
Portraits in my window, by Ana Matey
Improvisation by Ebba Rohweder and Silvia Reneses
2019
Gallery Projects VII
From Banishment to Banishment - Homage to María Zambrano
La Cárcel - Segovia Creation Centre
Artistas del Barrio - Metanoia
Almudena Mora Studio
2018
Solo exhibition BUNT - video and painting
Espacio BOP, Madrid
Musicalibre Meeting
FOCO Orchestra conducted by David Leahy
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
PEPA end of season party
Esto es una Plaza, Lavapiés, Madrid
2017
VOICES OFF - Cyclo Ebba Rohweder
Cruce - arte y pensamiento, Madrid
"Performance“
Small Performance Art Event PEPA
Espacio B, Madrid
2016
Unseen Zinema
Maya Deren's short films with live music
Alba Morín - violin and Ebba Rohweder - flute
Espacio B, Madrid
Duo - Ebba Rohweder - flutes, Silvia Reneses - visual artist
End of the Exhibition "2014 /2015 / 2016", by the artist Silvia Reneses
Espacio B, Madrid
Musicalibre Improvisers Meeting
FOCO Orchestra conducted by Ebba Rohweder, Markus Breuss and David Leahy
La Tabacalera de Lavapiés, Madrid
2015
BODY AND POWER
Butoh dance directed by Marianela de León
Ebba Rohweder - flutes, Gregorio Kazaroff - cornet, percussion
Group exhibition curated by Almundena Mora and Max Meier,
German Embassy
Pasaje Fuencarral, Madrid
Perfectly Imperfect - Solo
raras musicas Session 30
Espacio Blanco, Madrid
VOCES EN OFF - Cyclo Ebba Rohweder
Coordinated by Tom Skipp and Fernando Carbonell
Cruce - arte y pensamiento, Madrid
XIX International Improvisation Festival Hurta Cordel
FOCO Orchestra conducted by Llorenç Barber
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
2014
Musicalibre Encounter
Duo - Ebba Rohweder - flutes, Silvia Reneses - visual artist
Función Lenguaje, Madrid
RICHTUNGEN - performance concert
Markus Breuss - trumpet, actions, Ebba Rohweder - bass flute, actions
Alabanda, Madrid
Concert for OLGA
Tres en suma, Ellas Crean, Madrid
XVIII International Improvisation Festival Hurta Cordel
FOCO Orchestra conducted by Agustí Fernández
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Do it yourself IV: Videomessages
5 artists exchange visual messages: Paula Noya, Daniel Chauquero, Ana Matey, Ebba Rohweder, Johanna Speidel. A project by Johanna Speidel
2013
Musicalibre Annual Improvisers Meeting
Marianela León - dance, Ebba Rohweder - flute, Gregorio Kazaroff - flugelhorn, percussion
Alabanda, Madrid
FreeFlow: Ebba Rohweder - flutes, Javier Paxariño - flutes, saxophones,
Pedro Rato - theremin, synthesizer, keyboard.
Cruce - arte y pensamiento, Madrid
SPACE AND IDENTITY
Group exhibition curated by Almundena Mora and Max Meier
Embassy of Germany
Pasaje Fuencarral, Madrid
In-Sonora
Free Flow: Ebba Rohweder - flutes, Javier Paxariño - flutes, saxophones,
Pedro Rato - theremin, synthesizer, keyboard
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
XVII International Improvisation Festival Hurta Cordel
FOCO Orchestra conducted by Terry Day & Maggie Nicols
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
2012
matter with rhythm - improvisation concert
FreeFlow: Javier Paxariño - flutes, saxophones, Pedro Rato - theremin, synthesizer, keyboard and Ebba Rohweder - flutes
Sculpture Studio, Madrid
A Diestra y Siniestra, poetry recital
Cristóbal Espada, Ravael Carmona - poetry;
Fernando Carbonell - introduction; Ebba Rohweder - improvisation
Cruce - arte y pensamiento, Madrid
ROOM ART FAIR 2, Young Art Fair, Madrid
IN-SONORA, Exhibition of Sound and Interactive Art
Concert with the FOCO Orchestra conducted by Chefa Alonso
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
IMPROVISATION FESTIVAL
Free Flow: Ebba Rohweder - flutes, Javier Paxariño - flutes, saxophones,
Pedro Rato - theremin, synthesizer, keyboard. FOCO Orchestra
Alabanda, Madrid
NUNCA SÉ
Performance with Marianela León, David Azpurgua and Cora
La Tabacalera, Madrid
Performance "Half Full - Half Empty" by Ebba Rohweder
Ellas Crean and Tres en Suma, Espacio 8, Madrid
Concert with the FOCO Orchestra conducted by Fred Frith
XVI International Improvisation Festival Hurta Cordel
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
DARGOW - Two proposals, one place
Exhibition of Silvia Reneses and Ebba Rohweder
José Robles Gallery, Madrid
2011
Do it yourself II
Presentation at Acción! MAD 2011
Matadero, Madrid
La Huerta en Llamas, Night of San Juana
Performance
Esto es una plaza, Madrid
Performance Concert
Crystal Palace of Arganzuela, Madrid
Projections in the garden of Lavapiés
Esto es una plaza, Madrid
AVLAB MEETING
Word, voice, music and arts
Medialab Prado, Madrid
Concert with the FOCO Orchestra conducted by Ilian Volkov
XV International Improvisation Festival Hurta Cordel
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
2010
DO IT YOURSELF II
Videoprojections and Performances
Juan Alcón with Isidro López Aparicio, Ebba Rohweder with Nieves Correa, Carlos Llavata with Victor Bonet, Beatriz Caravaggio with Hilario Álvarez,
Ana Matey with Luis Elorriaga, Paula Noya with Analía Beltrán,
Johanna Speidel with Bélen Cueto, Antonia Valero with Yolanda Pérez,
Fernando Baena with Anna Gimein
OFF LIMITS, Madrid
MADRID FILM FESTIVAL - PNR EXPERIMENTA
Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
Meeting of Artists Caudete, Alicante
LOOP art Fair, Barcelona
Presentation of the videocomposition Intervention I
ABSOLUTE PREMIERES OF VIDEO ART!
Magnetism by Johanna Speidel and Ebba Rohweder
Tabacalera, Madrid
Broadcast of the radio composition
Sky of Blue Fishes - The Thirteen Roses by Ebba Rohweder
chorrodeluz, Seville
Concert with the FOCO Orchestra conducted by Keith Tippett
XIV International Improvisation Festival Hurta Cordel
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Festival ellas crean, videocomposition with live music
Tres en suma, Madrid
2009
BAC! 10.0 International Festival of contemporary Art, X Edition Pandora's B.
CCCB, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona and Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
Solo exhibition, Tres en Suma, Madrid
Presentation of the Video
Do it yourself! Artists portraying Artists
Carlos Llavata by Juan Alcón. Rafael Suárez by Ebba Rohweder. Beatriz Caravaggio for Femenino Plural. Juan Alcón for Johanna Speidel. Fernando Baena for Rafael Suárez. Chus Lopez Vidal for Silvina Der-Meguerditchian. Femenino Plural for Carlos Llavata. Silvina Der-Meguerditchian by Chus Lopez Vidal. Johanna Speidel for Beatriz Caravaggio. Ebba Rohweder by Fernando Baena.
OFF LIMITS, Madrid
Culture and Media, Centro Cultural San Martín, Buenos Aires, 2009
MADRID FILM FESTIVAL - PNR
Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
Optica Festival Córdoba 2009
Filmoteca de Andalucía
Optica Buenos Aires 2009 - International Video Art Festival
Art Factory, Piedras 545 - San Telmo, Buenos Aires
Concert with the FOCO Orchestra conducted by William Parker (USA)
The Palau, Barcelona
Concert with the FOCO Orchestra conducted by William Parker (USA)
XIII International Improvisation Festival Hurta Cordel
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Publication of
Hurta Cordel 96-08 Festival Internacional de Música Improvisada, book/DVD/CD, bilingual Spanish/English, Publisher: Ebba Rohweder
La Casa Encendida, ISBN: 978-84-96917-39-2
2008
Apariencias discretas - Solo exhibition
Espacio menosuno, Madrid
International Electroacoustic Music Festival of the S. Cecilia Conservatory, Rome Screening of the videocompositions s.t. 2006 and La historia de la historia es el mar.
A thousand and one attempts to touch reality
ZONA HÍBRIDA, Teatro Pradillo, Madrid
Presentation of the videocompositions s.t. 2006
Instituto Cervantes, Paris
Presentation of the videocomposition Mil y un intento de tocar la realidad,
with live music; and Free improvisation with Fine Kwiatkowski, dance and Ute Voelker, accordion
Weddingsalon, Berlin
FLEXUS- Walking installation with Karl Menzen, sculptor, Iris Sputh and Fine Kwiatkowski, dance, Ute Völker, accordion, Thorsten Bloedhorn, guitar, Willehad Grafenhorst, double bass and Claudia Risch, saxophone.
"48 Stunden Kunst in Neukölln", Berlin
re:new Festival 2008, Copenhagen/ Denmark
Presentation of the video compositions El Atazar, s.t. and The story of the story is the sea
Presentation of the video compositions Nada orgánico, Mi planeta español and Villamiel - La voz interna,
El Jacalito, Madrid
Presentation of the videocomposition My restlessness, my paradise
Weddingsalon, Berlin
2007
Programming and organisation of the
XII International Improvisation Festival Hurta Cordel
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Concert with the FOCO Orchestra conducted by Michael Fischer
XII International Improvisation Festival Hurta Cordel
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Presentation of video compositions and electro-acoustic compositions in the EM-Hoeren Cycle
Technische Universität TU Berlin
OPTICA 2007 - International Festival of Video Art of Gijón
Presentation of the video s.t. 2006
Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto
Company...Más Música presents Silent Cinema with live music
Métropolis (1929) by Fritz Lang
Live music by Ebba Rohweder and Gregorio Kazaroff
Hoyo de Manzanares - Madrid, Centro Cultural
Broadcast of the electroacoustic composition
The story of history is the sea
RNE Radio Clásica, Ars sonora/ Electroacoustic Panorama
Screening of the video-composition s.t.
XIV Jornadas de informática y electrónica musical,
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Concert of improvised music with Erica Zisa/ voice, Javier Paxariño/ saxophone, Victor Vázquez/ electric guitar, Merran Laginestra/ electronics, Paloma Carrasco/ cello and Ebba Rohweder/ flutes, electronics.
Concept: Ebba Rohweder
La casa de los Jacintos, Madrid
Presents her video-compositions El Atazar, s.t., La historia de la historia es el mar and Mil y un intento de tocar la realidad.
Espacio menosuno, Madrid
Presents his video-compositions El Atazar, s.t., La historia de la historia es el mar and Mil y un intento de tocar la realidad.
Cruce - art and thought, Madrid
Coordinates Hurta Cordel 2007 - XI International Festival of Improvisation
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
DADÁ - Experimental cinema by Hans Richter, Man Ray and Viking Eggeling.
With improvised music by Ebba Rohweder and Gregorio Kazaroff.
Hurta Cordel 2007 - XI International Festival of Improvisation
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Concert with the FOCO Orchestra conducted by Olivier Benoit
XI International Improvisation Festival Hurta Cordel
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
2006
Invitation of the Asociación Humboldt-Centro Goethe de Quito/ Ecuador:
Presents at the X Festival Ecuatoriano de Música Contemporánea his videos El Atazar, s.t., La historia de la historia es el mar, Retiendas and the sound installation Música de Baño
Experimental cinema with live music by Ebba Rohweder
Casa de Humboldt, Quito/ Ecuador
Original music for the video installation Casting - The Three Dimensions of Don Quixote by Eva Lootz
Nasjonalmuseet Oslo, Norway
Editing and musical composition for the DVD Imágenes filmadas de obras públicas 1920-1990, a production of the Junta de Andalucía with the collaboration of the Filmoteca Española and the Ministry of Culture.
Silent films plus live music
Battleship Potemkin by Sergej Eisenstein
Music: Ebba Rohweder, Gregorio Kazaroff and Jesús Jara
Cruce - arte y pensamiento, Madrid
Música de Baño, sound installation by Ebba Rohweder
Group exhibition Tangentes al paisaje
Centro Cultural Gran Capitán, Granada
Cycle of silent films plus live music
Music: Ebba Rohweder, Gregorio Kazaroff and guest musicians Javier Paxariño, Antonio Bravo, Merran Laginestra and Ute Völker
Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
Concert with the FOCO Orchestra conducted by Walter Thompson
X International Improvisation Festival Hurta Cordel
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Performance of music, video projection and interactive dance (gestural control of image and sound in real time) by Ebba Rohweder and Jaime del Val.
X International Improvisation Festival Hurta Cordel
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
2005
Silent films plus live music
A propos de Nice by Jean Vigo
Music: Ebba Rohweder, Gregorio Kazaroff and Ingar Zach
Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
Original music for the video installation Casting - The three dimensions of Don Quixote by Eva Lootz
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Concert of improvised music with Gregorio Kazaroff
Auditorium of the Valladolid Public Library, Valladolid
Publication of the website "Ravensbrück - Women's Concentration Camp", Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Bonn/ Germany
Funeral for a Wall
Ebba Rohweder - director and flautist, Mario Gutiérrez - action,
Gregorio Kazaroff - dj, Unai Requejo - trumpet and others
espacio menosuno, Madrid
Performance noi casi vorp mi
by Ebba Rohweder and María Cruz Planchuela, dance
espacio menosuno, Madrid
Soloperformance Where everything ends open the wings by Ebba Rohweder
VI Intercultural Women's Meeting, Finca "El Cerezo", Villena
Premiere of the soloperformance Where everything ends open the wings
Entredos, Madrid
Concert with the FOCO Orchestra
conducted by Dave Tucker and Roland Remanan
IX International Improvisation Festival Hurta Cordel
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
2004
Premiere and broadcast on RNE Radio Clásica of Cielo de Peces Azules, an electroacoustic composition and original documents by Ebba Rohweder.
2003
Publication of the CD and guide "Ravensbrück- Women's Concentration Camp" by Aktion Sühnezeichen, Germany
Premiere of the installation Desires, Stones, Sky in Tatters
electroacoustic composition and interviews by Ebba Rohweder
Faculty of Fine Arts, Cuenca, Spain
2002
Premiere of the composition Fliegen ohne Flügel by Ebba Rohweder, performed by the ensemble Zeitkratzer.
Composition Scholarship of the Berlin Senate
Museumsinsel Berlin
2001
Premiere of the composition ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst
by Ebba Rohweder for double bass and tape
BKA Berlin
2000
Premiere of the electro-acoustic composition vorübergehende chemische verbindung by Ebba Rohweder
nachhall - Multimediafestival, Berlin
1999
Premiere of the composition Illusion permits anything, Reality stops everything by Ebba Rohweder for voice solo
Kunstschiff ANNA, Berlin
1998
Premiere of the performance KOSOVA-Vom Flüstern zum Schrei
by Ebba Rohweder and Magdalena Esponda
Staatsbibliothek Berlin
Premiere of the composition BLÜHENDE LANDSCHAFT
by Ebba Rohweder
Kulturzentrum Weiße Rose Berlin
1997
Silent film with live music
LES DEUX TIMIDES by René Claire, production and broadcasting for ARTE/ZDF television, composition Bernd Schultheiss, ConGioco Ensemble
Stadtgarten Köln
Premiere of the performance ALBANIEN- die, die keine Stimme haben?
by Ebba Rohweder and Magdalena Esponda
Kunstschiff ANNA, Berlin
Premiere of the composition Spurensuche by Ebba Rohweder
for cello solo
Zionskirche Berlin
Premiere of the composition Nguyen by Ebba Rohweder
for solo voice
CD Kompositionen
STADTGARTEN KÖLN, Cologne
Music for the silent film Les deux timides by René Claire
Composition by Bernd Schultheiss
Production for arte/ZDF television. Broadcast on arte and 3SAT
ConGioco Ensemble
KUNSTSCHIFF ANNA, Berlin
Portrait concert and in the presence of the composer Viera Janárceková
ConGioco Ensemble
BKA UNERHÖRTE MUSIK, Berlin
Experimental concert of music theatre
Premiere of Daniel Ott's composition "7".
Composition Prize of the Berlin Senate for the
ConGioco Ensemble and Daniel Ott
1996
Premiere of the performance ZIONSKLÄNGE
by Ebba Rohweder and Magdalena Esponda
Zionskirche Berlin
Soloperformance ALLES NUR ZWIEBELN by Ebba Rohweder
Gallery Am Großen Stern, Berlin
Premiere of the performance FRAGMENTE
by Ebba Rohweder and Magdalena Esponda
KUNSTSCHIFF ANNA, Berlin
Premiere of the composition Mehr als 300 Blatt Papier nicht überschreiten!!
by Ebba Rohweder for cello and tape
Evas Arche, Berlin
BKA UNERHÖRTE MUSIK, Berlin
Experimental concert of stage music
Premieres of the commissioned compositions STATIONEN by Barbara Heller and ich will es soll ein stück sein. ein stück. by Ebba Rohweder
ConGioco Ensemble
OETKERHALLE BIELEFELD
Experimental concert of theatre music
with works by Carola Bauckholt, Mauricio Kagel, Ebba Rohweder and John Cage
ConGioco Ensemble
KUNSTSCHIFF ANNA, Berlin
Experimental concert with the painter Gabriele Gärtner and
premieres of the commissioned compositions for anna.orte
by Emely Zobel and double/trouble by Urla Kahl
ConGioco Ensemble
KULTURBRAUEREI, Berlin
Concert with works by women composers
Premieres of commissioned compositions:
Ohne Tageslicht I/II, Adaption, Und, by Juliane Klein,
du fond de mon avenir... by Violeta Dinescu,
Kästen, die(die) Welt bedeuten, by Ebba Rohweder and
Krzyk, by Emilie ZobelConGioco Ensemble
1995
Premiere of the Performance KOLOR-IT by Ebba Rohweder
TRIORA, KulturBrauerei Berlin
Premiere of the performance FREMD IN EIGENENEN KLÄNGEN
by Ebba Rohweder and Magdalena Esponda
Theatre o.N., Berlin
Broadcasting Hall of the HESSISCHER RUNDFUNK (HR), Kassel
Concert of the series WOMEN COMPOSERS AND THEIR WORK
Compositions by Ada Gentile, Adriana Hölszky, Emilie Zobel,
Carola Bauckholt, Violeta Dinescu, and Viera Janárceková.
Broadcast of the concert on HR 3 radio
ConGioco Ensemble
RATHAUSFESTSAAL ERFURT
IV. Internationales Musica rara Festival
Concert with works by the women composers Violeta Dinescu,
Makiko Nishikaze, Doina Rotaru, Emely Zobel, Carola Bauckholt and
Tera de Marez Oyens
ConGioco Ensemble
Premiere PURGATORIO L, dance theatre
dance: Christof Gräter, Takuya Ishide, Yuko Kaseki, Silvia Ventura
improvised music: Henry Mex, Veronika Otto, Ebba Rohweder
performance: Micha Brendel, direction: Norbert Mauk
Wasserspeicher, Berlin
Tour through St. Peterburg and Sotschi/ Russia with the free improvisation choir RENAISSANCE DER CHORIMPROVISATION
1994
Premiere of the composition SOLO FÜR EBBA
for solo flute by Stephanie Schweiger
KulturBrauerei Berlin
Premiere of the scenic composition a picture of me gardening
by Emely Zobel for flute and piano
BEGINE Frauenkulturzehtrum Berlin
MUSIKHOCHSCHULE WÜRZBURG
Concert with works by contemporary female composers
Premiere of the commissioned composition DARGOW IV, by Emely Zobel
ConGioco Ensemble
KRYPTONALE I
Concert by the Renaissance der Chorimprovisation
free improvisation of choir music
Wasserspeicher, Berlin
CD-production KRYPTÖNE
Free improvisation by Katharina Kaufmann/viola, Andreas Kaufmann/saxophone, Henry Mex/contrabass, Veronika Otto/violoncello, Dietrich Petzold/violin and Ebba Rohweder/flautas
MUSIKHOCHSCHULE WEIMAR
Concert within TAGE DER FRAUEN MUSIK WEIMAR
(Women's Music Days in Weimar)
Premiere of the commissioned compositions SPHÄRENWOLF
by Viera Janárceková and Stephanie Schweiger's "28"
ConGioco Ensemble
1993
ATLAS ECLIPTICALIS and WINTERMUSIC by John Cage
Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin/The Orchestra of the S.E.M.Ensemble David Tudor-piano, conductor Petr Kotik
Schauspielhaus Berlin
Premiere of the Performance 1au9tu9mn3 by Stephanie Schweiger
for 6 performers
Neues Kunstquartier Berlin
KOMPONISTINNENBIBLIOTHEK (women composers' library) UNNA
Portrait concert and in the presence of the composer
Tera de Marez Oyens (Netherlands)
ConGioco Ensemble
15 Jahre Jazzclub Glauchau, Schloss Glauchau
Free Improvisation by Nils Gerold/Clarinet, Andreas Nordheim/Trumpet and Ebba Rohweder/Flutes
1992
Premiere of the performance HAUS DES INZEST
by Ebba Rohweder and Conny Hege, dance
Kulturhaus Mitte, Berlin
1991
KONZERTHAUS DÜSSELDORF
Concert with works by the women composers Ada Gentile, Violeta Dinescu,
Adriana Hölszky, Carola Bauckholt, Jaqueline Fontyn, Sofia Gubaidulina and Ruth Zechlin
ConGioco Ensemble
1988
VOLKSHOCHSCHULE ESSEN
Portrait concert and in the presence of the composer Younghi Pagh-Paan
Premiere of the composition Ta-Ryong by Younghi Pagh-Paan
ConGioco Ensemble
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