Emmy Iolanda Patrizia Bach Ruscello
was born 1983 in Munich/Germany.
Through her artistic practice, she has called many places home: She lives and works in Berlin and Brandenburg, and at times in Istanbul and Serramonacesca.
She has taught at various universities as a professor and lecturer.
Scholarships, Awards and Residencies
2024 – grand prize, art in public space (Kunst am Bau), Elisabeth-Selbert-Haus, Unter den Linden, Berlin (German Bundestag)
2024 – Villa Serpentara, Olevano Romano (IT) Akademie der Künste, Berlin (Residency, 3 months)
2024 – Alumni-Grant, Kulturakademie Tarabya, Istanbul
2024 – Künstlerhaus S11, Soloturn (CH, Residency, 2 months with DUA)
2023 – NEUSTARTplus-Scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds
2022 – NEUSTART KULTUR-Scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds
2022 – Alumni-Grant, Kulturakademie Tarabya, Istanbul
2021/22 – Initial-Scholarship, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2021 – Studio funding (Berlin Senate / BBK-Berlin)
2021 – Kulturakademie Tarabya, Istanbul (Residency, 8 months)
2021 – Nomination or the Prix Walter Benjamin (as first artistic nomination)
2018 – Akademie Schloß Solitude (Residency, 10 months)
2018 – Stiftung Buchkunst, Shortlist of the most beautiful books in Germany (Revoler Publishing, Berlin)
2017 – Research-Scholarship, Berlin Senate
2016 – Global-Scholarship, Berlin Senate
2016 – Goethe Institut, Istanbul (financial support)
2014/15 – DAAD-Scholarship for Istanbul
2014 – Stiftung Kunstfond, Bonn (catalogue-funding)
2013/14 – Nafög-Scholarship of Berlin
2012 – Goethe Institut und NCCA, Nishny Novgorod (RU)
Exhibitions (selection)
2026 – Solo-Show, Deutsches Generalkonsulat, Istanbul
2026 – Group-Show, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (Group-Show of the Junge Akademie)
2025 – Solo-Show, Navies-Kitchen Kulturakademie Tarabya, Istanbul (within the summer-festival of Kulturakademie Tarabya)
2024 – Group-Show and Book-Launch, Cathrin Pichler Archiv, Exhibit Galery, Vienna (AT)
2024 – Group-Show, awarded works of the art in public space competition by Deutsche Bundestag, Kronprinzenpalais, Berlin
2024 – Publication-Launch, TOMIKO-Archiv F105, Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen
2024 – Group-Show, Mind the Mycelium, 40 Tage Festival, Vernetzung & Feminismus in der Kunst, Künstlerinnenverband Bremen: Schaufenstergalerie Mechtild Böger
2024 – Group-Show, Aus dem Koffer, Berlin, Hamburg, Köln, Stuttgart (initiated by Linienscharen)
2023 – Solo-Show / Presentation with the artist’s collaborativ DUA (with Regina Dürig), S11, Solothurn (CH)
2022 – Group-Show, Die Lust an der Zeichnung, Hospitalhof Stuttgart
2022 – Solo-Show, on F119, with the artist’s collaborativ DUA (with Regina Dürig), Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin
2022 – Group Show,Images in Fashion – Clothing in Art,Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
2021 – Group Show, 10 Years Kulturakedemie Tarabya, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
2021 – Group Show, Biennale für Freiburg, Kunstverein, Freibug
2021 – Group Show, Cantonale Berne Jura, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Langenthal, Switzerland
2020 – Group Show, Drawing the City, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
2020 – Group Show, Footnote 14: Angel of History, Casa Sao Roque – Centro de Arte, Porto (Portugal)
2019 – Group Show, Engaging with Histories, Project Space Römerstraße 2A, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
2018 – Solo Show, Archive Works, DEPO Istanbul, Turkey
lectures / lecture performances
2025 – Lecture Performance, On the Concept of History in Four Languages (TR/AR/DE/EN), Istanbul Pavilion, Gaza Biennial (DEPO, Istanbul)
2025 – Lecture, Past in Each of its Moments Be Citable, University of Stuttgart (idg)
2022 – Lecture, University of the Arts Bremen (Appointment Lecture)
2023 – Lecture, Medien des Humor bei Walter Benjamin, Berlin, ZfL (Center for Literary Studies)
2023 – Lecture, University of Graphic and Book Arts, Leipzig (Zeitlichkeiten in der Kunst)
2022 – Lecture, Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (Appointment Lecture)
2022 – Lecture, Berlin University of the Arts, Weißensee (Between Drawing and Text, Prof. Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi)
2022 – Lecture, Berlin University of the Arts, Weißensee (Drawing Class, Prof. Pia Linz)
2022 – Writing Workshop, Past in Each of its Moments Be Citable, Hospitalhof Stuttgart
2022 – Lecture Performance, Past in Each of its Moments Be Citable, as part of the exhibition Die Lust an der Zeichnung, Hospitalhof Stuttgart
2021 – Writing Workshop, TOMIKO Archive, Kunstverein Freiburg, Biennale for Freiburg
2021 – Lecture and Website Publication, TOMIKO Archive, Kunstverein Freiburg, Biennale for Freiburg
2020 – Lecture, University of the Arts Bern
2019 – Lecture and Workshop, University of the Arts Bern
2019 – Lecture, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle
2019 – Lecture, University of the Arts Bremen
2017 – Lecture, University of the Arts Berlin
2017 – Lecture, Jour Fixe, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle
2016 – Lecture & Seminar Mentorship , Berlin University of the Arts, Weißensee
2016 – Lecture, Berlin University of the Arts, Weißensee (Drawing Class Schimansky/Hennenkemper)
2015 – Lecture and Exhibition, International Academy of Art, Ramallah, Palestine
Publications
– monographs | artist books | online-publications
2024 – www.tomikoarchiv-F105.de (online-publication)
of one section of the TOMIKO Archiv with over 30 contributions by international artists (Launch: Weserburg Museum for Modern Art, Bremen)
2024 – artist’s booklet
Patrizia Bach, von den in den Felsspalten zahllos hausenden Schlagen // sugli innumerevoli serpenti che dimorano nelle fessure rocciose, (de/it) [insert in the jubilee-publication of Villa Serpentara, edited by Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Clara Hermann, Anneka Metzger]
2021 – www.tomikoarchiv.de (online-publication)
of my long-term project, a collection of amateur-/family-photographs [launch: September 2021, Biennale für Freiburg]
2019 – artist’s booklet
Walter Benjamin: Tarih Kavrami Üzerine | On the Concept of History – in Turkish and English corresponding with the eponymous lecture-performance
2019 – TOMIKO Archive, Edition#7 [F107]. two related artists-books, each 479 pages, digital print, 21×29,7 cm
[Edition: 10 pieces; with support of Akademie Schloss Solitude]
2018 – Patrizia Bach. Arcades-Works, Drawings on Walter Benjamin & Paris-City Map, on Walter Benjamin‘s Arcades Project, Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2018 [Monograph; Texts: Kathrin Busch, Knut Ebeling]
Award: Shortlist of the most beautiful books, Stiftung Buchkunst
2018 – Patrizia Bach: Archive Works / Arsiv Isleri. Edited by DEPO, Istanbul, 2018 [Exhibition-Booklet]
2018 – TOMIKO Archive, Edition#5 [F71] and Edition#6 [F100]. two related artists-books, each 273 and 535 pages, digital print, 21×29,7 cm [Edition: 10 pieces; with support of DEPO, Istanbul]
2017 – artist’s booklet
Patrizia Bach: Vergangenheit, in jedem ihrer Momente zitierbar. (Past in Each of its Moments be Citable)
Workbook – with an Essay by Caroline Adler [Artist-book, 200 pages]
2014 – www.benjamin-passagen.de (online-publication)
[a complete new digital edition of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project]
2014 – poster edition
Patrizia Bach. On the Colors and Symbols in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, 84,1×118,9 cm, 50 pieces, Revolver Publishing, Berlin.
2010 – TOMIKO Archive, Edition#4 [F20_01]. two related artists-books, each 607 pages, digital print, 21×29,7 cm
[Edition: 10 pieces]
– catalogues and contributions
2024 – Das Cathrin Pichler Archiv von RPU-Artaud-001 bis DAV-Plakate, artistic contruibution of a body of 261 drawings on the photographic Material of the Cathrin Pichler Archive, Vienna, edited by the Cathrin Pichler Archive, Magdalena Stöger, Leon Hösl, Wien (Mark Penzinger)
2023 – Artistic Friendship – Meeting Between the Lines, by Patrizia Bach & Regina Dürig, in: On Care. A Journey into the Relational Nature of Artists’ Residencie, edited by Akademie Schloss Solitude and der Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice (Verlag für moderne Kunst)
2022 – Images in Fashion – Clothing in Art. Edited by Annelie Lütgens, exhibition catalogue, Berlinische Galerie (Wienand).
2021 – Drawing the City – Paper-based Works from 1945 to the Present. edited by Thomas Köhler, Annelie Lütgens, and Berlinische Galerie, Köln, (Wienand).
2021 – Innigkeit – by Patrizia Bach & Regina Dürig, in: Lexicon for Untranslatable Cultural Practices – Jubilee
Publication of „Akademie Schloss Solitude“, edited by
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Elke aus dem Moore, Denise Helene Sumi (Archive Books)
2021 – Will Guthrie & James Rushford: Real Real World (Black Truffle Records) [Artwork for the vinyl]
2021 – Methods of Indirection: a Trialogue Between Patrizia Bach, Luis Berr os-Negrón, and Howard Eiland
about Walter Benjamin and Translating „the Arcades Project“, in: JAR – Journal for Artistic Research
2019 – Arcade Materials – YELLOW: History and Temporality. Edited by Sam Dolbear und Hannah Proctor, London 2019
2018 – LOTTE, Land of The Temporary Eternaty. Edited by project space LOTTE, (Lostbooks) Stuttgart 2018, p. 158
2017 – The Lost Diagrams of Walter Benjamin. Edited by Helen Clarke and Sharon Kivland with Essays by Helen Clarke, Sam Dolbear and Christian A. Wollin, Pages 40/41
2017 – Zeichensprachen. Zeichnerinnen und Zeichner aus Weißensee. Edited by Kathleen Krenzlin, p. 16/17; Text: Stefan Koppelkamm and Christian Schiebe [Catalogue]
2017 – Patrizia Bach: Zeichnungen zu Walter Benjamins Passagenarbeit / Kathrin Busch: Das Bild zur Lektüre. Zu den Zeichnungen von Patrizia Bach, in: Anderes Wissen, edited by Kathrin Busch, Merz Akademie Stuttgart, Paderborn 2016; pages 146–187.
2016 – Her Anıyla Alıntılanan Geçmiş – Walter Benjamin‘in Tarih Kavramı Üzerine bir Sergi Denemesi; ‘Past in Each of its Moments be Citable’ – an exhibition project on Walter Benjamin‘s Concept of History in the City of Istanbul. Edited by DEPO, Istanbul 2016; [Catalogue; Text: Caroline Adler]
2014 – Et eget oppslagsverk. Patrizia Bach er på sporet av hyperteksten i Passasjeverket. [A separate enzyclopedia. Patrizia Bach on the traces of the hypertexts of the Arcades Project], in: Vagant Magazin, Nr. 3/2014, Oslo, Norwegen 2014, edited by Audun Lindholm, Pages 48–54.
2010 – Chinepinev / Cuentos de los Baure, Proyecto de la documentación del idioma Baure [Stories of Baure. Project-documentationof the Baure language], edited by the University of Leipzig, Swintha Danielsen, Lena Terhart.
2009 – Olympics Beijing, in: Ein Magazin über Orte Nr.5 – Tatort, spring 2009, edited by Elmar Bambach, Julia Marquardt, Birgit Vogel, Berlin 2009; Pages 54–56
2009 – Anonyme Zeichner Nr. 10, edited by Galerie Blütenweiß and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin