biography
Education
1994 -1998
study of fine arts, course mixed media, A.K.I., academy for fine arts and design, Enschede (NL), (Bachelor of Fine Arts)
1997-98
study of fine arts, course intermedia, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver (CAN) (Bachelor of Fine Arts)
Exhibitions (selected)
2011
-the Artist as Curator's Art, Schau Fenster, Berlin
-LUXUS LOFT, Atelierhaus Friedenstrasse, Berlin
-Diving for Pearls, Kunstraum Morgenstrasse, Karlsruhe
2010
-New German Art, German Embassy, London (UK)
-Floating past the Evidence of Possibilities, FMAB Gallery, Berlin
-Hostile Aesthetik Takeover, Apartment, Berlin
-Das Schoenste im Leben, Pilotenkueche Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig
-Diving For Pearls, Kunsthalle Lothringer 13, Munich
-Radical Adults, Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin
2009
-the Options are blocked, Kunstbunker, Nuernberg
-Should the World break in, Bereznitsky Gallery, Kiew
-Reliquaries of Empires Dust, Bereznitsky Gallery, Berlin
-PODROSTOK, Grill Royal & SOX36, Berlin
-DEMOLITION, HBC Kollektiv, Berlin
-Poliflur 0X/01, Kunsthaus Frise, Hamburg
2008
-Diving for Pearls (in your own soup), London (UK)
-INDIFFERENCE (is bliss), Zentrum Kreuzberg, Berlin
-Privatgalerie #5, Johannes Buss, Privatgalerie, Munich
-Der Garten im Museum, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin
-Windowstep 2.9, Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin
-SUPERPOSITION, Kulturpalast Wedding International, Berlin
-Pop! goes the weasel, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
-Un Monument Africain Bavarois, TOY-VOID, Kammerspiele, Munich
2007
-These are the Good Times, Museum MAN Berlin, Berlin
-Poliflur 01/01, Berlin
-FIRST LADIES, La Robe Showroom, Berlin
2006
-Panic - our older brother, ALM MUNICH, Munich
-HUMAN LAB NL, Het Wilde Weten Artists Foundation, Rotterdam (NL)
2005
-TRAFFIC, 2nd Exit Art Biennale, New York (USA)
-AFROSHOP, DU-AG project gallery, Munich
2004
-Border Conditions, 66 East - centre for urban culture, Amsterdam
-Sammeltaxi, Goethe Institute, Johannesburg (RSA)
-NEGOTIATE IV, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg (RSA)
-Residency exhibition, Bag Factory, Johannesburg (RSA)
2003
-Concept Shop 2 : low riders, public art project, Amsterdam
2002
-Concept Shop 1: black on white, showroom ic!berlin, Berlin
-Rapture - Arts Seduction by Fashion, Barbican Art Centre, London
-OKWUI-Shirt, participation project during documenta 11, Kassel
2001
-the APHEX TWIN TOWER, TRAUMA - Bar of broken dreams, Berlin
2000
-High End - Volume 5 (The Making Of), gallery Arndt & Partner, Berlin
-Home-Sampling, Lucerne Theatre, Lucerne (CH)
-High End - Volume 4 (Replikantinnen, blaues Blut), z2000 festival,
Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin
-High End - Volume 3 (Materialausgabe / Materialpraesentation), gallery shift e.V. Berlin
1999
-Nieuwe Oogst, Foto Forum, Amersfoort (NL)
1998
-Jong en Nieuw, Het Kunstpaleis, Deventer (NL)
-Nachtwache, Kunstraum Limmer Zehn, Hannover
-graduationshow, AKI, academy for fine arts and design, Enschede (NL)
-graduationshow, Galerie de Villa, Enschede (NL), (with B.C. Larsson)
1997
-story, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver (CAN)
Collaborations, Screenings, Performances
2010
-GLOW, cinematic and ambient video program, Screening, Z-Bar, Berlin
-WHITE SNUFF, Performance, Ackerkeller, Berlin
2009
-Interesting Productions, Performance, 'the Office', Berlin
2008
-Jenseits der Daemmerung, musical performance, Festival 48h Neukoelln, Berlin
2006
-Worldhaters Drugpool Birthday Party, Performance, Kunsthalle Lothringer 13, Munich
2005
-Ignore the obvious, and death must pass away, Kunsthalle Pankow, Berlin
-Democratic Poster (Ghetto Edition), participation project, Berlin
-XX. Black International Film Festival, Screening, Berlin
2003
-employed for public art project: Berlin Touropa: Hubert Fichte-Hotel-Room
-part of artistic team for public art project Guben / Gubin liest: Herz der Finsternis, Guben/Gubin (D/PL)
2002
-part of artistic team for Mindmapping Global Mobile, Four Seasons Hotel Berlin & Haus des Lehrers, Berlin
-part of artistic team for public art project Mindmapping Null Tote, Europaeische Werkstatt der Kulturen Hellerau, Dresden
2001
-part of artistic team for public art project Mindmapping, festival Plateaux, Mousonturm , Frankfurt/Main
Grants
2004
-residency grant from the Royal Dutch Embassy, South Africa
-project grant for exhibition project Sammeltaxi, Goethe Institute Johannesburg
2005
-project grant for HUMAN LAB NL from the Arts Council Rotterdam
Residencies
2005 -artist in residence, Het Wilde Weten Artists Foundation, Rotterdam (NL)
2004 -artist in residence, Fordsburg Artists Studios Johannesburg
Press/Publications
2011
-Johannes Buss: Pendler zwischen Berlin & Paris, Muensterische Zeitung, C. Boedding
-African Artzine Borriolah Gha Magazine: Johannes Buss: hpc-homophobic
2010
-Giessener Anzeiger & Giessener Allgemeine: Erste Schau der Galerie 392
2008
-Abendzeitung, Muenchen, Identitaeten zum Anziehen, Michael Stadtler
-Muenchner Merkur, Zwischen Folter & Gutmenschenkitsch, Christine Diller
-Kunstforum Nr. 189, Halbe Documenta, Peter Funken
2007
-Berliner Kunstsalon 2007, Catalogue
2005
-salon14: Ghetto-Image oder Realitaet Hg.: Meister, Schneider, Seifert
2001
-Konkursbuch Berlin, Konkursbuchverlag 2001