RaumZeitPiraten (Tobias Daemgen, Jan Ehlen, Moritz Ellerich) are a space and time bending artists group. Since 2007 they are misusing and remixing ancient and up-to-date auditive and visual technologies for heterogeneous, organically improvised light and sound architectures. Their activities are aimed at playful, experimental connections of sound, image, object, space and time to an alternately-self-expanding-multimedia-performance-surround-spaceship-laboratory-travel to somewhere between science and fiction.

Tobias Daemgen
1980 born in Braunschweig, lives in Wuppertal, Germany
2003 – 2011 studies of communication design at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf (Diploma) and postgraduate studies of media art at KHM Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (Diploma)
2007 he founded the artists group RaumZeitPiraten, since then artistically active with international exhibitions, performances, workshops and lectures.

Scholarships / Awards
2017 Villa Kamogawa, artist residency, Goethe-Institut Kyoto, Japan
2017 Rome Media Art Festival award
2017 project grant, Bergischer Kulturfonds, Wuppertal
2016 BangaloREsidency, Goethe-Institut, Bangalore, India
2015 project grant, Bergischer Kulturfonds, Wuppertal
2013 working grant Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn
2012 – 2015 studio grant, Koelnischer Kunstverein
2011 working grant, Kunststiftung NRW, Düsseldorf
2011 art award, Baustelle Schaustelle, Essen
2010 project grant, Kunststiftung NRW, Düsseldorf

Jan Ehlen
1980 born in Bergisch Gladbach, lives and works in Mülheim an der Ruhr
Since 2011 cooperation in the artist group RaumZeitPiraten
Since 2000 Various international solo and group exhibitions
2004 – 2009 Founder of the artists collective ZGS
2005 – 2008 Kunstraum Mülheim
Since 2008 assistant of filmmaker and collector Werner Nekes
Since 2010 curator of the SHINYTOYS International Festival for Audiovisual Experiments
2013 Founder of Makroscope, Laboratory for Art and Technology, Mülheim an der Ruhr

awards/scholarships
2017 project grant “Optoakustisches Reiseinstrumentarium“ Individuelle KünstlerInnen Förderung ECCE
2017 Rome Media Art Festival award
2016 project grant “DestillatWuppertal”, Bergischer Kulturfonds
2016 project grant „InstruMentalGespinst“, Kulturamt Düsseldorf
2015 project grant “ElektroMistel”, Bergischer Kulturfonds
2014 working grant, Maschinenhaus Essen

Moritz Ellerich
1982 born in Haan, lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.
2004 – 2010 studied Communication Design at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf.
2007 Foundation of the artist group “RaumZeitPiraten”
since 2017 internationally on the road as artist with exhibitions, performances and lectures

awards/scholarships
2017 Rome Media Art Festival award
2016 project grant “DestillatWuppertal”, Bergischer Kulturfonds
2016 project grant „InstruMentalGespinst“, Kulturamt Düsseldorf
2015 project grant “ElektroMistel”, Bergischer Kulturfonds
2012 project grant “Licht-Klang-Brücke”, Kunststiftung NRW
2011 Artaward, Baustelle Schaustelle, Essen