Timo Dillner
Biografie / Biografia / Biography

born 1966 in Wismar (GDR)
1985 - 1989 study of pedagogics, art and germanistic in Greifswald
1989 - 1998 assistant in the museum of contemporary arts in Cottbus
1998 emigration to Portugal
since 2000 Writer and Artist in Lagos
2000 start of the artistic concept "paintings and poems"
since 2022 portuguese citizenship

Exhibitions (Selection)

2009 personal exhibition "Não Faras imagem para ti - You shall not make any graven image" at the Centro Cultural de Lagos, the catalog with an epilogue written by the Head of Language Department of the Goethe Institute, Lisbon, Dr. Dorothea Klenke-Gerdes
2010 participation in group exhibition "Retratos do Infante Henrique" at the Centro Cultural de Lagos
2012 personal exhibition "The Poetic Contineralism", Casa Manuel Texeira Gomes, Portimão
2012 personal exhibition "The Poetic Contineralism", Museu de Alhandra, Vila Franca de Xira
2013 participation on the 18th International Arts Exhibition in Vendas Novas (near Lissabon)
2013 personal exhibition "The Poetic Contineralism - New Ports", Galerie Baumhaus, Wismar (Germany)
2015 personal exhibition "The Poetic Contineralism - New Worlds", Museum Portimão; in the Catalogue a preface written by the portuguese embassador in Berlin, SE Luís de Almeida Sampaio
2017 personal exhibition "The Poetic Contineralism - Foundings", Museum Lagos
2018 personal exhibition "The Poetic Contineralism - New Horizons", Centro Cultural de Lagos
2018 personal exhibition "The Poetic Contineralism - Hand-Luggage", Museum of Faro
2022, First price of the Lagos´ LocalArte for the paining "De-masked"

Publications (Selection)

2004 Children's book "Das kleine grüne Haifisch-Ei", bilingual. german/port., with illustrations
2005 essays about arts-theory
2007 "Kunst = [ist gleich]" ("Art = [equals]")
2008 fantasy novel "Der Tod des Königs," with illustrations
2008 "Kurt und der Verzauberer" ("Kurt and the Enchanter")
2008 "the centuries-artwork" (under pseudonym Jeremias Hock)
2009 children's book, "Knopp und die Hexe vom Erlenbruch" ("Knopp and the Witch of the alder swamp") with illustrations

RTP Internacional "Aqui Portugal" - Entrevista com Timo Dillner ("Aqui Portugal, Lagos", Parte 2)
12. September 2020
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