I'M BADDY

London fashion label dedicated to the contemporary art world, since 2019
I'M BADDY
Contributions
Brand design, fashion design
Project Overview

I'M BADDY is the first fashion & lifestyle brand dedicated to the contemporary art world. Each individual piece tells a sassy and provocative story about the art world, art market and postmodernism.

I’M BADDY was called as one of the exciting new London brands. It was featured a. o. by Ascott Living magazine and WELT Iconist.

Find out more here.


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Artworld War I

Game App for iOS and Android, 2013-2018
Artworld War I
Contributions
Concept art, artwork, game design
Project Overview

A group of global art players assumed power in the art world. They occupied the leading art centers like the Guggenheim, the Tate Modern and the Serpentine Gallery and are hiding the freedom of art. The famous and radical artist Baddy Dolly Jane changes the ends and decides to take back the freedom of art in order to give it back to the people. Armed with a cucumber, she starts a revolution.

Artworld War I was made in cooperation with the Stuttgart Media University.

Team:
Prof. Stefan Radicke (Supervision, Coding) 
Stefanie Schwarz (Coding) 
Manuel Schulze (Coding) 
Jakob Pelz (Coding) 
Markus Salmen (Music & Sound) 
Baddy Dolly Jane (Special Thanks To)  

Presentations and Festivals
VEGA CAMP (2014)
ITFS - Internationales Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart (International Cartoon Festival 2015)
Media Night HdM Stuttgart (2014/2015)

Find out more here: www.artworldwar.com


BADDYFORUM International

Publication, 2012-2013
BADDYFORUM International
Contributions
Editor, graphic design
Project Overview

Rumors, insight views and spectacular art performances –        
A book for all experts on contemporary art and for all curious readers who would like to find out more.

This provocative book is a journey through the world of art. It takes us to both well-known and pretty much unknown art venues in New York, London, Venice, Berlin, Vienna and Moscow , just to name a few. We are granted an audience with art world impresario Robert Storr, guzzle champagne at luxurious parties in Venice, and witness what happens when Boris Groys is threatened with a gun at Tate Modern. The book includes contributions by art historians and curators from Germany, Romania and the Philippines, as well as renowned political scientist Chantal Mouffe of Westminster University

BADDYFORUM International

No. 219 Vive la révolution!
English, German; ISBN: 978-3-00-040714-7;
192 pages with over 400 illustrations Flexi-cover; 21 x 17 cm

BADDYFORUM International was presented at the Frankfurter Buchmesse and is among others available at the Tate Modern Bookshop and Koenig Books.

Find a list here


more: www.baddyforuminternational.com

Homecoming (based on Hermann Hesse)

Feature Film, 2012
Homecoming (based on Hermann Hesse)
Contributions
Artwork
Project Overview

"Die Heimkehr" a film based on the novel by Hermann Hesse.
Starring August Zirner, Heike Makatsch, Oliver Stokowski und Herbert Knaup.

Direction: Jo Baier
Full-length movie, Bavarian Broadcast
Format: 90 min., 35mm , 16:9 (D)
Channel: ARD
Television premiere: 2th May 2012, 8.15 pm on ARD

In a Mirror Invisible — Baddy's Paradise

Exhibition and Filmproject, 2011-2012
In a Mirror Invisible — Baddy's Paradise
Contributions
Curating, Artwork
Project Overview

"The Contemporary Art Gallery of the Brukenthal National Museum in Hermannstadt/Sibiu proudly presents "In a mirror invisible - Baddy's Paradise”.
As an active advocate for the globalization of the art industry, for a tolerant, open and constructive cooperation the shooting star of the art world Baddy Dolly Jane will show also you her paradise."

more: www.baddydollyjane.com

Bastard

Feature film, 2011
Bastard
Contributions
Artwork
Project Overview

After the traceless disappearance of the nine year old NIKOLAS (Finn Kirschner), the police apprehends a sexual crime. However, the criminal profiler CLAUDIA MEINERT (Martina Gedeck) discovers contradictions in the behavior of the parents, especially the mother seems to conceal something.

Bastard is a multi-award winning psycho-thriller and was the opening film of the Hofer Filmtage, Germany’s most important film festival for up-and-coming German film.

Starring: Martina Gedeck, Markus Krojer, Hanns Zischler


From Leonardo to Baddy

Exhibition and Filmproject, 2009
From Leonardo to Baddy
Contributions
Curation, Artwork
Project Overview

Baddy Dolly Jane was born in 1987 as Baby Dolly Jane in Esslingen as the daugther of Violla Merkel. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Daniel Richter and now is celebrated by the international art scene as a Shooting superstar: Her brilliant performances at the Museum of Modern Art Vienna, at the Vienna Opera and at the worldfamous Burgtheatre are unforgettable. Collectors like Harald Falckenberg, Francesca von Habsburg, as well as gallery owners like Gerd Harry Lybke are her ardent admirers. At this time her works reach unbelievable prices at auctions and are just affordable for special clients.
Since 2008 Baddy Dolly Jane is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

The exhibition is a retrospective. It shows artworks by Baddy Dolly Jane as well as the documentary "Dreamwork Project" about the breathtaking carreer of this young genius. The Baddy DollyJane-Fanshop will be opened during the exhibtions opening hours.Curated by Jana Kuznetsov

more: www.baddydollyjane.com

Dreamworld Project

Short Film, 2009-2010
Dreamworld Project
Contributions
Script, editing
Project Overview

"Dreamworld Project - Famous in 00:07:59:00" is the story of naive and sexy art student Baddy Dolly Jane.

Baddy lives in Vienna in the heart of the culture mile and dreams of becoming a famous artist. One night she falls under the spell of a mysterious stranger. He promise her to fulfill her dream under one condition…

The countdown is running. A perfidious cat-and-mouse game begins...

Shown at:
Iceland University of the Arts
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Topkino
Brukenthal National Museum
Villa Merkel/Bahnwährterhaus

Watch the whole movie here.

The Blue Monkey

Film, 45 min, 2005-2007
The Blue Monkey
Contributions
Animation, setdecoration, posterdesign, artwork
Project Overview

"It's Friday, the 25th of October, 1929 - this date will be later known as the black Friday and a landmark in last century’s history. A young painter is searching for flawless beauty. He finds it in Berlin, her name is Marie and she is a singer, working in "The Blue Monkey“. The movie tells you the last love story of the Roaring Twenties. Starring Matthias Schweighöfer and Esther Zimmering" (Text: Carsten Unger)

Director & Writer: Carsten Unger
A filmproject with the Filmacademy of Baden-Württemberg
and the channel HR (Hessischer Rundfunk)


Television premiere: 13 Oct. 2008, 11 pm on HR Museum Ravensburg 2009
6th International Short Film Festival In the Palace
Balchik, Bulgaria, 2008 : BEST CINEMATOGRAPHIE AWARD
NexT International Short and Medium Length Film Festival
Bucharest, Romania, 2008 : AUDIENCE AWARD
Paris Tout Court Festival 2008
State Gallery of Stuttgart
41. Internationale Hofer Filmtage 2007

Liesl Karlstadt & Karl Valentin

Feature film, 2008
Liesl Karlstadt & Karl Valentin
Contributions
Artwork
Project Overview

This bio pic tells the love story of the legendary German comedian Karl Valentin (Johannes Herrschmann) and his partner Liesl Karlstadt (Hannah Herzsprung).

Directed by: Jo Baier
Running time: 90 minutes, 35mm , 16:9 (D)
Produced by: Hofmann & Voges Entertainment GmbH
Channel: Bayerischer Rundfunk BR
Release date: 10.12.2008 auf ARD


26. Filmfest München 2008

The Woman who Disappeared

Feature film, 2008
The Woman who Disappeared
Contributions
Artwork
Project Overview

An intimate play about Germany in the 1950s, where nothing is like it seems to be. Starring Matthias Brandt, Stefan Kurt and Karoline Eichhorn.

Direction: Oliver Storz

length movie, Channel: ARFormat: 90 min.; 35mm, 16:9 (D)
Production: Ziegler Film GmbH & Co. KG
Channels: NDR Fernsehen, Hamburg (D) / SWR, Baden Baden
Television premiere: 29 April 2009 on ARD