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107 PHILINE VON SELL Philine von Sell was born in Hamburg in 1963. During the nineteen-eighties she founded a production company for advertisements and worked for several advertising agencies. In 1996, she was appointed to the University of Tele vision and Film in Munich and established the department for advertising and promotional film. In 1998 she went to South Africa, where she began working as a photographer and where she founded the organization LifeTime, a project that supports children orphaned by AIDS. In addition, von Sell initiated an education program for gifted youth in the townships. Since von Sell returned to Germany in 2004, she has been working on film and art projects with her husband, Philipp von Sell. Philine von Sell lives and works in Berlin. Individual exhibitions 1998 Steine I. Phase. Lesbare Gesichter, Europa-Center, Berlin 1999/2000 LifeTime. The Children of Nazareth House,1 Castle of Good Hope, Kapstadt; Kantdreieck, Berlin; Art Cologne, Köln; Madibas Village, Johannesburg 2004/05 Growing Creativity. The LifeTime Gallery Project,2 Museum Africa, Johannesburg; Art Forum Berlin; Gesseau Art Gallery, Johannesburg 2006 Made in Germany Phase I, Projektgalerie HofmannVonSell, Berlin 2007 LifeTime. The Children of Nazareth House, Projektgalerie HofmannVonSell, Berlin 2008 Made in Germany Phase II, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin AWARDS As an author and director, Philine von Sell received 24 national and international awards for her films between 1989 and 2002. PUblic collection Art Collection of the German Parliament 1 The Lives of Children with AIDS. Von Sell’s poignant encounters and experiences resulted in photographs, film, and audio material (Capetown). 2 For this project, Philine von Sell inspired young people in the townships to work creatively. She brought them together into artists’ circles, enabled them to work freely and creatively (Gauteng, Western Cape, and Venda).

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