Tim Edler
* 1965, studied computer science and architecture at the TU Berlin, graduated in 1994. 1994-1997 worked in architectural offices.
Jan Edler
* 1970; studied architecture at the TU Aachen and the Bartlett School of Architecture London, graduating in 1997.
Since 1997, the brothers have been working on joint projects at the interface between art and architecture. Initially as part of the transdisciplinary artists' group "Art and Technology", which they founded in Berlin (1997-2000). In 2000, they jointly founded realities:united as a "Studio for Art and Architecture". Since then, the brothers and their team have been realising art and hybrid installations under this label, mostly on an urban or architectural scale and context.
The group's best-known works include the large-scale media installations BIX at the Kunsthaus Graz, MUSEUM X, a temporary urban installation for the Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, and FLUSS BAD BERLIN, a project to reclaim the Spree Canal in the centre of Berlin. Also in Berlin, the kinetic installation DREHMOMENT has been on display in front of the FUTURIUM, a federal exhibition building at the main railway station, since 2018.
Various very different awards, such as the Berlin Art Prize 2009 (Förderpreis Baukultur, Akademie der Künste, Berlin), inclusion in the collection of the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art, New York 2010), the Golden Nail (Art Director Club 2004) or the innovation prize "Inspire Award" (Deutsche Telekom 2005) document the wide-ranging recognition for the unusually transdisciplinary working methods of realities:united.
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