AMINA HANDKE
Born in Berlin 1969
Lives and works in Vienna
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EDUCATION
1988 – 1996 University of Applied Arts Vienna: Painting (Adolf Frohner)
1996 – 1997 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna: Graphics (Gunter Damisch)
1996 – 2003 University of Applied Arts Vienna: Media Design (Peter Weibel)
2003 graduate degree Master of Arts. Final work: video documentation of an expert round table discussion on issues of authorship and artist myths entitled ‘Participation – huh?’
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (since 2000)
since 1994 Cross media, transdisciplinary artistic projects
since 2023 CEO FC Gloria – Women* Film Network
2017-2019 Curator UNDOX – Festival for Innovative Documentary Film
2013/2014 Curator at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich – Group Exhibition Copie Non Conforme (+Catalogue)
2011-2017 Curator and Presenter for the weekly film and video art TV format Oktoskop
2011-2014 Lecturer / Institute for Media Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna
2005 -2012 Programme Manager, Okto Community TV
Conceptual strategies and format development: community magazines, process evaluation, lectures, workshops and trainings (media- and copyrights, TV production).
Editor in chief and format developer of Oktofokus – Topic programmes with Films and Discussions on artistic and sociopolitical topics.
Main focus: art and youth formats, multi-lingual programmes; participative formats, audiovisual art.
Co-development of station concept and guidelines.
2002 – 2005 Project Manager Comm-U-Lab 2.0 (esf and waff-funded qualification project for marginalised youths)
Multimedial emancipatory projects (web, video production, concerts, exhibits, events)
2000 – 2002 Video project leader, development and realization of participative youth media projects in cooperation with Street Work Vienna, e.g. Park TV
1999 Development, production and hosting of a weekly one hour TV programme (“TIVsound”) about club culture, electronic music and arts for the independent TV station TIV
DJ since 1988
ARTISTIC WORKS (since 2000)
(see also Work In Progress)
2022
My Sentence, feature film
2021
Reste Inter Pièces, site specific installations
Goats and Monkeys, installation
2020
The Artist Is Possibly Present, multichannel live performance
2019
Tankyou
Mimi
Mono-moni-mo-ment-itor-memento-mori
2018
AAA!, actionist collective
Academy Album, a portrait of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 52 video episodes
2017
The Unknown, performance; video
اداباي, performance; series of 22 photographs
2016
In Fermata, single channel video
Wishing Cast, cross media multi channel video (5 webisodes+on air version)
2015
Mother of Mother, short film
2014
Quotenpublikum – Shared Audience, 13 video portraits
Hysteria 2.0.0 v01, single channel video
100+ multidisciplinary performance evening, co-curator with Gerda Lampalzer
Copie Non Conforme group exhibition, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, curator
2013
Appropriated Beggars, 7 channel video installation
2012
Stage Design The Pleasing Hours of Aranjuez (by Peter Handke, director: Luc Bondy), Akademietheater Vienna
2010
Concept and co-project management Looks Like Teen Movie, youth film project, Medien Kultur Haus Wels
58 Drawings, Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin
2009
DJ Performance and video installation die vorspielservice: the performative record fair (a female:pressure project)
2008
Sound installation Cheap DJ Installation
2007
Manifestaciones, single channel video
2005
Director Sunshine Airlines: Belgrade (TV Documentation, ORF)
2003
The ‘Jebo Te!’ Collection, textile objects
Disco ergo sum, co-conception, co-director (with David Schalko), stage and music, transdisciplinary theater and performance project, Theater Gruppe 80, Wien
Participation – huh? round table discussion and video (Diploma)
2001
Stage design and costumes, Gottlieb Schlicht (Johann N. Nestroy, R+D Libgart Schwarz), Akademietheater, Wien
Artist Book The Handke Collection (Triton Verlag, Vienna)
Trying to Remember to Forget, single channel video
2000
Österreich rein!, five short videos
EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, FESTIVALS, SCREENINGS (since 2000)
2023
FID Marseille International Film Festival, FR
Boden International Film Festival, SE
2022
Viennale International Film Festival, Vienna, AT
NO.HOT_L Istanbul 22 Edition, Istanbul Biennale parallel event, Istanbul, TR
NO.HOT_L Chicago 22 Edition, ZhouB Art Center and dfbrl8r Gallery, Chicago, US
Turn Around And Spin The Truth, group exhibition, Basement, Vienna, AT
Austriamentis 2022/IV, Museo Casa Manno, Alghero, IT
Trying To Remember To Forget 1978 / 1998 / 2001 / 2022 , Blickle Raum Spiegelgasse, Vienna, AT
25DPH TWTR edition, Blickle Raum Spiegelgasse / Tricky Women Tricky Realities Festival, Vienna, AT
2021
25DPH, Blickle Raum Spiegelgasse / Vienna Art Week, Vienna, AT
2020
The Artist Is Possibly Present, Blickle Raum Spiegelgasse / Vienna Art Week, AT
100 Heroines Festival, online
2019
Pinke Brigaden, Art Lodge, Verditz, AT
AAA!, Medienwerkstatt Wien, Vienna, AT
LAX BAR, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, AT
Die Sammlung Handke, Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach (Solo Show), AT
Oktoskop (TV screening)
Die Ahnfrau, Diagonale – Festival Of Austrian Film, Graz, AT
2018
UNDOX, 21er Haus / Vienna Art Week (co-curator), AT
Wienwoche Festival, Vienna, AT
Intervention and screening, Art Lodge / sculpture park, Verditz, AT
Opening, Vienna Shorts Festival, AT
Human, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, AT
اداباي, HA, Griffen (Solo Show), AT
2017
Display Praterstern, Vienna, AT
Austriamentis, Museo Casa Manno, Alghero, IT
Mitgebracht III, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, AT
Festival der Regionen, Marchtrenk, AT
Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, DE
Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film, Graz, AT
Werk X, Vienna, AT
Wishing Cast, broadcast on ORFIII
2016
Zentrale, Vienna, AT
Dokfest, Kassel, DE
Pubblico Desiderio, Galleria Cult, Alghero (Solo Show), IT
dotdotdot Festival, Vienna, AT
Vienna Independent Shorts Festival, AT
Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film, Graz, AT
2015
Video N°1: The Ministry of Information, CK2 Gallery, Montreal, CA
Contribution to Manfred by Manfred Grübl
Videonale 15, Kunstmuseum Bonn, DE
15 Minute Revolutionary Bed Stories, guest performance for Borjana Ventzislavova, 21er Haus, Vienna, AT
2014
Quotenpublikum, broadcast on ORFIII
Façade Festival, Plovdiv, BG
Group Exhibition Copie Non Conforme , Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, AT
2011
die vorspielservice, Donaufestival, Krems, AT
2010
die vorspielservice, Festspielhaus, St. Pölten, AT
2009
die vorspielservice, brut, Vienna, AT
SONS, permanent Collection, Oudenaarde, BG
Chili Con Carne, Kunsthalle Krems, AT
Woodstock Of Thinking, Tanzquartier Vienna, AT
2008
Cheap DJ Installation, Schikaneder Kino, Vienna, AT
Sauna 08, brut, Vienna, AT
Menschen In Städten, Okto and Soho in Ottakring, Vienna, AT
Damensalon, Gemmakunstschaun, Villach, AT
Schwarzmarkt für nützliches Wissen und Nicht- wissen, Mobile Academy Berlin; Wiener Festwochen, AT
Superamas Vienna Lounge, Tanzquartier Vienna, AT
2007
Ursula Blickle Videoarchiv, Kunsthalle, Vienna, AT
Transmediale, Berlin, DE
CCLounge, Choreographic Center, Linz, AT
A Tribute To Karl Kilian, Ragnarhof, Vienna, AT
2006
Der Schuh in der Kunst, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, AT
Ein Leben in 4 Stunden, Tanzquartier Vienna, AT
Girls, Girls, Girls, DJ-Performance (with Rashim), Elfriede Jelinek- Forschungszentrum, Vienna, AT
2004
Mix, Galerie Bétonsalon, Paris, FR
2003
30 Jahre Galerie im Traklhaus, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, AT
Amina Handke – Die Jebo Te- Kollektion, Galerie Oberwelt, Stuttgart (Solo Show), DE
Operation Figurini, Vienna, AT
2002
Video Edition Austria – Release01, Kunsthalle, Vienna, AT
Doubleheart – Hear the Art, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, AT
Space Off!, Supersaat, Vienna, AT
Dezentrale Medien, Austrian Cultural Forum, London, UK
2001
Short Cuts and Cookies, Filmcasino, Vienna, AT
Amina Handke. Die Sammlung Handke, Basis Wien, Vienna, AT
Papierlos?, Diagonale, Graz, AT
Nous Deux, performance with David Schalko, Volksgarten, Vienna, AT
2000
Amina Handke. Die Sammlung Handke, Galerie 5020, Salzburg (Solo Show), AT
Austrian Psycho Nights, Volksbühne Berlin, DE
Die Kunst der Stunde ist Widerstand, various international film festivals
LECTURES, TALKS, PUBLICATIONS (since 2000)
2018
Der grosse Fake in: Maschek. Satire darf al, Czernin Verlag
2016
Lecture at the department of Time Based Media, Art University Linz
Discussion Pixels, Bytes and Film, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2015
Lecture Conceptual Basis, Kunstuniversität Graz
Symposium Communication Theory, FH St. Pölten
Check, check, check! in: Jugend Ermöglichen, Mandelbaum Verlag
2014
Kunst, Recht, Internet XLVI (audio stream in German), Radio Orange 94.0
Talk with Schorsch Kamerun, Hamburg grüßt Wien, Hundsturm Theatre, Vienna
Das Recht auf Referenz in: Bildpunkt Nr. 32
Copie Non Conforme, catalogue
2011
Sound & Politics, Donaufestival Krems
2010
Demokratie, Medien und Macht, Palais Epstein, Vienna
Artist-in-Residence. Ein Sprungbrett zum internationalen Erfolg?, Viennafair, Vienna
Changing Channels. Art and Television, MUMOK, Vienna
TV Sound, Abteilung Digitale Kunst, University of Applied Arts Vienna
2008
Copy but Right, Sound:Frame, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
Art following the Trend. Artists Voices, Depot, Vienna
Found Footage und Copyright, Medien Kultur Haus Wels
2007
Community heißt Gemeinschaft? (with Faustin Linyekula) Tanzquartier Vienna
Berufsbild Künstlerin, Kunstschule Wien, Vienna
2006
Partizipatives Fernsehen, University of Klagenfurt
A little too far ahead of its time – Avantgarde vs. Retrofiktion, Medienwerkstatt, Vienna
2003
When The Project Leaves The Gallery, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna
2001
Look Around, Medienwerkstatt, Vienna
EXPERT CONTRIBUTIONS (since 2000)
2022
Development and presentation OFF – the open film question, talk series on unfinished films, Belvedere21
2020
Jury Kasseler Dokfest / Monitoring
2019
2017
Curator UNDOX – Festival for Innovative Documentary Film
2016
Jury Content Award
2015
Head of Jury departure – creative business funding, Vienna Business Agency
2014
Jury departure – creative business funding, Vienna Business Agency
Jury Vienna Short Film Award, VIS Festival, Vienna
2012
Jury Julius Deutschbauer sucht die unpolitischste Theaterproduktion, Garage X, Vienna
Advisory Board Member Wienwoche, Vienna
2010
Jury Wiener Filmpreis, Viennale, Vienna
Consultant Der professionalisierte Bürger, ZKM, Karlsruhe
2003
Jury Kunst im Öffentlichen Raum, Vienna
2001
Jury Wiener Video & Filmtage, Vienna