Aurelia Mihai

Aurelia Mihai (born December 11, 1968 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian video artist , filmmaker and university lecturer .

Live and act

Aurelia Mihai studied at the Bucharest Art Academy and graduated in 1994. From 1994 to 1996 she studied with a DAAD scholarship at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Nan Hoover and then with Valie Export and Jürgen Klauke at the Cologne Academy of Media Arts .

Since 2009 she has been professor for "Basic Film / Video" at the Braunschweig University of Art .

In her work, Aurelia Mihai deals with the clash of cultural, social and political phenomena and events; it links aspects of documentation and science with fiction. Legends and historical events are often the occasion or starting point for a socially critical examination of the present.

Aurelia Mihai lives and works in Hamburg .

Awards and grants

1997: Video Art Award Bremen
1998: Special prize of the 8th Marl Video Art Prize
2001: E STAR Scholarship IEA, Alfred, New York
2001: Scholarship from Villa Aurora , Los Angeles, United States
2001: Prize for fine arts from the state capital Düsseldorf
2002: Spiridon Neven DuMont Prize
2003: grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for a media artist
2004: EMARE Scholarship, Hull Time Based Arts, United Kingdom
2005: Euregio Art Prize
2005: Hamburg work grant for fine arts
2005: Scholarship at Schloss Ringenberg
2007: Scholarship from Villa Massimo , Rome, Italy
2009: Project grant, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral
2010: International Artist Studio Program Stockholm (Internationella scholarship holder), Sweden

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

1998: Endless Movement , Kunsthalle Bremen
2001: Kunstraum Düsseldorf (with Ralf Werner)
2003: Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf
2004: Marburg Art Association
2004: Valley of Dreamers , Hildesheim Art Association
2004: Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, Great Britain
2007: Made in Goch , Museum Goch
2008: Transhumanţa , Anita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt
2009: The Social Being of Truth , Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană, Bucharest, Romania
2010: It belongs to someone else , Kunstverein Bochum
2012: Histories , Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg , Wolfsburg
2013: ReTURo Tourism Agency , Club Electro Putere - Center For Contemporary Culture, Bucharest, Romania

Group exhibitions

Aurelia Mihai has participated in over 200 group exhibitions and screenings since 1997 , including:

1999: Series and concepts in photo and video art , Museum Ludwig , Cologne
2001: Ars Electronica , Linz, Austria
2003: Here we come , Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany , Bonn
2004: Summer freshness , Hamburger Kunsthalle
2005: Transatlantic Impetus , Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin
2005: Cine y casi cine , Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia , Madrid, Spain
2006: Traveling light , Chelsea Art Museum , New York, United States
2007: Tryingtoland 2 , Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Italy
2008: The Animal Gaze , Unit 2 Gallery, London, Great Britain
2008: Traces , Robert Else Gallery, Sacramento, California, United States
2008: Contemporary Romanian Art , Selby Gallery, Sarasota, Florida, United States
2008: Periferic 8 , Biennial for Contemporary Art, Iaşi, Romania
2008: Center International d'Art Contemporain, Pont-Aven, France
2009: Rencontres internationales Paris / Berlin / Madrid , Center Georges Pompidou , Paris, France
2009: The Animal Gaze , Center of Contemporary Art and the Nature World, Plymouth, Great Britain
2009: Hello Darkness , K21 in the Ständehaus , Düsseldorf
2010: The Way We Move , The Cheekwood Art Museum, Nashville Tennessee, United States
2010: Social Cooking Romania , National Museum Brukental, Sibiu, Romania
2010: Mapping the Blank Spots , Art Miami, Miami, United States
2011: Pimp Your Collection: Desert , Landesgalerie Linz , Austria
2011: sowing and weeding. Folk culture in contemporary art , Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, Netherlands
2012: Le silence des bêtes , Hors Pistes, Center Georges-Pompidou , Paris, France
2012: The Worldly House , Documenta (13), Kassel
2012, 2013: Renconts internationales Paris / Berlin / Madrid , Palais de Tokyo , Paris; House of World Cultures , Berlin
2013: Archeology ?! Searching for traces in the present , Kunsthalle, Salzburg
2013: The Animal Gaze Returned , Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom
2016: Intoxicated - Between soaring and falling , Art Museum Thurgau , Ittinger Museum, Switzerland
2016: Medicine in Art , Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow , Poland
2017: Artwork Life , Center for Persecuted Arts, Solingen
2019: Fuzzy Dark Spot - video art from Hamburg , Deichtorhallen , Hamburg
2019: Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin, Focus on Romania, Louvre Auditorium, Musée du Louvre , Paris, France
2019: Cinema Urbana , Museu Nacional dos Correios, Brasilia, Brazil

Works

Video and film work

2004: Valley of Dreamers. Documentation on Egyptology in the United States
2005: The day that begins with the rooster and ends with the dogs. Short film
2006–2007: Under the Open Sky - In The Open Air. Short film
2007: From the heart. Video projection
2007: Transhumanţa. Two-channel video installation
2008: … And the Moldavian one. Movie
2009: Cinematograful Rosu / Red Cinema. Video installation - cinematic episode
2011: City of Bucur. Short film about the myth of the founding of Bucharest
2012: Cento Piedi / One Hundred Steps. Two-channel video installation
2014–2016: LUPA. Art project
2019 LUPA. Short film

Fonts

From place to time & time to place. Revolver, Archive for Current Art, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-937577-71-8 .
Under the open sky. Kerber, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-86678-056-9 .
Steffen Fischer (Ed.): Aurelia Mihai, Views. Kerber, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-86678-110-8 .
Roads to (Hi) Stories. Dustanz, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95476-154-8 .

Web links

Literature by and about Aurelia Mihai in the catalog of the German National Library

Aurelia Mihai in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Aurelia Mihai on the website of Villa Aurora Berlin

Artist talk with Aurelia Mihai on kunsthaushamburg.de, October 19, 2015

Moritz Pfeifer: Interview with Aurelia Mihai on eefb.org about the trilogy Transhumanţa,… And the Moldavian one…, City of Bucur , November 1, 2011 (English)