Dr. Anja Steidinger Email: info@anja-steidinger.net
1972 Berlin / visual artist, researcher, cultural producer
professor for art + education at HFBK Hamburg since 2020
Research/focus art, self-representation, audiovisual production and communication, crisis, precarity, critique
Artistic formation
_fine arts at HfBK Hamburg, KP Brehmer, Pia Stadtbaeumer, HJ Lenger, Silke Grossmann
– Member of the Enmedio Collective in Barcelona: art, political activism and technology
– 2013 doctoral thesis self-represenation of uneasiness, Faculty of Fine Arts Barcelona, Spain
– Cofounder of academycommons (Octavi Comeron and Nicolas Maleve)
Curating
-2015 Right To Move. Forum + exhibition: artists, activists, refugeemovements at Goethe-Institut Barcelona
-2015 Buen Vivir, What is life worth? interchange/workshop/ presentation of Right so the city-projects Hamburg / Barcelona: Goethe-Institut Barcelona
Seminars
_“what animates us?“ about the double function of the concept of animation
_“artistic self-represenation as space to act-up“
– 2019 ART & LANGUAGE english/ german for children
– since 2014 filmworkshops for children La Maleta del Cine
– 2016 Flucht und bewegte Bilder, Seminar, Intermedia, University of Cologne (Master)
– 2016 Research methodologies: The artistic interview in research, Seminar, University of Barcelona (Master)
– 2016 Performance und Virale Videos:
Visuelle Praktiken und das Bilden von kollektiven Handlungsräumen, Seminar, Intermedia, University of Cologne (Bachlor)
– 2015 Research methodologies: research, art, university and politics of representation, Seminar, University of Barcelona (Master)
– 2014 Research methodologies: Artistic Research Practices, University of Barcelona (Master)
– 2010 Video Esthetics (video in social movements and history of art) (asignment code 200212, 2009-2010), Art Faculty of Barcelona
– 2000 to 2002 assistant for digital photography in the department of visual communication at HfbK (Hamburg-Germany).
Research groups
_MetaMétodo. Metodologías compartidas y procesos artísticos en la sociedad del Conocimiento
(HAR2010-18453 (subprograma ARTE) UB
_Impresión Expandida. Arte e impresión; la repercusión de los medios digitales en el contexto del arte
impreso. 2007-2009. (HUM2007-64757/ARTE) UB
Projects that have been exhibited on exhibitions and festivals (selection)
Biennale de Havanna (Kuba, 2006), Stile der Stadt, Video in public space (Hamburg, Deutschland 2006), Artivistic’07,
Un- occupied spaces, Montreal, Canada 2007), No time to lose, Visual Art Centre Peacock (Aberdeen, Schottland, 2008), i-dissabtes CXF, Caixa Forum (Barcelona, Spanien 2008),
Working Documents, Espai 4, Centre of Image, Palau de la Virreina (Barcelona, Spanien 2008),
Loop’09 (Barcelona, Spanien 2009), Hangar Obert (Barcelona, Spanien 2009, Bildwechsel (Hamburg,
Deutschland 2011), Science of the city (Barcelona, Spanien 2012), Seoul Art Space Geumcheon
(Südkorea 2012), MetaMètode. Diàlegs entre art i ciència, Exposició del grup de recerca Imarte a la
Sala d’exposicions del Centre cultural El Carme, Badalona, 2014.
Publications
2016_Olaf Berg, Anja Steidinger, „Künstlerische Intervention (Interventionskunst/kreativer Aktivismus)“ in Peripherie Nr. 144, 2016 S. 522-526 Online
2015_Publication of Dissertation
2012_Anja Steidinger / Octavi Comerón / Nicolas Malevé: Academy Commons: A net-tool for Connecting Spaces of Research and Knowledge Production, in: Maarten Simons, Mathias Decuypere, Joris Vlieghe, Jan Masschelein (Ed.): Curating the European University Exposition and Public Debate, Leuven: Leuven University Press 2012
Anja Steidinger: No nos representan, in Wolf Wetzel (Hg.): Aufstand in den Städten. Krise, Proteste, Strategien. Münster: Unrast Verlag 2012.