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Samira Josephine Toska Evelyn Engel

she*/her, born 1995 in Hessen, Germany, lives and works in Vienna, Austria

graduated in fine arts and art and cultural studies from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Ashley Hans Scheirl, Despina Stokou and Nora Schultz

Contact

e-mail samira.engel@gmail.com

Exhibitions

2023

  • Sheep die young – Galerie Zwei Laster – Stuttgart/DE
  • fog interweaving with shoelaces – Kollektiv Zirkusgasse Wien /AT
  • Live like the workd is dying – Podcast with Margaret Killjoy/US
  • Reframing the Future – BTBB, Schillermuseum Weimar/DE
  • Wie ein Schluck Wasser in der Kurve, diploma show, exhibit, akbild,Wien/AT
  • Close(d) Future – Haus Grünspan, Drautal/AT

2022

  • liquidity & uncertainty – exhibit Vienna/AT
  • geile knoten – matzleinsdorfer platz Vienna
  • Soft Machine – PHILEAS Vienna
  • NORMAL BODIES – Billboard Show at FLUC/AT
  • LOSS_expands – coping with grief – brut Vienna
  • RUNDGANG 2022 – Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

2021

-ALBUM RELEASE – ÄÄX by KALK: Offspace Nachschlag /DE + Online
-PARALLEL Vienna – Art Fair /AT
-HYBRID – Desiderio Gallery /AT

2020

  • SHINY GLAMOUR & FANCY SHIT – Born to be Bauhaus-
    Art Award Winners Exhibition, Eiermannbau Apolda /DE
  • SALZBURGER SOMMERAKADEMIE – Fortress Hohensalzburg /AT
  • RUNDGANG 2020 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna /AT

2019

  • ALL DAY REVOLUTION unsere Liebe Digitalität – Gallery Eigenheim Berlin /DE
  • WHAT IT TAKES TO EXHIBIT FEMINIST ART – Art Association Jena /DE
  • SUMMAERY 2019 – Bauhaus-University Weimar /DE
  • EXTREMPUNKTE – marke.6 Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig /DE
  • BAUHAUS STUDIO 100 – Jubilee Exhibition, Gaswerk Weimar /DE

2018

  • BODY LANDSCAPES PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL – Performance Køkkenet
    Kopenhagen /DE
  • SUMMAERY 2018 – Bauhaus-University Weimar /DE
  • GRAND OUVERT – Bauhaus photography at its finest – Kunsthaus Erfurt /DE
  • HOLDING SPACE FESTIVAL – 1. International Performance Art Festival
    Weimar /DE
  • IMMERSION – Werkschau 3 – Gaswerk Weimar /DE

2017

  • INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK – Venedig /IT
  • YUP – Young Urban Performance Festival Osnabrück /DE
  • WINTERWERKSCHAU – Bauhaus-University Weimar /DE
  • SUMMAERY 2017– Annual Exhibition Bauhaus-University Weimar /DE

residencies

2020 – INTERNATIONAL SUMMER ACADEMY with Toni Schmale
and Noële Ody, Salzburg /AT
2018 – TRANSCULTURAL ART LAB (TAL) – Juist /DE
2017 – INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK – Venedig /IT

art award/ work in collection

2020 – BORN TO BE BAUHAUS – Art Prize – Weimar /DE
2020 – ARCHIV DER MODERNE – Acquisiton of the Work ‚In der U alle gleich‘, by Archiv der Moderne, Bauhaus-University Weimar /DE

publications

2021 – GROßE TÖNE SPUCKEN OR WHY I SHOULD QUIT MY JOB, artistic research thesis, funded and online published by Queer-Fem*- Referat University Wien /AT
2020 – BAUHAUS STUDIO 100 Catalog – on the occasion of a series of exhibitions within the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus 2019, Weimar /DE
2018 – GRAND OUVERT – Bauhaus Photography at its finest – Catalog Weimar /DE