Aurelia Mihai 1968
Lives in Hamburg, Germany. Works in Hamburg, Germany.
Represented by:
Sector 1 Gallery
AURELIA MIHAI (b. in Bucharest, Romania) is a visual artist and filmmaker, who lives and works in Hamburg, Germany.
She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bucharest, and then came to Germany in 1994 with a DAAD grant where she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf (Class for New Media, Prof. Nan Hoover) and at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne (Profs. Valie EXPORT and Jürgen Klauke).
She is the recipient of numerous prizes and scholarships including the E STAR Scholarship from the Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, New York, the Villa Aurora Scholarship, Los Angeles, USA (2001), the EMARE Scholarship Hull Time Based Arts, Kingston upon Hull, UK (2004), Bremen Video Art Award (1998), Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf (Award for the visual arts of the state capital Düsseldorf) (2001), Spiridon-Neven-DuMont Prize (2002), Scholarship of the state of NRW for a media artist (2003), EuRegio Art Prize, Germany – The Netherlands (2005), Hamburger Arbeitsstipendium für Bildende Kunst, (Hamburg Scholarship for Visual Arts) (2005), Scholarship Schloss Ringenberg (2005), Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Germany (2009), German Academy Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy (2007), IASPIS, International Artist Studio Programme Stockholm, Sweden (2010), Project scholarship Stiftung Kunstfonds (2013), Federal German Support Grants for short films (2006, 2013), Ministry of Culture and Media Hamburg, project funding (2009, 2015), Stiftung Kunstfonds, Neustart Kultur Grant (2022), NEUSTARTplus Grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds (2023), Arts Fellowship Award,UKRI Network Plus ‘Shifting Global Polarities: University of Birmingham, UK (2025).
From 2009 to 2021 she was a professor at the Braunschweig University of the Arts, Germany.
She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bucharest, and then came to Germany in 1994 with a DAAD grant where she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf (Class for New Media, Prof. Nan Hoover) and at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne (Profs. Valie EXPORT and Jürgen Klauke).
She is the recipient of numerous prizes and scholarships including the E STAR Scholarship from the Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, New York, the Villa Aurora Scholarship, Los Angeles, USA (2001), the EMARE Scholarship Hull Time Based Arts, Kingston upon Hull, UK (2004), Bremen Video Art Award (1998), Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf (Award for the visual arts of the state capital Düsseldorf) (2001), Spiridon-Neven-DuMont Prize (2002), Scholarship of the state of NRW for a media artist (2003), EuRegio Art Prize, Germany – The Netherlands (2005), Hamburger Arbeitsstipendium für Bildende Kunst, (Hamburg Scholarship for Visual Arts) (2005), Scholarship Schloss Ringenberg (2005), Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Germany (2009), German Academy Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy (2007), IASPIS, International Artist Studio Programme Stockholm, Sweden (2010), Project scholarship Stiftung Kunstfonds (2013), Federal German Support Grants for short films (2006, 2013), Ministry of Culture and Media Hamburg, project funding (2009, 2015), Stiftung Kunstfonds, Neustart Kultur Grant (2022), NEUSTARTplus Grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds (2023), Arts Fellowship Award,UKRI Network Plus ‘Shifting Global Polarities: University of Birmingham, UK (2025).
From 2009 to 2021 she was a professor at the Braunschweig University of the Arts, Germany.
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