Athena Vida (German, born )

Timeline

1972
Born in Stuttgart, Germany
2001
Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
1997–2003
Studies at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin under professors Hanns Schimansky and Katharina Grosse
2001–2003
Scholarship from the 'Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes’
2006
GASAG-award
2010
New York scholarship from the 'Kulturstiftung der Länder’

Exhibitions

2011–2012
Memories of the Future, Die Sammlung Olbricht, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
2011–2012
Fremde Blicke: Reisende im Körper der Stadt, kuratiert von Nicole Fritz, Kunsthalle Krems, Germany
2011
Captain Pamphile – Ein Bildroman in Stücken, Sammlung Falckenberg, Phoenix Kulturstiftung, Hamburg, Germany
2011
Sawing and Weeding, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
2011
Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2010
Il Segreto delle Rane Ramate, Galleria s.a.l.e.s., Rome, Italy (solo)
2010
Säen und Jäten: Volkskultur in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany
2010
The Berlin Box,curated by Friederike Nymphius Kunsthalle Andratx/CCA, Mallorca, Spain
2010
Living Rooms, Château de Chamarande, Centre d´art contemporain, France
2010
Invisible Honey, Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2010
Galleria s.a.l.e.s., Rome, Italy (solo)
2009
es, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland (with Sabina Baumann and Francisco Sierra) (Cat.) (solo)
2009
Säen und Jäten-Volkskultur in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Städtische Galerie Ravensburg, Germany
2009
Stowaways, CCAWattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Fransisco, USA
2009
Everything has a soul, Heerup Museum, Kopenhagen, Denmark
2009
Fantastisch! Junge Kunst aus Baden-Württemberg, Städtische Galerie Pforzheim, Germany
2009
Bribes d´un monde éphemère – ouevres de la collection du Frac Bourgogne, Musée d´Art et d´Histoire Romaine Rolland, Clamecy, France
2009
Artifici contemporanei e difformità barocche, Arcos, Museo d´arte contemporanea Sannio, Benevento, Italy
2008
Inventar 2, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
2008
4 artistes, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France
2008
Paperweight, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
2008
Less is less, more is more, that’s all, CAPC, Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
2008
Volpaia, Galleria s.a.l.e.s., Rome, Italy (solo)
2008
Sich blind dem Wal anvertrauen, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2008
Se confier aveuglement à la baleine, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France (solo)
2007
Skarabäus, Kirkhoff – Contemporary Art, Kopenhagen, Denmark (solo)
2007
Half Square, Half Crazy, À Moitié Carré À Moitié Fou, Villa Arson, Nizza, France
2007
XS, Espace Mica, Saint-Grégoire-Rennes, France
2007
Think, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain
2007
XS Paris, Fondation D’Entreprise Ricard, Paris, France
2007
Form Matters, Kirkhoff – Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006
Auch das Unnatürlichste ist die Natur, Galerie Michael Neff / Kunsthandlung H.W. Fichter, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany
2006
Memorabilia, L’Atelier c/o Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris, France
2006
Gone Formalism, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
2006
Me, myself and..., Studio 6, Deutsche Akademie Rom, Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy
2006
Komm, holder Lenz, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France (Cat.) (solo)
2006
Gitte Schäfer, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2006
Gitte Schäfer, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
2005
The Raven is dead, Kirkhoff - Contemporary Art, Kopenhagen, Denmark (solo)
2005
Magpies’ Booty, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2005
Gemmen, Galleria s.a.l.e.s., Rome, Italy (solo)
2005
Liquid Crystal, lothringer dreizehn, Ort für zeitgenössische Kunst, Munich, Germany
2005
The Last Christmas, Mehdi Chouakri, Riverside Wall, Berlin, Germany
2004
Specific Objects, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
2004
Where are you standing? Aus der Schenkung Paul Maenz Gerd de Vries, Kupferstichkabinett im Kulturforum, Berlin, Germany (Cat.)
2004
Gitte Schäfer, Riverside Wall, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2004
The Inaugural Show, Kirkhoff – Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2003
Landpartie, Kunstraum Berlin, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2003
Landpartie 2, chouakri brahms berlin, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2003
Hands Up, Baby, Hands Up!, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
2002
Bilder, Ausstellungsraum de Ligt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (solo)
2002
Jungfernfahrt, chouakri brahms berlin, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2002
mütze drauf: maigrün, Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin, Germany
2001
Berlin Republic, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
2000
Genre Painting, G7, Berlin, Germany

Literature

2009
Gitte Schäfer, publication with six slides, Kunsthaus Langenthal, 2009
2008
Gitte Schäfer, monograph/artist book with texts by Fanni Fetzer, Jakob Fabricius, Dominic Eichler and Eva González-Sancho, interview between Jean-Paul Abribat and Frédéric Oyharçabal. Published by Frac de Bourgogne, Dijon and Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, 2008