ANIKA DANIELLE WAGNER
ABOUT
Anika Danielle Wagner was born in Gießen in 1990. She studied visual communication/video art/film at the Offenbach University of Art and Design under Rotraut Pape. Her video installation “Galene” was shown at the altonale in Hamburg, Kunst in Licher Scheunen and in Giessen in a solo exhibition in public space. When Cyclone IDAI hit Mozambique in 2019 and flooded cities with millions of inhabitants, she exhibited the photographs she had taken on her trip to Mozambique in 2010. The proceeds were used to buy a new school roof in Mozambique. Her short film "Being Roy Andersson" was shown in cinemas across Germany as a supporting film for the movie "Über die Unendlichkeit" by Roy Andersson.
In 2022, she set off as a filmmaker with the performance group "Mobile Albania" in a bus to shoot a performative road movie that aimed to circumnavigate Bremen by chance. The film celebrated its premiere in the sold-out Schwankhalle in Bremen. Her current short film "Nachlass.", a documentary in which a family secret is revealed through her grandfather's estate, celebrated its world premiere at the Kassel Dokfest 2023.
education
2013 – 2022 Offenbach University of Art and Design (Rotraut Pape film class)
exhibitions / movies & short films / performances
2026 Solo exhibition MASSEL at Top Kino, Vienna (conceptual exhibition / puzzles / paintings / solo),
combined with a showing of short films.
→ Vernissage on October 10, 4pm (RSVP)
Participant of the Jüdische Kunstschule Berlin group exhibition at Alte Münze Berlin (puzzles / paintings)
2025 Solo exhibition RAUM (conceptual exhibition / puzzles / paintings / solo) in Lich, Germany;
combined with a showing of short films at Kino Traumstern.
Trailer for the SUSTAINABLE CINEMA AWARD commissioned by the Hessian Film and Cinema Office (trailer)
FLÖTENDE GEGEN DIE AFD at SchwuZ Club in Berlin (performance / theatre / group)
Participant of the Jüdische Kunstschule Berlin group exhibition at Alte Münze Berlin (puzzles / paintings)
Trailer AGAINST THE RIGHT, commissioned by the Hessian Film and Cinema Office (trailer)
2024 FLÖTENDE GEGEN DIE AFD at SchwuZ Club in Berlin (performance / theatre / group)
Short film NACHLASS: Official program selection of Filmfest Weiterstadt (short documentary / director)
FLÖTENDE GEGEN DIE AFD: Performance at Fusion Festival in Lärz (performance / theatre / group)
(Canceled) participant of the group exhibition CHECK YOUR DOGMA! at Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf
(excluded from the exhibtion but not from the awards ceremony)
Solo exhibition at Das Bedürfnis, Halle (conceptual exhibition / puzzles / paintings / solo)
Solo exhibition at Vally Guttman, Halle (conceptual exhibition / puzzles / paintings / solo)
2023 NACHLASS. premiered at Dokfest Kassel (short documentary / director)
2022 MOBILE ALBANIA - EIN ROADMOVIE premiered at Schwankhalle Bremen
(performative roadmovie / director & camera & editor / group)
2021 ROUTINE with Tobias Eckhardt at Kino Traumstern in Lich (videoinstallation / solo)
MOBILE ALBANIA - DER APPARAT at Staatstheater Darmstadt (performer / group)
2020/2021 FREE RIDER SCREENS at Kino Traumstern in Lich (videoinstallation / group)
2020 SLEEPING SCREENS / „Don’t lose the humour“ at Statt Giessen in Lich & Bundesplatzkino in Berlin (photography / online & present exhibition / group)
2020 TRAUMSTERN QUARANTINE SESSIONS on Youtube (videos / digital concerts)
BEING ROY ANDERSSON premiered at Arte Sommerkino Kulturforum in Berlin (short film / pre-film of „Over Endlessness“ by Roy Andersson / director)
2019 MURMURES PLOVDIV TOGETHER during PLOVDIV EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE in Dobralak (BU) (theatre / movie / camera / group)
GALENE at altonale in Hamburg (videoinstallation / solo)
MOSAMBIK at Statt Giessen in Lich (photography / solo)
2018 GALENE at Kunst in Licher Scheunen in Lich (videoinstallation / group)
2017 MOORMAID (by Marion Bott) premiered at Arcola theatre in London (direction & production of movie-scenes)
2016 WEISSES RAUSCHEN von Atom TM (music video / director)
I’M THE FLYING HADDOCK at HfG in Offenbach (short film / director)
HOTEL EUROPA premiered at Cinema City Restaurant in Sarajevo (musical / music)
GALENE at Bahnhofstrasse 36 in Gießen (videoinstallation / director / group)
TOTOTO IN premiered at Cinema UGC Créteil in Paris (short film / co-director)
2015 ILLEGAL IST IN DER REGEL ERLAUBT premiered at HfG Offenbach (short film / director)
MEGÄRE at Berliner Platz in Giessen (videoinstallation / director / solo)
2014 POLY.ENCAPSULATE premiered at Open Eyes Festival (short film / director)
2013 MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ at Kino Traumstern in Lich (Happening / reanactments / group)
SILENT FUTURE at Karlstorkino in Heidelberg(live-audio silent movies / music / group)
YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL at WG-Festival in Giessen (videoinstallation / director / group)
2012 PAINTING P. at Postrauschhaus in Wetzlar (installation / group)
2011 KATALYSATOR NONSENS at Rauschhaus3 in Gießen (room- & soundinstallation / solo)
2010 FOX AND LASER at AK 44 in Giessen (videoinstallation / director / group)
2009 MONTAIGNE at MOK in Giessen (short film / director
product
2023 BONFIRE by Hazmat Modine (photography /design for music record)
2019 AN EVENING IN NEW YORK by Rachelle Garniez & Erik Della Penna (photography /design for music record)
jury
2020 CICAE Jury-member at SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL
2017 CICAE Jury-member at MISKOLC CINEFEST