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.
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2013 - 2022 Offenbach University of Art and Design (Rotraut Pape film class)
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exhibitions / movies / shows
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2009 MONTAIGNE at MOK in Giessen (short film / director)
2010 FOX AND LASER at AK 44 in Giessen (videoinstallation / director / group)
2011 KATALYSATOR NONSENS at Rauschhaus3 in Gießen (room- & soundinstallation / solo)
2012 PAINTING P. at Postrauschhaus in Wetzlar (installation / group)
SEARCHING FOR TOM CRUISE at Ludwigstrasse 6 in Giessen (videoinstallation / solo)
2013 MARINA ABRAMOVIC at Kino Traumstern in Lich (Happening / reanactments / group)
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SILENT FUTURE at Karlstorkino in Heidelberg(live-audio silent movies / music / group)
YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL at WG-Festival in Giessen (videoinstallation / director / group)
2014 POLY.ENCAPSULATE premiered at Open Eyes Festival (short film / director)
2015 ILLEGAL IST IN DER REGEL ERLAUBT premiered at HfG Offenbach (short film / director)
MEGÄRE at Berliner Platz in Giessen (videoinstallation / director / solo)
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)
2017 MOORMAID (by Marion Bott) premiered at Arcola theatre in London (direction & production of movie-scenes)
2018 GALENE at Kunst in Licher Scheunen in Lich (videoinstallation / group)
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2019 MURMURES PLOVDIV TOGETHER during PLOVDIV EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE in Dobralak (BU) (theatre / movie / camera / group)
GALENE at altonale in Hamburg (videoinstallation / solo)
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MOSAMBIK at Statt Giessen in Lich (photography / solo)
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)
2020 SLEEPING SCREENS / „Don’t lose the humour“ at Statt Giessen in Lich & Bundesplatzkino in Berlin (photography / online & present exhibition / group)
2020/2021 FREE RIDER SCREENS at Kino Traumstern in Lich (videoinstallation / group)
2021 ROUTINE with Tobias Eckhardt at Kino Traumstern in Lich (videoinstallation / solo)
MOBILE ALBANIA - DER APPARAT at Staatstheater Darmstadt (performer / group)
2022 MOBILE ALBANIA - EIN ROADMOVIE premiered at Schwankhalle Bremen
(performative roadmovie / director & camera & editor / group)
2023 NACHLASS. premiered at Dokfest Kassel (short documentary / director)
2024 FLÖTENDE GEGEN DIE AFD at Schwuz Club in Berlin (performance / theatre / group)
PLAY. tba. (conceptual exhibition / puzzles / paintings / solo)
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product
2019 AN EVENING IN NEW YORK by Rachelle Garniez & Erik Della Penna (photography /design for music record)
2023 BONFIRE by Hazmat Modine (photography /design for music record)
jury
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2017 CICAE Jury-member at MISKOLC CINEFEST
2020 CICAE Jury-member at SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL
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