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, Austria (conceptual exhibition / puzzles / paintings / solo), combined with a showing of short films. → Vernissage on October 10, 2026, at 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, Germany (performance / theatre / group)
Participant of the Jüdische Kunstschule Berlin group exhibition at Alte Münze, Berlin, Germany (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, Germany (performance / theatre / group)
Short film NACHLASS: Official program selection of Filmfest Weiterstadt, Germany (short documentary / director)
FLÖTENDE GEGEN DIE AFD: Performance at Fusion Festival in Lärz, Germany (performance / theatre / group)
(Canceled) participant of the group exhibition CHECK YOUR DOGMA! at Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany (excluded from the exhibtion but not from the awards ceremony)
Solo exhibition at Das Bedürfnis, Halle, Germany (conceptual exhibition / puzzles / paintings / solo)
Solo exhibition at Vally Guttman, Halle, Germany (conceptual exhibition / puzzles / paintings / solo)
2023
NACHLASS. premiered at Dokfest Kassel, Germany (short documentary / director)
2022
MOBILE ALBANIA - EIN ROADMOVIE premiered at Schwankhalle Bremen, Germany (performative roadmovie / director & camera & editor / group)
2021
ROUTINE with Tobias Eckhardt at Kino Traumstern in Lich, Germany (videoinstallation / solo)
MOBILE ALBANIA - DER APPARAT at Staatstheater Darmstadt, Germany (performer / group)
2020/2021
FREE RIDER SCREENS at Kino Traumstern in Lich, Germany (videoinstallation / group)
2020
SLEEPING SCREENS / “Don’t lose the humour” at Statt Gießen in Lich, Germany & Bundesplatzkino in Berlin, Germany (photography / online & present exhibition / group)
TRAUMSTERN QUARANTINE SESSIONS on YouTube (videos / digital concerts)
BEING ROY ANDERSSON premiered at Arte Sommerkino Kulturforum in Berlin, Germany (short film / pre-film of „Over Endlessness“ by Roy Andersson / director)
2019
MURMURES PLOVDIV TOGETHER during PLOVDIV EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE in Dobralak, Bulgaria (theatre / movie / camera / group)
GALENE at altonale in Hamburg, Germany (videoinstallation / solo)
MOSAMBIK at Statt Gießen in Lich, Germany (photography / solo)
2018
GALENE at Kunst in Licher Scheunen in Lich, Germany (videoinstallation / group)
2017
MOORMAID (by Marion Bott) premiered at Arcola theatre in London, UK (direction & production of movie-scenes)
2016
WEISSES RAUSCHEN von Atom TM (music video / director)
I’M THE FLYING HADDOCK at HfG in Offenbach, Germany (short film / director)
HOTEL EUROPA premiered at Cinema City Restaurant in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina (musical / music)
GALENE at Bahnhofstrasse 36 in Gießen, Germany (videoinstallation / director / group)
TOTOTO IN premiered at Cinema UGC Créteil in Paris, France (short film / co-director)
2015
ILLEGAL IST IN DER REGEL ERLAUBT premiered at HfG Offenbach, Germany (short film / director)
MEGÄRE at Berliner Platz in Gießen, Germany (videoinstallation / director / solo)
2014
POLY.ENCAPSULATE premiered at Open Eyes Festival in Marburg, Germany (short film / director)
2013
MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ at Kino Traumstern in Lich, Germany (Happening / reanactments / group)
SILENT FUTURE at Karlstorkino in Heidelberg, Germany (live-audio silent movies / music / group)
YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL at WG-Festival in Gießen, Germany (videoinstallation / director / group)
2012
PAINTING P. at Postrauschhaus in Wetzlar, Germany (installation / group)
2011
KATALYSATOR NONSENS at Rauschhaus3 in Gießen, Germany (room- & soundinstallation / solo)
2010
FOX AND LASER at AK 44 in Gießen, Germany (videoinstallation / director / group)
2009
MONTAIGNE at MOK in Gießen, Germany (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 in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
2017
CICAE Jury-member at CINEFEST MISKOLC INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL in Miskolc, Hungary