Brishty Khatun Alam
www.brishtyalam.com
lives and works in Vienna
2012–2018 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Mag.art. – Distinction Art & Photography – Martin Guttmann, Michael Höpfner, Saskia Te Nicklin, Sonia Leimer.
2016–2017 HFBK – University of Fine Arts Hamburg (Erasmus) Sculpture/Performance – Yorgos Sapountzis, Video – Jeanne Faust.
2007–2010 University of Cambridge, UK: Natural Sciences, B.A. Hons. (Cantab.)
Co-President, VBKÖ (Austrian Association of Wom*n Artists), upcoming 09/2023–2026.
Exhibitions (selection) – solo/duo, group:
2023
Artist statement, ZONE1, Vienna Contemporary, Galerie Wonnerth Dejaco
Recasted Relations, Exhibit Galerie, Vienna
Death by Powerpoint, The Office, Vienna
Artist statement, On the New. Viennese scenes & beyond, Belvedere 21. Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna
Giveaways/Hideaways, Festival der Regionen, Lungitz/Gusen Bahnhof
The Ass in the Tiger’s skin, GOMO, Vienna
2022
MAAAAAAACH! Memphis, Linz
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, Neuer Kunstverein Wien
Brishty Alam, VAN, Alte Donau, Vienna
Drawings, Pina, Independent Space Index, Vienna
Medienfrische, Bschlabertal, Tirol
Ajker, Tati, London
Flight Mode, SET, London
2021
Entre Amis Quatre, French Riviera, London
Haus Wien
Intersectional Commemoration Club Risograph Reader #1, Berlin
2020
De Sculptura #1, Wiener Art Foundation Galerie, Vienna
2019
Brishty Alam, Parallel Vienna 2019 – Art Fair
Fig. 2, Center for Contemporary Arts, Celje, Slovenia, with Nicole Prutsch
Bobsche Combo, Austrian Cultural Forum Warsaw
Mirage 3, Viertel 2 / Staffet@Georg Kargl Permanent, Vienna
The Landing is on Friday – An Event of Speculative Ecology, Happening/Symposium
2018
Nyzhnje Selyshche, Ukraine
Formed in a soft mass, Foundation, Vienna, with Matthew Verdon
Stoff Band Nacht, Kunsthaus Hamburg
Talks/publications:
Featured interview, period. Magazine, Edition #3, 2023.
Artist talk, NYU (New York University, London campus), 2022.
Artist talk, Experimentat Art, University of Arts Linz, 2022.
White Pubes & friends, seminar, Sculpture & Transmediale Space, University of Arts Linz, 2022.
BIPOC* Artist Talks & Studio Visits (*Black, Indigenous & People of Color), lecture series, concept & curator, Institute of Fine Art & Media Art, University of Applied Arts Vienna, 2022.
Featured artworks, period. Magazine, Edition #2, 2022.
Lecture performance, In the woods – in the wild, 6th Forum Carpaticum – Linking the Environmental, Political and Societal Aspects for Carpathian Sustainability, 2021.
Kunst Mentoring-Programm, Publication, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2021.
Panel discussion, MUMOK Cienma, ‘Water Makes Us Wet’ Screening, 2020.
Artist talk, Visiting Critics Vienna, 2019.
C.A.T.: Catastrophic Animals on Terra – A guidebook to life elsewhere, Vienna, 2019
Prizes/scholarships:
2021 City of Vienna, MA7, project funding.
2020–2021 Mentoring-Programme, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
2018 ÖH project funding (graduation).
Collections:
2023 BMKÖS (Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport)
2023 Wien Museum
2021 Elisabeth & Bernhard Hainz, Vienna
