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