Aurelia Mihai (b. in Bucharest, Romania) is an artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Hamburg, Germany. From 2009 to 2021 she was a professor at the Braunschweig University of the Arts, Germany.
Aurelia Mihai’s film and video work has been the recipient of numerous prizes and scholarships that include the E STAR Scholarship from the Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred, New York and the Villa Aurora Scholarship, Los Angeles, USA , the EMARE Scholarship Hull Time Based Arts, UK, Prize for young artists of Düsseldorf, Spiridon-Neven-DuMont, Euregio Kunstpreis / Germany / NL, Hamburger Arbeitsstipendium für Bildende Kunst, Scholarship Schloss Ringenberg , Project scholarship for short films, BBRKM, Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral, Germany , German Academy in Rome, - Villa Massimo, Italy, and IASPIS, International Artist Studio Programme Stockholm, Sweden, Project scholarship Stiftung Kunstfonds.
Her works have been exhibited internationally and have been seen at numerous festivals, including: Falckenberg Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, K21 Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle Mainz, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Hamburger Kunsthalle, “The Worldly House“, Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany, the Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, The Louvre Auditorium, Louvre Museum, Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Pont Aven, France, Cobra Museum in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, Cass Gallery – Central House, London, Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery, Centre of Contemporary Art and the Nature World, Plymouth, UK, National Museum of Contemporary Art MNAC, Bucharest, Periferic 8, Biennial of Contemporary Art, Iaşi, Romania, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia, MACRO Rome, PAN – Palace of the Arts of Naples, Italy, Ars Electonica, Linz, Austria, Landesgalerie Linz, Salzburg Museum, Austria, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Switzerland, Cinéma du Musée, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada and Museu Correios, Brasilia, Brasil, BIENALSUR, Argentina, MAPI, Montevideo, Uruguay, KYOTOGRAHIE 22, French Institute, Kyoto, Japan, Fundația Triade, European Capital of Culture, Timisoara, Romania, Galerie 35, French Institute, Prague, Czech Republic, Kauno paveikslu galerija, Kaunas Picture Gallery Kaunas Lithuania and Les Abattoirs - Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse, France.
Filmography (selection):
“Living Monuments 1“, ( 2023-2024), “The Black Square”, (2022), “LUPA”, (2019), "Vacanta 78" (2014), “Cento Piedi / One Hundred Steps”, (2013), “City of Bucur”, (2011), “Cinematograful Rosu / Rotes Kino / Red Cinema”, ( 2009),“...si cel moldovean”/ “... And the Moldavian one”, ( 2008), "Von Herzen / From the Heart", (2007), Transhumance (2007), "Unter freiem Himmel" / "In The Open Air", (2006 - 2007), “The Day, it Begins with the Cock and Ends with the Dogs”, (2005), "Solemnity Moment", (2005), “Tal der Träumer / Valley of the Dreamers“, (2004), "From Time to Time" (2003), “Endlose Bewegung“ (1998).
