Bio:
Firas Shehadeh is a Palestinian artist and researcher based in Vienna. His work engages with worldbuilding, meaning, aesthetics, and identity after/on the Internet. He is interested in post-colonial effects, technology, and history. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
info@firasshehadeh.com
Education:
2021 - 2023 / PhD Candidate, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria. (discontinued)
2016 - 2020 / Video and Video Installation, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.
2015 - 2016 / Conceptual Art (Post-Conceptual Art Practices), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.
2015 / The International Summer School: Decolonizing Knowledge and Power: Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Horizons, Barcelona, Spain.
2006 - 2008 / Architecture, Al-Balqa’ Applied University, Amman, Jordan.
Selected Exhibitions and Screenings:
2024 / Beta Festival, Dublin, Ireland.
2024 / Tashweesh Festival, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium.
2024 / 17th Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF), Toronto, “Canada”.
2024 / Supermodel, Soft Centre, Naarm/Melbourne, "Australia".
2024 / 6th Gabes Cinema Fen Festival, Gabes, Tunisia.
2024 / A Tyrant’s Fear of Songs, Images Festival, Toronto, "Canada".
2024 / The Deluge and the Tree, B7L9, Tunis, Tunisia.
2023 / So Much I Want To Say: A Glimpse Into Palestinian Erasure, Filmforum, Los Angeles.
2023 / Partly, Art Hub, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2023 / Encontro Em Solidariedade À Palestina, Largo das Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2023 / Palestina, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain.
2023 / Like An Event In A Dream Dreamt By Another — Rehearsal. Introduced by Matteo Bittanti, Milan Machinima Festival - VRAL, Milan, Italy.
2023 / like a lurch of earth on the edge of sleep, aashra - Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon.
2023 / Landscapes of the Political Imaginary, Open Systems, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.
2023 / Instant Modernism, A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine.
2023 / On the New, school, belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria.
2023 / Tashattot, KIOSK, Gent, Belgium.
2022 / Natasha - 7th Singapore Biennale, Singapore.
2022 / There, Where You Are Not, Performative Screenings #73, school, Vienna, Austria.
2020 / For The Days Yet To Come, Fluc, Vienna, Austria.
2020 / Sin límites, Casa Árabe, Madrid - Córdoba, Spain.
2019 / Wild Spoerri Rosenstein, Principle of Equality, Vienna Art Week, Austria.
2019 / Stars Are Closer and Clouds Are Nutritious Under Golden Trees, MMAG Foundation, Amman, Jordan.
2018 / We Shall be Monsters, the Young Artist of the Year Award (YAYA), A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine.
2018 / In the Margin, The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts - Factory, Amman, Jordan.
2018 / Truth is black, write over it with a mirage’s light, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan.
2017 / si:n festival of video art and performance, Palestine.
2016 / 29th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille, France.
2016 / If All Relations Were to Reach Equilibrium, Then This Building Would Dissolve, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK.
2016 / Anti*Colonial Fantasies / Decolonial Strategies, Friday Exit, Vienna, Austria.
2016 / Moment.Movement, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.
2016 / Colectivo Acciones de Arte (C.A.D.A.), Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain.
2015 / 7th Cairo Video Festival, Cairo, Egypt.
2015 / Phase Space, Kings Artist-Run, Naarm/Melbourne, "Australia".
2015 / Body Politics, Àngels Barcelona, Loop Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
2015 / I Came From There, La Capella (BCN Producció_2015), Barcelona, Spain.
2015 / Kristallisationen, Elektrohaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
2014 / Unexplored Territories 06_Palestina, Madatac 06, Madrid, Spain.
2014 / 4th Digital Marrakech, Marrakech, Morocco.
2014 / Minrasy Projects, Qalandiya International, Ramallah, Palestine.
2014 / Monte de Estépar, Espacio tangente, Burgos, Spain.
2014 / 9th Forum Expanded: 64th Berlinale, Berlin, Germany.
2010 / Sentences on the banks and other activities, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan.
Sound Performances: [T,WYAN_appendix]
2024 / School, Vienna, Austria.
2024 / B7L9, Tunis, Tunisia.
2024 / Radio TNP, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2023 / Hope. A Politics Of Healing, unsafe+sounds, Vienna, Austria.
2022 / Natasha - 7th Singapore Biennale, Singapore.
2022 / MMAG foundation, Amman, Jordan.
Grants and Awards:
2024 / Radical Forms Award, Images Festival, Toronto, "Canada".
2018 / Second place prize, Young Artist of the Year Award (YAYA), A.M. Qattan Foundation.
2016 / Production grant from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
2015 - 2019 / Study grant for Academy of Fine Arts Vienna: Darat al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation.
2015 / Study grant for The International Summer School, Decolonizing Knowledge and Power - Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Horizons: Rana Sadik and Samer Younis
2015 / BCN Producció | la Capella - Barcelona City Council.
Arts Residencies:
2019 / MMAG foundation, Amman, Jordan.
2019 / Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Guatemala city/Panajachel, Guatemala.
2018 / UNIDEE - University of Ideas, Cittadellarte, Biella, Italy.
2017 / Kulturvermittlung Steiermark, Graz, Austria.
Collections:
- A.M. Qattan Foundation. Ramallah, Palestine.
- Collection of Museum of Manufactured Response to Absence (MoMRtA). London, UK.
- Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art E.V, Berlin, Germany.
Articles / Publications:
- “Reclaim Power And Agency With Music” – An Interview With Asifeh & Firas Shehadeh, Struma+Iodine, Vienna, Austria. 2023
- Notes on the Logic of Speed, The JVC Palestine Portfolio, Journal of Visual Culture, Vol. 20 Issue 2. London, UK. 2021
- Value, Weird Economies (W.E). 2021
- Aesthetics of Liberation, Awhām Magazine, Issue 3. Berlin, Germany. 2020
- Internet of Things: Another World is Possible, Art Monthly, Issue 439. London, UK. 2020
- We Shall be Monsters, A. M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine. 2020
- Anti*Colonial Fantasies / Decolonial Strategies, Vienna, Austria. 2017
- I came from there, BCN Producció, Barcelona, Spain. 2015
- After Image, Frieze-magazin. 2014
Curatorial projects - Darat al Funun.
2021 / Postcolonial Ecologies.
2020 - 2021 / Measuring Life - Notes Toward an Impossible Exchange.
2020 / After Hours.
2020 / Internet of Things: Another World is Possible.
