Aurelia Mihai was born in Bucharest where she studied art, receiving her diploma in 1994. She came to Düsseldorf on a
DAAD scholarship, where she studied with Prof. Nan Hoover, and to the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, where she studied with Prof. Valie Export and Prof. Jürgen Klauke. Her video work has been exhibited widely including such venues as the Chelsea Art Museum, New York, the Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin, and the Wallraf Richartz Museum in Cologne.
26th – 28th January 2007
Frankfurter Kunstverein
Steinernes Haus, Markt 44 (Römer)
"Three Pennies
for your Thoughts"
- a discussion with women artists
Frankfurt's maecenia foundation will be presenting the works of three women artists in Frankfurter Kunstverein. For the discussion, the artists will be joined by two curators who are researching recognition processes as well as the real and imaginary working conditions of the profession "woman artist."
Aurelia Mihai
„Tal der Träumer”/ „Valley of Dreamers“
(2004, video, 37 min)
Aurelia Mihai's "Valley of Dreamers" is a fictitious documentary about Egyptology in the US. But instead of documenting the discovery of Egyptian antiquities, the documentary focuses on film sets and other reproductions of Egyptian architecture in California, including the set for Cecil B. DeMille's "Ten Commandments". Mihai employs the strategies of scientific documentaries and poses fictitious hypotheses. At the same time, the absurdity of these conditions indicates a self-reflecting confrontation with film as a medium.
DVD presentations of all three works will be shown between 26th and 28th January in the basement of the Kunstverein venue.
