Lia Sáile
*1985
Interdisciplinary artist / speaker / lecturer
Works internationally.
Lives in Munich + Cologne, DE. Studio in Munich, DE
Studio assistant: Adriana Lemus
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Credit: Arabic handwriting by Raven.
BIO
In her interdisciplinary practice, Lia Sáile (*1985) reflects on questions of borders, their crossings, transitions, grey areas and interspaces in (inter-)cultural, social, philosophical, political and media reflexive context. Utilizing manifest fragments of reality, she examines themes of culturality, tradition, individual and collective identity-formation, strategies of in- and exclusion as well as questions of belonging and othering with a post- & de-colonial, migrational as well as territorial sensibility. Her interdisciplinary work encompasses interventions in public space, site-specific installations, performance, and time-based media, incorporating materials such as textiles and sand, also implementing research based text and handwriting fragments. The processual and the ephemeral, their fluidity, are often key elements of her practice.
Member of networks:
FACES gender, technology, art — international feminist discourse/community for media artists (1997 Diana McCarty, Kathy Rae Huffman, Ushi Reiter, Valie Djordjevic) |
BBK Bayern (Professional Association of Visual Artists of Bavaria) |
Fair Share for Women e.V. – Berlin |
K&K Bündnis Kunst und Kind – Munich (initiative by and for artists with children, discourse and activist interventions) |
VG Bildkunst (German Visual Artists’ Copyright Collecting Society)
Formerly:
And She Was Like: BÄM! – Cologne (Queer-feminist initiative for equal rights in the art scene NRW, discourse and workshops)
CV
(CV -> HTML below is work in progress; see PDF for selected overview CV )
Education
Academy of Media Arts Cologne, KHM, Cologne, DE; Diploma II, post graduate (dipl. art, post-MFA) with mentors: Prof. Mischa Kuball, Prof. Dr. Lilian Haberer, Karin Lingnau. (with special distinction)
University of Vienna, AT; Diploma (dipl. phil.; MA) Theatre, film and media studies. (with special distinction)
University of Malta, Msida, MT; Year abroad; Film, Art, Journalism and Philosophy.
Grants & Awards
Exhibition grant, Cultural department of the City of Munich, DE
Nomination shortlist, Grand Award of friends of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, DE
Extra studio funding, 3 years, Cultural department of the City of Munich, Munich, DE
Funded studio space, juried communal Atelierhaus (studio house), 6 years, City of Munich, DE
Cultural Department of the City of Munich, Munich, DE
Cultural Department of the City of Munich, Munich, DE
eon Stiftung, project grant, DE
Erzbistum München und Freising, Munich, DE
Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse München, Munich, DE
Nomination Förderpreis des Landes NRW für junge Künstlerinnen und Künstler, DE
ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, grant, DE
Department for International Relations of City of Cologne, DE
innogy Stiftung, project grant, DE
Nomination zweizueins art price, Munich, DE
KHM Diplom II project funding, Cologne, DE
Vienna Kultur, MA7, Interculturality, Vienna, AT
BMUKK – The Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria, AT
KÖR – art in public space GmbH, Vienna, AT
Vienna Kultur, MA7 Film and New Media, Vienna, AT
C ACTION Grant, C Int. Photo Magazine, ES/UK
Speaker & Lecturer
2025 Feminist Spaces, podium, Glockenbach Biennale, Munich, DE
2020 (cancelled: Covid 19), artist talk, whiteBOX, Munich, DE
2018 Artist Talk, podium, Frauen*Kollektiv Münster, Münster, DE
Abroad
2024 Work stay New York City and Washington DC, USA
2019 Artist in residence, whiteBOX, Munich, DE
2015 Work stay Durban & Cape Town, SA
2013 Artist in residence Hochseegalerie, Helgoland, DE
2012 Work stay and art residency Cairo, EG
2007 University studies and workshops, Msida/Xemxija/Valletta, MT
Performance workshops participation
(selection) Performing arts workshops with Frans Winther, Torgeir Wathal (Odin Teatret by Eugenio Barba, based on Grotowski), MT, performer Dr. Giuliano Campo (Balinese theatre, Commedia dell’Arte, Grotowski), Canterbury & London, UK and Milón Melá (Indian Performative Arts Company directed by Abani Biswa), Canterbury, UK & Udine, IT among others.
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