Vanessa Cardui Video Artist
lives in Berlin/ Germany
1987 born in Halle/ Germany
EDUCATION
2011 Master of Art and Media, Universität Hildesheim (DE) & Université de Provence (FR)
2006 Allgemeine Hochschulreife (high school diploma) Europaschule Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Gymnasium
PRIZES & AWARDS
2023 Festival of Lights Award 2023 - Berlin Bebelplatz
2023 Winner of the Underwater Love Film Festival Venezia: Best Eco Film “Paper Flood”
2023 Best Experimental Film “Berlin Wall” of the Landesfilmfestival Berlin- Brandenburg
2023 Projektförderung (Project funding) “StadtfindetKunst” Senatsverwaltung für Kultur & Europa
2023 Winner of the international video contest Música x Arquitectura (MxA) Open House Barcelona, IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia) 2023 with the animation film “move”
2022 Winner of the Overcome Film Festival: Animation Award for the Animation Film “Ocean”
2022 Winner of the video projection contest “commemorate the Ez Chaim Synagogue”, Leipziger Notenspur e.V.
2022 Winner of the Unified Filmmakers Festival: Stop Motion Award for the Animation Film “Green thread”
2022 Werkstipendium für Medienkunst (Grant for media art), Onomato e.V.
2021 Nachwuchsförderung (Emerging artist scholarship) “Art4Future” Hypovereinsbank Berlin
2021 Winner of the Female Filmmakers Festival: Green Award for the Animation Film “The green thread”
2021 Winner of the international video projection “Genius Loci Weimar” with the video projection “Red Thread”
PROJECTS
2022 Artistic director of the Berlin Minute Festival
2022 Art curator of the art space “Kunstraum Fuge” with the year-round exhibition series “Bewegte Bilder” (moving images) Berlin
SCREENINGS & GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2024
ANNY – Animation Nights New York (US)// Broadcast on Latest TV Brighton (UK)// Real International Video Competition (UK)// Digital Graffiti Festival (US)// Living with Buildings - V (UK)// Firenze Archeofilm Festival Internazionale del cinema di Archeologia Arte Ambiente – Sala Grande (IT)// Film My Design (FMD) Festival Cairo (EG)// Life Screenings One Minute International Short Film Festival – Winter Park Florida (US)// Gisela - Freier Kunstraum Lichtenberg “Kreativität der Langsamkeit” (DE)// Artspring Film Festival Berlin (DE)// “PaperFutureLab” Haus des Papiers Berlin (DE)
2023
Festival of Lights Berlin (DE)// “Female Bodies in Digitalscapes” Toplocentrala Gallery Sofia (BU)// Science Film Festival Goethe- Institut Bangkok (TH)// Philosophical Short Film Contest Nashville (US)// Health For All Film Festival (SZ)// Future Vision Festival Japan (JA)// Allshorts Film Festival New Zealand (NZ)// RAM Film Festival Archeologia Memorie (IT)// Revolutions per Minute Festival Massachusetts (US)// Suncine Environmental Film Festival Barcelona (SP)// 60 Second Short Film Fest (US)// Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (NL)// Artspring Filmfestival Brotfabrik Berlin (DE)// 7th Siding Festival of British Columbia (US)// Live Soundtrack Kino Pleme Belgrad (RS)//Golden Femi Film Festival Sofia (BU)// Steve Aronson International Film Festival Costa Rica (CS)// Underwater Love Film Festival Venezia (IT)// Film Festival San Sebastian – Challenge for the World (ES)// “Fokus” QQArt Galerie: Internationaler Kunstpreis 2023 (DE)// ArchFilm Lund// Venice Architecture Film Festival (IT)// The Short Nights of Berlin (DE)// „Die liegende Figur“ Magistrale Parkklinik Weißensee (DE)// Música x Arquitectura (MxA) Open House Barcelona (ES)// Landesfilmfestival Berlin- Brandenburg (DE)
2022
Athens Digital Art Festival (GR)// “Art4Future” Kunstcube Hypovereinsbank Berlin (DE)// La Fenice Art Gallery Hong Kong (HK)// Finalist of La Danza in 1 minuto International Screendance Contest (ES)// Experimentally Structured Museum of Art – Video Art Film Festival Bliss (US)// Overcome Film Festival (US)// Shorts on Tap (UK)// “Der Mythos ist hin” Galerie Pankow Berlin (DE)// Wildlife Vaasa International Nature Film Festival Finland (FI)// Festiverd Venezuela (VE)// Minute Madness Toronto (CA)// Gallery Rajatila and Kyy (FI)// Unified Filmmakers Festival (DE)// Covent Garden Film Festival (UK)// Mostra Internacional de Danca – Imagens em Movimento Video Danca Brazil (BR)// Silence ca touille Movie and Food Festival (FR)// International Film Fest Oberursel (DE)// Artspring Film Festival Berlin (DE)// Heilbronner Kinderfilmfest (DE)// 60 Second Short Film Festival (US)
2021
“Art4Future” Kunstcube Hypovereinsbank Berlin (DE)// Genius Loci Weimar (DE)// “Fresh Legs” Inselgalerie Berlin (DE)// Winner of the Flash Filmfestival Berlin in the category „Micro Short Animation” (DE)// Finalist of the AltFF Alternative Film Festival Toronto in the category “Ultra short films” (CA)// Winner of the Prague International Film Awards in the category “Super Short Film” (CZ)// Venice Architecture Film Festival (IT)// Winner of the Female Filmmakers Festival Berlin: Green Award (DE)// Inheritance Environmental Film Festival Belfast (IE)// Europäisches Filmfestival Göttingen (DE)// GRRL Haus Cinema Berlin (DE)// The Roughcut 60 Second Film Challenge (UK)// FilmOneFest (US)// Berlin Revolution Film Festival (DE)// International Short Film Festival Detmold (DE)// VAFI & RAFI International Children and Youth Animation Film Festival Croatia (HR)// LUCAS International Film Festival for Young Film Lovers (DE)// The International Nature and Environmental Protection Festival Budapest (HU)// FIIN – Festival Internacional de Imagem de Natureza Portugal (PO)// Film Fest Bremen (DE)
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Vanessa Cardui, born in 1987, is a Berlin based video artist. She completed her master's degree in art and media at Universität Hildesheim & Université de Provence. Vanessa Cardui creates imaginary worlds, mostly out of paper, and brings her characters to life with stop motion – animation. In her video projections, video installations and video performances, she looks for new ways to make video art visible in urban spaces. Vanessa Cardui deals with the topics of environmental protection and sustainability and questions what it means to be human and woman in times of change. Her video works are exhibited internationally, including the Digital Graffiti Festival in Florida (2024), the Animation Nights New York (2024), the Festival of Lights Berlin (2023), the Festival of Science - Goethe Institute Bangkok (2023), the Future Vision Festival in Tokyo and Amsterdam (2023), the Athens Digital Art Festival (2022), the Venice Architecture Film Festival (2021), the European Film Festival Göttingen (2021) and the international festival for audiovisual projection Genius Loci Weimar (2021).