Visit by 3 art professionals

Ramesch Daha

Function: Artist and board member Vienna Secession Country: Austria Visiting period: 18 - 22 January Visiting year: 2023 Part of Visit by 3 art professionals

In her multi-part work complexes, the artist works with a variety of media, including painting, collage, video and drawing, as well as documents from public and personal archives. Based on extensive historical research, Daha, in her artistic work, connects biographical and historical aspects, collective memories, and historical, political events in new constellations. This involves extensive travelling and study visits to, among others, Vancouver, New York, London or Berlin.

Ramesch Daha has met broad international recognition with her yet uncompleted series ‚Victims 9/11‘, in which she attempts to save the victims of the terrorist attack from oblivion by portraying every single one of them. Daha has been represented internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions and publications including: 2020 ‘The Invented History‘, KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin; ‘Spuren und Masken der Flucht‘, Landesgalerie Niederösterreich, Krems; ‘Sigmund Klein: I Am Healthy, I Cannot Write This Letter Myself‘, curated by Marti Manen, Index Foundation, Stockholm 2019/2018 ‘the other is oneself‘, curated by Fiona Liewehr, Vienna; ‘CrossSections‘, curated by Basak Senova, with stations at KUVA – Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts, Helsinki Konstfack, Stockholm; 5. Biennale ‘D-0 ARK Underground‘, co-curator with Jonatan Habib Engqvist and Branko Franceschi, Tito’s Atomic War Command – Nuclear Shelter, Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina; ‘Climbing Through the Tide‘, B7L9, Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis; ‘The Trilogy: CrossSections_Potentials, CrossSections_Intensities, CrossSections_Intervals‘, Kunsthalle Exnergasse – WUK (Werkstätten und Kulturhaus), Vienna 2018 ‘1933‘, Jüdisches Museum Augsburg Schwaben 2017 ‘Unlimited History‘, Nagel Draxler Kabinett, Berlin; Austrian Cultural Forum, New York; ‘NSK STATE PAVILION IN VIENNA-THINKING EUROPE‘, Ramesch Daha and Anna Jermolaewa, curated by Birgit Lurz and Wolfgang Schlag, based on the project ‘NSK State Pavilion Venice 2017‘ commissioned by IRWIN, curated by Charles Esche and Zdenka Badovinac.

In 2018, Daha designed a 700-square-metre prison wall at Stein Prison, Lower Austria, with the project 06/04/1945. She has received scholarships such as Iaspis (Stockholm) and HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme. Her works are represented in numerous art collections, including Albertina Vienna, Joanneum Graz, Kupferstichkabinett and the collections of the City of Vienna and State of Lower Austria. In 2014, she received the Gmoser Prize of the Vienna Secession.