Viktor Brim *1987 Taschkent, Usbekistan EDUCATION 2015-2019 Postgraduate program, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, by Prof. Matthias Müller, Prof. Mischa Kuball, diploma with distinction 2011-2015 BA, Feature Film and Television Feature, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, DE 2009-2011 Media Art, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, DE GRANTS 2023 Junges Kolleg, North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts 2022 DAAD scholarship, DE 2022 Research scholarship, Kunstfond, DE 2021 Research and working scholarship, Deutscher Künstlerbund, DE 2020 Research and working scholarship, Kunststiftung NRW, DE 2020 Best European Shortfilm Award, Szczecin Film Festival, PL 2020 Baker Tilly scholarship, DE 2020 Artist in residence, Filmbüro Düsseldorf, DE 2020 Research and working scholarship for visual arts, Cologne, DE 2020 Artists in residence, Atelier Galata, Istanbul, TR 2019 Artists in residence, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, DE 2018 Artists in residence, „Light Cone“, Paris, FR 2018 Special Mention, Zsigmond Vilmos Film Festival, Szeged, HU 2018 Ferchau Art of Engineering Award, DE 2018 project grant, Filmstiftung NRW, DE 2016 project grant, BKM, DE 2015 nomination German Shortfilm Award, BKM, DE SCREENINGS AND EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2023 Mein Schatz, Werkleitz Festival, DE (upcoming) 2023 Surreal Futures, Max Ernst Museum Brühl, DE (upcoming), 2022 DON’T KNOW WHY Orloff, Leipzig, DE 2022 Tbilisi Art Fair, GE 2022 Mehr oder Weniger, Werkleitz Festival, DE 2022 Exfilmforum, KHM, Cologne, DE, 2022 Dark Matter, KIRIK, Istanbul, DE 2022 Othergrounds, Bethanien, Berlin, DE 2022 Are you sure you want to leave?, Art Budapest, HU 2022 Sheets of Papers Land on the Grass, Unlimited Editions, Istanbul, TR 2021 Kurz und Gut, WDR, DE 2021 Exopoiesis, Dark Matter, aCinema, US 2021 Precious Strata, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES 2021 Ecologies of Industry, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, CA 2021 Becoming Unreal, Walzwerknull, Düsseldorf, DE 2021 Bogota Experimental, CO 2021 UNDERDOX International Film Festival, München, DE 2021 Abendspaziergang, Bielefeld, DE 2021 Dark Matter, Ortloff, Leipzig, DE 2021 International Image Festival, Manizales, CO 2021 27. International Short Film Week, Regensburg, DE 2021 Ostrale, Dresden, DE 2021 Senkron, Barin Han, Istanbul, TR 2021 Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, DE 2021 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand FR 2020 63d International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Leipzig, DE 2020 Videorama Werkleitz, Halle, DE 2020 Szczecin Film Festival, Szczecin, PL 2020 KFFK/Kurzfilmfestival Köln N14, Köln, DE 2020 36. International Shortfilmfestival, Hamburg, DE 2020 26. International Short Film Week, Regensburg, DE 2020 33. European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, DE 2020 OFF-Biennale, Budapest, HU 2020 Rencontres Internationales Paris/ Berlin, Paris, FR 2020 The 68th Program, City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, JP 2020 degree_show – out of KHM, KIT Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, DE 2020 Possessed Landscapes, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg, DE 2019 European Festival dokumentART, Neubrandenburg, DE 2019 Un Jour Nouveau, Michael Hornbach Stiftung, Cologne, DE 2019 42. Grenzland-Filmtage, Selb, DE 2019 Horn Festival, Jerusalem, IL 2019 Art Cologne, Cologne, DE 2019 China International New Media Short Film Festival, Shenzhen, CN 2019 Konstanzer kurz.film.spiele, Konstanz, DE 2018 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, TR 2018 motionartfilm, Schwerte DE 2018 Shortfilm Festival Cologne N°12, Cologne, DE 2018 Art Düsseldorf, DE 2018 Horn Festival, Jerusalem, IL 2018 Transition, HAUS am KLEISTPARK, Berlin, DE 2018 Unseen Amsterdam, NL 2018 41st Outdoor Short Film Festival of Grenoble, FR 2018 34. International Shortfilmfestival, Hamburg, DE 2018 17th annual Urban Nomad Film Fest, Taipei, TW 2018 Faroff, Cologne, DE 2018 Art Cologne, Cologne, DE 2018 31. European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, DE 2018 Video Art Festival Turku, Turki, FI 2018 21st Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, JP 2018 The W:OW Art Film & Video Festival, Madrid, ES 2018 2nd International Zsigmond Vilmos Film Festival, Szeged, HU 2018 Mediawave International Film and Music Festival, Szombathely, HU 2018 Cheers for Fears Festival, Düsseldorf, DE 2018 Art Gallery of St. Albert, St. Albert, CA 2018 Düsseldorf Photo, Alte Kämmerei, Düsseldorf, DE 2017 34. Teheran International Short Film Festival, Teheran, IR 2017 China International New Media Short Film Festival, Shenzhen, CN 2017 51. Hof International Film Festival, Hof, DE 2017 freiburger film forum, Freiburg, DE 2017 Nordbecken Festival, Karlsruhe, DE 2017 Open Source Festival, Düsseldorf, DE 2017 contemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.), Essen, DE 2017 urban stage, Bayer Kultur, Leverkusen, DE 2016 Wir wollen mal nicht übertreiben, Projekt im Kunstwerk, Cologne, DE 2016 Molodist International Filmfestival, Kiew, UA 2016 achtung berlin Filmfestival, Berlin, DE 2016 Curitiba, Cinemateca, São Francisco, BR 2016 Museu de Arte Murilo Mendes, Juiz de Fora, BR 2016 Cine Joia, Rio de Janeiro, BR 2016 Sesc Palladium, Belo Horizonte, BR 2016 Festival Curta Brasília, Brasilia, BR 2016 OBENKINO, Cottbus, DE 2016 Cinema & Kurbelkiste, Münster, DE 2016 Kamino, Reutlingen, DE 2016 Lichtblick-Kino, Berlin, DE 2016 Uferpalast, Fürth, DE 2016 Kellerperle, Würzburg, DE 2015 31. Internationales Kurz Film Festival, Hamburg, DE 2015 Unabhängiges Filmfestival, Osnabrück, DE 2015 Kurzfilmspiele, Konstanz, DE 2015 Filmideo, Index Art Center, Newark, US 2013 Subversion, Essential Existence Gallery, Leipzig, DE 2012 Junge Kunst, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig, DE 2011 nicht schwarz nicht weiss, Villa Hasenholz, Leipzig, DE