Mia Bencun

CV

Vita:  
Born 1990 in Lagos, Nigeria
 2019 Master of Arts in fine arts and mediatheorie at Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main (Prof. Susanne M. Winterling Bildhauerei and Prof. Marc Ries Medientheorie)  
2017 Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia  
Since 2016 member of the performance collective Opencreek Hotel  Since
2015 member of the interdisciplinary collective Blockadia+Tiefsee: www.blockadia-tiefsee.tumblr.com   

Awards:  
2022 Kickstarter-Zuschuss scholarship for graduates of Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main in the special funding program NEUSTART KULTUR of the Kunstfonds foundation 
2021 - 2023 Charlotte Prinz Scholarship - City of Darmstadt and Kunsthalle Darmstadt  
2017 1st prize Mit Kunst für die Kunst - Lions Club Darmstadt, City of Darmstadt and Kunsthalle Darmstadt: Promotion of young artists with outstanding achievements in the Rhein-Main area
 2016 Scholarship of Johannes Mosbach foundation  
2016 2nd place Contemporary Art German-french Rotary Artprize - Straßburg / Bonn   

Publications:
 2020 Cleaning and Value: Interdisciplinary Investigations - Publisher: Isabel Bredenbröker, Felix Kotzur, Christina Hanzen
2019 Ghost sensations. - New Now Artspace and Ventolin Artspace, Frankfurt am Main and Brisbane, Australia 2018 Colourful Chaos. - by Fluxkunst, Laundry Artspace, Brisbane, Australia

Selected Exhibitions: 
2021 The Host is a Lie - The Host Space, Darmstadt, Germany

2020 This cycle is entirely godless - Soloexhibition BPA Space, Köln, Germany 
2020 OPEN HOUSE (Opencreek Hotel); Ingrid Gordon Ich wünschte - Museum of applied arts (MAK), Frankfurt am Main, Germany 
2020 Poesie des Gärtnerns. Der Garten als Metapher und künstlerisches Wirkungsfeld - Gallery Perrotta Contemporary Art, Köln and Bonn, Germany   

2019 Have you ever seen a demon? - Basis project room, Frankfurt am Main, Germany  
2019 Ghost sensations - New Now Artspace und Ventolin Artspace, Frankfurt am Main und Brisbane, Australien 2019 Junge Kunst mit Zukunft - Ernst and Young benefit auction, museum of applied arts (MAK), Frankfurt am Main, Germany  

2018 body/tech - museum of applied arts (MAK), Frankfurt am Main, Germany 
2018 I AM A PROBLEM (Opencreek Hotel) - museum of modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
 2018 Colourful Chaos - by Fluxkunst, Laundry Artspace, Brisbane, Australia  
2018 Blockadia*Tiefsee V. - BoK Gallery, Offenbach am Main, Germany
 2018 Schleuse/Labor ausgelagert - Opelvillas, Rüsselsheim, Germany  

2017 Tame Not Tame - Soloexhibition Artspace Tiefsee, Offenbach am Main, Germany 
2017 Mit Kunst für die Kunst - Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
 2017 Blockadia*Tiefsee IV. - Museum of modern art Salzburg (Popup Exhibition), Salzburg, Austria 
2017 Cleaning and Value - Interdisciplinary Workshop with perspectives from Anhropology and Archaeology — Gästehaus Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 
2017 Blockadia*Tiefsee III. - Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany  

2016 FdjT. - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 
2016 Junge Kunst mit Zukunft - Ernst und Young benefit auction, museum for applied art (MAK), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
 2016 Blockadia*Tiefsee II - Banksy, Offenbach am Main, Germany
 2016 Blockadia*Tiefsee I, - CLB construction house, Berlin, Germany