Vida Dena

Vida DENA is an Iranian female artist (1984, Tehran) who is currently living in Brussels, Belgium.
She got her Bachelor in Architecture from Azad Art and Architecture University in Tehran.
In summer 2009 she left for Sweden to continue her Master in Fine Arts in Umeå academy of fine arts.
She works with various mediums following her coherent artistic concept.
Censorship, self-censorship, filters, double identities, dislocation and finally the effect of social construction on shaping personalities are the core ideas of her art works.
She works with films, drawings, installation, mixed media and videos.
Currently she is working as an artist in Brussels. She is also studying her master in Film making in KASK university of Gent, Belgium.
She is also an Independent film maker.

• 2013-2015 : Master in Filmmaking, KASK School of arts, Gent
• 2011-2013 : Master in Transmedia, Luca school of arts, Brussels
• 2009-2011 : Master of Fine arts, Umea academy of fine arts, Umea, Sweden
• 2002-2006 : Bachelor in Architecture, Azad university of Tehran,Tehran, Iran

Filmography:
• 2015: Ayan and the white balloon - ( Director, Camera, Editing)
https://vimeo.com/167338017
Password: FESTIVAL2015
– DOK Leipzig, 58th INTERNATIONAL LEIPZIG FESTIVAL FOR DOCUMENTARY AND ANIMATED FILM,
Leipzig, Germany, World premiere, Novembre 2015.
- Millenium festival international du documentaire, Brussels, Belgium, March 2016
- Festival L’inconnu, Paris, France, 7 April 2015.
- FEST: New directors, New films festival, Espinho, Portugal, 20-26 June 2016
-The 34th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany, November 2016
• 2011: My fingers grew and stuck to the asphalt - ( Director, Camera, Editing)
https://vimeo.com/107908338
- 14e Festival des cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris (cjc), Paris, France, 2012
- Festival international « Signes de Nuit », 2012
Solo and group exhibitions
« L'art du mouvement perpétuel », BRASS, Brussels, 16-19 March 2017
« My childhood rituals», Art Base, November 2016
Solo exhibition, Art-base gallery, Brussels, 2016
« Expo en vitrine », Le Coin du diable, January 2016, Brussels
« Auto-censorship », Solo exhibition, Centre culturel Estación Mapocho, Santiago (Chili), 2013
« Auto-censorship », Solo exhibition, Estación Cielo Abierto, Valpara...