Nanna Heidenreich | Media culture scholar and curator
Nanna Heidenreich is mentor of Lena Violetta Leitner
Nanna Heidenreich is a media culture scholar and curator of film, video, and political and theoretical interventions. Since October 2020 she holds the professorship for Transcultural Studies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, after stations in Düsseldorf, Cologne, Hildesheim and Braunschweig. As a curator, she has worked, among others, for the Forum Expanded program at the Berlinale (from 2008-2017, thereafter continuing in an advisory capacity), for the House of World Cultures (HKW) in Berlin (including the projects Die Jetztzeit der Monster. What Comes After Nations? (2017), together with Rana Dasgupta and Katrin Klingan, and Tonspuren (2016/2017)), and for the Akademie der Künste der Welt (Hotspots. Migration and the Sea, 2019). In 2021 she realized Auslaufende Umwelten with Marcus Held for Kunstverein D21 in Leipzig and is currently working on a project on invasive (non-human) species. She has published numerous papers mainly in the field of critical migration research, visual culture, postcolonial theory, politics/art/cinema, other cinema (feminist, queer, experimental). Until 2009 performance productions and other interventions with the anti-racist network Kanak Attak. Since 2022 she is part of EIPCP/transversal.at (Vienna/Malaga). Numerous jury participations and advisory and accompanying activities and moderations (artist and film talks). She lives in Berlin and Vienna.