Rehema Chachage receives the H13 Award for Performance
For the 17th time - and for the first time in international cooperation with Bergen Kunsthall in Norway - Kunstraum Niederoesterreich awards the H13 Lower Austria Prize for Performance, this time to Rehema Chachage, PhD in Practice student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
In her award-winning project Nitakujengea kinyumba na vikuta vya kupitia (A Home for You I Will Create with Exit Pathways - A Gut Feeling), Chachage embarks on a journey through her own matrilineal family memory. Through the migration experiences of three of her ancestors, she explores the question of what it means to embrace a place as home. The artist - according to the H13 jury - "asks about the conditions for creating and maintaining spaces in which belonging can be experienced."
The members of this year's jury were Nora-Swantje Almes (Curator Live Programs, Bergen Kunsthall), Tonica Hunter (theorist, curator and DJ), Amanda Pina (artist) and Frederike Sperling (Artistic Director of Kunstraum Niederoesterreich). Chachage will present her performance on 1.9.2023 on the occasion of the festive H13 award ceremony at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich in Herrengasse 13, Vienna.
Rehema Chachage studied at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town and at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is currently completing her PhD in Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.