Nabila Irshaid

A bit about me

Courtesy Cordula Flegel

CV selection

1999 Diploma in Visual Communication at Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany

1994 - until now Working as an artist in the fields of video/film, video installation, mural, participative art, art in public space and community based art

Awards, grants, fundings, residencies, shows and archives including MIT Visual Art Museum/Cambridge/USA, ZKM Medienkunstpreis/ Karlsruhe/D, Cinémathèque Française/Paris/F, Public Art Award/ Land Tirol/A, Austrian Cultural Forum/New York/USA, Institut du Monde Arabe/Paris/F, Salzburger Festspiele/Salzburg/A, Cité des Arts/Paris/F, Ursula Blickle Videoarchiv/Kraichtal/Vienna, D/A

2002 - 2022 Teaching and giving lectures at various institutions including International Summeracademy Salzburg/A, University Salzburg/A, Kunstuni Linz/ A, Künstlerhaus Frise/Hamburg/D, Künstlerhaus Wien/Vienna/A, Katholische Uni Linz/A

2016 - 2023 Founding a gallery for Community Based Art called Jeanskamel in Salzburg & in Vienna. Offering weekly cultural activities with empowering workshops for recycling of all kinds, saved food kitchen, salon concerts, theater, lectures. Open access for people from all walks of life. Self funded initiative.

2020 - 2023 Renovating a 250 year old clay house in Lower Austria: Landkamel: a center for climate just building and vernacular architecture to build up a rurban cultural center. Self funded initiative.

1989 - until now mother of six children

Since 2019 Based in Vienna/A