Helen Anna Flanagan (b. Birmingham)
Education
2019 - 2020 HISK Advanced Studies & Practice-based Research in Visual Arts, Ghent, BE
2012 - 2014 MA of Arts in Fine Art and Design, Photography AKV St Joost, Breda, NL
2008 - 2010 BA of Photography (Hons) First Class, Falmouth University of Arts, Falmouth, UK
Residencies
2025 International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York
2024 FACT Liverpool with Mondriaan Fonds, UK
2024 Hospitalfield, Arbroath, UK
2023 Instituto Buena Bista with Mondriaan Fonds, Curaçao, CW
2022 AIR Niederösterreich, Krems, AT
2020 VISIO European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, IT
2020 Infinite Conversation, Quote-Unquote, Bucharest, RO
2019 SIGN, Fear in public space, Groningen, NL
2018 Izolyatsia Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Kyiv, UA
2018 Spit & Sawdust, Cardiff, UK
2018 Forum Stadtpark, Graz, AT
2017 Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, AT
2017 Bucharest AIR, RO
2016 Residency, bb15, Linz, AT
2016 Metal Southend-on-Sea, UK
Awards and grants
2024 Digital Culture Grant, Stimuleringsfond, NL
2023 Stichting Niemeijer Fonds, NL
2023 Onderzoek & Experiment Startsubsidie, Film Fonds, NL
2022 Kunstenaar Basis, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2021 De Korte Verbeelding, Film Fonds with Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2021 Winner second prize, Art Contest 2021, Brussels, BE
2021 Mill's Fellowship, Needcompany, Brussels, BE
2020 VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize 2020, IT
2020 Nominated for Prix Médiatine 2020, Brussels, BE
2019 Winner of Feminist Art Prize, IKOB, Eupen, BE
2018 O&O Research and Development grant, CBK Rotterdam, NL
2018 Styria-Artist-in-Residence-Scholarship (St.A.i.R.), AT
2016 Video Power, production pitch winner, NL
2016 Werkbijdrage Jong Talent, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2015 O&O Research and Development grant, CBK Rotterdam, NL
Selected solo exhibitions
2024 A Room with a View, Ballon Rouge, Brussels
2023 The Feast, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic (G-MK)
2022 Deeply, Madly, CENTRALE for Contemporary Art, Brussels
2022 Something, Anything, Atelier Arthur Rogiers, Brussels
2022 And then she said... Openspace, Nancy
2021 Gesticulating... Wildly, IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art
2019 Flowing Dynamics, Plagiarama Gallery, Brussels
2018 Strange Encounters, S/ash Gallery, WORM, Rotterdam
2018 ist-ism, V2_, Rotterdam
2017 take the edge off, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz
2016 Game and Performance, bb15, Linz
2015 Gunk Tact, galerie Gallery, Rotterdam
2014 Sing Along If You Don't Know the Words, Wallgallery, Rotterdam
Selected group exhibitions
2024 Seven Gravity Collection, Recontemporary, Turnin
2024 FluxusMuseum Prize for Experimental Video, FluxusMuseum
2024 Moving Image Display, Two Queens, Leicester
2023 Blood Sisters, HMVK & Dortmund U, Dortmund
2022 Il Video Rende Felici. Videoarte in Italia, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rome
2021 Playground Festival 2021, M Leuven, Leuven
2021 Explo:xenia, Needcompany, Brussels
2021 Art Contest 2021, Vanderborght Building, Brussels
2021 Emergency Biennial, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
2021 Conjunctions, Sonsbeek Quadrennial, Arnhem
2021 Publiek Park, SMAK and Citadel Park, Gent
2021 Regenerate, WIELS Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels
2021 Hypermarket, Kunsthal Gent
2021 Digital Deviations, Metronom, Modena
2021 TikTok vs Abramovic, Projektraum 145, Berlin
2021 New Songs For Old Cities, Netwerk Aalst
2020 In a Long Blink of an Eye, Gosset Building, HISK, Brussels
2020 Resisting the Trouble – Moving Images in Times of Crisis, Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence
2020 The Kebab Helix, IMAI - Inter Media Art Institute, Dusseldorf
2020 Feminism and Other Sums, Proyector festival - Plataforma de Videoarte, Sala El Águila, Madrid
2020 Enter Through The Void, Exit Through The Gift Shop, CAMPO Victoria, Gent
2020 Prix Médiatine 2020, La Mediatine, Brussels
2020 Zonder kunstenaars geen kunst, MHKA, Antwerp
2019 #feministartprize, IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen
2019 Remote Complicities, Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest
2019 Fragile State, Museum of Odessa Modern Art, Odessa
2017 I hope my legs don’t break, A-Dash Project Space, Athens
2017 Plymouth Contemporary 2017, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth
2017 Prospects & Concepts, Art Rotterdam
2015 Gardena Fest, De Player, Rotterdam
2015 Radiophrenia, The Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
2015 Dialogues on Books, Dortmund U
2014 Q. where do you feel it, Castrum Perregrini, Amsterdam
2014 Social Image, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam
2014 Radio Calling, TENT and Camden Arts Centre, Rotterdam/London
Selected screenings
2025 Roffa Mon Amour, FACT Liverpool
2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam, International Film Festival Assen, Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam, Nouveux Regards Film Festival, Curacao International Film Festival, Home Cinema, Wilson Saplana Gallery, MIX NYC, Index Stockholm, Montreal International Black Film Festival, Anafi International Film Festival, B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, COPIA ORIGINAL, VIBFF
2023 IFFR 2023, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, KINO Rotterdam, Campo Teatrale, Film Huis Hague
2022 DOC! Paris, Callies, CENTRALE for contemporary art, SISSI
2021 TENT, Focal Point Gallery, The Room Projects w/ LUX
2020 Lo Schermo Dell’arte Film Festival, Sharjah Film Platform 3, SUPRAINFINIT Gallery, Quote Unquote platform, Experiments in Cinema V15.1, IKOB Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst
2019 Lumiere Cinema, Tranzit, Cluj, ECI Cultuurfabriek, Uit Feest, ONONO, Tick Tack, CPH Film Festival
2018 Izolyatsia, Gijon International Film Festival, Papiripar Festival, Moose Space, Forum Stadtpark, Film and Video Poetry Symposium, SXRVXVE, Guest Projects
2017 Contemporary Art Ruhr, European Art Cinema Day, L1 Limburg, Kunsttour, Medienwerkstatt, Kino Centraal, ODD Bucharest, Go Short International Short Film Festival, SAVORR, Hackney Picture House
2016 November Film Festival, Art Museum of Nanjing University, Alchemy Festival, Art Rotterdam, Ein Areal
2015 Electro Studios Project Space, WORM, Mega Armageddon Death-Long Version curated by Nathaniel Mellors screened at: Primary, Nottingham, Le Plafond, Kunsthal Nikolaj, deBuren, DortmunderU
Collections
Seven Gravity Collection, Italy
M HKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium
IKOB – Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Eupen, Belgium
Mu.ZEE, Musée d'Art Moderne à Ostende, Belgium
S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gent, Belgium
Private collections - Belgium, Netherlands and Germany