Brishty Alam

 

Born 1988 in London, lives and works in Vienna.

brishtyalam.com

EXILE two-person exhibitions

Solid Mesh (2025)
ARTISSIMA, Turin (2024)

EXILE group exhibitions

MIART, Milan (2025)

Education

20012-2018
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

2016-2017
HFBK: University of Fine Arts Hamburg

2007-2010
University of Cambridge, UK: Natural Sciences

Selected exhibitions & performances

2024
It takes a village, Baba Vasa’s Cellar, Shabla, Bulgaria
Affinities, SET Kensington, London, with Katherine Waters
Wearables, Lady Liberty Library, Berlin
‘ein Kleiner Brauner please’, Ve.Sch, Vienna, 2024.

2023
Death by Powerpoint, the Office, Vienna
Coincidence of Wants, MUSA Startgalerie, Wien Museum
viennacontemporary ZONE1, Galerie Wonnerth Dejaco
Artist statement, On the New. Viennese scenes & beyond, Belvedere 21. Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna
local supply, Laurenz space, Gasthaus Kaufhaus Thomas Supper
Recasted Relations, Exhibit Galerie, Vienna
Giveaways/Hideaways, Festival der Regionen, Lungitz/Gusen Bahnhof
The Ass in the Tiger’s skin, GOMO, Vienna

2022
MAAAAAAACH! Memphis, Linz
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, Neuer Kunstverein Wien
Brishty Alam, VAN, Alte Donau, Independent Space Index, Vienna
Drawings, Pina, Independent Space Index, Vienna
Ajker, OITIJ-JO/Tati, London
Flight Mode, SET, London

2021
Entre Amis Quatre, French Riviera, London
Haus Wien
Intersectional Commemoration Club Risograph Reader #1, Berlin

2020
De Sculptura #1, Wiener Art Foundation Galerie

2019
Brishty Alam, Parallel Vienna 2019 – Art Fair
Fig. 2, Center for Contemporary Arts, Celje, Slovenia, with Nicole Prutsch
Bobsche Combo, Austrian Cultural Forum Warsaw

2018
Formed in a soft mass, Foundation, Vienna, with Matthew Verdon
The Landing is on FridayAn Event of Speculative Ecology, Happening/Symposium, Nyzhnje Selyshche, Ukraine

Publications

2024
Kleiner Brauner, sweatshirt edition, MUSA Wien Museum shop
Helping Objects Move with Brishty Alam, SOAS University of London
Kleiner Brauner Lookbook, Palais des Beaux Arts Wien

2023
Top 50 under 40, Trend Business Magazine – Art ranking, Vienna
Parnass Special, Auctions & Fine Arts, ‘im Blick’, Vienna
Über das Neue, exhibition catalogue, Belvedere 21, Vienna
Featured interview, period. Magazin, Edition #3

2022
Artist talk, NYU (New York University, London campus)
White Pubes & friends, seminar, Sculpture & Transmediale Space, Kunstuniversität Linz
BIPOC* Artist Talks & Studio Visits (*Black, Indigenous & People of Color), seminar, Institute of Fine Art & Media Art, University of Applied Arts Vienna

2021
Lecture performance, In the woods – in the wild, 6th Forum Carpaticum – Linking the Environmental, Political and Societal Aspects for Carpathian Sustainability

2020
Panel discussion, MUMOK Cinema, ‘Water Makes Us Wet’ Screening

2019
C.A.T.: Catastrophic Animals on Terra – A guidebook to life elsewhere, Vienna

Collections

artothek des bundes, (Federal Collection of Austria)
Wien Museum, (Collection of the City of Vienna)

Grants

2024
Work scholarship, City of Vienna

2021
City of Vienna, project funding ‘Fischstäbchen’.

2020
Mentoring-Programme, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.