Sangam Sharma (♀)
Independent artist and experimental filmmaker
Makes films and pieces about her*story, space + sound and other worlds
Explorer of identity and places
Presentation of work
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upcoming
- Screening of At Europe's End and Artist Talk at Crossing Over, Vardø/NOR (2025)
- Screening of At Europe's End at ada, Vienna/AT (2025)
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2024
- Art Show + Screening of At Europe's End at Sommer i Berlevåg/NOR
- Screening At Europe's End, Kulturkooperativet Vadsø/NOR
- Artist in Residence by BMKOES/Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
- Artist Talk Arctic Explorations, University of Art & Industrial Design,Linz/AT
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2023
- Artist in Residency in Vadsø/NOR
- Solo Show Something's growing in the Arctic at ada, Vienna/AT
- Outdoor Screening of Hacking the streets and Frozen Music at Komafest, Vardø/NOR
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2022
- Screening of Another Europe at Komafest, Vardø/NOR
- Artist in residency at wpzimmer, Antwerp/BE
- Screening of Another Europe at the Austrian Cultural Forum, New York/USA
- Artist in Residency in Vadsø/NOR
- Screening of Another Europe at Blickle Kino, Belvedere 21, Vienna/AT
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2021
- Screening of Another Europe at Her Docs Film Festival, Warsaw/Poland
- Group exhibition Got something to say about Europe at Arkadenale, Kunstarkaden Munich/GER
- Screening of Another Europe at Queer Lisboa International Film Festival, Lisbon/Portugal
- Screening of Another Europe at the Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film, Graz/Austria
- International online screenings of Another Europe via the Austrian Cultural Forum Mexiko
- Digital exhibition At Second Glance curated by the Austrian Cultural Forum Belgrade/Serbia
- Screening of Another Europe at Kino Klub Split/Croatia
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2020
- Screening of Another Europe at the Int. Queer & Migrant Film Festival, Amsterdam/NL
- Screening of Another Europe at the Transition Film Festival, Vienna/Austria
- Screening of Another Europe at TLV Fest in association with Austrian Cultural Forum, TLV/Israel
- Group Exhibition curated by Out The Window at Centrespace Gallery, Bristol/UK
- Group Exhibition SPACE20 #1 curated by Elsa Okazaki at Schloss25, Vienna/Austria
- Featured in Art Hole Magazine/House Letters showcasing mixed media pieces (2020), UK
- Online exhibition/virtual group show at Rooftop Art Centre (Corby/UK)
- Screening of Frozen Music at Bluescreen:Bluestream by the Cube Cinema, Bristol/UK
- Showcasing Mono as part of IKLECTIK's off-site Art Resistance , London/UK
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2019
- Screening of Gefrorene Musik (Frozen Music) at Cragg Lecture Theatre in Canterbury/UK
- Screening of Gefrorene Musik (Frozen Music) at Guildhall Museum in Rochester/UK
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2018
- Screening of Mono at Galleri Snerk in Tromsø/Norway
- Screening of Mono at Radiophonic in London/UK
- Exhibiting at Our Guild at Brave Poor Things at the M-shed, Bristol/UK
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2017
- Screening of Mono at Edinborg Cultural Center in Isafjörður/Iceland
- Screening of Mono at The Mez in Lincoln/Nebraska, USA
- Exhibition of work made in collaboration w/ Cormac Faulkner for Dissapear Here in Coventry/UK
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2016
- Launch of Our Guild, a film made in collaboration with young people at M-shed in Bristol/UK
- Screening of Mono at Hive Mind in Akron/Ohio, USA
- Screening of Mono at Ada in Vienna/Austria
- Screening of Mono at Von Common Studios in Missoula/Montana/USA
- Screening of Mono at Basilica Hudson in New York State/USA
- Screening of Mono at Dreamland in Buffalo/New York State/USA
- Screening of Mono at Aquehonga Cinema in Staten Island/New York City/USA
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2015
- Screening of Mono at THE ALCHEMY OF EMBODIMENT in Antwerp/Belgium
- Premiere of Mono at Eastonia in Bristol/UK
- Group Exhibition at Quintain Estates in London/UK
2014
- Music video for Jire: Kiowa-Polytope (Label: No Pain in Pop)
2013
- Music video for Lone Omi: I Am The Sun (Label: Reeks of Effort)
2011
- Screening of Hacking the streets at Festival OFNI # 9, Poitiers in France
- Group exhibition Yo Mama at Kunstraum Niederösterreich/Austria
- Screening of Hacking the streets at Brive Film Festival in France
2010
- Artist in residency at Allenheads Contemporary Arts, UK
- Screening of Hacking the streets at Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, CZ
- Film commission for Theatre of the Damned in London/UK
2008
- Exhibiting Gefrorene Musik at Experimentelle Tendenzen in der Architektur
(Experimental Tendencies in Architecture) by ORTE Architekturnetzwerk Niederösterreich/AT
2007
- Screening of Strings at the Art Video Screening in Västerås, Sweden
- Screening of Gray at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, Netherlands
- Participation at Real Presence in Istanbul/Turkey
2006
- Screening of Strings at the PULSAR Festival in Caracas/Venzeuela
2005
- Screening of Strings at the Festival Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin in France
- Group exhibition "NIPPON KOLLEKTIV" at the Offspace Rot in Vienna/Austria
- Screening of Container at the Galerie im Taxispalais in Innsbruck/Austria
- Screening of Flickerticker at the Filmriss Film Festival in Salzburg/Austria
2004
- Screening of Gray at the Film Festival Mostar in Croatia
- Screening of Flickerticker at the Kunstverein Salzburg/Austria
- Screening of Gray at the Ladyfest Vienna/Austria
- Screening of Flickerticker at Don't Stereotape Me at the Viennale, Vienna/Austria
2002
- Screening of Pop Rock Animal at the Diagonale/Austria
Education
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2011-2012: PGCE Art & Design at the Institute of Education, UCL/London, UK
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2003-2008: Fine Art/Art and Digital Media at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna/Austria
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2005: Erasmus Semester at the Slade School of Fine Arts (Fine Art Media), London/UK
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2000-2003: Theatre and Film studies at the University of Vienna/Austria
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Teaching
2021-2023: Lecturer, Department of Media Design,
University of Art & Industrial Design,Linz/AT
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Artist in Residencies
2024 AiR awarded by BMKOES/Greenland
2023 AiR Vadsø, Finnmark fylkeskommune/NOR
2022 Artist in residency at wpzimmer, Antwerp/BE
2022 AiR Vadsø, Finnmark fylkeskommune/NOR
2018 Self Directed Residency, Tromsø/NOR
2014 AiR at Metal Culture, Liverpool/UK
2010 AiR at Allenheads Contemporary Arts/UK
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Scholarships/Awards
2022 Travel Fellowship for innovative film, BMKOES/AT
2008 Annual artist grant awarded by the bm:bwk
to support outstanding graduates
2001 Award for Pop Rock Animal at the Wiener
Video und Filmtage,Vienna/AT