Selini Halvadaki
Born 1985 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Selinihal[a]gmail.com
Solo exhibitions
2024 Ord mellem os / Words Between Us, Gallery Danish Print-makers Association, Copenhagen, DK
2019 Every Name in History is an I, at 3 137, Athens, GR
2019 Sight-Seeing at Til Vægs, Copenhagen, DK
Selected exhibitions and screenings
2024 Jeg dypper mine fødder i begge have, performance reading, Det Lilla Rum, Copenhagen, DK
2023 Copenhagen Short Film Festival, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DK
2022 Pieces of Copenhagen: The Council for Visual Arts acquisitions, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DK
2021 Paradox International Short Film Festival, Pune, IND
2021 Himachal Short Film Festival, Maharashtra, IND
2021 11th Pune Short Film Festival, Maharashtra, IND
2021 Kerala Short Film Festival, Kerala, IND
2021 Frog Chorus, Møstings hus, Copenhagen, DK
2019 Parallel Screening (Every Name in History is an I).
Curated by Selini Halvadaki & Jacob Moe, Avora Cinema. Athens, GR.
2019 Biennale of Western Balkans, Ioannina, GR
2019 Tradition anew! Biennale of Western Balkans (BoWB) at International Museum Day, Ioannina (GR)
2018 9th Balkan Beyond Borders Short Film Festival, Novi Sad, CS
2018 Metaphorical Space at MARSistanbul & Sheffield Fringe,
curated by Pınar Öğrenci and Minou Norouzi. Istanbul, TUR
2018 West Side Mountains Documentary Film Festival, Radovizιa Mountains, GR
2018 PIST PROTTA NR.80, publication (voice-over & research material), Copenhagen, DK
2017 KINO DER KUNST, University of Television and Film, Munich, DEU
2017 Ekenäs Film Fest,Ekenäs, FIN
2017 BEERS 5 - 100 kvinder På Kro (Part 3) Carlsberg Byens Galleri & Kunstsalon, Copenhagen, DK
2016 International Architecture Film Festival, Puebla, MEX
2016 OUTSIDE THE BLACK BOX curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, Cinema La Compagnia, Florence, IT
2016 Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Film Festival, Istanbul, TUR
2016 ARGON - International Meeting of Archaeological Film, The Greek Film Archive, Athens,GR
2016 Images Film Festival, Toronto,CAN
2016 Swedenborg Film Festival,Swedenborg Hall,London,UK
2016 Det ku være politisk/It might be political, Janusbygningen, Tistrup, DK
2016 FOKUS Video Art Festival, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen,DK
2016 En skov at tryk, The Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, DK
2016 Canada Shorts:Canadian and International Short Film Festival, Vancouver, CA
2015 Pune Short Film Festival, Maharashtra, IND
2015 A Feminist Reader: Hannah Wilke, The Danish National Art Library, Copenhagen, DK
- in collaboration with Annarosa Krøyer Holm and Peter Brandt
2015 in/visible sound, Remisen, Copenhagen,DK
- in collaboration with Arendse Krabbe
2015 Athens International Short Film Festival, Athen, GR
2014 CPH:DOX - Copenhagen International Documentary Festival, Copenhagen,DK
2014 EXTRACT IV – Young Art Prize, Kunstforeningen GL. STRAND, Copenhagen, DK
2014 South East European Film Festival,Goethe Institut, Los Angeles, USA
2014 Copenhagen ShortFilm Festival,Copenhagen,DK
2014 Time Prints, Dalian Art Museum, Dalian, CN
2014 Time prints Xiamen Universitet, Xiamen, CN
2014 MFA degree show, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, København, DK
2013 CologneOFF, Lithuania, LT
2013 Kunst i kvarteret, Overgaden - Institut for samtidskunst, Copenhagen, DK
Grants and prizes
2021 Danish Arts Foundation: Work grant.
2019 Henry Heerups Legat: Honorary Prize.
2018 Jury's Special Mention for Off-History, Balkan Beyond Borders Film Festival.
2018 Danish Arts Foundation: Work grant.
2016 Selected for VISIO European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, Lo Schermo dell'arte Film Festival.
2016 Jury's Special Mention for Off-History at International Meeting of Archaeological Films, Athens, GR
2016 Merit Award for Off-History at Canada Shorts Film Festival.
2015 15. Juni Fonden: Honorary Prize.
2014 Frøken Marie Månssons grant.
2014 Production grant, The Danish Institute at Athens.
Selected collaborative projects
2021 Chorus, text work in collaboration with writer Hannah Lutz and artist Calder Harben.
For the exhibition Frog Chorus with text written by Mo Maja Moesgaard, Mia Isabel Edelgart, Hannah Toticki Anbert, Deirdre J. Humphrys, Calder Harben, Hannah Lutz og Selini Halvadaki.
2021 It might be political: collectively organised work group of 7 artists and 1 writer working together since
2016. Latest exhibition: Frog Chorus at Møstings Hus in 2021.
2017 Conversation on art, activism and politics, Danske Grafikeres Hus, Copenhagen, DK
In in collaboration with artist Mo Maja Moesgaard
2015 in/visible sound, Remisen, Copenhagen,DK. Site specific video installation in collaboration with visual artist Arendse Krabbe.
2015 A Feminist Reader: Hannah Wilke (group), The Danish National Art Library, Copenhagen, DK
In collaboration with Artist Annarosa Krøyer Holm and Peter Brandt.
2015 Sound in an Expanded Field (group show) at Festival of Endless Gratitude, Copenhagen, DK
Selected curatorial
2018 At Intervals - Open Sky Archive (collaborative screening platform) at PLUFF Film Fest by Biennale Urbana, Venice, IT. Collaboration with filmmaker/artist Caterina Erica Shanta
2017 About Work/Om arbejde (group show), Gallery Danish Printmakers Association, Copenhagen, DK
Curated in collaboration with artist Peter Brandt.
2017 Screening: Fifty Minutes in Half an Hour af Kajsa Dahlberg at CUT THE GAP, SMK, København, DK
In collaboration with artist Peter Brandt.
2016 3 days film program at Festival of Endless Gratitude, Copenhagen, DK
2015 Screening: NOT FOR SALE by Laura Cottingham, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK.
Collaboration with Danish artists Peter Brandt and Annarosa Krøyer Holm. Part of the group show A
Feminist Culture Reader.
Exhibition committee at The Danish Printmakers Association 2015 - 2017
in collaboration with artist Annarosa Krøyer Holm.
Teaching experience
Kunsthøjskolen på Ærø (2016), Underviser/teacher at Talentskolen i Næstved (2016), Mentor at Talentskolen i Næstved (2016), Astrid Noack's Children's Studio (2016), Underviser i skoletjenesten/teacher at Thorvaldsens Museum (2010-2013), Underviser på UNG:DOX - Undervisningsplatform til gymnasier på CPH:DOX (2011).