Biography
Heba Y. Amin (b.1980, Cairo) is a mixed-media and performance artist who uses satire and irony within her intensely researched installations, focusing on anti-fascist activist interventionism, postcolonial history, diaspora, feminism, and global ecological change. She is Professor of Digital and Time-Based Art at the State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart. and the co-founder of the Black Athena Collective. She received a BA in Studio Art, from Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota, and her MFA from the University of Minnesota. She was a Digital Cultures Research Lab Fellow at the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University, Lϋneberg, Germany. Amin has participated in many solo and group exhibitions, including at Zilberman Gallery, Berlin; the Mosiac Rooms, London; the Center for Persecuted Arts, Solingen, Germany; Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Metro Arts, Brisbane; Liverpool Biennial (2021); Istanbul Design Biennial; the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki; American University Museum, Washington, D.C.; and MMAG Foundation, Amman. Amin’s work is held in the collection of the British Museum.
Heba Amin
Quarantined in Berlin; for Cities Under Quarantine – The Mailbox Project