Biography
Diana Arce is a pessimistic optimist who hasn’t lost faith in the world, just some of the people in it. She feels her website has a pretentious name but decided not to change it because she had it for too long and a make up artist in Chicago bought dianaarce.com.
Diana Arce is interested in impressing grandparents, workers and activists rather than academics, art critics and the elite.
Diana Arce quit her job to move to a Commune and pursue a Masters degree in Public Art at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, but then decided city life is the life for her and moved back to Berlin. She is currently a fellow of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and is continuing her studies in the much better organized and supportive Art in Context at the University of Art in Berlin. Her latest project Politaoke has been featured on the BBC, NPR as well as other print and media and is being expanded upon for further world wide domination.
Here is her complete CV as PDF.
Exhibition and Screenings
2008
Loft Spectacle III, Kay Salon, Berlin, GERMANY
Politaoke, Gerber 3, Weimar, GERMANY
Temporary Borders, solo exhibition Acud Galerie, Berlin, GERMANY
2007
70 cm, NewYorkRioTokyo e.V. and EXNPOP, Berlin, GERMANY
2006
Eye AM Women Behind the Lens: Episode 5, MMN Network, New York, NY, USA
Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane?, Elastic Arts Foundation Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Experimental Films by Diana Arce, EXNPOP, Berlin GERMANY
Desired Escape, Short film included in installation from a workshop with Shelly Silver at Kino Arsenal, Berlin, GERMANY
2004
Corporate Practice: Junior Executive Training, Performance at Chashama Arts Space, New York, NY, USA
2002
Congratulations, You’ve Now Been Naturalized, Video-Sculpture Installation with Live Performance, Hampshire College Film and Photo Gallery, Amherst, MA, USA
Three Films about Culture, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA, USA
Un Viaje and Self Study Course, Mt Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, USA
2001
Un Viaje, Hampshire College Fleeting Images, Amherst, MA, USA
