CURRICULUM VITAE/LEBENSLAUF
Mag.a Chilo Eribenne (Helena Eribenne)
https://linktr.ee/time_travels
earthzoneproductions@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8494-7167
Born/Geboren: London, England. Lives and works in Vienna/lebt und arbeitet in Wien seit 1999
Member of the Advisory Board of the Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ) 2020-23
Member of the Society for the Philosophy Time (SPOT) 2021 – present
Member of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) 2023 – present
Member of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) 2023 – present
Member of Consortium of History, Science, Technology & Medicine – 2023 – present
Member of the History of Earth and Environmental Sciences 2023 – present
Director of Earth Zone Productions – Arts and Cultural Association 2013 – present
Director of Viennas Afro Haircare Community – Verein zur Kultur und Netzwerk 2023 – present
Artworks protected by Bildrecht ©
Education/Ausbildung
2000-04: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna/Akademie der Bildende Künste Wien
Diploma (M.A.) Fine Arts (Honours)/Diplom mit Auszeichnung
Solo Exhibitions/Einzelnenausstellungen
2020 Killing Time, Galerie LLLLL, Vienna
2019 Woman to Woman II, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
2018 Smells Like Teen Spirit – Art Institute Vienna, Vienna
2016 Theatre of Self Destruction – So Weit Die Zukunft Galerie, Vienna
2014 Charlie’s Angels – Tongues, Vienna
2014 Love Thy Neighbour – Eyes On – Month of Photography, Philadelphia Bridge Library, Vienna
2012 Past to the Present, Artistic Strategies, Jetzelsdorf, Lower Austria
2009 in passing – death, identity and 4 show stopping songs – K/haus, Vienna
2007 Photo Wall/Video Wall, Le Meriden, Vienna
2007 Photo Wall/Video Wall, Kunsthalle MQ, Vienna
2005 Kunsthalle Project Space, Vienna
Group Exhibitions/Gruppenausstellungen
2026 ÀLÀÁFIÀ – Expressions of Healing – Vienna
2022 More Than Meets the Eye, FOTO WIEN – Votivkirche, Vienna
2020 Abuja Art Week Digital, Nigeria
2020-22 Kunst am Strom – Museum Ulm, Germany; Schallaburg Castle, Lower Austria
2019 Behind the Paravent Privé, Art United, Vienna Art Week
2019 Somewhere in the World, Forum Frohner, Krems
2017 eigenART I, Galerie am Park, Vienna
2017 FIGURSTRAKTIV, Galerie IX, Budapest
2016 An der Situation Arbeiten, IKL, Vienna
2015 theRED, Kunsthalle Schaffhausen, Switzerland
2014 Geschichte Willkommen, Pop Up Exhibition, Wien Museum, Vienna
2014 Death and Dying – MAG3, Vienna
2012 The Chic Boutique – DIEAUSSTELLUNGSSTRASSE, Vienna
2011 The Revolution Will Be Televised (And Broadcast on the Internet), IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna
2010 Imaginaere Graf-klasse, Xpedit Kiosk, Vienna
2009 Personae – Atelier Operngasse, Vienna
2008 Gefährlichste Kamera- Quartier 21 – MQ, Vienna
2008 Sony Ericsson Urban Galleries – Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
2006 Küss die Hand – Waldheim After – Sezession Wichtelgasse, Vienna
2005/06 EuropArt, Peace gerollt – rolling billboards on the streets in Vienna and Salzburg
2005 Computerprintsofwhales – City of Wels Gallery, Wels
2004 Just what is it…? # 1 – Kunstraum Innsbruck – Projektraum, Innsbruck
2004 Diploma Exhibition – Atelierhaus, Semper Depot, Vienna
2004 Born to be a Star – Künstlerhaus, Vienna
Performances (selection)
2023 Clairvoyant Claire – Private Event – Schiltern, Lower Austria
2022 Shadow of the Imago – writer/director – Festival of Performance Art, produced by Tranzit, Prague
2021 When Time has Flown – Kulturen in Bewegung, Volkskundemuseum, Vienna
2020 “Clairvoyant Claire”, Schallaburg Castle, Lower Austria
2020 Lendart “Killing Time” with Kristoffer Stefan, Lendhafen, Carinthia
2020 Altar to a broken heart – The Dissident Goddesses’ Lecture #4, Semper Depot, Vienna
2019 Woman to Woman II, H13 Prize, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
2016 When the World Comes to An End, Move to Vienna… Because Everything Happens There 20 Years Later! – Premiere as part of Wienwoche – Spektakel! Vienna – writer/actor/director
2013 Radical Presence – Performa 13 Biennial – Roulette, New York
2013 Sam The Sailor Enters The 21st Century – Theatre in Education company “English Box of Tricks” – Wir Sind Wien – Festival der Bezirke, Wien – writer/actor/director
2012 “Super Tuesdays in Ben Patterson’s Play-room”– Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden
2009 death, identity and 4 show stopping songs – K/haus, Vienna
2001 ULSS United Lovesick Society/Lovepangs™, dir. Schlingensief -Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
2001 An Artist’s Fête in The Secession – Secession, Vienna
2001 Laton Showcase – Batofar, Paris
1988-90 Global performances with S’Express amongst them BBC, Berlin, Paris, New York, Belgium, Holland etc.
1987-2016 – Professional DJ
2026 – Professional DJ – https://www.mixcloud.com/GirlOutOfTime/
Publications and Catalogues selection/Ausgewählte Bibliografie
2025 AI-Tiba¨9 – Interview –https://tinyurl.com/mvunxfed
2023 Kunst Texte – Livid Glamour – https://doi.org/10.48633/ksttx.2023.2.98879
2022 FOTO WIEN – Festival Catalogue
2022 Morgen – Interview with The Dissident Goddesses Network https://tinyurl.com/35kj293p
2021 Falter – Heureka Cover Feature: https://issuu.com/falter.at/docs/heureka_221?fbclid=IwAR3iSBpR_sO9dsmy_8vRpFwSPgh6LRWjEdX9x9iY-hKm2I4thRfT6b-Lg5o
2020 Lendhafen Catalogue, https://www.lendhafen.at/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/web_Lendspiel-20.pdf
2020 TDGN – Adoration – http://www.tdgn.at/discreet-spaces-of-dissident-goddesses-3-2/
2019 H13 Kunstraum Niederösterreich Prize for Performance catalogue
2019 GIFT Magazine, 03/2019, featured artist in IG Freier Theater Arbeit
2019 Malmoe 89, NEUE GALERIE – https://www.malmoe.org/ausgabe/malmoe-89/
2014 eyes on – Month of Photography, Vienna
2014 Living Fluxus – Benjamin Patterson catalogue
2008 Real lives – real stories – Kunsthalle Wien project space karlsplatz
2007 Rock Chick – Photo Wall, Video Wall Catalogue
2006 Küss Die Hand – Waldheim After
2006 Born to be a Star, Catalogue
2005/6 EuropArt, Peace gerollt, Catalogue
2005 Loop Festival, Catalogue
2005 Famal Stuart, Catalogue
2004 Long Night of Music, Catalogue
2004 Skug Magazine https://skug.at/live-fast-die-young/
Prize/Preis
2019 H13 Kunstraum Niederoesterreich Prize for Performance
Curatorial Work/Kuratorische Arbeit
2011 The Revolution Will Be Televised (And Broadcast on the Internet), IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna
Public Collections/Offentliche Sammlungen
The Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna/Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Wien
Ursula Blickle Video Sammlung/Collection – online
Bundeskanzleramt Österreich
Symposia, Workshops, Artist Talks and Panel Discussions, Stipends and Residencies
2025 – Self-Destructive Stars and African Cosmology seminar at ARIA, University of Antwerp, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INcKcfa4-jY&t=2s
2025 – Recipient of Austrian Federal Stipend for Dance and Performance
2025 – Recipient of ACT OUT – international residency funding – ARIA University of Antwerp
2024 – Workshop leader, The Shanghai Theatre Academy based on my performance practice
2024 – Recipient of Federal Studio, Shanghai in association with Shanghai Theatre Academy
2024 – Luca School of Arts, Brussels – Inter-Actions Research Retreat in Maastricht
2023 – African Diaspora in Dialogue – Unesco, Workshop, Vienna
2023 – Participant Media Archaeology Summer University, Antwerp Summer University
2023 – Short-term mobility Erasmus+ University of Stockholm, Philosophy Department
2022 – Short-term mobility Erasmus+ EASD Valencia
2021 – Turn Back Now? – Artist Talk, Anachronies, temporal, and chronological layering in visual arts (Research workshop) – Research Workshop – Catholic Private University, Linz
2020 – Participant in Research Week 2020/Teilnahme Woche der Forschung 2020 – Zentrum Fokus Forschung, Vienna
2020 – Exhibition jury member – Question me and Answer – QM&A
2020 – Artist Talk with curator Synne Genzmer – Killing Time – The Exhibition, online
2020 – Kunsthalle Krems – Artstories – invited to discussion on racism in association with exhibition “Memory is the Weapon” by Robin Rhode.
Artist Statement – Self-Destructive Female Icons – Site Specific Art Class, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, https://ortsbezogenekunst.at/notes/self-destructive-female-icons
2019 – Masks and identity workshops – Kunsthalle Krems, Art in Education
2019 – Making Truth, artists’ talk – Vienna Art Week’s Open Studio Days with Claudia Schumann
2019 – Situation der afrikanischen Künstler*innen in Österreich. Wie kann durch Vernetzung und Unterstützung der Weg zum Erfolg gelingen? Roter Salon, Vienna
2019 – Artist talk with curator Olivia Jacques as part of H13 Prize for Performance, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich
2018 – Keynote Speaker for Kulturen in Bewegung’s Let’s talk about Dis-Othering #3 – Kunsthalle Wien
2017 – Symposium Concept/Organisation Team/Participant – The Past, The Present and Future of Power in Fashion & Textiles – IKL, Vienna
2016 – Presentation and mask workshop on identity, Maygasse Business Academy, BHAK/BHAS Wien 13
2012 – The Present to the Past. Artistic Strategies, Gunsthalle Jetzelsdorf, Lower Austria
2012 – Xperimental and Advanced Youth/Music Culture and Future Art Scenes in the Centrope-Region – Slavonice, CZ
2006 – Panelist during critical discussion on stardom, power and the position of women – Künstlerhauspassage, Vienna
2004 – Academy of Fine Artist stipend to work abroad, Berlin
2003 – Invited to join a discussion panel about World Globalisation. Organised by
the FH Schule St Pölten which took place at The Cinema Paradiso
Selected Film and Videography/ Ausgewählte Film Und Videographie
“Portrait of a Cameraman” – 2021/2023
Short documentary-interview with Romy Schneider’s 1966 documentary cameraman Kurz Lorenz.
“The Red Shoes” – 2016
Digital Video single screen installation 3 mins
A fairy tale turns reality – what a nightmare!
2017 Frauen Film Tage/Women’s Film Days, Metro Kino Kulturhaus, Vienna
2016 So Weit Die Zukunft Galerie, Vienna
“Dead Funny End” 2007
Digital Video single screen installation 3 mins
Searching, chasing, dreaming and laughing through the streets and over the bridges of Venice. An homage to Nic Roeg’s “Don’t Look Now.”
2007 Video Wall, Kunsthalle Wien, MQ
“Over X Poseur” 2006
Digital Video single screen installation 3 mins
Fame, fortune and the artist in emotional freefall.
2006 Pantheon Xperimental Film Festival 5.0 Nicosia
2006 Liverpool Independents Biennial
2006 FREeSHOUT Art Fair Montespertoli
2006 Ladyfest Hannover
2006 Ladyfest Berlin
“Every woMan Imaginable” 2004
Digital Video Installation 2 mins
Concept/Director: Chilo Eribenne
The video questions the music industry’s fast food, short shelf-life bands.
2006 Remise – Bludenz
2005 Loop Video Arts Festival – Barcelona
2005 Ladyfest – Goteborg
2005 EU – Famul Stuart – Ljubljana
2004 Diploma Exhibition – Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
2004 Part of project “Chicks” at “Born to be a Star”, Kuenstlerhaus Vienna
2004 Just what is it… # 1 – Künstraum Innsbruck – Project Room
“A Short Film About Smoking” 2002
Digital Video 27 mins
Writer/Director/Producer/Actor: Chilo Eribenne
This film concentrates on a young woman’s addiction to tobacco. We explore how she is aware of her addictions and as with many addicts finds kicking the habit a hard reality.
2005 Whitechapel Gallery – open screening London
2004 Schikaneder Kino – Dedicated to…, Film Co-Op Vienna
2004 Star-O-Mat, Kuenstlerhaus Passage Vienna
2004 Ladyfest, Kuenstlerhaus Passage Vienna
2003 DreiRaum Film Festival, Vienna
2003 Open Door Day – Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
2002 Hollywood Megaplex, Vienna
2002 Kautzen Seedcamp Festival Waldviertel
“Being sHe” 2001
Digital Video 2 mins
Writer/Director: Chilo Eribenne
Good girls always say thank you, Drag Queens do too.
2006 The Wormhole Saloon – The Whitechapel Gallery, London
2005 CultureTV.tv
2005 Reel Women Network Night & Screening, Oxford
2002 Images Festival, Toronto
2002 VideoFormes Videoteque International Festival, Clermont-Ferrand
2002 Women’s Film and Video Festival, WUK, Vienna
D I S C O G R A P H Y – SELECTED/AUSWAHL
S’EXPRESS – ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK (RHYTHM KING/LEFT LP8, LP)
S’EXPRESS- THEME FROM S’EXPRESS (RHYTHM KING/LEFT 21T, 12”)
S’EXPRESS – HEY MUSIC LOVER (RHYTHM KING/LEFT 29T, 12”)
CHILO ERIBENNE & AFRIKA BAMBAATAA – SEX AND DRUGS AND HIV (COOLTEMPO)
HOLGER HILLER – HOLGER HILLER (MUTE/STUMM 109, CD)
CHILO – WALKING INTO LOVE (FUTURE MUSIC COMPILATION CD)
CHILO – LATON MIX (LARC 01)
TRAPEZ – TRAPEZ (LATON 012, 12”/LATON 014, CD)
ANDY BOWMAN – LOST AND FOUND E.P. (GECKO)
ALOIS HUBER – E MBIENT CD (12/01 LATON 015, CD)
A JACKIN’ PHREAK FEATURING HELENA ERIBENNE – TIDALWAVE AJP 006/1 Vinyl 45T 30 cm (Maxi Single)
ALOIS HUBER – ATTRAKTOR – (DOW005)