OXANA CHI
OXANA CHI
is a dancer, choreographer, filmmaker and trendsetter of German-Nigerian background who lives in New York and Berlin. She studied, among other things, contemporary dance, classical ballet and Tai Chi in the USA, Indonesia, Taiwan and France. In pieces like NEFERET ITI, I STEP ON AIR, or KILLJOY, she takes a stand against racism, exclusion and human rights violations. She is co-curator for dance at the International Human Rights Festival and was awarded in 2018 by the online dance magazine THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST’S A-Z OF PEOPLE WHO POWER THE DANCE WORLD, in New York.
Oxana Chi’s dance piece THROUGH GARDENS is dedicated to the dancer Tatjana Barbakoff (1899–1944), who was murdered in Auschwitz. It served her and her personal and professional partner Layla Zami as the basis for their documentary-fiction film DANCING THROUGH GARDENS, 2014. The work has inspired many biopics and films, which are based partly on reality and partly on fiction. In 2016 Oxana Chi was honoured for her many-layered and social-critical cinematic work as AMBASSADOR OF PEACE & FILMMAKER OF INSPIRATION by the International Documentary and Short Film Festival (DOSHIMA), Jakarta, in 2016. The film also tells the history of encounter and solidarity among artists from the 1920s to the present.
ANNETTE HAUSCHILD
(*1969, Gießen) she studied from 1991–1993 at Lette Verein, Berlin, in the field of photo design. Member of OSTKREUZ since 1996. 2003–2004 masterclass with Arno Fischer, at the Photo School of Photography on Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin. 2011 VG Photo Art Scholarship. 2012 Grenzgänger Scholarship of the Robert Bosch Foundation. 2014 group exhibition HOMELAND? EASTERN EUROPE IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg. 2015 solo exhibition HIT THE ROAD JACK, Hellerau – European Centre of the Arts, Dresden. 2018 publication of LAST DAYS OF DISCO by Hatje Cantz, Berlin.