Dafna Maimon
b.1982, Porvoo Finland, based in Berlin, Germany.
Dafna Maimon’s work mutates between performance, video, drawing and immersive installation. Through fictional and semi-autobiographical narratives she surveys the ways in which humans handle recollections, stereotypes, abjection and traumatic experiences. In particular, her work deconstructs patriarchal structures and plays with them through exaggeration, subversion and re-contextualization. The study of diverse forms of community and belongingness is another characteristic of her practice; as is the realization of long-term collaborative processes. Her humorous and often absurd work taps deep into the human narrative and its vessel; the human body. Ultimately, her practice is a search for new perspectives of embodied knowledge and tools, that allow for self-reflection, digestion and catharsis.
Maimon has shown her work in institutions and art spaces such as, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Kunst-Werke (Berlin), PS1 Moma (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, (Antwerp), Helsinki Biennial (Helsinki), Mahj Jewish Museum (Paris), Kim Center Contemporary Art, (Riga), 1646 (Den Haag), BOAN1942, (Seoul), Center for Maine Contemporary Art, (Rockland, Maine), Nbk, Berlin, Gallery Wedding (Berlin).
Maimon holds a BFA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and an MFA from the Sandberg Institute Amsterdam. She has been artist in resident at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin 2015), IASPIS (Stockholm 2014), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (NYC 2012) and at Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting, (Maine 2008). Maimon is a founding member of the artist collective Conglomerate. Since 2016 she has taught video art at Bard College Berlin.