Artist, Choreographer, Curator

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Amanda Piña (1978) is a Chilean-Mexican-Austrian based artist living between Vienna and Mexico City. Her work is concerned with cosmopolitics and includes performance, music, video and textile works to be found in the context of the theater, the museum and beyond. Piña is a pluri­faceted artist working through choreographic, performance and dance research, creating, curating and working within university and artistic educational frameworks, writing and editing publications around what she refers to as ‘endangered human movement practices’. Her work and has been presented, in theatres, galleries, museums and cultural centers around the world, such as Kunsthalle Wien, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain Paris, MUMOK Museum of Modern Art Vienna, deSingel Arts Campus Antwerp, Museo Universitario del Chopo, México and GAM, Santiago de Chile among others. Currently she is visiting Professor of the Valesca Gert Chair of Choreography at the Free University Berlin.

 Of mixed ancestry, Amanda has Spanish,  Mapuche and Lebanese (Syrian-Palestinian) roots. Her work embodies the political and social power of movement, grounded in indigenous forms of knowledge and world making/maintaining practices.Her artistic work looks for escape routes to the logics of modernity, focusing on the political and social power of movement for temporarily dismantling ideological separations between contemporary and traditional, human and animal, nature and culture.

Originally trained as a painter, her interest in performance lead her to study Physical Theater in Santiago de Chile, Theater Anthropology in Barcelona and  Contemporary Dance and Choreography in Mexico, Barcelona, Salzburg (SEAD) and Montpellier (Ex.e.r.ce Choreographic Centre Montpellier).

In 2006 she received the danceWEB scholarship and in 2007 the scholarship for Young Choreographers from Tanzquartier Wien. In 2018 she was awarded with the Fonca Arts grant from the Mexican Government.  In 2024 she was granted Gwartler grant. 

From 2008-2022 she curated the gallery space specialized in expanded choreography and performance nadaLokal in Vienna. Currently works on the realisation of the long-term project Endangered Human Movements, concerned with the re appearance of ancestral forms of  movements and cultural practices. Five volumes of research in the scope of this project have been already realised which include performances, Installations, Videos, publications, curatorial frames, workshop and lectures. She was a research fellow at DAS THIRD, from the department of Theatre, Dance and Performance at Amsterdam University of the Arts.

Amanda Piña is a guest teacher at  Stockholm University of Arts, (SKH), and at DAS Choreography, at the Amsterdam University of Arts. In 2024 she will teach at ISAC of the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts, and  will be a guest Professor of the Valesca Gert Chair of Choreography at Akademie der Künste Berlin.

He work has been funded by diverse institutions from Europe and Latin America such as the Culture department of the city of Vienna; The Cultural Ministry of Mexico: The Chilean program for arts and culture,(Fordart); the Siemens Cultural Foundation for Latin America, The austrian Cultural Forum; The research grant from the french Ministry of Culture and CND; ARIAS Platform for research through the Arts and Sciences; and the Academy of Theatre and Dance at the Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK)  among others.