grandchild of slavic refugees and raised amongst the wilderness of east-german playground-battlefields; the installation and performance artist .dimalva, a.k.a. ankiH.alleranden started out as a writer.
before she graduated in conceptual arts from the Bauhaus University Weimar, she studied sound design at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she got drawn into the spoken word scene.
ankiH.allerlanden has been working with artists such as: patrickWEHweiland, naomi T salmon, liz bachhuber, mark booth or nemanja cvijanovic and collaborated inside the experimental radio; „BauhausFM“. she has also helped realizing several art projects of KoCA_Weimar within the curated exhibition series: „Invitations 2008“.
since 2006, she shares a close collaborating friendship with the sound designer noé cuéllar, with whom she temps to try out new strategies in writing.
ankiH.allerlanden is a member of the artist group: _radiolit. the artist duo was founded in 2009 by Patrick WEH Weiland and ankiH.allerlanden and comes together for live-text performances.
