Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley: From Remembrance to Resistance

Over the past years, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley pushed the use of gamified content in contemporary art to another level. Their point and click „adventures“, installations, mixed reality performances and corridor-shooter inspired games/virtually built worlds send visitors on an interactive mission of finding their individual inner self, formed by collective identities and their traumata and heritage. In their keynote, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley gives insights into their artistic approach and look at the potential of speculative storytelling about the past and its linkages to the present and future.

In Zusammenarbeit mit der Körber-Stiftung

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (b. 1995, London) is a Berlin/London-based artist. They received an BA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2019. Brathwaite-Shirley works predominantly in animation, sound, performance, and video game development. Their practice focuses on intertwining lived experience with fiction to imaginatively retell the stories of Black Trans people. Danielle’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions and performances at institutions such as Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2024), LAS, Burghein berlin (2024), ,Studio Voltaire (2024), SCAD, Savanna (2023) Artnight Dundee (2023) Villa Arson, Nice (2023) Fact, liverpool (2022) David Kordansky, LA (2022) Project Arts Centre, Ireland (2022); Skänes konstförening, Malmö, Sweden (2022); Arebyte Gallery, London (2021); QUAD, Derby, England (2021); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (2021); Focal Point Gallery, London (2020); Science Gallery, London (2020); and MU Hybrid Art House, London (2020). Their work has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin (2022); Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich (2019); Les Urbaines, Lausanne (2019); and Barbican, London (2018).