Frida Teller
bangaloREsident@IIHS
Frida Teller is a cross-disciplinary artistic researcher who explores the poetics and politics of the Anthropocene. Her practice includes creative writing, installations, and collages. As an active member of various artistic collectives, she frequently conducts workshops on Global Citizenship Education and Creative Writing. Frida is currently based in Leipzig.
With a background in Cultural Anthropology, Frida studied in Heidelberg and London, earning a Master's Degree from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. During her time in Vienna, she took a semester in the Design Investigation class led by Prof. Anab Jain, where she co-founded the collective “membrane”, which won the Social Design Prize at Vienna Design Week 2023 and the IF Design Students Award 2024.
Frida's work delves into the intersection of arts and politics, with a particular focus on climate politics - a field she engaged with while working for political institutions like the European Parliament. One of her recent projects is "Ich wurde neben einem Loch geboren" ("I was born next to a hole"), a poetic installation depicting a lignite mining landscape in Eastern Germany. Frida has presented her research on the Anthropocene in Athens, Graz, Vienna, and Bochum.
A scholarship in the Arts of Change programme in Austria further fueled her passion for integrating art and social issues. With the collective « et art. », she produces artistic translations of scientific publications on the climate crisis. Their work has been exhibited in Graz, Vienna, Linz, and Salzburg.
In Bangalore, she plans to explore the materiality of research conducted by the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS). Through paper-making, participatory interventions, and field research, she aims to investigate the urban manifestations of scientific findings. By poetically and organically interacting with published papers while creating new works, she seeks to question the relationship between science and society.
With a background in Cultural Anthropology, Frida studied in Heidelberg and London, earning a Master's Degree from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. During her time in Vienna, she took a semester in the Design Investigation class led by Prof. Anab Jain, where she co-founded the collective “membrane”, which won the Social Design Prize at Vienna Design Week 2023 and the IF Design Students Award 2024.
Frida's work delves into the intersection of arts and politics, with a particular focus on climate politics - a field she engaged with while working for political institutions like the European Parliament. One of her recent projects is "Ich wurde neben einem Loch geboren" ("I was born next to a hole"), a poetic installation depicting a lignite mining landscape in Eastern Germany. Frida has presented her research on the Anthropocene in Athens, Graz, Vienna, and Bochum.
In Bangalore, she plans to explore the materiality of research conducted by the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS). Through paper-making, participatory interventions, and field research, she aims to investigate the urban manifestations of scientific findings. By poetically and organically interacting with published papers while creating new works, she seeks to question the relationship between science and society.