M HKA Ensembles

Lives in Berlin (DE).

Brendan Michal Heshka holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Film (University of Winnipeg, Canada), a Master’s in Dirty Art (MDes, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam), and is currently working as an artistic researcher at A.PASS (advanced performance and scenography studies, Brussels) focusing on performativity and scenography in the arts. Heshka defines his work as post-conceptual art, framing himself as a film director obscured in the field of contemporary art and using it to research and develop a film to begin in 2036. Heshka sees his practice as the formulation of an imaginary film set, a surreal house, whose rooms, objects, scenes and dialogues exist in reality through there exhibition, performance, and publication. Interested in constructing spatial narratives that perform in reality but that simultaneously offer themselves as backdoor entrances into alternative realities, dimensions of fiction, the unconscious, the political, the mystical, and alchemic. Heshka proposes to strategically use his position as artist, and timeframe in contemporary art, to research power, authority, and the role of the master.