Heba Y. Amin

Heba Y. Amin deals with political themes and archival history in her artistic work. She works with various media such as film, photography, archival material, and installations. In her research-based art projects, she takes a speculative, often satirical approach to address power in relation to technology and its role in visual representation. Through her critical practice, Amin uses tactics of subversion and other techniques that both question dominant historical narratives and attempt to define future histories.

In her lecture for the thematic focus Investigative Arts, Amin explores how digital-colonialism shapes memory regimes that enable the retroactive construction of evidence. In light of the fragility and manipulability of historical materials—especially in digital form—she questions whose narratives are created and preserved when networked systems of visibility reinforce dominant power hierarchies.

Heba Y. Amin is Professor of Digital and Time-Based art at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, co-founder of Black Athena Collective, curator of visual art for MIZNA journal, and currently sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Digital War. She was awarded the 2025 Hans-Molfenter Preis/City of Stuttgart Prize (Germany).