
anna menecia antenete hambira lives and works as a freelance fashion designer, artist and creative director in Vienna.
Through her own everyday reality, born as a black, queer woman in Germany and living in Vienna, her designs deal with topics like gender, sexuality and race. Her own socio-cultural background creates a new aesthetic. Community and the willingness to change are the base of the world in which the collections and their protagonists move. Individualists who create an open space for themselves and others.
amaaena is a genderless, POC and female-owned fashion project in Vienna that combines sustainability, contemporary fashion and socio-political responsibility. It operates outside the existing fashion cycle to conserve human and natural resources and combines parts of the production with social projects.
Part of the project’s identity is interdisciplinary collaboration. By the name of amaaenaStudio the project opens up and becomes active in the fields of visual arts, costume, moving image and the creation of creative concepts.
Through her own everyday reality, born as a black, queer woman in Germany and living in Vienna, her designs deal with topics like gender, sexuality and race. Her own socio-cultural background creates a new aesthetic. Community and the willingness to change are the base of the world in which the collections and their protagonists move. Individualists who create an open space for themselves and others.
amaaena is a genderless, POC and female-owned fashion project in Vienna that combines sustainability, contemporary fashion and socio-political responsibility. It operates outside the existing fashion cycle to conserve human and natural resources and combines parts of the production with social projects.
Part of the project’s identity is interdisciplinary collaboration. By the name of amaaenaStudio the project opens up and becomes active in the fields of visual arts, costume, moving image and the creation of creative concepts.
EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS
// TALK "DECOLONIZING FASHION" FROM THE PERCEPTION OF HISTORY TO A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE OF FASHION @ MAK-GEYMÜLLERSCHLÖSSEL __ MODERATION — LARA STEINHÄUßER __ 3.09.2022, VIENNA// "ZER0 AYNS" PERFORMATIVE INSTALLATION @ WIENTAL TERRACE__BY CLUB HAVERA, VEREIN FÜR GESELLSCHAFTSKRITISCHE KÜNSTLERISCHE FORSCHUNG & PRAXIS__ 30.08 — 1.09.2022, VIENNA
// "CRAFTING FASHION FOR POSSIBLE FUTURES" GROUP EXHIBITION @ AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM __ CURATOR — CAMILLE BOYER FOR AUSTRIAN FASHION ASSOCIATION __ 24.06.2022 — 08.09.2022, NEW YORK CITY
// "FASHION IN FOCUS" GROUP EXHIBITION @ NEVER AT HOME __ CURATOR — NEVER AT HOME X BURGGASSE 24 __ 20.05. — 23.05.2022, VIENNA
// "I OWN MY LIGHT PINK” COLLECTION EXHIBITION @JAGDSCHLOSS, _18.09.2021, VIENNA
// "MY BEAUTIFUL MONSTROSITY_EXERCISING MY CREATION" GROUP EXHIBITION @ EST_PROJECTS_GALLERY __ CURATOR — GABI MONCAYO-ASAN __ 10.07.2020 — 02.09.2020, VIENNA
// "WELCOME TO MY BUBBLE" SOLO EXHIBITION @ ONEMESSGALLERY __ SEPT 2017 VIENNA
// "TEASER" GROUP EXHIBITION __ FASHION PERFORMANCE "YOU ARE WATCHING A FAMILY LATE NIGHT STORY" @ SCHIKANEDER __ VIENNA 2016
// "SELBSTEXPERIMENTE" GROUP EXHIBITION __ FASHION PERFORMANCE "THE PANOPTICAL CAROUSEL" @ GÜTERHALLE __ BREMEN 2014
AWARDS
// FASHION FILM FESTIVAL MILANO
__ //_I_OWN_MY_LIGHT_PINK_// - THE MOVIE _OFFICIAL SELECTION 2023
// VIENNA SHORTS
MUVI ÖSTERREICHISCHER MUSIKVIDEOPREIS __ KEKE-LADIES __ APRIL 2021 __ NOMINATED
// CREATIVE OF THE MONTH
KREATIVWIRTSCHAFT AUSTRIA __ APRIL 2021
// ID INTERNATIONAL EMERGING DESIGNER AWARD 2020__FINALIST
PRESS
// VOGUE.DE, amaaena: wie das Wiener Modelabel Genderklischees bricht und wirklich geschlechterlose Mode macht, by Alexandra Bondi de Antoni__March 2023//GURLZ WITH CURLZ MAGAZINE - ISSUE 04: amaaena, Das kreative Universum der Anna Menecia Antenete Hambira__NOV 2022
// AUGUSTIN, Erste österreichische Boulevardzeitung__Genderless Fashion, Mode und Haltung - Interview__NR.560, OCT 2022
// IMPROPER WALLS GALLERY
IMROPER DOSE _INTERVIEW __JUNE 2021
// DER STANDARD.DE, Diese Wiener Modedesignerinnen sollten wir im Auge behalten by Anne Feldkamp__05.07.2021
// FALTER’S BEST OF VIENNA
COVER-PORTRAIT __ NR 01/21 __ MAY 2021
// DIE PRESSE - SCHAUFENSTER
COVER-STORY __ 02.04.2021
// PRODUCER: AUSTRIAN FASHION ASSOCIATION
INTERVIEW VIDEO __ "HOW TO... FASHION" __ MARCH 2021