Christian Vium

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Christian Vium (b. 1980) is Associate Professor in Anthropology at Aarhus University and honorary curator at Moesgaard Museum (DK). Working on long-term projects anchored in participatory methods and in-depth collaboration, he investigates the intersection between art, documentary, and the social sciences. In addition to film and photography, he works with large-scale, research-based, immersive installations integrating photography, films, sound, and archive material. His work has been exhibited in 40+ exhibitions.

Vium is Principal Investigator on the research projects ‘Revisioning the African City from the Periphery’ (Independent Research Foundation Denmark, 2025- 2028) and ‘North Atlantic Everyday Stories’ (Velux Foundation, 2024-2027). He is currently finalizing his 15-year research project on irregular migration from Africa to Europe, ‘Departed’, with support from the Carlsberg Foundation. His tripartite monograph ‘Revisited’, based in a decade of in-depth collaborations with indigenous communities across three continents, will be published spring 2025 by SPECTOR books, Leipzig. In 2023-24, he was Associated Research Fellow at the Film Studies Center, Harvard University (US) and part of the CPH:LAB incubator for experimentation and collaboration in creative, cross-disciplinary partnerships across film, the creative arts, science, technology and social entrepreneurship.

Christian Vium is a FOAM Talent 2015, Lensculture Emerging Talent 2015 Grant Winner and is on the Critical Mass 2015 list. In 2016, he received the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie for his long-term project ‘Ville Nomade’ (The Nomadic City), which was published as a monograph by Actes Sud in July 2016. He is the recipient of the first prize in the Danish National Research Foundation's Photo Prize 2024, the 2024 Reminders Photography Stronghold Grant, and was nominated for the 2024 Leica Oscar Barnack Award.