Beny Wagner an artist, filmmaker, writer and lecturer. Working in moving image, text, installation and lectures, he constructs non-linear narratives that probe the ever shifting threshold of the human body in time. He has explored themes ranging from histories of metabolism, to the social and political histories of measurement standardization, the politics of waste, to histories of monsters in European science. Since 2017, much of his work is produced in the context of his ongoing collaboration with Sasha Litvintseva.

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Wagner has presented work in festivals, exhibitions and conferences globally including: Berlinale, International Film Festival Rotterdam, CPH:DOX, Open City Documentary Festival, EXiS Seoul, Courtisane, Tate Modern, Museum of Moving Image New York, Eye Film Museum Amsterdam, Criterion Channel, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Los Angeles Film Forum, Seoul Media City Biennale, Berlin Atonal, Venice Biennale, White Columns among many others. His work has been featured in Artforum, BOMB Magazine, Filmmaker Magazine, Spike Magazine Quarterly, Frieze Magazine, Kaleidoscope Press and Flash Art. His writing has been published in e-flux, Diaphanes, Valiz, among others. His films have won numerous awards including Best Short Film at IndieLisboa and Best Short Documentary at Guanajuato International Film Festival.

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Wagner is a lecturer on Fine Art Critical Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He holds a PhD from the Archaeologies of Media and Technology Research Group at Winchester School of Art, Southampton University. He has also lectured at University College London, Queen Mary University London, Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, and has been a guest lecturer in film and fine art academies and universities across Europe, UK, USA. Wagner was a researcher at Jan van Eyck Academy. He received his BA from Bard College, New York. 

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Contact: benywagner@gmail.com