kamalanetra hung 

Kamalanetra Hung (b. 1978, Caracas, VEN) is a self-taught new media and performance artist blending science, technology, and creative expression. Child to a Venezuelan mother and Chinese father. Trained in materials engineering and biophysical chemistry, she turned to art to express what science alone could not. Based in Cologne, she explored performance and electro-pop under the artist name Alexis C. Johnson (2015–17), with collective presentations at ZKM, Schwules Museum, and Weltmuseum Wien.

From 2017–19, she engaged in art-based research within open science, highlighting diversity at global conferences, including Tech4Dev, IGF UN, IFMSA and OpenCon. Her work unfolds in alternative, marginal spaces. For example Pachamama, an immersive 3D dance piece on environmental compassion, debuting in Stadtteilbüro Kalk Nord (2021) and later presented at the historic Harnack Haus in Berlin (2023).

Recent works include What is in Me (2024), inspired by goddess Radha’s devotion (FrauenMuseum Bonn), and Dancing Through Guilt and Fear (2025), solo exhibition exploring self-compassion—and the confidence to move freely in the present.

Foto by Paloma López, MediaLab Prado, 2017

Kamalanetra Hung (b. 1978, Caracas, VEN) works and lives in Cologne, DEU

Education
2006-10  Dr.rer.nat. ⎪ Dpt. Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, DEU
2002-05  MSc. Molecular Bioengineering, Technical University of Dresden, DEU
1996-01  BSc. Materials Engineering, Universidad Simón Bolívar, VEN

Selected Training
2025     Memory in Motion, Agathe MacQueen, Festivalcampus Ruhrtriennale, DEU 
2024     Artist Self-promotion, LARSCHOOL / CRAO, MEX
2020-22  Sacral Dance, Catharina Huisman, Cologne, DEU
2015-17  Performance Art & Electro-pop, UNICAT Melissa E. Logan, DEU

Teaching & Selected Scholarly Activity
2023     Interactivity Tutor, Beyond Noise, MA Digital Narratives, Intl. Filmschule Köln, DEU
2022     Pineapple Laboratories, MPI for Quantum Optics, Munich, DEU
2021     Pineapple Laboratories, Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Munich, DEU 
2019     Panel, WS 182, United Nations, Internet Governance Forum Berlin, DEU
         Keynote, Sustainability, Diversity & Digitalisation, MPI Harnack House, Berlin, DEU
2018     Panel, Open Science/Global South, SE13-CCT Tech4Dev/UNESCO, EPFL Lausanne, CHE
2017     Roadmap, GOSH (Global Open Science Hardware), Univ. Catolica, Santiago, CHL 

Solo Exhibitions
2025     Dancing through Guilt and Fear, CO3 Cologne Contemporary Concept, DEU
2024     Let Go, Kalk Kunst, Cologne, DEU
2023     The Rise of Social, Economic and Environmental Justice, Harnack House, Berlin, DEU
         Ozeanquallen, Stadtteil Bibliothek Kalk, Cologne, DEU
2022     Pachamama Premier, Im Garten vom Stadtteilbüro Kalk Nord e.V, Cologne, DEU

Selected Group Exhibitions & Performances
2024     Beyond Algorithms_digital utopia!, Frauenmuseum Bonn, DEU
2023     Desire Generation, DIGI-GXL COMMUNITY, Dalston Superstore, London, GBR
         Bonanza, Festival for Trans* NonBinary Art, Cologne, DEU
2022     Animiert! Digitale Kunst, Alte Feuerwache, Cologne, DEU
2021     Ringvorlesung Queer Fabulations, Academy of Media Arts (KHM), Cologne, DEU
2020 	 #360baleado Forum, Academy of Media Arts (KHM), Cologne, DEU

Awards & Recognitions
2025     Residence Migrantennale, Kulturforum Witten, DEU
2024     Personenkreis der selbständige Künstler und Publizisten (KSVG), DEU
2023     Sponsorship, Atelier at Baufeld7, GAG Immobilia, Cologne, DEU
2022     Stipendium, Ministry of Culture and Science NRW, DEU

Archive In
2022     Digital Art, Mintbase, Transgender Museum of History & Art of Brazil (MUTHA), BRA