> ABOUT
Berni*e Poikāne
b. in 1998 in Rīga, Latvia
Berni*e Poikāne is a queer video artist working between cinema and contemporary art. They lives and works between France and the Baltic region.Their filmic experiments unfold in a hybrid, immersive practice that blends the documentary and the fictional, and stages representations of the gentle, the melancholy and the monstrous. Liminality is a recurrent theme of their artistic and theoretical work.
In collaboration with Murphy Yum (Stand Alone Complex duo), they co-presented the exhibition Nostalgie Artificielle at La Graineterie Art Center in 2025. Their recent work includes Liminal Tales, a film and sculptural project weaving Baltic fables with ecofeminist, queer, and diasporic fabulation.
> CURRENTLY...
*Research and Creation Trip, Tartu and Saaremaa island, Estonia, July 2025.
*Liminal Tales, film project.
> EDUCATION
2022-2025 MA Film Studies, Université Grenoble Alpes, FR
2022-2024 REACH Practice based research program,Université Grenoble Alpes, FR
2020-2022 MA Arts -with honors, Villa Arson, Nice, FR,
2020-2021Winter Semester Erasmus,Weissensee School of Art of Berlin, DE
2017-2020 BA Arts, Villa Arson, Nice FR,
2016-2017 Preparation Class, ENSBA Lyon, FR
*Metamorph Tales, MA thesis in Film Studies, 2025.
*Passe-muraille (noclip), in Burning Bridges SAGA, webzine, 2024
*Creepy, Cute and Camp, Un entretien avec Bernie Poikāne par Marie Bechetoille, La Belle Revue, 2023.
> COLLABORATIONS
*NOSTALGIE ARTFICIELLE, a duo show by Stand Alone Complex (w Murphy Yum), 2025
*A message for every mom who is tired lonely, a duo show by Stand Alone Complex (w Murphy Yum), 2021