Video Art
(Re-)Visiting Changsha
By Daniel Urban
What if Roland Barthes had been a local tourist? In his new video piece “Sight Leak” (2022), Chinese artist Peng Zuqiang re-imagines the French...
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The sinister world of Unica B
By Daniel Urban
Ominous, dark premonitions define the mood of Anja Kirschner’s video work “Unica” (2022). Or is it much more repressed memories of the past?...
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A place of silence and weapons
By Daniel Urban
The Brazilian artist Igor Vidor knows the effects of German arms deliveries from personal experience. In his video work “A Praga” (2020), he confronts...
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The mothers’ tongue
By Daniel Urban
How do we acquire language? In her filmic oeuvre Eva Giolo explores the acquired use of language with an explicitly feminine interpretation.
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Takbir – the story of a call
By Daniel Urban
With his video work “Takbir”, artist Aziz Hazara spans the recent history of Afghanistan. Here, he focuses on the call “Allāhu Akbar” with its variety...
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How should I address you? About queerness in German TV
By Daniel Urban
Philipp Gufler's video work “Lana Kaiser” is a tribute to the DSDS star Daniel Küblböck, but at the same time it offers a complex discourse on the...
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In search of eternal beauty
By Daniel Urban
"Forever young - no matter how!" - In her video work, Jovana Reisinger sends three perfectly styled young people in search of a fountain that promises...
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History between sound and body
By Mearg Negusse
In his video work "The Day I Stopped Kissing My Father," artist James Gregory Atkinson makes a black cock walk through the Adam Strohm Hall of the...
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At the mercy of waiting
By Daniel Urban
Artist Bani Abidi is dedicated to the dark absurdities of everyday life. In her video work "The Distance from Here" bureaucracy takes over and waiting...
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From Small to Big
By Daniel Urban
Countless parts, robbed of their individuality, merge into a new whole — Thomas Bayrle’s video works are reminiscent of woven products that only take...
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“Please don’t make a film about Godard!”
By Daniel Urban
A film about filmmaking sounds a bit meta. But Kristina Kilian’s video work takes us on a ghostly journey through Godard’s Germany after the fall of...
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How do we Remember?
By Daniel Urban
In which places does history become visible? And what do we remember at all? Maya Schweizer begins her search for clues in the sewers and slowly feels...