Agenda
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MO_Schaufenster #39: Costantino Ciervo
Exhibition: 13. March — 15. June 2025
DORTMUNDER U, Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse, 44137 Dortmund
Die Namen der Toten im Meer
In the future, the Museum Ostwall will regularly present new acquisitions from the collection in the MO_Schaufenster (MO_Showcase). The first exhibition will be two recently acquired media artworks by the Italian artist Costantino Ciervo.
mare nostrum and Sew in the Sea address one of the most pressing issues of our time: how to deal with the phenomenon of migration. While current political debates primarily revolve around how Germany can limit migration from other parts of the world and right-wing parties incite hatred against refugees, Costantino Ciervo focuses on the people who die while fleeing across the Mediterranean.
The three-part video installation mare nostrum combines a filmed image of the sea surface with an (untitled) poem by Marco Mantello, which, in light of the many nameless dead, encourages reflection on legality and legitimacy in dealing with refugees. Sew in the Sea consists of several sewing machines that 'embroider' data onto tablets depicting a sea surface. This data is from documented maritime accidents in which people drowned while traveling in overloaded boats. They remain – to this day – nameless.
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A Millennium Before Them, To Their Spirit! x Odesa
screening series: 15. March — 24. May 2025
Museum of Odesa Modern Art, Yevropeysʹka, 31/33 (Katerynynsʹka)
Videocity x MoOMA
A series of screenings in March-May 2025
Screening dates:
15.03.2025, 19:00-20:00
05.04.2025, 19:00-20:00
24.05.2025, 19:00-20:00
Round Table:
24.05.2025, 17:00-19:00
This film screening series is dedicated to the future generations that will come after us. The shadows of the future have already fallen upon us, shaping the way we work and rest within their bounds. The artists reveal this condition, even when its contours remain indistinct—or perhaps we must recalibrate our perceptions to discover a new clarity.
Artists: Anna Potiomkina with Diana Derii and Kris Voitkiv (UA), Anton Saienko (UA), Daniil Revkovskyi and Andrii Rachynskyi (UA), James Stephen Wright (UK), Katia Libkind (UA), Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson (UK), Dasha Chechushkova (UA), Ker Wallwork (UK), Abi Palmer (UK), David Sherry (UK).
Curators: Anna Morokhovska, Curator Museum of Odesa Modern Art, James Stephen Wright, Videocity UK Co-Director, Yulia Manukyan, Curator.
Curatorial advice: Andrii Siguntsov, Chief Curator of Museum of Odesa Modern Art, Andrea Domesle, Director Videocity, Basel.
Made possible with the support of British Council, Ukraine and the collaboration of MoOMA and Videocity UK team.
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VIDEONALE.20
Festival: 11. April — 18. May 2025
Kunstmuseum Bonn
The Videonale – Festival for Video and Time-Based Arts is celebrating its 20th edition from April 11 to May 18, 2025 (Opening: April 10 / Opening Days: April 11 – 13, 2025).
The Videonale has taken place since 2005 in the Kunstmuseum Bonn as a place for the presentation and mediation of art, with its specific architecture and its points of reference relating to content; an environment that challenges us again and again in a positive sense and poses questions of how we ourselves would like to act at this place: what new solutions for the presentation of audiovisual art, both scenographic and artistic, can be developed in relation to the spatial circumstances of this location? How do we as a festival wish to shape encounters with audiovisual art here? How can we make the museum space more permeable and create new contact zones between works, artists, and a diverse public? What new interrelationships can we produce between the museum and the surrounding urban environs? In this, we are guided by our deep conviction that the varied and current themes, aesthetics, and work methods of audiovisual art can serve as an invitation for many to interact with this artform and its content at entirely distinct levels.
Once again for VIDEONALE.20, the exhibition at Kunstmuseum Bonn will be the starting point of the festival happenings. It will be expanded upon during its six-week duration through permanent and temporary satellites in the city.
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«ONCE IN A BLUE MOON» / Thomas Scheffer
Ausstellung: 26. April — 24. May 2025
VOLUME Kunstraum / Lorrainestrasse 14 / CH-3013 Bern
„Schau hin, aber beweg’ dich bitte dabei!“ Phänomenologische Reize durch animierte Muster können durch den Betrachtenden selbst verändert werden - mit Hilfe von Augen- und Kopfbewegungen, durch Veränderung der Distanz und durch bewusste Interaktion ist die rezipierende Person dem psychotropen Stress nicht ausgeliefert, sondern wird dabei selbst Teil der Autorenschaft und verantwortlich für die eigene Wahrnehmung. Das Erzeugen von Mustern, die auf Rauschen oder „noise“ basieren, ist vergleichbar mit Berechnungen der Künstlichen Intelligenz. Die visuelle Stimulation und das Erkennen von vermeintlich Figurativem, Informellem oder Obskurem erfolgt jedoch über die eigene Physis und durch neuronale Verarbeitungsprozesse im Gehirn und nicht über das Lichtbild. Ein Erlebnis zwischen Realität und Fiktion - ohne Sensoren, VR-Brillen oder anderen Schnittstellen…
Vernissage: Samstag, 26. April | 17-20 Uhr
Artist Talk: Samstag, 24. Mai | 15-16 Uhr
Finissage: Samstag, 24. Mai | 17-20 Uhr
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Videoex – International Experimental Film & Video Festival | 27th Edition
Festival: 16. May — 25. May 2025
Walcheturm, Kanonengasse 20, Zürich
Videoex, the largest Experimental Film & Video
Festival in Switzerland, is celebrating its 27th
edition this year. Over 11 days, Videoex will
present more than 150 works on the threshold
between visual art and film.
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Programmes:
Artist Focus
Sky Hopinka
Maryam Tafakory
Christopher Harris / Greg de Cuir Jr
CH Focus
Laurence Favre
Views on Scotland
Margaret Tait / Ute Aurand
Competitions
International Competition
Swiss Competition
Special Programmes
Sammy Baloji: L'arbre de l'authenticité
from the archives: Film- und Videokunst aus dem Archiv der FFV
Jannik Giger (VIDEO WINDOW)
Expanded Cinema & Live Acts
Keiji Haino
Laurence Favre / Olivier Richard
Ensemble Proton
Installation
Susanne Hofer
Workshops
DIY-Workshop mit Juana Robles
Kids Programme
Kinder-Workshop
Kindervorstellung
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Videoart at Midnight #151: Anna Zett
Screening: 16. May — 16. May 2025
BABYLON, BIG CINEMA HALL, ROSA-LUXEMBURG-STR. 30, BERLIN
The artist and writer Anna Zett (*1983 in Leipzig) describes themself as a witness, host and performer of encounters with the unknown. Rooted in dissident and queer perspectives and informed by cultural theory, filmmaking, dance and group analysis, Zett’s artistic practice questions structures of repression, and invites free association and recovery in the present moment. This work results in pulsating videos, experimental radio plays, analytical texts, uncanny objects, tangible installations and participatory live formats, such as the long-term artistic research ‚Postsocialist Group Improvisation‘. Through rhythmic montage and dialogical improvisation, Zett’s videos unfold a unique, non-linear narrative style, that asks the viewer to remain curious about their own thoughts and feelings. Holding on to and letting go of meaning appears to be an environmental and somatic process that can’t be controlled by human beings alone, and certainly not by a single person.