Caspar Stracke is a German Berlin/Mexico-based interdisciplinary artist, primarily working with moving image, either producing or curating, and sometimes doing both in tandem. In his moving image practice, he traces peculiar cultural phenomena often with deep socio-political entanglements, occasionally with subliminal humor. As the son of an architect—breaking four generations ...
Christin Berg develops her films through an engagement with space. Industrial sites, buildings awaiting demolition, wildfire zones, or a samurai film studio become resonant environments where movement, character, and narrative evolve organically – in collaboration with a shifting ensemble of artists and performers. Her films emerge from process, from observing ...
As part of a collaborative event, Fluentum – Contemporary Time-Based Art and Videoart at Midnight invite Jordan Strafer. The Amerivan artist's work reveals the mechanisms of power and societal dysfunction, tracing how violence and spectacle shape contemporary systems of representation. Through carefully staged, narrative environments that mix darkly satirical humor with unsettling intimacy, she interrogates how systems of justice and media shape collective memory and moral perception. Drawing on both personal history and historical events, Strafer blurs the boundaries between fiction and autobiography, creating worlds in which truth becomes performative and unstable [read on]
As a prominent exponent of an art that emphasises connection, juxtaposition and relationality, Simon Dybbroe Møller’s works engage with the tension between the weighty materiality of sculpture and its photographic representation and mediation. Especially for his screening at Videoart at Midnight Simon Dybbroe Møller brings together works never made to be screened, digitised analogue material, snippets of film made to be looped, music and other bric-a-brac [read on]
As part of Berlin Art Week, Video Art at Midnight Productions, together with the Berlinische Galerie – Museum of Modern Art in Berlin, and in cooperation with Flipping the Coin, presents the German premiere of Cyrill Lachauer's first feature film: Slack [read on]
For the third time in a row, Videoart at Midnight presents selected artists' films and video works in the Berlin Art Week Garten: on a large screen, in the open air. This year's host is the Hamburger Bahnhof – National Gallery of Contemporary Art. The program showcases Videoart at Midnight's long-standing commitment to the field of artists' film and video in Berlin. It also references the artists' presence at Berlin Art Week's partner institutions in the city. For example, Jordan Strafer will open her exhibition "DISSONANCE" at Fluentum in Dahlem, and Wendi Yan will participate in the exhibition "LICHTAUS LICHTAN" curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers at St. Matthew's Church. Cyrill Lachauer will premiere his film "SLACK" in a collaboration between the Berlinische Galerie – Museum of Modern Art and Videoart at Midnight Productions at Babylon Cinema, accompanied by an artist talk between the filmmaker and his main protagonist, Mike Brodie, at the Berlinische Galerie [read on]
Jumana Manna is a Palestinian visual artist and filmmaker. Her work explores the articulations of power through the body, land and materiality in relation to colonial inheritances and histories of place. Moving between the seemingly divergent media of cinema, abstract sculptures, and collage, Manna addresses how performing bodies, material fragments, ...
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 ...
Anna Witt (she/her) is working with performance, installations and video. Her immersive installations serve as a stage for performative interventions and are at the same time part of a dynamic process. She creates situations that reflect on social structures and the political of our everyday in the context of care, ...
Sylbee Kim’s video installations articulate the consonance between spirituality and neoliberalism, exploring how technology and capital have displaced mythological figures and deities as paragons of virtue. Through a combination of allegorical imagery, speculative manuscripts and diverse display structures, Kim forges new discursive approaches toward understanding the ways that desire and doctrine hold sway over the human psyche [read on]
Mykola Ridnyi’s activity balances between being an artist and filmmaker, curator and educator. He works across media ranging from early collective actions within the SOSka group to the amalgam of individual site-specific installations and sculptures. Nevertheless, moving image and photography cycles constitute the current focus of his practice. In recent films, he experiments with nonlinear montage, collage of documentary and fiction. Unpredictable connections and references characterize not only the visual style but a conceptual method of his work where little known historical events can be told through actions of modern youth and elements of international pop culture. His way of reflecting social and political reality draws on the contrast between fragility and resilience of individual stories and collective histories [read on]
Roee Rosen is known for his multilayered and provocative work which often challenges the divides between history and the present, documentary and fiction, politics and erotics. For Rosen—with his background in philosophy, literature, and visual arts—humor is a tool that he has rehearsed and mastered for years. But laughter is only a side-effect of trespassing between the places, lands, and nations, between what constitutes the work of historians, the results of political actions and their impact, and what is the work of the imaginary [read on]
Teboho Edkins’ hybrid documentary films question the boundaries between genres – between documentary and fictional narrative, and between cinema and video art. In fact, his works often reflect the very process of filmmaking. His ‘controlled’ or ‘staged’ reality is often shot and edited like a feature film, and his camerawork shows a flair for absurd situations. The artist has spent much of his life in South Africa, and it is from there that he draws many of his inspirations. Initiation and the marking of entry into adulthood, identity and otherness, are in particular recurrent themes in Teboho Edkins’ work [read on]
As the third of three collaborative events, Videoart at Midnight and Berlinische Galerie – Museum of Modern Art are delighted to invite Éric Baudelaire to show two films with and about the work of the avant-garde composer Alvin Curran. Baudelaire's films are partly made with the people whose experiences they explore — revolutionary filmmakers and activists, teenagers, secessionists, and terrorists, all of whom have defied state institutions that assert the right to define reality. Their lives, their ethical choices, and their relationship to images are the exemplary materials of a cinema that rethinks the documentary form, and of an artistic practice that expands the films into broader display formats. [read on]
As the second of three collaborative events, Videoart at Midnight and the Berlinische Galerie – Museum of Modern Art invite Andreas Koch. A significant part of Koch's artistic work consists of animated films, a selection of which he is showing at Videoart at Midnight. His films are actually walk-in photographs, or rather, three-dimensional spatial structures collaged from film and photographic material. They suggest tracking shots and lead us in a leisurely, calm movement through a sequence of street views or rooms, from inside to outside and back again. Views detached from the subject and seemingly endlessly wandering through space. [read on]
On five evenings, Videoart at Midnight presents selected artist films and video works by up-and-coming and established artists open air on the big cinema screen in the ›BAW Garten‹, this year’s Berlin Art Week festival hub at Gropius Bau. The programme will focus on themes such as community and collective experiences, identity or living together in the future [read on]
As the first of three collaborative events, Videoart at Midnight and the Berlinische Galerie – Museum of Modern Art invite Pınar Öğrenci. In her often poetic films and installations, Pınar Öğrenci deals with themes at the interface of social, political and historical issues, always adopting a decolonial and feminist perspective. One focus of her artistic practice is the examination of migration, forced displacement, state violence and strategies of survival and resistance [read on]
Asta Gröting works in various media such as video, sculpture and performance. Her works focus on social interaction, they interweave psychological and social references to create personal and collective statements. For Videoart at Midnight, she will be showing a cross-section of her video work since 1993, with a focus on ...
In his extensive and multi-layered oeuvre, John Miller repeatedly counteracts the longings of Western consumer society. With his eclectic approach and his sceptic as well as ironic artistic strategy, he explores the autonomy of the work of art while examining the myth of artistic genius. The result is an intelligent and humorous commentary on identity, economy, culture and socio-political issues constantly questioning established values [read on]
Julika Rudelius approaches themes of gender, power, interpersonal relations and the vulnerabilities that arise in a human need for belonging within late capitalism. Her chosen medium in a manner akin to a writer: making art is a means for engaging and illuminating problems that she encounters in everyday life. Through ...