In his hybrid documentary films, Teboho Edkins explores the genres of cinema. His ‘controlled’ or ‘staged’ reality is often shot and edited like a feature film, and his camerawork shows a flair for absurd situations. He tells short stories, novellas, novels or pictures from an exhibition, which repeatedly create references ...
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 ...
Santiago Sierra's oeuvre stands out from the art history of the past 30 years like a massive black monolith. The Spaniard, who was born in 1966 and also lived in Latin America, knows like no other how to use the established forms and rules of contemporary art to give the violence and injustice of Western modernity a face - a face that is our own [read on]
on the occassion of Videoart at Midnight's first co-production "The Perfect Square" by Gernot Wieland, premiered at 74th International Filmfestival Berlin – Forum Expanded we invite you to the BERLINALE PARTY by Flipping the Coin and Videoart at Midnight Productions, Friday, 23 Feb 2024, from 22:00 | 10 pm till early morning [read on]
Tekla Aslanishvili is an artist, filmmaker, and essayist. Her practice explores shifting fault lines between governments, communities, and landscapes through the lens of large-scale infrastructure projects. Engaging in interdisciplinary collaborations and employing experimental documentary approaches, she excavates the layers of politics, technology, geology, sabotage, myth, and resistance that form the foundation of transit and energy infrastructures [read on]
Dana Kavelina is a Ukranian activist, artist and filmmaker. She works with text, painting, graphics, video, and installation and produces animated films that explore personal and historical trauma, vulnerability, and perceptions of war outside mainstream narratives [read on].
Driven by the urgency to challenge time as a linear concept, reveal the dynamic relationship between ‘the projection’ and ‘the spectator’ and question authorship, filmmaker and visual artist Azin Feizabadi often uses modes, tools and sites of production and presentation of films, such as the cinema space, as a point of departure in his lecture-performances, installations, videos/films and curatorial practice. In his narrative moving image works Feizabadi adapts and translates ancient mythologies, tales and stories from the past and weaves them together with an immediate but fictitious present [read on]
In 2019, Liam Gillick and Gelatin took over the Kunsthalle Wien and turned it into a film set composed of massive polystyrene blocks, stacked into monumental structures – complete with a mausoleum and nightclub. The resulting movie is a radical, improvised collective project that tells the story of four narcissists battling their own desires. Stinking Dawn creates a miniature civilization with a baroque corporeality. It is a fight between autonomy and the rise of the new right; freedom and repression. ‘Stinking Dawn’ is darkly humorous, transgressive and political. An unruly, cinematic work in its own right – and a cinematic experience unlike any other [read on ]
On the occasion of Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo’s first monograph "Fatal Attraction" at Mousse Publishing, we are delighted to host the book launch with a talk at KW Institute for Contemporary Art at 21:00 – on the panel: Martin Falck (book designer) and Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo, moderated by Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu – and a film screening as usual at the Babylon film theater at 24:00 | midnight [read on]
As part of Berlin Art Week and selected as BAW Featured we are very delighted to welcome Bani Abidi. Abidi's work is characterized by subtle humor and the dark absurdities of everyday life. The artist poetically explores themes of nationalism, belonging, and self-determination, creating stories between fiction and reality, and personal and political drama.
For the first time, Videoart at Midnight will present artists’ films and videos in the open-air cinema at ›BAW Garten‹, the Berlin Art Week festival hub at Neue Nationalgalerie. Selected works by emerging and established artists will be screened over four evenings. Works on view delve into the focal topics of this year’s ›BAW Garden‹ including social upheaval, the future of the museum, nature, sustainability, the climate crisis, alternative notions of collecting, and communication—topics that are being explored in other Berlin institutions and exhibitions as well [read on]
One year after the record release of YANEQ’s album RUFEN UND RAUSHAUN, produced by Grzegorzki Records, the label of the artists Alicja Kwade and Gregor Hildebrandt, Videoart at Midnight now shows the music videos that were created for the record in a big gala revue with all contributors: artist friends with ...
Since the late 2000s Clément Cogitore has developed his artistic practice halfway between Cinema and Contemporary Art. Combining film, video, installations and photographs, Cogitore questions the modalities of cohabitation between humankind and its own images and representations. Rituality, collective memory, figuration of the sacred, as well as a particular idea ...
Using a range of mediums, including animation, video, virtual reality, found footage, and drawing, Bianca Kennedy explores everyday relationships and routines, reflecting on human behavior, social norms, and expectations. In recent years, Kennedy's artistic focus has been on physical withdrawal, creating a series that examine the theatrics of bathing and the cultural coding of the unprotected, naked body. Through her works, she uncovers conflicts that exist within power dynamics and identity politics, and how they intersect within categories such as class, gender, privacy, and public space. Currently, Kennedy's work is centered around personal protest, featuring individuals who have grown disillusioned with the world and turned their anger inward [read on]