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 ...
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 ]