Friday, 16 October 2026, 24:00 | midnight

#163: Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg

Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg create surreal, psychologically charged worlds through stop-motion animation, sculpture and sound. Since 2001, Djurberg has used hand-crafted clay figures and elaborate sets to explore primal desires, power, violence and vulnerability, often balancing the disturbing with the erotic, absurd and whimsical. Musician and composer Hans Berg adds hypnotic soundscapes and scores that can heighten, or deliberately contrast with, the drama of the images. Working together since 2004, the artists have developed immersive installations in which moving images, sound, sculpture and space merge, blurring the boundaries between the cinematic, the sculptural and the performative [read on]

Friday, 11 September 2026, 24:00 | midnight

#162: Nika Radić 

Nika Radić has moved between different media in her work but stayed true to topics for longer periods of time. Her interest in communication between people and how art is used as language drove also her theoretical writings and eventually led to hypnosis, understood as a means of communicating with the subconscious. Hypnosis became her main interest for a number of years and she also used hypnotic methods to structure her exhibitions and video works [read on]

VIDEOART AT MIDNIGHT AT BAW GARTEN | NEUE NATIONALGALERIE

For four evenings, the Berlin Art Week Garden 2026 at the Neue Nationalgalerie will once again become an open-air cinema for contemporary artist films. This year’s programme will feature recent works by artists at the start of their professional careers, drawn from four different Berlin-based programmes and initiatives: Nina Fischer’s Experimental Film and Media Art class at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), the Lensbased Community – which grew out of the UdK’s Multimedia Art Class under the direction of Hito Steyerl and has been led by Mykola Ridnyi since 2023 – the BPA// Berlin programme for artists, a mentoring programme founded in 2016 by Angela Bulloch, Simon Denny and Willem de Rooij, and the residency programme run by Between Bridges, a foundation established in 2017 by Wolfgang Tillmans. The selection includes, in part, the artists’ most recent works and offers an insight into a young, internationally oriented Berlin art scene [read on]

Friday, 12 June 2026, 24:00 | midnight

#161: Alban Muja

Alban Muja’s artistic practice operates at the intersection of personal memory, collective history, and the politics of representation, foregrounding the fragile relationship between image-making and lived experience. Working across video, film, installation, as well as painting and works on paper, Muja engages with the socio-political realities of Kosovo and the broader Balkan region, often drawing from autobiographical narratives to interrogate how histories are constructed, mediated, and remembered [read on]

Friday, 15 May 2026, 24:00 | midnight

#160: Vika Kirchenbauer

Vika Kirchenbauer examines the fundamental political and social conflicts inherent in the artistic field. Through video, performance, installation, music production and theory writing, she engages critically with historically established categories that remain central to the ways in which art relates to class, coloniality and queerness. Core concerns of her practice are the affective and material infrastructures of contemporary art at the intersection of nation-state and economy, as well as the subjects and self-conceptions these produce. Her research has focused extensively on the early institutionalisation of contemporary art in 18th-century Britain, a setting in which moral philosophical concepts and artists’ feelings—most distinctly around compassion and inconvenience—played important parts in inserting imaginings of superiority and constellations of dominance into the core of European notions of art [read on]

VIDEOART AT MIDNIGHT MEETS SEOUL

Since 2008, Videoart at Midnight has operated as a curatorial platform at the intersection of cinema, exhibition, and artistic video practice. Emerging from Berlin, the project has developed into a continuously expanding resonance space for experimental film and video works, situated beyond fixed formats and operating between screening, installation, and discursive practice. The invitation by Seoul Art Cinema in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut marks another node within this network. The programme presents a one-off screening evening that understands Berlin and Seoul not as separate locations, but as interwoven sites of production and imagination. Artistic practice appears here as a movement between contexts, as translation, displacement, and the reconfiguration of perception, image, and the present [read on]

Friday, 17 April 2026, 24:00 | midnight

#159: Driant Zeneli

The redefinition of the idea of failure, utopia, and dream stands at the core of Zeneli’s research, as elements that open up possible alternatives. In his films, and video sculpture installations the representation of power, science, ecology and mythology. The fairy tales are interlaced with individual narratives, giving rise to utopias that subvert the natural order of things. The creative act feeds on unplanned encounters and the relationship with the architectural heritage of places [read on]

Friday, 20 March 2026, 24:00 | midnight

#158: THE LOSS OF REALITY IN THE ILLIGOCENE

This screening program is part of the larger networked exhibition and event series Iliggocene-The Age of Dizziness, which thematically and artistically explores the contemporary situation of polycrisis, as a dizzying state that demands new vocabularies and understandings. Dizziness is a phenomenon experienced by living beings, troubling the relation to their surroundings, be it on a physical, social, cognitive, emotional, digital, environmental, imaginative or metaphorical scale. As such, dizziness is not merely a theoretical or curatorial concept; its physicality and manifestations are germane. Dizziness is rooted in the lived experience of loss of, or change in, relations, acknowledging that these shifts can be isolating and petrifying, as much as they may be transformative [read on]

Friday, 13 February 2026, 24:00 | midnight

#157: Young-jun Tak

Young-jun Tak’s choreography film series combines elements of video art and short experimental documentary. The series is planned to consist of seven films in total, each titled after a day of the week: from the first Sunday to the second Thursday, the third Monday, and the latest fourth Friday. Each film follows a similar structure, juxtaposing two contrasting conditions of belief. Within this framework, queer bodies and stories and choreography disrupt conventional boundaries, exposing both their apparent dissimilarity and their strangely convincing similarities [read on]

Friday, 23 January 2026, 24:00 | midnight

#156: Caspar Stracke

Caspar Starcke's program consists of an unusual experiment: six selected works representing specific phases in 2 1/2 decades of filmmaking are communicating in pairs. From observations on manual labor studies to a re-staging of a Japanese avant-garde theater; from the remnants of colonial architecture to the power of copy architecture; ultimately, from past-century modes of knowledge preservation to the (literal) meltdown of AI data centers [read on]

Friday, 19 December 2025, 24:00 | midnight

#155: Christin Berg

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 ...

Friday, 7 November 2025, 24:00 | midnight

#154: Jordan Strafer

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]

Friday, 19 September 2025, 24:00 | midnight

#153: Simon Dybbroe Møller

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]

German Premiere: Cyrill Lachauer – Slack

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]

VIDEOART AT MIDNIGHT AT BAW GARTEN | HAMBURGER BAHNHOF

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]

Friday, 13 June 2025, 24:00 | midnight

#152: Jumana Manna

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, ...

Friday, 16 May 2025, 24:00 | midnight

#151 Anna Zett

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 ...

Friday, 11 April 2025, 24:00 | midnight

#150: Anna Witt

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, ...

Friday, 14 March 2025, 24:00 | midnight

#149: Sylbee Kim

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]