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]

Friday, 14 February 2025, 24:00 | midnight

#148: Mykola Ridnyi

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]

Friday, 17 January 2025, 24:00 | midnight

#147: Roee Rosen

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]

Friday, 13 December 2024, 24:00 | midnight

#146: Teboho Edkins

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]

Friday, 15 November 2024, 24:00 | midnight

#145: Éric Baudelaire

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]