Friday, 14 March 2014, 24:00 | midnight

#53: Marcel Odenbach

The close critical engagement with the problem of how to deal with the past, in particular, illustrates that Marcel Odenbach's art is an exemplary reflection on the German post-war era and its social situation. Yet he also worked early on to embed this thematic emphasis in a wider horizon, expanding on the specifically German issues to achieve a more universal perspective. He studied different cultures and political constellations and integrated his observations into his work, drawing connections between the German trauma of Nazi rule and the Rwandan genocide, between images of masculinity in Turkey and the role of women in Venezuela, between the familiar and the foreign, between his own biography and the history of others.

Friday, 7 February 2014, 24:00 | midnight

#52: Phil Collins

This Unfortunate Thing Between Us (TUTBU) is an alternative shopping channel selling real life experiences in place of the standard fare of cheap jewellery, lawnmowers and fitness equipment. Viewers are offered the chance to buy an experience and enact it live on stage the following night.

Friday, 17 January 2014, 24:00 | midnight

#51: The Seminar ‘Militant Examination’

Tuesday is on Friday - Alice Creischer's and Andreas Siekmann's seminar 'Militant Investigation' of the Masters course Space Strategies, Berlin Weißensee School of Art takes place within the frame of Videoart at Midnight.

Friday, 20 December 2013, 24:00 | midnight

#50: Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl's work straddles the borders between cinema and fine arts, and between theory and practice, exploring issues of militarization, the role of the media in globalization, and the mass proliferation and dissemination of images and knowledge brought on by digital technologies.

Friday, 15 November 2013, 24:00 | midnight

#49: Reynold Reynolds – the Cast&Crew premiere of ‘The Lost’

The Lost is based on material filmed in Berlin in the thirties. Turbulent times during the rise of the Nazi regime put a halt to the production of the film. Reynolds discovered, restored and remade the film between 2011-2013 at locations such as the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Sprengel Museum, Galerie Zink in Berlin and Christopher Grimes Gallery in Los Angeles.

Deutschland-Premiere: Videoart at Midnight zeigt Filme von Candice Breitz

Im Rahmen der Reihe „Videoart at Midnight“ im Berliner Kino Babylon wird als deutsche Erstaufführung das Werk „Treatments“ von Candice Breitz gezeigt. Darüber hinaus werden weitere Filme der südafrikanischen Künstlerin gezeigt. BLOUIN ARTINFO

Friday, 25 October 2013, 24:00 | midnight

#48: Candice Breitz

Central to the multi-channel video installations for which Breitz is best known, is the question of how an individual becomes him- or herself in relation to a larger community, be it the immediate community that one encounters in family, or the real and imagined communities that are increasingly forged into being via the undeniable influence of mainstream media such as television, cinema and popular music. Candice Breitz presents footage from a selection of her multichannel video installations especially edited for the cinema.

Screening / Video Art at Midnight

art berlin Screening / Video Art at Midnight Friday 27th September – 12 Midnight Marie J. Burrows Our favourite monthly video art event is back with ‘Binibining Promised Land’, a film by Köken Ergun. Focussing on the thousands of Filipino guest workers living in the state of Israel, ‘Binibining’ refers ...

Meike Jansen schaut sich in den Galerien von Berlin um

Geschafft! Die Berlin Art Week ist vorbei, die Menschen sind geschunden und regenieren im Grau nur langsam… Nun hält wieder die wunderbare Alltäglichkeit Einzug. Und ehrlich gesagt, die ist spannender als viele der glamourösen Veranstaltungen der letzten Woche. So kann man es sich am Freitag endlich wieder bei Videoart at ...

Openings, Events, Parties in Berlin

Berlin’s top openings and art events for the weekend (Sept 26th – 28th 2013): Art Hack Day, Video Art at Midnight, Lucky Trimmer & Pop-Up Gallery Vernissage Screening / Video Art at Midnight Friday 27th September – 12 Midnight Our favourite monthly video art event is back with ‚Binibining Promised ...

Friday, 27 September 2013, 24:00 | midnight

#47: Köken Ergun

Köken Ergun gives a personal introduction and a statement to the incidents at Gezi Park in which he was involved this summer. Following he will show Binibining Promised Land (The film).

Friday, 21 June 2013, 24:00 | midnight

#46: Martin Brand

Martin Brand's works often range between documentation and fiction, between chance observation and deliberate staging. Topics such as youth culture, the search for identity, orientation on role models, influence by mass media and advertising, the establishment of cliques and in-groups, violence, hierarchies and mechanisms within groups are central to his work.

Friday, 10 May 2013, 24:00 | midnight

#45: Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani

A film on life in Japan after March 11, 2011. Yet, not focussing on the visible damages caused by the earthquake and tsunami, nor on the reconstruction and cheer-up activities following the disaster. Rather, interested in non-descript and invisible changes.

“We force our audience a little bit”

Ivo Wessel and Olaf Stüber, the duo behind Videoart at Midnight, say they’ve found a way to give art films the audiences they deserve – by bringing them out of the gallery and into the cinema. Collector Ivo Wessel and gallerist Olaf Stüber come together once a month at Babylon ...

Videoart at Midnight Edition goes Oberhausen

The 59th International Short Film Festival invited “Videoart at Midnight Edition” to present it’s recent issues within the market section of the festival: Nuclear Voyage, Armin Linke, IT, 2008, 10’30” FRI, 3. May, Studio, 19.00 Kiss, Melanie Manchot, GB, 2009, 10’30” SAT, 4. May, Studio 19.00 Parking, Erik Schmidt, GE, ...

Friday, 12 April 2013, 24:00 | midnight

# 44: Annika Eriksson

Annika Eriksson’s latest three works are realized as an ongoing dialogue with times of transition, here explored both through moments of resistance and passivity. In the realizations of these works, Eriksson has used Berlin, where she lives and works, as a point of departure.

OFF SPACES & SITES: Außergewöhnliche Ausstellungsorte abseits des etablierten Kunstmarkts

Die Kunst erobert ganz neue Räume. Immer mehr Künstler entdecken für sich ganz ungewöhnliche Orte zur Inszenierung ihrer Kunst, auch Off Spaces oder Sites genannt. Ob Bunker oder Bar, alte Gefängnisse oder umgebaute Zollhäuschen, stillgelegte Supermärkte oder Kirchen, an solchen Szene-Locations erregen Ausstellungen mehr Aufmerksamkeit bei oft geringeren Investitionen. Es ...

Friday, 8 March 2013, 24:00 | midnight

#43: Martin Skauen

Martin Skauen’s Slideshow Johnny is a portrait episode of an experimental outsider artist, dedicated to the bone, highly influenced by personal issues. Alternating between beat poetry, comedy and with a surreal, dark and poetic sensibility, the series of acts diverse in tone and subject matter.

Aus dem Reich der Toten

Hitchcock in den Fingerspitzen: Douglas Gordon reinszeniert „Vertigo“ ohne Schauspieler, nur mit einem Dirigenten und einem Orchester. Am Freitag um 24 Uhr wird „Feature Film“ im Rahmen der Reihe Videoart at Midnight – ein Projekt von Olaf Stüber und Ivo Wessel – gezeigt. Douglas Gordon wird bei der Aufführung im ...

Friday, 22 February 2013, 24:00 | midnight

#42: Douglas Gordon

In 1999, four giants clashed with each other: There is Alfred Hitchcock’s film classic “Vertigo” from 1958 and its legendary composer Bernhard Herrmann. Hermann became world-famous through numerous films – not least through Hitchcock’s “Psycho”. There is James Conlon, one of today’s greatest conductors as leader of the Los Angeles Opera Company’s orchestra. And there is the young artist Douglas Gordon.