Berlin based Renate Sami’s categorization-defying filmmaking on a variety of analogue and digital formats for over four decades drew from a similar conviction, often nudged by something that acted as a flash of inspiration – a memory, a piece of music, a dream, a place, or a text. Read More
Setting out in 2014, Gegenkino in Leipzig marked its 10th anniversary this year (missing out in 2020, the year of the pandemic). The film festival has turned into a calendar… Read More
The ADA (Archiv der Avantgarden) collection at Blockhaus in Dresden is a donation from Egidio Marzona, Italian gallerist and publisher who diligently collected artworks and objects (about 1.5 million of… Read More
Radical aspirations in the arts of the 1960s swayed one of two ways–a quest for a puritanical medium specificity leading to the path of minimalism where representational reality is replaced by material or structural reality of the medium, or, expanded and conceptual practices that replaced the autonomous realities of traditional media with new expanded realities operating with a double negation–of social reality by art and of art by social reality.
VALIE EXPORT’s Body Art, encompassing film, video, photography, installation, and performance is the focus of a major retrospective at C/O Berlin from Jan 27 to May 21, 2024. Read More
Für viele bildende Künstlerinnen und Künstler, die sich mit dem Medium Film beschäftigt haben, ist die kritische Würdigung ihres filmischen Schaffens im Vergleich zu den stärker beachteten Erfolgen in den anderen Kunstsparten, zumeist der Malerei, zweitrangig oder bestenfalls korrelativ. Wir denken hier natürlich an die unscheinbare Kategorie der Künstlerfilme, die unbehaglich mit gekreuzten Beinen gegenüber ihrem Cousin, dem Experimentalfilm, sitzt und einen spärlichen und ungeschickten sozialen Austausch pflegt. Read More
On the exhibition If the Berlin wind blows my flag. Art and Internationalism before the fall of the Berlin Wall on view from Sep 14, 2023 – Jan 14 2024 at different venues in Berlin — Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k), daadgalerie, Galerie im Körnerpark, and Akademie der Künste am Hanseatenweg Read More
Berlin-based Milena Gierke’s Super 8 films exist within a small yet formidable tradition of experiential diary and portrait films that combine playfulness with innovative seriousness. She studied experimental film at… Read More
Birgit Hein was among the most important figures of avant-garde film culture in Germany and Europe. Along with her ex-husband and collaborator Wilhelm Hein, she led film into radical and uncharted territories, concerning herself unreservedly with the development, criticism and dissemination of avant-garde film.
She passed away in February 2023 at the age of 80, leaving behind a trail of pioneering accomplishments, singular in their scope and significance. Read More