VIDEONALE 12 2009
26 Mar - 26 Apr 2009
VIDEONALE 12 2009
26 March - 26 April 2009
Curator: Georg Elben
Jan Adriaans, Neil Beloufa, Hilla Ben Ari, Aline/ John Bouvy/ Gillis, Ulu Braun, Susanne Bürner, Andrew Cooke, Tom Dale, Manon De Boer, Dellbrügge/ De Moll, Harry/ Stanya Dodge/ Kahn, Eric Fleischauer, Geoffrey Garrison, Charlotte Ginsborg, Mihai Grecu, Pia Greschner, Ute/ Matthias Hörner/ Antlfinger, Rob Kennedy, Tessa Knapp, Mischa Kuball, Tahireh Lal, Gonzalo Lebrija, Kaja Leijon, Kalin Lindena, Zhenchen Lui, Rebecca Loyche, Craig Mulholland, Elke Nebel, Jakub Nepras, Stefanie Ohler, Nirit Peled, Sascha Pohle, Reynold Reynolds, Miguel Angel Rios, Mateusz Sadowski, Eske Schlüters, Tobias Sternberg, Rebecca Ann Tess, Zsolt Vasarhelyi, Paola Vela, Magdalena Von Rudy, Connie Walsh, Paul Wiersbinski
A collage of pictures taken from glossy magazines develops as a mystical vision of life and decay – dark, macabre and elegant all at the same time: This video, by Aline Bouvy and John Gillis, residents of Brussels, is one of 43 selected works that the VIDEONALE 12 will be showing from
26th March to 26th April 2009 in the Bonn Museum of Art. In all, 1445 works were submitted for the VIDEONALE – an increase of over 140 percent over 2007- works by artists such as the Mexican Gonzalo Lebrija, who has a businessman in a suit rodeo-riding a cow, making visible power and energy, or the Scot Craig Mulholland, who plays with the idea of the gesamtkunstwerk between Kraftwerk and Kubrick.
"This year there is a recognisable tendency towards longer works and n o n-linear structures," says Georg Elben, Curator of the VIDEONALE 12. "Complexity is on the increase – not in the sense of narration, but of interwoven strands and styles. The interweaving of the most various artistic techniques is carried to perfection – to the point where something individual and singular is created."
1445 current video works from 74 countries were inspected over a whole week by the 6 members of the jury: Katja Albers, who for many years worked in the video collection of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and is at present a free-lance curator in Dresden, Katja Davar, an artist living in London and Cologne, Melanie Bono, director of the Aachen Art Association, Ben Harman, Curator at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, Kati Simon, Curator at the Mücsarnok Art Gallery in Budapest, and Georg Elben, Director of the VIDEONALE.
26 March - 26 April 2009
Curator: Georg Elben
Jan Adriaans, Neil Beloufa, Hilla Ben Ari, Aline/ John Bouvy/ Gillis, Ulu Braun, Susanne Bürner, Andrew Cooke, Tom Dale, Manon De Boer, Dellbrügge/ De Moll, Harry/ Stanya Dodge/ Kahn, Eric Fleischauer, Geoffrey Garrison, Charlotte Ginsborg, Mihai Grecu, Pia Greschner, Ute/ Matthias Hörner/ Antlfinger, Rob Kennedy, Tessa Knapp, Mischa Kuball, Tahireh Lal, Gonzalo Lebrija, Kaja Leijon, Kalin Lindena, Zhenchen Lui, Rebecca Loyche, Craig Mulholland, Elke Nebel, Jakub Nepras, Stefanie Ohler, Nirit Peled, Sascha Pohle, Reynold Reynolds, Miguel Angel Rios, Mateusz Sadowski, Eske Schlüters, Tobias Sternberg, Rebecca Ann Tess, Zsolt Vasarhelyi, Paola Vela, Magdalena Von Rudy, Connie Walsh, Paul Wiersbinski
A collage of pictures taken from glossy magazines develops as a mystical vision of life and decay – dark, macabre and elegant all at the same time: This video, by Aline Bouvy and John Gillis, residents of Brussels, is one of 43 selected works that the VIDEONALE 12 will be showing from
26th March to 26th April 2009 in the Bonn Museum of Art. In all, 1445 works were submitted for the VIDEONALE – an increase of over 140 percent over 2007- works by artists such as the Mexican Gonzalo Lebrija, who has a businessman in a suit rodeo-riding a cow, making visible power and energy, or the Scot Craig Mulholland, who plays with the idea of the gesamtkunstwerk between Kraftwerk and Kubrick.
"This year there is a recognisable tendency towards longer works and n o n-linear structures," says Georg Elben, Curator of the VIDEONALE 12. "Complexity is on the increase – not in the sense of narration, but of interwoven strands and styles. The interweaving of the most various artistic techniques is carried to perfection – to the point where something individual and singular is created."
1445 current video works from 74 countries were inspected over a whole week by the 6 members of the jury: Katja Albers, who for many years worked in the video collection of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and is at present a free-lance curator in Dresden, Katja Davar, an artist living in London and Cologne, Melanie Bono, director of the Aachen Art Association, Ben Harman, Curator at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, Kati Simon, Curator at the Mücsarnok Art Gallery in Budapest, and Georg Elben, Director of the VIDEONALE.