Agenda
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Videocity x REX Box x HKB Mediothek
Ausstellung: 27. February — 02. April 2025
REX Box, Kino REX Bern, Schwanengasse 9, 3011 Bern, daily, 13:30 to 24:00
Schaufenster der Mediothek HKB, Fellerstrasse 11, 3027 Bern, Mon-Fri 9:00-17:00
Artists: Youngjoo Cho, Quynh Dong (from the Sammlung Carola und Günther Ketterer-Ertle, Bern), Ifie Sin, Kyun-Chome, Momoko Seto.
Curators: Jiwon Choi and Videocity Tokyo.
In the natural world, beauty often emerges from the raw, untamed forces that shape our planet. '“Simply Nature – Brutal Beauty” delves into this powerful duality through five video works, revealing awe-inspiring yet often harsh realities within the natural world. From the devastation caused by a catastrophic tsunami to the delicate balance between humans and nature, these videos immerse us in moments where nature's generosity and ferocity collide. Capturing the extremes of nature with striking visuals, the exhibition invites us to confront our relationship with the world around us. It challenges our perceptions of beauty, asking us to see grace in the struggle that life on Earth entails. By doing so, we not only gain a deeper appreciation for the intricacies of our surroundings, but are also reminded of our vulnerability and resilience within them. Furthermore, they stand as both a tribute and a cautionary tale, urging us to acknowledge the fine line we must walk in our care of the natural environment.
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A Millennium Before Them, To Their Spirit! x Odesa
screening series: 15. March — 24. May 2025
Museum of Odesa Modern Art, Yevropeysʹka, 31/33 (Katerynynsʹka)
Videocity x MoOMA
A series of screenings in March-May 2025
Screening dates:
15.03.2025, 19:00-20:00
05.04.2025, 19:00-20:00
24.05.2025, 19:00-20:00
Round Table:
24.05.2025, 17:00-19:00
This film screening series is dedicated to the future generations that will come after us. The shadows of the future have already fallen upon us, shaping the way we work and rest within their bounds. The artists reveal this condition, even when its contours remain indistinct—or perhaps we must recalibrate our perceptions to discover a new clarity.
Artists: Anna Potiomkina with Diana Derii and Kris Voitkiv (UA), Anton Saienko (UA), Daniil Revkovskyi and Andrii Rachynskyi (UA), James Stephen Wright (UK), Katia Libkind (UA), Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson (UK), Dasha Chechushkova (UA), Ker Wallwork (UK), Abi Palmer (UK), David Sherry (UK).
Curators: Anna Morokhovska, Curator Museum of Odesa Modern Art, James Stephen Wright, Videocity UK Co-Director, Yulia Manukyan, Curator.
Curatorial advice: Andrii Siguntsov, Chief Curator of Museum of Odesa Modern Art, Andrea Domesle, Director Videocity, Basel.
Made possible with the support of British Council, Ukraine and the collaboration of MoOMA and Videocity UK team.
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Posthuman x Dresden
Ausstellung: 28. March — 25. April 2025
Runde Ecke, riesa efau – Kultur Forum Dresden, Adlergasse 12 / Ecke Wachsbleichstrasse, 01067 Dresden
The “Posthuman” Videocity cycle envisions scenarios where humans may no longer be at the core, painting pictures of realms populated by microorganisms, living machines made of organic materials or entirely novel modes of being.
Artists: Maria de la O Garrido, Chen Di, Jessica Dudziak, Stefan Hurtig, Gregor Petrikovič, Antje Seeger.
Curators: Frank Eckhardt, Andrea Domesle, Polina Chizhova, Duncan Poulton.
This exhibition is part of ‘Let the Grassroots Grow’, a collaboration between SET and riesa efau & Videocity supported by Cultural Bridge.
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Videocity x REX Box x HKB Mediothek
Exhibition: 03. April — 30. April 2025
REX Box, Kino REX Bern, Schwanengasse 9, 3011 Bern, daily, 13:30 to 24:00
Schaufenster der Mediothek HKB, Fellerstrasse 11, 3027 Bern, Mon-Fri 9:00-17:00
Naturally simple?
Artists: Ursula Biemann, Gianni Motti, Jean Otth, Jérôme Stettler.
Curator: Yves Christen, Collection FMAC – Fonds d’art contemporain de la Ville de Genève.
Talk in Saal REX 2: 15.04.2025, 18:30-20:00 (free, booking required)
Yves Christen is introducing the video programme in English and showing additional video works from the FMAC collection. Following video works will also be screened:
Miranda Pennell, Magnetic North, 2003;
Mark Lewis, Snow Storm at Robarts Library, 2015;
Ben River, This is my land, 2006.
Like the old philosophical question of the separation between body and mind/spirit, nature and humans are often considered as if they were two very distinct entities. Among the rich and wide-ranging FMAC’s video collection, I have chosen different works showing a variety of artistic points of view regarding this complex but rich thematic. I have favoured videos from the last 20-year span, when ecological matters began to be put to the public forefront, in medias and in people’s everyday conscience. Besides scientists, journalists, politicians or associations, I think it is always rewarding and inspiring to look at artists’ perspective. They offer a welcoming and complementary worldview, “off the beaten track”, open to interpretation and never too illustrative or monolithic. Their gaze is at times poetic, sensitive, powerful, evocative, but they never seek to convince or favour a particular ideology. The selected videos “simply” (in appearance at least) offer and propose worldview on how consider our natural environment.
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VIDEONALE.20
Festival: 11. April — 18. May 2025
Kunstmuseum Bonn
The Videonale – Festival for Video and Time-Based Arts is celebrating its 20th edition from April 11 to May 18, 2025 (Opening: April 10 / Opening Days: April 11 – 13, 2025).
The Videonale has taken place since 2005 in the Kunstmuseum Bonn as a place for the presentation and mediation of art, with its specific architecture and its points of reference relating to content; an environment that challenges us again and again in a positive sense and poses questions of how we ourselves would like to act at this place: what new solutions for the presentation of audiovisual art, both scenographic and artistic, can be developed in relation to the spatial circumstances of this location? How do we as a festival wish to shape encounters with audiovisual art here? How can we make the museum space more permeable and create new contact zones between works, artists, and a diverse public? What new interrelationships can we produce between the museum and the surrounding urban environs? In this, we are guided by our deep conviction that the varied and current themes, aesthetics, and work methods of audiovisual art can serve as an invitation for many to interact with this artform and its content at entirely distinct levels.
Once again for VIDEONALE.20, the exhibition at Kunstmuseum Bonn will be the starting point of the festival happenings. It will be expanded upon during its six-week duration through permanent and temporary satellites in the city.