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  • VIDEODOX Award 2023

    VIDEODOX program folder (GE)
    catalogue [DE/EN]

    Munich, Galerie der Künstler*innen | 10 – 22 oct

    For the fifth time, VIDEODOX invites you to a large video art exhibition in the historic rooms of the GALERIE DER KÜNSTLER*INNEN. Artists from Bavaria were invited to submit their work for the VIDEODOX Award. The focus: the moving image as a means of expression in artistic production.
    The diversity of cinematic video art is reflected in single- or multi-channel works, installations as well as a work based on a performance, which once again puts the entertaining genre of the making-of into a completely new perspective.

    The exhibition was created in close cooperation with the BBK München und Oberbayern e.V. and with the kind support of the Cultural Department of the City of Munich and the Free State of Bavaria. The VIDEODOX Award, endowed with 1000 euros, is donated by Peider Defilla (B.O.A. Videofilmkunst).

    Opening hours: Wed, Fri – Sun 11am – 6pm | Thu 1pm – 8pm

    Winner of the 5th VIDEODOX Award is Lilian Robl.

    Viewing of Videotapes?


    The New York conference “Open Circuits: An International Conference on the Future of Television” opened in 1974 with the program item “Viewing of Videotapes”. First see what you’re talking about. And that was quite new. 8- or 16mm films had long been established in the art world, but they had established in the arts, but to record, erase and re-record so easily, as had been known until then from audio tapes, meant a new creative freedom. And many lines of development for making ephemeral image material into an artistic medium continue to this day. Painting, performance, photography, conceptual art – video can be a goal, its technical basis or social significance can also be the subject of artistic reflection.
    The shift from analogue to digital, once unimaginable miniaturisation and limitless distribution, have made video a defining and ubiquitous aspect of daily life, a network that influences and forms social attitudes. Reason enough to be excited and on guard. Video artists of the early days did not have to fear too much. The medium was hip and rare. Today, it’s about finding islands in a sea of moving images where video art becomes visible. This does not have to be a real place. Some works are suitable to be viewed and traded exclusively online with the right know-how. But the web undercuts the synaesthetic aspect, the social experience of visiting spaces. Gallery or online, cinema or online – both are possible. Movida, the other place, new encounters, Together only exist offline.
    Animations, political and feminist self-empowerments, computer-generated reality, sensory surprises, artificial intelligence, reduced graphics, media-historical reflections, a movie-look-alike and a performance-based work. For thirteen days there will be a parcours of audiovisual works to experience together in the artists’ gallery and to compare different positions. Much of this is technically possible only today, but some approaches are familiar from the early days of media art, because there are questions that every generation confronts anew. For the fifth time, VIDEODOX gives visual artists* who see the moving image as an essential or their primary means of expression the opportunity to present works beyond the cinema hall in the attractive context of the UNDERDOX Film Festival. Felix Burger (visual artist, BBK e.V.), Dunja Bialas (curator and film critic, UNDERDOX festival management), Matthias von Tesmar (curator and author) and Kay Winkler (visual artist, curator) have selected the works from a good 80 submissions by artists working in Bavaria. BBK München und Oberbayern e.V. is the host and cooperation partner of this presentation, which is sponsored by the Cultural Department of the City of Munich and the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and Art. One of the works on display will be awarded a prize by a jury of three: Jörg Koopmann (photographer, curator), Daniela Stöppel (LMU) and Renate Wiehager (author, curator). The VIDEODOX sponsorship award is endowed with 1000 Euros. The prize sponsor is once again media artist and filmmaker Peider Defilla of B.O.A. Videofilmkunst. “B.O.A.”, long since a standing term and internationally known media company – founded in the decade of “Open Circuits” as a laboratory for experimental media art. – Matthias von Tesmar

    Nominated for the VIDEODOX award:

    Maximiliane Leni Armann | binary tree : profiles : missing node | 2022 | 6:56 min
    Ulu Braun | St. Mickeyland | 2023 | 12:45 min
    Ayala Shoshana Guy | I will take your shadow | 2022 | 18:56 min
    Eunju Hong | Joy of the Worm | 2023 | 12:00 / 1:00 min
    Rupert Jörg | The New Flesh | 2023 | 3:32 min
    Leila Fatima Keita | wenn du wir sagst – meinst du nicht mich | 2023 | 4:29 min
    King Kong Kunstkabinett | Tuning Racing Cruising | 2023 | 3:00 min
    Lilian Robl | Atem / Stimme / Blick / Gehen | 2022/23 | 3:43 / 3:10 / 7:14 / 7:00 min
    Johanna Seggelke & Carlotta Wachotsch | Der Geschmack des Lebens (The Taste of Life) 79/19 | 1979/2023 | 30:00 min
    Alexander Steig | Findling (Erratic Block) | 2020 ff. | Live-Video
    Essi Utriainen & Ken Brown | Looking for a fig | 2023 | 37:44 min
    Paul Valentin | A Piano Plays in Another Room and It’s Raining | 2022 | 16:14 min
    Julia Walk | Sugar Muscles – Behind the Muscles | 2022 | 21:50 / 14:05 min

    Jury: Jörg Koopmann, Daniela Stöppel, Renate Wiehager
    Curation: Dunja Bialas, Matthias von Tesmar (Leitung), Felix Burger, Kay Winkler

    vernissage with evening opening | tuesday 10 oct 6 – 10 pm | free admission

    7 pm | Welcome by Gabi Blum (Exhibition Commission BBK München und Oberbayern e. V. )

    7:15 pm | Exhibition opening by Dunja Bialas and Matthias von Tesmar (curators)
    in the presence of the artists

    saturday 14 oct

    11:30 am | Guided tour of the exhibition by Matthias von Tesmar (curator)
    (some artists will be present)

    sunday 15 oct

    2 pm | Guided tour of the exhibition by Matthias von Tesmar (curator)
    (some artists will be present)

    4 pm | Award ceremony

    Festival

    24. September 2023
  • Julia Walk

    Born 1990 in Munich. Lives and works in Munich. Studied sculpture in Munich and at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (Stefan Huber & Alexandra Bircken class). Graduates as a master student in 2019.

    www.juliawalk.com

    Exhibitions: Space N.N.,Munich 2023 | Villa Stuck, Munich 2022 | PLATFORM, Munich 2022 | Austrian Sculpture Park, Graz 2022 | Galerie im Schlosspavillon, Ismaning 2021| Artothek, Munich 2020 | Positions Art Fair, Berlin 2019

    cof_soft

    Sugar Muscles – Behind the Muscles
    2022 | 21:50 / 14:05 min

    2 channel video installation | 2 monitors on lacquered dumbbells, lacquered weight plates, sports mats, lacquered dumbbells

    In her “Sugar Muscles” series, Julia Walk works with three professional bodybuilders. She douses them performatively with coloured icing. The artist is interested in researching female gauze, shifting object/subject relationships and dealing with fragile masculinity.

    Festival

    17. September 2023
  • Johanna Seggelke & Carlotta Wachotsch

    Carlotta Wachotsch
    Born 1994 in Berlin, grew up between the Caribbean states, Paris and Berlin. Studied history and Protestant theology and completed internships with Mia Hansen-Løve, among others. Since 2017 she has been studying film directing at the University of Television and Film Munich. She is the publisher and editor of the film magazine REVÜ in Munich.

    Films: 2023 The Taste of Life (co-director) | 2023 Hey, Denise (director, production).
    2021 The Day Before (director, editing, screenplay) | 2020 Clairvoyant (director, screenplay)

    Johanna Seggelke
    Born 1996 in Bamberg. Lives and works in Munich. Since 2017 studying directing for documentary film at the University of Television and Film Munich. Works as a freelance cinematographer and director. Founding member of the film magazine Revü – Flugblatt für Film.

    Films: 2023 The Taste of Life (co-director) | 2022 Alex in the Fields (production) – Starter Film Award of the City of Munich | 2021 Reality Must Be Addressed (director, cinematographer) – DOK Leipzig (Young Eyes Award) | 2021 Heal Me (cinematographer) – Internationale Hofer Filmtage 2021
    2020 Elephant (Co-director) – DOK Leipzig 2020, FID Marseille 2021 (Doc Alliance Award)

    Der Geschmack des Lebens (The taste of life) 79/19
    1979/2023 | 30:00 min

    Video, Sound | no dialogues
    B: Carlotta Wachotsch & Johanna Seggelke | Archival material: Harun Farocki, “Der Geschmack des Lebens”, 1979

    Is there something about a place that ensures that people move around in it in a similar way, without being aware of the place’s past?
    In the summer of 1979, Harun Farocki roams the streets of West Berlin with a 16mm camera to capture images that reflect the “taste of life”. He films everyday scenes that happen in this or a similar way every day. Some 40 years later, we discover Farocki’s film, and go in search of its locations. Once seemingly chosen at random, now painstakingly researched. In the end, we find ourselves in the same place, and the past time seems to vanish into thin air.
    The remake is not one in the classical sense in that it is not meant to stand without its original, but enters into a dialogue with it. As a 2-channel video installation, we invite you to either
    either to watch one of the two directions, or to discover the parallels in the narrative that chance has created.
    A project in cooperation with Antje Ehmann and the Harun Farocki Insitut.

    Festival

    17. September 2023
  • Paul Valentin

    Born 1990 in Munich. Lives and works in Munich. Studied sculpture in Munich and at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (Stefan Huber & Alexandra Bircken class). Graduates as a master student in 2019.
    www.paulvalentin.de

    Exhibitions: Doxa, GiG x Lothringer 13 Studio, Munich, LOST ARC, Haus der Kunst, Munich 2023 | GiG at Lothringer Studio, Munich, Another Room @park, Britta Rettberg, Munich, Lost Weekend Meets Young Art, with Moritz Riesenbeck, Munich, A Piano Plays In Another Room And It’s Raining, Rosa Stern Space, Munich 2022 | VIDEODOX Galerie der Künstler, Munich 2021 | Lamb Shift, Maximiliansforum, Munich, Air Into Solid, Karl & Faber, Munich 2020

    Solo Shows

    LOST ARC., Haus der Kunst, Munich | 2023, Doxa, GiG x Lothringer 13 Studio | Another Room, @park, Britta Rettberg, 2022 | Lost Weekend Meets Young Art, with Moritz Riesenbeck, 2022 | A Piano Plays In Another Room And It’s Raining, Rosa Stern Space, 2022 | Lamb Shift, Maximiliansforum, Munich 2021 | Air Into Solid, Karl & Faber, Munich, 2021|Nichts, Teufelsberg, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, 2021| Blind Carbon Copy, with Kalas Liebfried, Akademie Galerie, Munich, DE

    Group exhibitions (selection)
    2022
    Burg Ranfels, Zenting, DE (Upcoming)
    Der Bau. Hommage an Kafka, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, DE
    O animal humano e o seu planeta, Goethe Institute Maputo, MOZ
    Mana II, Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich, DE
    Scholarship for fine arts of the City of Munich, HG2, Munich, DE
    2021
    Kata Komb, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
    Mana, Verpackerei, Görisried, DE
    Kunstpreis Deutschland, Galerie Depelmann, Langenhagen (Hannover), DE Videodox, 4. Video art Biennale, BBK, Munich, DE
    V2, GalerieFoe , Munich, DE
    THE WORLD:REGLITTERIZED, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
    Around the block (curated by Christian Ganzenberg), Luitpoldblock, Munich, DE 2020
    Verzeichnet, Der Mixer, Frankfurt am Main, DE
    Drawing Restricted, Rosa Stern, Munich, DE
    2019
    Karl & Faber Art Prize Exhibition, Karl & Faber, Munich, DE
    Nichts, diploma exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, DE
    TACKER, Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich, D

    A Piano Plays in Another Room and It’s Raining
    2022 | 16:14 min

    Video, Sound | English
    B+Animation: Paul Valentin

    In “A Piano Plays In Another Room And It’s Raining” (2022), Paul Valentin takes us into a melancholic fugue of computer-generated spaces that overwhelm us with their abundance of references to film, painting and computer games as well as the carefully designed “digital objects” and initially leave us speechless.
    and initially leave us speechless. The aesthetics of this work, which oscillates between cinematic philosophy and spatial installation, refers to the design of so-called “liminal” spaces – transit spaces – which evoke feelings of eeriness, nostalgia and anxiety in us.
    nostalgia and anxiety. Each scene demands that we adopt different perspectives, jump between worlds and “realities”, abandon projections and allow for new possibilities. Ultimately, we understand that here we are seeing our seeing itself, contemplating the making of meaning and pursuing the philosophical search for the nature of the world.
    (Christian Ganzenberg, Various Others)

    Festival

    17. September 2023
  • Essi Utriainen & Ken Brown

    Essi Utriainen

    Born 1975 in Oulu, Finland. Lives and works in Munich. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.
    www.essi-utriainen.com

    Exhibitions: Video Art Programme, Five Lakes Film Festival, Starnberg 2019 | Finnish Artists and their Landscape, Neue Galerie Dachau 2018 | VIDEODOX, Gallery of Artists, Munich 2017 | Joburg Fringe VIDEOart, Johannesburg 2010

    Ken Brown

    Born 1952 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Lives and works in Munich. Bachelor of Fine Arts, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois, USA

    Exhibitions: Free Radicals, Galerie der Künstler, Munich 2019 | Ten Shades of White, Frosch and Portmann Gallery, NYC, USA 2016 | Ken Brown-Letters from K.B. to I.G., Sammlung Goetz, Munich 2005

    Looking for a fig
    2023 | 37:44 min

    Video, Sound | English
    B+E: Essi Utriainen | K: Essi Utriainen, Ken Brown | Original idea: Ken Brown, Essi Utriainen, Oliver Westerbarkey | M: Wilfried Petzi, Frederik Rosenstand | Texts: Ken Brown | With Ken Brown, Peter Friedrich, Katrin Sofie F., Macchia, Thomas Fritsch

    The only way to finish something
    is to start it first

    The only way to find a fig
    is to look in the branches of a fig tree

    The only way to get a peanut
    is to go to the patch and dig one up

    The only way to find a frog
    is to kiss a prince

    Plot is a man who lies on the sofa and makes plans for the future, but doesn’t start anything. Until one day a dog runs up to him and Plot decides to make a film.

    The protagonist in Plot’s film is a man who lies on the sofa making plans for the future, but starts nothing. Until one day a dog runs up to him….

    Looking for a fig is an experimental artist’s film that tries to look like a real film. A philosophical, unwieldy no-budget film about a search.

    Festival

    17. September 2023
  • Alexander Steig

    Born 1968 in Hanover. Lives and works in Munich and Berlin. Studied cultural education (University of Hildesheim) and fine arts (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hanover). Since 1998 artistic and curatorial work, teaching assignments and cultural-political activities as chairman, board member and member of the board of trustees for BBK Munich, Kunstraum München, Art5 and feinkunst, among others.

    www.alexandersteig.de

    Ausstellungen: LEERE, Kunstinsel am Lenbachplatz, Munich 2023 (E) | KUNSTKIOSKE, Platform, Munich 2023 | FLURFUNK, University of Witten 2022 (E) | LEINEKIESEL, feinkunst, Hanover 2021 (E/K) | Corner Surveillance, Artothek, Munich 2019 (E/K) PMB Art Prize, Barkenhoff, Worpswede 2018 (K)

    Findling (Erratic Block)
    2020 ff. | Live-Video

    1-channel closed-circuit video production | 24/7 (live video transmission) | 24:00 hrs.
    Technique: mixed media | Dimensions: variable

    Alexander Steig conceives mostly site- and theme-related closed-circuit video productions whose media-specific significance is the live transmission in the installation context. “Findling (Erratic Block)” follows on from his previous uneventful non-plot video images, which act cinematically as a planned sequence. The artist has taken a pebble from the Isar River, which flows close to the exhibition space, and now transfers this stone onto a black image background using video technology. In doing so, he creates a seemingly static moving image; in fact, the Isar pebble (or erratic block) rotates once around its axis in 24 hours. Steig shows an imperceptible moving image – two-dimensional painting and three-dimensional object are extended by the fourth dimension of time.

    Festival

    17. September 2023
  • Lilian Robl

    Born 1990 in Munich. Lives and works in Munich. Studied art history and literature at the LMU Munich as well as free art at the ERG Brussels and at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (class Huber / Bircken).

    www.lilianrobl.de

    Ausstellungen: GRRL Haus Cinema, Berlin, 2023 | Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille, 2022 | Barcelona International Film Festival, 2022 | Light Matter Film Festival, Alfred, 2022 | Athens Digital Arts Festival, 2021 | Women’s Voices Now, Los Angeles, 2022 | Non-syntax, Tokyo / Kyoto / Fukuoka, 2021

    Atem / Stimme / Blick / Gehen (Breath / Voice / Look / Walk)
    2022/23 | 3:43 / 3:10 / 7:14 / 7:00 min

    Breath (Video, 5:4, 3 min 43 sec, Sound, 2022)
    Voice (Video, 5:4, 3 min 10 sec, Sound, 2023)
    Look (Video, 5:4, 7 min 14 sec, kein Sound, 2023)
    Walk (Video, 5:4, 7 min, Sound, 2023)

    Atem, Stimme, Blick, Gehen (Breath, Voice, Gaze, Walk) is a video cycle consisting of four videos in 5:4 format. The titular term is conceptually illustrated in each case by a two-dimensional animated diagram and expanded by the use of text in the image.

    Festival

    17. September 2023
  • King Kong Kunstkabinett

    Walter Amann, Wolfgang Schikora and Ulrich Zierold met in 1968 while studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Since 1977 they have been working together in the King Kong Kunstkabinett (Munich/Frankfurt). Throughout the years, the group’s point of departure, focus and speciality has remained collective painting. There are no individual works.

    www.kingkongkunstkabinett.de

    Exhibitions: 40 years of King Kong Kunstkabinett – Galerie der Künstler, Munich, let the brush swing a little… – Galerie Anais, Munich 2019 | Alles auf Anfang – BOA Galerie, Munich 2018 | Secession jetzt – Rathausgalerie Munich, VIDEODOX – BBK 2017 | Melange- expanded – Brotfabrik, Vienna, Ljubljiana 2016 | Tradition und Gegenwart – Städtische Galerie Cordonhaus, Cham, Galerie artoxin, Munich, VIDEODOX – BBK Munich 2015

    Tuning Racing Cruising

    2023 | 3:00 min

    D+drawings +animation: King Kong Kunstkabinett

    In time with the manufacturing robots, seen from the inside and outside, a world-famous production facility of cars. Retro-designed racing cars race against the backdrop of a big city. Car and motorcyclist pose in turn.

    Festival

    17. September 2023
  • Leila Fatima Keita

    Leila Fatima Keita, queer filmmaker, has been studying documentary film in Munich since 2020. She leads workshops on topics such as feminism, identity and film as postcolonial practice. Scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation since 2023.

    leilafatimakeita.myportfolio.com

    wenn du wir sagst – meinst du nicht mich (when you say we – you don’t mean me)
    2023 | 4:29 min

    Video, Sound Stereo | German
    B: archive.org | E: Hengameh Yaghoobifarah, Leila Fatima Keita

    An exploration of the feeling of grief and isolation after consuming supposedly progressive material. Who has the power to narrate and what narratives have inscribed themselves in history?
    The short film is an attempt to recognise, name and de-name colonial gazes in the future. It is a response to everything that screams “together” but always remains with itself.

    Festival

    17. September 2023
  • Rupert Jörg

    Born 1985 in Munich. Lives and works in Munich. Studied digital media and art education in Vienna, Marseille and at the AdBK Munich (with Julian Rosefeldt, Hans Scheirl and Stephan Dillemuth). Since 2019 freelance artist and media educator.

    www.rupertjoerg.com

    Exhibitions: 2nd Biennale of Contemporary Art – MACAM, Beirut 2019 | “I promised you poems” – Emprise, Marseille 2021 | Biennale of the Moving Image B3, Frankfurt 2022 | Pasinger Fabrik, Munich 2022 | Tacker – Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich 2023 | Videocity, Bern 2023

    The New Flesh
    2023 | 3:32 min

    Video, Sound |  English
    D+B+E+Animation: Rupert Jörg

    Chatbots propagate that it makes sense to merge completely with a virtual world as a human being. Gradually, some of these bots begin to hallucinate, thereby questioning the right of all humanity to exist. The depiction of physical merging with a cyber world is grotesquely distorted, blurring genders, places and times. With the help of artificial intelligences in various stages of development, images were generated, recombined and subsequently animated.

    Festival

    17. September 2023
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