She studied documentary film and television journalism at HFF Munich. A recurring theme in her work is sound as a narrative medium, often in combination with static images.
What would nature tell us if it could speak? Kami – nature spirits and deities in Shintoism – become sorrowful witnesses to the alienation between humans and nature. Through their sensory perceptions new insights into this change open up: frequencies that are barely audible, fleeting impressions of strange, supernatural phenomena. Humans are observed only from a distance – accompanied by the constant lament of the Kami.
R+E: Emilia Haar | B+Ass.R: Elisabeth Plattner | Cinematography: Marie Wald | M: Ege Ateslioglu | S: Emilia Haar, Claudio Landoldt | Voice Over: Maria Pia Napolitano de Majo
She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. The artist works with both traditional media and digital processing techniques, combining them to create experimental films.
Using frame-by-frame animation, the work combines analog and digital techniques in an experimental exploration of the world of insects, focusing on their acoustic and visual presence. This atmospheric exploration of an often overlooked microcosm invites viewers to sharpen their perception of the interplay between noise and movement, surface and sound.
R+B+Animation: Kim Gündel | M: Carmen Kleykens Vidal
Born in Munich. She studied Digital and Time-based Media. The works of this multimedia artist and musician are in the field of performance and its various aspects, such as dance or lecture performances.
Exhibitions Akademie der Bildenden Künste München | Akademie Galerie München | Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste Bamberg | Goethe-Institut Paris | Living Gallery New York City
Relationships, language, and the internal logic they follow. Different actors go through the same sequence of actions and speak the same dialogues. Four bodies become one body, four voices speak the same thought – simultaneously in two groups, in two different, parallel images. The film explores the extent to which language shapes our reality, how much is conveyed through mere words, and how a community can function and emerge.
He studied Photography (class of Armin Linke and Lea Vajda) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He lives and works there as a photographer, multimedia artist, and author.
A series of (moving) images following one from the other | 2025
2:08 min | Video, Sound
Progress and repetition. Through its sequential structure of four images in an endlessly repeating loop, the work explores these themes in a choreography of slowly developing gestures and subtly changing water scenes. The concept adapts Silke Otto-Knapp’s sequential painted figures into moving images, supplemented by abstract objects, all set in an undefined, empty space.
*1976 in Schongau. He studied Painting and experimental film at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and animation at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Potsdam. He transposes painting into video art and is one of the pioneers in the field of video collage. He has won numerous awards, including the German Short Film Award (Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis 2013) and the Berlin Art Prize (Berlin Kunst Preis 2014).
Exhibitions rk-Galerie, Berlin | .mpeg Project Space Leipzig | Centre Pompidou Paris | National Art Gallery of Mongolia | Teilnahmen bei Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Rotterdam Filmfestival, Berlinale, FPS Zagreb
“Pacific Vein” takes us through a painterly panorama of the US West. Julian Assange stands between imperial, Roman fake buildings as a soda maker and ponders the digitalization of our world. Around him, hippies, artists and homeless people search for meaning while their messages are captured by surveillance cameras. Media and fictional scenes merge hypnotically with documentary footage. The empire is diligent (fitness, self-optimization) and nervous (military, weapons), the American Dream glitched into a ghostly autosuggestion. Where is the enemy and who has the image rights? (Ulu Braun)
R+B+Animation+P: Ulu Braun | M: Vali Kram | E: Gernot Wieland | S: Ulu Braun, Tamara Peetre, Jordi Latoree | Mit Joachim Stargard, Lily Cummings, Niina Lehtonen-Braun, David Ristau, Valentin Lorenz
For the sixth time, VIDEODOX is presenting works by visual artists from Bavaria who see the moving image as an essential or primary means of expression. Dunja Bialas & Matthias von Tesmar (directors), Florian Geierstanger, Nora Moschüring and Anna Schellkopf selected 15 works from over 80 submissions. The BBK Munich and Upper Bavaria is a close cooperation partner. This year’s jury, consisting of visual artists Brunner/Ritz, M+M and Alix Stadtbäumer, will decide on the VIDEODOX sponsorship award, donated by Peider A. Defilla (B.O.A. Videofilmkunst).
1 – 12 oct 2025 wed – sun 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. (do until 8 p.m.) (3 oct closed) galerie der künstler:innen opening tue 30 sept 2025 6 – 10 p.m. (free admission) sun 12 oct 3 p.m. performance kunstkollektiv hybris sun 12 oct 4 p.m. award ceremony
Licht, Spiel, Kunst
The history of moving images is a history of tools. From flip books, which require only flexible image carrier material, a pencil and natural light, to the utopia of a technological singularity that independently creates time-based works without human intervention, there is a long and curious path to travel. What expectations and desires will this utopia fulfil? Who will be interested in it? The appeal of the visual unconscious offered by the play of light is a familiar practice for us cinematographic natives. And yet we are constantly surprised and thrilled by films and media art that we encounter outside the culture industry in the form of screenings, installations or objects in gallery spaces:Historical constants in imagery, such as the horizon line, are as commonplace as they are fundamental. The mysticism of nature in landscape and fauna is explored in animations, field recordings and soundscapes. The incomprehensible buzzes in the tension between the conscious and the unconscious. Human bodies act as linguistic-philosophical representatives and as objects of study in an enigmatic experiment about time and space. Women suffer, women cover their heads. Is that true? And if so, how? It is political, like a philosophical video sculpture, a German home movie from 1943, a contemporary US panorama, or the question of responsibility in collective trauma. The latter is also the subject of a work that relates film and painting to each other. On the eve of utopia, we already have information technology that can be addressed simply: “Hey XYZ, turn Cézanne’s art into a maximally awesome world of experience with moving images for young and old.” That’s okay. Except that it’s reactionary, an approximation of realities we know, an unfocused devotion to mere decor. In this, it is familiar to each and every one of us, moments of security that no one likes to do without. In more alert moments of art, however, we are tempted by curiosity, by an approach to realities we do not know. The desire to concentrate on an isolated aspect, to engage with something new, genuinely created by human impulses. – Matthias von Tesmar
The works shown in the exhibition are nominated for the VIDEODOX Award endowed with €1000, sponsored by Peider Defilla (B.O.A. VideoFilmkunst). The award will be decided by an independent jury consisting of artists Brunner/Ritz, M+M, and Alix Stadtbäumer.
