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Meditate with Vincent Van Gogh

Meditate with Vincent Van Gogh

A five-minute slow-looking exercise to enjoy the details of Van Gogh’s ’Wheatfield, with Cypresses’ located in The National Gallery in London.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Meditate with Claude Monet

Meditate with Claude Monet

Le bassin aux nymphéas, ca. 1917-1920, oil on canvas, from the Beyeler Collection and Roni Horn’s “Opposites of White”, 2006-2007, solid cast black and colourless glass. Let yourself be guided by Diego Hangartner

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Meditate with Mark Rothko

Meditate with Mark Rothko

In uncertain times, art can help us to reflect, relax and self-care. Enjoy a moment of calm, co-presented with UBS Art, and discover Mark Rothko’s Untitled (Red, Orange), 1968

Duration : 0s
Maturity Level : all

Painted Reverie

Painted Reverie

In 19th-century Europe, Orientalist art offered imagined visions of the East-lavish, exotic, and often romanticized. Through ikonoTV’s slow lens, works by artists like Ingres, Delacroix, and Gérôme are reexamined with quiet intensity. Silken fabrics, sun-drenched courtyards, and intricate architecture unfold in detail, revealing both their visual seduction and the cultural fantasies they reflect. This is not just a journey through art, but through the lens of history and desire.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Echoes of Japan

Echoes of Japan

In Dreaming of Japan, ikonoTV presents a serene dialogue between Vincent van Gogh and Utagawa Hiroshige. Van Gogh, captivated by Japanese ukiyo-e prints, reimagined Hiroshige’s compositions such as Plum Park in Kameido and Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge, infusing them with his own expressive brushwork and vibrant palette. This silent, slow-paced video invites viewers to contemplate the fusion of Eastern and Western aesthetics, revealing how Van Gogh’s admiration for Japanese art shaped his vision and led him to find a sense of peace in his own creations.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Timeless Muse

Timeless Muse

Women in paintings have long embodied beauty, power, and mystery. In the Slow Art format, their presence deepens, and each glance, gesture, and fabric fold becomes a quiet revelation. From Botticelli’s serene Madonnas to bold baroque heroines and modernist muses, these portrayals reflect shifting ideals and intimate truths. Silent and still, they invite reflection on identity, emotion, and the gaze that shapes them. Watch as history, myth, and humanity unfold through their painted eyes. All at the [Nationalgalerie Collection in Berlin,https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/nationalgalerie/home/].

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Fondation Beyeler

Fondation Beyeler

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Duration : 12s
Maturity Level : all

Elegy For A Glacier

Elegy For A Glacier

Elegy For A Glacier is a poetic short film that meditates on loss, memory, and transformation within the vanishing cryosphere. Through immersive imagery and sound, it traces the fragile dialogue between humans and melting ice, inviting viewers into a space of reverence, mourning, and reconnection. The film becomes both a lament and love letter - a call to remember what is disappearing and to rekindle kinship with the more-than-human world. By Sarah Bachinger

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Anemone No 1

Anemone No 1

Anemone transforms a familiar object—a pair of my rubber gloves—into luminous, tentacled forms that evoke strange marine organisms. Photographed among the mangroves near my home on the southeast coast of Australia, and reimagined with AI, this work explores the shifting boundary between nature and technology, highlighting the impact of human activity on fragile ecosystems. Sound: https://freesound.org/people/deleted_user_15018884/sounds/698018/ Katherine Boland

Duration : 45s
Maturity Level : all

Business Man

Business Man

Business Man is about greed and extraction—the endless pillaging of the earth for profit. The suited figures are symbols of the systems built on power and consumption, a reminder of the forces that strip landscapes bare while appearing respectable, even necessary. This work points to what’s lost: habitats destroyed, ecosystems unravelled, species pushed to collapse. It exposes the gap between corporate polish and the environmental ruin it conceals. Katherine Boland

Duration : 21s
Maturity Level : all

LEPIDOPTERA

LEPIDOPTERA

Lepidoptera is an experimental moving image piece, telling the parallel narratives of childhood trauma and insect extinction - specifically butterflies. To depict this narrative, the artist hand-printed the entire film using a variety of analogue and photographic processes; around 2600 individual images in total, incorporating natural elements of his home landscape. Edd Carr

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Vanishing point

Vanishing point

Robert Smithson’s earthwork “Spiral Jetty” (1970) is located at the Rozel Point peninsula on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake, Utah. This place, characterized by its rose colours, contains deposits of oil that had been subjected to unsuccessful drilling attempts for decades. The art installation had been underwater for thirty years; nonetheless, as stated by Geoff Dyer in the book “White Sands”, visitors kept going on the site. In 2002 a drought revealed the work again, and from that moment it has been mostly visible. In the video-performance “Vanishing Point” the camera is positioned next to the last stone of the Spiral Jetty. From that point, the artist walks towards the lake until she disappears in the water, as had happened to Smithson’s work for a long time. The distance covered is an anthropometric form of measuring of the ongoing process of desertification, climate change and entropy. The title refers to the chapter in Jean Baudrillard’s “America” (1986) dedicated to the American deserts among which he also describes Salt Lake City and the Great Salt Lake. “The unfolding of the desert is infinitely close to the timelessness of film”, he states when he describes the unreal and abstract atmosphere of these solitary and empty landscapes. Eleonora Roaro

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

The denial

The denial

The Denial from Incendies captures a stark contrast: a lone diner sits in calm detachment while a raging fire engulfs the landscape outside. This moving digital painting transforms classical stillness into dynamic motion, mirroring the unstoppable forces of climate change. The fire becomes a metaphor for a world in crisis, and the figure’s inaction reflects society’s denial in the face of environmental upheaval. Created through a dialogue between AI and hand-crafted techniques, the work provokes urgent reflection: how long can we watch the planet burn without acting? By Louis-Paul Caron

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all