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equilibrium

equilibrium

The video work equilibrium explores the process of vertigo and spatial desorientation.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

skyfall

skyfall

Skyfall (2015) deals with the relationship between gravitational force and the human body.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Michael Najjar after Caspar David Friedrich

Michael Najjar after Caspar David Friedrich

Najjar takes photos of a crash site in California’s Mojave desert and, drawing on Caspar David Friedrich’s 1823/1824 painting Das Eismeer (The Sea of Ice), rearranges them as a jagged, towering heap of wreckage against a chain of hills banked in fog.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Talk outer space

Talk outer space

In this talk Najjar introduces the public to the outer space project.

Duration : 11m
Maturity Level : all

Mission Space

Mission Space

Artist Michael Najjar is preparing himself for a journey into space as part of his outer space art project. This documentary film shows his preparations at various aerospace training centers in the USA, Germany and Russia.

Duration : 48m
Maturity Level : all

William Kentridge at MUDAM, Luxemburg

William Kentridge at MUDAM, Luxemburg

A Must See before August 2021

Duration : 10s
Maturity Level : all

The Monarch Sanctuary by TerreformONE

The Monarch Sanctuary by TerreformONE

The Monarch Sanctuary (Lepidoptera terrarium) will be eight stories of new commercial construction in Nolita, NYC. Programmatically, the building space will mostly contain retail and office life. Yet central to its purpose is serving as a breeding ground and sanctuary for the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Snapshot mon Amour by Christian Bau

Snapshot mon Amour by Christian Bau

After the catastrophe in Fukushima, a new Japanese word came into being: Genpatsu-Rikon, a word pieced-together from the characters for “atom” and “divorce”. In 2011, documentary filmmaker Christian Bau travels to the east coast of Japan to investigate this newly coined word. What did the filmmaker see? “I saw everything.” -"You didn’t see anything, nothing at all!” Music Ulrike Haage

Duration : 23s
Maturity Level : all

DESERT X

DESERT X

The Desert X, an exhibition of 13 works by internationally acclaimed artists installed at various locations around the Coachella Valley. Curated by Neville Wakefield and César García-Alvarez. Until May 16, 2021, if you can travel.

Duration : 42s
Maturity Level : all

CAN THE ARTS HEAL?

CAN THE ARTS HEAL?

Save the date, March 22-26, 2021. A five-day cultural program in response to the mental health crisis caused by Covid-19. Presented by The Future is Unwritten as part of the WHO’s Solidarity Series of Events. More info www.culturunners.com

Duration : 26s
Maturity Level : all

Jenny Holzer - OH

Jenny Holzer - OH

Short documentary by Claudia Müller focusing on "OH", an installation done by Jenny Holzer for the Neu Nationalgalerie in Berlin. The American artist’s medium is language. For more than 30 years, her name has stood for a conceptual art that calls into question our perceptions and the way we are influenced by media and politics.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

CLAUDIA COMTE

CLAUDIA COMTE

Mini-documentary by Claudia Müller asking Claudia Comte who is her favorite woman artist. Comte is a Swiss artist and works in a variety of media including sculpture, engraving, installation, murals, and painting.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

CHIHARU SHIOTA

CHIHARU SHIOTA

Mini-documentary by Claudia Müller asking Chiharu Shiota who is her favorite woman artist. Shiota is mostly renowned for her vast, room-spanning webs of threads or hoses, where she links abstract networks with concrete everyday objects such as keys, window frames, dresses, shoes, boats and suitcases.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

JULIETA ARANDA

JULIETA ARANDA

Mini-documentary by Claudia Müller asking Julieta Aranda who is her favorite wpman artist. Julieta was born in Mexico City. She is a conceptual artist that lives and works in Berlin and New York City.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

The Bride

The Bride

Joana Vasconcelos came to public attention for her sculpture A Noiva (The Bride) at the 2005 Venice Biennale, a five-meter-tall chandelier made from 14,000 tampons. Recognizable from a distance, an imposing chandelier displays a candid cascade of glistening pendants.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Trafaria Praia

Trafaria Praia

Trafaria Praia is Vasconcelos’s proposal for the Participation of Portugal at the 55th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia. Her project addresses the historical relationship between Portugal and Italy, which evolved through trade, diplomacy, and art.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Independent Heart

Independent Heart

Red Independent Heart presents itself in the shape of an enormous ’heart of Viana’, the iconic piece of Portuguese filigree, patiently filled in with red plastic cutlery. Suspended from its axis, the work makes a movement of circular rotation, evoking the cycles of life and of the eternal return, accompanied by the sound of three meaningful fado songs, Estranha Forma de Vida [Strange Way of Life], Gaivota [Seagull] and Maldição [Curse].

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Valkyrie Egeria

Valkyrie Egeria

The monumental Egeria produced for the main atrium of Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is one of the most ambitious of this important group of works inspired by the female characters from Norse mythology. Joana Vasconcelos combines different industrial textiles with traditional handmade techniques and LED lights. Egeria reveals an exuberant selection of colours, varied textures and rich details.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Call Center

Call Center

Call Center presents itself under the form of an enormous Beretta revolver built with recourse to the accumulation of 168 black landline telephones, each of the same exact model. The hyperbolized form of a Beretta revolver, built using dozens of telephones, points directly towards the violence that may be produced through the power of mass communication.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

War Games

War Games

In War Games, the inside and outside of a black 1960s Morris Oxford is used to host contrasting worlds. Outside, it is decorated with dozens of toy rifles facing towards the rear and strips of red LEDs which switch on and off to simulate speed, like the lines representing movement in a comic. Inside, the car is filled with colourful cuddly toys in an obvious allusion to the world of children.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

THE ABSTRACT IMAGE OF THE PANDEMIC

THE ABSTRACT IMAGE OF THE PANDEMIC

We all experience the impact of the COVID pandemic. David Szauder shows the growing mass of daily information drawn in curves on a piece of paper by a small drawing robot. Each time the word pandemic occurs in the news, the small robot draws the next curve determined by the time and GPS coordinates of where the news is coming from, following the virus’s current status.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Fondation Beyeler

Fondation Beyeler

Discover its dedicated Channel

Duration : 12s
Maturity Level : all

Between Simonetta

Between Simonetta

In 2011, Michael Joaquin Grey, created this fascinating hyper slow generative portrait after Simonetta, a portrait by Botticelli from the Gemaeldegalerie in Berlin. Observe how her face expresses all moods. And discover more Slow Art videos.

Duration : 15m
Maturity Level : all

Anupama Kundoo- Nothing is Fixed

Anupama Kundoo- Nothing is Fixed

“Before humans there was an architecture that life itself creates.” Meet the renowned Indian architect Anupama Kundoo who in this short video reflects about an architect called time: “There is an incredible order created by nature.”

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all