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Levi Van Veluw: Origin of the Beginning 3.3

Levi Van Veluw: Origin of the Beginning 3.3

Origin of the Beginning is a series of installations, photographs and videos in which Levi van Veluw draws from his own childhood memories to thematically and narratively develop his oeuvre of self-portraits. Three rooms are covered with tens of thousands of wooden blocks, balls and wooden slats. Each room is constructed as a life-size installation and is reworked in photographs and videos without the use of digital manipulation.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Levi Van Veluw: The Collapse of Cohesion, Spheres

Levi Van Veluw: The Collapse of Cohesion, Spheres

The Collapse of Cohesion is a series of short films, based on drawings. In contrast to the drawing in which the moment of chaos remains an interpretation by the artist - and is therefore inexorably linked to him - the film makes it possible to relinquish all and every form of control. Unpredictability becomes a new factor in this work. The time of the event is stretched; the moment measured in seconds becomes a minute-long occurrence and forms a new reality.

Duration : 10m
Maturity Level : all

Levi Van Veluw: The Collapse of Cohesion, Room

Levi Van Veluw: The Collapse of Cohesion, Room

The Collapse of Cohesion is a series of short films, based on drawings. One of the drawings presents an image of an archive room, filled with large structures of cabinets containing more than 1500 neatly arranged icosahedrons. The whole arrangement is held in place by the very structure of the cabinets and the force of gravity, in a fundamental and continuous on-going struggle between the desire for order and the forces of nature. An unknown cause upsets this equilibrium and the cabinets are made to topple over. The symmetrical forms are no longer held in place, gravity takes over, order is turned into chaos."

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

Levi Van Veluw: The Collapse of Cohesion, Archive

Levi Van Veluw: The Collapse of Cohesion, Archive

The Collapse of Cohesion is a series of short films, based on drawings. In the film, the drawing has been replicated life-size in wood. All the visible surfaces are covered in carbon powder, and the setting acquires shape only through the reflection of the light. Reality becomes tangible only through the experience of lighter or darker hues, as in a drawing. The falling apart of the structure is filmed at over 1000 frames per second. After months of meticulous preparation, this is the only, and crucial, moment over which the artist has no control.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Levi Van Veluw: The Relativity of Matter

Levi Van Veluw: The Relativity of Matter

For a whole year, Levi van Veluw has worked on The Relativity of Matter, an all-encompassing freestanding installation. Once the doors close, the visitor enters into a maze of corridors, doors, atmospheres, perspectives and colors that challenge him in a sensory manner. With The Relativity of Matter, van Veluw presents an all-encompassing scenographic experience that immerses the visitor in a world of disparate forms of expression. For this special exhibition, a very talented French film company, Birdfilm, made a short film that captures the atmosphere of the installation.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Tomas Saraceno: Cloud Cities

Tomas Saraceno: Cloud Cities

The exhibition Tomás Saraceno: Cloud Cities at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin presents a large installation by the artist that occupies the entire space of the historical gallery. The artist’s works, which incorporate tendencies in science and architecture and, as works of art, explicitly implement natural principles in order to address immediate problems in our globalized world such as overpopulation, environmental pollution, and diminishing resources, are highly contemporary visions that embody current and potential discourses on the relationship between nature and society.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Tomas Saraceno: Cloud City (Ville Nuage)

Tomas Saraceno: Cloud City (Ville Nuage)

Spider webs, the consistency of soap bubbles, astrophysics, and legendary visionaries like Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) are some of the most important sources of inspiration to the artist Tomás Saraceno, who was born in 1973 in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. He calls his balloon-like objects Biospheres, that is, spaces containing life; held by black rope nets and suspended in the air, some of them are accessible to viewers and some of them are inhabited by plants.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Tomas Saraceno: Breaking the Wall Between Earth and Sky

Tomas Saraceno: Breaking the Wall Between Earth and Sky

Throughout history, humanity has rehearsed with lighter-than-air vehicles aiming for a different way to move through and with the air, only with the power of the sun. Presented here are various attempts of human aerosolar flights, undertaken by people whose types of relationship to the atmosphere and the planet have become marginalised, and increasingly rendered invisible under the hegemony of the fossil fuels regime.

Duration : 14m
Maturity Level : all

Tomas Saraceno: Cosmic Jives - The Spider Session

Tomas Saraceno: Cosmic Jives - The Spider Session

The exhibition Cosmic Jive: the Spider Sessions weaved together the different spaces of Villa Croce, in Genova. The first floor featured an interactive sound installation activated by the visitors’ movement, creating a series of acoustic responses picked up by passive motion sensors installed in the rooms. Depending on their location in the museum, visitors heard different sound compositions. The speakers to the left side of the rooms emitted the sounds of the semi-social spiders playing on pre-existing solitary webs.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Liao Wenfeng: You

Liao Wenfeng: You

Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Liao Wenfeng: Drinking the Sun

Liao Wenfeng: Drinking the Sun

Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.

Duration : 49s
Maturity Level : all

Liao Wenfeng: Dancing with the Wind

Liao Wenfeng: Dancing with the Wind

Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Liao Wenfeng: My Stone is my Heart

Liao Wenfeng: My Stone is my Heart

Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Liao Wenfeng: The Relatively Motionless Second

Liao Wenfeng: The Relatively Motionless Second

Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Liao Wenfeng: A Rhythmical Flower

Liao Wenfeng: A Rhythmical Flower

Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Liao Wenfeng: A Breeze

Liao Wenfeng: A Breeze

Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.

Duration : 40s
Maturity Level : all

Liao Wenfeng: Emerging Clouds out of an Empty Hand

Liao Wenfeng: Emerging Clouds out of an Empty Hand

Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Liao Wenfeng: An Uncertain Encounter is a Beautiful Disaster

Liao Wenfeng: An Uncertain Encounter is a Beautiful Disaster

Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Liao Wenfeng: The Sunrise in a Bath Room

Liao Wenfeng: The Sunrise in a Bath Room

Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.

Duration : 55s
Maturity Level : all

William Kentridge: Ubu Tells the Truth

William Kentridge: Ubu Tells the Truth

Kentridge’s short animated films are typically made from a series of large-scale charcoal and pastel drawings which the artist repeatedly alters and interchanges as his narrative progresses. Ubu Tells the Truth marks an important change in technique, as Kentridge has combined images from documentary films and photographs together with moving puppets as well as his animated drawings. This film was made from a basis of thirty drawings.

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

William Kentridge: Second-Hand Reading

William Kentridge: Second-Hand Reading

Artist William Kentridge explores such topics as apartheid and colonialism through his drawings, prints, and films. The flip-book film Second-hand Reading was constructed from the successive filming of drawings on the pages of old books – a second-hand reading of those books. The seven-minute film is an investigation of race relations through an immersive combination of drawings and music, set to a soundtrack of piano and vocals composed by South African anti-apartheid activist/musician Neo Muyanga.

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

William Kentridge: Tango for Page Turning

William Kentridge: Tango for Page Turning

William Kentridge is a South African artist. His work addresses contentious political systems such as colonialism and apartheid through powerful allegorical imagery and theater. Kentridge gathers and transforms materials - texts, drawings, scraps of paper, sound, and myriad other media - in order to generate ideas and discover meaning. The stop-motion animated film Tango for Page Turning is part of Kentridge’s acclaimed multimedia chamber opera Refuse the Hour. The opera and related works explore the metaphysical implications of standardized world time, Einstein’s theory of relativity, black holes, and string theory. Music by [©Philip Miller,https://www.philipmiller.co.za/]

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Still Pilgrim Paradox: Whispers and Wishes

Still Pilgrim Paradox: Whispers and Wishes

A man and a woman on a rooftop. Longing, approaching, conversing, demanding. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Robert Rauschenberg: Night Shades and Phantoms

Robert Rauschenberg: Night Shades and Phantoms

Exhibition Making-of

Duration : 0s
Maturity Level : all