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The whole art world has changed dramatically by Ann Noël

The whole art world has changed dramatically by Ann Noël

Born in Plymouth, England, in 1944, has lived and worked in Berlin since 1980. Her wide-ranging talents as a painter, graphic designer, printmaker, photographer, and performance artist bear witness to a rare combination of creative ingenuity, bold experimentation, and up-to-date technical skills. In addition, she has had the good fortune to know and work with some of the more interesting artists of our time. Her work has been exhibited internationally and includes recent projects at the Biennales in Venice, Liverpool, and Lodz, Poland. She is also the author of six artist’s books published by Rainer Verlag in Berlin.

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Where are the emotions? by David Krippendorff

Where are the emotions? by David Krippendorff

David Krippendorff is a German artist, video- and experimental film maker.Born in Berlin, he grew up in Rome (Italy) and studied art at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin (Germany), where he graduated with a masters degree in 1997. His works, films and videos have been shown internationally, a.o. at New Museum (New York), ICA (London), Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg), Museum on the Seam (Jerusalem). He has participated in four Biennials (Prague, Poznan, Tel Aviv, Asunción). He lives and works in Berlin.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Art has long since lost mystery and pretense by Dagmara Genda

Art has long since lost mystery and pretense by Dagmara Genda

Dagmara Genda, born in Koszalin, Poland in 1981 specializes in drawing, collage, and installation. She focused on the poetics of snow. She has exhibited internationally and attended residencies in the United States, Canada, China, and the United Kingdom.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Artists should have complete freedom producing Art by Per Christian Brown

Artists should have complete freedom producing Art by Per Christian Brown

Per Christian Brown is an ultra-contemporary artist. Per Christian Brown is a norwegian male artist born in 1976. Per Christian Brown is most frequently exhibited in Norway, but also had exhibitions in Germany, United Kingdom and elsewhere. Brown has at least 10 solo shows and 30 group shows over the last 16 years (for more information, see biography).

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Contemporary art is like many parallel worlds by Danica Dakić

Contemporary art is like many parallel worlds by Danica Dakić

Danica Dakić (born 1962) in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian artist and university professor. She works primarily with video art, installation and photography. Her works have been widely exhibited, including at documenta 12 (2007) and at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), where she represented Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dakić lives and works in Düsseldorf, Weimar, and Sarajevo.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Let Art be the Game by Henrik Stromberg

Let Art be the Game by Henrik Stromberg

Henrik Strömberg (1970, Schweden) lives and works in Berlin. He works with the idea of metamorphosis, decay, and the transformation of materials; sculptural objects, and their photographic documentation, as well as the deconstruction and transformation of the photographic image itself.

Duration : 15s
Maturity Level : all

I love art from different historical styles and periods by Vitaly Komar

I love art from different historical styles and periods by Vitaly Komar

Vitaly Komar was born in Moscow in 1943, graduated from the Stroganov School of Art and Design in 1967, and has been living in New York since 1978. He was one of the founders of the Sots Art movement (Soviet Pop/Conceptual Art). Vitaly Komar worked in collaboration with Alex Melamid from 1973 to 2003. Their collaborative work started in the 1960s in Moscow, where they, rather than following the dictates of Socialist realism, they rather commented on power and popular culture using a wide range of media.

Duration : 35s
Maturity Level : all

What Don’t You Understand About Art? by Mladen Miljanovic

What Don’t You Understand About Art? by Mladen Miljanovic

Born in Zenica (Yugoslavia) in 1981, completed the secondary school in Doboj. After the secondary school he attended the Reserve Officer Military School. In 2002 he enrolled at the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka department of painting. Beside his artistic practice and research, he is teaching New Media Art at The Academy of Arts, University of Banja Luka.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

What Do I Not Understand in Contemporary Art Today? by Arnold Dreyblatt

What Do I Not Understand in Contemporary Art Today? by Arnold Dreyblatt

Arnold Dreyblatt (b. New York City, 1953) is an American media artist and composer. He has been based in Berlin, Germany since 1984. In 2007, Dreyblatt was elected to lifetime membership in the visual arts section at the German Academy of Art (Akademie der Künste, Berlin). He is currently a Professor of Media Art at the Muthesius Academy of Art and Design in Kiel, Germany. Dreyblatt studied music with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, and Alvin Lucier and media art with Woody and Steina Vasulka.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Say what you wanna say! by Ingrid Book & Carina Hedén

Say what you wanna say! by Ingrid Book & Carina Hedén

1Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén trained as artists in Oslo and Lund, respectively, and have collaborated since 1987. Narrative, place, and reality have been important themes in their projects, as primarily conveyed through photos, videos, installations, and texts. Using an investigative and dialogical method, they typically examine various cultural and social phenomena that have often been overlooked. In conjunction with the “Temporary Utopias” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2003, Book & Hedén displayed a series of photographs from marginal areas in Oslo.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Why do people forget to see art works? by Junko Wada

Why do people forget to see art works? by Junko Wada

Born in Tokyo, in 1955, Junko Wada is a performance artist, dancer, and action painter. She studied painting at Musashino University of Art and had two solo exhibitions at Kamakura Gallery in Tokyo in 1982 and 1983. Her interest in performance art intensified and she started to develop a personal style of dance, replacing screen and brush with body and stage. She has since collaborated with some of the world’s leading composers, and since 1999, has lived and worked in Berlin.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

I dislike when someone is doing art only for commercial reasons by Zlatko Kopljar

I dislike when someone is doing art only for commercial reasons by Zlatko Kopljar

The artistic practice of Zlatko Kopljar (b. 1962, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is driven by a relentless questioning of the role of the artist in contemporary society. His work moreover, draws on collective and personal memory of the traumatic events of the twentieth century and probes their lingering aftermath.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Misunderstanding and prejudice in Contemporary Art by Elana Katz

Misunderstanding and prejudice in Contemporary Art by Elana Katz

Elana Katz is a conceptual artist working primarily in the medium of performance art. Katz’s work confronts cultural conventions, critically examines the complexity that lies within contradictions and thus aims to create an experience of unlearning the assumed. She has exhibited/ performed at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium (2011), Diehl CUBE Berlin (2013), P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York (2013), Stacion Center for Contemporary Art, Pristina (2014), Kunstwechsel, Aachen (2015), DNA Berlin (2015), and ROCKELMANN& Berlin (2016). She studied in New York at the Parsons School of Design and earned a Meisterschülerin title from the Berlin University of the Arts (Class of Katharina Sieverding). Katz has been based in Berlin since 2008.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Art lets the individual go beyond the animal state by Klaus Killisch

Art lets the individual go beyond the animal state by Klaus Killisch

Klaus Killisch studied painting at the Art Academy in East-Berlin from 1981-1986. His work has been represented in many exhibitions of German Art including the Biennale in Venice, Sezon Museum of Art in Tokyo, Folkwang Museum in Essen, New National Gallery in Berlin, Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig. Killisch lives in Berlin.

Duration : 57s
Maturity Level : all

Delusion of Grandeur by Sinisa Radulovic

Delusion of Grandeur by Sinisa Radulovic

Siniša Radulović was born 1983 in Podgorica, Montenegro. She graduated at Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, Montenegro, department of painting. She had an MFA degree (post-graduate studies) at Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, Montenegro. Siniša Radulović is the winner of the 2017 "Milčik” - Young Visual Artists Award, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Arts-ICA in Cetinje, Montenegro. Trained as a painter, Siniša Radulovic is a multimedia-artist who produces videos and collages.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Contemporary Art lacks humor and empathy by Moritz Frei

Contemporary Art lacks humor and empathy by Moritz Frei

Moritz Frei was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1978. Raised there as well as in Hanover, Syracuse, and Berlin, he trained as a photographer in Berlin from 2000 to 2003. From 2004 to 2010, he studied fine arts at the HGB - Academy for Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig with Peter Piller. In 2010/11 he directed the art space, Benjamin Richard, in Leipzig (with Erik Weiser ). In 2016 Frei founded the publishing house “berlin art books”. In 2019, his withdrawal from the 26th Leipzig Annual Exhibition caused a nationwide media sensation and a controversial debate.Moritz Frei lives and works in Berlin.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

It is vital that it be a correct misunderstanding by Yuri Albert

It is vital that it be a correct misunderstanding by Yuri Albert

Yuri Albert is one of the most important exponents of the second generation of the Moscow Conceptualists. Excluded from the state culture industry in the 1970s and 1980s, from the official infrastructure of museums and galleries, but also from the discourses of aesthetics and art criticism, the artists themselves were forced to take on the task of presenting, commenting on, and reflecting theoretically on their activities. Marked by the historical experience of self-organization in the late Soviet milieu, Albert arrived at his critical and, at the same time, (self-)ironic reflections on the art system.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

When I do not understand something, I use an understanding machine by Victor Skersis

When I do not understand something, I use an understanding machine by Victor Skersis

Viktor studied at the Moscow State Polygraphic Institute (1973-1977).[2] The institute forced him to withdraw two weeks before he was to graduate. Areas of interest include analytical conceptualism, meta-conceptualism. An active member of the Moscow art scene since 1975, Skersis works independently and in co-authorship with other artists. He was a member of "The Nest" (with Gennady Donskoi and Mikhail Roshal’), 1975–79, "SZ" (with Vadim Zakharov), 1980–84, 1989–90, "Cupid" (with Yuri Albert and Andrei Filippov), "Edelweiss" and “Tsar of the Hill” (Yuri Albert, Paruir Davtyan, and Andrei Filippov), and others.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

The world should get more serious about artworks by Hans Peter Kuhn

The world should get more serious about artworks by Hans Peter Kuhn

The artist and composer was born in Kiel (DE), and lives and works in Berlin (DE) and Amino/Kyoto (JP). He started his artistic career as early as the age of 6 when he performed in the theatre class of his school. Being 14 years old he initiated his first Rock’n’ Roll band and in 1975 he started his professional career at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer in Berlin (now Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz).

Duration : 0s
Maturity Level : all

Ayman Baalbaki talks about Janus Gate

Ayman Baalbaki talks about Janus Gate

Ayman Baalbaki’s monumental installation titled Janus Gate for the Lebanese Pavilion at the 59th Venice Bienniale until 27th November 2022: “My starting point was Beirut, which I see as a city rich in what Michel Foucault refers to as ‘other spaces.’ Along the model of the word ‘Lebanonization,’ meant to describe the fragmentation of a state, ‘Beirutization’ defines places troubled by barricades and borders – in other words, to speak of the urban dismemberment of a city and its fragmentation into discrete islands.” Video courtesy of DAF Beirut - Platinum sponsor of the Lebanese Pavilion

Duration : 19m
Maturity Level : all

Floodtide

Floodtide

Ian Gibbins wonders how does a city cope, what does it look like, after years of drought, rising sea levels, and relentless storms? To create this vision of a city responding to climate change, nearly every scene has been composited from more than 500 individual sequences originally recorded at various locations around Australia. As a result, almost none of these scenes actually exists. Although these scenes might be imaginary, as the world careers into a now unavoidable climate emergency, the reality is not far off...

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

DARK WATERS

DARK WATERS

Nina E. Schönefeld’s Dark Waters is set in the year 2029. All the oceans are so contaminated with plastic waste that they have become death zones. The only creatures still able to live there are poisonous jellyfish. The government is trying to keep this eco-disaster secret. The film narrates the risky quest for the truth by helicopter pilot Silver Ocean.

Duration : 15m
Maturity Level : all

Simone Leigh in the U.S. Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale of Art

Simone Leigh in the U.S. Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale of Art

The sculptural work of the Golden-Lion-winning artist Simone Leigh explores ideas about history, race, gender, labor and monuments at the 59th Venice Biennale.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Studio Visit with Elmgreen & Dragset

Studio Visit with Elmgreen & Dragset

Berlin-based artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset speak about their collaborative practice as well as their particular interest in the AIDS epidemic and its continued relevance today.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all