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Unveiled Gaze

Unveiled Gaze

In Olympia (1863), Édouard Manet reimagines the traditional nude with stark modernity. A reclining woman meets the viewer’s gaze directly, her expression poised and unapologetic. Beside her, a Black maid offers a bouquet, hinting at unseen narratives. The composition’s flatness and bold contours defy classical ideals, confronting societal norms of the time. Upon its 1865 Salon debut, the painting incited scandal for its candid portrayal of a courtesan and its challenge to artistic conventions. Today, housed in the Musée d’Orsay, Olympia stands as a pivotal work that ushered in modernist sensibilities. This work can be seen at [The Musée d’Orsay, Paris,https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/olympia-712].

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Autumn Radiance

Autumn Radiance

In Chrysanthemums (1882), Claude Monet transforms a simple bouquet into a symphony of color and light. The canvas bursts with vibrant reds, yellows, and whites, each blossom rendered with energetic brushstrokes that convey both vitality and delicacy. Set against a subdued background, the flowers seem to glow, capturing the ephemeral beauty of autumn’s final bloom. This work exemplifies Monet’s fascination with the transient effects of light and his ability to find profound beauty in everyday subjects. This work can be seen at [The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437115].

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

First Light

First Light

In Impression, Sunrise (1872), Claude Monet captures the port of Le Havre at dawn, enveloped in mist and soft light. A glowing orange sun pierces the haze, casting reflections across the water, while silhouetted boats drift quietly. Monet’s loose brushwork and emphasis on transient light over detail marked a radical departure from traditional painting, giving rise to the Impressionist movement. This seminal work, which lent its name to the movement, invites viewers into a moment of serene contemplation, where atmosphere and emotion take precedence over form. This work can be seen at [The Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris,https://www.marmottan.fr/notice/4014/].

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Stillness in Bloom

Stillness in Bloom

In Le Bassin aux Nymphéas (1919), Claude Monet immerses us in the tranquil beauty of his Giverny water garden. Rendered in sweeping brushstrokes, the canvas captures a pond where water lilies drift amidst reflections of sky and foliage. The composition dissolves boundaries between water and air, inviting a meditative gaze into nature’s ephemeral dance. This work is part of Monet’s iconic Water Lilies series, a culmination of his lifelong exploration of light and color. While specific versions of this painting reside in various collections, including the Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland, each offers a serene window into Monet’s harmonious world.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

The Talisman

The Talisman

In The Talisman (1888), Paul Sérusier distills the Breton landscape into bold, flat planes of pure color. Painted under Paul Gauguin’s guidance at Pont-Aven, this small oil on wood, measuring just 27 x 21.5 cm—transforms a riverside scene into a poetic abstraction. Vermilion reds, ultramarine blues, and golden yellows replace naturalistic tones, capturing the emotional essence rather than the literal appearance of the Bois d’Amour. This radical approach marked the genesis of the Nabis movement, with the painting becoming its emblematic icon. Now housed in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, The Talisman invites viewers into a meditative exploration of color and form. This work can be seen at [The Musée d’Orsay, Paris,orsay.fr/en/exhibitions/serusiers-talisman-prophecy-colour-196079]

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Wind and Light

Wind and Light

In Woman with a Parasol, Claude Monet captures a fleeting moment of light and breeze. Through ikonoTV’s slow art experience, the tall grass sways gently and the figurewhich is Monet’s wife Camille, appears to float under a shifting sky. The loose, luminous brushstrokes evoke movement and air, making the painting feel alive. This is more than a portrait; it is an impression of a summer day, radiant and passing, held still just long enough to feel. This work can be seen at [The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C,https://www.nga.gov/artworks/61379-woman-parasol-madame-monet-and-her-son].

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Echoes of Movement

Echoes of Movement

In The Spanish Dancer, John Singer Sargent captures a fleeting instant of passionate rhythm. Through ikonoTV’s slow art lens, the dancer’s flared skirt, poised arms, and shadowy stage emerge with dramatic clarity. The brushwork is bold yet fluid, ot’s movement distilled into light and form. Each detail, from the fiery red fabric to the dancer’s silhouette, pulses with energy even in stillness. This is not just a portrait of dance, but of presence, performance, and grace.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Steps Through Time

Steps Through Time

Dancing during the Belle Époque is a vibrant celebration of movement, mood, and modernity. Through ikonoTV’s slow, silent montage, graceful ballet poses by Degas, the whirl of Parisian nightlife from Toulouse-Lautrec, Cheret’s buoyant poster girls, and Van Gogh’s rhythmic brushwork converge in a visual waltz. Each artist offers a unique tempo that’s refined, raucous, romantic, yet all capture the spirit of a dazzling era. This is dance as art, as life, as fleeting joy.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Levi Van Veluw: Origin of the Beginning 1.4

Levi Van Veluw: Origin of the Beginning 1.4

Origin of the Beginning is a series of installations, photographs and videos. Through them, the artist talks about his childhood. The repetitive structures seemingly express a ‘horror vacui’ and recall Van Veluw’s youth and his obsessive attempts to gain control over his life by controlling his surroundings. Dimly lit and dark in color, the overriding tone of these pieces is claustrophobic and sombre, exuding a sense of loneliness.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Levi Van Veluw: Origin of the Beginning 2.4

Levi Van Veluw: Origin of the Beginning 2.4

Origin of the Beginning is a series of installations, photographs and videos. The works suggest a narrative world behind the portraits. On the one hand these works are a continuation of Van Veluw’s formal approach to self-portraiture, with their preoccupation for materiality, pattern and texture. Yet, at the same time, they are highly personal pieces as well.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

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