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Shaarbek Amankul - Sham

Shaarbek Amankul - Sham

In Duba and Sham, Kyrgyz artist Shaarbek Amankul gives us an intimate portrait of cleansing rituals performed by shamans in his native country, with the trances, incantations, cries, and grunts, that seem so alien to most of us.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Kate McMillan - Paradise Falls I

Kate McMillan - Paradise Falls I

A topic made especially poignant in today’s pandemic reality, Kate McMillan’s Paradise Falls is a tribute to the disappeared, to the forgotten sites of distant traumas, to the frailty of personal and historic memory.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Kate McMillan - Paradise Falls II

Kate McMillan - Paradise Falls II

Setting up an interplay between landscape, memory, forgetting and history, Kate McMillan’s Paradise Falls considers how history can leave a residue in the landscape and the past often comes back to haunt us.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Gülsün Karamustafa - Personal Time Quartet

Gülsün Karamustafa - Personal Time Quartet

Gulsun Karamustafa’s 4-channel video installation and soundscape, Personal Time Quartet, was intended as a portrait of the artist’s childhood, stuck indoors and perpetually repeating the same domestic tasks.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Stefano Cagol - National Pride

Stefano Cagol - National Pride

Stefano Cagol’s National Pride turns a clip from Virus, a 1980 apocalyptic sci-fi film, into an audiovisual parable for our times.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Nezaket Ekici - On the Way safety and Luck

Nezaket Ekici - On the Way safety and Luck

In her elegy to the freedoms of travel, On The Way Safety and Luck (2016), Nezaket Ekici reimagines a farewell ritual which was once commonly practiced in Turkey and many Balkan countries, where friends and family gather to throw water after the vehicles of the departed, so that their journey may flow as smoothly as water.

Duration : 34m
Maturity Level : all

Theo Eshetu - The Festival of Sacrifice

Theo Eshetu - The Festival of Sacrifice

Faith is the subject of Theo Eshetu’s Festival of Sacrifice, depicting an ancient cultural tradition, the celebration of Eid-ul-Adha, the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice.

Duration : 17m
Maturity Level : all

Claudia Chaseling - Murphy the Mutant

Claudia Chaseling - Murphy the Mutant

Claudia Chaseling’s Murphy the Mutant is apocalyptic sci-fi grounded in the harsh reality of the environmental devastation of nuclear waste and munitions.

Duration : 13m
Maturity Level : all

David Krippendorff - Nothing Escapes My Eyes

David Krippendorff - Nothing Escapes My Eyes

David Krippendorff’s Nothing Escapes My Eyes is a time-warping tribute to a changing world where, to a moving soundtrack from the eponymous opera, a would-be Aida sheds tears for a place and time which no longer exist.

Duration : 14m
Maturity Level : all

Varvara Shavrova - Opera - Three Transformations

Varvara Shavrova - Opera - Three Transformations

Varvara Shavrova’s The Opera takes an intimate look at the performers behind the spectacle of Chinese opera.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Janet Laurence - Vanishing

Janet Laurence - Vanishing

COVIDecameron ends with the meditative soundtrack of deep breathing, snuffling, purring, rumbling, accompanied visually by close-ups of various animals as they inhale…exhale…inhale…exhale.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

Qiu Anxiong - Cake

Qiu Anxiong - Cake

In a timeless and exquisitely crafted contemplation on the past, the present, and the relationship between the two, Qiu Anxiong’s Cake combines painting, drawing and clay with a discordant soundtrack of mechanical noises.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Martin Sexton - Indestructible Truth

Martin Sexton - Indestructible Truth

The temporal and narrative ambiquities persist in Martin Sexton’s Indestructible Truth, intercuting historic footage of Tibet with quotations from Carl Jung, culminating in a UFO hovering over the Tibetan temples.

Duration : 13m
Maturity Level : all

Martin Sexton - Bloodspell

Martin Sexton - Bloodspell

Martin Sexton’s Bloodspell at first appears to be a travelogue constructed from grainy home videos, only to turn into a transcendental journey into science fiction.

Duration : 10m
Maturity Level : all

Sumugan Sivanesan - Children’s Book of War

Sumugan Sivanesan - Children’s Book of War

Sumugan Sivanesan’s A Children’s Book of War uses the lighthearted visual languages of animation, computer games, and digital media in a jarring conjunction to address the topics of war, sovereignty, and violence.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Beyond Walls by Saype

Beyond Walls by Saype

Discover his 8 first gigantic frescoes. Project 9 is now in Cape Town

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Mondrian: From Trees to Squares

Mondrian: From Trees to Squares

Piet Mondrian was born in Netherlands in 1872 and was a famous abstract painter. He grew up during the tail end of Impressionism and his most recognized works are abstract paintings of colored squares, black lines and rectangles. His artworks reflect several instances of a definite Post-Impressionist, emotive use of colors.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

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

Liberty Leading the People

Liberty Leading the People

The leader of the French Romantic school, Eugéne Delacroix, painted Liberty Leading the People in order to commemorate the July Revolution of 1830. The woman in this masterpiece personifies the concept of Liberty. She is leading a group of people forward over a barricade, holding the tricolor flag of the French Revolution which became Frence’s national flag after these events. Liberty Leading the People is now in the Louvre Museum, in Paris.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Orientalism in Europe

Orientalism in Europe

The fascination for the Orient which runs throughout the history of Western art peaked in the nineteenth century. Orientalism enjoyed a golden age between Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign (1798‐1801) and Matisse’s stay in North Africa in 1906. The views of Egypt brought back by the artists on Bonaparte’s expedition, along with the illustration of the first events in the Napoleonic legend, were the first milestones in the European public’s rediscovery of the East.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Tomas Saraceno

Tomas Saraceno

ENJOY HIS DEDICATED CHANNEL

Duration : 53s
Maturity Level : all

The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

DISCOVER IT’S DEDICATED CHANNEL

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all