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Stillness in Profile

In Portrait of a Young Woman, attributed to Raphael and Giulio Romano around 1518, a serene figure gazes outward with poised detachment. The Slow Art format lingers on her luminous skin, the delicate folds of her attire, and the subtle interplay of light and shadow. This intimate portrayal invites viewers into a quiet moment of contemplation, where beauty and introspection converge in harmonious balance. This work can be seen at [The Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg,https://www.musees.strasbourg.eu/evenement/-/entity/id/534915162/le-portrait?p_l_id=343992&_eu_strasbourg_portlet_entity_detail_EntityDetailPortlet_classPK=534915162&p_v_l_s_g_id=0&_eu_strasbourg_portlet_entity_detail_EntityDetailPortlet__eu_strasbourg_portlet_search_asset_v2_SearchAssetPortlet_keywords=Raphael+Portrait+of+a+Young+Girl&_eu_strasbourg_portlet_entity_detail_EntityDetailPortlet_title=le-portrait&_eu_strasbourg_portlet_entity_detail_EntityDetailPortlet_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.musees.strasbourg.eu%2Frecherche%3Fp_p_id%3Deu_strasbourg_portlet_search_asset_v2_SearchAssetPortlet%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26_eu_strasbourg_portlet_search_asset_v2_SearchAssetPortlet_keywords%3DRaphael%2BPortrait%2Bof%2Ba%2BYoung%2BGirl]

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Quiet Back Turned

Quiet Back Turned

In The Valpinçon Bather, Ingres invites us into a private world of stillness and subtle grace. Viewed from behind, the bather sits in silence, her form rendered with soft contours and glowing skin. In the Slow Art format, time stretches, steam rises, fabrics shimmer, and serenity lingers. This is a moment of quiet presence, where intimacy meets idealized beauty. The absence of expression draws us deeper, asking us to look longer, to feel the hush of a timeless interior. This work can be seen at [The Louvre Museum, Paris,https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010066528]

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Standstill of War

Standstill of War

In The Intervention of the Sabine Women, Jacques-Louis David captures a moment where human emotion halts the fury of battle. The Slow Art lens dwells on outstretched arms, tearful faces, and sculpted bodies frozen mid-conflict. This is not a scene of victory, but of pleading and pause, where women step between swords to reclaim peace. The atmosphere is charged yet still, revealing the moral weight beneath classical grandeur. Time seems to stop, urging the viewer to reflect on reconciliation. This work can be seen at [The Louvre Museum, Paris,https://www.louvre.fr/en/explore/visitor-trails/beyonce-and-jay-z-s-louvre-highlights/the-intervention-of-the-sabine-women]

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Between Life and Art

Between Life and Art

Gustave Courbet’s The Artist’s Studio unfolds as a quiet theater of everyday life and artistic reflection. In the Slow Art format, each figure, peasant, noble, muse emerges with sculptural stillness. The painter at work becomes a calm center in a room of contrasts, where reality and imagination blur. Light moves gently across textures, from bare walls to layered canvases, offering a meditative view into Courbet’s world. This contemplative panorama invites viewers to linger, to watch creation unfold in silence. This work can be seen at [The Musée d’Orsay, Paris,https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en]

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Augenblick: Su Misura

Augenblick: Su Misura

A tailor and his jealous wife during a morning like any other, serving customers like everyday. Suddenly, a client different from all the other ones comes in the study and everything changes. In this video by Augenblick, the textures become imagination and movement. Su Misura (that means Tailored) is a short choreography that describes through gestures the relationship of the couple. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Rain Kencana: Goldfish

Rain Kencana: Goldfish

This short film is about Ichi Go dances her ambivalent attitude between tradition and modernity in relation to her femininity. She clearly shows her discomfort when dealing with symbols from both worlds. The movie is inspired by a poem of Shuntaro Tanikawa. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Engel - Karmi: Sour Sweets

Engel - Karmi: Sour Sweets

The film is about an elderly woman, who’s body has paid its toll to the ravages of time but who’s memories and emotions are more awake than ever. In her remembrance the past and people revive. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Frozen in Motion

Frozen in Motion

In Paolo Uccello’s The Battle of San Romano, a clash of knights and lances unfolds like a grand chessboard in motion. The Slow Art format lingers on gleaming armor, fallen spears, and the surreal geometry of battle. Perspective and pattern overtake violence, transforming combat into a theatrical tableau. Uccello’s fascination with form and depth turns war into a spectacle both heroic and strangely serene. This video invites you to enter a suspended moment, where chaos becomes choreography. This work can be seen at [The Uffizi Gallery, Florence,https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/battle-of-san-romano]

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Maxime Martins: Ubikutopia

Maxime Martins: Ubikutopia

Maxime Martins is a visual artist and filmmaker. His film, photography and video work use the language of cinematography to question the temporality of images. As he works on contemporary utopias, he is fascinated by the subconscious mechanisms layered in urbanistic and cinematographic dreams. In his works time is suspended in order to reveal the phenomenon at stake in urban spaces. A character goes back on the technological utopia of the early XXIst century through the creation in 2015 of the city of Songdo in South Korea. The first smart, ubiquitous city.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Mounir Fatmi: Speed City

Mounir Fatmi: Speed City

Mounir Fatmi is a Moroccan artist. His art includes video, installation, drawing, sculpture and painting. This work talks about the speed of modernization in the Arab World. With the industrialization, cities in the Middle East appear out of the desert and the buildings thrown up so fast that there is no time to reflect on the changes.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Echoes of Stone

Echoes of Stone

Giambattista Piranesi’s Prisons (Carceri d’Invenzione) plunge viewers into vast, imaginary dungeons of arches, stairways, and scaffolding, creating spaces that are both majestic and claustrophobic. In slow motion, these etchings unfold as dreamlike labyrinths, where shadow and light sculpt architecture into emotion. Created in the 18th century, these fantastical visions transcend time, hinting at the psychological and philosophical depths of confinement and grandeur. Piranesi’s masterful linework invites meditative exploration of the boundless spaces of the mind. This work can be seen at [The Metropolitan Museum of Art,https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/337725]

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Submerged Splendor

Submerged Splendor

In Italian Baroque City under Water, Sergei Tchoban envisions a grand metropolis where ornate domes and colonnades are submerged beneath tranquil waters. This slow art video reveals his intricate ink and watercolor drawings, where classical architecture dissolves into fluid reflections. Inspired by the opulence of Italian Baroque design, Tchoban’s work invites contemplation on the impermanence of human creations and the enduring beauty of decay. As viewers immerse themselves in this submerged cityscape, they are encouraged to reflect on the delicate balance between cultural grandeur and the forces of nature.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Towers of Babel

Towers of Babel

Sergei Tchoban’s City of Babylon Towers envisions a fantastical skyline where ancient myth and modern ambition intertwine. In this slow art video, his intricate ink and watercolor drawings unfold gradually, revealing a labyrinth of towering structures that echo the legendary Tower of Babel. Each spire and arch invites contemplation on the human drive to build, dream, and transcend. The meticulous details and layered compositions evoke a sense of wonder and introspection, offering viewers a meditative journey through imagined urban landscapes.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Script of the Soul

Script of the Soul

Afghan calligraphy is a living art of devotion and resilience, where ink becomes prayer and gesture becomes memory. Rooted in traditions like Naskh and the Herat School, Afghan calligraphers have long blended Persian, Arabic, and regional styles into fluid, expressive forms. From illuminated Qur’ans on silk to contemporary works by artists like Sughra Hussainy and Samira Kitman, each stroke reflects a lineage of spiritual and cultural continuity. In slow motion, the rhythmic flow of the qalam (reed pen) reveals not just letters, but the heartbeat of a people who have preserved beauty through adversity.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Vietnam

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Vietnam

A Parisian by adoption, Lorenzo Mattotti was born in Brescia, Italy, in 1954. He studied architecture in Venice then moved towards the graphic novel form of which he is now one of the major exponents. In this travel book dedicated to Vietnam, Mattotti opens us towards a vibrant world of colour suffused with energy and vitality. A window into his impressions, his illustrations leave us contemplative.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Hawaii

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Hawaii

In this new Louis Vuitton Travel Book, the Croatian comic book artist Esad Ribic draws the Hawaiian. In over 100 exclusive drawings and paintings, he offers his brilliant style that remind us Realist movement.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Easter Island

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Easter Island

The Louis Vuitton Travel Book collection offers a new and contemporary vision of travel, both real and virtual. Intended as works of art in themselves, they depict each destination through the eyes of an artist in 100-120 exclusive drawings. In his dream-like gouaches, Arsham imagines for the Travel Book Easter Island a cosmogony in touches of grey and black, paying attention to perspective and subtle nuances.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Venice

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Venice

This Louis Vuitton Travel book showcases the unique perspectives of contemporary artists to offer a contemporary vision of travel. Here, the famous manga master Jirô Taniguchi has created an exclusive story set in Venice.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Mexico

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Mexico

In this new Louis Vuitton Travel Book, the French writer, illustrator and painter Nicolas de Crécy depicts Mexico as a baroque land full of poetry. In over 100 exclusive drawings and painting, he offers varied graphic and stylistic forms that rivisit genres and techniques.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - London

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - London

The Louis Vuitton Travel Book collection offers a new and contemporary vision of travel, both real and virtual. Intended as works of art in themselves, they depict each destination through the eyes of an artist in 100-120 exclusive drawings. The Travel Book London by emerging Japanese artist Natsko Seki offers a lively and poetic vision of the UK capital.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Yayoi Kusama

Advice to the Young from Yayoi Kusama

What piece of advice would one of the world’s most iconic contemporary artists pass on? Japanese Yayoi Kusama here turns the tables and argues that advice should not come from other people: I am not an art teacher to you. Spread your ideas all over the world. Kusama encourages artists to trust their own creativity, explore themselves and discover their own path in life: A true direction will come from overcoming adversity.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Bjarke Ingels

Advice to the Young from Bjarke Ingels

Renowned Danish architect Bjarke Ingels here offers his architectural advice to aspiring architects and explains why architecture is fundamentally important for the world we live in.  Bjarke Ingels is considered one of the greatest architects of our time, with projects such as the BIG U, which contains a plan to fortify the whole south tip of Manhattan against future storms and rising sea levels. His architectural vision evolves around a philosophy that could be described as a pragmatic utopianism, combining everyday needs with sustainable solutions to the climatic challenges.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Marina Abramović

Advice to the Young from Marina Abramović

Follow your intuition. Have courage. Do what you imagine. And always be completely present in the moment. Marina Abramović on what it really means to be an artist: A great artist has to be ready to fail. Meet the charismatic performance artist Marina Abramović in this interview on what it means to be an artist, waking up each morning with an urge to be creative.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Patti Smith

Advice to the Young from Patti Smith

Build a good name, rock poet Patti Smith advises the young. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises. Don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work and protect your work. The American singer, poet and photographer Patti Smith is a living punk rock legend. In this video she gives powerful advice to the young: “Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. Life is like a roller coaster ride, it is never going to be perfect. It is going to have perfect moments and rough spots, but it’s all worth it.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all