Friday, 10 November 2023, 24:00 | midnight

#135: Liam Gillick and Gelatin

In 2019, Liam Gillick and Gelatin took over the Kunsthalle Wien and turned it into a film set composed of massive polystyrene blocks, stacked into monumental structures – complete with a mausoleum and nightclub. The resulting movie is a radical, improvised collective project that tells the story of four narcissists battling their own desires. Stinking Dawn creates a miniature civilization with a baroque corporeality. It is a fight between autonomy and the rise of the new right; freedom and repression. ‘Stinking Dawn’ is darkly humorous, transgressive and political. An unruly, cinematic work in its own right – and a cinematic experience unlike any other [read on ]

Friday, 13 October 2023, 24:00 | midnight

#134: Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo

On the occasion of Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo’s first monograph "Fatal Attraction" at Mousse Publishing, we are delighted to host the book launch with a talk at KW Institute for Contemporary Art at 21:00 – on the panel:  Martin Falck (book designer) and Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo, moderated by Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu – and a film screening as usual at the Babylon film theater at 24:00 | midnight [read on]

Friday, 15 September 2023, 24:00 | midnight

#133: Bani Abidi

As part of Berlin Art Week and selected as BAW Featured we are very delighted to welcome Bani Abidi. Abidi's work is characterized by subtle humor and the dark absurdities of everyday life. The artist poetically explores themes of nationalism, belonging, and self-determination, creating stories between fiction and reality, and personal and political drama.

VIDEOART AT MIDNIGHT AT BAW GARTEN | NEUE NATIONALGALERIE

For the first time, Videoart at Midnight will present artists’ films and videos in the open-air cinema at ›BAW Garten‹, the Berlin Art Week festival hub at Neue Nationalgalerie. Selected works by emerging and established artists will be screened over four evenings. Works on view delve into the focal topics of this year’s ›BAW Garden‹ including social upheaval, the future of the museum, nature, sustainability, the climate crisis, alternative notions of collecting, and communication—topics that are being explored in other Berlin institutions and exhibitions as well [read on]

Friday, 25 August 2023, 24:00 | midnight

Summer Special: RUFEN UND RAUSHAUN – Music videos for YANEQ screening + concert

One year after the record release of YANEQ’s album RUFEN UND RAUSHAUN, produced by Grzegorzki Records, the label of the artists Alicja Kwade and Gregor Hildebrandt, Videoart at Midnight now shows the music videos that were created for the record in a big gala revue with all contributors: artist friends with ...

Friday, 16 June 2023, 24:00 | midnight

#132: Clément Cogitore

Since the late 2000s Clément Cogitore has developed his artistic practice halfway between Cinema and Contemporary Art. Combining film, video, installations and photographs, Cogitore questions the modalities of cohabitation between humankind and its own images and representations. Rituality, collective memory, figuration of the sacred, as well as a particular idea ...

Friday, 19 May 2023, 24:00 | midnight

#131: Bianca Kennedy feat. kennedy+swan

Using a range of mediums, including animation, video, virtual reality, found footage, and drawing, Bianca Kennedy explores everyday relationships and routines, reflecting on human behavior, social norms, and expectations. In recent years, Kennedy's artistic focus has been on physical withdrawal, creating a series that examine the theatrics of bathing and the cultural coding of the unprotected, naked body. Through her works, she uncovers conflicts that exist within power dynamics and identity politics, and how they intersect within categories such as class, gender, privacy, and public space. Currently, Kennedy's work is centered around personal protest, featuring individuals who have grown disillusioned with the world and turned their anger inward [read on]

Friday, 21 April 2023, 24:00 | midnight

#130: Adrian Paci

Adrian Paci (born 1969) in Shkoder, Albania lives and works in Milano, Italy. His oeuvre is an anatomy of political desire: from an account of dispossession and exile through a ritual of belonging and identification down to the mechanics of self-empowerment and emancipation. His films, drawings and paintings often overlap imagination and fantasy with the cruelty of political reality and the harshness of everyday life [read on]

Friday, 10 March 2023, 24:00 | midnight

#129: Laure Prouvost

Laure Prouvost’s artistic output consistently returns to themes of escape into unfamiliar worlds or imaginings of unexpected alternative environments. A strong narrative impulse propels her practice, resulting in immersive, transmedial installations with interwoven story lines that combine fiction and reality. Her videos, installations, paintings and tapestries unhinge commonplace and expected ...

Friday, 17 February 2023, 24:00 | midnight

#128: Mikhail Karikis

Voices, Communities, Ecologies – Mikhail Karikis develops filmmaking strategies that undermine dominant frames of representation and employs listening as a form of activism. He works in sustained collaborations with individuals and communities located outside the context of contemporary art, often pushed into economic and socio-geographic fringes. This results in participatory film projects that highlight alternative modes of human existence, solidarity and action while nurturing dignity and tenderness [read on]

Friday, 13 January 2023, 24:00 | midnight

#127: Annika Kahrs

We are delighted to start our 2023 program with Annika Kahrs. In videos, installations and performances, she conduct research at the borders of what we generally call music, asking about the cultural and social function of music, its communicative aspects and its formal composition. She is interested in questions of when music starts, where does it emerge, what happens at the border of mere noise. In this context, the relationship between humankind and nature, the poetic and aesthetic dimension of natural science, as well as social and political structures in various contexts are important [read on]

Friday, 9 December 2022, 24:00 | midnight

#126: Fan Popo 范坡坡

On the occasion of the exhibition Forming Communities: Berliner Wege – 道法柏林，而游于外 (Dào fǎ bólín, ér yóu yú wài) at KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art (curated by Thomas Eller 艾墨思 and Li Zhenhua 李振华), Videoart at Midnight is delighted to welcome Fan Popo 范坡坡, showing a bright selection of his filmic work [read on]

Omsk Social Club: Alienation and Charisma

Film screening and exhibition opening: Omsk Social Club presents “Alienation and Charisma”, a new short film based on a Real Game Play developed in the frame of their GameChanger residency. In the frame of their two-month residency period for GameChanger, Omsk Social Club explored the soft underbelly of collective order, consensus and legitimacy through a Real Game Play set in a satirical possible near future scenario. Springboarding off the book “Alienation and Charisma: A Study of Contemporary American Communes” by Benjamin Zablocki, they dove into the manner in which alienation and charisma are generative in the emergence of collectivity [read on]

Friday, 11 November 2022, 24:00 | midnight

#125: Cyrill Lachauer

Cyrill Lachauer (born 1979 in Rosenheim, Germany) is a wanderer. One who prefers the nomadic life to the sedentary on principle, who is constitutively characterized by restlessness, unrest and longing, almost anachronistically, by a love of catching out - whether he on is rock climbing in the European Alps, or the big walls of Yosemite Valley or riding on the freight trains of North America. Cyrill Lachauer shows us a selection of his cinematic works, sometimes visually powerful, sometimes sensitive, sometimes oblique road movies through the USA and other countries, in the course of which Cyrill Lachauer has listend to landscapes in a very ambivalent way. More associative than clearly defined, more exploratory and questioning than assertive [read on]

Friday, 14 October 2022, 24:00 | midnight

#124: Anna Ehrenstein

Anna Ehrenstein lives between Berlin, Tirana and the cloud and works in various mediums in artistic or curatorial production, examining how technology and digital-material culture reshape power relations. She investigates varying forms of knowledge and their constructions through south-south collaborations and redistribution of global north resources. Photography, Text, Video, Installation, Performance and Sculpture are created through working in community and throughout process-based artistic and curatorial research and mediation. How are we as a society produced by the media and through lens-based realities? Networked processes are key in untangling capitalistic structures of greed in a world of ongoing crises [read on]

Friday, 16 September 2022, 24:00 | midnight

#123: Rosa Barba

on the occasion of the Berlin Art Week 2022 and the celebration of the Award for Artistic Project Spaces and Initiatives 2022 by Berlin Senat Department for Culture and Europe we are thrilled to welcome Rosa Barba, who in her work repeatedly explores the concept of an anarchic organization of cinematic spaces - a working principle that aims to form a new way of thinking by destabilizing outdated structures of cinema - on a journey to an imaginary political trope for the cinema of the present day [read on]

Project Space Festival: Videoart at Midnight @ Xanadu Berlin

As part of the 2022 Project Space Festival – The City of Project Spaces, XANADU invites selected Berlin initiatives to present moving image programs (artists' films and videos) that represent their own distinctive approach to the challenges and possibilities of presenting this medium outside the usual institutionalized contexts. Alongside 6x6 Project, ANORAK and XANADU themselves, Videoart at Midnight will show a program of recent works by Katarina Zdjelar, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnonc and Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz [read on]

Videoart at Midnight @ Erkrani i Artit Festival

As part of the 2022 Erkrani i Artit Festival in Shkodra (Albania), ART HOUSE invites Videoart at Midnight to show a selection of works  (curated by Lek M. Gjeloshi) – an open air lakeside rendezvous! 1st Night, June 1, 2022Katarina Zdjelar, Shoum (6’59’’) Fischer / el Sani, The Rise (19’03’’) Pauline Curnier Jardin, Explosion Ma Baby (9’12’’) Wolfgang Tillmans, Fast Lane (6’57’)  2nd Night, ...

Friday, 10 June 2022, 24:00 | midnight

#122: Marianna Simnett

We are thrilled again to welcome an internationally acclaimed artist of our time, Marianna Simnett. Simnett will give an introduction to her work, and show a selection of her outstanding films. Her immersive narratives centre around the overlapping and at times incongruous themes of vulnerability, autonomy, control, pain, metamorphosis, and care [read on]