VIDEONALE.19

In the VIDEONALE.19 exhibition, 27 works by international artists were on view for six weeks. The works were selected from a total of 1,989 entries by an international jury of experts. Each of the 27 works opened a new window onto the multifaceted spectrum and diverse themes of contemporary productions from the field of video art and the moving image: Together with the artists, we looked at the power imbalance between the Global North and Global South and casted a view on the effects of this imbalance on nature and humans from different – oftentimes indigenous – perspectives. Via the stages of performative mise-en-scènes, we entered into the worlds of queer notions of the body that not only give an account of the difficult path to finding one’s identity in a heteronormative environment, but at the same time relate the search for new, autonomous forms of community. We tuned in to the stream of selfie formats and listened to autobiographical stories of experiencing discrimination and everyday racism. We experienced how art and culture cut their way through the cracks in the walls of censorship and how the struggle for freedom of speech is resolutely and permanently inscribed in public urban space – always and at all times present for everyone. When we then wound up in an elevator somewhere between a mine 120 meters below ground level and the 32nd floor of a real estate investment, we had arrived in a reality that in all its fragility needs to be viewed in a new manner here today. (Tasja Langenbach, Annette Ziegert)

VIDEONALE.19 Artists
Antonia Baehr, Jule Flierl & Isabell Spengler, Shobun Baile, Stephanie Barber, Concha Barquero & Alejandro Alvarado, Maija Blåfield, Eliane Esther Bots, Elkin Calderón Guevara & Diego Piñeros García, Felipe Castelblanco & Lydia Zimmermann, Kent Chan, Federico Cuatlacuatl Teles, Douwe Dijkstra, Will Fredo, Dor Guez, Carlos Irijalba, Ji Su Kang-Gatto, Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, Layton Lachman, Stéphanie Lagarde, Alaa Mansour, Pol Merchan, Julian Quentin, Rrangwane, Alisi Telengut, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Poyen Wang, Andrew Norman Wilson, Yan Wai Yin

Competition Jury
Nathanja van Dijk (independant curator, Amsterdam), Kris Dittel (independant curator, Rotterdam), Amirali Ghasemi (independant curator, Tehran/Berlin), Tasja Langenbach (artistic director Videonale. Cologne/Berlin), Erik Martinson (independant curator, London)

Award Jury
Prof. Dr. Stephan Berg (general director Kunstmuseum Bonn), Julia Höner (director Museum Gelsenkirchen), Lisa Long (curator Stoschek Collection), Niels Van Tomme (director Argos Brüssel), Anna Lena Seiser (director nbk Videoforum Berlin)

Artistic director
Tasja Langenbach

Festival website
v19.videonale.org

Exhibition catalogue
You can order the VIDEONALE.19 catalogue with texts on all artistic works and the exhibition architecture here: V19-catalogue

Images:

VIDEONALE.19 exhibition views, 2023, Kunstmuseum Bonn. © Videonale / Photo: David Ertl

VIDEONALE.19 exhibition views, 2023, Kunstmuseum Bonn. © Videonale / Photo: Sandra Stein, sandra-stein.de