Videonale

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The Videonale is a biennial festival for video art and time-based media in Bonn .

development

Since it was founded in 1984, the Videonale - Festival for Video and Time-Based Art Forms has taken place regularly every two years and with its ambitious program of video presentations, exhibitions, lectures and performances has quickly become one of the most important festivals for video art and time-based art forms in Germany and Europe develops. Among the participants are names like Dara Birnbaum, Lynn Hershman, Klaus vom Bruch, Gary Hill, Keren Cytter, Marcel Odenbach, Bill Viola and Christian Jankowski. For many of these artists, the Videonale was the first opportunity to present their works to an international public. To this day, the Videonale is committed to its founding idea of ​​depicting current trends in time-based art and presenting them to a broad audience. The focus continues to be on promoting a young, up-and-coming artist community, supplemented by the presentation of established positions in video art.

Initially based at the Bonner Kunstverein , Videonale eV has been using the premises of the Kunstmuseum Bonn since 2004 , where it forms a valuable addition to the museum's video art collection from the Ingrid Oppenheim donation , which, as an art collector and patron, laid the ideal foundation for today's Videonale in the late 1970s .

Since moving to the museum, the Videonale eV has been showing a multi-week exhibition presentation with up to 40 video works of art as part of the Videonale, accompanied by an extensive festival program of artist talks, panel discussions, performances, workshops and lectures. Since then, there has been a special focus on developing and researching new forms of presentation of video art in museums. A new team of designers and architects is invited to each Videonale to redevelop the exhibition architecture.

In addition to the Videonale festival, Videonale eV organizes lectures on current discourses and positions in video art as part of the electron streams lecture series, as well as the cinematographic art series Videonale.scope , a series of events that once a year is dedicated to the transitions and interfaces between film and video art with retrospectives on pioneering filmmakers . Furthermore, the der Videonale eV tours the program of every Videonale as part of Videonale on Tour.

Since 2010, the Videonale eV has also been successively digitizing its extensive archive holdings from 30 years of festival history and making them accessible to the general public for research online via the Videonale's video archive.

The € 5,000 Videonale Prize will be awarded at the Videonale . The prize has been supported by the fluentum collection in Berlin since 2017 .

Videonale on tour stations until 2017

  • The Central House of Artists (CHA) in Moscow / Russia
  • Goethe-Institut Sâo Paulo, in cooperation with Videobrasil / Brazil
  • CCA Lagos, in cooperation with the KfW Foundation and VAN in Lagos / Nigeria
  • National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung / Taiwan
  • Ars Cameralis Festival in Katowice / Poland
  • Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow / Scotland
  • Bavarian House Odessa / Ukraine
  • Goethe-Institut Lima / Peru
  • Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid / Spain
  • Artos Foundation, Nicosia / Cyprus
  • National Gallery of Bosnia-Herzegovina / Sarajevo
  • Athens Digital Arts Festival / Greece

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