Exhibition from 26th March to 26th April 2009 in the Bonn Museum of Art
A collage of pictures taken from glossy magazines develops as a mystical vision of life and decay - dark, macabre and elegant all at the same time: This video, by Aline Bouvy and John Gillis, residents of Brussels, is one of 43 selected works that the VIDEONALE 12 will be showing from 26th March to 26th April 2009 in the Bonn Museum of Art. In all, 1445 works were submitted for the VIDEONALE - an increase of over 140 percent over 2007- works by artists such as the Mexican Gonzalo Lebrija, who has a businessman in a suit rodeo-riding a cow, making visible power and energy, or the Scot Craig Mulholland, who plays with the idea of the gesamtkunstwerk between Kraftwerk and Kubrick.
"This year there is a recognisable tendency towards longer works and non-linear structures," says Georg Elben, Curator of the VIDEONALE 12. "Complexity is on the increase - not in the sense of narration, but of interwoven strands and styles. The interweaving of the most various artistic techniques is carried to perfection - to the point where something individual and singular is created."
1445 current video works from 74 countries were inspected over a whole week by the 6 members of the jury: Katja Albers, who for many years worked in the video collection of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and is at present a free-lance curator in Dresden, Katja Davar, an artist living in London and Cologne, Melanie Bono, director of the Aachener Kunstverein, Ben Harman, Curator at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, Kati Simon, Curator at the Mücsarnok Art Gallery in Budapest, and Georg Elben, Director of the VIDEONALE.
At the opening of the VIDEONALE 12 on 25th March 2009, the Videonale Prize, to the value of 5000 euros, will be awarded for an outstanding work of video art. The VIDEONALE 12 is sponsored by the government of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Kunststiftung NRW, the city of Bonn, the Stiftung Kunst der Sparkasse in Bonn, and the Deutsche Post, the chief sponsor being the KfW-Bankengruppe (list as of 12.12.2008).
Dates of the VIDEONALE 12
Press conference: Tuesday, 24th March 2009, 11.30 o'clock.
Opening, with award of the VIDEONALE PRIZE: Wednesday 25th March 2009, 20.00 o'clock.
Festival programme: Thursday 26th March and Friday 27th March 2009.
University Day: Saturday 28th March 2009, with events throughout the city and in the museum, with a closing party in the Bonn Culture Centre "Kult 41".
Our Newsletter will keep you regularly informed about the programme of the VIDEONALE. Registration under www.videonale.org
The list of the artists selected for the VIDEONALE 12 can be found on the homepage.
25 years of the VIDEONALE
"The usefulness of a festival like the VIDEONALE is that a particular defined group makes a selection of about 45 videos from 1400 submitted entries, and thus boldly proclaims that it finds these particular works important in the year 2009. This is precisely what each of us needs, both the curator and the interested art-viewer. This boldness must exist for the selection, and so I think it extremely important that there are festivals such as the VIDEONALE. It has always been exciting to see what is coming next," says Professor Wulf Herzogenrath, Director of the Kunsthalle Bremen, and a German pioneer on the field of videos.
The VIDEONALE (regd.) - founded in Bonn in 1984 - is the organiser of one of the oldest video festivals in the world. The 25-year-old history of the VIDEONALE began in the Bonn Art Association (Bonner Kunstverein). Since then the festival has grown steadily, and has developed in this field into a leading institution for current video art. Since 2004, the VIDEONALE has been using the premises of the Bonn Museum of Art, making a meaningful complement to the video pioneers from the bequest of Ingrid Oppenheim, who as an art collector and patron of the arts laid the ideal foundations of today's VIDEONALE in the late 1970s. The VIDEONALE has "... always had the advantage of being able, as a kind of film festival for the art video, to give a good picture of the current state of its development in terms of film. This constitutes its function as an aesthetic marker." (K. West)
In the spring of 2009, the Bonn VIDEONALE will be organising the festival, linked with an international competition, for the twelfth time. During the four weeks it lasts, international positions in contemporary video art will be presented in an architectural exhibition setting specially designed by Till Hergenhahn and Hellen Kleine. The architecture thematises the way in which video art can be shown within the classical context of a museum created for painting and sculpture. The design of the exhibition attempts to preserve the museum's open spaces, and thus avoid the "black-box" atmosphere to which visitors have frequently objected.
"This year there is a recognisable tendency towards longer works and non-linear structures," says Georg Elben, Curator of the VIDEONALE 12. "Complexity is on the increase - not in the sense of narration, but of interwoven strands and styles. The interweaving of the most various artistic techniques is carried to perfection - to the point where something individual and singular is created."
1445 current video works from 74 countries were inspected over a whole week by the 6 members of the jury: Katja Albers, who for many years worked in the video collection of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and is at present a free-lance curator in Dresden, Katja Davar, an artist living in London and Cologne, Melanie Bono, director of the Aachener Kunstverein, Ben Harman, Curator at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, Kati Simon, Curator at the Mücsarnok Art Gallery in Budapest, and Georg Elben, Director of the VIDEONALE.
At the opening of the VIDEONALE 12 on 25th March 2009, the Videonale Prize, to the value of 5000 euros, will be awarded for an outstanding work of video art. The VIDEONALE 12 is sponsored by the government of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Kunststiftung NRW, the city of Bonn, the Stiftung Kunst der Sparkasse in Bonn, and the Deutsche Post, the chief sponsor being the KfW-Bankengruppe (list as of 12.12.2008).
Dates of the VIDEONALE 12
Press conference: Tuesday, 24th March 2009, 11.30 o'clock.
Opening, with award of the VIDEONALE PRIZE: Wednesday 25th March 2009, 20.00 o'clock.
Festival programme: Thursday 26th March and Friday 27th March 2009.
University Day: Saturday 28th March 2009, with events throughout the city and in the museum, with a closing party in the Bonn Culture Centre "Kult 41".
Our Newsletter will keep you regularly informed about the programme of the VIDEONALE. Registration under www.videonale.org
The list of the artists selected for the VIDEONALE 12 can be found on the homepage.
25 years of the VIDEONALE
"The usefulness of a festival like the VIDEONALE is that a particular defined group makes a selection of about 45 videos from 1400 submitted entries, and thus boldly proclaims that it finds these particular works important in the year 2009. This is precisely what each of us needs, both the curator and the interested art-viewer. This boldness must exist for the selection, and so I think it extremely important that there are festivals such as the VIDEONALE. It has always been exciting to see what is coming next," says Professor Wulf Herzogenrath, Director of the Kunsthalle Bremen, and a German pioneer on the field of videos.
The VIDEONALE (regd.) - founded in Bonn in 1984 - is the organiser of one of the oldest video festivals in the world. The 25-year-old history of the VIDEONALE began in the Bonn Art Association (Bonner Kunstverein). Since then the festival has grown steadily, and has developed in this field into a leading institution for current video art. Since 2004, the VIDEONALE has been using the premises of the Bonn Museum of Art, making a meaningful complement to the video pioneers from the bequest of Ingrid Oppenheim, who as an art collector and patron of the arts laid the ideal foundations of today's VIDEONALE in the late 1970s. The VIDEONALE has "... always had the advantage of being able, as a kind of film festival for the art video, to give a good picture of the current state of its development in terms of film. This constitutes its function as an aesthetic marker." (K. West)
In the spring of 2009, the Bonn VIDEONALE will be organising the festival, linked with an international competition, for the twelfth time. During the four weeks it lasts, international positions in contemporary video art will be presented in an architectural exhibition setting specially designed by Till Hergenhahn and Hellen Kleine. The architecture thematises the way in which video art can be shown within the classical context of a museum created for painting and sculpture. The design of the exhibition attempts to preserve the museum's open spaces, and thus avoid the "black-box" atmosphere to which visitors have frequently objected.
CONTACT
Videonale e.V. im Kunstmuseum Bonn
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2
53113 Bonn
Tel. 0049 228 77 62 86
Fax 0049 228 90 85 81 7
info@videonale.org
www.videonale.org
PRESS CONTACT + PHOTO ORDERING
TELEVISOR Mediendienstleistungen GmbH
Mareike Winter + Michael P. Aust
Trajanstr. 27
50678 Köln
Tel. 0049 221 931844 0
Fax 0049 221 931844 9
presse@videonale.org
www.televisor.de
Videonale e.V. im Kunstmuseum Bonn
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2
53113 Bonn
Tel. 0049 228 77 62 86
Fax 0049 228 90 85 81 7
info@videonale.org
www.videonale.org
PRESS CONTACT + PHOTO ORDERING
TELEVISOR Mediendienstleistungen GmbH
Mareike Winter + Michael P. Aust
Trajanstr. 27
50678 Köln
Tel. 0049 221 931844 0
Fax 0049 221 931844 9
presse@videonale.org
www.televisor.de
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