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FLUID STATES. SOLID MATTER
Videonale 18.

On what basis do we live, think and act nowadays? And how are we shaping this basis for the future? The works of the exhibition FLUID STATES. SOLID MATTER open a discourse on these questions. How does our thinking of the relationship of human beings to their environment change when we no longer see the body as solid and autonomous - as it has been the case until now - but as fluid. As fluid bodies - or "Bodies of Water", as gender researcher Astrida Neimanis puts it -
we as human beings no longer stand above nature, but in interaction with it, with the living being, with the systems that surround us.
Image: © Ida Kammerloch, Resusci Anne, 2019/2020

Alexandra Meijer-Werner

Between 1993 and 2002 Alexandra Meijer-Werner's artistic work focused on creating video installations with multiple projectors, and combining sound, texture and interaction with the public. She also produced a number of documentaries which evidence her profound interest in personal transformation and the awakening of human consciousness.

Please have a look to an introduction of her work on blinkvideo.
Image: © Eugenia Meijer-Werner

Moving Images / Moving Bodies
Online screening programme in cooperation
with the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria

Curated by Ludwig Seyfarth

Research into the human body and interpersonal relationships remain central themes in video and moving image art. Artists from Bulgaria and Germany, whose work is related in content, will be shown in pairs over the next weeks. The exhibition planned for November 2020 in Sofia has been postponed until 2021. Instead, a consecutive presentation of selected films by artists from Moving Bodies/Moving Images is presented on blinkvideo.
image: © Elitsa Dimitrova

Shooting Ghosts
Online screening programme in cooperation
with the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria

Curators: Kalin Serapionov, Krassimir Terziev

What we propose in this programme is a highly subjective and fragmented view on current practices in moving image in the Bulgarian art scene. We focused on practices that show affinity with speculative narratives - narratives that not just record what is in front of the cinematic eye, but also capture all the ghosts that are unreachable by the apparatus, thus projecting speculative views that intend not merely to describe, but to transform the world.
image: © Veneta Androva

Featured videos

Alexandra Meijer-Werner
Kreislauf / cycle … revolution … circulation, 1997

Kreislauf is an oneiric trip about the continuous cycle of human rebirth. Our dreams create the fabric in which the threads or individual tendencies appear and disappear, only to become visible once again. The dynamic of this video is a weave of repetitions and juxtapositions of the experiences that create the dance of life. Everything is cyclic, nothing disappears; everything is perpetually mutating in landscapes of anguish and joy, violence and calm, solitude and union. The traveler is the active force of his own fate when he realizes that what is most significant in life is the act of living itself.

Björn Braun
without title (excerpt), 2012

Sandra Boeschenstein
Besuchte Linie auf Granit, 2014

I encountered the roundworm in the Alps when I attempted to repair the water catchment of the cabin after a storm. I wished for this animal found at the spring to be a visited line, then searched for potential visitors and found, just nearby, a nest of firebugs in a dried chestnut leaf, which I placed just outside of the image field. The granite slab, roundworm, bugs’ nest and a fly lived their lives within a radius of 100 meters. My part in this was to bring them into direct proximity for the duration of an hour, to focus my camera and to breathe onto the upper part of the lens, in order to increase the atmospheric depth of the picture. Finally, to come to the allegation I’ve made via the title that something was a line that actually is an animal (when normally, in a contrary approach, characteristically formed lines represent animals or the like). The combination of the simplicity in the foundation / bedrock with a simultaneous insecurity in view of scale and nature of this white line, holds my fascination.

Isabella Fürnkäs
In Ekklesia, 2015

The title, ‘In Ekklesia,’ comes from the Greek word ‘ecclesia,’ which refers to the democratic parliament that served Athens in its halcyon days by being open to male citizens every other year. Solon, an Athenian legislator and a sage, allowed all citizens to serve the parliament regardless of their social class in BC 594. The Ecclesia made decisions about war, military strategies, and all judicial and administrative issues. This work satirizes various facets of humans and machines in the 21st century, unconsciously within a dystopian environment. Isabella Fürnkäs introduces a method of combining and overlaying countless images in her work, providing the new experience of sensations that act in ambiguous flows, movements, interference, and interjection. The piece is about the new metaphysical and material connections appearing through digital conversations that are divorced from the general notion of time and space, as well as isolation and alienation. Text by Hyun Jeung Kim (Nam June Paik Art Center Seoul)

Ryan Gander
Man on a bridge - (A study of David Lange) , 2008

A digital video transferred from 16 mm film shows a number of slightly differing takes of the same short sequence: A man walks over a bridge and seems to notice something over the railing to his left hand side. As he moves in for a closer inspection, the film cuts, which is then followed by another take of the same shot.

Wim Catrysse
MSR, 2014

On the Kuwait roads the journey goes in a western direction, past military bases and a line of oil transporters. Dreary sound sequences are pumped out by the radio. In the middle of rubbish heaps by the roadside a pack of wild dogs is trying to find shelter from the wind. Wim Catrysse presents the Kuwait desert both as a post-apocalyptic setting and as protagonist. During the journey, the car window is an obstacle, made even more so by the screen. The viewer, dumped in the desert, does not manage to reach it through the window. MSR, the Main Supply Route, is the main highway used to coordinate military operations in the Gulf War in 1990/91 and the War in Iraq in 2003. Filming is forbidden here, so the pack of wild dogs carries the story at first. But their behaviour keeps on bringing the desert into focus as the principal actor. Underlined by the sound track, its seeming hostility to life awakens the impression of a dystopian timelessness reminiscent of the apocalyptic scenarios in films and makes the viewer feel ill at ease. Catrysse examines conventions, both in a political-dogmatic and in a filmic sense.Nathalie Ladermann

Johanna Reich
CRAWLER, 2020

A crawler is a searchbot in the internet which Johanna Reich uses to collect special comments or phrases about the most discussed topics during the last years like A.I., climate change, digital revolution, gender and the turn of democratic systems. Johanna Reich selects several of the collected phrases composing a robot performance: self-driving projectors move across the exhibition space and project comments about a.i., gender or climate change onto the audience and architecture.

Annika Kahrs
solid surface, with hills, valleys, craters and other topographic...., 2014

solid surface,with hills,valleys,craters and other topographic features,primarily made of ice„solid surface, with hills, valleys, craters and other topographic features, primarily made of ice“ is set in a planetarium with a projected starry sky, in the center of which is situated a light spot, that explores the space. The Film deals with the moment, shortly before the actual visualization of pluto’s surface properties, whereas the entire cupola hall of the planetarium serves as a metaphorical projection surface of Pluto. The round light spot formally points to the shape of the celestial object and functions as placeholder for its soon arising image.

Ann Oren
The World Is Mine, 2017

In cosplay of the Japanese cyber diva Hatsune Miku, the artist moved to Tokyo, seeking an identity in the world of Miku fanatics, where she was drawn into a love affair with one of the fans. Miku is a Vocaloid, a vocal synthesizer software personified by a cute animated character. Her entire persona: lyrics, music and animation – is fan created, and that's her charm. She even performs sold out concerts as a hologram. By transforming herself into a Miku character through cosplay, Oren enters a world of real hardcore fans where fantasy is more real than reality and the differentiation between the two becomes obsolete. The film examines the performative nature of cosplaying – dressing up and playing the role of fictional characters – as a hybrid space where reality blurs into fetishistic fantasies and pop culture clichés. Combining fan-made lyrics and songs, Oren's trials and tribulations in the fictional Miku world unfolds through vague erotic episodes and encounters with characters whose ontological status remains mysterious, bringing to mind the adventures of a modern Alice in a virtual Wonderland.

Jonathan Monaghan
Den of Wolves, 2020

Den of Wolves is a seamlessly-looping video installation drawing on a range of references to weave a new multi-layered mythology. The work follows three bizarre wolves through a series of increasingly surreal retail stores as they search for the regalia of a monarch. Composed of one continuous camera shot, the work is an immersive, dreamlike journey drawing connections between popular culture, institutional authority and technological over-dependence.

Stefan Panhans
HOSTEL Sequel #1: Please Be Careful Out There, Lisa Marie – H.V.Installation Mix, 2018

At transmediale, Stefan Panhans and Andrea Winkler show their work HOSTEL Sequel #1: Please Be Careful Out There, Lisa Marie – Hybrid Version, a new project that combines film, installation, and staccato stage reading (on blinkvideo we are showing a trailer of the integrated film). With everyday racism, celebrity worship, stereotypes, and the dominating power of the economic all on the rise, precariously and flexibly traveling cultural workers of different origin deliver a sort of spoken word battle about their experiences and dreams. They constantly switch roles and, at the same time, form a choir that clashes with the rapped reports of everyday life. As in a collaborative gymnastic exercise—surrounded by scenery made up of set pieces from outfits of airports, hostels, and courier services, from self-optimization tools and game show displays—they fight for a voice and to be heard, building new alliances along the way. for more information: opening of transmediale

Mariola Brillowska
Children Of The Devil, 2011

Mariola Brillowska’s animation film relates the total collapse of the family system in the 21st century. Six cartoon episodes present an unsparing account of how children become murderers of their parents.

Julia Charlotte Richter
Point Blank, 2019

“Point Blank” refers to a film scene from "The Misfits" (1961) that is now re-enacted and further contextualized. In the original scene, the recently divorced main character Roslyn (Marilyn Monroe) rises up against three worn-out cowboys and, in the middle of the desert, confronts the men with all their lacks and lost dreams. In “Point Blank”, we see a young woman wandering around in surreal desert landscapes, a journey into the remoteness of the world and her own inner life. With every step out into the desert, the girl descends into her own depths searching for a place that seems to be suitable for her emotions and words. Unlike Roslyn, the young woman now refers to absent addressees: "Liars", "Murderers" and "Dead Men" she screams and turns around wildly. The words, which spread like bullets in the air, fall back on her. Except for a faint echo, there is no resonance at this place that depicts the obsessions of a distorted, patriarchal society and has become a dramatic backdrop of yearnings within the collective history of cinema. Where Roslyn was able to elicit a terrified astonishment from the three men, the character in Julia Charlotte Richter's video remains to herself and unheard, the desert as the only witness of her manifesto, her anger and her strength.

Ulrich Polster
Frost, 2003 / 2004

The night city. Industrial ruins filmed in contrejour. Memories from childhood. Different places and times combined at the mountain. It is a hollow portrait of Eastern Europe that carries the traces of its history.

Ene-Liis Semper
FF REW, 1998

Dimitri Venkov
The Hymns of Muscovy, 2018

The film is a trip to the planet Muscovy, which is an upside down space twin of the city of Moscow. As the title of the work suggests, the journey also takes us back in time. Gliding along the surface of the planet, we look down to the sky and see historic architectural styles fly by - the exuberant Socialist Classicism aka Stalinist Empire, the laconic and brutish Soviet Modernism, and the hodgepodge of contemporary knock-offs and revivals of the styles of the past. An essential companion to this journey through time and space are Hymnic Variations on the Soviet anthem by the composer Alexander Manotskov. The anthem was written in 1943 and has undergone three editions of lyrics yet musically remained unchanged to now serve as the official anthem of the Russian Federation. Manotskov used an early recording of the anthem as source material to create three electronic variations each corresponding to an architectural style. As if in a twist of Goethe’s phrase, architecture plays its frozen music. Look closely, can you hear it?

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Works


Galleries

Anita Beckers Gallery
Anita Beckers
Braubachstraße 9
60311 Frankfurt am Main
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E-Mail: info@galerie-beckers.de




Biography

born Cologne, Germany, 1969

Education

2003 MFA, Stanford University
1990 -1994 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
1995 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute
2003 MFA Stanford University / USA

Solo exhibitions

2019
Kota Ezawa: Two Views, Hilliard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA / USA
Paint Unpaint, John Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY / USA
Tonya, Berkshire, Reese and Paul Galleries, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN / USA
The Crime of Art, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL / USA

2018
The Crime of Art, (Hollywood Edition), Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA / USA
The Crime of Art (Cadavre Equis), Galerie der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig / DE
The Crime of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA / USA
The Crime of Art, Illges Gallery, Columbus State University, GA / USA
Supercalifragilistic, RL Window, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York / USA

2017
The Crime of Art, SITElab Gallery, Santa Fe, NM / USA
Rotherwas Project 2: Kota Ezawa, Gardner Museum Revisited, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, MA / USA

2016
Gardner Museum Revisited, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA / USA
In That Case: Havruta in Contemporary Art—Kota Ezawa and James Kirby Rogers, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA / USA
The Crime of Art, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt / DE

2015

The Thingness of an Object, Feldbuschwiesner, Berlin / DE
In the Box: Kota Ezawa, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA / USA
Thirteen Stolen Works of Art and a Videotape, Murray Guy, New York, NY / USA

2014
Panorama, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
LYAM 3D, Pierre-François Quellette art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
The Aesthetics of Silence, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2013
Kota Ezawa: Redrawn, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Boardwalk, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2012
Offsite: Kota Ezawa, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
The Curse of Dimensionality, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2011
Paper or Plastic, Mendes Wood, Sao Paulo Brazil
City of Nature, Feldbusch Wiesner Galerie, Berlin, Germany
City of Nature, Murray Guy, New York, NY
City of Nature, Madison Square Park, New York. NY

2010
Beatles Über California, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt a.M., Germany

2009
Odessa Staircase Redux, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Medley, The Box, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
Group Show, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt a.M., Germany

2008
Lennon Sontag Beuys, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MS / USA
Multiplex, Murray Guy, New York, NY / USA
Dietmar Lutz & Kota Ezawa: Documenta, Arquebuse Gallery, Geneva / CH

2007
Hotel California, The Hayward Gallery, London / UK
Last Year At Marienbad, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava / SVK
The History of History, Charles E. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver / CAN
Kota Ezawa: Re-Animating History, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA / USA

2006
Kota Ezawa, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
The History of Photography Remix, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2005
Matrix 154, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Lennon Sontag Beuys, Murray Guy, New York, NY
Project Room, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA

2004
Version (with Michele O’Marah), New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

2003
Who’s Afraid of Black, White and Grey, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Selected group exhibitions

2019
The Whitney Biennal 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY / USA
Now Playing: Video 1999 – 2019, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ / USA
Beyond the Cape! Comics and Contemporary Art, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL / USA
What is an edition anyway? McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA / USA
Likeness, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA / USA
The Empathy Lab, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA / USA
A Cure for Everything, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA / USA

2018
Shego/Hego/Ego – McEvoy Family Collection, Paris Photo 2018 / FR
Light Box, Kunstmuseum Celle / DE
Entfesselte Natur – Das Bild der Katastrophe seit 1600, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg / DE
Way Bay 2, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA / USA
Quintessence: 6 Perspectives on Abstraction, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA / USA

2017
Art Lessons, Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, Madrid / ES
Leonard Cohen – A Crack in Everything, Musée d’ Art Contemporain de Montréal / CAN
Limitless Horizon: Vertical Perspective, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane / AUS
Detritus, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA Group exhibition, Murray Guy, New York, NY / USA

2016
California and the West, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA / USA
The Human Spirit, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA / USA
Zur Sache Schätzchen, Pasinger Fabrik, München / DE

2015
Last Year in Marienbad: A Film as Art, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
Watch This! Revelations in Media Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Screen Play: Life in an Animated World, Albright-Know Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Bewegte Bilder, Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, Germany
No Place Like Home: Selections from the John Wieland Collection of Contemporary Art,
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT

2014
Convergences: Selected Photographs from the Permanent Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Out of Site, PEER Gallery, London, UK
Fundamental Abstraction III, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Political Fictions, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA / USA
Between Critique and Absorbtion: Contemporary Art and Consumer Culture, Haggerty Museum,
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Utopias Constructed, Republic Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
The Plot Thickens, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2013
Out of the Ordinary, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
The Unphotographable, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Ed Ruscha: Books & Company, Gagosian Gallery, NY
traveling to: Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
Proximities 2: Knowing Me, Knowing You, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Conflict Resolution, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
This is not America: Resistence, Protest and Poetics, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

2012
Project 35, Independent Curators International, Esker Foundation, Calgary / CAN
After Photoshop, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Sports Show, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Occupy Bay Area, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
The End, Vogt Gallery, New York, NY
Fax, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Dwelling Life of Man, Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection,
Foto Colectania Foundation, Barcelona, Spain

2011
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image,
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
H-Box, Artsonje Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Blink, Denver Art Museum, CO
Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Art Awards, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
The More Things Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Serious Games: War-Media-Art, Mathlidenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany
Super 8, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2010
Video Art: Replay, Part 2. Everyday Imaginary, Institute of Contemporary Art,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
CUE: Artists’ Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Until Now: Collecting the New (1960-2010), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Bruce Conner: Long Play and the Singles Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Pervasive Influence: The Mechanical Bride, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
New Art for a New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions 2000 – 2010,
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Splicing Life, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
New York Now, Murray Guy, New York, NY
The Tell Tale Heart, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
The Image in Question: War-Media-Art, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts,
Remise Animation, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst / DE
Project 35, Independent Curators International – touring exhibition

2009
Dress Codes: The Third Triennial of Photography and Video,
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Material Witness, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Talking Pictures, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Grau Zero, Paco das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Suddenly This Summer, Sikkema, Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
Untitled (History of Painting): Painting and Public Life in the 21st Century,
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
H-Box, Orange County Museum of Art, CA
The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection, Orange County Museum of Art, CA

2008
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image; Part II: Realisms,
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
O1SJ Biennial:Superlight, San Jose Museum of Art, CA,
traveling to Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH
The New Normal, Artists Space, New York, NY
5th International Media Art Biennial, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding,
Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, New York, NY
Two-Fold Faction, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China
The Object is the Mirror (Part II), Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK

2007
SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
On the Scene: Kota Ezawa, Sarah Hobbs, Angela Strassheim, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Animated Painting, San Diego Museum of Art, CA
Geopolitics of Animation, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain
Image Processor, Lombard Fried Projects, New York, NY
Four Thursday Nights: Minus, Aspen Art Museum, CO
Reality Reloaded, 14-1 Galerie, Stuttgart Germany
Kota Ezawa / Alan Rath / Nam June Paik, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Videology, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

2006
Out of Time: A Contemporary View, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Down by Law, The Wrong Gallery at the Whitney Biennial,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
NextNew2006: Art and Technology, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Regarding Truth: An Exhibition of Work by Artadia Award Winners,
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
Histories Animades, Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain,
traveling to Sale Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain, and to Le Fresnoy, France
Metro Pictures, The Moore Space/Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
Joint Venture, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA

2005
The Last Generation, Apex Art, New York, NY, traveling to Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France
I Still Believe in Miracles, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, ARC,
au Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, France
in words and pictures, Murray Guy, New York, NY
Seeing Double: Encounters with Warhol, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

2004
2004 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Shanghai Bienniale 2004: Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai Art Museum, China
temporalscape, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art, traveling exhibition:
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA ;
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts,
San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
simple.tech, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
Bay Area Bazaar, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR

2003
Killer Kartoons, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
Single Channel, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX

2002
Bay Area Now 3, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2001
Images Festival, Toronto
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany

2000
LA Freewaves, Otis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
It’s the beginning of a new friendship,
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany

1999
Spiel des Lebens, Hauptpost, Düsseldorf, Germany

1997
Better, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery

1995
Rhine Video, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY

1993
Düsseldorf, Cologne – A Village Gaze, Anthology Film Archives, New York

Awards, Scholarships, Residencies

2017
DAAD Guest Artist, HBK Braunschweig / DE
2016
Artist in Residence, Villa Waldberta, München / DE
2014
Lamar Dodd Professorial Chair, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens / GRC
2013
Artist in Residence, Villa Kamogawa, Goethe Institut, Kyoto / JPN
2011
Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA / USA
2010
Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA / USA
2006
SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA / USA
2005
Artadia Jury Award, San Francisco, CA / USA
Residency Fellowship, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart / DE
2003
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, New York, NY / USA
Personal Work Grant, Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA / USA
Mediamaker Award, Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco, CA / USA
2001
Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fellowship, The San Francisco Foundation, CA / USA
1995
Meisterschüler, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf / DE

Selected film screenings

2016
Animated!: Explorations into Moving Pictures, Pamler Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA / USA
2015

The Neuflize OBC video night, Palais du Tokyo, Paris, France
2014
Artprojx presents:The Miami and Moscow Film Selections, Bermondsey Project, London, UK
Arte Video Night, Paris, France
Performance/Video, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco
2013
the poetics of Mountains, their mutations and multifarious things, curated by David Gryn, Artprojx, Verbier, Switzerland
2012
Take Off, Kadist Art Foundation/SF Film Society, San Francisco (solo screening with reading by Kenneth Goldsmith)
The Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
Panorama, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2011
Art Video, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL
Arte Video Night, Paris, France
Reading Experimental Film Festival, Reading, UK
Mixtape, Image Movement, Berlin, Germany (solo screening)
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
Provincetown International Film Festival, Provincetown, RI
2010
Animated Screen, CPH PIX, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008
Le Syndrome Chinois, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (solo screening)
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
Three Days of Film Screenings by Contemporary Artists, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
2007
Pervasive Animation, Tate Britain, London, UK
2006
The Artists Cinema, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
Fame As Form, San Francisco Cinematheque, CA
2005
Premieres, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2003
Courtisane Festival, Gent, Belgium
2002
Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2000
International Short Film Festival Berlin, Germany
International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia


Publications (Monographs)

2017
The Crime of Art. Santa Fe: Radius Books, October 2017, Essays by Irene Hofmann, Niko Vicario and Jordan Kantor, 160 pages.
2010
Odessa Staircase Redux. Vancouver: ECU Press, & Zürich: JRP Ringier, February 2010, 160 pages.
2007
The History of Photography Remix. Portland: Nazraeli Press,

Public Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY / USA
Art Institute of Chicago, IL / USA
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA / USA
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA / USA
Collection Neuflize Vie, Paris / FR
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. / USA
Israel Museum, Jerusalem / ISR
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA / USA
Kadis Art Foundation, San Francisco, CA / USA & Paris / FR
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart / DE Kunsthalle Bremen / DE
Margulies Collection, Miami, FL / USA
Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA / USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY / USA
Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA / USA
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN / USA
Musée d’art contemporain der Montréal / CAN
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL / USA
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA / USA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY / USA
The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne / AUS
Netherlands Media Arts Institute, Amsterdam / NLD
Oakland Museum of California, CA / USA
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Palm Springes Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA / USA
Pilara Foundation Collection, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA / USA
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane / AUS
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The RISD Museum, Providence, RI / USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA / USA
San Diego Museum of Art, CA / USA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC / USA
Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg / DE
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS / USA
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT / USA
The Wieland Collection, Atlanta, GA / USA




Kota Ezawa
born Cologne, Germany, 1969 Education 2003 MFA, Stanford University1990 -1994 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany 1995 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute 2003 MFA Stanford University / USA Solo exhibitions 2019 Kota Ezawa: Two Views, Hilliard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA / USA Paint Unpaint, John Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY / USA Tonya, Berkshire, Reese and Paul Galleries, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN / USA The Crime of Art, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL / USA2018 The Crime of Art, (Hollywood Edition), Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA / USA The Crime of Art (Cadavre Equis), Galerie der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig / DE The Crime of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA / USA The Crime of Art, Illges Gallery, Columbus State University, GA / USA Supercalifragilistic, RL Window, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York / USA2017 The Crime of Art, SITElab Gallery, Santa Fe, NM / USA Rotherwas Project 2: Kota Ezawa, Gardner Museum Revisited, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, MA / USA 2016 Gardner Museum Revisited, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA / USA In That Case: Havruta in Contemporary Art—Kota Ezawa and James Kirby Rogers, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA / USA The Crime of Art, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt / DE2015The Thingness of an Object, Feldbuschwiesner, Berlin / DE In the Box: Kota Ezawa, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA / USA Thirteen Stolen Works of Art and a Videotape, Murray Guy, New York, NY / USA 2014 Panorama, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA LYAM 3D, Pierre-François Quellette art contemporain, Montreal, Canada The Aesthetics of Silence, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2013 Kota Ezawa: Redrawn, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Boardwalk, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2012 Offsite: Kota Ezawa, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada The Curse of Dimensionality, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2011 Paper or Plastic, Mendes Wood, Sao Paulo Brazil City of Nature, Feldbusch Wiesner Galerie, Berlin, Germany City of Nature, Murray Guy, New York, NY City of Nature, Madison Square Park, New York. NY 2010 Beatles Über California, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt a.M., Germany 2009 Odessa Staircase Redux, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Medley, The Box, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH Group Show, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt a.M., Germany 2008Lennon Sontag Beuys, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MS / USAMultiplex, Murray Guy, New York, NY / USA Dietmar Lutz & Kota Ezawa: Documenta, Arquebuse Gallery, Geneva / CH 2007Hotel California, The Hayward Gallery, London / UK Last Year At Marienbad, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava / SVK The History of History, Charles E. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver / CAN Kota Ezawa: Re-Animating History, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA / USA 2006 Kota Ezawa, Artpace, San Antonio, TX The History of Photography Remix, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2005 Matrix 154, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT Lennon Sontag Beuys, Murray Guy, New York, NY Project Room, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA 2004 Version (with Michele O’Marah), New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA 2003 Who’s Afraid of Black, White and Grey, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Selected group exhibitions 2019 The Whitney Biennal 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY / USA Now Playing: Video 1999 – 2019, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ / USABeyond the Cape! Comics and Contemporary Art, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL / USA What is an edition anyway? McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA / USA Likeness, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA / USA The Empathy Lab, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA / USA A Cure for Everything, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA / USA2018 Shego/Hego/Ego – McEvoy Family Collection, Paris Photo 2018 / FR Light Box, Kunstmuseum Celle / DE Entfesselte Natur – Das Bild der Katastrophe seit 1600, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg / DE Way Bay 2, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA / USA Quintessence: 6 Perspectives on Abstraction, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA / USA 2017 Art Lessons, Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, Madrid / ES Leonard Cohen – A Crack in Everything, Musée d’ Art Contemporain de Montréal / CAN Limitless Horizon: Vertical Perspective, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane / AUSDetritus, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA Group exhibition, Murray Guy, New York, NY / USA2016 California and the West, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA / USA The Human Spirit, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA / USA Zur Sache Schätzchen, Pasinger Fabrik, München / DE2015Last Year in Marienbad: A Film as Art, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany Watch This! Revelations in Media Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Screen Play: Life in an Animated World, Albright-Know Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Bewegte Bilder, Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, Germany No Place Like Home: Selections from the John Wieland Collection of Contemporary Art, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT 2014 Convergences: Selected Photographs from the Permanent Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Out of Site, PEER Gallery, London, UK Fundamental Abstraction III, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CAPolitical Fictions, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA / USA Between Critique and Absorbtion: Contemporary Art and Consumer Culture, Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI Utopias Constructed, Republic Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada The Plot Thickens, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2013 Out of the Ordinary, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC The Unphotographable, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA Ed Ruscha: Books & Company, Gagosian Gallery, NY traveling to: Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany Proximities 2: Knowing Me, Knowing You, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA Conflict Resolution, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada This is not America: Resistence, Protest and Poetics, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ 2012 Project 35, Independent Curators International, Esker Foundation, Calgary / CANAfter Photoshop, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY The Sports Show, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN Occupy Bay Area, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA The End, Vogt Gallery, New York, NY Fax, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Dwelling Life of Man, Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Foto Colectania Foundation, Barcelona, Spain 2011 Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC H-Box, Artsonje Museum, Seoul, South Korea Blink, Denver Art Museum, CO Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Art Awards, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA The More Things Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA Serious Games: War-Media-Art, Mathlidenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany Super 8, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2010 Video Art: Replay, Part 2. Everyday Imaginary, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA CUE: Artists’ Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Until Now: Collecting the New (1960-2010), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN Bruce Conner: Long Play and the Singles Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA Pervasive Influence: The Mechanical Bride, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia New Art for a New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions 2000 – 2010, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Splicing Life, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT New York Now, Murray Guy, New York, NY The Tell Tale Heart, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY The Image in Question: War-Media-Art, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts,Remise Animation, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst / DE Project 35, Independent Curators International – touring exhibition 2009 Dress Codes: The Third Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York, NY Material Witness, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA Talking Pictures, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM Grau Zero, Paco das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil Suddenly This Summer, Sikkema, Jenkins & Co., New York, NY Untitled (History of Painting): Painting and Public Life in the 21st Century, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI H-Box, Orange County Museum of Art, CA The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection, Orange County Museum of Art, CA 2008 The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image; Part II: Realisms, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY O1SJ Biennial:Superlight, San Jose Museum of Art, CA, traveling to Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH The New Normal, Artists Space, New York, NY 5th International Media Art Biennial, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding, Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, New York, NY Two-Fold Faction, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China The Object is the Mirror (Part II), Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK 2007 SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA On the Scene: Kota Ezawa, Sarah Hobbs, Angela Strassheim, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL Animated Painting, San Diego Museum of Art, CA Geopolitics of Animation, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain Image Processor, Lombard Fried Projects, New York, NY Four Thursday Nights: Minus, Aspen Art Museum, CO Reality Reloaded, 14-1 Galerie, Stuttgart Germany Kota Ezawa / Alan Rath / Nam June Paik, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Videology, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic 2006 Out of Time: A Contemporary View, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Down by Law, The Wrong Gallery at the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA NextNew2006: Art and Technology, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA Regarding Truth: An Exhibition of Work by Artadia Award Winners, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA Histories Animades, Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain, traveling to Sale Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain, and to Le Fresnoy, France Metro Pictures, The Moore Space/Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL Joint Venture, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA 2005 The Last Generation, Apex Art, New York, NY, traveling to Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France I Still Believe in Miracles, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, ARC, au Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, France in words and pictures, Murray Guy, New York, NY Seeing Double: Encounters with Warhol, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA 2004 2004 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Shanghai Bienniale 2004: Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai Art Museum, China temporalscape, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art, traveling exhibition: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA ; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) simple.tech, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV Bay Area Bazaar, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR 2003 Killer Kartoons, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA Single Channel, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX 2002 Bay Area Now 3, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2001 Images Festival, Toronto Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany 2000 LA Freewaves, Otis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA It’s the beginning of a new friendship, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany 1999 Spiel des Lebens, Hauptpost, Düsseldorf, Germany 1997 Better, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery 1995 Rhine Video, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY 1993 Düsseldorf, Cologne – A Village Gaze, Anthology Film Archives, New York Awards, Scholarships, Residencies2017 DAAD Guest Artist, HBK Braunschweig / DE 2016 Artist in Residence, Villa Waldberta, München / DE 2014 Lamar Dodd Professorial Chair, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens / GRC 2013 Artist in Residence, Villa Kamogawa, Goethe Institut, Kyoto / JPN 2011 Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA / USA 2010 Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA / USA 2006 SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA / USA 2005 Artadia Jury Award, San Francisco, CA / USA Residency Fellowship, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart / DE 2003 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, New York, NY / USA Personal Work Grant, Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA / USA Mediamaker Award, Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco, CA / USA 2001 Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fellowship, The San Francisco Foundation, CA / USA 1995 Meisterschüler, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf / DE Selected film screenings 2016 Animated!: Explorations into Moving Pictures, Pamler Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA / USA2015 The Neuflize OBC video night, Palais du Tokyo, Paris, France 2014 Artprojx presents:The Miami and Moscow Film Selections, Bermondsey Project, London, UK Arte Video Night, Paris, France Performance/Video, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco 2013 the poetics of Mountains, their mutations and multifarious things, curated by David Gryn, Artprojx, Verbier, Switzerland 2012 Take Off, Kadist Art Foundation/SF Film Society, San Francisco (solo screening with reading by Kenneth Goldsmith) The Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany Panorama, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 2011 Art Video, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL Arte Video Night, Paris, France Reading Experimental Film Festival, Reading, UK Mixtape, Image Movement, Berlin, Germany (solo screening) International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany Provincetown International Film Festival, Provincetown, RI 2010 Animated Screen, CPH PIX, Copenhagen, Denmark 2008 Le Syndrome Chinois, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (solo screening) European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany Three Days of Film Screenings by Contemporary Artists, Haunch of Venison, London, UK 2007 Pervasive Animation, Tate Britain, London, UK 2006 The Artists Cinema, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK Fame As Form, San Francisco Cinematheque, CA 2005 Premieres, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 2003 Courtisane Festival, Gent, Belgium 2002 Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands 2000 International Short Film Festival Berlin, Germany International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia Publications (Monographs)2017 The Crime of Art. Santa Fe: Radius Books, October 2017, Essays by Irene Hofmann, Niko Vicario and Jordan Kantor, 160 pages. 2010 Odessa Staircase Redux. Vancouver: ECU Press, & Zürich: JRP Ringier, February 2010, 160 pages. 2007 The History of Photography Remix. Portland: Nazraeli Press,Public Collections Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY / USA Art Institute of Chicago, IL / USA Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA / USA Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA / USA Collection Neuflize Vie, Paris / FR Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. / USA Israel Museum, Jerusalem / ISR J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA / USA Kadis Art Foundation, San Francisco, CA / USA & Paris / FRKunstmuseum Stuttgart / DE Kunsthalle Bremen / DE Margulies Collection, Miami, FL / USA Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA / USA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY / USA Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA / USA Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN / USA Musée d’art contemporain der Montréal / CAN Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL / USA Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA / USA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY / USA The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne / AUS Netherlands Media Arts Institute, Amsterdam / NLD Oakland Museum of California, CA / USA The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA / USAPalm Springes Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA / USA Pilara Foundation Collection, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA / USA Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane / AUS Richard L. Nelson Gallery & Fine Arts Collection, University of California, Davis, CA / USAThe RISD Museum, Providence, RI / USA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA / USA San Diego Museum of Art, CA / USA Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC / USAStädtische Galerie Wolfsburg / DE Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS / USA Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT / USA The Wieland Collection, Atlanta, GA / USA

Kota Ezawa
City of nature

Artist Kota Ezawa
Duration 3:57 min
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Anita Beckers Gallery
Anita Beckers
Braubachstraße 9
60311 Frankfurt am Main
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Phone: +49 69 73900967
E-Mail: info@galerie-beckers.de

About the video

City of Nature is a new video which joins together landscape scenes taken from over 20 feature films—ranging from Deliverance to Fitzcarraldo to Brokeback Mountain—which show “nature”

absent any humans or overt signs of civilization. Drawn frame by frame using vector-based animation, each scene leads into the next (for instance a bird from one scene flies into the landscape of another), creating a narrative in which the landscape becomes the protagonist.The video City of Nature was a commission for Madison Square Art, installed in Madison Square Park in 2011. The installation of the four screens in the center of the park's natural but constructed environment further accentuates the dichotomy of real and artificial landscapes.”

Kota Ezawa - City of nature
City of Nature is a new video which joins together landscape scenes taken from over 20 feature films—ranging from Deliverance to Fitzcarraldo to Brokeback Mountain—which show “nature”absent any humans or overt signs of civilization. Drawn frame by frame using vector-based animation, each scene leads into the next (for instance a bird from one scene flies into the landscape of another), creating a narrative in which the landscape becomes the protagonist.The video City of Nature was a commission for Madison Square Art, installed in Madison Square Park in 2011. The installation of the four screens in the center of the park's natural but constructed environment further accentuates the dichotomy of real and artificial landscapes.”

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