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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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Bjørn Melhus

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Galleries

Patrick Ebensperger Galerien
Patrick Ebensperger
Krematorium Wedding, Plantagenstraße 30
13347 Berlin
Germany

Phone: +49 30 46065821
E-Mail: office@ebensperger.net




Biography

Bjørn Melhus was born 1966 in Kirchheim / Teck, Germany, lives and works in Berlin.
www.melhus.de

Bjørn Melhus studied Fine Arts with a major in Film/Video at the Braunschweig University of Art from 1990 to 1997. He was a fellow of the DAAD at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles and of the federal state of Lower Saxony at the ISCP, New York. Originally from an experimental film context his works now span interactive public art installations, conceptual pieces, a fashion label, extensive video installations and single channel video pieces. His works are shown nationally and internationally in exhibitions and film festivals and he has received numerous awards and recognitions for his work. Amongst others repeatedly the German Film Short Film Award for Experimental Film, Competiton Awards of Film and Video Festivals such as the Oberhausen Short Film Festival or the Museum Marl, the HAP Grieshaber Preis of the VG Bild Kunst, the Prize of the Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany as well as several international residencies.

Bjørn Melhus has been a professor of Visual Arts/Virtual Realities at the School of Art and Design Kassel since 2003. In his short films and installations, Bjørn Melhus focuses on general global ideas and trends, the critical reception of mass media, as well as the direct effects they have on people. He uses footage from film and television excessively and deconstructs stereotypical themes, figures and patterns of perception through means of exaggeration. At the same time, he breaks up a seemingly fixed relationship between media and audience, thus opening up the view on the essentials of human interaction.


Solo Exhibitions (Selection)

2019
“Bjørn Melhus: Free Update”, KINDL – Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
“Im Atelier Liebermann: Bjørn Melhus: Hot Set”, Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin, Germany
“Bjørn Melhus: Spectral Afterlives”, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany

2018
“OUT OF SASNAK”, Halle267 – Städtische Galerie Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany

2017
“Schnee von Gestern – Bjørn Melhus & Thomas Rentmeister” KUK Monschau, Monschau, Germany
“Liberty Park”, Ebensperger, Salzburg, Austria

2015
“The Theory of Freedom”, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
“The Theory of Freedom II”; WEST, Den Haag, The Netherlands

2013
“LIBERTY PARK”, DIRIMART Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
“X”, Y Gallery, New York, USA
“I LOVE YOU”, Kunstsammlung Jena, Germany

2012
“I do not belong in this House”, Haus im Schluh, Worpswede, Germany
“I’m not the Enemy”, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany

2011
“Bjørn Melhus – Live Action Hero”, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
“Der Wald steht schwarz - Olrik Kohlhoff und Bjørn Melhus”, Herbert Gerisch Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany

2010
“Nachtwache|Nightwatch”, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany

2009
“Bjørn Melhus: Still Men Out There”, Operation Room, Amerikan Hastanesi, Istanbul
“Mars Recovery”, Gallery Andreas Grimm München, Munich, Germany

2008
“Fuse Box: Bjørn Melhus”, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
“Bjørn Melhus: Screensavers”, Osram Art Project, Seven Screens, Munich, Germany

2007
“The Castle, the Meadow, the City”, Roebling Hall, New York, USA

2005
“Bjørn Melhus: Eastern Western Park”, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
“Bjørn Melhus” – CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, Malaga, Spain
“Auto Center Drive”, CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
“Bjørn Melhus: Eastern Western Park”, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii

2004
“Primetime”, FACT, (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), Liverpool, UK
“Bjørn Melhus: Fighting the Forces of Evil”, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany


Group Exhibitions (Selection since 1998)

2018
“No War No Vietnam”, Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
“Elective Affinities”, Sammlung Friedrichshof, Zurndorf
“Breaking News – Von Kelterborn Collection” Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Goslar
“Shaping Democracy – The Republic in 24 Frames per Century”, Freiraum Q21, Wien

2017
“Again & Again: Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst”, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
“Angry Planet – Global Conflicts, Local Contexts”, Gallery NTK, National Library of Technology, Prague, Czech
Republic
“Death Drive”, Y Gallery, New York, United States
“Elastic Collisions”, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien

2016
“56th October Salon Belgrade: The Pleasure of Love”, Belgrade, Serbia
“Beloved Enemies. Symbolism Today”, Clemens Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany
“TeleGen – Art and Television”, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

2015
“Mirror Images in Art and Science”, Museum of Medical History at Charitè, Berlin, Germany
“BERLIN ROMA – Reverse Inequality (Part 1)”, Galerie Patrick Ebensperger, Berlin
“Redemption Jokes”, nGbK, Berlin, Germany

2014
“Project Daejeon 2014: The Brain”, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
“Schwindel der Wirklichkeit”, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
“Good Morning, Mr. Orwell 2014, NJP Art Center, Yongin-si, Korea

2013
“Stranger”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
“Vision vs Confrontation”, Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
“B3 - Biennale des Bewegten Bildes”, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

2012
“Töten”, Kunstpalais, Erlangen, Germany
“Under Constant Threat”, The Municipality of Porto Allegre, Porto Allegre, Brasil
“Zeitgespenster”, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

2011
“Artist File“, The National Art Center Japan, Tokyo
“Entre Siempre y Jamás” – Padiglione America Latina, 54th Biennale di Venezia, Italy
“Exchange and Evolution: Worldwide Video Long Beach, 1974-1999”, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach,
USA
“Terrible Beauty – Art, Crisis, Change and The Office of Non-Compliance”, Dublin Contemporary, UK

2010
“Simply Video. Bewegte Bilder aus der Kunsthalle Bremen”, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
“Time Machines”, KINOKINO, Sandnes, Norway
“inter-cool 3.0 : Jugend Bild Medien”, Hartware MedienKunstVerein im Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany
“A Carta da Jamaica”, Galeria de Artes Visuais do Oi Futuro, Museo da Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

2009
“2da. Bienal del Fin del Mundo – Interimperie”, Ushuaia, Argentina
“Gemeinsam in die Zukunft”, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
“BERLIN 89/09 - KUNST ZWISCHEN SPURENSUCHE UND UTOPIE”, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
“Organ Mix”, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea

2008
“40JAHREVIDEOKUNST.DE” Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de la Ville de Strasbourg, France
“Call & Response” MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
“Female Trouble”, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
“(keine) Angst”, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen, Germany

2007
“Abstraction: Extracting from the World”, Millenium Galleries, Sheffield, UK
“Made in Germany”, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover, Germany
“Existencias”, MUSAC – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain

2006
“Satellite of Love”, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
“It’s Not a Photo”, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
“Das achte Feld”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
“Arbeiten mit Licht”, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

2005
“Rückkehr ins All”, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
“Masculinities”, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany

2004
"State of Play", Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
“TV Today”, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2003
“The American Effect”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
“8th International Istanbul Biennial”, Istanbul, Turkey
“fast forward. Media Art | Sammlung Goetz”, ZKM Karlsruhe/ Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain

Bjørn Melhus
Bjørn Melhus was born 1966 in Kirchheim / Teck, Germany, lives and works in Berlin.www.melhus.deBjørn Melhus studied Fine Arts with a major in Film/Video at the Braunschweig University of Art from 1990 to 1997. He was a fellow of the DAAD at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles and of the federal state of Lower Saxony at the ISCP, New York. Originally from an experimental film context his works now span interactive public art installations, conceptual pieces, a fashion label, extensive video installations and single channel video pieces. His works are shown nationally and internationally in exhibitions and film festivals and he has received numerous awards and recognitions for his work. Amongst others repeatedly the German Film Short Film Award for Experimental Film, Competiton Awards of Film and Video Festivals such as the Oberhausen Short Film Festival or the Museum Marl, the HAP Grieshaber Preis of the VG Bild Kunst, the Prize of the Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany as well as several international residencies.Bjørn Melhus has been a professor of Visual Arts/Virtual Realities at the School of Art and Design Kassel since 2003. In his short films and installations, Bjørn Melhus focuses on general global ideas and trends, the critical reception of mass media, as well as the direct effects they have on people. He uses footage from film and television excessively and deconstructs stereotypical themes, figures and patterns of perception through means of exaggeration. At the same time, he breaks up a seemingly fixed relationship between media and audience, thus opening up the view on the essentials of human interaction.Solo Exhibitions (Selection)2019 “Bjørn Melhus: Free Update”, KINDL – Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, Germany“Im Atelier Liebermann: Bjørn Melhus: Hot Set”, Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin, Germany“Bjørn Melhus: Spectral Afterlives”, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany2018 “OUT OF SASNAK”, Halle267 – Städtische Galerie Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany2017 “Schnee von Gestern – Bjørn Melhus & Thomas Rentmeister” KUK Monschau, Monschau, Germany“Liberty Park”, Ebensperger, Salzburg, Austria2015“The Theory of Freedom”, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands“The Theory of Freedom II”; WEST, Den Haag, The Netherlands2013“LIBERTY PARK”, DIRIMART Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey“X”, Y Gallery, New York, USA“I LOVE YOU”, Kunstsammlung Jena, Germany2012“I do not belong in this House”, Haus im Schluh, Worpswede, Germany“I’m not the Enemy”, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany2011 “Bjørn Melhus – Live Action Hero”, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany“Der Wald steht schwarz - Olrik Kohlhoff und Bjørn Melhus”, Herbert Gerisch Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany2010 “Nachtwache|Nightwatch”, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany2009 “Bjørn Melhus: Still Men Out There”, Operation Room, Amerikan Hastanesi, Istanbul“Mars Recovery”, Gallery Andreas Grimm München, Munich, Germany2008 “Fuse Box: Bjørn Melhus”, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA“Bjørn Melhus: Screensavers”, Osram Art Project, Seven Screens, Munich, Germany2007 “The Castle, the Meadow, the City”, Roebling Hall, New York, USA2005 “Bjørn Melhus: Eastern Western Park”, Spiral Garden, Tokyo“Bjørn Melhus” – CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, Malaga, Spain“Auto Center Drive”, CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain“Bjørn Melhus: Eastern Western Park”, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii2004 “Primetime”, FACT, (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), Liverpool, UK“Bjørn Melhus: Fighting the Forces of Evil”, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, GermanyGroup Exhibitions (Selection since 1998)2018 “No War No Vietnam”, Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin“Elective Affinities”, Sammlung Friedrichshof, Zurndorf“Breaking News – Von Kelterborn Collection” Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Goslar“Shaping Democracy – The Republic in 24 Frames per Century”, Freiraum Q21, Wien2017 “Again & Again: Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst”, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany“Angry Planet – Global Conflicts, Local Contexts”, Gallery NTK, National Library of Technology, Prague, CzechRepublic“Death Drive”, Y Gallery, New York, United States“Elastic Collisions”, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien2016 “56th October Salon Belgrade: The Pleasure of Love”, Belgrade, Serbia“Beloved Enemies. Symbolism Today”, Clemens Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany“TeleGen – Art and Television”, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein2015 “Mirror Images in Art and Science”, Museum of Medical History at Charitè, Berlin, Germany“BERLIN ROMA – Reverse Inequality (Part 1)”, Galerie Patrick Ebensperger, Berlin“Redemption Jokes”, nGbK, Berlin, Germany2014 “Project Daejeon 2014: The Brain”, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea“Schwindel der Wirklichkeit”, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany“Good Morning, Mr. Orwell 2014, NJP Art Center, Yongin-si, Korea2013 “Stranger”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan“Vision vs Confrontation”, Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, The Netherlands“B3 - Biennale des Bewegten Bildes”, Frankfurt/Main, Germany2012 “Töten”, Kunstpalais, Erlangen, Germany“Under Constant Threat”, The Municipality of Porto Allegre, Porto Allegre, Brasil“Zeitgespenster”, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany2011 “Artist File“, The National Art Center Japan, Tokyo“Entre Siempre y Jamás” – Padiglione America Latina, 54th Biennale di Venezia, Italy“Exchange and Evolution: Worldwide Video Long Beach, 1974-1999”, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach,USA“Terrible Beauty – Art, Crisis, Change and The Office of Non-Compliance”, Dublin Contemporary, UK2010 “Simply Video. Bewegte Bilder aus der Kunsthalle Bremen”, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany“Time Machines”, KINOKINO, Sandnes, Norway“inter-cool 3.0 : Jugend Bild Medien”, Hartware MedienKunstVerein im Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany“A Carta da Jamaica”, Galeria de Artes Visuais do Oi Futuro, Museo da Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil2009 “2da. Bienal del Fin del Mundo – Interimperie”, Ushuaia, Argentina“Gemeinsam in die Zukunft”, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main, Germany“BERLIN 89/09 - KUNST ZWISCHEN SPURENSUCHE UND UTOPIE”, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany“Organ Mix”, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea2008 “40JAHREVIDEOKUNST.DE” Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de la Ville de Strasbourg, France“Call & Response” MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg“Female Trouble”, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany“(keine) Angst”, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen, Germany2007 “Abstraction: Extracting from the World”, Millenium Galleries, Sheffield, UK“Made in Germany”, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover, Germany“Existencias”, MUSAC – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain2006“Satellite of Love”, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands“It’s Not a Photo”, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA“Das achte Feld”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany“Arbeiten mit Licht”, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany2005 “Rückkehr ins All”, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany“Masculinities”, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany2004 State of Play, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK“TV Today”, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands2003 “The American Effect”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA“8th International Istanbul Biennial”, Istanbul, Turkey“fast forward. Media Art | Sammlung Goetz”, ZKM Karlsruhe/ Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain

Bjørn Melhus
THE ORAL THING

Artist Bjørn Melhus
Year 2001
Duration 24:04 min
Edition 8 + 2 AP
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Patrick Ebensperger Galerien
Patrick Ebensperger
Krematorium Wedding, Plantagenstraße 30
13347 Berlin
Germany

Phone: +49 30 46065821
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The video „THE ORAL THING“ is a tall tale about embarrassing confessions in so called daytimetalkshows. The promise of salvation never becomes true, the selfportrayal in front of millions of viewers rather satisfies the desire for sensation of the entertainment industry, which is been used in commercial television. The bodily activities which are a preferred topic in these shows seem to be detached from the presented bodies and are reduced to the language of the “talking heads” – an oral TV-culture. In a form of ritual – a mixture between televisionchurch , musical and quiz – a talkmaster produces two candidates without lower abdomen or arms. He worms secrets out of them, confessions about incestuous love, sex and violence, which are commented by the audience in the studio.

Bjørn Melhus - THE ORAL THING
The video „THE ORAL THING“ is a tall tale about embarrassing confessions in so called daytimetalkshows. The promise of salvation never becomes true, the selfportrayal in front of millions of viewers rather satisfies the desire for sensation of the entertainment industry, which is been used in commercial television. The bodily activities which are a preferred topic in these shows seem to be detached from the presented bodies and are reduced to the language of the “talking heads” – an oral TV-culture. In a form of ritual – a mixture between televisionchurch , musical and quiz – a talkmaster produces two candidates without lower abdomen or arms. He worms secrets out of them, confessions about incestuous love, sex and violence, which are commented by the audience in the studio.

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