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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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Biography

Selected solo exhibitions

2010
ICON de Martell Photography Award, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
Ticket Seller, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, USA

2009
Sherman Ong, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Australia

2008
Hanoi Monogatari (Hanoi Story), Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
HanoiHaiku: Month of Photography Asia, 2902 Gallery, Singapore

2007
Missing You, Fukuoka Art Asian Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

2006
HanoiHaiku, Angkor Photography Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Selected group exhibitions

2013
Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (Cinema), Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia.
Cinema Encounters: Sherman Ong, Casa Asia, Barcelona & Madrid, Spain
Migrants (in)visibles, Espace Khiasma, Paris, France
Motherland - Xiao Jing, Open House (Marina), Singapore

2012
Little Sun by Olafur Eliasson, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
Asia Serendipity, Teatro Fernando Gomez, Photo Espana Madrid, Spain
Panorama, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
PIMP the TIMP Volume II, Galerie Lichtblick, 21st International Photoszene Cologne, Germany.
Cross-Scape, GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan, Korea
I want to remember, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands
Crossing SEA(s), 2902 Gallery, Singapore (Fringe event of Art Stage Singapore)

2011
Unseen: Cinema of the 21st Century, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
Changwon Asian Art Festival, Sungsan Arts Hall, Changwon, Korea
17th International Contemporary Art Festival Videobrasil, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague, Czech Republic
Cross-Scape, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Cross-Scape, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju, Korea
Metropolis - City Life in the Urban Age, Noorderlicht International Photofestival, Netherlands
Ming Wong:Life of Imitation, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA
Ming Wong:Life of Imitation, Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania, Australia
Ming Wong:Life of Imitation, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
I want to Remember, Singapore Arts Festival, Singapore
Singapore Survey 2011: Imagine Malaysia, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore
Photo Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Short Cuts, Singapore National Museum, Singapore
Now or Never, ION Art Gallery, Singapore
Kumbukumbu Za Mti Uunguao | Memories of a Burning Tree
Kandy International Film Festival, Sri Lanka
When the end of Winter is almost Spring
Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands
Tickets
Gdansk Docfilm Festival (Competition), Poland

2010
Ming Wong:Life of Imitation, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Malaysia-Singapore Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Daegu Photography Biennale, Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Korea
Nanjing Biennale, Jiangsu Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Rainbow Asia, Hangaram Museum, Seoul Art Centre, Seoul, South Korea
The Tropics-Views from the Middle of the Globe, Jim Thompson Art Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
The Last Book, The Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Switzerland
Banjir Kemarau | Flooding in the Time of Drought
Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands
Barcelona Asian Film Festival, Spain
Rome Asian Film Festival, Italy
Kumbukumbu Za Mti Uunguao | Memories of a Burning Tree
Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands
Goteborg International Film Festival, Sweden
Hong Kong International Film Festival, China
Tokyo International Film Festival, Japan
Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore
Montreal World Film Festival, Canada
Bangkok World Film Festival, Thailand
Durban International Film Festival, South Africa
Mumbai International Film Festival, India
Rome Asian Film Festival, Italy
Milan Festival of African, Asian and Latin American Cinema, Italy
Cinemanila, Manila, Philippines
Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
When the end of Winter is almost Spring
Montreal World Film Festival, Netherlands
Tickets
Montreal World Film Festival, Netherlands
Hawaii International Film Festival, USA

2009
Ming Wong:Life of Imitation, Singapore Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Code Share:10 Biennales, 20 Artists, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Fluid Zone:Jakarta Biennale, National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Die Tropen - Views from the Middle of the Globe, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Banjir Kemarau | Flooding in the Time of Drought
Hong Kong International Film Festival
Cinema Digital Seoul, Korea
Bangkok World Film Festival, Thailand
Osian Cinefan International Film Festival, India
Cinemanila International Film Festival, Philippines
Q! Film Festival, Jakarta Indonesia
Hashi
Best Screenplay Award, Singapore Film Awards, Singapore
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Barcelona Asian Film Festival Spain
Rome Asian Film Festival Italy
Sofia Film Festival, Bulgaria

2008
Wonder, Singapore Biennale, City Hall, Singapore
In-between (Asian Video Art), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Cut2: New Photography from Southeast Asia, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore
The Last Book, Biblioteca Nacional Buenos Aires, Argentina
Photo Art Asia, Bangkok, Thailand
Out of Berlin…pass the picture! Goethe Institut, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
OsTropicos - Views from the Middle of the Globe, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cut: New Photography from Southeast Asia, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Exodus – Wanita Yang Berlari
Clermond-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France
Hashi
Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore
Mumbai Women’s Film Festival India, India
State of Things
Asean + 3 Film Festival, Sinema Old School, Singapore

2007
Photoquai-World Visual Arts Biennale, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
OsTropicos - Views from the Middle of the Globe, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasilia, Brazil
Singapore Art Show, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Making Heroes, Striking The Missing Chord, National Library, Singapore
Exodus – Wanita Yang Berlari
Independent Contemporary Dance Festival, Cultural Center of the Philippines
Films of Desire, Neemrana, India
Arts House, Singapore
HDB Housing Project
History Gallery, National Museum Singapore

2006
Another Asia, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
40º1`N/3º36`W, Aranjuez, Plaza de Parejas, Aranjuez Spain
Landscape & Architecture, Art Salon, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
ArtConnexions, Goethe Institut/IFA
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
National Museum Jakarta, Indonesia
Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, Hanoi Vietnam
IFA Gallery Stuttgart, Germany
IFA Gallery Berlin, Germany
Exodus - Wanita Yang Berlari
3rd International Dance Video Festival, Tokyo, Japan
The Circle
Commonwealth Film Festival, Manchester, United Kingdom

2005
Exodus - Wanita Yang Berlari
Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
10th Hong Kong Independent Film and Video Awards, China
Jakarta International Dance Film Festival, Indonesia
VideoLisboa#5, Portugal
Drought
Yokohama Art Triennial (Closing Presentation), Japan
Is it easy to kill/pray?
4th Bangkok International Experimental Film Festival Thailand
Meat, Vegetables & Dessert
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands
ArtConnexions, Space 217, Singapore
The Circle
DIBA Digital Barcelona International Film Festival, Spain
El Pollo de Quijote
Finalist 4th Centennial of Don Quixote Short Film Awards, Spain
State of Things
Singapore Short Cuts, Singapore History Museum, Singapore

2004
Singapore Season, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Month of Photography, Singapore Arts Festival, Alliance Francaise, Singapore
Spirituality in Modern Singapore, Goethe Institut, Singapore
Exodus – Wanita Yang Berlari
International Panorama of Independent Filmmakers, Greece
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
Malaysian Video Awards, Malaysia
Bangkok International Film Festival, Thailand
Barcelona Asian Film Festival Spain
Circuito Off Venice International Short Film Festival, Italy
Turin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Italy
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival, USA
La Cittadella del Corto International Short Film Festival, Italy (Special Festival Prize)
New York Asian American International Film Festival USA
Rome Asian Film Festival, Italy
Dance On Screen, International Dance Film Festival London, UK
Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin, Paris, France
Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Spain
Asia-Europe Foundation Dance Forum, Hebbel Theatre, Berlin, Germany
.MOV International Digital Film Festival, Philippines 2004
State of Things
Zero Gravity, Multimedia Art Asia Pacific, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

2003
Towards the Month of Photography 2004, Alliance Francaise, Singapore
Exodus – Wanita Yang Berlari
Q Film Festival Jakarta, Indonesia
Di Mana Bumi Dipijak | The Ground I Stand
Videobrasil - International Electronic Art Festival 2003, Sao Paulo, Brazil
7th Thai Short Film and Video Festival 2003, Bangkok Thailand
State of Things
Emergency Filmmaking Project, The Substation, Singapore

2002
60’s Now, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Di Mana Bumi Dipijak | The Ground I Stand
7th Malaysian Video Awards, Malaysia
8th Hongkong Independent Short Film & Video Festival
Women Inspire Film Festival 2002, Singapore
2nd Singapore Shorts Film Festival, Singapore
Contemplation Room, Danish Ministry of Culture, Overgaden Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Danger Museum, Institute of International Visual Arts, London, UK
Aus Kobberling, Kassel, Germany

2001
Time-Image in the Peranakan House, Central District Arts Festival, Singapore

Honors & awards

2010
ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu Photography Award, Singapore
Hubert Bals (Script Development) Fund, Netherlands
2009
Special Mention (Ming Wong, Singapore Pavilion) Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Best Screenplay (Hashi), Singapore Film Awards, Singapore
Forget Africa Commission, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands
2007
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Artist Residency Award, Fukuoka, Japan
2005
Special Jury Prize (Exodus), Independent Film & Video Awards, Hong Kong, China
ArtConnexions:Goethe-Institut Artist Residency Award, Singapore
2004
Best Experimental Film (Exodus), Int’l Panorama of Independent Filmmakers, Greece
Special Jury Prize (Exodus), Malaysian Video Awards, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Special Festival Prize (Exodus), La Cittadella del Corto Short Film Festival, Italy
2002
Best Documentary (The Ground I Stand), Malaysian Video Awards, Malaysia

Public collections

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Seoul Art Centre, Korea
Malaysia-Singapore Collection, National University of Singapore

Scholarships/grants

Singapore Government ASEAN Scholarship (1989-1990)
Singapore Film Commission Bursary (2001)
Associate Artist, Substation (since 2002)
Asia-Europe Foundation Young Photographer’s Forum Singapore (2002)
Asia-Europe Foundation Cultural Exchange (2007)
Singapore Film Commission Grants (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010)
Singapore National Art Council Grants (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011)

Commissions

I want to Remember (2011, dance film) commissioned by Singapore Arts Festival 2011
When the end of Winter is almost Spring (2010, dance film) commissioned by Singapore Arts Festival 2010
Memories of a Burning Tree (2010) commissioned by Rotterdam International Film Festival, Forget Africa Programme, Netherlands
Banjir Kemarau | Flooding in the Time of Drought commissioned by Singapore Biennale 2008, nominated for the APB-Singapore Art Museum Signature Art Prize for 2011.
3 works on Cinema (Ticket Seller, Poster Painter and Collector) commissioned by Tang Fu Kuen, curator for Singapore Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2009 (Jury Special Mention in Venice)
HDB Housing Project (2006) commissioned by the National Museum Singapore
Exodus – Wanita Yang Berlari (2003, dance film) commissioned by the Indonesian Contemporary Dance Centre
60s Now (2002) commissioned by the Singapore Art Museum

Artists residenties

Goethe Institute Art Connexions Residency (Hanoi, Vietnam) 2005
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan 2007
Rotterdam Film Festival Forget Africa Residency (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania) 2009

Sherman ONG
Selected solo exhibitions 2010 ICON de Martell Photography Award, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore Ticket Seller, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, USA 2009 Sherman Ong, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Australia 2008 Hanoi Monogatari (Hanoi Story), Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan HanoiHaiku: Month of Photography Asia, 2902 Gallery, Singapore 2007 Missing You, Fukuoka Art Asian Museum, Fukuoka, Japan 2006 HanoiHaiku, Angkor Photography Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia Selected group exhibitions 2013 Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (Cinema), Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia. Cinema Encounters: Sherman Ong, Casa Asia, Barcelona & Madrid, Spain Migrants (in)visibles, Espace Khiasma, Paris, France Motherland - Xiao Jing, Open House (Marina), Singapore 2012 Little Sun by Olafur Eliasson, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom Asia Serendipity, Teatro Fernando Gomez, Photo Espana Madrid, Spain Panorama, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore PIMP the TIMP Volume II, Galerie Lichtblick, 21st International Photoszene Cologne, Germany. Cross-Scape, GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan, Korea I want to remember, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands Crossing SEA(s), 2902 Gallery, Singapore (Fringe event of Art Stage Singapore) 2011 Unseen: Cinema of the 21st Century, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia Changwon Asian Art Festival, Sungsan Arts Hall, Changwon, Korea 17th International Contemporary Art Festival Videobrasil, Sao Paolo, Brazil Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague, Czech Republic Cross-Scape, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Cross-Scape, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju, Korea Metropolis - City Life in the Urban Age, Noorderlicht International Photofestival, Netherlands Ming Wong:Life of Imitation, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA Ming Wong:Life of Imitation, Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania, Australia Ming Wong:Life of Imitation, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan I want to Remember, Singapore Arts Festival, Singapore Singapore Survey 2011: Imagine Malaysia, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore Photo Ireland, Dublin, Ireland Short Cuts, Singapore National Museum, Singapore Now or Never, ION Art Gallery, Singapore Kumbukumbu Za Mti Uunguao | Memories of a Burning Tree Kandy International Film Festival, Sri Lanka When the end of Winter is almost Spring Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands Tickets Gdansk Docfilm Festival (Competition), Poland 2010 Ming Wong:Life of Imitation, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Malaysia-Singapore Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Daegu Photography Biennale, Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Korea Nanjing Biennale, Jiangsu Art Museum, Nanjing, China Rainbow Asia, Hangaram Museum, Seoul Art Centre, Seoul, South Korea The Tropics-Views from the Middle of the Globe, Jim Thompson Art Centre, Bangkok, Thailand The Last Book, The Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Switzerland Banjir Kemarau | Flooding in the Time of Drought Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands Barcelona Asian Film Festival, Spain Rome Asian Film Festival, Italy Kumbukumbu Za Mti Uunguao | Memories of a Burning Tree Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands Goteborg International Film Festival, Sweden Hong Kong International Film Festival, China Tokyo International Film Festival, Japan Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore Montreal World Film Festival, Canada Bangkok World Film Festival, Thailand Durban International Film Festival, South Africa Mumbai International Film Festival, India Rome Asian Film Festival, Italy Milan Festival of African, Asian and Latin American Cinema, Italy Cinemanila, Manila, Philippines Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, Jogjakarta, Indonesia When the end of Winter is almost Spring Montreal World Film Festival, Netherlands Tickets Montreal World Film Festival, Netherlands Hawaii International Film Festival, USA 2009 Ming Wong:Life of Imitation, Singapore Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Code Share:10 Biennales, 20 Artists, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania Fluid Zone:Jakarta Biennale, National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia Die Tropen - Views from the Middle of the Globe, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany Banjir Kemarau | Flooding in the Time of Drought Hong Kong International Film Festival Cinema Digital Seoul, Korea Bangkok World Film Festival, Thailand Osian Cinefan International Film Festival, India Cinemanila International Film Festival, Philippines Q! Film Festival, Jakarta Indonesia Hashi Best Screenplay Award, Singapore Film Awards, Singapore Rotterdam International Film Festival Barcelona Asian Film Festival Spain Rome Asian Film Festival Italy Sofia Film Festival, Bulgaria 2008 Wonder, Singapore Biennale, City Hall, Singapore In-between (Asian Video Art), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Cut2: New Photography from Southeast Asia, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore The Last Book, Biblioteca Nacional Buenos Aires, Argentina Photo Art Asia, Bangkok, Thailand Out of Berlin…pass the picture! Goethe Institut, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia OsTropicos - Views from the Middle of the Globe, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Cut: New Photography from Southeast Asia, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Exodus – Wanita Yang Berlari Clermond-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France Hashi Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore Mumbai Women’s Film Festival India, India State of Things Asean + 3 Film Festival, Sinema Old School, Singapore 2007 Photoquai-World Visual Arts Biennale, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France OsTropicos - Views from the Middle of the Globe, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasilia, Brazil Singapore Art Show, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Making Heroes, Striking The Missing Chord, National Library, Singapore Exodus – Wanita Yang Berlari Independent Contemporary Dance Festival, Cultural Center of the Philippines Films of Desire, Neemrana, India Arts House, Singapore HDB Housing Project History Gallery, National Museum Singapore 2006 Another Asia, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands 40º1`N/3º36`W, Aranjuez, Plaza de Parejas, Aranjuez Spain Landscape & Architecture, Art Salon, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ArtConnexions, Goethe Institut/IFA RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia National Museum Jakarta, Indonesia Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, Hanoi Vietnam IFA Gallery Stuttgart, Germany IFA Gallery Berlin, Germany Exodus - Wanita Yang Berlari 3rd International Dance Video Festival, Tokyo, Japan The Circle Commonwealth Film Festival, Manchester, United Kingdom 2005 Exodus - Wanita Yang Berlari Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil 10th Hong Kong Independent Film and Video Awards, China Jakarta International Dance Film Festival, Indonesia VideoLisboa#5, Portugal Drought Yokohama Art Triennial (Closing Presentation), Japan Is it easy to kill/pray? 4th Bangkok International Experimental Film Festival Thailand Meat, Vegetables & Dessert International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands ArtConnexions, Space 217, Singapore The Circle DIBA Digital Barcelona International Film Festival, Spain El Pollo de Quijote Finalist 4th Centennial of Don Quixote Short Film Awards, Spain State of Things Singapore Short Cuts, Singapore History Museum, Singapore 2004 Singapore Season, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK Month of Photography, Singapore Arts Festival, Alliance Francaise, Singapore Spirituality in Modern Singapore, Goethe Institut, Singapore Exodus – Wanita Yang Berlari International Panorama of Independent Filmmakers, Greece International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands Malaysian Video Awards, Malaysia Bangkok International Film Festival, Thailand Barcelona Asian Film Festival Spain Circuito Off Venice International Short Film Festival, Italy Turin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Italy Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival, USA La Cittadella del Corto International Short Film Festival, Italy (Special Festival Prize) New York Asian American International Film Festival USA Rome Asian Film Festival, Italy Dance On Screen, International Dance Film Festival London, UK Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin, Paris, France Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Spain Asia-Europe Foundation Dance Forum, Hebbel Theatre, Berlin, Germany .MOV International Digital Film Festival, Philippines 2004 State of Things Zero Gravity, Multimedia Art Asia Pacific, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore 2003 Towards the Month of Photography 2004, Alliance Francaise, Singapore Exodus – Wanita Yang Berlari Q Film Festival Jakarta, Indonesia Di Mana Bumi Dipijak | The Ground I Stand Videobrasil - International Electronic Art Festival 2003, Sao Paulo, Brazil 7th Thai Short Film and Video Festival 2003, Bangkok Thailand State of Things Emergency Filmmaking Project, The Substation, Singapore 2002 60’s Now, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Di Mana Bumi Dipijak | The Ground I Stand 7th Malaysian Video Awards, Malaysia 8th Hongkong Independent Short Film & Video Festival Women Inspire Film Festival 2002, Singapore 2nd Singapore Shorts Film Festival, Singapore Contemplation Room, Danish Ministry of Culture, Overgaden Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark Danger Museum, Institute of International Visual Arts, London, UK Aus Kobberling, Kassel, Germany 2001 Time-Image in the Peranakan House, Central District Arts Festival, Singapore Honors & awards 2010 ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu Photography Award, Singapore Hubert Bals (Script Development) Fund, Netherlands 2009 Special Mention (Ming Wong, Singapore Pavilion) Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Best Screenplay (Hashi), Singapore Film Awards, Singapore Forget Africa Commission, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands 2007 Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Artist Residency Award, Fukuoka, Japan 2005 Special Jury Prize (Exodus), Independent Film & Video Awards, Hong Kong, China ArtConnexions:Goethe-Institut Artist Residency Award, Singapore 2004 Best Experimental Film (Exodus), Int’l Panorama of Independent Filmmakers, Greece Special Jury Prize (Exodus), Malaysian Video Awards, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Special Festival Prize (Exodus), La Cittadella del Corto Short Film Festival, Italy 2002 Best Documentary (The Ground I Stand), Malaysian Video Awards, Malaysia Public collections Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Seoul Art Centre, Korea Malaysia-Singapore Collection, National University of Singapore Scholarships/grants Singapore Government ASEAN Scholarship (1989-1990) Singapore Film Commission Bursary (2001) Associate Artist, Substation (since 2002) Asia-Europe Foundation Young Photographer’s Forum Singapore (2002) Asia-Europe Foundation Cultural Exchange (2007) Singapore Film Commission Grants (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010) Singapore National Art Council Grants (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011) Commissions I want to Remember (2011, dance film) commissioned by Singapore Arts Festival 2011 When the end of Winter is almost Spring (2010, dance film) commissioned by Singapore Arts Festival 2010 Memories of a Burning Tree (2010) commissioned by Rotterdam International Film Festival, Forget Africa Programme, Netherlands Banjir Kemarau | Flooding in the Time of Drought commissioned by Singapore Biennale 2008, nominated for the APB-Singapore Art Museum Signature Art Prize for 2011. 3 works on Cinema (Ticket Seller, Poster Painter and Collector) commissioned by Tang Fu Kuen, curator for Singapore Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2009 (Jury Special Mention in Venice) HDB Housing Project (2006) commissioned by the National Museum Singapore Exodus – Wanita Yang Berlari (2003, dance film) commissioned by the Indonesian Contemporary Dance Centre 60s Now (2002) commissioned by the Singapore Art Museum Artists residenties Goethe Institute Art Connexions Residency (Hanoi, Vietnam) 2005 Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan 2007 Rotterdam Film Festival Forget Africa Residency (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania) 2009

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