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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
Germany

Phone: +49 69 73900967
E-Mail: info@galerie-beckers.de




Statement

Eike’s work of art ranges from light boxes to videos, to computer graphics and 3D-simulation, from photos and site specific installations to computer-based media art. In the focus of his interest stand spatial relations: space and time, reality and abstraction.

While experimental on the level of theory, Eike’s work is always executed with meticulous care, and the result is technical inventiveness combined with sensual appeal.


Biography

born 1966 in Halle a.d. Saale/Germany
lives and works in Freising near Munich since 2012

Education

1986-87 studies of philosophy at the Technische Universität Braunschweig
1987-92 studies of fine arts and film at the HBK Braunschweig
1993 Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HBK) Braunschweig
Meisterschüler' with Prof. G. Büttenbender at the Braunschweig University of Art

Solo shows

2017
Dicomposing World (Szétesö világ) - new works since 2016 - solo at Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest
Some that is the Case, Reports from Badlands at K41 (with Péter Forgács and Philip Pocock), Brussels

2016
Zeitverschiebung, Galerie einRaum5-7, Braunschweig

2015
Translation – Suggestion, Kunsthaus and Kunstverein Viernheim (with Thomas Lüer), Viernheim

2013
Alteration, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt

2012
Private View, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest
Proclamation, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest

2010
Die Bande im Bandee (with C. Stracke and J. Zehe), Space Bandee, Busan / South Korea
Trap, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest

2009
Collection, Pixel Gallery, Budapest

2006
Model, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest

2005
Closed Circuit, Budapest Gallery, Lajos Street exhibition space, Budapest

2003
Subjective Space, Allgemeiner Konsumverein, Braunschweig

2002
You Are Here!, Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest

2001
Golden Cage, Centre Culturel Balavoine, Arques
frames'games (with H. Németh and Gy. Várnai), Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin
Territorios Habitables, Abisal, Bilbao
Elsewhere (with C. Stracke and J. Zehe), Goethe-Institut, Budapest

2000
Impulse, Protocoll Gallery, Cluj
Face to Face (Unter Zwei Augen), Galerie Sehsaal, Vienna
Out of Shape (with H. Németh und Gy. Várnai), Municipal Art Msueum, Gyõr

1999
Tuning 3.0, U.F.F. Gallery, Budapest

1998
Dancing Place, Vízivárosi Gallery, Budapest (with Denis S. Rose)
Time Delay, Óbudai Társaskör Gallery, Budapest

1997
Parallel Space, Ifjúsági Ház, Szeged
Real Virtuality-Machine 4.0, MTA-SZTAKI, Budapest

1996
Experiments to the Real Virtuality(E), Uitz-Terem, Dunaújváros
Don QuiXote, wind-energy-supplies, Emden
Rudolf-Wilke-Preis, Brücke Galerie, Braunschweig

1995
Landing Place 2, Gallery KK im Fisch, Braunschweig
Resting Place, Goethe-Institut, Budapest
Run, Museum Abtei Liesborn, Liesborn

1994
Landing Place, Liget Gallery, Budapest & by computer-modem

1993
Dream Machines, Kornbrennerei, Hannover
The Tunnel, Les Ets. Phonographique de L'Est, Paris
Installationen, Kunstverein, Wolfenbüttel

1992
Don't Forget The One Room!, Zentrale Kunst Gallery, Hamburg
Times, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest

Participations

2017/18
The Formula of the Present (micro-retrospective): „Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants”, A Media Art and Media History exhibition by C3 Foundation - participation at New Budapest Gallery, Budapest, opening: 02/12/17, duration: 03/12/17 - 21/01/18

2017
Territories, participation at Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover
Children's Tales? (continued), exhibition with international video works at iMAL, Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, Brussels
Faktor X - Das Chromosom der Kunst, 3. Biennale der Künstler - Haus der Kunst, München
Children's Tales?, exhibition with international video works at Brass’Art Digitaal Café, Bruselles
Útfélen (En Route), Inda Galéria, Budapest
Über alle Berge (Over the hills and far away), Galerie Markt Bruckmühl, catalogue, Bruckmühl

2016
Erst eins, dann zwei…, Galerie der Künstler, München
Light Year 17: Earth Revisited, screening on the Brooklyn Bridge (The Triangle at Pearl Street and Anchorage Place), New York City

2014/15
Geschiebe, Galerie der Künstler, München, 10/12/2014-04/01/2015

2013
Space-Relation (Tér-viszony), Art Quarters Budapest, Budapest, 07/09/2013-

2012
Vertikale, German Film Museum, Frankfurt (Main), 27/11/12-16/05/13 - curator: Thomas Lüer - Utopia
Art Stays Festival 10, Ptuj/Slovenia, 21/07/12-01/09/12 - Spread; Scan
Quadratic Equations II. (Másodfokú egyenletek II.), Kepes Institute, Eger - Cube; Utopia
hangON, Kepes Institute, Eger, 02/06/12-28/07/12
Szentendre in the Palace (Szentendre a Palótában), UAP Gallery, Tîrgu-Mures, 16/03/12-09/04/12 - After Laika
The Hungarian Magic Cube (Mágia(r) kocka), Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel Aviv, 08/03/2012 - 04/04/2012 - After Laika
Experimental shorts from Hungary (Ungarische Avantgarde heute), Brotfabrik, Berlin, 02/03/12 screening - After Laika; Past Cuts
Quadratic Equations (Másodfokú egyenletek), Kepes Institute, Eger, 01/03/12-01/06/12 - Cube; Divers (Double); Diary Entries
hangON, Jósa András Múzeum, Nyíregyháza, 07/02/12-25/03/12

2011
hangON, Gallery Miskolc Munciple Art Museum, Miskolc
Immersive Surface, Leo Kuelbs Collection at Dumbo Arts Festival, Manhattan Bridge, New York
Mediascape, a pas de Nam June Paik, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin-si, Korea

2010
Szentendre a Gödörben, Gödör, Budapest
Tina B. Festival, Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Venice
Tina B. Festival, Nostic Palace, Prague
Nam June Paik Award, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
Watchable and Unwatchable (Nézhetõ és nézhetetlen), Malom, Szentendre
Art Stays Festival, Ptuj/Slovenia
Volta Basel (Erika Deák Gallery), Basel

2009
Portrait (Arc-kép, éngond... 150 év klasszikus és kortárs ego értelmezése), Volksbank Gallery
Revolutionary Decadence (Forradalmi dekadencia, külföldi mûvészek Budapesten 1989 óta), Kiscelli Museum, Templomtér

2008
Value, Art, Patronage, Kogárt House, Budapest
Talált házak, Volksbank Gallery, Székesfehérvár
Partition - Intermedia from five continents, MODEM, Debrecen

2007
1-2-3: Focus on the Collection, Lúdwig Museum, Budapest

2006
Artforum (Erika Deák Gallery), Berlin
Code, ArtMill, Szentendre
Ring Videos, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Treshold, 2B Gallery, Budapest
Collection Ludwig, Ludwig Meuseum, Budapest
Portfolio All, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest

2005
House of Future (Jövõ Háza), Budapest
Softmanipulations, Roxy Art House, Edinburgh
ArtFrankfurt (Erika Deák Gallery), Frankfurt/Main
ViennAfair (Erika Deák Gallery), Vienna
Arte Fiera (Erika Deák Gallery), Bologna

2004
Extended Views, public space screening, Maastricht
Artforum (Erika Deák Gallery), Berlin
Softmanipulations, Budapest Gallery, Szabad sajtó exhibition space, Budapest
Game (Játék), Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest
Mediafactory, Zsolnay factory building, Pécs
Short Stories, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest

2003
Softmanipulations, Atelierraum Martin Vesely, Vienna
Artforum (Erika Deák Gallery), Berlin
Portrait (Portré), Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest
Zoom Festival, Apolló cinema, Pécs
Creme II (Krém II), MEO, Budapest
Harakiri Bonbon, Kunsthaus, Hamburg
ARCO (Erika Deák Gallery), Madrid

2002
Virtual Metropolis (with Gyula Várnai), Underground, Vörörsmarty square station, Budapest
Gallery 1:10, Kunstraum, Innsbruck
Budapest Box, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Unstable Narratives, hARTware, Dortmund

2001
Transit (Átszállás), Millenium Park, Budapest
Surprise (Meglepetés), Institute for Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros
Service, Mûcsarnok, Budapest
Compatibility, ZOO Galerie, Nantes
Hungarian Sculpture (Szobrászaton innen és túl), Mûcsarnok, Budapest
Short Stories (Rövid történetek), Budapest Gallery, Lajos street exhibition space, Budapest

2000
T-Dugó, De Febriek, Eindhoven
Machine Times, V2, Rotterdam
CYNETart, Kunsthaus, Dresden
Media Model, Mûcsarnok, Budapest
Young Experimenal Art IV., Postfuhrwerk, Berlin
Out of Shape (with Hajnal Németh and Gyula Várnai), Municipal Art Musueum, Gyõr
Fictional Reality (Fikciós Valóság), Budapest Gallery, Lajos street exhibition space, Budapest
MM endless, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest

1999
TOOT, Time Based Arts, Hull
Transformation Hungary, Mousonturm, Frankfurt/Main
Closed in a Box, Fészek Gallery, Budapest

1998
Remix, Council Gallery, Pécs
Ars Electronika, internet (in the project Pocket-TV)
Ornamentika, Council Gallery, Szombathely
Opening of the ZKM-Gallery in Karlsruhe, C3-Foundation Budapest on internet

1997
De Valigia, numerous European capitals
Gallery by Night International (with Hayley Newman), Stúdió Galéria, Budapest

1996
79. Autumn Show of Lower Saxony (79. Niedersächsische Herbstausstellung), Eisfabrik, Hannover
Schlaglicht, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Int. Festival of Computer Arts, Narodni Dom, Maribor
15 Lux Maximum, Eighth Floor Co., New York
The Butterfly Effect, Mûcsarnok, Budapest

1995
AVE, Gallery De Gele Rijder, Arnhem
Ostranenie, Bauhaus, Dessau
Through Glass, Gallery Skuc, Ljubljana
Zusammenziehende Häuser, Kunsthaus, Hamburg
Balm (Balzsam), Ernst Museum, Budapest

1994
The Studio of Young Artists, station 3, Vienna
Almost Third Contemporary Hungarian Epigon Exhibition (Majdnem Harmadik Kortárs Magyar Epigon Kiállítás), Újlak Kiállítótér, Tûzoltó u. 72.
Ventilation, Gallery Toit-du-monde, Vevey
fischwerk 3, Gallery KK im FISCH, Braunschweig
Master class (Meisterschüler), Gornoslaska Macierz Kultury, Katowice
Epigon, KX-Kampnagel, Hamburg

1993
10 years Torhaus - installations, Torhaus Gallery, Braunschweig
Staircase for Art 2 (Ein Treppenhaus für die Kunst 2), Ministry of Culture and Science, Hannover

1992
Stúdió '92, Ernst Museum, Budapest
77. Autumn Show of Lower Saxony (77. Niedersächsische Herbstausstellung), Kubus, Hannover
Differenti Sensationi 9, Stalker Teatro, Torino

1991
Space (Ür), Vajda Pince, Szentendre
AVE, Oceaan, Arnhem

1990
76. Autumn Show of Lower Saxony (76. Niedersächsische Herbstausstellung), Kunstverein, Hannover

1989
fischwerk, Gallery Fisch, Braunschweig

Scholarships, artist-in-residence programmes, prizes

2008
residency at museum Modem in Debrecen/Hungary
2000
residency at De Fabriek in Eindhoven/Netherlands
1999
residency at Time Based Arts Ltd. (EMARE exchange program) in Hull/England
1995/96
residency at the museum - foundation Henri Nannen in Emden/Germany
1995
Rudolf-Wilke-Prize of the city Braunschweig/Germany
1994
prize of the Foundation of Modern Art Dúnaújváros/Hungary

Activities

dirctor of the European House of Art Upper Bavaria - Schafhof since 2012
co-foundation & director of the Videospace Gallery 2007-2012
co-foundation & director of the gallery at Trafó - House of Contemporary Arts in Budapest 1998-99
board-member of the Stúdió - Young Artists Association in Budapest 1994-2001
co-foundation & curator of the gallery Fisch (now: Allgemeiner Konsumverein) in Braunschweig 1986-92

Eike Berg
born 1966 in Halle a.d. Saale/Germany lives and works in Freising near Munich since 2012 Education 1986-87 studies of philosophy at the Technische Universität Braunschweig 1987-92 studies of fine arts and film at the HBK Braunschweig 1993 Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HBK) Braunschweig Meisterschüler' with Prof. G. Büttenbender at the Braunschweig University of Art Solo shows2017Dicomposing World (Szétesö világ) - new works since 2016 - solo at Erika Deák Gallery, BudapestSome that is the Case, Reports from Badlands at K41 (with Péter Forgács and Philip Pocock), Brussels2016Zeitverschiebung, Galerie einRaum5-7, Braunschweig 2015 Translation – Suggestion, Kunsthaus and Kunstverein Viernheim (with Thomas Lüer), Viernheim 2013 Alteration, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt 2012 Private View, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest Proclamation, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest 2010 Die Bande im Bandee (with C. Stracke and J. Zehe), Space Bandee, Busan / South Korea Trap, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest 2009 Collection, Pixel Gallery, Budapest 2006 Model, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest 2005 Closed Circuit, Budapest Gallery, Lajos Street exhibition space, Budapest 2003 Subjective Space, Allgemeiner Konsumverein, Braunschweig 2002 You Are Here!, Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest 2001 Golden Cage, Centre Culturel Balavoine, Arques frames'games (with H. Németh and Gy. Várnai), Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin Territorios Habitables, Abisal, Bilbao Elsewhere (with C. Stracke and J. Zehe), Goethe-Institut, Budapest 2000 Impulse, Protocoll Gallery, Cluj Face to Face (Unter Zwei Augen), Galerie Sehsaal, Vienna Out of Shape (with H. Németh und Gy. Várnai), Municipal Art Msueum, Gyõr 1999 Tuning 3.0, U.F.F. Gallery, Budapest 1998 Dancing Place, Vízivárosi Gallery, Budapest (with Denis S. Rose) Time Delay, Óbudai Társaskör Gallery, Budapest 1997 Parallel Space, Ifjúsági Ház, Szeged Real Virtuality-Machine 4.0, MTA-SZTAKI, Budapest 1996 Experiments to the Real Virtuality(E), Uitz-Terem, Dunaújváros Don QuiXote, wind-energy-supplies, Emden Rudolf-Wilke-Preis, Brücke Galerie, Braunschweig 1995 Landing Place 2, Gallery KK im Fisch, Braunschweig Resting Place, Goethe-Institut, Budapest Run, Museum Abtei Liesborn, Liesborn 1994 Landing Place, Liget Gallery, Budapest & by computer-modem 1993 Dream Machines, Kornbrennerei, Hannover The Tunnel, Les Ets. Phonographique de L'Est, Paris Installationen, Kunstverein, Wolfenbüttel 1992 Don't Forget The One Room!, Zentrale Kunst Gallery, Hamburg Times, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest Participations2017/18The Formula of the Present (micro-retrospective): „Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants”, A Media Art and Media History exhibition by C3 Foundation - participation at New Budapest Gallery, Budapest, opening: 02/12/17, duration: 03/12/17 - 21/01/182017Territories, participation at Kunsthalle Faust, HannoverChildren's Tales? (continued), exhibition with international video works at iMAL, Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, BrusselsFaktor X - Das Chromosom der Kunst, 3. 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Eike Berg
Utopia

Artist Eike Berg
Year 2005
Duration 5:01 min
Edition 5 + 1 AE
Technical info loop, animated vector graphics
Contact
Anita Beckers Gallery
Anita Beckers
Braubachstraße 9
60311 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

Phone: +49 69 73900967
E-Mail: info@galerie-beckers.de

About the video

This 18’38” video, made in 2005, is composed of scenes from 43 emblematic movies and cartoons. At certain moments, all the whirling images freeze at the same time, their colours fade into metal gray, and the outlines of the spatial structures in each image become very distinct.

We can see how filmmakers in the past imagined the future, we see its fragments, ‘excavate’ the scale models of unattained, unfulfilled utopias. From our position fixed in the present, we see illusions of the future through the past – looking at familiar fragments, we remember the things that have not come to be yet.

Most of us have our own memories of all or many of the scenes, and our familiarity with them makes us feel secure. As a result, the swarming of the thousands of images, the future that can be imagined in so many ways does not make us anxious – much to the contrary: the concreteness of the illusions comforts us. With the future filtered through the past, we come to feel nostalgia for it. We get the feeling that by remembering, by recollecting the images of the future, the future becomes tangible.

(Zsolt Kozma)


Credits

concept, editing:
EIKE

thanks to:
Gyula Várnai, Balázs Fekete, DNN, Ede Gaál

Eike Berg - Utopia
This 18’38” video, made in 2005, is composed of scenes from 43 emblematic movies and cartoons. At certain moments, all the whirling images freeze at the same time, their colours fade into metal gray, and the outlines of the spatial structures in each image become very distinct.We can see how filmmakers in the past imagined the future, we see its fragments, ‘excavate’ the scale models of unattained, unfulfilled utopias. From our position fixed in the present, we see illusions of the future through the past – looking at familiar fragments, we remember the things that have not come to be yet.Most of us have our own memories of all or many of the scenes, and our familiarity with them makes us feel secure. As a result, the swarming of the thousands of images, the future that can be imagined in so many ways does not make us anxious – much to the contrary: the concreteness of the illusions comforts us. With the future filtered through the past, we come to feel nostalgia for it. We get the feeling that by remembering, by recollecting the images of the future, the future becomes tangible.(Zsolt Kozma)

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