Beyond the cinema
dal 28/9/2006 al 24/2/2007
Segnalato da
Marcel Broodthaers
Dan Graham
Pipilotti Rist
Bruce Nauman
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Rodney Graham
Gabriele Knapstein
Joachim Jager
28/9/2006
Beyond the cinema
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
The art of projection (1963 - 2005). With 6 extensive thematic sections such as "Phantasmagoria", "Body Double" and "Repertory Cinema", the exhibition will outline the significance which the art of projection has achieved outside the cinema. At the same time, it shows what subject matter, techniques and conceptual notions have shaped this form of media art to the present day. Images are projected freely onto walls, set side by side in multiple projections or arranged as walk-in installations.
Wherever we go, we are constantly surrounded by moving images. In art, too, they have long since developed a life of their own: “beyond the cinema" the conventions of viewing film in dark auditoriums are undermined as images are projected freely onto walls, set side by side in multiple projections, arranged as walk-in installations and conceived as stagings in specially-designed architectures.
The exhibition centers around the major film and video installations of the 1990s, the ravishing projections by the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, Bruce Nauman’s existentialist image of the body, the psychologically-charged film spaces of Eija-Liisa Ahtila from Finland and the highly conceptual installations of Canadian Rodney Graham. These contemporary works from the Flick Collection in the Hamburger Bahnhof elaborate artistic notions of the projected image that were developed in the 1960s. Groundbreaking works such as the films of Marcel Broodthaers, the American Dan Graham or the experimental filmmaker Valie Export can be viewed in dialogue with contemporary works. With six extensive thematic sections such as “Phantasmagoria", “Body Double" and “Repertory Cinema", the exhibition will outline the significance which the art of projection has achieved outside the cinema. At the same time, it shows what subject matter, techniques and conceptual notions have shaped this form of media art to the present day. Ultimately, the art of projection is a school of perception, offering an extraordinary experience of filmic effects such as light, shadow, motion, sound and reflection.
The exhibition is curated by Gabriele Knapstein and Joachim Jager
(both from the Hamburger Bahnhof) in collaboration with the Canadian artist Stan Douglas and the curator of the Kramlich Collection (San Francisco), Christopher Eamon.
Parallel to the exhibition, Kino Arsenal will screen films, and a scholarly symposium will be held.
Accompanying the exhibition, a German-English catalogue of approx. 160 pages with around 100 illustrations will be offered for approx. 20 euros. It will include texts by Stan Douglas, Christopher Eamon, Anette Husch, Joachim Jager and Gabriele Knapstein, among others.
Opening: 29 September 2006
Hamburger Bahnhof
Invalidenstrasse 50-51 - Berlin
Hours: Tuesday till Friday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. . Saturday 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. . Sunday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.