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Romana Schmalisch

Real Estate Avantgarde

Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur et n&b | 5:20 | Allemagne | 2010

Real Estate Avantgarde »Real Estate Avantgarde«, HD, 5:20 min., 2010 ?Real Estate Avantgarde? is a fictitious promotion trailer for a real estate investment project in St Petersburg. The investor Igor Burdinsky has purchased the former textile factory ?Red Banner?, a masterpiece of avantgarde architecture, and is now seeking partners to realise a cultural and/or business centre. While the investor draws on the symbolic power of avantgarde architecture, the film in turn appropriates this business strategy.

Romana Schmalisch is based in Berlin. Recent exhibitions/screenings include: centre d?art passerelle, Brest (2010) Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2010), Proekt_Fabrika, Moscow (2010) FormContent, London (2009), National Centre for Contemporary Arts, NCCA, Moscow (2009), Contemporary Art Centre, CAC, Vilnius (2009), Centre for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2009), Museum Folkwang, Essen (2008), MuseumKunstPalast, Düsseldorf (2008), Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (2007), STUK, Leuven (2007)