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Gast Bouschet, Nadine HILBERT. Collaboration: Stephen O'MALLEY
Catalogue : 2015Tempestarii | Vidéo | hdv | noir et blanc | 38:25 | Luxembourg | 2013
Gast Bouschet, Nadine HILBERT. Collaboration: Stephen O'MALLEY
Tempestarii
Vidéo | hdv | noir et blanc | 38:25 | Luxembourg | 2013
Dawn spreads its luminous rays across the coast of Iceland, revealing a sorcerer standing between wine-dark sea and mountainous black rock. It is Tempestarii, a figure of medieval lore, undertaking a primitive rite manifested to conjure a storm. The tides of the deep ocean breathe heavily, rising and falling across the cinema screen with amplifying power as the weather-maker beats a mysterious sack against the monolithic cliffs with powerful repetition. As a magical tool, this sack contains forceful winds pulled from each corner of world. As an analogy, it is aligned with the revolutionary transformations of nature by water, air, solar radiation, and geological shifts and filled with the vast potential of man’s will in alliance with Nature. As an omen, the tempestarii signals profound change in both physical and metaphysical realms. (Amelia Ishmael)
Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert were both born in Luxembourg and are currently based in Brussels, Belgium. They have worked together since 1990s, using a combination of photography, video, and sound to create potent social, political, and institutional critiques which they have exhibited at major international venues including The Wall Taipei, Taiwan; Cube Space Taipei, Taiwan; Philharmonie, Luxembourg; Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Poland; Casino Forum d`Art Contemporain, Luxembourg; Trienal de Luanda, Angola; Busan Biennale of Contemporary Art, South-Korea; Camouflage Johannesburg, South Africa; MUHKA Antwerp Belgium, CCA Glasgow, Scotland among others. Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert represented Luxembourg at the Venice Biennale in 2009.
Antoine Boutet
Catalogue : 2007Zone of Initial Dilution | Doc. expérimental | dv | couleur | 30:0 | France, Chine | 2006
Antoine Boutet
Zone of Initial Dilution
Doc. expérimental | dv | couleur | 30:0 | France, Chine | 2006
"Zone of Initial Dilution" s?intéresse à la transformation urbaine de la région des Trois-Gorges en Chine bouleversée par la mise en oeuvre du plus grand barrage hydraulique au monde. Avant la fin du chantier prévu en 2008, la vidéo dresse un état des lieux des villes et des berges du Yangtze, de celles en ruines ou disparues aux autres en plein essor, et tente de cerner les conséquences sur le paysage et les populations dans la perspective planifiée de l?ultime montée des eaux.
Antoine Boutet est né en 1968. Diplômé de l`Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Pau et de l`Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, il réalise des bandes vidéo expérimentales et documentaires et des installations exposées en France et à l`étranger, dont Conservation-conversation, en 2005. Antoine Boutet vit et travaille actuellement à Paris.
Bryan Boyce
Catalogue : 2006America's Biggest Dick | Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur et n&b | 4:0 | USA | 2004
Bryan Boyce
America's Biggest Dick
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur et n&b | 4:0 | USA | 2004
Le vice-président des Etats-Unis Dick Cheney dit enfin la vérité.
L'indien de San Francisco Bryon Boyce est un réalisateur-vidéaste dont les oeuvres ont parcouru le monde entier mais aussi dans des lieux tels que le Sundance, NY Underground, Cinematexas, RESfest, MTV et le Pacific Film Archive.
Velibor Bozovic
Catalogue : 2016My Prisoner | Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 21:41 | Canada, Bosnie-Herzégovine | 2014
Velibor Bozovic
My Prisoner
Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 21:41 | Canada, Bosnie-Herzégovine | 2014
My Prisoner is a video work that reconstructs the event that occurred on 3 April 1994 in war-torn Bosnia by intermixing archival footage with contemporary reimagining of the occasion. It shows a young man being escorted by an army intelligence officer to visit his imprisoned father. As the men travel side-by-side in the back seat of a car Shine on You Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd begins to play on the car radio. The young man acknowledges the music and tries to make conversation but the officer does not even recognize the track. A composite of autobiography, documentary and fiction, My Prisoner navigates through the space where the historical, the personal and the fictional simultaneously interfere with and enhance one another.
Velibor Božović grew up in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. When he was in his twenties, the country of his youth became a war zone and he spent the duration of the siege of Sarajevo honing his survival skills. In 1999, Velibor moved to Montréal where he worked, for eight years, as an engineer in aerospace industry until he gave up his engineering career to devote his time fully to art practice. Subsequently, Velibor completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Arts at Concordia University. He is the recipient of the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art (2015), Concordia International Mobility Award (2014), the Bourse de Maîtrise en Recherche from FRQSC - Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture Quebec (2012) and Roloff Beny Foundation Fellowship in Photography (2011). His work has been exhibited in the United States, Cuba, Canada, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. His images appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Descant, International Herald Tribune, Chicago Tribune, Granta, BH Dani and others.
Igor Bošnjak
Catalogue : 2022Future Repeats Itslef More Than History Used To | Fiction expérimentale | 4k | noir et blanc | 13:49 | Bosnie-Herzégovine | 2020
Igor BoŠnjak
Future Repeats Itslef More Than History Used To
Fiction expérimentale | 4k | noir et blanc | 13:49 | Bosnie-Herzégovine | 2020
An attempt on aesthetic-technological-ideological objectivity in non-objective reality. How can we see today, the monuments of the NOB (National Liberation War), what they represent to us in the context of the new division of fashion as well as changes in paradigm and ideology in the former Yugoslavia. Is a new reading possible without a nostalgic undertone? How to think about architectural and concrete structures in the 2000s? What is the relationship between monument and human, what is the relationship between monument and unbridled nature. What is the relationship between monuments and contemporary technology and contemporary art today? How much contemporary and how much tech addiction? How to reinterpret the artifacts of the anti-fascist struggle, but so that the monument of the NOB remains at the denotative level of meaning of the monument, that new meanings do not endanger the given basic meaning, the one that is. Creating narratives as a new reading and a new "seeing" and seeing of monuments and creating new visual realities.
Igor Bošnjak (b. 1981 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia) lives and works in Trebinje (Bosnia & Herzegovina). He is mainly working within the fields of contemporary art: moving images, video, installation, objects, drawing & photography. From 2009 works as a professor at Academy of Visual Arts in Trebinje, University of East Sarajevo on courses Intermedia art, Video art, Digital art. From 2019 works as visiting lecturer on Faculty of Fine Arts, Cetinje, University of Montenegro.
Catalogue : 2014Hotel Balkan | Film expérimental | | couleur | 10:25 | Bosnie-Herzégovine | 2013
Igor BoŠnjak
Hotel Balkan
Film expérimental | | couleur | 10:25 | Bosnie-Herzégovine | 2013
?It is not the literal past that rules us, it is images of the past...? George Steiner Hotel Balkan is meditative and ambiental video which defines borders between futuristic memory of past and present thinking of future. I?ve been wondering about something: Why is it that images from the past - the actual past - often feel more futuristic than our current images of an imagined future? But if the future doesn?t look much like the future, the past often does. There are pictures from the past that, while you immediately recognize them as being from the past, nevertheless feel futuristic. It?s as though there?s something in your brain that wants to read them as images from the future. In this concept there is an idea that Tito?s nuclear bunker is equivavelnt for some kind of motel, or maybe even a hotel. Nowadays, Tito?s nuclear bunker wants sunshine instead of fluorescent lights, the sound of wind blowing through trees instead of the dull noise of its massive air-conditioning unit. It looks forward to the chatter of people and the sound of their footsteps instead of the noise produced by the closing of its steel antinuclear doors.
Born 1981 in Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia. Lives & work in Trebinje, Bosnia & Herzegovina. He is mainly working within the fields of film, video, concept, installation & photography. Also works as a video curator & freelance theoretician. Curently works as a asistant professor at Academy of Visual Arts in Trebinje. Education 2005 Academy of Visual Arts (BA) in Trebinje, Department of Painting 2006 Founder and the curator of the international namaTREba project biennial 2008 Interdisciplinary master (MA) studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade, Theory of Art & Media Department 2011 Interdisciplinary (PhD) studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade / Theory of Art & Media Department His works shows and exhibited at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Atopia Film & VideoKunst Gallery, Oslo, CAM Casoria, Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Kunst Museum, Bonn, Galleria d? Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti, Verona, Museum of Contemporary Art RS, Banja Luka, Point Ephemere, Paris, Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin, Espacio Center Canarias, Tenerife, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Center of Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, Budapest Art Fair Mucsarnok, Budapest, Spazio Monitor, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Tapetenwerk Halle C, Leipzig, A+A Galerie, Art Verona, Venice, Gallery Remont, Belgrade... more info: www.igorbosnjak.com
Brigitta Bödenauer, Miguel CARVALHAIS
Catalogue : 2006Can I have two minutes of your time? | Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur | 2:0 | Autriche | 2005
Brigitta BÖdenauer, Miguel CARVALHAIS
Can I have two minutes of your time?
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur | 2:0 | Autriche | 2005
Commençant avec un plan séquence de deux minutes sur le cadran d?une horloge, la vidéo a été réalisé en temps réel, dans un environnement conçu pour la vidéo. Les cadres furent imprimés individuellement sur papier et postérieurement redessinés, images par images au fusain et à la peinture à l?huile, scannées à nouveau, pour être enfin animées dans la vidéo finale. Cette vidéo a été commandé pour la compilation "Essays on Radio : Can I have 2 minutes of your time?" produite par le label media Crónica et qui proposa à tous les artistes de l'audio et du visuel de refléter la technologie et la culture de la radio dans le début de la pellicule 21ème siècle. Le but de cette vidéo fut ensuite d?explorer l?idée de temps dans l?analogie croisant les techniques digitales : en commençant en deux minutes, réduisant la vidéo à 6 images et les étirant à nouveau sur deux minutes, restaurant la perte de qualité induite par le procédé de recréation numérique/mécanique et par l?utilisation de diverses recréations analogues/manuelles dans chaque image, discrète. À la fin, la représentation symbolique du temps n?est plus lisible, mais les mécanismes qui le représentent et le capturent se font sentir tout au long du morceau.
Née en 1972, elle travaille et vit à Vienne, en Autriche où elle est étudiante en critique du théâtre et des médias mais aussi artiste et photographe. Videojockey et DJ, elle enseigne pour le moment la manipulation vidéo dans l?école multimédia privée de Vienne. En 1999, son travail est exposé pendant 3 mois, par "Cinemasonic-Lounge", un festival de vidéos expérimentales. Elle met de côté la photographie analogique pour se tourner vers la vidéo numérique. Avec son travail elle repense la géométrie et l?anatomie qui dominent les images de collection en un processus de composition récursif qui utilise un ensemble de vidéos. Avec ses vidéos elle essaie de produire des séquences émotionnelles provenant d?images fixes rassemblées (photographies, images, graphiques, sketches, etc..) en des trajectoires animées derrière leur contexte original.
Marco Brambilla
Catalogue : 2011Civilization (MEGAPLEX) | Vidéo | dv | couleur | 3:22 | Italie | 2008
Marco Brambilla
Civilization (MEGAPLEX)
Vidéo | dv | couleur | 3:22 | Italie | 2008
Nicolás Branca
Catalogue : 2007Las Nuevas Aventuras de Tom y Jerry | Fiction expérimentale | dv | couleur | 17:50 | Uruguay | 2005
Nicolás Branca
Las Nuevas Aventuras de Tom y Jerry
Fiction expérimentale | dv | couleur | 17:50 | Uruguay | 2005
La relation qu'entretiennent Tom et Jerry n'est pas claire. Sont-ils amis, ennemis, ou forment-ils un couple ? Peu importe, la vidéo montre l'amour, la haine, la tristesse et la tendresse qui existent dans leur relation si particulière.
Nicolas Branca Rosse est un artist visuel, un photographe, un artiste vidéo et un réalisateur né en 1972 à Montevideo en Uruguay. Parmi ses oeuvres les plus récentes on trouve "OVNI", une fiction de 21 mn, réalisée en 2002-2003. "Panamericano" est une oeuvre expérimentale, une boucle d'une minute exposée au Centre Culturel d'Espagne de Montevideo en 2004. En 2005 il fait "Victima", une oeuvre expérimentale de trois minutes exposée au Bar Tasende, une entreprise artistique. Il réalise également "Las Nuevas Aventuras de Tom y Jerry" (les nouvelles aventures de Tom et Jerry), une vidéo expérimentale de 18 mn montrée au Festival de Cine y Video Latino de Buenos Aires en 2005 où elle remporte le premier prix dans la catégorie "expérimental". En 2006, il est sélectionné pour l'exposition Zemos98 au Festival ACCION PARALELA et il réalise "El Teorico", une installation vidéo composée d'une boucle de 2 mn et exposée au Centre Culturel Ex Teresa, à Mexico au Mexique.
Ulu Braun
Catalogue : 2025Gerhard-Trailer | Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 2:0 | Allemagne | 2024
Ulu Braun
Gerhard-Trailer
Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 2:0 | Allemagne | 2024
An ecstatic biopic about the world's most successful living painter. In vivid images, this AI hybrid film sheds light on the social role of painting in the field of tension between creativity, capital investment and spirituality. We are currently in the middle of the transition phase from analog to artificial reproducibility. Gerhard's unique painting techniques, especially squeegeeing, have triggered a worldwide hype. His techniques and ideas are being adapted, refined and improved by global “protagonists” and then flooded the markets (+social media). The myth of the “genius” writes itself into the DNA of an increasingly uncontrollable chain of creation as a fabulous and controversial homage.
Ulu Braun (1976) lives in Berlin and Finland. Between 1996 - 2005 he studied painting and film in Vienna, Helsinki, and Berlin. He has been using the medium of video to explore the field between the visual arts and auteur cinema since 1997 and he is one of the key figures who have transferred painting into video art. His works are regularly shown at film festivals and exhibited in art institutions.
Catalogue : 2010WESTCOAST | Vidéo | | couleur | 7:20 | Allemagne | 2009
Ulu Braun
WESTCOAST
Vidéo | | couleur | 7:20 | Allemagne | 2009
Westcoast is a panorama-video consisting of interweaved scenes mounted on a coastline - somewhere between Rotterdam and Sydney. Starting from a bubbling primordial soup the view pans along a waterfront in the style of a late transnational financial eclecticism and passes mystical spots such as a giant hippo eating carrots and hectically spinning rubber boats. After a dark spiritual waterway recalling Hieronymus Bosch atmospheres, the panorama ends in a cave with refuse-Jacuzzi in which a white woman gazes about herself melancholically.
Ulu Braun (1976) is belonging to a new generation of artists that entered the field of digital film with a background in visual arts and street art. In his works he integrates various production methods to form sceneries that play between Hollywood, Prado and periphery. In most of his works he observes the tragic of reality from different angles. Braun exhibits internationally including recent solo shows in Germany, Belgium, USA and group shows in Germany, Spain, France, Finland, Estonia and Greece. His works have been screened at the major experimental Film and Media Art Festivals. Collaborations with Roland Seidel as BitteBitteJaJa and finnish artist group YKON. He is currently living in Berlin. www.ulubraun.com
Ulu Braun
Catalogue : 2008Südwest | Art vidéo | | couleur | 1:45 | Allemagne | 2006
Ulu Braun
Südwest
Art vidéo | | couleur | 1:45 | Allemagne | 2006
Südwest est une construction détaillée et utopique d'un paysage, qui unit des aspects de la tradition et de la globalisation. La vidéo combine des scènes idylliques de la culture européenne avec les promesses cataloguées de l'industrie du tourisme moderne pour créer un panorama qui recréé la mystique poétique de choses pourtant si courantes à nos yeux.
Bio: geboren 1976 in Schongau. Lebt in Berlin und Helsinki. 1996-2000 Studium der Malerei und Grafik an der Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien. 2001-2006 Filmstudium an der HFF-Potsdam 1999 & 2007 Stipendium am Time & Space Department, University of Fine Arts Helsinki, seit 1997 Zusammenarbeit mit Roland Seidel als BitteBitteJaJa.
Pamela Breda
Catalogue : 2023The Shape of Things to Come | Fiction expérimentale | hdv | couleur | 25:0 | Italie, France | 2022
Pamela Breda
The Shape of Things to Come
Fiction expérimentale | hdv | couleur | 25:0 | Italie, France | 2022
What is the future of life in a world ever more dominated by Artificial Intelligence Can we develop a sense of connection and empathy towards highly elaborated machines? In a time when the lines between humanity and technology blur, "The Shape of Things to Come" takes audiences on a journey of human-AI interaction that challenges our perceptions of identity, love, and ethics. The film follows the activities of a team of pioneering researchers pushing the boundaries of AI technology, seeking to develop an AI with the capacity to feel and understand emotions. As they delve deeper into the mysteries of human emotions, they confront ethical dilemmas, technical challenges, and unforeseen consequences. Tensions rise as the project advances. Some believe that bestowing AI with emotions could revolutionize healthcare, therapy, and human-AI partnerships, while others fear the potential risks and moral implications. " The Shape of Things to Come " explores profound questions about the nature of consciousness, the essence of humanity, and the ethical responsibilities that come with playing the role of creator. As the project's success seems within reach, the researchers must confront their own humanity and the consequences of their ambition.
Pamela Breda is an artist, filmmaker and researcher living between Turin and Vienna. She holds a MA in Visual Arts from IUAV University (IT) and a PhD in Visual Arts from Kingston University (UK). She was appointed artist and fellow in residence at several international art institutions, including Max Planck Institute For Empirical Aesthetics (Frankfurt, DE), Pratt Institute (New York, USA), Cité Internationale Des Arts (Paris, F), PROGR (Bern, CH) Botin Foundation (Santander, E). She was recipient of several art awards and fellowships, including IMèRA Fellowship (Marseille, F), Cantica 21 (MibaC, IT), Italian Council Award (MibaC, IT), Kingston University Phd Scholarship (Kingston, UK), Moving’Up (Turin, IT), JRC, Joint Research Center, European Commission (Ispra, IT), ‘Love Me Tender’, Stonefly Production Prize (Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, IT), Italian Institute of Culture (Moscow, RU), Photography Award, IED, European Institute of Design (Venice, IT). Her film research explores the intersections of visual imaginaries, narratives, and stories that often remain on the fringes of mainstream consciousness. With a deep passion for shedding light on the voices and experiences of marginalized communities, her work dives into the complex web of human existence, particularly focusing on the clash between old and new technologies that shape worldviews.
Karolina Bregula
Catalogue : 2022Dust | Fiction expérimentale | mov | couleur | 21:45 | Pologne, Taiwan | 2021
Karolina Bregula
Dust
Fiction expérimentale | mov | couleur | 21:45 | Pologne, Taiwan | 2021
Dust is a story about two women living in an old district earmarked for demolition. Since their building is due to be demolished soon, all the neighbours have already left. Yet, the women decide to stay in their flat. The protagonists spend time in the abandoned multi-storey building and observe through the window bulldozers working around. Four out of five films were made in collaboration with Ms. Zou and Ms. Huang from Daguan in Taipei. When the project was in production, their houses in Daguan were bound for demolition while Ms. Zou, Ms. Huang together with their neighbours kept fighting against the evictions in the district. The first two films are a fictive story staged with Ms. Zou and Ms. Huang in an empty building awaiting demolition in central Taipei. I entered the building, cleaned up and furnished one chosen flat to turn it into a friendly liveable space and used it as a film location. Another two films are a conversation between Ms. Zou and Ms. Huang, Ms. Huang singing a sad song which reminds her of home and an image of a Daguan streets. The last film is a documentation of the demolition of the house where the first two films were made. One month after the films were done, Ms. Zou and Ms. Huang were forced to move away and Daguan was demolished.
Karolina Bregu?a (b. 1979) is a visual artist, a graduate of the National Film School in ?ód?. She creates films, photographs, installations and performance. Her work explores the problems of the status of the artwork and the materiality of art objects. She critically scrutinises contemporary art and its reception. She creates stories about art and architecture, which are a field of her anthropological and sociological observations. She is interested in the connection between art and reality – the favourable and detrimental effect of artists’ work, the remedial and destructive force of artistic activity, rituals connected to art and art’s social role. Many of her works are co-created with their protagonists and participants, blurring the border lines between professional and amateur artistic activity. Her works have been exhibited at institutions such as National Museum in Warsaw, Jewish Museum in New York and MOCA Taipei and at international events such as Venice Art Biennale and Singapore Biennale. She is the winner of the second prize in the Views 2013 Deutsche Bank Foundation Award, the third Samsung Art Master 2007 award and the 2016 Golden Claw at the Gdynia Film Festival. Her works are included in collections such as Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Zach?ta National Gallery of Art, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum and ING Polish Art Foundation. She is an associate professor at Academy of Art in Szczecin, she collaborates with lokal_30 Gallery. She lives in Warsaw.
Dietmar Brehm
Catalogue : 2019Inside - The Color Version | Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 5:0 | Autriche | 2017
Dietmar Brehm
Inside - The Color Version
Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 5:0 | Autriche | 2017
It hisses, it blinks. A virtual, two-dimensional anaglyph flickers in red and green, unfolding a visual space true to the Brehmian aesthetic. Concentratedly condensed collisions occur between everyday life and the world, being and performing, symbols and icons. A human skull, human bodies, Castle Grafenegg as an architectonic stand-in for the uncanny … Sex and crime, art and pop culture flicker at pixilated speed – the stuff of dreams – most penetrating however brief. The mundane alternates with the fetish, glimpsed in the blink of an eye, intersected by a long drag on a Chesterfield cigarette while the full-bodied, tube-amped slow-motion reverb sound of a guitar swings in the background.
Dietmar BREHM Born in 1947 in Linz. 1967-72 studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts/Linz professor at the Academy in Linz. Since 1973 teaches at the Academy in Linz. Drawing + painting, experimental films and photography. Numerous filmscreenings and exhibitions at home and abroad, various awards for his work.
Dietmar Brehm
Catalogue : 2023Hylo - Vision - Plus (Version 1) | Vidéo expérimentale | 0 | couleur | 3:18 | Autriche | 2023
Dietmar Brehm
Hylo - Vision - Plus (Version 1)
Vidéo expérimentale | 0 | couleur | 3:18 | Autriche | 2023
Dietmar Brehm's Hylo-Vision-Plus. Version 1 is a minimalistic study of ecstatic moments and it is named after eye-drop medicine.
born in 1947 in Linz 1967-72 studied painting at the University of Fine Arts/Linz. Professor at the University of Fine Arts/Linz. Drawing + painting, experimental films and photography. Numerous filmscreenings and exhibitions at home and abroad. 1974-1989: 74 Super8 films since 1990: 16mm films since 2000: video
Michele Bressan
Catalogue : 2014fifth,sixth and seventh floor | Documentaire | dv | couleur | 4:27 | Roumanie | 2010
Michele Bressan
fifth,sixth and seventh floor
Documentaire | dv | couleur | 4:27 | Roumanie | 2010
The block across the street, or mirror block, has been for the past 17 years my immediate landscape, a modular display of my closest reality, one I often avoided, as familiar images get skipped, distancing into the background. It happens because repetition eventually subsides the identification process. I chose to recognize the occurrences nearby and regard my quotidian landscapes as a view, put together by architecture and space boundaries, which also cause an involuntary voyeurism to appear.
Michele Bressan (b.1980) in the last few years his works were exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions, including Museum fur Photographie Braunschweig (2013), Centre Wallon d`Art Contemporain (2012), ViennaFair The New Contemporary (2012), Les Rencontres d`Arles photo festival (2011), Musée d`Art Moderne Saint Etienne (2011), Gate11 international departures, Fondazione Fotografia Modena (2011), Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Italia nel Mondo (2011), Mois de la Photo (2010), National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest (2009/2010), Performance Art Institute San Francisco (2010), ESSL Museum Wien (2009), Neuen Museum/ Bauhaus Universitat Weimar (2009). In 2010 he won the Constantin Brabcusi fellowship at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris. In 2009 he recived the ESSL award for photography, in the same year was nominee for the Henkel award.
Viktor Brim
Catalogue : 2020Dark Matter | Doc. expérimental | 4k | couleur | 19:52 | Allemagne, Russie | 2019
Viktor Brim
Dark Matter
Doc. expérimental | 4k | couleur | 19:52 | Allemagne, Russie | 2019
A trace of regularly ordered mounds of earth. In the twilight a dump truck is being loaded. A thick veil of mist hangs over the tops of the trees. Dark earth is excavated, loaded and transported off the scenery. In Dark Matter (2020), via the situative arrangement of different picture elements a visual friction surface is created, which is shaped by the figurations of a post-apocalyptic landscape. The images are determined by the processes of extracting raw materials. Without the mineral resources from the numerous diamond and gold mines in the so-called Russian Federation subject Yakutia, the Soviet Union would never have been able to exist until the 1990s. Technology and ideology go hand in hand and leave their mark. Military and economic efforts to secure power are inscribed in this landscape. The extraction of raw materials and the exploitation of nature show their planned economic and geopolitical consequences, which make up the character of the “subjects of the Federation”. Their designation as “subjects” was introduced in the USSR in order to equip and administer different categories of territorial units with different degrees of autonomy. Technological progress and ideological utopias constitute a processual and changeful network of relationships between subject definition and state apparatus.
Viktor Brim was born in 1987 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. From 2009 to 2011 he studied media art at the HGB in Leipzig, began directing studies at the Filmuniversity Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF and completed a postgraduate course at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, where he worked not only with fictional forms but also increasingly with documentary approaches.
Ondrej Brody, Kristofer PAETAU
Catalogue : 2008Artstar | Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur et n&b | 3:0 | Tchèque (Rép.) | 2006
Ondrej Brody, Kristofer PAETAU
Artstar
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur et n&b | 3:0 | Tchèque (Rép.) | 2006
Ondrej Brody et Kristofer Paetau forment un couple artistique néo-dadaïste qui recherche les aspects grotesques que l?on peut trouver dans le monde artistique institutionnalisé et dans la production artistique elle-même. Leur stratégie est claire et presque embarrassante de simplicité mais c?est apparemment leur point fort. Les problèmes qu?ils soulèvent et les cibles qu?ils choisissent sont également fondamentaux : la morale quotidienne, pour ne pas dire les codes de conduite sous forme de livrets, sont leur source de vocabulaire sous forme de sujet contenu. Ils mènent avant tout leur enquête en prenant en compte la psychologie du comportement lorsqu?il est influencé ou provoqué par les aspects extérieurs de la vie et de la politique. Leur travail oscille entre l?utilisation et l?abus, la manipulation poussée à l?extrême et l?enregistrement froid et intouchable de la réalité absurde, il est véritablement critique et tente sincèrement de mettre à jour les pathologies et les aspects normaux des relations humaines. Leurs actions sont toujours bien structurées et la mise en scène est pratiquement parfaite, précise et calculée, froide et émotionnellement troublante, audacieuse et vicieuse, elle nous pénètre de part en part. Il manque peut-être seulement un équilibre plus soigné : le scandale désiré utilisé de la bonne manière pour mettre l?accent sur le déclin de certaines valeurs et leur corruption soudaine.
Ondrej Brody est né à Prague, en République Tchèque en 1980, il vit entre Anvers, Berlin et Prague. Lorsqu'il était enfant il a vécu à Guayaquil en Equateur où il est resté jusqu'en 1999. En 2000 il a commencé ses études d'art à l'Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana à Cuba. En 2001, il a demandé son transfert à l'Academy of Fine Arts de Prague où il a obtenu son diplôme en 2005. C'est un artiste visuel qui travaille principalement avec la vidéo et fait des interventions/actions. parmi les expositions qu'il a récemment effectué figurent entre autres la Jiri Svestka Gallery à Prague (2006); le Kunsthallen Brandts à Odense, (2006); le Sammlung Essl à Klosterneuburg/Vienne, (2005); et Jack the Pelican à New York City, (2006). il a notamment reçu es prix suivants : the Essl Award, Sammlung Essl à Vienne, en Autriche (2205), et the International Prize for Performance, Galeria Civica à Trente, en Italie (2006). Kristofer Paetau est né en 1972 à Borga en Finlande. Il a étudié différentes disciplines sur plusieurs années. En 2005-2006, il était à l'Institute for Fine Arts (HISK) à Anvers, en Belgique; en 2000-2001, il a fait une année à l'Internaional ERBAN de Nantes en France; en 1999-2000 il a obtenu un Meisterschüler Diploma en suivant les cours de John M. Armleder à la Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HBK) à Braunschweig, en Allemagne; en 1999, il a obtenu un master en études artistiques à l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Cergy, en France; en 1993-1994, il a étudié l'histoire de l'art à l'Ecole du Louvre de Paris, en France; et enfin en 1991-1992, il a étudié l'esthétique et le français à l'université d'Helsinki en Finlande. son expérience artistique comprend différents types de projets et de travaux. En 2004, il a organisé le projet "St. Stephanus Church" avec Torsten Prothman à Berlin et Re-Institutionalize #03. Il a également organisé une exposition personnelle appelée "Antigrafittihiphop" qui était une installation accompagnée d'une performance chorégraphique à la Ekaitz 5050 Gallery à Berlin. En 2005, il a participé à une exposition collective appelée "Boundless", il a apporté sa participation au travail de Jan Christensen au Stenersenmuseet à Oslo, en Norvège (catalogue). Il a également effectué une performance intitulée "Belgian Air Guitar Champion", In/Out Space, Open studio, Higher Institute of Fine Arts à Anvers, en Belgique. En 2006, il s'est occupé du projet "Super-Flux" e-mail service avec Ondrej Brody. Il s'occupe avec l'écrivain Rüdiger Heinze d'un projet e-mail appelé "Picturepeople", ainsi que d'un concurrent de courte durée pour e-Flux.
Persijn Broersen, Margit Lukacs
Catalogue : 2019Forest on Location | Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 11:42 | Pays-Bas | 2018
Persijn Broersen, Margit Lukacs
Forest on Location
Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 11:42 | Pays-Bas | 2018
Broersen and Lukacs construct a replica of Bialowieza primeval forest. In this virtual forest is the avatar of Iranian operasinger Shahram Yazdani, who performs his version of Nat King Cole's 1948 hitsong Nature Boy, whose melody originated in Bialowieza. In Forest on Location, nature is viewed as a mirror, reflecting our own perception.
Margit Lukács and Persijn Broersen are artists based in Amsterdam, working together since 2002. In today’s visual culture, fiction is usurping the place of reality. Broersen & Lukács respond to this by creating video animations presenting a parallel world of spectacular images that wholly absorb the viewer in which 'nature' functions as a mirror for our media-dictated culture. Their works, consisting of layered projections, digital animations and spatial installations, have been exhibited for instance at the Biennale of Sydney (Australia), Rencontres internationales de la photographie d'Arles (France), Wuzhen Biennial Now Is The Time (China), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Netherlands), FOAM Amsterdam (Netherlands), Antwerp contemporary art museum MUHKA (Belgium), Centre Pompidou (France), Shanghai World Expo (China), Kröller Müller (Netherlands)) and Casa Enscendida (Spain). Their films have been shown at various festivals including Oberhausen International Film Festival (Germany), LAForum (US), Kassel Dokumentar und Filmfestival (Germany), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (France/Germany), the New York International Film Festival (US), and Rotterdam International Film Festival and Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival. Their film "Establishing Eden" was included in the 2016 Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films in Rotterdam Festival. In 2015, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam acquired the site-specific work "Ruins in Reverse" (2015), specially made for the museum. Broersen & Lukács are represented by Galerie AKINCI, Amsterdam.
Broersen & Lukacs
Catalogue : 2007Prime Time Paradise | Art vidéo | dv | couleur | 11:0 | Pays-Bas | 2004
Broersen & Lukacs
Prime Time Paradise
Art vidéo | dv | couleur | 11:0 | Pays-Bas | 2004
Tous les jours, les journaux télévisés et autres images télé se succèdent dans un flot sans fin qui engourdi le spectateur. Ce dernier, comme hypnotisé, ne fait rien d?autre que regarder et regarder encore : zappant constamment d?une image à une autre, d?une chaîne à une autre dans un flot régulier ; il n?y a plus de d?immobilité. L?attention est fragmentaire, l?identification et la réflexion sont impossibles, le monde est en perpétuel mouvement et des images, aussi bien anciennes que récentes, se présentent sans arrêt dans des endroits différents : une ville brûle derrière une montagne ; un soldat pointe son arme ; un fille hurle ; une plage (détruite) se trouve juste à côté de l?immeuble dans lequel a lieu une conférence des Nations Unies.
Margit Lukács est née en 1973 à Amsterdam, aux Pays Bas et Persijn Broersen est également né aux Pays Bas, à Delft en 1974. Ils vivent et travaillent actuellement à Amsterdam. Ils ont tous les deux étudié le Graphic Design à l?Académie Gerrit Rietveld à Amsterdam de 1994 à 1998 et ont effectué un Master en design et beaux-arts à l?Institut Sandberg d?Amsterdam de 1998 à 2001. Leur travail a été exposé à travers les Pays Bas et dans plusieurs autres pays comme la Chine, l?Inde et le Japon et ils ont participé à l?International Artists Studio Program de Stockholm en Suède en 2005. Broersen et Lukács créent des vidéos dans lesquelles ils utilisent les images de différentes manières en combinant des scènes qu?ils ont filmé eux-mêmes, des images de reportages d?information de la télévision qu?ils se sont appropriées et des segments d?animations numériques, pour créer des montages fluides. Certaines de leurs ?uvres sont narratives et semblent presque autobiographiques alors que d?autres refusent précisément de présenter un récit cohérent dans le but de critiquer la manière qu?ont les media de rendre impossible la réflexion du spectateur sur les images qu?ils présentent. Les paysages imaginaires utopiques et dystopiques agissent de différentes manières chez Broersen and Lukács et montrent comment les différents récits présentés par les principaux media et la culture générale finissent par constituer des mondes à part entière pour les personne qui les absorbent.
Broersen & Lukács
Catalogue : 2025I Wan'na Be Like You | Fiction | mov | | 12:40 | Pays-Bas | 2024
Broersen & LukÁcs
I Wan'na Be Like You
Fiction | mov | | 12:40 | Pays-Bas | 2024
Walt Disney’s film The Jungle Book(1967) and the 1894 book by Rudyard Kipling on which it is based are emblematic of Western imperialism, not only othering nature and animals, but also bearing colonial traces. This film by Lukács & Broersen, I Wan’na Be Like You, is named after the song of the same name from Disney's film. A ghostly figure appears and seduces the viewer with a dance and a song reminiscent of the song from The Jungle Book. The scene is set in a dilapidated glasshouse, a composite of several Western botanical gardens, a place where ‘exotic’ nature is tamed and studied for the scientific needs of mankind. A place where plant and tree species from colonised countries are othered and externalised. After its song and dance, the ghostly creature disappears to make way for the avatars of the Dutch Afro-Surinamese music group Black Harmony. They walk towards the greenhouse and confidently sing “Na mi”, “I am”, in their native language—a song that is their version of the Disney song.
Margit Lukács and Persijn Broersen are an artist duo based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. They are graduates of Graphic Design from the Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, followed by a MFA at Sandberg Institute Amsterdam. Furthermore they were artists in residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam (NL). Broersen and Lukacs explore in their work the connections between the histories of the relationship between culture and nature, rooted in their interest in media, music and technology. They interweave this with the politics of representing and appropriating nature, drawn from mythological, (art) historical, scientific and cinematic sources. Their work consists of films, installations and performances, in which the mythologies/origins of actual and fictional natural phenomenons are unraveled and retold from multiple perspectives. Their work has been exhibited in renowned institutions and organisations worldwide, a.o. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), MacKenzie Art Gallery (CA), arc en rêve (FR), Stedelijk Museum Breda (NL), Centraal Museum Utrecht (NL), FOAM (NL), MUHKA (BE), Centre Pompidou (FR), Breda Photo (NL), Cultural Capital City of Europe Esch (LU), HEK, Basel (CH), Kröller Müller (NL), WROBiennale, Wroclaw(PL), the Biennale of Sydney (AU), Rencontres Arles (FR), Wuzhen Biennial (CN). They represent the Netherlands at the Gwangju Biennale (KR) 2024
Catalogue : 2020All, or Nothing at All | Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 7:45 | Pays-Bas, Danemark | 2019
Broersen & LukÁcs, in collaboration with Nina Vadsholt
All, or Nothing at All
Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 7:45 | Pays-Bas, Danemark | 2019
In ‘All, or Nothing at All’ Margit Lukács and Persijn Broersen explore the hybridity, in image and sound, of the ultra-thin surface of digital photography in order to contemplate its role in shaping our experience and memory. ‘All, or Nothing at All’ takes its cue from Frank Sinatra’s 1939 first hitsong. Originally performed from an utterly male perspective, Danish singer Nina Vadshølt transformed the song into an angelic, rebellious chant in which many voices converge and dispute eachother. Broersen & Lukács constructed an army of avatars, impersonations of Nina Vadshølt, that ramble through a digital replica of the ancient city of Viborg(Denmark): a labyrinth of abandoned malls, garages, crusader paths and centuries old alleys as portals to another dimension. The choreography is based on West Side Story, the 1961 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, in which Puerto-Rican and Polish streetgangs fight eachother. In ‘All, or Nothing at All’ the duality is depicted in the display of the real and the virtual, in which the ancient town of Viborg appears as a hollow veil resembling the way in which everything seems feasible that appears on our screens, a world in which there is no middle ground, only Everything or Nothing.
Margit Lukács and Persijn Broersen are artists based in Amsterdam, working together since 2002. In today’s visual culture, fiction is usurping the place of reality. Broersen & Lukács respond to this by creating video animations presenting a parallel world of spectacular images that wholly absorb the viewer in which 'nature' functions as a mirror for our media-dictated culture. Their works, consisting of layered projections, digital animations and spatial installations, have been exhibited by renowned institutions and organisations both domestically and internationally. Lukács & Broersen’s work have been shown at a.o. Rencontres Arles (France), Art Wuzhen (China), Biennale of Sydney (Australia), Karachi Biennial (Pakistan), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Netherlands), FOAM (Netherlands), MUHKA (Belgium), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Kröller Müller (Netherlands) and Casa Enscendida (Madrid). Their films have been shown at several festivals including LAForum (Los Angeles), Oberhausen FilmFest (Germany), Kassel Dokumentar und Filmfestival (Germany), Rencontres Paris Berlin at Louvre, Paris (France), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (Germany), the New York Film Festival (United States), IDFA (Netherlands) and IFFR (The Netherlands). Upcoming shows are Forest on Location, A Space Gallery, (Toronto, Canada) Shaping the Invisible World- at Hek (Basel , Switzerland) and Rubble: A Matter of Time at Auckland Art Gallery (New Zealand.
Catalogue : 2017Establishing Eden | Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 10:0 | Pays-Bas | 2016
Broersen & LukÁcs, Margit Lukács
Establishing Eden
Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 10:0 | Pays-Bas | 2016
In Establishing Eden, Broersen & Lukács focus on the establishing shot: the moment a landscape is identified and becomes one of the main protagonists in a film. In blockbusters like ‘Avatar’ (James Cameron, 2009) and the film series ‘Lord of the Rings’ (Peter Jackson, 2001-2014), these shots have been used to capture and confiscate the nature of New Zealand, propagating itself as a new Eden, evergreen and unspoilt. Here, fiction takes over from reality: mountains and forests exist under the name of their cinematic alter ego’s. Broersen & Lukács travelled through the wilderness of New Zealand to capture these landscapes, and with that, they appropriate the nature of New Zealand once again. Creating an architecture of fragments connected by the camera movement of a perpetual establishing shot, they show this Eden as a series of many possible realities, an illusion that comes together just as easily as it falls apart.
Margit Lukács (Amsterdam, 1973) & Persijn Broersen (Delft, 1974) are artists living and working in Amsterdam. They work in a wide variety of media- most notably video, animation and graphics- producing a myriad of works that reflect on the depiction of nature in our increasingly virtual society. With intricate layers of (filmed) footage, digital animation and images appropriated from the media they demonstrate how reality, (mass) media and fiction are strongly intertwined in contemporary culture. Broersen and Lukács studied at the Sandberg Institute and at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Their films, installations and graphic work have been shown internationally, including: Biennale of Sydney (AUS), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), Muhka (Bel), Centre Pompidou Paris (FR), Shanghai World Expo (CN), Casa Enscendida, Madrid (ESP). Their films have been shown at several festivals including LAForum in Los Angeles, Kassel Dokumentar and filmfestival (Ger), Paris Rencontres (FR, Ger & Esp), New York Film Festival (USA), IDFA, Amsterdam (NL) and International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL).
Catalogue : 2014Beyond Sunset & Sunrise | Fiction expérimentale | hdv | couleur | 28:30 | Pays-Bas, USA | 2013
Broersen & LukÁcs, Margit Lukacs
Beyond Sunset & Sunrise
Fiction expérimentale | hdv | couleur | 28:30 | Pays-Bas, USA | 2013
The copy-paste mentality of the media and its audience is reflected in the film Beyond Sunset & Sunrise; a mosaic-film in which Broersen & Lukács connect scripts and characters from classic Hollywood movies such as ?Sunset Boulevard?, ?Badlands?, ?Wild at Heart?, ?The Last Picture Show? and ?All About Eve?, a range of films in which the protagonists struggle with their aspirations. Aspirations that eventually turn destructive. Shot entirely in Hollywood, this fictional network of a dream chasing community merges with the reality facing the ambitious actors; a no-man?s land between Los Angeles and Hollywood. A place where dreams define reality, and the dream is defined by reality.
Margit Lukács (Amsterdam, 1973) & Persijn Broersen (Delft, 1974) are artists living and working in Amsterdam and Paris. They work in a wide variety of media- most notably video, animation and graphics- producing a myriad of works that reflect on the ornamental features of today`s society. The work of Broersen & Lukács is characterized by a quest for the sources of contemporary visual culture. With intricate layers of depersonalization, re-mediation and re-interpretation they demonstrate how reality, (mass) media and fiction are strongly intertwined in contemporary society. Broersen & Lukács studied at the Sandberg Institute and at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Their films, installations and graphic work have been shown internationally, including: Centre Pompidou Paris (FR), MUHKA Gent (BE), Coca in Torun (PL), Kunsthalle Tallinn (EST) and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Their films have been shown at film festivals worldwide including LAForum in Los Angeles (USA), Experimenta Media Arts Biennale (AUS), Kassel Dokumentar Film Festival (DE), Paris Rencontres (FR, ESP, DE), International Film Festival Rotterdam and the IDFA in Amsterdam (NL). Broersen & Lukács have been invited to participate in the 19th Sydney Biennale, 2014.
Catalogue : 2013Mastering Bambi | Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 12:35 | Pays-Bas | 2010
Broersen & LukÁcs, Margit Lukacs
Mastering Bambi
Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 12:35 | Pays-Bas | 2010
Mastering Bambi Walt Disney`s 1942 classic animation film `Bambi` is well known for its distinct main characters ? a variety of cute, anthropomorphic animals. However, an important but often overlooked protagonist in the movie is nature itself: the pristine wilderness as the main grid on which Disney structured his `Bambi`. One of the first virtual worlds was created here: a world of deceptive realism and harmony, in which man is the only enemy. Disney strived to be true to nature, but he also used nature as a metaphor for human society. In his view, deeply rooted in European romanticism, the wilderness is threatened by civilization and technology. The forest, therefore, is depicted as a `magic well`, the ultimate purifying `frontier`, where the inhabitants peacefully coexist. The original 1924 Austrian novel `Bambi, A Life in the Woods` by Felix Salten was banned in 1936 by Adolf Hitler. The novel shows nature (and human society) more as a bleak, Darwinist reality of competition, violence and death. Broersen and Lukács recreate the model of Disney`s pristine vision, but they strip the forest of its harmonious inhabitants, the animals. What remains is another reality, a constructed and lacking wilderness, where nature becomes the mirror of our own imagination. The soundtrack is made by Berend Dubbe and Gwendolyn Thomas. They`ve reconstructed Bambi`s music, in which they twist and fold the sound in such a way that it reveals the dissonances in the movie.
Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukacs are artists living and working in Amsterdam and Paris. They work in a wide variety of media- most notably video, animation and graphics- producing a myriad of works that reflect on the ornamental nature of today`s society. With layers of depersonalization, re-mediation and re-imagination they demonstrate how reality, (mass)media and fiction are strongly intertwined in contemporary culture. This results in a body of work that hovers between ornament and perspective, between a journey and a cul-de-sac. Their work is shown in filmfestivals, museums and galleries and broadcasted on TV worldwide. Recent exhibitions/screenings include: Casa Encendida, Madrid / Centre Pompidou, Paris/ Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam/ Oberhausen Filmfest, Germany and more
Broersen & Lukács, Margit Lukács
Catalogue : 2025I Wan'na Be Like You | Fiction | mov | | 12:40 | Pays-Bas | 2024
Broersen & LukÁcs
I Wan'na Be Like You
Fiction | mov | | 12:40 | Pays-Bas | 2024
Walt Disney’s film The Jungle Book(1967) and the 1894 book by Rudyard Kipling on which it is based are emblematic of Western imperialism, not only othering nature and animals, but also bearing colonial traces. This film by Lukács & Broersen, I Wan’na Be Like You, is named after the song of the same name from Disney's film. A ghostly figure appears and seduces the viewer with a dance and a song reminiscent of the song from The Jungle Book. The scene is set in a dilapidated glasshouse, a composite of several Western botanical gardens, a place where ‘exotic’ nature is tamed and studied for the scientific needs of mankind. A place where plant and tree species from colonised countries are othered and externalised. After its song and dance, the ghostly creature disappears to make way for the avatars of the Dutch Afro-Surinamese music group Black Harmony. They walk towards the greenhouse and confidently sing “Na mi”, “I am”, in their native language—a song that is their version of the Disney song.
Margit Lukács and Persijn Broersen are an artist duo based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. They are graduates of Graphic Design from the Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, followed by a MFA at Sandberg Institute Amsterdam. Furthermore they were artists in residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam (NL). Broersen and Lukacs explore in their work the connections between the histories of the relationship between culture and nature, rooted in their interest in media, music and technology. They interweave this with the politics of representing and appropriating nature, drawn from mythological, (art) historical, scientific and cinematic sources. Their work consists of films, installations and performances, in which the mythologies/origins of actual and fictional natural phenomenons are unraveled and retold from multiple perspectives. Their work has been exhibited in renowned institutions and organisations worldwide, a.o. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), MacKenzie Art Gallery (CA), arc en rêve (FR), Stedelijk Museum Breda (NL), Centraal Museum Utrecht (NL), FOAM (NL), MUHKA (BE), Centre Pompidou (FR), Breda Photo (NL), Cultural Capital City of Europe Esch (LU), HEK, Basel (CH), Kröller Müller (NL), WROBiennale, Wroclaw(PL), the Biennale of Sydney (AU), Rencontres Arles (FR), Wuzhen Biennial (CN). They represent the Netherlands at the Gwangju Biennale (KR) 2024
Catalogue : 2020All, or Nothing at All | Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 7:45 | Pays-Bas, Danemark | 2019
Broersen & LukÁcs, in collaboration with Nina Vadsholt
All, or Nothing at All
Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 7:45 | Pays-Bas, Danemark | 2019
In ‘All, or Nothing at All’ Margit Lukács and Persijn Broersen explore the hybridity, in image and sound, of the ultra-thin surface of digital photography in order to contemplate its role in shaping our experience and memory. ‘All, or Nothing at All’ takes its cue from Frank Sinatra’s 1939 first hitsong. Originally performed from an utterly male perspective, Danish singer Nina Vadshølt transformed the song into an angelic, rebellious chant in which many voices converge and dispute eachother. Broersen & Lukács constructed an army of avatars, impersonations of Nina Vadshølt, that ramble through a digital replica of the ancient city of Viborg(Denmark): a labyrinth of abandoned malls, garages, crusader paths and centuries old alleys as portals to another dimension. The choreography is based on West Side Story, the 1961 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, in which Puerto-Rican and Polish streetgangs fight eachother. In ‘All, or Nothing at All’ the duality is depicted in the display of the real and the virtual, in which the ancient town of Viborg appears as a hollow veil resembling the way in which everything seems feasible that appears on our screens, a world in which there is no middle ground, only Everything or Nothing.
Margit Lukács and Persijn Broersen are artists based in Amsterdam, working together since 2002. In today’s visual culture, fiction is usurping the place of reality. Broersen & Lukács respond to this by creating video animations presenting a parallel world of spectacular images that wholly absorb the viewer in which 'nature' functions as a mirror for our media-dictated culture. Their works, consisting of layered projections, digital animations and spatial installations, have been exhibited by renowned institutions and organisations both domestically and internationally. Lukács & Broersen’s work have been shown at a.o. Rencontres Arles (France), Art Wuzhen (China), Biennale of Sydney (Australia), Karachi Biennial (Pakistan), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Netherlands), FOAM (Netherlands), MUHKA (Belgium), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Kröller Müller (Netherlands) and Casa Enscendida (Madrid). Their films have been shown at several festivals including LAForum (Los Angeles), Oberhausen FilmFest (Germany), Kassel Dokumentar und Filmfestival (Germany), Rencontres Paris Berlin at Louvre, Paris (France), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (Germany), the New York Film Festival (United States), IDFA (Netherlands) and IFFR (The Netherlands). Upcoming shows are Forest on Location, A Space Gallery, (Toronto, Canada) Shaping the Invisible World- at Hek (Basel , Switzerland) and Rubble: A Matter of Time at Auckland Art Gallery (New Zealand.
Catalogue : 2017Establishing Eden | Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 10:0 | Pays-Bas | 2016
Broersen & LukÁcs, Margit Lukács
Establishing Eden
Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 10:0 | Pays-Bas | 2016
In Establishing Eden, Broersen & Lukács focus on the establishing shot: the moment a landscape is identified and becomes one of the main protagonists in a film. In blockbusters like ‘Avatar’ (James Cameron, 2009) and the film series ‘Lord of the Rings’ (Peter Jackson, 2001-2014), these shots have been used to capture and confiscate the nature of New Zealand, propagating itself as a new Eden, evergreen and unspoilt. Here, fiction takes over from reality: mountains and forests exist under the name of their cinematic alter ego’s. Broersen & Lukács travelled through the wilderness of New Zealand to capture these landscapes, and with that, they appropriate the nature of New Zealand once again. Creating an architecture of fragments connected by the camera movement of a perpetual establishing shot, they show this Eden as a series of many possible realities, an illusion that comes together just as easily as it falls apart.
Margit Lukács (Amsterdam, 1973) & Persijn Broersen (Delft, 1974) are artists living and working in Amsterdam. They work in a wide variety of media- most notably video, animation and graphics- producing a myriad of works that reflect on the depiction of nature in our increasingly virtual society. With intricate layers of (filmed) footage, digital animation and images appropriated from the media they demonstrate how reality, (mass) media and fiction are strongly intertwined in contemporary culture. Broersen and Lukács studied at the Sandberg Institute and at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Their films, installations and graphic work have been shown internationally, including: Biennale of Sydney (AUS), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), Muhka (Bel), Centre Pompidou Paris (FR), Shanghai World Expo (CN), Casa Enscendida, Madrid (ESP). Their films have been shown at several festivals including LAForum in Los Angeles, Kassel Dokumentar and filmfestival (Ger), Paris Rencontres (FR, Ger & Esp), New York Film Festival (USA), IDFA, Amsterdam (NL) and International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL).
Catalogue : 2014Beyond Sunset & Sunrise | Fiction expérimentale | hdv | couleur | 28:30 | Pays-Bas, USA | 2013
Broersen & LukÁcs, Margit Lukacs
Beyond Sunset & Sunrise
Fiction expérimentale | hdv | couleur | 28:30 | Pays-Bas, USA | 2013
The copy-paste mentality of the media and its audience is reflected in the film Beyond Sunset & Sunrise; a mosaic-film in which Broersen & Lukács connect scripts and characters from classic Hollywood movies such as ?Sunset Boulevard?, ?Badlands?, ?Wild at Heart?, ?The Last Picture Show? and ?All About Eve?, a range of films in which the protagonists struggle with their aspirations. Aspirations that eventually turn destructive. Shot entirely in Hollywood, this fictional network of a dream chasing community merges with the reality facing the ambitious actors; a no-man?s land between Los Angeles and Hollywood. A place where dreams define reality, and the dream is defined by reality.
Margit Lukács (Amsterdam, 1973) & Persijn Broersen (Delft, 1974) are artists living and working in Amsterdam and Paris. They work in a wide variety of media- most notably video, animation and graphics- producing a myriad of works that reflect on the ornamental features of today`s society. The work of Broersen & Lukács is characterized by a quest for the sources of contemporary visual culture. With intricate layers of depersonalization, re-mediation and re-interpretation they demonstrate how reality, (mass) media and fiction are strongly intertwined in contemporary society. Broersen & Lukács studied at the Sandberg Institute and at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Their films, installations and graphic work have been shown internationally, including: Centre Pompidou Paris (FR), MUHKA Gent (BE), Coca in Torun (PL), Kunsthalle Tallinn (EST) and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Their films have been shown at film festivals worldwide including LAForum in Los Angeles (USA), Experimenta Media Arts Biennale (AUS), Kassel Dokumentar Film Festival (DE), Paris Rencontres (FR, ESP, DE), International Film Festival Rotterdam and the IDFA in Amsterdam (NL). Broersen & Lukács have been invited to participate in the 19th Sydney Biennale, 2014.
Catalogue : 2013Mastering Bambi | Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 12:35 | Pays-Bas | 2010
Broersen & LukÁcs, Margit Lukacs
Mastering Bambi
Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 12:35 | Pays-Bas | 2010
Mastering Bambi Walt Disney`s 1942 classic animation film `Bambi` is well known for its distinct main characters ? a variety of cute, anthropomorphic animals. However, an important but often overlooked protagonist in the movie is nature itself: the pristine wilderness as the main grid on which Disney structured his `Bambi`. One of the first virtual worlds was created here: a world of deceptive realism and harmony, in which man is the only enemy. Disney strived to be true to nature, but he also used nature as a metaphor for human society. In his view, deeply rooted in European romanticism, the wilderness is threatened by civilization and technology. The forest, therefore, is depicted as a `magic well`, the ultimate purifying `frontier`, where the inhabitants peacefully coexist. The original 1924 Austrian novel `Bambi, A Life in the Woods` by Felix Salten was banned in 1936 by Adolf Hitler. The novel shows nature (and human society) more as a bleak, Darwinist reality of competition, violence and death. Broersen and Lukács recreate the model of Disney`s pristine vision, but they strip the forest of its harmonious inhabitants, the animals. What remains is another reality, a constructed and lacking wilderness, where nature becomes the mirror of our own imagination. The soundtrack is made by Berend Dubbe and Gwendolyn Thomas. They`ve reconstructed Bambi`s music, in which they twist and fold the sound in such a way that it reveals the dissonances in the movie.
Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukacs are artists living and working in Amsterdam and Paris. They work in a wide variety of media- most notably video, animation and graphics- producing a myriad of works that reflect on the ornamental nature of today`s society. With layers of depersonalization, re-mediation and re-imagination they demonstrate how reality, (mass)media and fiction are strongly intertwined in contemporary culture. This results in a body of work that hovers between ornament and perspective, between a journey and a cul-de-sac. Their work is shown in filmfestivals, museums and galleries and broadcasted on TV worldwide. Recent exhibitions/screenings include: Casa Encendida, Madrid / Centre Pompidou, Paris/ Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam/ Oberhausen Filmfest, Germany and more