Exhibition from February 27 to April 19, 2020
Wednesday – Sunday / 12:00 – 18:00
Closed on Monday and Tuesday

Working closely with four circles of family and friends, the film explores the blurred boundaries and paradoxical feelings of being simultaneously in and out of control, here and there, moved and in motion - states that are triggered by the complex system of interactions that take place between technology and our bodies, our nervous systems and our brains.

This work is part of Annika Larsson's artistic research project Non-knowledge, Laughter and the Moving Image, funded by the Swedish Research Council and carried out in collaboration with RIA Stockholm and HFBK Hamburg.

Annika Larsson (born 1972, Stockholm) lives and works in Berlin and has been professor of temporal media at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg since 2018. Her latest sound performances have been shown at the Akademie der Künste Berlin (2019) and at the 58th Venice Biennale, Herkules Saal, Munich (2018) and the Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin (2017). He has had solo exhibitions at the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome (2014); Centre Velan, Turin; La Fabrica, Madrid (2010); Le Magasin, Grenoble (2005); Kunsthalle Nürnberg (2004); S.M.A.K., Gent (2002), among others. His works are represented in important art collections such as the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, S.M.A.K., Ghent, the Goetz Collection, Munich or the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León.

Andréhn-Schiptjenko has been invited by the Swedish Institute to present three solo exhibitions of influential contemporary artists from Sweden. The third exhibition in this series is entitled Fear of Flying, a solo exhibition by Annika Larsson.

Exhibition from February 28 to Mach 15, 2020
Monday – Friday / 9:00 - 21:00
Saturday / 9:00 - 17:00
Closed on Sunday

UNDERDOX is an international film festival based in Munich. For the past 15 years, UNDERDOX has dedicated itself to unclassifiable and high quality cinema - films on the borderline between documentary, feature and experimental films. As part of the interdisciplinary Munich Unique programme, which highlights the Munich art scene throughout the year, the Goethe-Institut presents a "best of" of the festival in recent years, including the VIDEODOX prize winners and a selection of UNDERDOX short films. In the group exhibition curated by Dunja Bialas, Bernd Brehmer and Matthias von Tesmar, the audiovisual works take an original look at the cinematic aspects of video art. With the artists Ivan Paskalev, Narges Kalhor, Yulia Lokshina, Angela Stiegler, Karen Irmer, Agnes Jänsch, Camille Tricaud, Franziska Unger, Ulu Braun, Franz Wanner and Roman Wörndl.

Exhibited artists: Ivan Paskalev, Narges Kalhor, Yulia Lokshina, Angela Stiegler, Karen Irmer, Agnes Jänsch, Camille Tricaud, Franziska Unger, Ulu Braun, Franz Wanner et Roman Wörndl.

In October each year, Munich hosts the UNDERDOX festival, which systematically explores an unknown land of art: hybrid and experimental forms of cinema in the category of feature films, video films and documentaries. The festival, founded in 2006 by film critic Dubja Bialas and cinema operator Bernd Brehmer, is one of the first to focus on films on the borderline between documentary, feature and experimental film. Despite or precisely because of its "independent" character, this "low-budget" family festival enjoys an international reputation. The aim of this festival is to create a platform for films that are underrepresented outside the market mechanisms, where the films enter into an internal dialogue. The interdependence of fiction, documentation, experimentation and art is the common feature of the films selected by UNDERDOX. All these productions seek to experiment the "film" in a pleasant and aesthetic way on the ground of reality, where reality is enriched by the imaginary and distinguished by fiction.

From the very beginning, video art from the Munich-Upper Bavaria district has also been part of the program. Since 2014 it has been represented in the biannual exhibition VIDEODOX, which is organised in cooperation with the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler München und Oberbayern (Association of Visual Artists of Upper Bavaria). On this occasion, an incentive prize is awarded to outstanding artists.

The festival is supported by the Cultural Department of the Bavarian capital and is a member of the association Filmstadt München e.V. as well as the working group for film festivals in Germany. Its partners are the Viennale (Vienna) and FID Marseille.

www.underdox-festival.de