Meet us at the C.A.R. contemporary art ruhr Photo/Media Art Fair at Zeche Zollverein, 21 – 23 March 2025
Directors Lounge presents selected positions of contemporary photo and media art.
Contemporary Art Ruhr, The Photo/Media Art Fair
World Cultural Heritage Site Zollverein
Gelsenkirchener Strasse 181, 45309 Essen
Official Opening
Friday, March 21, 7 pm – 10 pm
Public fair hours
Saturday, March 22, 11 am – 7 pm
Sunday, March 23, 11 am – 7 pm
Location www.zollverein.de
Info www.contemporaryartruhr.de
Download Playlist-March-CAR-2025
C.A.R. Video Lounge [Hall 12 | 35] presented by Directors Lounge:
DIRECTORS LOUNGE SPECIAL I: ONE MINUTE VOLUME 12
The 12th in the series of artist moving image programmes curated by artist/filmmaker Kerry Baldry.
Curated by artist / filmmaker Kerry Baldry this programme of experimental works thoughtfully engage with the concept of time in cinema, challenging traditional narratives and exploring how much can be conveyed within sixty seconds. The programme showcases an eclectic mix of work from artists at various stages of their careers, ranging from award-winning filmmakers to recent graduates.
One Minute Volume #12 includes work by:
Kunal Biswas, Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore, Louise Bourque, Steven Ball, Artist A & Artist B, LMFS, Rob Flint, Alina Vasilchenko, Jonathan Moss, Gordon Dawson, Stuart Pound and Rosemary Norman, Lynn Loo, Katharine Meynell, Alessandra Arno, Simon Payne, Rastko Novakovic, Roz Mortimer, Guy Sherwin, Kerry Baldry, Nicole Zaaroura, Terry Flaxton, Andrew Vallance, Tessa Garland, Anne Colvin, Cyril Galmiche, Sam Meech, Ruxandra Mitache, sam renseiw, Hendrik van Oordt, Whitney Lynn, Kypros Kyprianou, Philip Sanderson, Susan Kouguell, Michael Mersereau, Nick Jordan, Leister/Harris, Guido Devadder, Michael Szpakowski, Jennet Thomas.
About Kerry Baldry
Kerry Baldry is an artist filmmaker and curator. Over the last 15 years she has also been compiling and organising screenings of artists moving image titled One Minute. An eclectic mix of work made within the duration of one mInute by artists at varying stages of their careers. These compilations have been screened worldwide and a part of The British Film Institute national archive.
More information:
www.oneminuteartistfilms.blogspot.com
Directors Lounge Special II: IRENA PASKALI
Cologne-based artist Irena Paskali was born in Macedonia, where she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. She has lived and worked in Cologne since October 2004, where she completed her Master’s degree at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. She works with various media, such as photography, video, experimental film and drawings. The human being is at the heart of her work. She deals with the conflicting nature of cultures and religions, questions of identity and alienation. Irena Paskali has mounted numerous solo exhibitions alongside being a regular participant in international group exhibitions and is further the recipient of various scholarships, prizes and residencies.
News for free, 2022, 4 min, HD, 16:9, Farbe
I sold news for free in Open Market in Atakpame Togo. People were very curious and wanted to know what I was selling. Nes news, fake news, old news. I sell the news in the local language Ifi in the region Kamina Atakpame.
Compassion with the Earth, 2022, 2 min 27 sec. HD 16:9, Farbe
… and every grain buried in the ground brings new life. The earth is the plane on which we live and die, on which we find hope. The grain is fertilized, grows and dies like the human being.
More information:
www.paskali-i.de
DL Artists Booth, [Hall 12 | 25 ] with works by Radmila Cesarska and Visuman.
RADMILA CESARSKA
Radmila Cesarska is a German artist of Jewish-Russian origin born in Moldova. Cesarska decided to become an artist at the tender age of two. During her school years she became a student of Prof. Rolf Glasmeier until his death in 2003. Between 2011 and 2020, Cesarska studied with Peter Handel, who is one of the most important hyperrealists worldwide. After graduating from high school, she also studied art and art education with a focus on painting at the University of Essen and the Düsseldorf Art Academy. The focus of her work is women and the feminine in all its facets. “I have never met a beautiful woman who hasn’t gotten away with at least one black eye in her life. There are still too many attempts to abuse beauty instead of enjoying and protecting it with respect and gratitude,” says Cesarska. Her models are women with poignant and profound stories. In her paintings she delicately and protectively unfolds their beauty and portrays all their grace and strength. Despite what they have experienced, these women shine in the light of timelessness in Cesarska’s paintings. They stand above the discrimination and violence they have experienced and are lifted into infinity through art. Since 2014, Cesarska has also been working on various interdisciplinary projects. For example, she set her poems to music with jazz musicians, made music covers and wrote a book of fairy tales and a children’s book about colours. In addition to her freelance work, Cesarska is also involved in art and education for children and young people, primarily young girls, from precarious backgrounds and tries to motivate them to pursue an artistic career. Radmila Cesarska is married to the jazz musician Florian Boos. They have a small daughter and a parrot. The artist family lives and works in Germany.
VISUMAN
VISUMAN TALKSHOW Die Talkshow ohne Thema, Sendung Zwei
Motto: Fight Club , Gäste: Old Lamp, Doc Dog und Peach Face
In der ersten, sehr erfolgreichen Sendung der Visuman Talkshow mit dem Motto „Zeige Gesicht, Du Wunderei“ glänzten WEICHES EI und ARSCHGESICHT. Nun sollte das ARSCHGESICHT eigentlich auf das HARTE EI treffen. Doch ARSCHGESICHT ist untergetaucht und HARTES EI ist verhindert, weil es bei einer Weiterbildung zum TAUSENDJÄHRIGEN EI ist. In der Sendung 2 treffen jetzt OLD LAMP, DOC DOG und PEACH FACE unter dem Motto „Fight Club“ aufeinander.
In Cooperation with GALLERY A&O
Artists Booth, [Hall 12 | 23 ] with works by Irena Paskali, Julia Murakami and André Werner.
JULIA MURAKAMI
Murakami‘s work series can be seen as a visual exploration into a lost and forgotten time. Seemingly frozen in a single moment either in stage-like settings or as a cosmos of odd creatures, the works showcase voyeuristic insights into a world anchored in the psyche. Here a reference to the Greek mythology and biblical topics, there the search for the bygone: memory, longing, dream, loss. With her characteristic subtlety, Julia Murakami confronts the phantasmagoric with the real world with a charming implicitness and thus creates visual flashbacks which simultaneously evoke alienation and familiarity.
IRENA PASKALI
Tradition has it that the bride should wear the dowry she receives in order to bring it into her marriage. These knitted garments were usually handmade by the mothers, grandmothers and aunts of the family. A large dowry usually meant that the bride’s family was wealthy, the bride came from a good background and was well integrated into society, so it was a kind of unwritten law and the responsibility of the women of the family to provide the bride’s dowry for the wedding. My grandma prepared a lot of knitted dowry for me. The project is inspired by my memories of my childhood, my home and my grandma.
ANDRÉ WERNER
By giving the images back their freedom, freeing them from their contextual constraints and giving them space, André Werner enables us to take a new look at our relationship with our images. Not only as a sign of respect, but also as an opportunity to actively shape the relationship with our digital doubles. In this sense, André Werner’s works become a strategy against the disappearance of the real. Matou de Marsalle
Stand: 13.03.2026