contemporary art and media
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Meet us at the C.A.R. contemporary art ruhr Innovative Art Fair at Zeche Zollverein, October 27-29, 2023 Directors Lounge presents selected positions of contemporary photo and media art. Contemporary Art Ruhr, The Art Fair World Cultural Heritage Site Zollverein Gelsenkirchener Strasse 181, 45309 Essen Official Opening Friday, October 27, 8 pm – 10.30 pm Public …
Meet us at the C.A.R. contemporary art ruhr Photo/Media Art Fair at Zeche Zollverein, 10-12 March 2023 … read more
Approaches to reality at Tor218 Artlab gallery
8.12. 2022 – 14.1. 2023
It is not without a certain irony that it is becoming increasingly difficult to focus on the real. It is becoming increasingly difficult to direct one’s gaze to the real, the actual. The works united in the exhibition close to reality open in very different ways the view of what is really. … read more
Meet us at the Contemporary Art Ruhr at Zeche Zollverein, 28 – 30 October, 2022 Directors Lounge, founded and based in Berlin, presents selected positions of contemporary photo and media art. Contemporary Art Ruhr, the Innovative Art Fair World Cultural Heritage Site Zollverein Gelsenkirchener Strasse 181, 45309 Essen Official Opening Friday, October 28, 8 pm …
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Directors Lounge Screening: Verena Kyselka | Sound of Traces, Thursday, 29 September 2022, Z-Bar / Deutsche Version unten / Berlin-based artist Verena Kyselka often works in collaboration with other artists, or even with amateurs. Her art projects have taken her to artist residencies in the Arab and Asian regions. There, she seeks for contacts …
Meet us at the Contemporary Art Ruhr at Zeche Zollverein, 5 – 7 August, 2022 Directors Lounge, founded and based in Berlin, presents selected positions of contemporary photo and media art. Interdisciplinary works combine sound sculpture, performance and photography (Michael Vorfeld), action and documentation (Ania Rudolph/Rainer Görß) or take place at the intersection of image …
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Directors Lounge Screening: Mélissa Faivre, Parallel Perceptions, Thursday, 30 June 22, Z-Bar Mélissa Faivre, born 1989 in France, is an experimental video artist based in Berlin. Mélissa Faivre creates a world of her own, a video cosmos that combines the micro and macro world in a stream of images like in a flush of expanded …
Directors Lounge screening: Markus Soukup, return and detour. Thursday, May 26, Z-Bar Artist Markus Soukup was living in Liverpool and London for 17 years. Over the course of time, he has been working with video with a diversity of different media concepts, using stop-motion, split screen, associative montage, and creating his own music and sound …
Directors Lounge Screening Theo Thiesmeier A Simple Way and other Shorts Thursday, 28 April 2022 21:00 Z-Bar Bergstraße 2 10115 Berlin-Mitte Berlin filmmaker and photographer Theo Thiesmeier presents his newest film accompanied with a program of shorts. The base of the artist’s filmmaking has been the close perceptions through the camera recorded with analogue film. …
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Braquage, Sunday Matinée, 6 March 2022, 5pm, Z-Bar
We are happy to welcome Sebastien Ronceray, founder of “Braquage” for a special show at Z-Bar in Berlin. Braquage is an association created in 2000 in Paris. They organize screenings, workshops and exhibitions related to experimental cinema, in particular films-on-film presentations. … read more