8 mm film by Irena Paskali Seitenansicht presented by Berlin based Directors Lounge at the Contemporary Art Ruhr

Contemporary Art Ruhr 2024

/English version on page 2/ Directors Lounge goes Zeche Zollverein Contemporary Art Ruhr, The Innovative Art Fair, 25. –  27. 10.2024 Welterbe Zollverein, Gelsenkirchener Strasse 181, Essen Öffnungszeiten Preview (Einlass mit V.I.P.-Ticket) Freitag, 25.10. ab 18 Uhr Freitag, 25. Oktober, 19 – 22 Uhr Samstag, 26. Oktober, 11  – 20 Uhr Sonntag, 27. Oktober, 11  …

Still aus Mushroom Hunting in the Woods Nick Jordan Part of “One Minute #11”

C.A.R. Photo/Media Art Fair 2024

Meet us at the C.A.R. contemporary art ruhr Photo/Media Art Fair at Zeche Zollverein, 15 – 17 March 2024 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 15, 8 pm – …

Double Blind No. 1 The Double Blind Experiments | 1:40 | 2015 (Australia)

Department of Anarchy “Short Cinema Assaults”

C.A.R. Video Lounge [Hall 12] presented by Directors Lounge: Department of Anarchy “Short Cinema Assaults” Directors Lounge is very happy to present a special screening at the Contemporary Art Ruhr in attendance of curator and filmmaker Noel Lawrence (USA/Portugal). Noel Lawrence makes, curates, distributes, and writes about film. As alter ego J.X. Williams, Lawrence produced a …

RainerGörß, KIK Collage 1, 2023, 1m x 1m

C.A.R. Innovative Art Fair 2023

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 …

Contemporary Art Ruhr: The Innovative Art Fair

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 …

MICHAEL VORFELD – VENI, VIDI, AUDIVI, 2021

Contemporary Art Ruhr: Photo / Media Art Fair

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 …

Contemporary Art Ruhr: The Innovative Art Fair

Meet us at the Contemporary Art Ruhr at Zeche Zollverein, 5 – 7 Nov., 2021. Directors Lounge, founded and based in Berlin, presents selected positions and genre-straddling slices of cinematic art and cuts of media experimentation at the c.a.r. video lounge. Dedicated presentations include cinematic tidbits from 16 years of Directors Lounge. The program will …

Directors Lounge at the C.A.R. Photo Media art fair, March 2020. Photo: Isabelle Meyrignac

Impressions from the C.A.R. Photo/Media art fair 2020

Once again, the Photo/Media edition of the C.A.R., the Contemporary Art Ruhr, lived up to its good reputation for being one of the best staged art fairs. The amply dimensioned halls of the former coal mine offered a perfect space for presenting our selection of experimental films and video art alongside selected media artists and photographers. … read more

André Werner, Was vom Kino übrig bleibt | What Remains Of Cinema #4 Girl with a Video Camera

Directors Lounge | contemporary art ruhr, october, 25 – 28, 2019

Meet us at the innovative art fair at Zeche Zollverein!

C.A.R. VIDEO LOUNGE (Hall 12 | 51B)

Directors Lounge presents selected positions of contemporary media art. Expect genre-straddling slices of cinematic art and cuts of media experimentation at the c.a.r. video lounge. Dedicated presentations include a new piece by filmmaker Roger Deutsch and video loops by media / performance artist Nina Hartmann. All this next to experimental video works from the Medienwerkstatt Berlin, an artist-run project of the BBK Berlin, and selected moving image work from the Directors Lounge archives. … read more