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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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NYC 1986 by Miron Zownir

APOTROPIA “Sense of Place”, 2015

Victor Bockris, West Village, New York City 2015 by Robert Carrithers

Wuttin Chansataboot „16 X 9 Capsule“ 06:43, 2014

Directors Lounge heading for contemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.), the media art fair, June 3 –  5, 2016

Find the Directors Lounge booth and the C.A.R. Video Lounge (Auditorium) in the SANAA building right behind the entrance in hall 35 (A35), ground floor.

Artists | DL booth
 Miron Zownir, Robert Carrithers, Julia Murakami, André Werner, Alan Smithee

DL | C.A.R. Video Lounge
With works by Wuttin Chansataboot, APOTROPIA, Minos Nikolakakis among others…

“One Minute Volume 9″ curated by Kerry Baldry
Kerry Baldry is an artist film maker and curator. Over the last 8 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 (nine volumes todate) have been screened worldwide. She is currently organising The One Minute Hull Artists Moving Image Festival. READ MORE

Medienwerkstatt Berlin  The Medienwerkstatt was installed in 2008 by the Kulturwerk of bbk berlin with public funds as a workshop of artists for artists to further their practice and gain valuable skills. Besides the many technical facilities available to users of the Medienwerkstatt, such as the Media Lab and Green Screen room, the media workshops themselves strengthen and interlink mutual support networks among artists.

With works by Ieva Jansone, Deborah Uhde, Gaby Schulze, Sarah Wölker, Maria Korporal , Mara Loytved-Hardegg, Karen Thastum

contemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.), the media art fair
World Cultural Heritage Site Zollverein | June 3-5, 2016

Official Opening
Friday, June 3, 8 pm

Public fair hours
Saturday, June 4, 11 am – 7 pm
Sunday, June 5, 11 am – 7 pm

Location
World Cultural Heritage Site Zollverein XII
SANAA building, Areal A, Hall A35, Gelsenkirchener Strasse 209, 45309 Essen

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www.contemporaryartruhr.de
www.zollverein.de
www.directorslounge.net

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APOTROPIA Sense of Place, 2015

APOTROPIA Echoes of a Forgotten Embrace, 2016

Directors Lounge presents works by APOTROPIA | Contemporary Art Ruhr, June 3-5, 2016

APOTROPIA is a duo based in Rome, Italy, consisting of dancer/media artist Antonella Mignone and artist/composer Cristiano Panepuccia. Their work explores the interconnections between performing arts and all forms of audiovisual expressions.

Sense of Place, 2015
The term “sense of place” may describe both an arrangement of features that makes a place unique and the sensation and perception of place as experienced by the living bodies that belong to it.

The body is our general medium for having a world and our relationship to space is inevitably connected with culture and shaped by the kind of bodies we have.

Echoes of a Forgotten Embrace, 2016
Echoes of a Forgotten Embrace takes inspiration from the concept of emotional memory, depicting the encounter of two lovers in a liminal dimension, a place where movements preserve the memory of the past and create a synthesis of the entire action.
The work has been created with a mix of body projection, light painting, real time randomization and animation techniques.

Echoes of a Forgotten Embrace and Sense of Place are both chapters that constitute DROP , a project divided into several autonomous works focusing on the dialectical relationship between the concept of Infinity and Control as a fundamental issue of human nature.

www.apotropia.com

Directors Lounge heading for contemporary art ruhr.
(C.A.R.), the media art fair, June 3 – 5, 2016

Find the Directors Lounge booth and the C.A.R. Video Lounge (Auditorium) in the SANAA building right behind the entrance in hall 35 (A35), ground floor. 

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Guy Maddin | Glorious

Joachim Seinfeld, Wenn Deutsche lustig sind: WK 1, 1917 – Luftkampf;2014 | digitaler Silbergelatineprint auf Baryt; Papiermaße 50×60 cm

Julia Murakami | Exercises in Levitation I (series), 2015

Directors Lounge heading for contemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.), the innovative art fair, 30 Oct – 1 November 2015

Find the Directors Lounge booth and the C.A.R. Video Lounge (Auditorium) in the SANAA building right behind the entrance in hall 35 (A35), ground floor. We’ll see you there, right?

DL at the C.A.R. Video Lounge
With works by Daina Krumins (US) and Guy Maddin (CA) – a liberal smattering of two top-shelfers who have managed to burn feverish holes into the international psyche… read more

Artists presented at the DL booth
Reinhold Gottwald, Julia Murakami, Joachim Seinfeld, Alan Smithee, André Werner (pictured: “Viennese Catherine Window" by A. Werner, closed circuit installation, 2014)

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Medienwerkstatt Berlin  | Surveillance
“Schalten und Walten”: a selection of videos focussing on surveillance at the C.A.R. Video Lounge with works by Gabriele Stellbaum, Juliane Ebner, Fried Rosenstock, Youjia Lu, Barbara Steppe, Judith Groth / Frederike Vidal, Stephanie Hanna, Bettina Rave, Ariane Loze, Beate Maria Wörz, Sandra Becker, Petra Lottje, Yagama Jogmaya, Catherine Biocca, Maria Koehne, Gisela Weimann | pictured: Ariane Loze „Subordination“  … read more

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contemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.), the innovative art fair
World Cultural Heritage Site Zollverein | 30 Oct – 1 Nov 2015

Opening
Fri, October 30, 8 pm, V.I.P.-Preview, 6 pm

Public fair hours
Sat, October 30, 12 am – 8 pm
Sun, November, 1, 11 am – 7 pm

Location
World Cultural Heritage Site Zollverein XII

Gelsenkirchener Strasse 181/ 209, 
45309 Essen

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Guy Maddin | Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity

Guy Maddin | Glorious

MONOMULTICHROMALICIOUS!

“Divine” Krumins and “Glorious” Maddin: Directors Lounge supported by twin columns of surrealistic religiosity at  Contemporary Art Ruhr
30 October – 1 November 2015

Representing nearly 20 million square kilometres of North American film art breeding ground, Daina Krumins (USA) and Guy Maddin (Canada) have managed to burn feverish holes into the international psyche lying beyond. Already in 1972, Krumins’ “The Divine Miracle” was pitching its silver screen magic carpet ride of saturated colours and religious iconography. Maddin squeezed the devil out of, and the life into, his black and white “Glorious” in 2008, leaving enough for any confessional longing. Here is a yin/yang of image masters, mutually repelling/embracing opposites born of a single visionary cell. Directors Lounge presents a liberal smattering of these two top-shelfers at contempary art ruhr, better known simply as C.A.R. No reason not to be there…

Read more about DL at Contemporary Art Ruhr 

photo: Martin Duschner, Zollverein projection: Andre Werner, Dream Of The Japanese Beauty

Daria Korol BY touch. 02:40 2013

Alexander Heringer DE Fortune Faded 03:11 2012 / aug&ohr medien

Michael Fleming NL Avalanche 11:00 2013

Directors Lounge at the

Once again, you can catch us at the Zeche Zollverein at Contemporary Art Ruhr, 24 – 26 October 2014. As usual, you’ll find the Directors Lounge booth and the Auditorium with the C.A.R. Video Lounge in the SANAA building right behind the entrance. Stop by, say hello and take in our delectable film selection … See you at C.A.R.!
Participating artists (booth): Sandra Becker 01, Roger Deutsch, Michael Fleming, Carola Göllner, Julia Murakami, Ken Paul Rosenthal, Alan Smithee, André Werner

Directors Lounge at the C.A.R Video Lounge (auditorium) with
films by Philipp Artus*, Víctor Ballesteros, Sam Bell,Yanina Boldyreva and Alexander Isaenko, Chiara Caterina, Aude Danset and Carlos De Carvalho, Pedro Ferreira, Michael Fleming, Gerard Freixes Ribera, Mário Gajo de Carvalho, Max Hattler, Alexander Heringer*, Volker Heymann*, Masanobu Hiraoka, Roger Deutsch, Stephan Hilpert and Julia Murakami, Martha Jurksaitis, Daria Korol, Maria Magnusson, Olga Palomäki, Arthur Patching, Jean-Gabriel Périot, Javier Pernas, Stuart Pound, Diego Ramirez, Leyla Rodriguez and Cristian Straub, Jean-Michel Rolland, Ken Paul Rosenthal, Mauricio Sanhueza, Liga Steda, Walter Ungerer, Rhayne Vermette, Josh Weissbach, Aaron Zeghers / *aug&ohr medien

The complete program

Diego Ramirez AU Radish 02:27 2013
Mauricio Sanhueza PE Paroniria 06:37 2013
Sam Bell GB Promises 05:00 2013
Pedro Ferreira PT Home Sequences #1-4 13:00 2012/-13
Yanina Boldyreva and Alexander Isaenko UA/RU Duotone 07:00 2012
Volker Heymann* DE Drei Experten Drehen Auf 03:52 2013
Alexander Heringer* DE Fortune Faded 03:11 2012
Philipp Artus* DE Snail Trail 03:00 2012
Aaron Zeghers CA Living on the Edge 03:20 2013
Ken Paul Rosenthal US In Light, In! 12:00 2013
Roger Deutsch US Scherzo 05:00 2014
Josh Weissbach US Model Fifty-One Fifty-Six 11:02 2013
Mário Gajo de Carvalho PT The Place That Remains Deeply Unchanged Before My Random Passage Or One Way To See Ourselves Within The Out Of Field 03:13 2014
Rhayne Vermette CA Black Rectangle 01:30 2013
Walter Ungerer US ICI 07:32 2013
Leyla Rodriguez and Cristian Straub DE Isle Of Lox “Senses Suspended” 04:31 2013
Chiara Caterina IT Avant La Nuit 02:48 2013
Jean-Gabriel Périot FR The Day Has Conquered The Night 28:00 2013
Daria Korol BY touch. 02:40 2013
Max Hattler DE X 06:00 2012
Olga Palomäki FI Parallel Landscape 04:48 2013
Víctor Ballesteros CA VVOOLLVVOO 00:30 2013
Jean-Michel Rolland FR First Person Shooter 04:43 2012
Maria Magnusson SE Solarizaton 04:54 2013
Julia Murakami and Stephan Hilpert DE Mr. Blackburn 0:40 2014
music by Darius Greene US
Gerard Freixes Ribera ES The Parting Dance 03:00 2013
Martha Jurksaitis GB Bad Blood 02:43 2013
Stuart Pound GB All That Passed 01:00 2013
Javier Pernas AR/ES Piel/Skin 06:53 2013
Liga Steda GB Block 02:23 2013
Michael Fleming NL Avalanche 11:00 2013
Masanobu Hiraoka JP Land 03:41 2013
Aude Danset and Carlos De Carvalho Fr Premier Automne 10:30 2013
Arthur Patching GB Il Ritorno 04:24 2012

contemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.) 2014 – the innovative art fair

Zollverein World Heritage Site
Gelsenkirchener Strasse 181
45309 Essen

Official Opening:
Friday, October 24, 8 pm

VIP-Preview:
Friday, October 24, 6 pm

Public fair hours:
Saturday, October 25, 12 – 8 pm
Sunday, October 26, 11 – 7 pm

Entrance fee at the art fair per day:
12,- € / 10,-€

Guided Tours:
Frank Schablewski,
+49 (0) 211 795 21 12 & +49 (0) 178 292 33 98

www.contemporaryartruhr.de