The exhibition

April 11 to May 18, 2025 (Opening: April 10)

at Kunstmuseum Bonn and locations in the city

To mark the Videonale's 40th anniversary, we took a deep dive into the festival's impressive archive: Over 1,200 works from around 1,000 artistic positions have been shown over the past decades. The works and artistic positions of the last 19 Videonales (1984–2023) were reviewed by our selection committee – Kat Lawinia Gorska, Kathrin Jentjens and Tasja Langenbach – and around 180 works were invited to be selected for VIDEONALE.20. The aim was to select historical works and current productions that are significant for the history of the festival and video art and that will be brought into diverse resonance with each other and the audience as part of the exhibition and program.

A total of 27 artistic positions were selected for the VIDEONALE.20, whose works open up an exciting dialog between the past and present of video art. In the exhibition, seven historical video works from earlier Videonale festivals will come together with 20 current productions, which will be presented both in the Kunstmuseum Bonn and at seven stations in Bonn's urban space from April 11 to May 18, 2025. Three new productions by Alwin Lay, Julia Scher and Dani & Sheilah ReStack, co-produced by our long-standing partner Fluentum, will be created for the Stadtraum.

As in previous editions, an independent exhibition architecture by Ruth Lorenz, maaskant Berlin, will also be created for VIDEONALE.20.

FLUENTUM

Our long-standing partner Fluentum has already supported four awards of the Videonale Prize by Fluentum in the past. For the anniversary edition of VIDEONALE.20, Fluentum is co-producing three new productions in resonance with the urban space by Alwin Lay, Julia Scher and Dani & Sheilah ReStack.

We are delighted to have Fluentum from Berlin at our side, a partner who, like us, is enthusiastic about time-based media and film and supports artists by exhibiting, producing and collecting contemporary artistic works.