We invite younger and older queer-lesbian women to an afternoon at the Videonale exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bonn. Together, we will watch the video work A PORTRAIT by Renate Lorenz and Pauline Boudry, which performatively represents queer identities, and engage in conversation about questions concerning your identity.

Admission to the exhibition is free. Please register with: Theresa Samimizad, samimizad@videonale.org

Afterwards, we will head to the project space Flow in Bonn's Old Town for snacks, the exhibition, and performances, where the exhibition project I AM THE FIRST LESBIAN I EVER MET is on display.

AM TAG TRÄUMEN

During the Easter holidays (from Sunday, April 13 to Sunday, April 27, 2025, including Good Friday and Easter Monday), we will be offering a children's program with animated short films for children aged five and older, along with their adult companions, in the middle of the Videonale exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bonn. The program will run daily from 2 pm to 5 pm. Get comfortable on cushions and embark on a dream journey: follow the play of colors in the clouds with a squirrel, join Lulina on her sea journey toward the moon, or watch as a forklift builds a home.

Headphones for the program are available free of charge at the Videonale Circus. You can join the program at any time.

For children/adults with hearing aids: The wireless headphones can be used on top of the hearing aid.

No registration required. Admission is free for children and young people up to the age of 18. For adults the museum entrance fee applies.

Screening of ANIMA OVERDRIVE by Stefan Panhans & Andrea Winkler

»I deliver eggplants. I deliver liver. I deliver liveliness and perfect selfie light«: In the video ANIMA OVERDRIVE by Stefan Panhans & Andrea Winkler, a person raps a series of material and non-material goods that they promise to deliver in an increasingly fast rhythm. Whether apples or fantasies: everything seems to be orderable, deliverable and consumable at any time. But at what price for a society whose economic system turns almost everything into goods that can be delivered at the click of a mouse? Panhans & Winkler address the state of impending exhaustion of the “anima” (soul) due to excessive stress (overdrive).

On this evening we will be showing ANIMA OVERDRIVE (in English with separate subtitles) on various monitors on the 12th floor of the Post Tower in Bonn, the headquarters of the logistics group Deutsche Post. Stefan Panhans & Andrea Winkler will be present on the evening.

Book your ticket: 5,00 Euro

From a club in the city center, a transporter in front of the Kreuzkirche to a former aerospace test station – the V.20 takes you to the exhibition stations of the V.20 in Bonn's old town and city center and ends with the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bonn.

Starting point: Flow, Georgstraße 26A, Bonn
Duration: 90 min

Book your ticket: 5,00 Euro / reduced 3,50 Euro

Video works by Bonn-based media artists Claudia Robles-Angel, Karen Eliot, Badr Kamoona, Cyrill Kuhlmann and Tina van de Weyer

A lesbian-feminist songwriter and publisher of the lesbian-feminist publishing house for German-language lesbian literature ÄTNA (1988-94) // a feminist activist, performance artist & supervisor // a founder of a feminist advice center & lesbian psychologist // a carpenter & co-initiator of the Handwerkerinnenhaus e.V. in Cologne and // a feminist lawyer & writer.

Five women of the older generation talk about their lives and their commitment to lesbian visibility at a time when visibility and recognition had to be fought for on many levels of society. And when there was just as much dancing and celebrating. What kind of visibility does lesbian-queer life need today?

No registration required. Free admission.

STUDENTS FROM ART ACADEMIES PRESENT THEIR WORKS

The Schaumburg is a former workshop hall in Bonn's Nordstadt district that is used as an exhibition and event venue. Its name is borrowed from the Palais Schaumburg of the same name in the government district of the former federal capital Bonn; a 19th century city villa that was the first official residence of the Federal Chancellery from 1949 to 1976. On May 9 and 10, the Schaumburg will be transformed into a cinema hall in which students from the classes of Prof. Nina Fischer (Berlin University of the Arts), Prof. Ute Hörner (Academy of Media Arts, Cologne), Prof. Tessa Knapp (Alanus University, Alfter) and Prof. Clemens von Wedemeyer (Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig) will project their works into the room.

Event language: German

No registration required. Free admission.

STUDENTS FROM ART ACADEMIES PRESENT THEIR WORKS

The Schaumburg is a former workshop hall in Bonn's Nordstadt district that is used as an exhibition and event venue. Its name is borrowed from the Palais Schaumburg of the same name in the government district of the former federal capital Bonn; a 19th century city villa that was the first official residence of the Federal Chancellery from 1949 to 1976. On May 9 and 10, the Schaumburg will be transformed into a cinema hall in which students from the classes of Prof. Nina Fischer (Berlin University of the Arts), Prof. Ute Hörner (Academy of Media Arts, Cologne), Prof. Tessa Knapp (Alanus University, Alfter) and Prof. Clemens von Wedemeyer (Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig) will project their works into the room.

Event language: German

No registration required. Free admission.

Artistic approaches to video art

Participation in the INTRODUCTIONS is free of charge. Registration is required with Annette Ziegert: ziegert@videonale.org. The number of participants for the INTRODUCTIONS is limited.

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Scenography – turns themes, people and spaces into performers.

But what is good scenography? How does scenography work? What does it take for us to immerse ourselves in a story told in space? And to experience it cognitively, physically and sensually?

In the Scenography – Performative Space workshop, we will address these questions in the exhibition scenography of the Videonale. It is our trigger for exploration. We explore the world of video art culturally and sensually. We take a close look at art and architecture in a spatially constructive way: through drawing, photography and sculpture.

The starting point is VALIE EXPORT's work Syntagma, the spark of the scenographic concept. We question body and space and engage in cross-media spatial experiments with the created material. Raum, Körper, Raumkörper is a relationship experiment that sensually explores spatial experience with our bodies in the exhibition body.

The workshop is open to all students who wish to expand their media skills in scenographic space. Language: ger/en

Registration via: Fabienne Bonus, bonus@videonale.org

Ruth Lorenz is an architect, interior designer and exhibition designer. With her studio maaskant she realizes scenographies for national and international museums and cultural institutions such as stedelijk museum Amsterdam, ZKM Karlsruhe, HMKV Dortmund. She teaches exhibition design, including as a visiting professor at the Detmolder Schule.

On the last day of the VIDEONALE.20 festival, the Videonale team will give a final tour of the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bonn with 20 works by international artists. The exhibition invites you to breathe together, to wander through digital deserts with a joystick, to immerse yourself in dream worlds or to follow the artists as they reflect on personal experiences and worldly conditions.

Duration: 60 min
Event language: German

No registration required. Admission is free for children and young people up to the age of 18. For adults the museum entrance fee applies.