As part of the exhibition, 20 works from VIDEONALE.20 will be on display at the Kunstmuseum Bonn from 11:00 am to 8:00 pm.

Since the emergence of video art in the 1960s, artists have been using the medium of video to confront the oppression of people and their diversity in subversive, resistant and resilient ways. Many works of the VIDEONALE.20 address the social, political and ecological conditions to which human and non-human subjects are involuntarily exposed and how different subjects can withstand those conditions. The medium of video becomes an instrument of exposure, preservation, and world building and thus itself an expression of resilience. In three discussion rounds, VIDEONALE.20 artists will talk about the phenomenon of resilience in their work.

Event language: English

Marcel Odenbach / YAN Wai Yin / Kathrin Jentjens
STÄNDIG AUF DEM SPRUNG SEIN (Marcel Odenbach) and MUTED BRIDGES (YAN Wai Yin) address the consequences of authoritarian systems that lead to migration and silencing. In a collage of found footage and newly-produced sequences, Odenbach paints a picture of (forced) departure and people being on the move. In a seemingly diary-like video documentary, YAN Wai Yin indirectly preserves the 2019/20 protest movement in Hong Kong against China's influence.

Philipp Gufler / Kat Lawinia Gorska
A jet of water is aimed at the heart region of a naked body that stands firm: In THE BEGINNING OF IDENTIFICATION, AND ITS END, Philipp Gufler uses historical footage and staged moving images to explore the successful emancipation history of gender diversity and the visibility of queer bodies, which he contrasts with contemporary homonationalism and its appropriation of LGBTIQ emancipation demands for the sake of anti-Muslim racism and exclusion.

Ana María Millán / Nieves de la Fuente Gutiérrez
In her work, Ana María Millán addresses the exploitation of resources and its impact on the ecosystem. In DESERT (Ana María Millán) – a hybrid between computer simulation and video game – players move from the mining mines near Calí, Colombia, to a barren desert covered in oil and begin to immerse themselves in the matter. In a conversation between the artist and curator Nieves de la Fuente Gutiérrez, Ana María Millán talks about the potential of gaming as a critical and subversive tool for world building.

In addition to the exhibition presentation in the Kunstmuseum Bonn, works from the V.20 can be seen at six stations in Bonn's old town and city center. The stations form the VIDEONALE.20 parcours which can be explored individually using the Videonale city map (PDF) or together during guided tours, guided walks and many other events.

Get to know the festival participants in short conversations!

The exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bonn can be visited until 8 pm, regardless of the program schedule. The museum entrance fee applies.

The V.20 artists will guide you through the exhibition. We meet up in the foyer!

Reading Session and Talk
With Beatrice Gibson and Stéphanie Lagarde

In their video works, Beatrice Gibson and Stéphanie Lagarde explore the themes of parenthood and self-abandonment. In a participatory reading, we will explore excerpts from Annie Ernaux's novel A Frozen Woman, in which the French author tells of her own devotion to family duties. We will approach the works of Lagarde and Gibson through subsequent screenings and discussions.

Talk
With Lukas Marxt and Ana María Millán

In DESERT and VALLEY PRIDE, Ana María Millán and Lukas Marxt grapple with the social and ecological effects of resource extraction. Both deal with colonial structures of extraction: Millán focuses on the Colombian desert, Marxt on California. Based on their works, we will talk to the artists about artistic forms of addressing colonization and the exploitation of people and landscapes.

Talk
With Anna Zett and Agathe Israel

In her film ES GIBT KEINE ANGST [Afraid doesn't exist], Anna Zett gives insights into the period of upheaval in Germany between 1986 and 1990: the political and social change from the German Democratic Republic to reunification with the Federal Republic of Germany. By interweaving GDR opposition material with poetry and music, the artist addresses the fears and uncertainties of this particular period of change. In conversation with psychoanalyst Agathe Israel, we talk about the psychological dimension of those years and how fear and repression shaped the collective and individual experience of reunification.

Listening Session and Talk
With Chto Delat

In the video performance NEZHNOST / TENDERNESS by the collective Chto Delat, four people sway in front of their screens to the rhythm of the Soviet song Nezhnost, which describes the loneliness of the first cosmonaut in space. Created at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the work responds to the threat of social collapse and invites us to imagine how we would behave if the collapse had already occurred. Together with the collective, we approach their video work by closely listening to Nezhnost's melody and lyrics.

Reading Session and Talk
With Ida Kammerloch and Stefan Panhans & Andrea Winkler

In ANIMA OVERDRIVE by Stefan Panhans and Andrea Winkler, a performer raps about the exhaustive cycle of deliveries, from physical goods to abstract concepts. In MEMBRANE OF THE NEW, Ida Kammerloch tells the story of her grandfather's shuttle trade between Russia and China. In a participatory reading, the two works are brought into resonance with text excerpts from Heike Geißler's novel Seasonal Associate, in which the author writes about her work for Amazon and the exhaustion and alienation thereafter.

With Paula Erstmann

The Trinkpavillon in Bonn-Bad Godesberg has been serving healing water from the Kurfürstenquelle spring since 1969. On Saturday evening, the artist Paula Erstmann sets a table for us in the pavilion and invites us to enjoy everything from healing water aperitifs to local medicinal herbs.

In a live performance, artist Mark Bain allows visitors to the Trinkpavillon to experience the building's vibrations. To do so, he uses sound waves that are both audible and physically perceptible. Bain transmits the pavilion's natural vibrations using seismic sensors that can detect even the smallest movements. In doing so, he transforms the Trinkpavillon into a walk-in musical instrument.

We will round off the first opening day of VIDEONALE.20 in the Trinkpavillon together with Treibgut Kollektiv!

As part of the exhibition, 20 works from VIDEONALE.20 will be on display at the Kunstmuseum Bonn from 11 am to 9 pm.

INTRODUCTION BY MARYNA MAKARENKO TO ›WHEN YOU WHISTLE, IT MAKES AIR COME OUT‹

Singing, breatharianism or nervous system regulation: the performance and video artist Maryna Makarenko repeatedly deals with breathing in her work. In her INTRODUCTION, breathing becomes a means of approaching Ana Torfs' video work WHEN YOU WHISTLE, IT MAKES AIR COME OUT. Torfs' installation, whose rhythm is determined by the sound of the artist’s breath, is based on the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget’s studies of children's ideas of cause and effect. The children's surprising answers to questions such as »Where does the wind come from?« appear as lettering in an old light box.

INTRODUCTION BY LISA JAMES TO ›SONNE UNTER TAGE‹

SONNE UNTER TAGE [Sun Under Ground] by Mareike Bernien and Alex Gerbaulet is an artistic-cinematic research project that explores the ecological, health, and social consequences of uranium mining by Wismut SDAG in Saxony and Thuringia during the GDR era. The INTRODUCTION by artist Lisa James sheds light on forgotten memories, which are connected to the geographical locations and historical events depicted in SONNE UNTER TAGE.

INTRODUCTION BY ELSA ARTMANN TO ›A PORTRAIT‹

In A PORTRAIT, eight queer performers take the spotlight on a large stage, one after the other. The conventional separation between character and persona is dissolved, and the performers embody what Maggie Nelson calls »the flickering, disoriented places where people are truly at home.« The INTRODUCTION by Elsa Artmann provides an opportunity to engage with both the internal and external aspects of the self.

With his sound installation THE ARCHISONIC artist Mark Bain invites us to take a sound bath in the Trinkpavillon in Bad Godesberg. He uses sound waves that are both audible and physically perceptible. Bain transmits the pavilion's natural vibrations using seismic sensors that can detect even the smallest movements. In doing so, he transforms the Trinkpavillon into a walk-in musical instrument.

The exhibition architect of the V.20, Ruth Lorenz, will guide you through the rooms of the VIDEONALE.20 exhibition and give you an insight into the staging of moving images in the context of an exhibition.

In addition to the exhibition presentation in the Kunstmuseum Bonn, works from the V.20 can be seen at six stations in Bonn's old town and city center. The stations form the VIDEONALE.20 parcours which can be explored individually using the Videonale city map (PDF) or together during guided tours, guided walks and many other events.

The exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bonn can be visited until 9 pm, regardless of the program schedule. The museum entrance fee applies.

On the second opening day, we will swarm out into Bonn's urban space in the afternoon: On three different performative city walks in Bonn's old town, in the city center and in Bad Godesberg, we will visit the VIDEONALE.20 exhibition venues together. Artistic interventions are waiting for you on the way between the stations: Between the art museum and the drinking pavilion in Bad Godesberg, composer and director Nico Sauer invites you to a listening performance in Axel Begfeld's organic food store; artist Evamaria Schaller takes on cross-feminist perspectives on urban space together with the audience and on Friedensplatz we encounter the performative intervention ReleaseYour Inner Care by the duo katze und krieg.

Good bread doesn't need butter? We think it does!

We will round off the second opening day of VIDEONALE.20 with drinks at Blow Up!

An open art studio will take place in the foyer of the Kunstmuseum parallel to the children's short film program. Watch the films and get creative yourself.

The V.20 exhibition with 20 works by international artists invites you to breathe together, wander through digital deserts with a joystick, immerse yourself in dream worlds or follow the artists as they reflect on personal experiences and worldly conditions.

Art classes from the Carl von Ossietzky-Gymnasium Bonn, the Archdiocesan St. Joseph-Gymnasium Rheinbach, and the Kaiserin-Theophanu-Schule, Cologne have created their own works in response to the videos of VIDEONALE.20. These can be viewed for free in the foyer of the Kunstmuseum Bonn (entrance area and lower floor) during the museum’s opening hours until May 16. Together with the young artists, we will explore the exhibition of the JUNGE VIDEONALE and look at how they resonated with the works of the VIDEONALE.20.

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 a snack at Flow.

As part of the project I AM THE FIRST LESBIAN I EVER MET we show three queer performances:

"I felt no shame. Homage to the women of the left bank", lecture performance by Karla M. Götze, with musical accompaniment by Eva Henneken
"Too Strong For Too Long", dance solo by Elsa Artmann, set to live music by Annie Bloch
"Sounds of Resistance", a sound performance by Leila Orth

Afterwards there will be music by Leila Orth & drinks in the garden.

The evening is open to all queer people and anyone who wants to spend the evening with us. All gender night.

An open art studio will take place in the foyer of the Kunstmuseum parallel to the children's short film program. Watch the films and get creative yourself.

The V.20 exhibition with 20 works by international artists invites you to breathe together, wander through digital deserts with a joystick, immerse yourself in dream worlds or follow the artists as they reflect on personal experiences and worldly conditions.

The V.20 exhibition with 20 works by international artists invites you to breathe together, wander through digital deserts with a joystick, immerse yourself in dream worlds or follow the artists as they reflect on personal experiences and worldly conditions.

A talk with the Bonn-based media artists Claudia Robles-Angel, Karen Eliot, Badr Kamoona, Cyrill Kuhlmann and Tina van de Weyer

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.

The V.20 exhibition with 20 works by international artists invites you to breathe together, wander through digital deserts with a joystick, immerse yourself in dream worlds or follow the artists as they reflect on personal experiences and worldly conditions.

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.

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.

After a final guided tour of the VIDEONALE.20 exhibition at 2:30 pm, we invite you to join us in the foyer of the Kunstmuseum for a final get-together with cake.