Evidence

21/08/2016

05/04/2016

Final week of group show "Evidence", curated by Seoyoung Kim. The show has been extended until this Saturday, April 9. Don't miss out!

17/03/2016

at // Jeaming Cha - Autodidact

10/01/2016

http://www.berlinartlink.com/2015/11/23/the-week-november-23-29-2015/

07/01/2016

http://www.artmagazine.cc/content91330.html

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02/12/2015

EVIDENCE is a video exhibition curated by Seoyoung Kim and will be on from November 27th at DNA Berlin
The exhibition deals with the historical and political concept of “evidence” but from a poetic and artistic point of view.

We proudly present you EVIDENCE at Curatorial Projects online. Don't miss out the exhibition.

http://curatorialprojects.weebly.com/art-exhibitions/evidence-at-dna-gallery-berlin-november-january-2015-16

For further details contact the gallery: http://www.dna-galerie.de/en/galerie-dna--contact.php?lang=DE

02/12/2015

'Evidence' is a new exhibition at DNA Berlin that reinterprets ideas of "history" through the lens of video art.

02/12/2015

Jeamin Cha - video still - Autodidact - 2014

The Seoul-based artist and filmmaker, Jeamin Cha presents the Autodidact (2014), a film based on real events, which shows thirty years of the anguished efforts of a father to detect the clouded death of his son, as he was serving at Korean Army in 1984. The vital need of the father to shed light on the uncanny death of his son, leads him to taught himself forensic medicine and to use this knowledge as a weapon in “an endless battle against the shameless authorities”.

13/11/2015

Mariam Ghani
A Brief History of Collapses
2011-2012
Two channel HD video installation, color, sound, 22 min, dimensions variable

Mariam Ghani found that the Friedricianum Museum in Kassel, Germany has architectural similarity to the palace Dar ul-Aman in Kabul, Afghanistan. The ruined Dar ul-Aman Palace, located on the periphery of the capital city of Afghanistan. The construction of Amanullah’s new city of Dar ul-Aman represented a radical break with traditional building design, materials, and techniques. While many Germans collaborated on the project, it was funded entirely by Afghan resources, without international assistance, since Amnullah’s reign represents the only period in Afghan history when the country subsisted without foreign aid. In “A Brief History of Collapses” (2012) she described these two buildings with two video channels in relation to architectural layout and details, but each represents its own narratives. Over the similarities and differences of architectural images, it can be shared with an aesthetic evidence of the collapse and restoration based on their historical, political and social stories.

08/11/2015

08/11/2015

Mariana Vassileva - videostill - Kronstadt - 2014

Mariana Vassileva represented historical story of Kronstadt, which is St. Petersburg's main seaport and century-old army-town near the head of Gulf of Finland in Russia and a ballet dancer from the St. Petersburg Mariinski Ballet. The main part of the footage for “Kronstadt” (2014), has been combined with studio sequences of the ballet dancer and images found on the internet, television advertisement traversing the urban and natural landscapes of Kronstadt. As a historical site for political struggle, to which Kronstadt's famous fortifications unrelentingly attest, the performing ballet and its aesthetic expression controvert the shooting cannon in her video. However, what if we rethink about this that Russia's current cultural climate of censorship and infringement of freedom, or consider that we comfort to passively sit back and read in a narrative mode?

06/11/2015

Clemens Krauss - videostill - The Taster - 2013

Clemens Krauss found one of last living evidence of Adolf Hi**er's regime. In “The Taster” (2013), an old lady, named Margot Wölk (b. 1917, Berlin) is shown without any explanation about her testimony. She is eating something with casual manners. The viewer cannot deduce what she was in the reality from these images, but actually, she was taster for Adolf Hi**er at the end of World War II whose task was to prevent his death by poisoning. It seems to be obvious that many historically overshadowed things have often been forgotten and no one knows how they disappeared.

06/11/2015

Dinh Q. Lê - videostill - Vision in Darkness - 2015

The video artist is a collector of drawings of Vietnamese artists who were on the forefront of the war, and with this video-document the confessions of the artists during the upset period of Vietnamese resistance. The artist describes how these paintings deeply changed his artistic perception “These works helped me to understand the role those artists played in the war, and it gave me perspective on the role I play now, even though the context has changed, and may not be as difficult as it once was. So the work is motivated partly by a desire to understand what they went through in order to help me deal with the Vietnamese government today, and think about the choices I need to make now and the choices I might have made had I been active during that time”. In "Vision In Darkness" (2015) we follow the personal life voyage of the pioneer painter Trang Trung Tin, through the narrations of his friends and people that surrounded him. The short documentary film directly enthralled the viewer and introduces to the audience the radical artistic vision of a painter who inevitably changes the Vietnamese art history.

05/11/2015

Jeamin Cha - videostill - Hysterics - 2014

“Hysterics” (2014) was inspired in part by Heinrich Heine’s poem “The Vale of Tears” in which a coroner reveals the cause of death of a miserable couple. She focused on the fact that the death of a couple is what is excluded in the situation, conceiving a relationship between hysteria and the agent that raises questions. This work attempts to stage ‘meaninglessness’ and a hysteric state as a theatrical situation where white papers and a specific kind of lighting interact with each other. It refers to the quote: “Pain makes people raise questions, and those who question become hysteric. Those who refuse to take plausible explanation and attempt to find the fundamental reason constantly raise questions.” The “Hysterics” (2014) has guided us those who are in this hysteric state, the ones that raise questions until the end discover other individuals who become victims.

04/11/2015

"Dinh Q. Lê, one of Vietnam’s best known artists" (ArtAsiaPacific) will display two works for the exhibition "Evidence".

ArtAsiaPacific magazine is the leading English-language periodical covering contemporary art and culture from the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.