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What’s the point of Artificial Intelligence?
Discussion as part of Filmfest Dresden: April 19, 2024 – 3pm
Location: Hole of Fame, Dresden
Discussion panel guests:
Prof. Dr. Dagmar Monett Diaz, Professor of Computer Science, HWR Berlin
Robert Seidel, artist and filmmaker
Veneta Androva, artist and filmmaker
Moderation: Yun-hua Chen, freelance film academic, critic and curator
Courtisane Festival 2024
Duration: March 27, 2024 – March 31, 2024
Screening: March 30, 2024 at 2pm
Location: Paddenhoek, Ghent (BE)
STRETCH & RELEASE has been selected to be screened at this year’s edition of the Courtisane Festival, as part of the short film program “IT DRIPS, IT SPLASHES, IT BURNS, IT SCRAPES”, curated by Eva van Tongeren.
A collection of films closely linked to feminist themes, dealing with the (female) body and its vulnerability. The artists talk about body politics, identity and emancipation. Often through performative videos, these makers reclaim space, question established norms, test boundaries and reckon with dominant gazes and oppressive power dynamics. In the films, sensuality, sexuality, pleasure and fun encounter violence, deprivation, oppression, discrimination and (hidden) forms of control.
With works by Mariya Vasilyeva, Ariane Loze, Monika Treut, and Lotte Louise de Jong.
Neukölln Art Prize 2024
Duration: February 17, 2024 – May 12, 2024
Opening: Friday, February 16 at 6pm
Location: Saalbau Neukölln Gallery, Berlin
Curated by Sandra Teitge
Award ceremony: Friday, February 16 at 7pm, Heimathafen Neukölln
Nominated artists: Veneta Androva, Johanna Brummack, Christian Diaz Orejarena, Marta Djourina, Ceren Saner, Sophia Uckmann, Constanze Vogt
PORTABLE MUSEUM OF REBELLIOUS ART: ‘W(e) A(re) R(ebellious)’
Project by Antoni Rayzhekov with the participation of Alla Georgieva, Anton Terziev, Boryana Rossa & ULTRAFUTURO, Venelin Shurelov, Veneta Androva, Dimitar Solakov, Ivan Moudov, Kalin Serapionov, Krasimira Butseva, Krassimir Terziev, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Maria Nalbantova, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Stanislav Belovski and Destructive Creation.
Duration: January 23, 2024 – February 17, 2024
Opening: Thuesday, January 23 at 6pm
Location: Structura Gallery, Sofia (BG)
The exhibition “W(e) A(re) R(ebellious)” presents 15 established and young Bulgarian artists with a “rebellious” artistic practice and a selection of their works created in the twenty-first century. The works are displayed in an unusual multimedia interactive object, acting as a “portable museum of rebellious art”, accompanied by 15 video stills/photographs of the videos and video-documentation of performances.
The project begins in 2019 as an “exhibition-in-a-book”. It is the result of Antoni Rayzhekov’s participation in the creative residency “Hallein Academy” in Austria, organized by the media festival Schmiede with the theme “WAR”.
Initially, the project-publication includes short interviews and biography, video stills and photographs of the selected works. The selection is based on the artists’ courage to comment on important issues of our times in an extraordinary and innovative creative way, becoming expressions of the dynamic transformation of Bulgarian society.
The W(e)A(re)R(ebellious) project reverses the classic process of creating an exhibition and then publishing a catalogue, first creating a catalogue that was published in the collaborative book YnselBook: WAR (2020). Based on this publication, Rayzhekov created the interactive multimedia object “portable museum of rebellious art” to present the artists in a physical gallery space using the contemporary tools of new media. The exhibition simultaneously archives and exhibits 4 generations of Bulgarian artists in an interactive multimedia object, which further contributes to the engagement of the audience as active participants in the exhibition. The project is both an artistic and curatorial endeavour that attempts to appreciate the fluidity of transgressive artistic practices from an Eastern European and media art perspective, integrating key artworks by several generations of contemporary Bulgarian artists.
Within the exhibition we present a different, bold, poetic, inventive and informed face of Bulgaria through the artistic practices and interviews of the 15 selected artists/collectives. The project explores a speculative reality in which the processes in Eastern Europe are in fact an early warning of possible threats to democratic society that may reach Western Europe. Can Western societies learn from Eastern Europe and what can they learn?
The exhibition is realized with the financial support of the National Culture Fund, program “CREATION” 2023. The project is also supported by the DALAB Foundation, Structura Gallery, Photosynthesis, ROBOTEV and the Schmiede Media Festival, Austria.
UNREST NOISES
curated by: Elisabeth Würzl and Michael Schlecht
Duration: December 01, 2023 – January 14, 2024
Opening: Friday, December 01 at 7pm
Location: Die PUTTE, Neu-Ulm (DE)
Unrest Noises, the second exhibition in the annual cycle SHIFTS&SHAKES, focuses on the feeling of constant unrest. In various settings, the two artists of the exhibition address a general discomfort, partly fueled by deep-rooted prejudices and subtle yet powerful assumptions of a societal status quo. Kang Eungbok’s work physically confronts the theme of unrest, while filmmaker Veneta Androva incorporates personal experiences with prejudice and misunderstandings into her episodic film work.
Both artists describe a constant unease that permeates everyday life, causing internal and external conflicts.
In her film Stretch & Release, Veneta Androva presents a creature made of digital clay lying on a blue sofa, narrating short episodes of encounters in Germany with a squeaky computer voice. The insight into the fluffy, bright, and gentle computer-generated world makes the narrative seem light and humorous. The episodes, which deal with sexist and discriminatory prejudices, end with a poppy whistle, transforming the sometimes offensive moments into an act of emancipation and self-assertion. Through the installation and editing, the video work has no beginning and no end; the narratives can be expanded with new episodes and endlessly repeated. The artist shows moments of often unconscious assaults, misunderstandings, and ignorance of diversity.
Kang Eungbok’s interactive installation For All, But Without Seats consists of a festively set table for four with a white tablecloth, white porcelain, wine glasses, and silverware. However, there are no chairs in the room, and over the course of the exhibition, the table will repeatedly empty itself and break the silence with a strong shaking of the tabletop. With each shake, the scene becomes further disordered, leaving a visible and tangible unrest. The artist has set the table according to Western dining etiquette, and the work was created as part of his diploma thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig, consciously reflecting his cultural environment. (Text: Elisabeth Würzl)
Featuring works by: Veneta ANDROVA, Eungbok Kang
THE SECRET LIFE OF MUSHROOMS (VIDEO)
Solo show
Curator: Aksiniya Peicheva
Art manager: Teodora Dzherekarova
Duration: December 21, 2023 – January 10, 2024
Opening: Thursday, December 21 at 6pm
Location: Structura Gallery, Sofia (BG)
I’M AFRAID I CAN DO THAT
curated by: SÁRAI Vanda
Duration: September 23 – October 21, 2023
Opening: Saturday, September 23 at 5pm
Location: TORULA, Győr (HU)
As a result of environmental, technological, and societal transformations of the past decades, the anthropocentric worldview is increasingly being called into question. While animal rights and environmental protection advocates demand a more ethical and humane treatment of animals and nature, in our technology-infused reality, it’s becoming less clear what can be considered truly human. I’M AFRAID I CAN DO THAT seeks to illuminate the – increasingly dimming – boundaries between humans, animals, and machines, and to explore the questions of who will play what role in this more-than-human world order.
Featuring works by: Veneta ANDROVA, BÁCSI Barnabás, BIRÓ Dávid , Dasha ILINA, GEIBL Kata, Kyriaki GONI, SZALAI Dániel
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Art Festival BEGEHUNGEN 2023
Duration: August 17 – August 27, 2023
Location: Palais Lichtenstein/SA., Germany (former Daetz Center)
‘From My Desert’ has been selected to be showcased at this year’s edition of the Art Festival BEGEHUGEN in Chemnitz, as part of the European Capital of Culture 2025 program.
Featuring works by: Nina Behnisch (D), Zhaoyi Chen (CHN), Charline Gdalia (FRA), Ann-Marie Najderek (D/ PL), Halyn Shin (KOR) und Selin Wutzler (TUR), Raquel Algaba (SPA), Veneta Androva (BGR), Verena Bachl (D), Dana Engfer (D), Nicoletta Favari & Christopher Salvito (ITA), Thiemo Frömberg (D), Monika Golla (D), Benedikt Hartl (D), Margret Hoppe (D), Mariko Hori (JAP), Daniela Junghans (D), Tanja Kodlin (D), Fanny Liebhardt & Georg Stahlbock (D), Sarah Lüdemann [Beauham] (D), Catherine McEvoy (GB), Anne Peschken (D) & Marek Pisarsky (PL), Stefan Schleupner (D), Polina Shcherbyna & Sofiia Yesakova (UKR), Carla Sophie Tapparo (ARG), Bernd Trasberger (D/BEL), Johannes Weilandt (D), Phoebe Walton (GB), Thorsten Wagner* (D), Agata Zemla (PL)
UNEXPECTED CARE
Institute of Contemporary Art – Sofia
Group exhibition featuring moving image artworks in public space
April 28 – May 31, Sofia, Bulgaria
Working hours: 17:00 – 00:00
Tsarigradsko Shose blvd. – Eagle’s Bridge, Tsarevets Underpass
Segment 1: April 28 – May 7
Segment 2: May 10 – May 19
Segment 3: May 22 – May 31
Artists: Veneta Androva, Alžběta Bačíková, Elisa Jule Braun, Open Group (Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Anton Varga), Ivelina Ivanova, Pauline Curnier Jardin and Feel Good Сooperative, Adrian Paci, Moritz Stumm, Driant Zeneli
Curator: Vasil Vladimirov
Unexpected Care is a group exhibition organised by the Institute of Contemporary Art – Sofia. It will take place in April 2023 on the underpass of Eagle’s Bridge, a primary public location in the city centre of Sofia. For the duration of one month, the exhibition will feature 9 video artworks from local and international artists. Each work will be presented continuously for ten days in one of three identical abandoned stores which are next to one another.
━ Curatorial Statement ━
The unexpected has always held a certain allure, an invitation to explore beyond the familiar and into the unknown. In this exhibition, the unexpected is not only a theme but a fundamental component of its structure. It challenges us to reconsider our understanding of care, to explore the ways in which it can manifest in unexpected forms and expressions.
The format and location of the exhibition are themselves an act of care, granting new meaning and function to the abandoned stores that illuminate the underpass. The dark, transient space becomes a canvas for radical experimentation, a space where the limitations of conventional art display are cast aside and replaced with new possibilities for community engagement.
In the first segment, the artworks themselves are a testament to the transformative power of care, inviting us to question the very foundations of artistic production and representation. We are confronted with a powerful critique of the prevailing power structures that govern our society, challenging us to consider who makes art, who benefits from it, and whether it includes the communities it seeks to represent. The artists move beyond mere critique to become active agents of change, intentionally and meaningfully including people from specific communities in the artistic process. By doing so, they embody an act of care, empathy, and compassion, transforming the very nature of art and its role in our society.
In the second segment, the artists expose the inherent absurdity and contradiction of certain social and economic processes, helping us to understand our subordination and to challenge the inevitability of these systems. Finally, in the third and final segment, alternative modes of storytelling are employed to convey the deep care and empathy that are often missing from depictions of violence and trauma.
The exhibition serves as a potent reminder of the radical potential of art, its ability to challenge us, to inspire us, and to transform the world around us. Through its innovative format and powerful content, it offers a vision of care that is at once visionary and practical, calling on us to engage with the urgent issues of our time and to embrace the unexpected in all its forms.
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The project is organised by the Institute of Contemporary Art – Sofia and is implemented with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture.
The Institute of Contemporary Art – Sofia thanks for the support provided by Sofia Municipality and with the assistance of “Egida-Sofia” Ltd.
A Few Ways to Win the World
Location: Doza Gallery, Sofia
Veneta Androva, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Martina Vacheva, Mariela Gemisheva, Alla Georgieva, Gery Georgieva, Ivo Dimchev, Orlin Dvorianov and the “Kukuvden” Group, Vladimir Ivanov, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Tsvetan Krastev, Ventseslav Kostov, Albena Mihailova – Benji, Ivan Mudov, Stefan Nikolaev, Adelina Popnedeleva, Rassim ®, Boryana Rossa and ULTRAFUTURO, Georgi Ruzhev, Veselin Sariev, Kalin Serapionov, Nedko Solakov, Sasho Stoitsov, Krasimir Terziev, Houben Tcherkelov, Stanka Tsonkova – Usha and personal archives.
GO SHORT
FROM UNIVERSE TO UNIVERSE
Duration: March 11, 2023 – April 10, 2023
Location: Feldbusch Wiesner Rudolph Gallery, Jägerstraße 5, 10117 Berlin
Jürgen Wittdorf (1932-2018) And Veneta Androva, Norbert Bisky, Harry Hachmeister, Bettina Semmer
Duration: September 04, 2022 – Januar 31, 2023
Location: Schloss Biesdorf, Alt-Biesdorf 55, 12683 Berlin
Wittdorf was a master of creative nuances. In addition to his masterful woodcuts, he is also known for numerous book illustrations as well as for his expressive portraits and nude drawings. His breakthrough as an artist in the GDR came with his depictions of young people, who were not idealized as workers and peasants but portrayed as seekers with all their wishes and longings. What earned Wittdorf the reproach of “westernisation” from the authorities was enthusiastically celebrated by the youth. Schloss Biesdorf pays tribute to Jürgen Wittdorf in a comprehensive presentation. Wittdorf’s works are juxtaposed in the exhibition with contemporary positions.
POST NORMAL
with Veneta Androva, D’Andrade, Michelle-Marie Letelier, Sharon Paz, Juliane Tübke
curated by Katharina von Hagenow
June 30 – Dezember 31, 2022
Prater Digital
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Exhibition opening hours and programme:
The exhibition is supervised Mon. – Thu. from 1 – 4 pm, if you have any problems or questions, call Prater Gallery at: 030 90295-3812
Prater Digital on the Road:
Exhibition tour with VR goggles
September 8, 2022 4 – 8 pm
as part of the summer festival at Ernst-Thälmann Park
WABE
Danziger Straße 101
10405 Berlin
September 8, 2022 3 – 8 Pam
MADAMEZORRO
Kastanienallee 40
10119 Berlin
Online Event:
21/09. | 1/10.| 23/11. | 14/12. 6 – 7 pm each
Exhibition tour with Katharina v. Hagenow
02/11/2022 6 – 7 pm
Evening Conversation with Zsófia Puszt on her project Democracy and Me at Prater Digital.
Registration at: [email protected]
Team:
Curator: Katharina von Hagenow
Coding and Design Mozilla Hubs galery room: Studio für unendliche Möglichkeiten (Gloria Schultz (Lead),
Julian Kamphausen, Konstantin Andörfer, Vadim Smakthin)
Technical support and documentation of residencies: Abdulsalam Ajaj
Prater Galerie: Tereza Havlíková, Lena Prents und Julie Rüter
POST NORMAL is an exhibition of works by the five artists who have participated in the Prater Gallery’s digital residency programme. The Prater Gallery has invited artists to explore the challenges of a digital exhibition space, and to try out their own work in the Prater Digital rooms. Taking their own artistic works as a basis, the artists have discovered different ways of approaching the digital gallery space.
The exhibition title POST NORMAL is borrowed from the work by Sharon Paz. It refers to the concept of ‘postnormal times’ (PNT) developed by Ziauddin Sardar. In 2010, Sardar described the present day as an interim phase during which old orthodoxies would die out while new ones were still to be born – a phase during which very little would appear to make sense. The digital space permits the playful abolition of the boundaries imposed in physical space. After all, who can make objects float in mid-air in the physical space, as Juliane Tübke does in her piece? Or deconstruct architecture entirely, like Michelle-Marie Letelier in her work, in which the digital gallery space is continually and increasingly disrupted? Starting from our bodily experiences and the limitations imposed in the physical space, we must still learn to move anew in the digital space. As a municipal gallery, we are investigating ways to operate in the digital space. It is with the aim of exploring this together with artists and the public that we have set up the digital residencies whose results we present in this exhibition.
Exhibition/Award Ceremony at Münzenberg Forum Berlin
Opening September 30, 2022 at 7pm
Franz-Mehring-Platz 1, 10243 Berlin
Duration: September 30 – November 11, 2022
‘AIVA’ as one of the award winners (first prize in the film competition) will be presented at the exhibition.
WARM UP at the Goldkante, blicke filmfestival
November 09, 2022 at 8:30pm
Goldkante, Alte Hattinger Str. 22, 44789 Bochum
‘AIVA’ will be screened together with OMA (Lenia Friedrich), BERÜHR’ MICH (Hendrik Ströhle), DOOM CRUISE (Hannah Stragholz & Simon Steinhorst), CATSITTER (Lukas Becker), as part of the WARM UP event for the 30th edition of blicke filmfestival.
International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
Duration: October 18 – October 23, 2022
Panel Discussion: Animation Perspectives
In the fourth edition of the “Animation Perspectives” dialogue seating, directors Veneta Androva and Tang Han will discuss their work as artists. The event includes a screening of two works from previous two editions of DOK Leipzig: Veneta Androva’s fictional computer-animated vision of the future, “AIVA” (2020), in which the male mentality of an engineer absurdly seeks to program gender equality into the art market, and Tang Han’s Silver Dove-winning “Pink Mao” (2020), a humorous examination of the 100-yuan note. While maintaining an ironic distance, both artists examine roles in society and pose the question of how the term “animated film” may be understood. As fundamentally different as their artistic styles may be, parallels can be found in their basic interdisciplinary approach, which explores the boundaries of animation.
15. filmzeit | Das Allgäuer Autorenfilmfestival
October 9 – October 16, 2022
Colosseum Center, Königstraße 3, Kempten
‘AIVA’ will be screened as part of the international competition program.
THE HOUSE THAT MUM BUILT
Opening
Saturday, September 10, 2-8 pm
exhibition with lectures, concerts and performances
curated by Alex Winterstein, Daniel Hopp, Lena Mai Merle
every day
September 11-17, 2-8 pm
Santos Road 32b
SW18 1NS
LONDON
The House that Mum Built’ and the accompanying week-long program abundant with lectures, performances, readings and concerts.
Mothers moving out cause a shift in reality; rearranging old structural components and merging mythical memories, fragments cluttered together in packing cartons and stumbling over alien boxes (always where they shouldn’t be) in that liminal space between entry and exit.
Mothers, in passing by the row of roped-in heaving shoulders, make space for new gatherings.
So, cuddle up on Mum’s old bed for Mum’s movie night, or if you need to cool your head after all the flux and hugs, take a walk to hear a lecture at 8pm in Hop Pole Pub, which is just a shimmy down the road.
To stay informed about the schedule, live stream and documentation follow @svntos32 on Instagram.
Participating artists
Veneta Androva Babeworld River Cao Keren Cytter Jesse May Fisher Adam Grainger (FORTH) Daniel Hopp Sarah Hablützel und Marko Mijatovic Aidan Jakfar Wednesday Kim Harold Offeh Patrick Panetta Sean Roy Parker Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel Coleman Stewart Alice Theobald Deividas Vytautas Twee Whistler Katharina Jabs Goscha Steinhauer Paola Estrella Chloe Langlois Qingqing Liu Imran Nafees Siddiqui Sophie Schweighart Raphael Sbrzesny Friederike Steinert Max Weisthoff Rieko Whitfield Rainer Ganahl Anna Gohmert Laal Hartaal Olga Hohmann Charlotte Klink Hannelore Paflik-Hubber Henning Lundkvist Marcus Steinweg Annabelle Agbo Godeau Belia Brückner Amalie Gabel Johannes Herrmann Laura Franzmann Magdalena Los Lena Mai Merle Kevin Siwoff Clara Palmberger-Süße Henrik Potter Chloe Rose Purcell Leomi Sadler Øyvind Sørfjordmo Alex Winterstein Layan Hell Stanislav Iordanov Leonie Kellein Tammy Langhinrichs Jano Möckel Justin Piccirilli Andy Prepp Wieland Schönfelder Tim Skinner Esther Dow Ungemach Fritz Lehmann Joscha Blankenburg Serena Ferrario Ruudu Ulas Takeo Marquardt Goscha Steinhauer Tizian Baldinger Paul Voggenreiter
Date: May 10, 2022
Time: 6pm
Location: Camera Austria, Graz
68. International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Duration: April 30 – May 9, 2022
Time: 2:45pm
Location: Lichtburg Star, Oberhausen
Date: April 07, 2022
Time: 9pm
Location: LUX, Nijmegen
FUTUR 21 – Art Industry Culture Festival
Short Film Program
Date: April 01, 2022
Location: LWL Industriemuseum
Exhibition opening: March 17, 2022 at 6pm
Networking meeting: March 19, 2022 at 3pm
Duration: March 17, 2022 -March 26, 2022.
Location: Roam project space, Berlin
KÜNSTLICH / ARTIFICIAL
Duration: March 11, 2022 – March 13, 2022
Location: Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
‘AIVA’ is part of the short film program KÜNSTLICH (eng. ARTIFICIAL), curated by FILMFEST DRESDEN and part of the 8th Künstlermesse in Dresden.
IMAGE + BIAS
Bias in technologies
Duration: November 18, 2021 – January 31, 2022 via Goethe-On-Demand platform, accessible for the US and Canada.
Porto/Post/Doc: Film & Media Festival
Duration: November 20 – November 30, 2021
‘From My Desert’ will be screened as part of the program ‘Emerging Artists – Contemporary and Experimental Films and Video Art from Germany’ on November 24, 2021, 5:30pm at Passos Manuel, Porto.
25. PÖFF Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Duration: November 12, 2021 – November 28, 2021
‘AIVA’ will be screened as part of the Shorts Alternatives program ‘Black Nights Comedy’ of the 25th PÖFF.
22. Izmir Short Film Festival
Duration: November 22 – November 28, 2021
‘From My Desert’ will be screened as part of the program ‘Emerging Artists – Contemporary and Experimental Films and Video Art from Germany’ on November 23, 3pm at Karaca Cinema, Izmir.
III Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival
Duration: November 12, 2021 – November 21, 2021
‘From My Desert’ will be screened on November 13, 3:30pm as part of ‘Emerging Artists – Contemporary and Experimental Films and Video Art from Germany’ at Pera Museum, Istanbul.
EthicAI=Forum 2021
EthicAI=Forum 2021, part of EthicAI=LABS, a regional project by the Goethe-Institutes in Athens, Bucharest, Ankara, Sarajevo, Sofia and Zagreb.
Date: 18.November 2021
“AIVA” will be screened as part of EthicAI=Forum 2021.
38. Kassel Documentary Film And Video Festival
Duration: November 16, 2021 – November 21, 2021
‘AIVA’ will be screened on November 19, 1:15pm in BALi Kino, Kassel.
N°15 Short Film Festival Cologne
Duration: November 16, 2021 – November 21, 2021
‘AIVA’ will be screened on November 20 and again on November 21 at Filmhaus Kino as part of the competition program.
29. BLICKE FILMFESTIVAL DES RUHRGEBIETS
Duration: November 17, 2021 – November 21, 2021
‘AIVA’ will be screened on November 20, 8pm at endstation.kino Bochum as part of the competition program.
5. VISIONÄR Film Festival Berlin | Encounters With New Talents
Duration: November 10, 2021 – November 14, 2021
‘AIVA’ will be screened as part of the Short Berlin Encounters program.
31. Message To Man | International Film Festival
Duration: October 29, 2021 – November 04, 2021
‘AIVA’ will be screened as part of the special program “In Memory of the Future”, curated by Alena Koroleva.
FEST – New Directors | New Films
Duration: October 4, 2021 – October 11, 2021
‘From My Desert’ will be screened as part of the “Sylver Lynx Animation” Competition
17th 25FPS International Experimental Film And Video Festival
Duration: September 23, 2021 – September 26, 2021
‘AIVA’ will be screened as part of the Competition program.
ARS ELECTRONICA 2021 // A New Digital Deal // CyberArts Exhibition
Duration: September 08, 2021 – September 12, 2021
Online and on site in Linz, Austria
Prix Forum: The Re-Enchantment Of Humanism
Speakers: Guangli Liu (CN), Veneta Androva (BG), Erick Oh (KR/US), Helen Starr (TT)
September 12, 2021 at 3:15pm-4pm (CET) online and offline in Linz
Location: OK, OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz
BECOMING A FIGURE
Exhibition
Veneta Androva & Peter Odinzow
Goethe Institute Bulgaria, Sofia
Duration: August 20, 2021 – September 10, 2021
LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation And Media Art Festival
Duration: September 1, 2021 – September 5, 2021
‘AIVA’ will be screened as part of experimental animation program.
MOVING IMAGES MOVING BODIES
Screenings, Exhibitions, Performances and Talks
Locations: Goethe Institute Bulgaria, Credo Bonum Gallery, ICA, Bobbina Space, Sofia
Duration: August 23, 2021 – August 29, 2021
‘Ear Cleaning’ will be screened as part of the program ‘Shooting Ghosts’ on the 24th August at Goethe Institut Bulgaria
FeKK Ljubljana Short Film Festival
Duration: August 16, 2021 – August 21, 2021
‘AIVA’ will be screened as part of the Balkan Competition program.
33. FILMFEST DRESDEN International Short Film Festival
Duration: July 13, 2021 – July 18, 2021
‘AIVA’ is selected for the International Competition of 33. FILMFEST DRESDEN
Videoscreening program ‘Short Emotions’ / Videoabend ‘Kurze Emotionen’
Film screening on July 7, 2021 at 8pm, Motorenhalle Projektzentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden
Organized by riesa efau, Kultur Forum Dresden
Selected films: Surface Glaze (Lotte Meret Effinger), Sieben Mal am Tag beklagen wir unser Los und nachts stehen wir auf, um nicht zu träumen (Susann Maria Hempel), PLATEAU (Vanessa Nica Mueller), BEYOND BEACH (Clara Winter & Miguel Ferraez), From My Desert (Veneta Androva), Beast of no Nation (Krzysztof Honowski)
Videoscreening ‘Emerging Artists – Contemporary And Experimental Film And Video Art From Germany’ Vol. 5 At SAC – Spazio Arte Contemporanea In Livorno
July 3, 2021 at the SAC – spazio arte contemporanea in Livorno
A screening event, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, the cultural association Blob Art and with the partnership of the Municipality of Livorno, AG Kurzfilm and German Films.
Duration: June 14, 2021 – June 20, 2021
‘AIVA’ will be screened in the program Focus: Mirror Mirror on Friday, 18 June 2021 (4pm) in Poznan.
Start 15.06.2021 at 6pm CET
Duration: 15.06.2021 – 20.06.2021
‘Her Accurate Private Mind’ is a live stream video program, part of the exhibition ‘Intimacy and Spectacle in the Age of Social Media’, curated by Vera Mlechevska, Dessislava Dimova and Vessela Nozharova.
Participating artists: Amalia Ulman, Ana Prvacki, Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkacova, Gery Georgieva, Ivan Moudov, Keira Greene, Kira Nova, Manon de Boer, Miriana Todorova, Rumen Markov, Tsvetan Krastev, Valko Chobanov and Dimitar Shopov, Veneta Androva
‘OASIS’ will be streamed as part of the program.
Shooting Ghosts // Bulgarian Artist Films & Videos On Blinkvideo, Germany
Bulgarian artist films & videos, part of Goethe-Institut’s project ‘Moving Images Bulgaria-Germany’
starting on November 6, 2021
– Veneta Androva ‘Ear Cleaning’ 2018, animation, 18 min
– Neno Belchev ‘My Heart Is an Octopus or My Father on the Shore of the Black Sea’ 2016, experimental autobiographical fiction, 93 min
– Mitch Brezounek ‘How to Become the Best Artist in the World’ 2020, tutorial, 35 min
– Marina Genova ‘New Comfort Zone’ 2019, animation, 3:44 min
– Nadezhda Oleg-Lyahova ‘A Made-up Story’ 2014-2015, video, 13:17 min
– Kalin Serapionov ‘A Blonde Woman in a Red Dress and Bright Lipstick is Talking on the Phone and Smoking a Cigarette’ 2016, video, 5:59 min
– Kamen Stoyanov ‘Havalimani – New Istanbul Dream’ 2017, docufiction, 26:52 min
– Samuil Stoyanov ’10 min National Museum of Natural History’ 2013, video, 10:20 min
– Krassimir Terziev ‘[…] Suspended’ 2020, experimental film, 8:38 min
– Dimitar Shopov ‘Plovdiv Life Vest’ 2017, film forecast, 6:57 min
37. Short Film Festival Hamburg
Duration: June 01, 2021 – June 07, 2021
Facing B
Group Exhibition, curated by Stephan Koal
Duration: 10 April – 5 June 2021
Galeria Espacio Minimo | Dr. Forguet 17, E-28012 Madrid
With works by Norbert Bisky, Lena Marie Emrich, Sonja Eschefeld, Arne Schreiber and Jürgen Wittdorf.
FLATPACK Festival, Birmingham
Duration: May 21, 2021 – May 31, 2021
‘AIVA’ is part of the Short Film Competition.
Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
Duration: Apr 8, 2021 – Apr 22, 2021 (online event)
‘AIVA’ is selected for the European Competition of Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen.
25. Sofia International Film Festival
Duration: March 11, 2021 – April 11, 2021 online geo-blocked for the territory of Bulgaria
‘AIVA’ is part of the Bulgarian Short Film Competition at the hybrid edition of 25. Sofia International Film Festival.
Hungry Eyes Festival
Duration: Feb 05, 2021 – Feb 07, 2021 online geo-blocked for the territory of Germany
‘AIVA’ will be presented at Hungry Eyes Festival as part of a curated short film program.
34. Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival For Expanded Media
Duration: Jan 06, 2021 – Jan 20, 2021, online geo-blocked for the territory of Germany
‘From My Desert’ will be screened at this year Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival For Expanded Media as part of the program ‘Emerging Artists’ Vol 5, curated by Sarah Adam, Anne Gaschütz, Carsten Aschmann, Tobias Hering and Anne Turek. Organized by AG Kurzfilm – German Short Film Association in collaboration with German Films.
KFFK/Short Film Festival Cologne Nr. 14, Germany
‘From My Desert’ is part of the official selection of this year KFFK/Short Film Festival Cologne, Nr. 14 in Germany.
63rd International Leipzig Festival For Documentary And Animated Film, Germany
Duration: October 26 – November 1, 2020
Location: Leipzig
16th 25FPS International Experimental Film And Video Festival, Zagreb
‘From My Desert’ is part of the official selection of this year 25FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival (24-27/09/2020) in Zagreb.
CRITICS’ JURY AWARD for ‘From My Desert’
LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation And Media Art Festival
‘From My Desert’ is part of the official selection of this year LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation And Media Art Festival in Ukraine.