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Video Data Bank in precarious state after staff dismissals
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago dismissed multiple staff members at Video Data Bank, including the director. The positions have been permanently eliminated.
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Museo Reina Sofía opens underground cinema
The new cinema in Museo Reina Sofía was designed by Bach Arquitectes. The layout is imbued with the atmospheric spirit of the great surrealist directors.
https://www.kinoki.co/museo-reina-sofia-opens-underground-cinema/
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Wonderful work by The Recovery Plan in Florence! 🔥
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Sarah Maldoror in focus with an exhibition in Italy
The Recovery Plan is presenting a research exhibition on the pioneering filmmaker Sarah Maldoror, with a parallel film retrospective at Festival dei Popoli in Florence.
https://www.kinoki.co/sarah-maldoror-focus-with-exhibition-and-retrospective-in-italy/
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The director of Video Data Bank and two other staff members were removed by the administration at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where VDB is based. There are questions about the survival of this legacy institution for video art on the eve of its 50th anniversary.
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William Kentridge opens major retrospective in Germany
Museum Folkwang in Essen and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden teamed up to organize the exhibition covering four decades of Kentridge's career.
https://www.kinoki.co/william-kentridge-opens-major-retrospective-in-germany/
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The great adventure of Lu Yang in New York
Lu Yang has two solo exhibitions open, at Museum of the Moving Image and Amant. The exhibition at Amant is the first institutional solo show by the artist in New York.
https://www.kinoki.co/the-great-adventure-of-lu-yang-in-new-york/
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Pauline Curnier Jardin has two exhibitions opening this month in Belgium. The Associations of Pauline Curnier Jardin opens at M HKA in Antwerp while Dress to Kill opens at NW in Aalst. Combined, these will be her first solo presentations in the country.
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Pauline Curnier Jardin dresses to kill in Belgium
The artist has two exhibitions opening this month in Belgium, at M HKA in Antwerp and NW in Aalst.
https://www.kinoki.co/pauline-curnier-jardin-dresses-to-kill-in-belgium/
about 2 months ago
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EAI is organizing a special presentation with Trevor Shimizu. The artist was invited to transform their office into a dynamic social environment showcasing several videos. This event is organized on the occasion of Shimizu's solo exhibition and EAI’s residency at the gallery 47 Canal in New York.
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Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong is organizing a group exhibition on 21st century art in China. The first chapter of the exhibition showcases artists whose practices reflect the integration of the internet, social media platforms, and digital technologies into all aspects of daily life.
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Lawrence Abu Hamdan has a solo exhibition opening at Munch Museum in Oslo. The artist has created a work which demonstrates the effect that more than 30 planned wind turbines will have upon the inhabitants of the occupied Golan Heights.
3 months ago
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M HKA in Antwerp is organizing the first survey exhibition of Pauline Curnier Jardin. For the first time, more than twenty films directed by Curnier Jardin will be on display, allowing visitors to discover the wide variety of cinematic genres the artist explores and experiments with.
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PalaisPopulaire in Berlin opened a solo exhibition by Charmaine Poh in recognition of Deutsche Bank naming her Artist of the Year for 2025. Poh's multimedia narratives center on identity and power structures, feminism, and queerness in Southeast Asia.
3 months ago
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University Art Gallery Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo is organizing a survey of two decades of work by Gibson + Recoder. The show features their signature pieces in which the materiality of the media object itself overshadows its original use value as a mere functional “medium” for the moving image.
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MC2 will feature cutting-edge artworks from both digital and real spaces. The channel will also publish regular reports and essays that chart the evolving state of digital culture.
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ArtReview and Nowness launch digital-first channel MC2
MC2 explores the impact that AI and emerging technologies have on storytelling and cultural expression.
https://www.kinoki.co/artreview-nowness-launch-digital-first-channel-mc2/
3 months ago
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John Smith has a solo exhibition open at Secession Vienna. The show comprises three films by the artist.
3 months ago
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Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen is presenting the first solo exhibition in Switzerland for Cemile Sahin. The central work in the show is a multi-channel video installation that brings together Kurdish and Swiss landscapes.
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Mudam Luxembourg will dedicate the first major institutional exhibition to Ana Vaz in 2026. A modular environment designed for the occasion will host a constellation of the artist’s recent film installations.
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Fondazione Prada in Milan is organizing an exhibition by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. The show will mark the 25th anniversary of his breakout debut film Amores Perros with unseen vignettes from the archive.
3 months ago
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Arthur Jafa is showing a new film in the context of the theater performance Minor Music at the End of the World, written by Saidiya Hartman and directed by Sarah Benson. The show will be staged at International Theater Amsterdam.
3 months ago
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Museum Folkwang in Essen and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden are co-organizing a major retrospective on the work of William Kentridge. One focus will be on the films from the Drawings for Projection series which deal with the rise and fall of Johannesburg and the difficult legacy of apartheid.
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Stadel Museum in Frankfurt opened a solo exhibition by the sculptor Asta Groting. The show presents the artist's video works and a laser projection.
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Grazer Kunstverein is organizing a solo exhibition by Tom Burr. The show is based on an unrealized script by Pier Paolo Pasolini about the life of St Paul.
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Hiwa K and Anocha Suwichakornpong have won the SEMA-HANA Media Art Award 2025. The honor recognizes standout contributions to the Seoul Mediacity Biennale.
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Cauleen Smith has a solo show on view at University of Richmond Museums. The show is staged atop a central “space station,” where Smith draws together disparate objects with moving images.
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Kunstverein Gartenhaus in Vienna is organizing a solo exhibition by Anna Franceschini. The artist creates sculptures intended as moving images, redirecting the gaze toward the hypothesis of a“machine as cinema.”
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Josèfa Ntjam has a solo exhibition at PHI in Montréal. Her immersive installation revisits the Dogon creation myth, with each character generated using AI and digital tools.
4 months ago
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Gala Hernández López is showing a trilogy of video works at Berlinische Galerie. From a critical feminist perspective, the artist examines the ideas, desires, and visions of the future that emerge in virtual communities.
4 months ago
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Sesc Sao Paulo will host the exhibition on AI currently showing at Jeu de Paume in Paris. Participating artists include Hito Steyerl, Christian Marclay and others.
4 months ago
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Salt in Istanbul opened an exhibition on the film Dark World, directed by Metin Erksan in 1953. The show traces the narratives surrounding the film and the questions raised by altered versions, public debates, rumors, conflicting accounts, and archival materials.
4 months ago
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This inaugural festival will gather artists to contemplate what it means to be human in a time when life is being redefined by rapidly-evolving technologies and currents of thought. Presented under the title Life As No One Knows It, inspired by Sara Imari Walker's book.
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Aspen Art Museum organizes inaugural AIR Festival
AIR 2025 will open with an artists’ retreat followed by a public festival gathering artists, scientists and cultural leaders to explore what it means to be human.
https://www.kinoki.co/aspen-art-museum-organizes-inaugural-air-festival/
4 months ago
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KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin is organizing a major exhibition with Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst. With Starmirror, the artists transform the exhibition spaces of KW into a training ground for collaborative art and music production between humans and AI.
4 months ago
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Exhibition as Séance at Seoul Mediacity Biennale with Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis - Notes - e-flux
Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis discuss their approach to curating the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale.
https://www.e-flux.com/notes/6783381/exhibition-as-s-ance-at-seoul-mediacity-biennale-with-anton-vidokle-hallie-ayres-and-lukas-brasiskis
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ArtReview has a new partnership with St. Moritz Art Film Festival. In addition to exploring the intersection of cinema and contemporary art they will also launch a Best Art Film Award.
5 months ago
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"In Shanghai, we worked with montage to organize the show, using it to structure the exhibition as a kind of cinematic space. In Seoul, we’re thinking about the exhibition as a séance – something immersive, experiential, and attuned to a different logic."
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Exhibition as séance at Seoul Mediacity Biennale
The curators of the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale discuss their concept of exhibition as séance and why there need not be a distinction between art and life.
https://www.kinoki.co/exhibition-as-seance-seoul-mediacity-biennale-vidokle-ayres-brasiskis/
5 months ago
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"Our motivation is to position moving image and time-based arts within the main historical discussion about contemporary art... You would be surprised how many people still to this day adamantly believe that film, for example, is not really art."
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Marking 15 years of Microscope Gallery with Elle Burchill and Andrea Monti
Elle Burchill and Andrea Monti, co-founders of Microscope Gallery in New York, speak about educating the art world on the value of the moving image and building systems of support for artists.
https://www.kinoki.co/marking-15-years-of-microscope-gallery-with-elle-burchill-and-andrea-monti/
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Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms takes visitors on a journey through the history of digital and generative art in four chapters (The Imaginary Machine, Chance and Control, Digital Materiality, Coded Nature).
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Toledo Museum of Art surveys the aesthetics of algorithms
The exhibition Infinite Images at Toledo Museum of Art will explore how rules-based systems and automation have been applied to the visual arts.
https://www.kinoki.co/toledo-museum-of-art-surveys-aesthetics-of-algorithms/
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The selection of works for this year's edition of the Jarman Award covers a broad geographical expanse. Ashadu has been recognized for her video Machine Boys, a portrait of the hardships that okada [motorcycle] taxi drivers endure to earn a living in Lagos.
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Karimah Ashadu shortlisted for Jarman Award
Film London announced the shortlist for the 2025 Jarman Award, which includes Silver Lion-winning artist Karimah Ashadu.
https://www.kinoki.co/karimah-ashadu-shortlisted-for-jarman-award/
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New Humans takes a look at the artists, creators and thinkers whose ideas and creations have fueled technological innovation and advancements.
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New Museum presents New Humans in its new building
New Humans at New Museum in New York explores what it means to be human with the advance of AI and robotics. The exhibition will inaugurate the museum's building expansion.
https://www.kinoki.co/new-museum-presents-new-humans-in-new-building/
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With Poised Compression the gallery presents several of Barba's cinematic sculptures, including the 2009 piece One Way Out, which reimagines the film projector as a mysterious feeder that spools film into and back out from HVAC tubing.
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Rosa Barba makes her gallery debut in Chicago
Corbett vs Dempsey is presenting a solo exhibition of the work of Rosa Barba. This is Barba's first show with the gallery and her debut in Chicago.
https://www.kinoki.co/rosa-barba-makes-gallery-debut-in-chicago/
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Akademie der Künste in Berlin will present the entire Video-Forum collection from Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. The videos will be played one after the other, from the shortest to the longest, in a 494-hour marathon screening event across 31 days.
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Hura likewise focuses on the societal and economic tensions that tear at Indian society, such as the poetic photo reportage in which he documents daily life in the divided province of Kashmir.
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Sohrab Hura wins Eye Prize 2025
The Eye Art & Film Prize recognizes new developments at the intersection of visual art and film. Sohrab Hura works across film and photography, focusing on tensions in Indian society.
https://www.kinoki.co/sohrab-hura-wins-eye-prize-2025/
6 months ago
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By implementing genre-expanding experimental play, radical aesthetics, and the use of DIY, as well as counter-capitalist methodologies, some of the creators establish a deliberate connection to the various subcultures flourishing on the internet.
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Experimental video games at Visual Studies Workshop
Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester has invited independent developers and artists to exhibit genre-expanding, radical video games.
https://www.kinoki.co/experimental-video-games-visual-studies-workshop/
6 months ago
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artnet news is reporting that an auction of items from the David Lynch estate brought in more than $4M. Among the sales was the director's personal 35mm print of his 1977 landmark debut Eraserhead.
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"To be a writer means to be a masochist." -- Erika Balsom
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The Writer That Kills Bad People, with Erika Balsom
Erika Balsom is a writer, curator and professor at King's College London. We interviewed her on publishing pocket-sized books, secret rules for selecting films, and masochism.
https://www.kinoki.co/the-writer-that-kills-bad-people-interview-with-erika-balsom/
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The shortlist for the Jarman Award in London has been announced. Among the finalists is the Silver Lion-awarded Karimah Ashadu.
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The preservation of Viola's complete works at the George Eastman Museum will involve the creation of archival digital masters, to be stored in the museum's archives, and duplicate digital masters that will be held by the Viola-Perov Trust.
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George Eastman Museum preserving the legacy of Bill Viola
The Viola-Perov Trust is depositing the complete set of master recordings of Bill Viola's moving image works with the George Eastman Museum for preservation and archiving.
https://www.kinoki.co/george-eastman-museum-preserving-legacy-of-bill-viola/
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Joyce Wieland will be given a retrospective exhibition at Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. This is the first exhibition for the artist since 1987 and will include films, drawings and textiles.
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Raqs Media Collective: Cavalcade features a new film by the group, which is accompanied by a set of three prints. This presentation represents the culmination of the three-year research project Reimagining Cosmopolitanism.
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Raqs Media Collective with non-humans at Neubauer Collegium
Raqs Media Collective: Cavalcade features a new film by the group. This exhibition is part of a research project initiated by Neubauer Collegium and Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory.
https://www.kinoki.co/raqs-media-collective-in-solidarity-non-humans-neubauer-collegium/
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Rosa Barba has a solo exhibition opening at Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago. The show will feature sculpture, film, and sound, marking the artist's first exhibition with the gallery and her Chicago debut.
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Jafa has selected approximately 100 objects from the museum's collection. By arranging pieces from Basquiat and Twombly, Noland and Rothko, and Mondrian, DeCarava and Clark in juxtaposition, Jafa links these artists and their creations into a comprehensive whole.
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Arthur Jafa curates Artist's Choice at MoMA
Arthur Jafa is selecting the next Artist's Choice exhibition at Museum of Modern Art in New York. His presentation will platform Black, queer and feminine voices.
https://www.kinoki.co/arthur-jafa-curates-artists-choice-museum-of-modern-art/
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