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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.

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. www.kinoki.co/pauline-curn...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. www.kinoki.co/artreview-no...

John Smith has a solo exhibition open at Secession Vienna. The show comprises three films by the artist.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hiwa K and Anocha Suwichakornpong have won the SEMA-HANA Media Art Award 2025. The honor recognizes standout contributions to the Seoul Mediacity Biennale.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. www.kinoki.co/aspen-art-mu...

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.

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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.

"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." www.kinoki.co/exhibition-a...

"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." www.kinoki.co/marking-15-y...

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). www.kinoki.co/toledo-museu...

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. www.kinoki.co/karimah-asha...

New Humans takes a look at the artists, creators and thinkers whose ideas and creations have fueled technological innovation and advancements. www.kinoki.co/new-museum-p...

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. www.kinoki.co/rosa-barba-m...

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.

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. www.kinoki.co/sohrab-hura-...

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. www.kinoki.co/experimental...

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.

"To be a writer means to be a masochist." -- Erika Balsom www.kinoki.co/the-writer-t...

The shortlist for the Jarman Award in London has been announced. Among the finalists is the Silver Lion-awarded Karimah Ashadu.

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. www.kinoki.co/george-eastm...

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.

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. www.kinoki.co/raqs-media-c...

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.

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. www.kinoki.co/arthur-jafa-...