Time Pieces
The video art collection of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein at Nordstern Videokunstzentrum
23 March–21 December 2014
Opening: Saturday, 22 March, 7pm
Nordstern Videokunstzentrum
Nordsternplatz 1
45899 Gelsenkirchen
Hours: Saturday–Sunday 11am–6pm
www.nbk.org
www.nordsternturm.de
Curators: Marius Babias and Kathrin Becker
John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Dara Birnbaum, Hartmut Bitomsky, Arno Brandlhuber / Christopher Roth, BST (Walter Berger, Christian Schaeffer, Klaus Theweleit), Peter Campus, Nina Caspari, Alejandro Cesarco, Anetta Mona Chişa / Lucia Tkáčová, Arnold Dreyblatt Ensemble, ensemble mosaik, Paul Garrin, John Giorno / Ugo Rondinone, Christoph Girardet / Matthias Müller, Niklas Goldbach, Johan Grimonprez, Laura Horelli, Joan Jonas, Allan Kaprow, Käthe Kruse / Die Tödliche Doris, Zilla Leutenegger, Bjørn Melhus, Ornament und Verbrechen (Ronald Lippok und Robert Lippok), Nam June Paik / Jud Yalkut, Ulrike Rosenbach, Egill Sæbjörnsson / Marcia Moraes, Karin Sander, The Solanas (Dave Allen, Douglas Gordon, Constanze Haas, Raimar Stange, Silke Wittig), Hito Steyerl, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Charlie White, Ming Wong, Amir Yatziv
Saturday, March 22, 5:30pm
Panel discussion with Barbara Engelbach (curator, Museum Ludwig, Cologne), Marcel Odenbach (artist, Cologne) and Rein Wolfs (Director of the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn). Moderated by Georg Imdahl (Professor of Art and Public, Academy of Fine Arts Münster).
Nordstern Videokunstzentrum
Since 2012, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein has equipped the Nordstern video art center in the landmarked Nordstern Tower in Gelsenkirchen. On five levels, in an annual cycle, changing exhibitions of international video art are set up, coming from the collection of n.b.k. Video Forum, the oldest and one of the largest video art collections in Germany, founded in 1971, with more than 1,600 works. As part of the exhibition Time Pieces, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein presents video works by international artists and artist groups. The selection focuses on aspects of the artistic use of moving images, video performance, and found footage.
Publication
The collection catalog Time Pieces. Video Art since 1963with texts by Sigrid Adorf, Marius Babias, Kathrin Becker, Dieter Daniels, Gisela Jo Eckhart and Sophie Goltz is published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne.
