494h 29m 53s

An exhibition of the Akademie der Künste in cooperation with the n.b.k.

Concept: Karin Sander
Curators: Marius Babias, Anna Lena Seiser
Project management: Anke Hervol, Daniela Ihrig, Arkadij Koscheew

Karin Sander’s project 494h 29m 53s comprises 1,254 videos from the Video-Forum collection at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), sorted by running time. The videos, by 574 different artists and artist collectives, will be sorted by time from the shortest to the longest—in a 494-hour screening. The Studio programme follows a defined structure—with 12-hour screenings on weekdays and 24-hour screenings at the weekend—that will take place over 31 days starting on 3 July 2025, 7pm.

Founded in 1971 on the initiative of artists and cultural creators, the n.b.k. Video-Forum is the oldest video art collection in Germany and one of the largest. The collection is particularly focused on the Fluxus art movement, feminist video practice, historical and contemporary video art from Berlin, and media-reflective approaches. The artist Karin Sander restages the collection in its entirety and presents it as “great cinema” at the Akademie der Künste. A summer bar at the Akademie der Künste is available for drinks and snacks.

Artists
(e.) Twin Gabriel, Endre Aalrust, Marina Abramović, Vito Acconci, Dan Acostioaei, Yalda Afsah, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Nevin Aladağ, Bettina Allamoda, Dave Allen, Max Almy, Halil Altındere, Maria Thereza Alves, Kenneth Anger, Farm Ant, Dieter Appelt, Claudia Aravena Abughosh, Thomas Arnold, Thomas Arslan, Marc Aschenbrenner, Robert Ashley, Tekla Aslanishvili, Charles Atlas, Dario Azzellini, Caroline Bachmann, Hanno Baethe, Cornelia Balcerowiak, John Baldessari, Thomas Balzer, Stefan Banz, Heike Baranowsky, Rosa Barba, Matthew Barney, Yael Bartana, Irit Batsry, Denis Beaubois, Breda Beban, Sandra Becker 01, Zanny Begg, Gerd Belz, Anca Benera, Lynda Benglis, Joseph Beuys, Michael Bielicky, Ursula Biemann, Christian Bilger, Dara Birnbaum, Pierre Bismuth, Hartmut Bitomsky, Claus Blume, Florin Bobu, John Bock, Gábor Bódy, Hella Böhm, Claus Böhmler, Pauline Boudry, Arno Brandlhuber, Geta Brătescu, Hans Breder, KP Brehmer, Candice Breitz, Ben Brix, Michel de Broin, Laura Bruce, Klaus vom Bruch, Wojciech Bruszewski, Rick Buckley, Michaela Buescher, Egon Bunne, Michael Busch, Frieder Butzmann, Pash Buzari, Robert Cahen, Rui Calçada Bastos, Peter Callas, Peter Campus, Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, Filipa César, Alejandro Cesarco, Olga Chernysheva, Anetta Mona Chişa, Claude Closky, Gerd Conradt, Eduard Constantin, Eli Cortiñas, Chris Cunningham & Aphex Twin / Autechre / Björk / Leftfield / Madonna / Portishead / Squarepusher, Kajsa Dahlberg, Kiri Dalena, Lutz Dammbeck, Călin Dan, Anna Daučíková, Douglas Davis, Constance DeJong, Ivo Deković, Dellbrügge de Moll, Milovan Destil Marković, Die Tödliche Doris, Discoteca Flaming Star, Christoph Doering, Christine Domkowski, Christoph Draeger, Christoph Dreher, Margarete Dreher, Arnold Dreyblatt, Jimmie Durham, Antje Ehmann, Maria Eichhorn, Dominic Eichler, Ed Emshwiller, Jakobine Engel, Antje Engelmann, Brian Eno, Shakram Entekhabi, Annika Eriksson, Ayşe Erkmen, Theo Eshetu, Samira Eskandarfar, Arnold Estefan, Assaf (Safy) Etiel, Eva & Adele, VALIE EXPORT, Andrea Faciu, Loretta Fahrenholz, Christian Falsnaes, Harun Farocki, Mounir Fatmi, Heike-Melba Fendel, Sophie Fiennes, Gertrud Fischbacher, Nina Fischer / Maroan el Sani, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Kit Fitzgerald, Terry Flaxton, Sven Flechsenhar, Sylvie Fleury, Elise Florenty, Terry Fox, FRANEK, Hermine Freed, Hanna Frenzel, Adib Fricke, Monika Funke Stern, Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Dani Gal, Paul Garrin, Michael Geißler, Elio Gelmini, Thierry Geoffroy (Colonel), Patrycja German, Knut Gerwers, Jochen Gerz, Sista Ginseng, Christoph Girardet, Matthias Glatzel, Niklas Goldbach, Undine Goldberg, Francis Gomila, Dan Graham, Walter Gramming, Franz Gratwohl, Keith Griffiths, Johan Grimonprez, Sabine Groß, Asta Gröting, Bettina Gruber, Gruppe NON, Guerilla Architects, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Jean-François Guiton, Ingo Günther, Ernest Gusella, Gudrun Gut, Akiko Hada, Alexander Hahn, Richard Hamilton, Jan Peter Hammer, Gusztáv Hámos, Angela Hanke-Wahls, Uli Happe, Mona Hatoum, Ron Hays, Astrid Heibach, Mathilde ter Heijne, Anna Heine, Barbara Heinisch, Matthis Heinzmann, Mike Hentz, Gary Hill, Hans Hirschmüller, K.H. Hödicke, Nancy Hold, Carsten Höller, Kerstin Honeit, Nan Hoover, Madelon Hooykaas, Judith Hopf, Laura Horelli, Rebecca Horn, Hrvoje Horvatić, Manfred Hulverscheidt, Mwangi Hutter, Taka Iimura, Sanja Iveković, Mogens Jacobsen, Hartmut Jahn, Christian Jankowski, Kirsten Johannsen, Patrick Jolley, Joan Jonas, Anne Jud, Mauricio Kagel, Wolf Kahlen, Istvan Kantor (aka Monty Cantsin? aka Amen!), Thomas Kapielski, Allan Kaprow, Kain Karawahn, Thomas Kiesel, Dieter Kiessling, Vika Kirchenbauer, Silvia Kirchhof, Knut Klaßen, Jürgen Klauke, Axel Klepsch, Michael Klier, Werner Klotz, Imi Knoebel, Daniel Knorr, Andreas Koch, Takehito Koganezawa, Andreas Köpnick, Korpys / Löffler, David Krippendorff, Gunter Krüger, Uwe Krupka, Käthe Kruse, Shigeko Kubota, Betina Kuntzsch, Thomas Kutschker, Alicja Kwade, Joëlle de La Casinière, Sabrina Labis, Richard (Dickie) Landry, David Larcher, Diego M. Lascano, Maria Lassnig, Peter Leake, Barbara Leisgen Michael Leisgen, Zilla Leutenegger, Les Levine, Roman Liebe, Armin Linke, Ninon Liotet, Ardele Lister, Llurex Video (Egon Bunne), Katarina Löfström, Renate Lorenz, Antal Lux, M. Raskin Stichting Ens., Georg Maas, Chris Marker, Norbert Meissner, Bjørn Melhus, Angela Melitopoulos, Karolin Meunier, Eva Meyer, John Miller, Antoni Miralda, Una H. Moehrke, Domingo Molina Cortés, Regina Möller, Ingrid Molnar, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Eléonore de Montesquiou, Hiroharu Mori, Frédéric Moser, Rabih Mroué, Mudances, Heiner Mühlenbrock, Antonio Muntadas, Ciprian Mureşan, Ko Nakajima, Marina Naprushkina, Zoran Naskovski, Bruce Nauman, Trine Lise Nedreaas, Hajnal Németh, Marcel Odenbach, Pınar Öğrenci, Claes Oldenburg, Ingrid Oppenheim, Ann Oren, Tanja Ostojić, Ulrike Ottinger, Tony Oursler ,Trevor Paglen, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, Stefan Panhans, Eduardo Paolozzi, Rotraut Pape, Ludwig Papenberg, Ulrich Papenberg, Pallavi Paul, Kristina Paustian, Sharon Paz, Jens Pecho, Hila Peleg, Ricardo Peredo, Lia Perjovschi, Friederike Pezold, Daniel Pflumm, Lil Picard, Piratskoe Televidenie / Pirate TV (PTV), Alexandra Pirici, Fabrizio Plessi, Laura Poitras, Daniel Poller, Kurt Raab, Beate Rathke, Daniel (Dan) Reeves, Oliver Ressler, Reynold Reynolds, Mykola Ridnyi, Pipilotti Rist, Klaus Ritterbusch, Józef Robakowski, Ugo Rondinone, Ulrike Rosenbach, Fried Rosenstock, Benet Rossell, Christopher Roth, Constanze Ruhm, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, John Sanborn, Karin Sander, Katya Sander, Larissa Sansour, Stefan Sava, Eran Schaerf, Sandra Schäfer, Peter Scharf, Eric Schefter, Les Schließer, Erik Schmidt, Tomas Schmit, Thomas Schmitt, Ira Schneider, Corinna Schnitt, Lydia Schouten, Volker Schreiner, Walter Schröder-Limmer, Schroeter & Berger, Oliver Schulbaum, Anne Schülke, Maya Schweizer, James Scott, Bill Seaman, Ginan Seidl, Felicitas Senders, Maria Serebriakova, Richard Serra, Lerato Shadi, Rozita Sharafjahan, Anatoly Shuravlev, Judith Siegmund, Sean Snyder, Adnan Softić, Nina Softić, Kathrin Sonntag, Elsa Stansfield, Mike Steiner, Gabriele Stellbaum, Barbara Steppe, Hito Steyerl, Stille Helden e.V., Eva Stotz, Marlene Streeruwitz, Annika Ström, Pilvi Takala, Astra Taylor, Klaus Theuerkauf, Klaus Clarissa Thieme, Sung Tieu, Lucia Tkáčová, Olga Tobreluts, Mark Tompkins, Miloš Trakilović, Andreas Troeger, Nasan Tur, Ulay, Steina Vasulka, Woody Vasulka, Maria Vedder, Sean Vegezzi, Jan Verbeek, Walter Verdin, Dmitry Vilensky, Bill Viola, Luca Vitone, Wolf Vostell, Silke Wagner, Clemens von Wedemeyer, William Wegman, Peter Weibel, Herbert Wentscher, Maja Weyermann, Charlie White, Katharina Wibmer, Helmut Wietz, Katrin Willim, Robert Wilson, Dean Winkler, Markus Wirthmann, Christine Woditschka, VA Wölfl, Ming Wong, Ina Wudtke, Jud Yalkut, Haegue Yang, Amir Yatziv, YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, Vadim Zakharov, Holly Zausner, Florian Zeyfang, Qiu Zhijie, Tobias Zielony, Kai Zimmer, Artur Zmijewski, Heimo Zobernig, Moira Zoitl, Angela Zumpe

Opening: July 3, 2025
7pm: Panel discussion with Marius Babias, Bjørn Melhus, Anh-Linh Ngo, Karin Sander, Hito Steyerl
9pm–midnight: Video screening

July 4–August 2, 2025
Mon – Thur 12 noon – midnight
Fri 12 noon – Sun midnight non-stop
Summer bar daily from 6pm

Tickets: 10/7 EUR, adk.de/tickets
Free admission under 18 years

Events + further information: adk.de/494h

An exhibition of the Akademie der Künste in cooperation with the n.b.k.
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin
Media partner: tipBerlin
Summer bar: Myśliwska