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69. NEW GERMAN VIDEO ART,
14 January - 27 February 1994
Together with the Goethe Institute in Tampere, the Sara
Hildén Art Museum organized an exhibition displaying new German
video art. The videos were presented on Level A on the lower floor of
the museum. There were 17 artists and 16 works, which together lasted
about two hours. Dr. Uwe Rüth, who was a member of the judging committee
of the video art competition held in the city of Marl, gave a presentation
on German video art on the opening of the exhibition.
The exhibition included works from the video art competition
in the city of Marl, which was organized for the fifth time in 1992. The
selection comprised four awarded and 12 other art videos, which the judging
committee had chosen from the 122 works that had entered the competition.
The aim of the Marl video competition was to assemble a high-quality exhibition
on new German art video. The annual competition also offered a chance
to follow the development of video art from a critical perspective.
The videos awarded in the 1992 competition, which were
displayed in the Sara Hildén Museum, were thematically different,
but each work was of a high standard both technically and content-wise.
The video as a medium, unlike other traditional art forms,
deals with all current matters, such as the war in the Persian Gulf, the
unification of Germany, ecology, AIDS and homosexuality. The exhibition
was important not only for experts in the field, but also for a wider
audience: it offered a cross-section of video art, which is related to
our modern way of life unlike traditional art forms. "The third millennium
will be an electronic millennium, whether we like it or not, and the visual
arts must keep up with the developments." (Ingrid Oppenheim)
The "Red" exhibition continued on the upper
floor of the museum. Levels B and C on the lower floor presented works
from the Sara Hildén Foundation.
Catalogue:
Deutsche Video-Kunst 1990-1992
1992, 108 pages
The city of Marl, Goethe Institute, Munich
ISBN 3-924790-33-7
New German Video Art, extracts from the exhibition catalogue
Deutsche Video-Kunst
1990-1992, 8 pages
Sara Hildén Art Museum and Goethe-Institut, Tampere
Not on sale
8,160 visitors attended the exhibition.
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