Exhibition 40 Years of Video Art in Germany

Opening : Sat 24 Sep, 4 pm
with an introduction by Professor Rotraut Pape

Lecture: Sun 25 Sep, 3.30 pm
“40 Years of Video Art in Germany“

Exhibition: 25 Sep – 2 Oct, 9 am – 7 pm
Goethe-Institut Hanoi

From Goethe-Institut:
The Goethe-Institut Hanoi now invites you to a “best of” from 40 years of German video art. The 43 selected videos, shown digitally to protect the valuable originals, give an exemplary insight into some forty years of video art from Germany. Among them are works by famous artists such as Joseph Beuys, Wolf Kahler, Lutz Dammbeck, Nam June Paik and others.
Video art emerged in the 60s in the U.S. and Germany and has become one of the most influential genres of art of the 20th Century. Technical systems have developed further, changed or even disappeared: the former TV screen has given way to the computer monitor, video cassettes to software programs and hard drives. The biggest challenge of video art is its own mortality, due to the short life of the electronic media. Thus, the survival of video art is dependent on a never-ending process of adaptation to new technological standards. 40jahrevideokunst.de, an initiative of the Federal Cultural Foundation, has therefore taken on the task of the rescue, care and dissemination of video art. Five important museums in Germany have joined forces to realize this project, under the direction of Karlsruhe ZKM (Center for Art and Media Technology). Here video art works are professionally archived, digitized, and protected from disappearing.
http://www.record-again.de/

Video Art Workshop

The exhibition is complemented by a workshop for video art: the German video artist and professor of media arts Rotraut Pape and the French video artist and curator Gerard Couty jointly lead this workshop for young video makers. Information about this workshop, visit Goethe’s website.

Prof. Rotraut Pape studied art at the Hamburg Art Academy and since 1977 works in the field of video art, video installation and experimental film. She is a media artist, writer and director and has exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Germany and abroad. Since 1992 Rotraut Pape teaches regularly at various universities in Germany and France and is currently a professor in the Film/Video at the University of Art and Design Offenbach am Main. In the past she has led several workshops at Goethe Institutes around the world.

Gerard Couty is a French media artist, writer and director. He has founded experimental art spaces and media, including Bellevue Radio Lyon, Ars Electronica Linz and Club Automatique. Gerard Couty specializes in interactive applications and compositing, and has led international workshops in cooperation with Centre Culturel Français and the Goethe Institut.