We cordially invite you and you to the opening of VIDEONALE.19 on Thursday, March 30, 2023
from 6 pm to midnight.

7pm Opening speeches and awarding of the Videonale Prize by Fluentum.
8pm DJ set by Monita Wagma

Opening day 1: Something is at stake

The 27 works of VIDEONALE.19 address themes of contemporary relevance in diverse and complex artistic narratives. Through their content, they become advocates of marginalized perspectives, giving them voice and visibility. And we are ready to explore that further: What does it mean to be an artistic and curatorial advocate for personal concerns and those of others? How does this influence the artistic process, the choice of themes, and other artistic decisions? We also ask: What does advocacy mean for the (curatorial) decisions of festival makers, curators, and collectors? Full program here!

Somewhere between Solitude and Community.
Performative staging
collective mourning on the ground
of the Viktoriabad

by Samuel Hertz and Layton Lachman

Performers: Layton Lachman, Samuel Hertz, emeka ene, Caroline
Neill Alexander, Dani Paiva de Miranda.

Even as apocalypses bloom around us, we dance non-stop and launch into an earth shattering drone-metal concert, howling at the end of the world. DOOM is a collective, cathartic grieving for the dooms which for some have already arrived, and the dooms with which others are just now beginning to contend. In the face of ongoing destruction, "let's start," science fiction author N. K. Jemisin writes, "with the end of the world, why don't we?"

No registration needed / Free Entry / The number of participants is limited

We will let the first opening day of VIDEONALE.19 come to an end at Café Blau! Everyone is invited, while DJ Alisa Berger will be spinning on site.

Alisa Berger is a filmmaker and artist born in Dagestan raised in Ukraine and Germany, currently based in Tokyo.
Her love for music brought her from curating events to playing music herself. Since 2020 Alisa hosts her radio show "Tripping" on dublab.de and curates podcasts for Vinyl Delivery Service Tokyo and London.

No registration needed / Free Entry

Opening day 2: Do we still trust in art?

As an expression of indomitable individuality, art has the potential to change society. This is beyond question for us. It is not without reason that it is at the top of the list of enemies of the state in autocratic systems. What is the state of how we deal with art here in Europe, in Germany and in NRW? And we would like to look at the way we present art, when we bring it into conversation (and when not) and who we reach (or not). Can we figure this out? Full program here

Good bread doesn't need butter? We want both regardless! And great conversations at the foot of the stairs in the foyer - just before we'll visit the exhibition together.

No registration needed / Exhibition ticket required

by and with Antonia Baehr & Jule Flierl (V.19Artists)

The term "Tontänze" comes from Valeska Gert. “Tontanz“describes the movement of voice in the body and thus departs from the cliché of the silent dancer. V.19 artists Jule Flierl and Antonia Baehr take up this conceptual term, which opens up new forms of relationship between body, dance and voice in this selection.

Jule Flierl and Antonia Baehr got to know each other through the transmission of a score. When Antonia Baehr sent Jule Flierl the score to Antonia Baehr's piece 'MY DOG IS MY PIANO', the two began a reflection and practice in the interstice between written instructions and artistic processes.

→ Without registration | Admission is free.

with Rrangwane and donna Kukama
»Why are you still here?«: Directly the viewers are addressed in the work ›MOSAMO (ancestral alterations)‹ by V.19 artist Rrangwane. We watch a selection of the 7 chapters of ›MOSAMO‹ and talk about artistic creation in the context of the (after)effects of colonialism, the influence of ancestral spirits and healing with Rrangwane and donna Kukama (artist and professor at KHM, Cologne).
Event language: English

Guided tour through the exhibition with Tasja Langenbach (Artistic Director V.19), meeting point: Videonale Kiosk in the foyer
Without registration | Museum admission applies

Together with exhibition architect Ruth Lorenz of maaskant Berlin, an independent scenography and atmosphere was developed for the VIDEONALE.19. Together with Ruth Lorenz we will go into the exhibition to learn more about the subtleties of the exhibition architecture.

Without registration | Museum admission applies

During the Easter vacations (Tue, 04.04. - Sat, 15.04.2023, also Good Friday and Easter Monday) we show
a children's program with animated short films for children aged 4 to 8 and their adult companions from 2 - 5 pm. The film selection was made in cooperation with Mo&Friese - Youth Short Film Festival Hamburg. Headphones are available free of charge at the Videonale Circus.

with Julian Quentin, Mel Bialas and Anbid Zaman.
Hidden beneath the Kreuzkirche in Bonn is a WW2 bunker that is the site of the screening of Julian Quentin's experimental film ›Territory‹. Based on biographical narratives of gender travelers, Quentin takes us into a world of inner images and we discuss what we need to become who we are.
Event language: German

mit Pol Merchan
Nazario, artist and protagonist of ›EL JARDÍN DE LOS FAUNOS‹ by V.19 artist Pol Merchan, published the first of his homoerotic comics at the margins of the censorship of the Franco dictatorship. The film focuses on the artistic work of the now almost 80-year-old and desire and relationship despite socio-political repression. The Screening is followed by a talk with the Pol Merchan.
Event language: German

The event series ART ABEND - IM FOKUS of Kunstmuseum Bonn, supported by the Freunde des Kunstmuseums e.V., is aimed exclusively at students and young adults. It provides insight into working methods of the exhibition business. This evening, VIDEONALE.19 is the focus.
After a discussion with the V.19 festival organizers Tasja Langenbach and Annette
Ziegert, there will be the opportunity to participate in short guided tours.

with Stéphanie Lagarde
From the perspective of an elevator, ›MINIMAL SWAY WHILE STARTING MY WAY UP‹ by Stéphanie Lagarde takes us to the heights of a megatower. A change of direction leads to extreme depths, down into the tunnels of a mine. We show the experimental short film and talk about the desire for vertical space conquest - and its consequences. Afterwards: Drinks at the Sky Bar.
Event language: Englisch

Carlos Irijalba's work ›HALF WET‹ draws a dystopian future (Or already present?) in which the oceans off Oaxaca (Mexico) are acidified and tourist paradises are deserted. Although the pools off the coast have been abandoned, the protagonist repeats the purification ritual of his ancestors. What is already reality? That's what youths from the Karl Simrock School ask in conversation with artist Carlos Irijalba.
Event language: German

with Will Fredo, Leo Galileo and Misal Adnan Yıldız
In ›SHTV: EL ÚLTIMO TOUR DEL MUNDO‹ Will Fredo accompanies human rights lawyer and porn actor Leo Galileo. We show clips of the film and discuss with Will Fredo (V.19 artist:in), Leo Galileo and Misal Adnan
Yıldız (director of the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden) how sex workers use the internet to renegotiate their relationship to society.
Event language: English

Colorful haze in the White Cube - Dynamics of bodies and moving image in space.
Workshop with Ruth Lorenz from maaskant Berlin, exhibition architect of VIDEONALE.19

Exhibitions are communicative organisms that communicate, give impulses, breathe. Exhibition architecture as the body of this organism creates spatial images that can be sensually experienced. The space tells a story, and as visitors we move through it and enter into a dialogue.

In the workshop we will examine the anatomy of the Videonale exhibition and the surrounding museum space. We will explore the question of how exhibitions become living places for dialogues and new museum actions.

A workshop for students and anyone interested; no previous experience necessary.
Sign up no later than April 28 to Riccarda Hessling, hessling@videonale.org

with Isabell Spengler in conversation with Elke Kania
A duet. Silent eye contact. Deployment. Artists Werner Hirsch (Antonia Baehr) and Jule Flierl meet in a visual installation, surrounded by an audience and a camera, guided by Bernadette Paassen, directed by Isabell Spengler. About how spatiotemporal presence of performance can unfold through the medium of film, we talk with Isabell Spengler.
Event language: German

V.19 artist Kent Chan's ›HEAT WAVES‹ is a maelstrom of Western ideas about the tropics as a place of paradisiacal longing and a plaything of exploitation. Young people of Amos-Comenius-Gymnasium, together with Laura Bechert and Dodo, the authors of »Climate Crisis and Colonialism. Over 500 Years of Resistance« try to better understand the effects of the climate crisis and its interconnections with colonialism.
Event language: German

with Ji Su Kang-Gatto
Have you ever slid into anyone's DMs? If not, you get a chance with us: you can communicate with V.19 artist Ji Su Kang-Gatto about her work ›VLOG #8998 |KOREAN CARROT COOKING & OUR MAKEUP ROUTINE‹. She will ask you questions. And you? Tell us.
Sliding into the DMs is a colloquial term for posting a private message on a social media platform.
Event language: German

FINISSAGE + REVIEW
14:30 Uhr
CURATOR'S TOUR
15 - 18 UHR
ITʼS A WRAP! THAT'S IT! LET'S WRITE, DRAW, COLLAGE: CREATE WITH US THE (MAGA)ZINE FOR V.19
15.30 UHR
SPILL THE TEA
COFFEE TABLE | Foyer