History Restaged I-II
History Restaged I-II
April 24 – May 31, 2015
History Restaged brings together artists whose practices address the necessity of critical thinking, of individual and collective responsibility. Through employing strategies of re-staging, where the line between documentary and fiction collapses, the selected works use filmic, literary, archival and art historical references to revisit historically significant events and unsettle our conventional notions of reality.
Exhibiting artists: Carlos Amorales, Heidrun Holzfeind, Sven Johne, Meiro Koizumi, Susanne Kriemann, Zbigniew Libera, Maha Maamoun, Roee Rosen, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Zbigniew Libera, Sven Johne
Curators: Molnár Edit, Páldi Lívia
Venues: Blinken OSA Archivum – Galeria Centralis (1051 Budapest, Arany János u. 32.), Platán Gallery (1061 Budapest, Andrássy út 32.)
Supported by: Open Society Foundations; Polish Institute, Budapest; OSA Archivum; Austrian Cultural Forum, Budapest; Goethe Institute, Budapest; BAC–Baltic Art Center, Visby; Private Donors
Photo: The Orbital Strangers Project, Csaba Aknay © OFF-Biennale Budapest archive
Photo: The Orbital Strangers Project, Csaba Aknay © OFF-Biennale Budapest archive
Photo: The Orbital Strangers Project, Csaba Aknay © OFF-Biennale Budapest archive
Photo: The Orbital Strangers Project, Csaba Aknay © OFF-Biennale Budapest archive
Photo: The Orbital Strangers Project, Csaba Aknay © OFF-Biennale Budapest archive
Photo: Réka Hegyháti © OFF-Biennale Budapest archive
Related event
Clemens von Wedemeyer: Muster (screening), May 24 and 30, 2015
The film opens a parallel view of the same place by making its main characters time-travel through three generations of German history. A concentration and work camp during the NS regime, a girls’ detention home in 1970 and finally a memorial site today are all based on the grounds of the former Benedictine monastery Breitenau. The camera follows a group of visiting pupils, a filmcrew and the US-army as they make first contact with the site.
Commissioned and co-produced by dOCUMENTA (13) with ZDF 3sat and Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; Medienboard Berlin
Brandenburg; Nordmedia, Hanover; Hessische Filmforderung HR, Frankfurt/ Main; Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris.
HD screening, 79 min. 2012 (German with English subtitles) courtesy KOW Berlin.
Venue: Toldi Cinema (1054 Budapest, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 36-38.)
Photo: Krisztina Csányi © OFF-Biennale Budapest archive
