Videonale

The Videonale is a biennial that takes place in Bonn Film Festival for video media art.

Development

The Bonn Videonale launched in 1984 as an international festival and competition for artistically sophisticated video productions and has been growing ever since and changed. Besides the competition, it now offers a large installation exhibition and panel discussions on current topics of media art. For example, the media schools and media art centers were presented to the Federal Republic of Germany and discussed their contributions to the further development of media art.

Also in close cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Bonn there is since 1993 hosted " Videonale Intermezzo ". Under the title electron currents running since 1995 a series of lectures on the history of media art, which deals extensively with art history and media theory aspects. Furthermore ( cinema in the bread factory ) were performed with the Bonner Kunstverein and the Bonn Cinematheque designed events and programs exported in large houses in other cities, such as the Museum Ludwig in Cologne in the spring of 2003. Videonale The wide range of events to let the Bonn site come alive as a center for media art.

The 2007 takes place 11th Videonale exhibition is technically innovative ways. The presentation of video art works without sound overlays and at the same time without Black Box crates is solved with the newly created sound hoods effectively. The full orientation and movement of visitors is ensured without having to resort to the claustrophobic crates anyway poorly adopted. Viewing the films can be chosen freely allows: a) to monitors of steel tubes, b) wall projections or c ) projected onto white painted projection boxes. The sound turns on only when someone approaches accordingly. In this way you can like go around and choose freely between paintings and sculptural works of art.

On the Videonale 12, the Belgian artist Manon de Boer was received Christian Jankowski for the video work " Casting Jesus " the Videonale price of KfW Foundation, endowed with 5.000 € Videonale Prize in 2009. 2013.