Utopia Today
The artists of the cycle "Utopia Today" are not concerned with negotiating existing dystopian scenarios, but rather with trying to detect utopian moments in the present, even if they have only minimal visibility, and to put them into the picture artistically. This is also a young generation that is less burdened by history and fully exploits the possibilities of the digital age, creating parallel worlds to current political constellations.
The cycle shows a large proportion of videos by younger women artists that mark transformation processes in their lives. Likewise, there is a dissolution of classical gender models and a fluidity of identities and (digital as well as physical) realities that creates new parameters for a possible future.
Utopia Today
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Culture Freighter Lorin
June – October 2024
Basel, Strasbourg, Cologne, Duisburg, Amsterdam, Rotterdam
Videocity x Culture Freighter Lorin x Rhine Cities 2024 presents the Videocity compilers ‘Eye-View Utopia Ukraine’ and ‘Women from Iran’ along the Rhine.
Utopia at Our Place
10th – 11th August 2024
15F, No. 62, Section 3, Minquan E Rd, Zhongshan District, Taipei City, Taiwan 10491
The core concept of this exhibition revolves around the thematic keywords: Nature/Artificiality, Body, Heritage, Movement, and Utopia.
Average Peace Enjoyer
13.07. – 4.08.2024
Co-produced with Asortymentna kimnata and Ivano-Frankivsk Drama Theater
The show is site-specific and is centered around the paradox of the war victims who are expected to constantly perform — to attract attention and reach help to survive, while at the same time being the spectators in the first row.
Utopia x REX Box
May 2023 – April 2024
Kassenhaus des Kino REX Bern, Schwanengasse 9, 3011 Bern.
Videocity has been invited to show video art in the REX Box, the former box office at the entrance of the cinema. Videocity's guest performance explores resonances between video art and feature film.
In Ukraine
March – April 2024
various locations
Undertaking a brief Ukrainian tour, this video art programme introduces the Videocity initiative, dedicated to the research and dissemination of video art in Ukraine.
Shared Planet
15.01.–20.05.2024
e-billboard, Congress Center Basel, Messeplatz 22, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
What does it mean to live on something finite? Resources will and do run out, and even the planet has an expiry date, with the eventual death of our star, the Sun.
Something with hope
21.10.2023 – 25.02.2024
Motorenhalle, Projektzentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst Dresden, Adlergasse 14, 01067 Dresden, Deutschland
If you were to strike the bell of hope, you would hear a sound of many notes, more like an organ, an orchestra.
Utopie Dnes
16.01. – 13.02.2024
Monitor in the window of Umakart Gallery, Lidická 1875/40, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
The curatorial selection embraces the tradition of Umakart Gallery to focus on body positivity and bodily experiences. The invitation to Brno builds a bridge with its twin city St. Pölten.
Whiteframe Online Series
8. – 15.02.2024
The "WF Online Series" comprises four curated screening programs per year, each presenting a distinctive curatorial concept.
Videocity St. Pölten Parcours
6.10.–17.12.2023
various locations
As the videos are presented in public space, the city becomes the soundtrack of the videos and coincidences of everyday life intervene in the compositions.
Container City Festival
1.–2.07.2023
Kunstverein Wagenhalle e.V., Innerer Nordbahnhof 1, 70191 Stuttgart
As part of this year's Container City Festival at the Kunstverein Wagenhalle.
Socially Engaged Curating
14.–17.06.2023
Collaboration with Manchester School of Art exhibited at K–House and SEESAW.
The second collaboration between Videocity and the MA in Curating.