Tacita Dean, Palast, 2004
Artist: Tacita Dean (born 1965 in Canterbury, England; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Materials: Film, 16 mm, projection, color, and sound; 10 min, 30 sec. Description: “…Palast was created in Berlin, where the artist has lived since she undertook a DAAD fellowship with the Berlin Artist-in-Residence programme in 2000. It comprises a sequence of still […]
David Maljkovic, Scenes for a New Heritage, 2004
Artist: David Maljkovic (born 1973 in Rijeka, Croatia; lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia). Materials: Video (color, sound); 11:30 min. Description: Video triptych based on a socialist monument at Petrova Gora Memorial Park in the Petrova Gora mountain range outside Vojnic in Croatia. The monument is in memory of soldiers who fell in World War II. […]
Deimantas Narkevičius, Scena, 2003
Artist: Deimantas Narkevičius (born 1964 in Utena, Lithuania; lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania). Materials: Super 8 mm film transferred to video, color, sound; 9 minutes 30 seconds. Description: “The film Scena (2003), which was inspired by the modernist architecture of the Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius, [highlights] the discrepancy between form and function: the building […]
Tacita Dean, Fernsehturm, 2001
Artist: Tacita Dean (born 1965 in Canterbury, England; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Materials: 16-mm film, projection, color, and sound. Description: “Fernsehturm was created during Dean’s year-long DAAD fellowship with the Berlin Artist-in-Residence programme in anticipation of her solo exhibition, in early 2001, at Tate Britain… Dean initially visited Berlin in 1987 as a […]
Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani, Palast der Republik – Weissbereich, 2001
Artist: Nina Fischer (born 1965 in Emden, Germany) and Maroan el Sani (born 1966 in Duisburg, Germany) (both live and work in Berlin, Germany). Materials: 7 min double screen projection. Description: “[Film] about the empty space of the former East German parliament in the [Palast der Republik], Berlin: The ‘Volkskammersaal.’ This area was closed for […]
Deimantas Narkevičius, Energy Lithuania, 2000
Artist: Deimantas Narkevičius (born 1964 in Utena, Lithuania; lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania). Materials: Super-8 film, color, 4:3, stereo; 17 min. Description: The film is a portrait of the town Elektrėnai, which was built to support an electric power station in 1960. The station provided the first central electrification of Lithuania and was a modernizing […]
