Moscow

The Russian War against Ukraine, starting – when actually? – already (hidden) 1998 or only in 2014 through the Russian annexing of Crimea – or on 24 February 2022, in any case the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022 did not only change the world fundamentally, but basically the view on the world and history since the end of WW II enforcing everybody to re-evaluate one’s own concepts.

My own new media activities starting in 2000 at the beginning of the New Digital Era were carrying unexpected perspectives through experimenting. My concepts of a positive globalisation – a kind of borderless networking have to be re-thought 20 years later due to the fundamental change of the geo-political situation.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall 1989, the general dream to overcome the ancient ideological/political blocks of the “Cold War” came true by inventing the Internet encouraging/ enforcing these ideas, but just to state after experimenting – while the known walls were broken down, new walls were replacing them on different levels. But the rapid technological development and the new chances and “walling” as a human condition were irreversible. The contrary of the to be expected occurred.

The Russian war in 2022 made it clear, the East-West confrontation of two ideological blocks was replaced by new ideological blocks, new kinds of walls and threats, and evident, what people might have known before, of course, that this conceptual limitlessness was nothing else than an illusion, at least according to its literal interpretation.

So, being involved in these wave movements of erecting and breaking down walls after 1989, I am an (active) witness of the diverse transformations of political/cultural values & systems on the Russian territory, and the slow decline of any liberal concepts by erecting insurmountable walls based on recollecting invalid ancient imperial values standing in contrary to the technological progress, and, above all, the values of the liberal democracy, freedom as the only fertile soil for the creating art, respectively a free culture.

Kaliningrad (Russia) – *Art Of Torture – Art against Torture – NCCA – National Centre for Contemporary Art 2001

NCCA Yekaterinburg
The NCCA Ural branch was launched in Yekaterinburg in 1999 and became the city’s first institution working in the contemporary art field. In 2005–2011, the branch published ZAART magazine, which became an archive for the Ural art of the 2000s. At the same time, the NCCA professionals formed a vast collection of video art from Ural and Siberia.
Since 2008, the branch is running the Ural Plants: The Industry of Meanings program, focusing on an artistic rethinking of plants and industrial reality in an urban environment. This research resulted in one of major projects in Russia’s art system — the Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art.
Since 2011, the branch hosts exhibitions, implements educational programs and cooperates with local artistic community through organizing exhibitions, portfolio reviews, workshops and art residences. In 2018, a new project was introduced at the NCCA — the Young Artist’s Lab.
Today, over ten projects of the Ural branch have been nominated for the Innovation Prize.

Perm/Russia – Machinista Media Festival 2003
Ekaterinburg/Russia – *Outvideo Festival — NCCA Ural– National Center for Contemporary Art 2004
Ekaterinburg/Russia – *Outvideo Festival – NCCA Ural– National Center for Contemporary Art 5 June – 5 July 2005
Ekaterinburg/Russia – Outvideo Festival NCCA Ural– National Center for Contemporary Art 5 June – 5 July 2006
Ekaterinburg/Russia – Outvideo Festival – NCCA Ural– National Center for Contemporary Art 5 July – 7 August 2007

2006

St.Petersburg (Russia)- Unauthorized Access Festival – Ermitage Museum St. Petersburg/Russia 7-23 April 2006

2007

St.Petersburg (Russia) – Izolenta Digital Film Festival “House of Cinema” Cinema Center – 11-13 May 2007

2011
CologneOFF 2011 – videoart in a global context

Smolny University – 19 May 2011

CologneOFF 2011 Russia I
@ Smolny University Baltic Sea II- St. Petersburg I – 19- May
the entire screening program as PDF

19 May – Thursday
Opening 19-22 h
lecture at Smolny University
screening Corporate Urban Interventions”
afterwards round table discussion

Sai Hua Kuan (Singapore) -Space Drawing No. 5 – , 2009, 1:02
iaaai (France) – Patience, 2006-2007, 4 min 10 sec
Pablo Fernandez-Pujol (Spain) – 142-143 – 2010, 2:1
Emeka Ogboh (Nigeria) – [dis] connection – 2009, 1:58
Denise Hood (USA) – Disconnect – 2009, 3:47
Shahar Marcus (Israel) – Homecoming Artist, 2008, 4:37
9h Ira Needleman (USA) – Corporate Art Policy, 2007, 5:30
Jorge Garcia Velayos (Spain) – THE BEAST , 2009, 05’ 20’’
Myriam Thyes (CH) – Depression Marquis, 2009, 2:23
Cynthia Domenico (Brazil) – Twist and Turn, 2009, 4min55sec
Renata Gaspar & Marcin Dudek (Poland) – Axis, 2010, 3:07 min.
Johanna Reich (Germany) – A State of Crystal,, 3’19, 2010
Doug Williams (USA) –Back & Forth, 2009, 2:42

ProArte – 20 May 2011

CologneOFF 2011 Russia II
@ Pro Arte – Baltic Sea II- St. Petersburg II – 20 May
the entire screening program as PDF

*Germany curated by Agricola de Cologne / Poland curated by Antoni Karwowski
Russia curated by Vika Ilyushkina / Finland curated by Pekka Ruuska
Sweden curated by Jonas Nilsson/Eva Olsson / Norway curated by Margarida Paiva
Europe: Baltic Sea Estonia curated by Raivo Kelomees / *Iceland curated by Agricola de Cologne
Latvia curated by Dzintars Zilgalvis / Anders Weberg (videoartist of MAY 2011)

Selected for the article:

Germany curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Johanna Reich- Black hole, 6`00, 2009
Ebert Brothers – “Bluescape” 2006, 2:54
Agricola de Cologne – “Distortion Projected”, 4:50
Alfred Banze – Exotica, 6:34, 2010
Philip Matousek – A Beautiful Day, 3:12, 2009
Anna Porzelt – One’s Bits and Pieces (Siebensachen), 3:00, 2004
Ascan Breuer – The Kurukshetra-Report, 8:00, 2009

Iceland, Lithuania, Denmark
Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir (Iceland) -Music in Cake, 2005, 03.23
Sally and Mo (Iceland) – Misty, 2009, 3:33
Neringa Naujokaite (Lithuania) – “Horizont”, 2010, 8:53
Tadas Tvarionas (Lithuania) – In Between ( ), 2010, 13:47
Signe Chiper-Lillemark (Denmark) – Spaces, 2010, 6 :31
Mia Degner (Denmark) – a city is a place to call home, 2009, 1:51

NCCA – National Center for Contemporary Art – 21 May 2011

the entire screening program as PDF

CologneOFF 2011 Russia III
@ NCCA -National Centre for Contemporary Art – Baltic Sea II- St. Petersburg III – 21 May

Digitalis Aspects of digital video
Dario Bardic (Croatia) -Etude, 3:17, 2007
Rami Fischler (Australia) – Changing Man, 2:58, 2006
Nick Fox-Gieg (USA) – Disarmed, 2:42, 2005
Mihai Grecu (Romania) – Coagulate, 5:56, 2008
Fabio Scacchioli (Italy) – dead SEEquences, 2009, 4:10
Albert Merino Gomez (Spain) – The City & The Other, 2010, 3:09
Ulf Kristiansen (Norway) – The Care Bears – 2010, 3:00
Ocusonic – Why Do You Have a Beard? – 2010, 6:02
Barry Morse (USA) – Mouse’s Birthday, 3:37, 2010 21 May screening NCCA 16h
Lemeh 42 (Italy) – Inner sound, 2010, 10′
Sheldon Brown (USA) – Scalable City, 4.03, 2009
Daniel Lo Iacono (Germany) -Digital Snapshots, 2:30, 2003

Athens Video Art Festival Curated by Iliadis Sostiris
Achilleas Gatsopoulos (Greece) Seal of Lilith/ 2010/, 5′01”
Dagly Zeynep (Turkey) – Disaster /year: 2006 /duration: 2′23” /screening
Dazbec Masa (Slovenia) – First blood /year: 2010 /duration: 1′20”/
Thessia Machado (Brazil) – Longday/year: 2010 /duration: 0′25” / 17h
Vincent Gisbert (Spain) – Contra /year: 2009 /duration: 3′43”
Dimitris Papoutsakis (Greece) – Athenian Summer /2′53”
Guido Salvini (Italy) – Strength test /year: 2009 /duration: 2′00”
Rogelio Sastre (Spain) – The Perfect Immigrant /2010 /11′30” Giorgio Constantine (Greece) – Wait for me /year: 2010 / 3:00
Vasilis Tzikas (Greece) – To Kalesma /year:2009 / 3′10

Doron Polak & Uri Dushy (Israel) -RED (1& 2), 2008, 11:30
Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Memory Game, 2010, 8:0021May
David R. Burns (USA) – Zikaron, 2010, 1:45
Yochai Avrahami and Karin Eliyahu (Israel) – “From the Middle to the Start”, 2009, 5:00
Grace Graupe-Pillard (USA) – Moving Through The Brambles of Memory, 4:00, 2010
Sean Burn (UK) – Turn the Book Around, 2009, 1:42
Tammy Mike Laufer (Israel) – Memory of the Holocaust is not dead!, 2009, 7:05
Lukas Matejka (Slovakia) – E-A = sEx and wAr, 2009. 3:04
Dana Levy (Israel) – Time with Franz, 2005, 10:00
Isobel Blank (Italy) – If a spot of human lasts, 2009, 3:57
Alicia Felberbaum (UK) – Undressing Room, 2009, 4:30
Boris Sribar (Serbia) – I love you so much, I would kill for you, 2009, 3:50

Kansk (Russia) XI International Kansk Video Festival
17-25 August 2012

Wilfried had contacts to Kansk International Video Festival already since many years, at first as an artist. For some reasons which cannot be understood, Wilfried’s submissions to the festival were never successful, so called, there were technical problems. Fact is, after the founder of the festival hired external Russian curators as temporary festival directors, the problems vanished and in 2010 suddenly Wilfried was invited to present the latest CologneOFF Festival Edition in Kansk. – Kansk is a place located in Siberia in the East of Krasnojarsk, counting not even 100 000 inhabitants. But after the collaps of the Communist system, here a kind of local cinema industry developed, a kind of “hollywood” in Siberia, including huge arichives of films produced during the Communist era. After Wilfried had accepted the invitation, the festival team in Kansk worked that the Goethe Institute in Novosibirsk was funding Wilfried’s travel to Siberia, and then some days ago, it was so far, Wilfried started from Düsseldorf to Moscow where he changed the plane to Krasnojarsk, and at the airport a taxi was waiting for Wilfried driving him through the endless forests of the Tundra. This was an incredible ride, because the road where the taxis was riding on was consisting of big deep holes and the taxi driver had to drive slalom – in fact the taxi was longer in the air flying over the road holes than usually driving, and then after many hours, Wilfried was stepping out of the car his back full of pain. The car was standing in front of a typical Communist building – and at the door appeared Nadya – the festival director, welcoming Wilfried after his adventurous ride at the hotel.
OK – thus, this was Siberia! And then it became obvious, this hotel was situated far away out of the actual city, and – it was not easy to go from there anywhere. One needed either to take a taxi, which was less recommended or a bus, which was recommended taking more than half an hour to the city centre, which, if one was stepping out at the final destination was no real centre, because one did not see the city but only some invidual smaller buildings and a big church. So, Kansk was a strange place, so different than any other place where Wilfried had been before. Founded in the 19th century it was one station at the Trans-Siberian-Train and not far from the town dozens of Gulags, prison camps were existing, only to be campared with the Nazi concentration camps, but nowadays hardly any traces are left – the endless expanse of the Tundra is generating quite soon a kind of melancholia.
Wilfried learned soon, what kind of relevance the video festival has for the local population. It is the only event during one year, when foreign guests are comming and the international video program is bringing the world to this middle of nowhere. In this way, the local people are really open minded and hospital.
The festival location is representing the cultural center of Kansk including a huge theater which is used as a cinema, and what kind of surprise, the huge space is crowded with really many film enthusiasts more than one is accustomed at many Western places.. Wilfried is thinking, to be at such a place far away from any civilization is really making sense, because culture is meaning to these people something fundamental, in contrary to the over-saturared Western people, who have in Cologne, for instance, the choice between dozens of different events each day. Here in the Tundra, culture means to be connected with the rest of the world in a very special way and the foreigners attending this even are telling their adventurous stories.
The festival organisation is organising travels around Kansk to the Siberian Tundra, where certain tribes are still living their nomadic life since many centuries. Wilfried is impressed and he wishes that they will also have the chance to live their traditional self-determined life in future.
So, for Wilfried Kansk is a special experience – and this night, 20 August, 2012, Wilfried has his personal presentation in the huge theater. At the end end of the festival, Wilfried will be part of the jury selecting the prize winners, and – being in the jury was at this place – a good experience!
Particularly, when Wilfried will have returned to Cologne, retrospectively seen he is really happy to have had the chance to make such a jump to Siberia, because probably there will be no 2nd chance.

Kansk International Video Festival

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne was part of the international jury. Here is his small report:

“Being honest, when I started my travel to Kansk/Siberia I was not sure what could be expected.
But I was positively surprised by the festival and its organisation at a place which is actually situated somewhere in nowhereland.

But, it is the only festival of that kind, in the incredibly sized Siberia, and the festival was able to invite all artists/directors whose videos were selected. Even if not all invited artists were attending, many were mostly inteernational, but also Russian artists, and more surprise – the big hall of the cultural center of the city was mostly well attended by a very interested, sometimes even enthusiastic audience.
I learned what kind of relevance this festival has for the cultural identity of Siberia, so not only the city council, but also the cultural minstery of the region, press and media and above all the audience are standing behind this festival – and a resume, it really makes sense to support the honest and serious aims of all people involved.
In the West, sometimes people have forgotten what actually the reason should be for organising a festival, in Siberial, at least, it was really a meeting place.
Because I was part of the seven person jury which had to find besides a Grand Prix also some other prize winners, it was necessary that I stayed all the time, but it was a good experience! “

XI Kansk International Video Festival – images

Kansk city centre

Kansk – waiting for the festival opening …………………………………Kansk – installing the jury @ the opening

CologneOFF presentation on 17 August 2012 ……………………………….Cultural Centre Kansk – Screening Hall

Excursion on 21 August

Artistic festival director – Nadya Bakuradze……………………………….Socializing at the hotel

Kansk Cultural Centre – Screening Hall……………………………………. Kansk – Jury press conference

Grand Prix Winner – Dustin Grella (USA)…………………………………….Agricola de Cologne among the jury members on stage

Festival finalization – award ceremony – the jury on stage…………………………….Festival finalization – award ceremony – the grand prix winner Dustin Grella

Festival finalization – party- group photo

CologneOFF 2012 Russia III
@ XI Kansk International Video Festival
KanskFest
17 -25 August 2012

presenting
CologneOFF VIII – Continental Drift
a special selection – world premiere
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

featuring
Kristine Kanders, (Germany) – Human Rights, 2011, 4:20
Shahar Marcus (Israel) – 1,2,3 Herring, 2011, 2:27
Marie Magescas (France) – WAR desease, 2010, 8:26
Yiotis Vrantzas (Greece) – Phone call from Cairo, 2012, 4:55
Mohammed Harb (Palestine) – Death Tunnel, 2012, 1:00
Przemek Węgrzyn (Poland) – The spring, 2011, 3:20
Emilio Bassail (Mexico) – Aspirine for Peace, 2012, 2:57
Ben Fox (Great Britain) – Wounds, 2012, 2:38
Anders Weberg (Sweden) – Peaceful Atom – Prypiat, 2011, 2:18
Albert Merino (Spain) – Les Bagneurs, 2010, 3:50
Cincia Sarto (Italy) – Dirty Vacation, 2005, 7:00
Ping-Yao Chen (Taiwan) – Go West, 2012, 19:40

Russian TV report on

Moscow (Russia) – Moscow International Film Festival -VII MediaForum – 23 June – 02 July 2006

Moscow (Russia) Linoleum Animation & Media Art Festival Solyanksa State Art Gallery – 10 July – 09 September 2012

CologneOFF 2012 Russia II
7th Linoleum Animation & Media Art Festival Moscow
@ Solyanka State Art Gallery
10 July – 09 September 2012

Solyanka is right there, where in Moscow vessels running up the blood, in the midst of urban life, 5 minutes from the Kremlin, right on the Ivanovo hill, and standing around, as if not rocked the twentieth century-the destroyer, miraculously survived 1917 churches – almost everything – almost as then. Here, as in few places in Moscow – survived the medieval maze of crooked streets, twisted into complex knots, making the lanes running down the hill. The word “Soup” comes from the times of Ivan the terrible, from his Salt yard.

The house where dwells our Museum, was built in the early XX century architects Sergeev, Sherwood and Herman. They managed to do what was required developers: most closely used in the project intricate shape of the plot, building up building both up and down. The house is a monument of neo-classicism.

Even before the emergence of the art gallery space, where now the Museum lives, it was a place of power. Here, for example, by the incredible tricks managed to get the space as a workshop one of the first Russian artists-performer Herman Vinogradov – although in the present limits of Soup in those days dwelt local housing office.

In its original form State gallery on Solyanka appeared in 1988. In those early years the space was famous as a Playground, showed a lot of naive art and the most prominent Russian primitivist painters of his time. In 2002, the Hodgepodge came a new Director, film historian Boris Pavlov, before heading section of the documentary and animated film in the State Central Museum of cinema, and then worked as chief curator and Deputy Olga Sviblova in the Moscow house of photography.

presenting
The best of
animateCOLOGNE – Cologne Art & Animation Festival
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

featuring
Dario Bardic (Croatia) – Etude, 3:17, 2007
Matthias Härenstam (Sweden) – Closed Circuit, 2011, 3:01
Albert Merino (Spain) – The City and The Other, 2010, 3:09
Mihai Grecu (Romania) – Coagulate, 5:56, 2008
Nick Fox-Gieg (USA) – Disarmed , 2002, 2:42
Sarah Mock (Germany) – Is there a Way Out, 2011, 3:47
Gabriel Shalom (USA) – Small Room Tango, 2004, 3:40
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Just Midnight, 2010, 3:43
Henry Gwiazda (USA) – thankfully,….finally, 2009, 3:10
Rafael Alcala (Puerto Rico) – Smoked, 3:20, 2006
Robbie Rackleff (USA) – Dark Fortress Occult Master of Space: Level 3, 2010, 4:21
Kristian de la Riva (UK) – Cut, 2009, 3:00
Ezra Wube (Ethiopia) – Amora, 2009, 2:41
Barry Morse (USA) – Mouse’s Birthday, 3:37, 2010
Sheldon Brown (USA) – Scalable City, 5.03, 2009
Stine Gonsholt (Norway) – Balance, 2009, 3:02
Kaspars Groshevs (Latvia) – Title: Tomorrow, 2007, 1:00
Adele Raczkövi (Austria) – Looking for Love, 2010, 8:25
Heidi Kumao (USA) – Hole in the Floor, 2008, 7:00
Ulf Kristinansen (Norway) – The Hope of Enduring Long- 2010, 1:00
Ellen Wetmore (USA) – Portrait After Dora Maar, 2010, 2:00
Sergio Sotomayor (Spain) – Quantum, 2009, 3:13
Pablo Fernandez-Pujol (Spain) – 142-143 – 2010, 2:10
Doug Williams (USA) – Back & Forth, 2009, 2:42

CologneOFF 2012 Russia

CologneOFF 2012 Russia
@ Now & After Video Art Festival Moskow
24 May – 10 June 2012

presenting
The Best of Art & The City
special selection curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

Francesca Fini (Italy) – Oasis in the Desert, 2010, 5:00
Matthias Härenstam (Sweden) – Closed Circuit, 2011, 3:01
Renata Gaspar & Marcin Dudek (Poland) – Axis, 2010, 3:07 min.
Albert Merino (Spain) – Les Bagneurs, 2010, 3:50
Johanna Reich ( Germany) – A State of Crystal, 2010, 3’19
Yuriy Kruchak, Yulia Kostereva (Ukraine) – Framing West, 2009, 2:46
My Name is Scot (Canada) – Independance, 2011, 7:56
Liu Wei (China) – Hopeless Land, 2009, 7:28
Cinzia Sarto (Italy) – Dirty Vacation, 2005, 7:00
Oksana Chepelyk (Ukraine) – Urban Multimedia Utopia: 10:00, 2002
Ramon Suau Lleal (Spain) – Hoax, 2010, 4:23

CologneoFF 2013 Russia CologneoFF 2013 Russia
@ Now & After International Videoart Festival Moscow
@ Moscow Museum of Modern Art – 22 April – 5 May 2013

Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards
VideoChannel – curatorial platform for art & moving images

[self]~imaging – artists portraying themselves
selection curated by Agricola de Cologne

Shahar Marcus (Israel) – Homecoming Artist, 2007, 4:37
Marianne & Daniel O’Reilly (UK) – Capital, 2008,7:00
Isobel Blank (Italy) – Selfportrait, 2009, 2:53
Francesca Fini (Italy) – Cry Me, 2009, 3:00
Barry Morse (USA) – Mouse’s Birthday, 2010, 3:37
Maria Korporal (Italy) – A Midwinter’s Dream, 2010, 3:37
Virginie Foloppe (France) . – “J.F.’s Toolbox”, 2004, 5:50
Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Silent Cry, 2008, 3:05
Robby Rackleff (USA) – Mistakes: Restaurant, 2011, 05:12
Sally & Mo (Iceland) – Misty, 2009, 3:33
Johanna Reich (Germany) – Front, 2006, 254
Sonja Vuk (Croatia), – My Way, 2005, 1:00
Cynthia Whelan (UK) – Selfportrait, 3:27, 2005
Svetlana Wallwhore (Canada) – French Toast,2005, 5:00
Alexandre Rangel ( Brazil) – “Scalp”, 2010, 4:02
Lee Welch (Ireland) – Again & Again, 2003, 1:00
Doug Garth Williams (USA) – Back & Forth, 2009, 2:42

A Virtual Memorial Moscow 2014
http://cambodia.engad.org
the memorial for the victims of the Cambodian genocide 1975-1979
@ Museum of Guilag Moscow in the context of
Now & After International Videoart Festival Moscow 2-30 April 2014

Now&After’14 guest programs
Cambodia 1975-1979
Founded in 2012 by Agricola de Cologne the collection Cambodia 1975-1979 includes documentaries by young Cambodian filmmakers dealing with the Cambodian genocide 1975-1979 and the post-genocide era until this day.

Artists
DCM – Royal University of Cambodia – Looking Back, 2007, 50:00

Sopheak Sao (Cambodia) – The Survivor,12:00, 2011
Molyka Bin (Cambodia) – It burned Me, 2011, 13:18
Nico Mesterham (Cambodia) – Pepperfields, 2010, 23:05
Sopheak Sao (Cambodia) – Two Girls Against The Rain, 2012, 11:00

International Video Art Festival Now&After Moscow will be presented at the Museum of Moscow within project “Moscow Art Communities”. All artists and guest programs who participated in the festival during five years will be presented – including and featuring 4 years collaboration with CologneOFF.

CologneOFF 2015 Russia
@ Now & After Videoart Festival Moscow
@ Schusev State Museum of Architecture Moscow
21 April – 21 June 2014

Now&After’15 guests program.
Video Art Festival CologneOFF (Germany) – SPACE~OCCUPIED
Curated by Wilfried Agricola De Cologne
Artists: Alexander Callsen, Signe Chiper-Lillemark, Cynthia Whelan, Wilfried Agricola De Cologne, Sinem Serap Duran, Theme Bannenberg & NOK Snel, Todd Fuller, Susanne Wiegner, Yuval Yairi & Zohar Kawaharada, Sven-Erik Scheuerling, Sai Hua Kuan

Alexander Callsen (Germany) – Gap Camp, 2013, 6:04
Signe Chiper-Lillemark (Denmark) – Spaces, 2010, 6:31
Cynthia Whelan (UK) – The Everyday, 4:46, 2009
Sinem Serap Duran (Turkey) – Adequate, 2012, 9:11
Theme Bannenberg & NOK Snel (NL) – Behind Closed Doors, 2010, 7:38
Todd Fuller (Australia) – One and only, 2012, 3: 54
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Home, Sweet Home!, 2014, 2:59
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Message from Behind the Wall, 2006, 10:00
Yuval Yairi & Zohar Kawaharada (Israel) – Land, 2013, 4:36
Sven-Erik Scheuerling (Germany) – Box NN, 2013, 4:44
Sai Hua Kuan (Singapore) – Space Dawing No.5, 2009, 1:02

CologneOFF 2016 Russia
@ Now & After International Videoart Festival Moscow
29 October – 9 November 2016

Ecology of Being
Curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Miss Muffett aka Lisa Seidenberg (USA) – Flight, 2015, 3:51
Paolo Bandinu (Italy) – No Country, 2015, 2: 21
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Shatila-Lost Island, 2016, 20:00
Jean Gabriel Periot (France) – Nijuman no borei , 2008, 7.30
Maria Korporal (Netherlands) – Underwater Desert, 2015, 2:35
Nico Winz (France) – Fukushima Beach, 2014, 5:25
Mark Kadota (USA) – “Persistence of Emotion”, 2015, 9:55
Shahar Marcus (Israel) – Seeds, 2012, 5:03
Javier Velázquez Cabrero (Spain) – My city a bit cleaner of advertising every day, 2012, 6:00
Francois Knoetze (South Africa) – Cape Mongo : Plastic, 2015, 5:00
Marcantonio Lunardi (Italy) – Public Space, 2014, 03’:45’’
Baptist Coelho (India) – Beneath It all I Am Human, 2009, 9:41
Diego de los Campos Orefice (Uruguay) – Meatman, 2011, 5:12

Curatorial statement
While ecology can be defined as the scientific analysis and study of interactions among organisms and their environment, in terms of philosophical questions about the Being as such and the human existence in special, in the given case ecology has to be understood as an artistic study. The human being is the only creature which is able to design its environment creatively resulting truly incredible achievements of civilization. Our current world, however, is suffering from this ability which is a blessing and a curse alike destroying potentially not only the living environment, but also the own human species actively.
The curated selection including artists from different countries and continents is discussing the philosophical questions and physical aspects of this profound endangering.

artvideoKOELN & The New Museum of Networked Art
are happy to continue the collaboration

WOW Russia 2018
The W:OW Art Film & Video Festival
@ Now & After International Video Art Festival Moscow
7-16 February 2018

WOW.13 / Russia
WOW animateC – Curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

Henry Gwiazda (USA) – Knowledge, 2017, 3:05
Cody Healey-Conelly (USA) – Glitch Noir – Datasifter Prelude, 2015, 2:41
APOTROPIA (Italy) – The Kiss, 2016, 1:19
Christina Lykoka (Greece) – Death Of A Blackbird, 2017, 6:26
Maurizio Sanhueza (Peru) – Parasite, 2016, 6:23
Harold Charre (France) – Requiem, 2017, 9:18

Now&After’17 guests program.

Video Art Festival CologneOFF (Germany) – SPACE~OCCUPIED
Curated by Wilfried Agricola De Cologne
PDF catalogue
Artists: Alexander Callsen, Signe Chiper-Lillemark, Cynthia Whelan, Wilfried Agricola De Cologne, Sinem Serap Duran, Theme Bannenberg & NOK Snel, Todd Fuller, Susanne Wiegner, Yuval Yairi & Zohar Kawaharada, Sven-Erik Scheuerling, Sai Hua Kuan

Alexander Callsen (Germany) – Gap Camp, 2013, 6:04
Signe Chiper-Lillemark (Denmark) – Spaces, 2010, 6:31
Cynthia Whelan (UK) – The Everyday, 4:46, 2009
Sinem Serap Duran (Turkey) – Adequate, 2012, 9:11
Theme Bannenberg & NOK Snel (NL) – Behind Closed Doors, 2010, 7:38
Todd Fuller (Australia) – One and only, 2012, 3: 54
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Home, Sweet Home!, 2014, 2:59
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Message from Behind the Wall, 2006, 10:00
Yuval Yairi & Zohar Kawaharada (Israel) – Land, 2013, 4:36
Sven-Erik Scheuerling (Germany) – Box NN, 2013, 4:44
Sai Hua Kuan (Singapore) – Space Dawing No.5, 2009, 1:02

artvideoKOELN & The New Museum of Networked Art
are happy to announce the next WOW manifestation

WOW.22 / Russia
The W:OW Art Film & Video Festival
@ Now & After International Videoart Festival Moscow/Russia
Center of Creative Industries Fabrika 17 April – 12 May 2019

Aroused Collectivity
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

Albert Merino (Spain) – Bestiary, 2018, 5:10
Fu LE (France) – Mass, 2019, 10:00
Lenka Kurikova & Michal Hustaty (Slovakia) – Who Wants To Belong to My Country, 2014, 3:41
Kristina Cranfeld (UK) – Manufactured Britishness, 2013, 10:00
Francesca Lolli (Italy) – The Dying Lilium, 2016, 03:27

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