Videonale in Lagos
For the first time, Videonale Bonn, one of Europe’s longest standing video art festivals, will partner with the Video Art Network (VAN), Lagos, a video platform operating on a national and international level. Both initiatives are teaming up to stage the joint project “VIDEONALE IN LAGOS, Changing City―Shifting Spaces”.
In today’s global digital world, the moving images transform into a language that mirrors the city’s daily life in its ever-changing variety. “Changing City―Shifting Spaces“ explores these dynamics of urban change.
VIDEONALE IN LAGOS includes an initial workshop in Indonesia (2015) with the participation of Nigerian video artists, followed by a second workshop for young Nigerian artists under the direction of Theo Eshetu and Jude Anogwih held at Goethe-Institut Nigeria, Lagos (13 to 23 January 2016), and an exhibition in the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Lagos, and the Kongi Gallery, Freedom Park, Lagos (31 January to 28 February 2016). The exhibition was curated by Jude Anogwih (VAN Lagos) together with Tasja Langenbach and Jennifer Gassmann (Videonale Bonn) and presented works by international artists from previous Videonale festivals and video art by Nigerian artists: Aderemi Adegbite, Jude Anogwih, Victor Ehikhamenor, Theo Eshetu, Christoph Faulhaber, Heidrun Holzfeind, Uche Okpa-Iroha, Zhenchen Liu, Melanie Manchot, Emeka Ogboh, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Ima-Abasi Okon, Nicolas Provost, The Otolith Group, Adejoke Tugbiyele, Emeka Udemba, Zsolt Vásárhelyi, Jan Verbeek, Tobias Yves Zintel.
Project trailer of Videonale in Lagos
Artist talk with Theo Eshetu (Artist, Berlin) and Emeka Ogboh (Artist, Lagos) in conversation with Nicola Müllerschön
Closing Event
29 September 2016, 7 pm
Videonale in Lagos, Changing Cities, Moving Videos―the festival Videonale and its locations in Bonn, Lagos, Yogyakarta and Cologne, video screening and talk at PLURIVERSALE V, Academy of the Arts of the World, Cologne.
The evening will provide insights into the VIDEONALE IN LAGOS project as a temporary platform for the debate on contested public spaces. It will conclude with the presentation of the publication Videonale in Lagos―Changing City, Shifting Spaces (StrzeleckiBooks, 2016).
The curators Jude Anogwih (Video Art Network, Lagos) and Tasja Langenbach (Videonale Bonn), Ima-Abasi Okon (artist, London) and Theo Eshetu (artist and head of the video art workshop in Lagos, Berlin/Rome) will be present. The evening is chaired by Marie-Hélène Gutberlet (KfW Stiftung).
The screening includes videos by Aderemi Adegbite, Jude Anogwih, Victor Ehikhamenor, Christoph Faulhaber, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Ima-Abasi Okon, Uche Okpa-Iroha and Melanie Manchot.
VIDEONALE IN LAGOS is a collaboration between KfW Stiftung, Videonale Bonn e.V., Goethe-Institut Nigeria, Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Lagos, and Video Art Network (VAN), Lagos.
The closing event is held in collaboration with Academy of the Arts of the World, Cologne.
2016
Changing City―Shifting Movies, introduction, screening, and book launch, PLURIVERSALE V, Academy of the Arts of the World, Cologne (29 September 2016)
JOGJA―LAGOS, presentation and screening of the video art workshop from the Biennale Jogja XIII “Hacking Conflict: Indonesia meets Nigeria”, Yogyakarta, October 2015, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (28 February 2016)
Theo Eshetu, artist (Berlin/Rome), lecture at the Department of Creative Arts, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos (23 January 2016)
Video art workshop in Lagos, Goethe-Institut Nigeria (13 to 23 January 2016)
Videonale in Lagos, Changing City―Shifting Spaces, exhibition, CCA Lagos / Kongi Gallery, Freedom Park, Lagos (31 January to 28 February 2016)
2015
Video art workshop in Ruang MES 56, Yogyakarta (16 to 20 October 2015) and participation at the off-programme, Biennale JOGJA XIII, “Hacking Conflicts: Indonesia Meets Nigeria“
Partner
JOGJA – LAGOS: Changing Cities – Shifting Spaces
In today’s globalised world, digital technologies and moving images can be used as the language to stimulate debate about urban life and public space. The project ‘JOGJA – LAGOS: Changing Cities – Shifting Spaces’ wishes to explore such dynamics in a video art workshop. It is part of Biennale Jogja XIII ‘Hacking Conflict: Indonesia Meets Nigeria’, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The participating artists from Indonesia and Nigeria do research within the municipality of Yogyakarta, develop new works and present the results at Biennale Jogja XIII. The workshop takes place at the local art space MES 56 in October 2015. It is led by the artist/curator Jude Anogwih, Video Art Network (VAN) Lagos.
Participants: Aderemi Adegbite, Anggun Priambodo, Edwin Roseno, Emeka Udemba, Jude Anogwih, Rifqi Mansur Maya, Terra Bajragosha, Victor Ehikhamenor, Wimo Ambala Bayang, Yusuf Ismail
JOGJA – LAGOS is the pre-event of the project ‘Videonale in Lagos’ which will take place in Lagos in January/February 2016. Jude Anogwih, together with the internationally acclaimed British-Ethiopian artist Theo Eshetu, will head a workshop in Lagos for emerging video artists from Nigeria, again with the topic ‘Changing Cities – Shifting Spaces’. The subsequent exhibition, curated by Jude Anogwih and Tasja Langenbach & Jennifer Gassmann, will show works by Videonale Bonn and by the participants both of the Jogja and the Lagos workshops.
The jury has selected 38 outstanding positions from the more than 1,200 submissions from 76 countries for VIDEONALE.15. A comprehensive festival programme offers an extensive insight into current artistic practice, but also into current discussions of video art and developments on the art market. Numerous events and exhibition projects will enliven both the Kunstmuseum and the City of Bonn during the festival.
Like the exhibition itself, the VIDEONALE.15 festival programme will deal with the competition theme ‘The Call of the Wild’, and will take a closer look at the ‘Wild’ as the description and examination of new and still undefined fields of activity-, image- or conceptual space. The focus will be thereby on the new dimensions which come about as the result of an all-embracing digitalisation.
Winner of Videonale Award of KfW Stiftung 2015:
Shelly Nadashi
Winner of Videonale Audience Award of KfW Stiftung 2015:
Florian Pugnaire and David Raffini
26 February 2015
Kunstmuseum Bonn
- 8pm
Exhibition opening and award ceremony of the Videonale Award of KfW Stiftung
Auditorium
Free admission
19 April 2015
Kunstmuseum Bonn
- 2 – 3pm
Screening: VIDEONALE IN LAGOS: Changing City – Shifting Spaces
The video screening offers a preview of the planned exhibition project VIDEONALE IN LAGOS. This initiative by KfW Stiftung wishes to strengthen media art in Nigeria by supporting local up-and-coming talents in establishing international contacts. With the topic ‘Changing City – Shifting Spaces’ the project explores the dynamics of urban spaces of everyday life.
In cooperation with KfW Stiftung, Goethe-Institut Nigeria, Video Art Network (VAN), Lagos, Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Lagos - 3 – 4pm
Talk: VIDEONALE IN LAGOS: Media Art in West Africa
Theo Eshetu (artist, Rome/Berlin) and Emeka Ogboh (artist, Lagos) in conversation with Dr. Nicola Müllerschön (Programme Manager Arts & Culture, KfW Stiftung, Frankfurt)
In cooperation with KfW Stiftung - 4pm
Announcement of Videonale Audience Award of KfW Stiftung
For VIDEONALE.14, the jury selected 41 outstanding works from among 2,100 entries and more than 70 countries.
Artists at VIDEONALE.14:
Sergio Belinchon, Helen Benigson, Bigert & Bergström, Mariola Brillowska, Jasper van den Brink & Yasmijn Karhof, Elkin Calderón, Monica Cook, Eli Cortiñas, Tanja Deman, Bettina Disler, Charles Fairbanks, Toby Huddlestone, Yuk-Yiu IP, Christian Jankowski, Mikhail Karikis & Uriel Orlow, Laleh Khorramian, Vika Kirchenbauer, Aglaia Konrad, Michal Kosakowski, Daniel Kötter, Clemens Krauss & Benjamin Heisenberg, Robert-Jan Lacombe, Daniel Laufer, Chang-Jin Lee, Mauricio Limón, Melanie Manchot, Dani Marti, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Meena Nanji & Tommy Gear, Florin Tudor & Mona Vatamanu, Evamaria Schaller, Frances Scholz, Lina Selander, Martin Skauen, Gabriele Stellbaum, Hito Steyerl, Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead, Arthur Tuoto, Bridget Walker, Gernot Wieland, Tobias Yves Zintel
Winner of Videonale Award of KfW Stiftung 2013: Christian Jankowski for Casting Jesus
Winner of Videonale Audience Award of KfW Stiftung 2013: Agnes Meyer-Brandis for The Moon Goose Colony
Partner
JOGJA – LAGOS: Changing Cities – Shifting Spaces
In today’s globalised world, digital technologies and moving images can be used as the language to stimulate debate about urban life and public space. The project ‘JOGJA – LAGOS: Changing Cities – Shifting Spaces’ wishes to explore such dynamics in a video art workshop. It is part of Biennale Jogja XIII ‘Hacking Conflict: Indonesia Meets Nigeria’, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The participating artists from Indonesia and Nigeria do research within the municipality of Yogyakarta, develop new works and present the results at Biennale Jogja XIII. The workshop takes place at the local art space MES 56 in October 2015. It is led by the artist/curator Jude Anogwih, Video Art Network (VAN) Lagos.
Participants: Aderemi Adegbite, Anggun Priambodo, Edwin Roseno, Emeka Udemba, Jude Anogwih, Rifqi Mansur Maya, Terra Bajragosha, Victor Ehikhamenor, Wimo Ambala Bayang, Yusuf Ismail
JOGJA – LAGOS is the pre-event of the project ‘Videonale in Lagos’ which will take place in Lagos in January/February 2016. Jude Anogwih, together with the internationally acclaimed British-Ethiopian artist Theo Eshetu, will head a workshop in Lagos for emerging video artists from Nigeria, again with the topic ‘Changing Cities – Shifting Spaces’. The subsequent exhibition, curated by Jude Anogwih and Tasja Langenbach & Jennifer Gassmann, will show works by Videonale Bonn and by the participants both of the Jogja and the Lagos workshops.
The jury has selected 38 outstanding positions from the more than 1,200 submissions from 76 countries for VIDEONALE.15. A comprehensive festival programme offers an extensive insight into current artistic practice, but also into current discussions of video art and developments on the art market. Numerous events and exhibition projects will enliven both the Kunstmuseum and the City of Bonn during the festival.
Like the exhibition itself, the VIDEONALE.15 festival programme will deal with the competition theme ‘The Call of the Wild’, and will take a closer look at the ‘Wild’ as the description and examination of new and still undefined fields of activity-, image- or conceptual space. The focus will be thereby on the new dimensions which come about as the result of an all-embracing digitalisation.
Winner of Videonale Award of KfW Stiftung 2015:
Shelly Nadashi
Winner of Videonale Audience Award of KfW Stiftung 2015:
Florian Pugnaire and David Raffini
26 February 2015
Kunstmuseum Bonn
- 8pm
Exhibition opening and award ceremony of the Videonale Award of KfW Stiftung
Auditorium
Free admission
19 April 2015
Kunstmuseum Bonn
- 2 – 3pm
Screening: VIDEONALE IN LAGOS: Changing City – Shifting Spaces
The video screening offers a preview of the planned exhibition project VIDEONALE IN LAGOS. This initiative by KfW Stiftung wishes to strengthen media art in Nigeria by supporting local up-and-coming talents in establishing international contacts. With the topic ‘Changing City – Shifting Spaces’ the project explores the dynamics of urban spaces of everyday life.
In cooperation with KfW Stiftung, Goethe-Institut Nigeria, Video Art Network (VAN), Lagos, Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Lagos - 3 – 4pm
Talk: VIDEONALE IN LAGOS: Media Art in West Africa
Theo Eshetu (artist, Rome/Berlin) and Emeka Ogboh (artist, Lagos) in conversation with Dr. Nicola Müllerschön (Programme Manager Arts & Culture, KfW Stiftung, Frankfurt)
In cooperation with KfW Stiftung - 4pm
Announcement of Videonale Audience Award of KfW Stiftung
For VIDEONALE.14, the jury selected 41 outstanding works from among 2,100 entries and more than 70 countries.
Artists at VIDEONALE.14:
Sergio Belinchon, Helen Benigson, Bigert & Bergström, Mariola Brillowska, Jasper van den Brink & Yasmijn Karhof, Elkin Calderón, Monica Cook, Eli Cortiñas, Tanja Deman, Bettina Disler, Charles Fairbanks, Toby Huddlestone, Yuk-Yiu IP, Christian Jankowski, Mikhail Karikis & Uriel Orlow, Laleh Khorramian, Vika Kirchenbauer, Aglaia Konrad, Michal Kosakowski, Daniel Kötter, Clemens Krauss & Benjamin Heisenberg, Robert-Jan Lacombe, Daniel Laufer, Chang-Jin Lee, Mauricio Limón, Melanie Manchot, Dani Marti, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Meena Nanji & Tommy Gear, Florin Tudor & Mona Vatamanu, Evamaria Schaller, Frances Scholz, Lina Selander, Martin Skauen, Gabriele Stellbaum, Hito Steyerl, Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead, Arthur Tuoto, Bridget Walker, Gernot Wieland, Tobias Yves Zintel
Winner of Videonale Award of KfW Stiftung 2013: Christian Jankowski for Casting Jesus
Winner of Videonale Audience Award of KfW Stiftung 2013: Agnes Meyer-Brandis for The Moon Goose Colony
Programme Management
Daniela Leykam
Photo credits:
01. Image: Source: Videonale in Lagos, Author / Photographer: Wura-Natasha Ogunji
02. Image: Source: Videonale in Lagos, Author / Photographer: Jude Anogwih
03. Image: Source: Videonale in Lagos, Author / Photographer: Ima-Abasi Okon
04. Image: Source: Videonale in Lagos, Author / Photographer: Emeka Ogboh
05. Image: Source: Videonale in Lagos, Author / Photographer: Marie-Hélène Gutberlet
06. Image: Source: Goethe-Institut Nigeria, Author / Photographer: Jeremiah Ikongio
07. Image: Source: Videonale e.V., Author / Photographer: Uditha Bhargava