Sunrise (2009), an 18 minute video installation, thrusts viewers into near-total darkness, requiring their eyes to acclimatise to the film which depicts a nocturnal scene inside a villa. A maid is…
Emma van der Put ('s-Hertogenbosch, 1988) graduated from the AKV St. Joost in 2010 with Scenes uit een avond (Scenes from an Evening) as her final-exam project. At that point she was already working…
Since 2011 the Brazilian-German duo Bárbara Wagner (1980, Brasília) and Benjamin de Burca (1975, Munich) have been producing film and video installations in close collaboration with the musicians and…
Erik van Lieshout (Deurne, 1968) generally produces provocative videos and drawings in which he investigates art, socio-political topics and himself in a forthright manner. René Daniëls (Eindhoven,…
The One Minutes is an international platform for very short video works. Since 1999 more than 10,000 one-minute films have been produced by makers from 120 countries. The contributions mainly come…
The film Gravesend uses a documentary approach to focus on the mining of coltan, employed in the manufacture of cell phones, laptops and other high-tech apparatus. The film cuts between two sites: a…
The Russian Ending , by the British artist Tacita Dean, is a series of twenty photogravure etchings. Depicted in each print is a disaster or a dramatic moment: from shipwrecks and battlefields to…
Long Sorrow , says Sala, is the result of a ‘rather particularly set-up situation, rather than a narrative structure. It’s more a succession of tinted situations, colored by moments of tension,…
Since 2011 the Brazilian-German duo Bárbara Wagner (1980, Brasília) and Benjamin de Burca (1975, Munich) have been producing film and video installations in close collaboration with the musicians and…
The artist Steve McQueen (London, 1969), who lives in the Netherlands, will be representing Great Britain at this summer's 53rd Venice Biennial . At the last edition of this event held two years ago,…