VIDEONALE.20 

11.4. – 18.5.2025

Opening: April 10, 7 pm

We are celebrating the 20th edition of Videonale as an eventful festival of encounters with video art and its makers: 26 international historical and contemporary works of video art can be seen in an elaborate exhibition presentation at the Kunstmuseum Bonn and at six exhibition stations in the city of Bonn. 

With works by Mark Bain, Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Viktor Brim, Chto Delat, VALIE EXPORT, Ken Feingold, Beatrice Gibson & Nick Gordon, Gorilla Tapes, Philipp Gufler, Akiko Hada, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Ida Kammerloch, Stéphanie Lagarde, Alwin Lay, Lukas Marxt, Angelica Mesiti, Ana María Millán, Marcel Odenbach, Stefan Panhans & Andrea Winkler, Dani & Sheilah ReStack, Julia Scher, Maryam Tafakory, Ana Torfs, Jan Verbeek, Yan Wai Yin, Anna Zett. 

PROGRAM OPENING DAY 1

Friday, April 11, 2025

ON RESILIENCE
11.30am–1.00pm

Artist talk at Auditorium Kunstmuseum Bonn

Since the emergence of video art in the 1960s, artists have been using the medium of video to confront the oppression of people and their diversity in subversive, resistant and resilient ways. Many works of the VIDEONALE.20 address the social, political and ecological conditions to which human and non-human subjects are involuntarily exposed and how different subjects can withstand those conditions. The medium of video becomes an instrument of exposure, preservation, and world building and thus itself an expression of resilience. In three discussion rounds, VIDEONALE.20 artists will talk about the phenomenon of resilience in their work.

Philipp Gufler / Kat Lawinia Gorska

A jet of water is aimed at the heart region of a naked body that stands firm: In THE BEGINNING OF IDENTIFICATION, AND ITS END, Philipp Gufler uses historical footage and staged moving images to explore the successful emancipation history of gender diversity and the visibility of queer bodies, which he contrasts with contemporary homonationalism and its appropriation of LGBTIQ emancipation demands for the sake of anti-Muslim racism and exclusion.

Kunstmuseum Bonn
Museumsmeile
Helmut-Kohl-Allee 2
53113 Bonn

Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Wednesday 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Closed on Monday