Ming Wong

Ming Wong, Angst Essen, 2008, single channel, video, DV PAL, color, 27:00 min Born in Singapore in 1971 lives and works in Berlin Angst Essen is an adaptation of Rainer Fassbinder’s 1973 classic Angst essen Seele auf. Fassbinder’s film tells a love story between 60 year-old widow Emmi Kurowski and Ali, a Moroccan Gastarbeiter (migrant worker) 20 years her junior. The plot unfolds in the supposedly liberal Munich of the seventies and exposes the hidden racism in German

Hajnal Németh

Hajnal Németh, False Testimony (a version of the version), 2012, single-channel video, Full HD, color, 17:48 min False Testimony (a Version of the Version) is a recorded opera performance based on an actual historical event that took place in 1882 and 1883 in the Hungarian village of Tiszaeszlár. This blood libel and show trial, known today as the Tiszaeszlár Affair, attracted massive media attention with significant impact on the subsequent development of anti-Semitism in Hungary.

John Bock

John Bock, In the Shadow of the Maggot, 2010, single-channel video, DV PAL, black & white, 74:16 min Born in Germany in 1965, lives and works in Berlin This cinematic reanimation fuses several adaptions from filmic milestones such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1925), Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie des Grauens (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1922) and early Frankenstein films. Im Schatten der Made (In the Shadow of the Maggot) tells the story of an artificial creature,

Andy Graydon

Andy Graydon, Faltungen (Im Westen nichts Neues), 2011, two-channel sound installation, variable dimensions, 29:00 min Born in the United States in 1971, lives and works in Berlin since 2008

Amir Fattal

Amir Fattal, From the End to the Beginning, 2014, single-channel video, HD, 14:22 min Born in Israel in 1978, lives and works in Berlin since 2001 Fattal’s video work From the End to the Beginning is based on a live performance of Richard Wagner’s Vorspiel und Liebestod sequence played in reverse order. By copying the last note as the first and proceeding in this order, a new “mirrored” musical piece was formed as an arrangement for nine instruments

Amie Siegel

Amie Siegel, Berlin Remake, 2005, two-channel video installation, 14:00 min Born in 1974 in Chicago, lives and works in New York City and Cambridge, MA. Previously lived and worked in Berlin for five years.

Letter from Mr. Faustus – Seven Adaptations from Berlin

In his book Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann writes about the concept of a time triangle. Through the character of Dr. Serenus Zeitblom, Mann describes an event that took place in 1912, just before the First World War, but he does so in 1944, already aware of the coming end of the second. Mann is conscious of the fact that by the time his book is done, the readers will experience the story in yet a third point in time, sometime in the future. Each of these points – the original story, its novelization,

Shy Abady

Troubled Nostalgia. Born in Israel in 1965, stayed and worked in Berlin in 2007-2008. In the summer of 2007, I arrived in Berlin for an 28-month residency, and shortly thereafter began creating the series My Other Germany. The series was inspired by the troubling imprints that WW2 left upon the city’s landscape. These include the ruins left by Germans as a mark of eternal condemnation, along with the “stumbling blocks” (Stolpersteine) created by the

Maya Zack

Maya Zack, Sprach, sprach. War, war – Spoke, spoke. Was, was, 2014, installation, etching, treated found furniture, cardboard boxes, paper. Born in Israel in 1976, lives and works in Tel Aviv, stayed in Berlin as part of a student exchange program in 1999-2000.

Ariel Schlesinger

Ariel Schlesinger, Untitled (Burnt Turkmenistan Carpet VIII), 2014 Born in Israel in 1980. lives and works in Berlin since 2006 Untitled (Burnt Turkmenistan Carpet VIII) is a large carpet with burned-out sections which seem to follow a distinct pattern: they become gradually smaller. This work is the latest in the series Burnt Turkmenistan Carpets, started in 2008. The carpet series was inspired by an incident that occurred in World War II in an iconic Berlin establishment –