28. Videokunst Förderpreis Bremen: Gala Hernández López & Mengzhu Xue
Opening hours
Opening: 23.08.2024, 8:00 pm
Finissage: 22.09.2024, 3:00–6:00 pm
Opening hours:
wednesdays 4:00 pm–7:00 pm
thursdays 4:00 pm–9:00 pm
sundays 3:00 pm–6:00 pm and by appointment
Please call the mobile number at the entrance.
The Video Art Prize of the Filmbüro Bremen enables the realization of new video art projects every two years. In 2023/2024, the prize was awarded to Gala Hernández López and Mengzhu Xue.
Gala Hernández López, +10k
+10k is an in-depth portrait of Spain’s crypto-community, exploring the links between crypto culture, personal development and magical thinking. Following the life of Pol, a young man who is an ambassador of online trading educational platforms, the film explores his beliefs, aspirations and his search for redemption in an ultra-capitalist world. Mixing AI generated images, 16mm footage and Youtube videos, +10k reflects on how economic uncertainty and spiritual beliefs blend together in a context of precariousness, acceleration and instability.
Mengzhu Xue, A Letter amid the Gap
A secret spanning 7,000 kilometers.
One language being encoded into another language.
It's repeating continually in your mouth.
I assume that I have been forgiven.
In her video installation A Letter amid the Gap, Mengzhu Xue tells of her relationship with her Chinese grandmother and examines the connection between language and identity, distance and familiarity, intimacy and fear of loss. A letter in the form of a poem that keeps a secret and at the same time reveals everything.
PROGRAM
25.8.2024, 3:00 pm, Galerie Herold
Artist talk with Gala Hernández López
8.9.2024, 3:00 pm, TOR 35
VIDEO ART OPEN*
As part of their long-term cooperation for the Videokunst Förderpreis Bremen, the Filmbüro Bremen and the Künstlerinnenverband Bremen, GEDOK, are showing a moderated film program with short films and video works by GEDOK artists*. We can expect experimental, animated, playful and exchange. The artists* will be present.
8.9.2024, 4:30 pm, Galerie Herold
Guided tour of the exhibition with Mengzhu Xue
Galerie Herold, Beim Handelsmuseum 9, 28195, Bremen
A project of the Güterbahnhof Bremen – area for art and culture
Supported by the Senator for Culture, Bremen