Nina E. Schönefeld

H A Z E C I T Y @Heidelberger kunstverein

With Facing New Challenges, the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg and the Heidelberger Kunstverein have created a new format for film: Experimental moving images and film installations from the visual arts are on display in an exhibition at the Heidelberger Kunstverein for several weeks beyond the duration of the festival.

Since the introduction of film, artists have consistently been pushing the medium coming up with their own creations. Formats like ›Facing New Challenges‹ allow to experience films that are rarely screened in cinemas in the context of an exhibition. This year’s show is dedicated to a pressing issue: the city as habitat and space of coexistence. Cities are the seismographs of social life. In times of crisis, they turn into settings for social upheaval. 

H A Z E C I T Y, HD video, 32:57, color, with sound

Written, Edited & Directed NINA E. SCHÖNEFELD
Director of Photography VALENTIN GIEBEL
Sound & Music CARLOS PABLO VILLAMIZAR / Special thanks to DJ HELL
Starring DARIA PRYDYBAILO / ANUSCHKA SABOTTKA / PIA WERNER / NATASCHA SABOTTKA / MIA EBBIGHAUSEN / GABRIEL D. DOUCET DONIDA / ESTHER HARRISON / KESCHIA ZIMBINGA / ANA DOSSANTOS / ÄNNI LEE JONES / CHANTAL HOUNTONDJI / NINA PHILIPP / LILY CLERMONT / LUKA BERTHOLD / MILO BARSAN / LENNARD KAISER / FALKO NICKEL / STEVE MORELL / MAGDA WOLLEH / LUCIE SCHÖNEFELD / MARTHA WILKING / ARON SCHARABI / DAVID BECKER / EMIL VON GWINNER

The video work H A Z E C I T Y refers to the current discussion of climate change and what might happen in the coming years. The film raises the question: To what extent is it legitimate to use violence to force a necessary shift to prevent irreversible climate change? The philosopher Slovoj Zizek predicts that due to the shortness of time left, a radicalization of environmental activism is going to happen. Other references in the video include theories of Swedish environmental scientist Andreas Malm and environmental activist Greta Thunberg, both of whom point to the urgency of changing society by 2030. H A Z E C I T Y deals with the act of resistance in general and with the unbroken fighting spirit of political activists all over the world. The film points to historical sources for example to the German 68 movement and the American Weather Underground movement.

The story of the video H A Z E C I T Y is set in the year 2027. A toxic fog often appears due to extreme pollution in cities. Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion are still fighting climate change. Progress has been made by corporations and politics, electric cars are mandatory, but they are basically small diversions to avoid having to make fundamental changes. Activists are increasingly frustrated that everything will stay the same.

OH MY DATA @DISKURS GALLERY

oh my data - A Meta & Physic Show 

24.03. - 06.05.2022

Featuring: AES+F, Marina Belikova,  Lila Chitayat,  Thomas Eller, Amir Fattal, Sharon Paz, Mooni Perry, Nina E. Schönefeld, Eszter Szabo, David Szauder,  Viktória Traub,  Peter Welz,  Hana Yoo 

Curated by Jung Me Chai, David Szauder

oh my god, or oh my data?

Today apps, QR codes, GPS navigators, and neurotically checking social media for affirmation are part of our everyday lives. Soaring quantities of data and consequently data-driven decisions have already changed our world profoundly. Therefore, might we replace oh my god for oh my data?

Over the last year, NFTs exploded, and digital art experienced a boom. Everything from videos, paintings, drawings, music and even your DNA can be digitized. Art can now exist as data, and there are enormous opportunities. However, this technology is still in its nascent and chaotic stage. There is an enormous abundance of artworks in the ether and evaluating the quality of these artworks hardly exists on online platforms.

With the project OH MY DATA, we try to introduce a different level of digital and crypto art: it is not just pixel congestions but also a metaphysical category in real and digital worlds. This project reveals the being of digital art, which is related to philosophy, technology and feminism in our time. The entire front space of DISKURS Berlin was turned into a digital sphere where people can physically experience the digital works.

21st Seoul International Cinema & Media Festival (NeMaf KOREA)

ART from ELSEWHERE – Seoul Selection: Video Art from the MOMENTUM Collection, Berlin

19 – 27 August 2021

Featuring: AES+F // Theo Eshetu // Amir Fattal // David Krippendorff // Almagul Menlibayeva // Nina E. Schönefeld // David Szauder

Curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch & Emilio Rapanà / Co-Presented by MOMENTUM & IKONO TV

For the 21st Seoul International Alt Cinema and Media Festival, the streaming art film platform IkonoTV was invited to present a selection of German video art. In turn, IkonoTV invited MOMENTUM, the Global Platform for Time-Based Art, to curate a selection of works from its Collection by Berlin-based artists. The result is a program of seven exceptional artworks by artists as diverse as Berlin itself. Presenting artists from Ethiopia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Kazakhstan, Russia, and the US – they are all Berliners. At the geographical center of Europe, Berlin is a city of mobile people and moving images, where art and artists alike are often from elsewhere. In this post-pandemic era of travel restrictions Art from Elsewhere – Seoul Selection is a video program about otherness – a way of seeing the world without travelling. Moving images move us, and artworks serve as windows onto the world. As we now emerge carefully after months of isolation, and learn how to negotiate the new realities of a post-pandemic world, it becomes more important than ever to have such windows through which to gaze. In these uncertain times, they remind us that, for all our differences, we are all in this together. The works shown in this program focus on global issues, equally relevant to us all. They reflect on the social and environmental repercussions of globalization and its impact on the transformation of cultural identities; they interrogate issues of gender, inequality, and poverty; they scrutinize the environmental traumas we inflict on our planet and its creatures; and they ponder the (un)quiet poetry, conflicts, and beauty of how we must live from day to day.

CIRCLE 2021 @ CICA Museum Korea

September 1- 19, 2021

Featured Artists 참여작가:

Pierre Ajavon, Steven L. Anderson, Anabel Antinori, Anatoliy Anshin, Diego Argote, Daniel Aros-Aguilar, Bae hyeon woo (배현우), Panagiota Bakouti, Diana Baumbach, Seth Steven Bechtold, Kate Buryakova,William Bybee,Brian Christensen, Emma Dickson, Kimberly English, Federico Fauli, Raymond Gaddy, Paolo Gatti, Giovanni Costantini, Francesco Casanova, and Luca Sanzò, Addison Ginsberg, Anne-Marie Giroux, Victor López González, Tonya Hart, HEYDT, Hojin Hwang (황호진), Silvia Inselvini, JANG, JUN HO (장준호),  Jae Youl Jeoung (정재열), Hasun Karen Kang (강하선), Hyunchul Kim (김현철), JunhaKim (김준하), Kim Miryu (김미류), Reo Jin Kim (김려진), Kim Yeryoung (김예령), Kesha Lagniappe, Ahree Lee (이아리), LEE HA JIN (이하진), Philip Liu (류필립), Jordan Merlino, Younes Mohammad, Earl Park (박얼), 박진영, Stephen Parks, Lorena Ruiz Pellicero, Marta Pérez-Elosua, Katarzyna Podgórska-Glonti, Tina Šulc Resnik, Ness Rubey, Anatoly Rudakov, Nina E. Schönefeld, Maya Smira, Elisabeth Smolarz, Mattia Sugamiele, Germone Sun (선점원), Helena Wadsley, Jake Weigel, Blake Jamison Williams, Lauren Woods, YANG YEEUN (양예은)

The video work P. A. R. A. D. I. S. E. deals with the difference between the experience of virtual reality in artificial
space and the experience of physically tangible reality in nature. Even though reality often seems surreal today
and virtual reality is becoming more and more real, there is still a difference. It is a question of truth. The story
of the video revolves around the fate of movie heroine Tiger and her colleague Condor. They are both
investigative journalists who try to find out how popular tech companies manipulate human psychology. P. A.
R. A. D. I. S. E. is a new VR program to experience ultimate feelings. People test their limits. The program is
not entirely uncontroversial. It causes insomnia and sometimes sudden death. Will Tiger and Condor find a
way out of their own lizard brain instinct?

P. A. R. A. D. I. S. E., 2021, HD video, 27:23, color, with sound

Written, Edited & Directed NINA E. SCHÖNEFELD
Director of Photography VALENTIN GIEBEL
Sound & Music CARLOS PABLO VILLAMIZAR / Special thanks to DJ HELL
Starring ANA DOSSANTOS / ÄNNI LEE JONES / THINLEY WINGEN / SOPHIA ARNDT / KESCHIA ZIMBINGA / KATJA TURELLA / CHANTAL HOUNTONDJI / TALIA BAKKAL / ACELYA BELLICAN / KARLA SOPHIA MENZEL / JESSICA DAXENBERGER/ FALKO NICKEL

CORona culture @Alte münze berlin

13.10. - 13.11.2021 @Alte Münze Berlin

After 1.5 years of working on CORONA CULTURE we are thrilled to finally invite you to the exhibition - in real life!

It includes works by over 100 artists, cultural creators and activists from around the world, brought together as an assemblage that uniquely fuses video, photography, 3D design, sound-based work, performance, sculpture, and site-specific installations – spread across 4000m² of the historic Alte Münze, situated in the heart of Berlin.

CORONA CULTURE explores how the current pandemic affects our values, relationships, yearnings, fears and future plans. The project presents a mosaic of perspectives on uncertainty and investigates the threats and possibilities we encounter in this time of radical transformation.

Nina E. Schönefeld shows two works: F.E.A.R.L.E.S.S. (installation) & N.O.R.O.C.2.3. (video).

The video artist created a video work based on a large pool of research material that places us in the year 2023. With the title N. O. R. O. C. 2. 3., life under a worldwide pandemic is displayed through dismal images. It is about feeling constant, panic-inducing insecurity from an invisible threat. Historical quotations, passages from novels, series and films, political speeches, and media reports from different periods of our history are put together in a kind of collage to form an atmospheric image. This narrative is accompanied by intense scenes, all of which take place at night. In the center: four protagonists roaming through empty cities, whose silence conveys a deceptive feeling. Searching for a way out, they do not know what the next day will bring. Schönefeld's optimistic balance at the end of the video: from stasis and standstill, something new will arise.

Gods & monsters @Kunstverein familie montez frankfurt a.m.

Gods and Monsters - Blick auf die jüngste Vergangenheit

02.09. - 03.10.2021 // Kurator: Federico Brauer

Künstler: Taka Kagitomi, Peter Böhnisch, Maxim Brandt, Siegfried Felder, Alex Flemming, Jay Gard, Lukas Glinkowski, Marianna Ignataki, Anna Nezhnaya, Alexander Skorobogatov, Alexander Wagner, Teresa Fischer, Vikenti Komitski, Ileana Pascalau, Nina E. Schönefeld

In der Gegenwart haben Götter und Monster eine andere Bedeutung als in der Antike, besonders die Geschehnisse in diesem Jahrzehnt prägen unsere globale Gesellschaft sehr. Die letzten Ereignisse erscheinen wie biblische Herausforderungen, die den Menschen sowohl physisch als auch psychisch sensibilisieren und zwingen, das Leben umzustrukturieren.

Beginnend mit einem ehemaligen amerikanischen Präsidenten, welcher von einigen vergöttert und von anderen verteufelt wurde, bis zu einem Virus, der sich schnell ausbreitet und die Menschen bedroht. Ein Monster, welches man nicht sehen kann und das doch gefürchtet wird, da es jeden Einzelnen treffen kann. Etwas, das mutiert und sich immer weiter ausbreitet.
Damit nicht genug, haben weitere Schlüsselerlebnisse, wie die Anti Rassismus Bewegung Black Lives Matter, Klima Aktivismus Friday for Future und die LGBTQ Bewegung während eines internationalen Lockdowns stattgefunden. Diese und weitere sind Teil des Umdenkens und der Auseinandersetzung mit den gesellschaftlichen Problemen.

In der Ausstellung Gods and Monsters befassen sich die Künstler kritisch mit der Thematik. Einige der gezeigten Werke wurden in großer Weitsicht schon vor dem Jahr 2019 vollendet und zeigen den wichtigen Zusammenhang von Kunst und Umwelt.
Der Betrachter wird eingeladen zu hinterfragen, mit welchen Gefühlen man rückblickend konfrontiert wurde. Es mag dramatisch ausgedrückt sein, aber durch die erfahrenen Traumen hat jeder außerhalb des religiösen Kontexts eine eigene Vorstellung von Göttern und Monstern.

EMBARK @129 Gallery (Western Comfort Boat)

C. O. N. T. A. M. I. N. A. T. I. O. N.
18th June - 25th July
ARTISTS: Chan Sook CHO // Abie FRANKLIN // Roland FUHRMANN // Susanne GERBER // Franziska HARNISH // Christian JANKOWSKI // Georg KLEIN // Franziskus NAKAJIMA // Arthur PATCHING // Elke REINHUBE // Heinz SCHMÖLLE // Nina E. SCHÖNEFEL // C. SERRITIELLO // Max SUDHUES // Sadie WEIS
Embark grew out of a desperate need for undulation in a time of artistic and social stagnation. At each stage of this pandemic we are reminded of the transient nature of our lives. This infamous respiratory disease has unearthed uncertainty and fear in its wake and yet it has offered many a much-needed pause for thought and opened a door for robust introspection, reflection and conversation. Fifteen international Berlin based artists exhibited works conceived for this unique occasion.

This is RESIST CLIMATE CHANGE. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us to never stop fighting. Since the late 1970's Greenpeace has been fighting against dumping of nuclear waste in the seas to prevent worldwide contamination. 2019 Extinction Rebellion and Fridays for Future were omnipresent. Since Covid everything has changed. 2030 is going to be a crucial year for the world.

C.O.N.T.A.M.I.N.A.T.I.O.N. is a new video work by the artist Nina E. Schönefeld installed in the transformed Cabin number 9. C.O.N.T.A.M.I.N.A.T.I.O.N. is a plea on the relevance to bring back environmental activism.

POINTS OF RESISTANCE @ZIONSKIRCHE

Duration: 5 – 25 April 2021
ARTISTS: AES+F // Chrissy Angliker // Inna Artemova // Lutz Becker //Tom Biber // Andreas Blank // Anina Brisolla // Claus Brunsmann // Claudia Chaseling // Chto Delat? // Brad Downey // Thomas Draschan // Kerstin Dzewior // Margret Eicher // Nezaket Ekici // Amir Fattal // Doug Fishbone // Daniel Grüttner // Chris Hammerlein // John Isaacs // Anne Jungjohann // Gülsün Karamustafa // Franziska Klotz // David Krippendorff // Via Lewandowsky // Jani Leinonen // MAP Office // Shahar Marcus // Milovan Destil Marković // Sara Masüger // Kate McMillan // Almagul Menlibayeva // Robert C. Morgan // Matthias Moseke // Jan Muche // Gulnur Mukazhanova // Kirsten Palz // Manfred Peckl // Otto Piene // Stefan Rinck // Jörg Schaller // Maik Schierloh // Nina E. Schönefeld // Kerstin Serz // Varvara Shavrova // Pola Sieverding // Barthélémy Toguo // Günther Uecker // Mariana Vassileva // Bill Viola // Marta Vovk // Michael Wutz // Jindrich Zeithamml // Ireen Zielonka
Curated by: Constanze Kleiner & Rachel Rits-Volloch
In cooperation with: David Elliott, Jan Kage, Stephan von Wiese

“Points of Resistance” is an exhibition project by artists and non-artists who all take great pleasure in thinking and delight in taking their own position. They also know that we should be concerned with what is important not only for the individual but also for our culture.

The Zionkirche church in Berlin has a distinguished history as a refuge and work space for people who think differently. In all its manifestations, including in its everyday work and loving approach, it has always represented a lived, resolute but also tolerant resistance, right through to the present day. We deliberately chose this special place for our exhibition, for it asks all participants in “Points of Resistance”, whether creators or visitors, to take on a particular responsibility: in the face of the fissures emerging, worldwide, in political, humane and private decision-making practice as a result of fear and inhumanity, our aim is to demonstrate, through artistic positions, attitudes that have the potential to create a spirit of commonality.

ROPPONGI ART NIGHT PRoject - TOKYO, JAPAN - 27/02 - 21/03/2021

Roppongi Art Night is a festival of arts that takes place on the stage of Roppongi city. Held continuously since its inaugural edition in 2009, the festival aims to further the possibilities of art within society by developing content such as art exhibitions, music, performances, and talk events throughout the entire city of Roppongi, a place known for its concentration of cultural facilities (including art museums), large-scale complexes, and shopping districts.

Due to the COVID crisis, Roppongi Art Night 2020 scheduled for May 2020 was cancelled, and the next edition of the event is slated for May 2021. However, the Roppongi Art Night Executive Committee has decided to develop a Spin-off Project that will differ from the usual Roppongi Art Night, with the hopes of using the power of art to inject an energy of revitalization into the city, even in these times of the pandemic.

The video work P. A. R. A. D. I. S. E. (2021) that was chosen by Roppongi Art Night deals with the difference between the experience of virtual reality in artificial space and the experience of physically tangible reality in nature. Even though reality often seems surreal today and virtual reality is becoming more and more real, there is still a difference. It is a question of truth.

The story of the video revolves around the fate of movie heroine Tiger and her colleague Condor. They are both investigative journalists who try to find out how popular tech companies manipulate human psychology.

P. A. R. A. D. I. S. E. is a new VR program to experience ultimate feelings. People test their limits. The program is not entirely uncontroversial. It causes insomnia and sometimes sudden death.

AT THE LIMIT @Kunsthalle Bratislava, Museum Slovakia

Curator and author of the conception: Martin Juef / Curatorial cooperation: Zorka Lednárová / Curator's assistant: Jana Babušiaková

Duration: August 5th 2020 – January 31st 2021

Artists: Silvia Beck (DE), Francisco Klinger Carvalho (BR), Chan Sook Choi (KOR), Nadine Fecht (DE), Pavel Forman (CZ), Martin Juef (DE), Martin Kocourek (CZ), Zorka Lednárová (SK), Luciana Magno (BR), Matthias Mayer (DE), Falk Nordmann (DE), Armando Queiroz (BR), Monika Rechsteiner (CH), Nina E. Schönefeld (DE), Bignia Wehrli (CH), Markus Wirthmann (DE)

Photos: © archive Kunsthalle Bratislava / Martin Marenčin

The exhibition NA HRANE / AT THE LIMIT / AM LIMIT explores borders and experiences associated with borderline situations through the background of works by 16 authors from six countries. Through the selection of artworks, the curators of the exhibition refer either to personal boundary experiences or to transgressive conditions created on the basis of certain artistic strategies or approaches. Borders mark an inside and an outside, they are form building contours for existential facts. Borders are dynamic and therefore never final, only death constitutes an ultimate border.

FACing new challenges: Water @Heidelberger Kunstverein & International Film Festival Mannheim Heidelberg

Film installations in cooperation with the 69th International Filmfestival Mannheim Heidelberg (IFFMH)

Exhibition: 12.11. 2020 – 17.1.2021

ARTISTS Ursula Biemann, Sky Hopinka, Karrabing Film Collective, Tuomas A. Laitinen, Sonia Levy, Nina E. Schönefeld, Tabita Rezaire, Susanne M. Winterling

With the exhibition ›Facing New Challenges‹, the 69th International Film Festival Mannheim Heidelberg (IFFMH) 2020 presents a new format in cooperation with the Heidelberger Kunstverein (HDKV). Cinematic works by international visual artists – on show as permanent installations beyond the duration of the festival – enter into a dialogue with narrative cinema and hence broaden the perspectives of moving image production.

As the inaugural exhibition in an ongoing series, ›Facing New Challenges: Water‹ brings together international contemporary artistic works concerned with ›water‹. In view of climate change, current and expected distribution struggles, and in relation to (post–)colonial history, ›water‹ remains a crucial issue of our times. It is a symbol of the current ecological crisis, the scene of various geopolitical and ethnopolitical struggles, and, as a commodity, an object of exploitation. As the largest of all ecosystems, water also functions as a fascinating habitat for a community of organisms that perform vital environmental functions. In the selected films, water appears as an object of (scientific) investigation, as a biosphere, as well as a spiritual point of reference. As diverse as this range appears as varied are the filmic practices brought together by the exhibition.

B. T. R. (Born To Run) @Die Digitale Düsseldorf

VIDEO MIT INSTALLATION - 2020

das video der berliner künstlerin nina e. schönefeld erzählt die geschichte von s.k.y., einer jungen frau, die in den 40er jahren dieses jahrhunderts in einem rechten umerziehungslager arbeitet. thematisch behandelt der film die zunehmende stärke von autokratien, die einschränkung von journalisten und der redefreiheit, sowie die mögliche auslieferung von julian assange an die usa – und was dies in zukunft für die situation unabhängiger publizisten, informanten und journalisten weltweit bedeuten könnte. zudem setzt sich schönefeld kritisch damit auseinander, wie unternehmen (unter anderem cambridge analytica) wahlen auf social media beeinflussen. das video zitiert die ästhetik verschiedener formate und genres - unter anderem von hollywood-blockbustern und computerspielen. so wird eine verführerische und doch vertraute bildsprache mit aktuellen bezügen zur weltpolitik genutzt, um die aufgeführten szenarien besonders beunruhigend erscheinen zu lassen.

<die digitale dusseldorf> will take place in 2020 for the fifth time. The international festival will present the latest developments and trends in the digitization of art, design and music in concerts, exhibitions, performances and lectures. This year we will focus on „Digital Secrets“.

In the beginning was the transparency – the idea of the pioneers of the Internet, who dreamed of the greatest possible openness in data exchange and of a simplified publication of information that is difficult to access. In the meantime Wikileaks, a popular advocate of this idea and an important platform for whistleblowers, has its back against the wall, its founder Assange is threatened with death. And the euphorically propagated model of a "transparent society" seems to be developing into a nightmare - China's Social Credit System offers a preview of future conditions here.

Digital Secrets: How much does surveillance by the state and companies threaten our own private secrets? How much has our bourgeois understanding of privacy changed (keyword "post privacy")? Encryption technology is available to us - but interestingly, it is hardly ever used.

And there are digital secrets on the other side. The Internet giants Alphabet Inc. (formerly Google), Facebook or Amazon guard their algorithms like state secrets - but they affect us all and control our private and public lives. Who will know the hidden consequences of the algorithmic creation of reality by Big Data?

Sculptures from different years

My sculptures and interiors partly combine unconventional materials such as animal fur, fetish chains, light bulbs, black miniature tiles, vessels, golden ceramics, luxurious fabrics, furniture parts, small computer screens and technical vintage machines. Golden glittering sculptures are mounted in an old style and illuminated by darkened light. The objects and sculptures are cult objects that rest iconically high on the wall, on bases and in illuminated glass display cases.

There is a certain paradox in my objects, but it is intentional: on the one hand they radiate preciousness, sparkling infinity & uniqueness and on the other hand one has associations with abyss, demise and death. A new beginning arises from death, but at the same time you think of transitoriness and decay.

TRILOGY @Aram Art Museum, Korea 아람미술관

SHOW ME YOUR SELFIE @Aram Art Museum, Korea 아람미술관

17.07 - 6.10.2019

participating artists:

Candice Breitz 캔디스 브라이츠 / Yeondoo Jung 정연두 / David Krippendorff 데이비드 크리펜도르프 / Hyungkoo Lee 이형구 / Warren Neidich 워렌 네이디치 / Nina E. Schönefeld 니나 E. 숀네펠드 / Young-jun Tak 탁영준 / Li Zhenhua 리전화

THX TO Jung-Me Chai @diskursberlin & ARAM ART MUSEUM (http://www.goyanglib.or.kr/center/info/infoagree.asp)

Photos courtesy of Aram Art Museum

L. E. O. P. A. R. T. , 2019, science fiction film, 17min. 13sec., black and white & color, 1920 x 1080, with sound

director of photography VALENTIN GIEBEL
sound & music CARLOS PABLO VILLAMIZAR

starring CHARLIE STEIN / ANDY BEST / THINLEY WINGEN / LEONIE HEUERMANN / KATJA TURELLA / ALEYNA CAPAR / LIZY FUNK / ODA LANGNER / UVE MÜLLRICH / FALKO NICKEL / ROBERT MEDICUS / JESSICA DAXENBERGER / KESCHIA ZIMBINGA

D A R K   W A T E R S , 2018, science fiction film, 15min. 55sec., black and white & color, 1920 x 1080, with sound

director of photography VALENTIN GIEBEL
sound & music CARLOS PABLO VILLAMIZAR

starring THINLEY WINGEN / MIMI TAYLOR / LEONIE HEUERMANN / KATJA TURELLA / ALEYNA CAPAR / JACOB HAAS / ROBERT MEDICUS / JEREMY SCHILF / ZEV TUGULDUR / LARRY ZIMBINGA

S N O W   F O X , 2018, science fiction film, 10m. 3s., black and white & color, 1920 x 1080, with sound

director of photography VALENTIN GIEBEL
sound & music CARLOS PABLO VILLAMIZAR

starring ANNA KOLOD / LEONIE HEUERMANN / KATJA TURELLA / ALEYNA CAPAR / JESSICA DAXENBERGER / MARIA EBBIGHAUSEN / LILO BERTHOLD / NATALYA DÖHLER / EVE KLEIN

SNOW FOX is likewise a science fiction film set in the near future (2023): the eponymous heroine Snow Fox works for a company that manipulates the weather, resulting in the spread of brain disease. Snow Fox meets a group of women fighting for the last “natural” place on Earth.

WATER(PROOF) @Federation Square melbourne

WATER(PROOF) curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch & Tainá Guedes

September 2019. Daily. 6pm - 7pm. On LED screen @Federation Square Melbourne Australia

Water(Proof), the exhibition of contemporary art for Food Art Week 2019: WATER, brings together renowned international artists with Berlin-based artists and specially commissioned performance programs by students of Mathilde ter Heijne’s class at Berlin’s University of the Arts (UdK) and students in the Master of Gastronomy: Creativity, Ecology, and Education Program at the University of Gastronomic Sciences (Pollenzo, Italy). In this breadth of artistic perspectives, through video, installation, performance, photography, and design, we engage in a broader international dialogue on the deterioration of our environment.

Shaarbek Amankul’s video New Society, documents the devastating ironies of economic privation in his native Kyrgystan, where poor villagers drain the contents of water bottles into the arid earth, preferring the quick cash from recycling to the water itself. Environmental artist Janet Laurence addresses the fragility of water as a vital resource through her installation H2O: Water Bar. Stefano Cagol’s video performance amidst the ice of the arctic circle, Evoke, Provoke [the border], raises issues of mankind’s unrelenting impact upon even the harshest of environments. Almagul Menlibayeva’s photo series illustrates this year’s Food Art Week, while her film, Transoxiana Dreams, documents the desertification of the Aral Sea, poetically following the plight of fishermen who now have to drive for hours from their village to reach the rapidly shrinking sea. Nezaket Ekici and Shahar Marcus’s video performance Salt Dinner is set within another shrinking sea, Israel’s Dead Sea. What looks like an absurd aquatic picnic is in truth a brutal endurance test for both artists, the excess of salt they are consuming with the sea water being as lethally dehydrating as the midday sun. Nina E. Schönefeld’s video Dark Waters takes place in another poison sea. Set in a dystopian future where the oceans are poisoned with plastic and only jellyfish can survive in their waters, this sadly bears more resemblance to truth than science fiction. Shingo Yoshida’s film Réprouvé is striking for its very absence of water; turning a garbage strewn wasteland in Chile into a beautiful sound installation, it is nevertheless a frightening glimpse of what our planet may soon look like if we do not take better care of our most necessary natural resource – water.

12 x 12 Ibb video space @Berlinische galerie

D A R K W A T E R S & S N O W F O X, 2018/2019, video screening 12 x 12 IBB video space @Berlinische Galerie

The future scenarios in the works of Nina E. Schönefeld are intricately linked to the current political and social climate. In projects like #femaleheroes and #hackerontherun she tells stories of politically motivated hackers and environmental activists. In her films, Schönefeld constructs worlds where people are forced to fight for basic democratic rights and sheer survival, playing with stereotypical gender depictions and placing superheroines at the centre of the action.

The two works screened at the Berlinische Galerie – Dark Waters (2018, 15:55 min.) and Snow Fox (2018,10:03 min.) – can be read as episodes in a potentially never-ending series. Dark Waters is set in the year 2029. All the oceans are so contaminated with plastic waste that they have become death zones. The only creatures still able to live there are poisonous jellyfish. The government is trying to keep this eco-disaster secret. The film narrates the risky quest for the truth by helicopter pilot Silver Ocean. Snow Fox is likewise a science fiction film set in the near future: the eponymous heroine works for a company that manipulates the weather, resulting in the spread of brain disease. Snow Fox meets a group of women fighting for the last “natural” place on Earth.  

In both films, Schönefeld quotes the aesthetics of various formats and genres – from blockbuster series like Mr. Robot or classics of cinema history like Clockwork Orange to computer game tutorials and high-end streetwear by Gosha Rubchinskiy. In this way, she creates a visual language for these works with their topical references to global politics that is seductive yet familiar, making the scenarios she invents all the more unsettling.

L.E.O.P.A.R.T. @PHILIPP HAVERKAMPF GALERIE

Philipp Haverkampf freut sich am Freitag, den 13. September 2019, in der Zeit von 18 - 21 Uhr, zur Berlin-Premiere Nina E. Schönefelds neuen Films L.E.O.P.A.R.T. (2019, 17:13 min) einzuladen.
Der dritte Teil der Science-Fiction-Trilogie spielt im Jahr 2032. Der für Gentechnik stehende Konzern "Black Flower" kontrolliert 99,9% des weltweiten Agrar- und Lebensmittelsektors - eine natürliche und gesunde Lebensweise scheint in dieser Welt nicht mehr möglich. Im Kampf gegen den Machtkonzern formiert sich eine Gruppe von Aussteigern, mit eigenen Idealen.

Exhibition 14.09. - 26.10.2019

Philipp Haverkampf Galerie - Mommsenstrasse 67, 10629 Berlin

The focus of Nina E. Schönefeld in general lies on political, social and digital changes in society... phenomena of abrupt shift... escape from persecution, hacking attacks, nuclear accidents, dictatorships... people who are radically different ... the lives of hackers and preppers, political activists, investigative journalists, environmental activists, Wikileaks members, NSA employees, data martyrs, underdogs, hermits, computer game fanatics, cult members, extremists ... the Darknet, Julien Assange, Edward Snowden, the blackout in NY, Chernobyl and Fukushima, the control center of the CIA, the Chaos Computer Club, the right wing movement, Children of God, Suprematism, the Bauhaus, Zero, insular colonies, digital inventions, radical social networks & conspiracy theories...



CLASSIFIED HACKER (FREE JULIAN ASSANGE) @Diskurs Gallery

SHOW ME YOUR SELFIE @diskursberlin
with Candice Breitz, Yeondoo Jung, David Krippendorff, Warren Neidich, Nina E. Schönefeld, Young-jun Tak, Li Zhenhua

31.10.2019-11.01.2020

The work CLASSIFIED HACKER (2019) that was exhibited @Diskurs Berlin deals with increasing restrictions of the press worldwide. It is a video installation that uses all sorts of media and materials, all in black. Black is used by intellectuals, artists, revolutionaries as a sign of protest.
Autocracies and authoritarian right wing movements are on the rise, also in Europe. The first thing that is restricted in those countries is the freedom of press. Next step: judges will be exchanged and democracy will be lost in a short amount of time for all citizens. The possible extradition of Julian Assange to the US government means a lot when it comes to protection of journalists and publishers worldwide in the future.

The video that was installed shows a speech of John Pilger, a well known journalist who talks vehemently about the possible impact of Assange’s extradition. CLASSIFIED HACKER is a call to start fighting for basic democratic rights.

What if we ourselves are aliens? The Latin word ‘alienus’ means belonging to another, and here ‘another’ is defined as someone or something else that is set in a state of uncertainty. In the act of producing a self-portrait, most prolifically nowadays through the medium of a selfie, we transfer ourselves onto another subject that does not exist in physical reality. We become trapped in a space of our virtual reality and its social networks that are based on self-generated delusion and fantasy. We are becoming alien to ourselves.

Taking selfies embodies the principles of self-copulation with mobile devices in order to reconstruct an illusionary projection of the self into a new space. This kind of identity is now more than alive without ever being quite alive. Everyone has a past, a present, and a future, but not in the world of Instagram and other social media. Time vanishes in the era of digital immortality. Smartphones and other devices store all our biometric and behavioral data without any conception of the passage of time. Therefore, Google, Kindle, Amazon, etc. know more about you than you do. The perception of our identities often moves beyond who we really are today under the guise of a digital-immortal-being. How do we want to present ourselves and preserve ourselves? Yet there is no unique configuration of the self in the virtual social network realm, but only the phantom of the subject. In this context, a subject can only mime existence, while in reality, it is a being that has been detached from its body and exists in a new, not-quite-real, yet hyper-real space.

The project SHOW ME YOUR SELFIE uses philosophical frameworks to investigate the subjectivities of identity and aims to uncover the unreality of digital environments and the conceptions of self that they create.

TRILOGY of tomorrow @Galerie la pierre large strasbourg

TRILOGY OF TOMORROW @Galerie la pierre large - 08/11-21/12 - solo show

Le monde de demain. 

Avec sa TRILOGY OF TOMORROW, Nina E.Schönefeld nous emmène dans un univers de fiction, d'anticipation.
 La Terre va mal, les dégâts du changement climatique sont visibles, les cycles déraillent, les plantes poussent de façon industrielle, dopées par l'appât du gain d'un système économique qui a perdu le sens de la raison. Les animaux sont devenus rares. La catastrophe est proche. 

La narration de ces films se construit en 3 temps.
 Un premier temps pour poser le constat, une narration fluide, esthétique, des paysages. La lenteur contemplative des plans fonctionne avec une rhétorique poétique.
 Un deuxième temps accordé au combat. Une galerie de portrait, d'héroïnes engagées, à la Lara Croft. Ce sont des jeunes gens qui défilent en mouvement dans un monde à sauver. Des archanges du futur.
 Enfin une dernière partie sous forme de conclusion, l'avenir reste incertain. 

Ce mode narratif fait penser au découpage classique de Woody Allen : le Syd field paradigm, mais le propos n'est pas celui du cinéaste américain, ici pas de point de bascule, pas de suspens cinématographique, pas d'intrigue à proprement parler. L'univers de l'artiste berlinoise emprunte des codes à différents registres : le clip, la série Netflix, le cinéma, la science-fiction, le jeu vidéo. Une dimension contemplative à l'esthétique léchée, de longs plans fixes en mode onirique, puis une narration syncopée qui déconstruit les dialogues et insère des images de synthèse à des prises de vue réelle. La photographie est belle, ciselée, radicale. Le noir et blanc succède à la couleur. Nina mêle savamment une rythmique musicale MTV à des éléments de films de science-fiction. Les images révèlent un rapport au temps distordu, elliptique. Les personnages se confrontent à nous face caméra, nous toisent, nous imposent un choix.

Nina E. Schönefeld transgresse chacun de ces codes culturels pour construire un langage immédiatement identifiable. Elle recompose des éléments communs pour créer son propre style. Nous sommes devant un objet purement artistique ancré dans les problématiques d'une époque. 

On perçoit également de la douceur, de la nostalgie parfois. Un goût de l'enfance, des souvenirs enfouis comme l'odeur d'un bonbon ou d'une chanson acidulée. Une forme d'innocence. Une tendresse fraternelle. Un Eden. Les personnages ne sont pas des super héros hollywoodiens, ils sont en quête d'identité, de vérité, de fraternité. Ce sont des jeunes gens ordinaires, des femmes d'aujourd'hui. 

Le monde Nina E.Schönefeld est proche d'un chaos, d'une apocalypse annoncée, et pourtant il reste une lueur d'espoir. Une autre issue est possible. L'heure des choix. Trilogy Of Tomorrow pose des questions essentielles sur l'évolution de l'humanité, sur notre responsabilité citoyenne, sur l'engagement de la jeunesse. L'artiste propose une œuvre belle et troublante. Un pur moment de grâce. Superbe et émouvant. 

« Le Monde de demain quoi qu'il advienne nous appartient, la puissance est dans nos mains » (NTM) Benjamin Kiffel

TRILOGY @ACM Art Space, Shenzhen China

D A R K W A T E R S & S N O W F O X & L. E. O. P. A. R. T. 2019, video screening @ACM Art Space, Shenzhen China

Curator | Ma Yongfeng

Participating Artists | Petermfriess | Nina E. Schönefeld | Robin Resch | Yang Ming

Opening |2019.09.13
Duration |2019.09.14-10.16
Organizer | Alternative Culture Making Venue | F1105B-A

“In The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty” (MIT Press, 2016. 503 pages) Bratton outlines a new theory for the age of global computation and algorithmic governance. He proposes that different genres of planetary scale computation -smart grids, cloud platforms, mobile apps, smart cities, the Internet of Things, automation- can be seen not as so many species evolving on their own, but as forming a coherent whole: an accidental megastructure that is both a computational infrastructure and a new governing architecture. What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It takes different forms at different scales. Together, how do these distort and deform modern political geographies and produce new territories in their own image?

In an account that is both theoretical and technical, drawing on political philosophy, architectural theory, and software studies, Bratton explores six layers of The Stack: Earth, Cloud, City, Address, Interface, User. Each is mapped on its own terms and understood as a component within the larger whole built from hard and soft systems intermingling—not only computational forms but also social, human, and physical forces. This model, informed by the logic of the multilayered structure of protocol “stacks,” in which network technologies operate within a modular and vertical order, offers a comprehensive image of our emerging infrastructure and a platform for its ongoing reinvention.

Il est temps de s’enivrer @SALON GALLERY

Opening and catalogue launch: 29.08.2019, 6 – 9 pm

31.08. – 29.09.2019

Curated by Peter Ungeheuer with:

Jofroi Amaral | Fritz Bornstück | Tobias Dostal | Jay Gard | Lukas Glinkowski | Lennart Grau | Sandra Hauser | Michelle Jezierski | Timo Klöppel | Franck Miltgen | Nina E. Schönefeld | Fiete Stolte

Drei Wege zur Krapulenz: Charles Baudelaires Gedicht Berauschet Euch thematisiert die Notwendigkeit, sich ständig zu berauschen. Er lässt allerdings offen, ob es Wein (oder andere Drogen), Poesie (als sein Metier stellvertretend für jede Form von Kunst) oder Tugend sind, die uns in einen Zustand versetzen sollen, der uns die Existenz erträglich macht. Die Ausstellung in der Salon Gallery stellt ausgewählte Arbeiten aus der Ausstellung im Luxemburger Bamhaus vom Frühsommer 2019 vor. Naturgemäß hat jeder Künstler einen individuellen Zugang zum Thema Berauschung: Es kann sich um ästhetische oder konzeptionelle Ansätze handeln, den eigenen Rausch (etwa den der eigenen künstlerischen Produktion), die Beobachtung anderer oder die Stimulation des Betrachters. 12 Arbeiten, darunter eine des Luxemburger Künstlers Franck Miltgen, bilden eine „Essenz“ der umfassenderen Schau im Großherzogtum, die im zur Berliner Ausstellung erscheinenden Katalog dokumentiert ist.

INSOMNIA TV & L.E.O.P.A.R.T. @Bamhaus, Luxembourg

Il est temps de s’enivrer | Zeit, sich zu berauschen @BAMHAUS LUXEMBURG
08.06 - 07.07.2019
Opening: FRI  07.06.2019 / 7 pm
participating artists:
Jofroi Amaral, Fritz Bornstück, Tobias Dostal, Jay Gard, Lukas Glinkowski, Lennart Grau, Sandra Hauser, Michelle Jezierski, Timo Klöppel, Nina E. Schönefeld, Fiete Stolte.
curated | Commissaire Peter Ungeheuer

Enivrez-vous
Il faut être toujours ivre, tout est là ; c'est l'unique question. Pour ne pas sentir l'horrible fardeau du temps qui brise vos épaules et vous penche vers la terre, il faut vous enivrer sans trêve.
Mais de quoi? De vin, de poésie, ou de vertu à votre guise, mais enivrez-vous!
Et si quelquefois, sur les marches d'un palais, sur l'herbe verte d'un fossé, vous vous réveillez, l'ivresse déjà diminuée ou disparue, demandez au vent, à la vague, à l'étoile, à l'oiseau, à l'horloge; à tout ce qui fuit, à tout ce qui gémit, à tout ce qui roule, à tout ce qui chante, à tout ce qui parle, demandez quelle heure il est. Et le vent, la vague, l'étoile, l'oiseau, l'horloge, vous répondront, il est l'heure de s'enivrer ; pour ne pas être les esclaves martyrisés du temps, enivrez-vous, enivrez-vous sans cesse de vin, de poésie, de vertu, à votre guise.
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)

ART IS MY REVENGE @Made in NY Media Center, New York

THE VENGEANCE IS MINE @MADE IN NY MEDIA CENTER BY IFP NEW YORK
APR 04 - APR 30 2019
DIGITAL FAIRY TALES: "Vengeance is Mine"
ARTISTS: Richard Jochum, Matthias Fritsch, Maria Naidyonova, Radka Salcmannova, Nicole Əntēbī, Zoe Duchesne, Sarah Oh-Mock, Josh Graham, Tom Rotenberg, Nina E. Schönefeld, Dahye Kim.
Brought to you by Leo Kuelbs Collection.

The Made in NY Media Center by IFP is proud to present the fourth iteration of Leo Kuelbs Collection's "Digital Fairy Tales" series.
When one encounters the term “Vengeance,” it is with excitement, suspicion and dread. For vengeance to exist, there must be a prior perception of victimhood, a grievance. The scale of which is determined by the protagonist, but the roles can quickly be flipped. And flipped and flipped again. The chain of vengeance can go on and on and, unless broken, lead to ever escalating levels of calamity.
This uniquely human behavior has been with us from the beginning. Ancient religious texts carry double-edged readings of impending wrath and the fruitlessness of extravagant retaliation. Vengeance has been at the absolute heart of drama throughout the ages and still carries its edge and gravitas. But as ubiquitous as vengeance may be, one must ask, “what is the price of vengeance? If vengeance is mine, then what do I owe for its execution?”

? ART IS MY REVENGE @LAGE EGAL

? ART IS MY REVENGE, 2019 @New Lage Egal, Berlin
NINA E. SCHÖNEFELD
PIETRO SANGUINETI
NOT SO A WHITE CUBE III
Curated by Pierre Granoux
8.3. — 16.3. 2019, Fri — Sat, 3 — 6pm
The first set of NOT SO A WHITE CUBE took place at the temporary space LAGE EGAL [GW34/35], set up as a sequence of four exhibitions, over an initial period of two months, and comprising a selection of 6 artists. It started off with a group exhibition, followed by weekly duo presentations.

30 years of Goethe Institut china @Goethe istitut beijing

30 Jahre. 30 Fragen. 30 Stunden.

Höhepunkt der Veranstaltungsreihe zum Jubiläum ist der 30-stündige „Jubiläumsmarathon" bestehend aus Konzerten, Performances, Installationen, Filmvorführungen, Vortragsreihen und Kinderprogramm am 17. und 18. November 2018 im Goethe-Institut Peking im Kunstviertel „798".

Videoprogramme mit Einführung „Das Ende unserer Geschichte“ und „I’ve seen the future, I can’t afford it“

not so a white cube @New lage egal

ARTISTS: Sibylle Jazra, Lukas Glinkowski, Nina E. Schönefeld, Pietro Sanguineti, Heidi Sill, Peter Freitag

Curated by Pierre Granoux

NOT SO A WHITE CUBE will take place at the temporary space LAGE EGAL [GW34/35], set up as a sequence of four exhibitions, over an initial period of two months, and comprising a selection of 6 artists. It will start off with a group exhibition, followed by bi-weekly duo presentations. 

In advance of each duo show, one artist will visit the studio of the other presented artist, along with the curator. In this sense, the exhibition series is both a solo presentation and a group exhibition in which the works will function as a conversation or dialogue basis, for more complicity than competition.

The title of the exhibition series is related to the idea that a former gallery space will act as a temporary artist-run space, testing its own boundaries and approaching, in a playful way, the arguable assumption that a project space will never be a perfect white cube.

Villa Heike & other stories @Villa heike

With: Bram Braam, Pierre Granoux, Vanessa Henn, Valérie Leray, Wiebke Loeper, Jens Lüstraeten, Arwed Messmer, Manfred Pernice, Sophia Pompéry, Peter Ruehle, Torsten Ruehle, Michael Schäfer, Sonya Schönberger, Nina E. Schönefeld, Christof Zwiener

Die Ausstellung zeigt eine Auseinandersetzung mit den Transformationsprozessen einer Stadt und eines vergangenen Staates, dessen Gebäude und Architektur untrennbar mit seiner Geschichte verbunden sind. Der Ingenieur Richard Heike gründete 1903 eine Fabrik für Fleischereimaschinen und nutzte die dreistöckige preußische Villa Heike als Verwaltungs- und Wohngebäude. Ende des zweiten Weltkriegs marschierten die Sowjets ein und erschossen den Fabrikanten Heike vor der seiner Tür. 1951 übergaben sie das Gebiet an die Stasi, die in der Villa ihr geheimes NS-Archiv lagerte. Die Villa Heike wurde somit Teil eines sogenannten „Sperrgebietes” welches auf DDR-Straßenkarten nur als weißer Fleck existierte. Mit der deutschen Wiedervereinigung wurden die NS-Akten dem Bundesarchiv übergeben.

Im Jahr 2016 übernahm der Künstler Michael Schäfer mit vier Künstlerkollegen die Villa Heike, um Künstlerateliers einzurichten. Nach der Renovierung öffnet die Villa erstmals Anfang 2019 ihre Pforten für die Ausstellung VILLA & OTHER STORIES*, 30 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall.

The missing room @lage egal

THE MISSING ROOM (RESTRICTED AREA #1) — Curated by Pierre Granoux, assisted by Sarie Nijboer

Artists: Jofroi Amaral, Erik Andersen, Maria Anwander, Ruben Aubrecht, Ornella Fieres, Peter Freitag, Lukas Glinkowski, Rodolphe Huguet, Sophia Pompéry, Nina E. Schönefeld

LAGE EGAL [STUDIOS-ID] Berlin

In diesem Ausstellungsprojekt geht es um einen "geheimen Ort". Verkörpert wird er durch einen ca. 250 qm großen fensterlosen Raum, welcher sich im Zentrum des zweiten Stockwerkes des Atelierhauses Studios ID in Alt-Hohenschönhausen befindet. Das ehemalige Gebäude (ID = Intelligence Department) wurde 1985 innerhalb des Sperrgebiets durch das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit erbaut und diente der Entwicklung, Produktion und Instandhaltung von verschiedenen Spionagegeräten.

Im ersten Teil der Ausstellungsreihe RESTRICTED AREA erforscht eine ausgewählte Gruppe von 10 Künstlern den Raum als geheimen Ort, als Ort des Beobachtens und Gesehenwerdens, wo Spuren untersucht und ans Licht gebracht werden. Die Wahrnehmung historischer Zusammenhänge aus heutiger Sicht spielt in der Ausstellung ebenso eine Rolle wie das historische und objektive Wissen von Orten, Objekten und Menschen. Für die Ausstellung THE MISSING ROOM wird dieser Raum erstmals der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht.

S N O W f o x @Palazzo Cà Zanardi

SELECTED ARTISTS Ángel Baltasar . Spain | ADO Theatre-Collective . Azerbaijan | Sandra Brazão . Mozambique | Sara Chyan . UK | Rafhäel Comodino . Germany | Magda-Simona Daniloaia . UK | | Alvaro De Jesus . USA | Valerie Decleer . Belgium | Loredana Denicola . UK | Inga Galinyte & Greta Bernotaite . Lithuania | Maria Gedroc . USA | Catia Hauberg Engel & Lars Bonde . Denmark | Lea Jazbec . Slovenia | Tatum Kempers . The Netherlands | Amy Kingsmill . UK | Oan Kyu . Italy | Eleanna Martinou . Greece | Mozan . Saudi Arabia | Amalia Moreno . Spain | Carolina Piteira . Portugal | Ania PsH . UK | Ana Pulido Castro . Spain | Michal Rejner. Poland | Nicholas Rose . Jamaica | Heinz-Peter Schepp . Germany | Nina E. Schönefeld . Germany | Gary Setzer . USA | Daniel Strickland . Brazil | Erik van Os . The Netherlands | Hiroshi Wakamatsu with Maiken Vanoverberghe & Jelmer Daelman . Belgium | Charlie Wayne . France | Philippe Wicht . Switzerland | Chih Yang Chen . UK

The Palazzo Cà Zanardi is a residential palace dating back to the 16th century which, over the centuries, has been added on to by various noble venetian families and is one of the most evocative and beautiful palaces in the city of Venice; the Serenissima.

Cà Zanardi is located close to the Cà d’Oro, the splendid 15th century gothic palace along the Grand Canal.  It is located off the main tourist drag but is still easily reachable by foot, after a two minute walk from the Cà d’Oro water bus stop, or by boat using the palazzo’s private pier positioned along the fetching Santa Caterina canal.

The refined elegance of the palazzo’s halls and common areas and the delicacy of its original 16th century furnishings create a fascinating setting; as well as the ideal location for art exhibitions.

S N O W f o x @Kosmetiksalon babette

TOO EARLY - Invited by Paris Giachoustidis and Peter Ungeheuer
Artists: Jofroi Amaral | Erik Andersen | Tobias Dostal | Lukas Glinkowski | Okka-Esther Hungerbühler | Kristiane Kegelmann | Minoru | Nina E. Schönefeld
We will be celebrating the 50th birthday of the street art icon Banksy at the iconic location of Bar Babette. But, wait a second, how can we know? Nobody knows who he is nor his age, only Wikipedia. So we decided to celebrate his birthday TOO EARLY. The eight artists will be creating a party in rarely used spaces of the bar. The artists are present, whether the guest of honour will be blowing out the candles, let’s see.

S N O W f o x @Fahrbereitschaft / Gallery weekend

EXHIBITION & VIDEO SCREENING @FAHRBEREITSCHAFT/COGALLERIES/STUDIO - Herzbergstrasse 40-43 - Besides the exhibition, the HAUBROK collection will be also on display. All located in the creative compound of FAHRBEREITSCHAFT which is definitely worth a visit.

Participating artists: Robin Resch - Tahian Bhering - Ma Yongfeng - Nina E. Schönefeld - Filipe Lippe

S N O W F O X, 2018, science fiction film, 10m. 3s., black and white (mainly), 1920 x 1080, with sound

directed, shot and edited by
NINA E. SCHÖNEFELD

additional footage
VALENTIN GIEBEL

sound design
CARLOS PABLO VILLAMIZAR

starring
ANNA KOLOD // LEONIE HEUERMANN / KATJA TURELLA / ALEYNA CAPAR /JESICA DAXENBERGER / LILO BERTHOLD / NATALYA DÖHLER / MARIA EBBIGHAUSEN / EVE KLEIN

The video work S N O W  F O X deals with our will to survive and our desires in times of crisis of urban artificial "virtual reality settings" for humanity and real nature.

It is a sci-fi movie of the near future (2023). The female heroine 'SNOW FOX' works for the company 'Black Cloud', which secretly manipulates the weather. The world has two suns and people are increasingly suffering from the brain disease 'reduplicative paranesia'. 'SNOW FOX' sets out to find the last natural place on earth. The heroine encounters a group of women who, just like 'SNOW FOX', decided to fight for the last piece of true nature.

The film's aesthetic is inspired by blockbuster series such as 'Mr. Robot' or ’Twin Peaks’, classics like 'Solaris' and 'Clockwork Orange', Hollywood film trailers, computer game tutorials, high-end fashion ads and documentaries by investigative journalists and prepper educational videos. The video work deals with new inventions in the digital age and combines classic techniques with brand new video apps.

In most of the video presentations, the existing exhibition space was used so that the space appears like a film set from the projected video work.

A Hacker on the run @fahrbereitschaft

HACKER ON THE RUN, video installation @Bilderrahmen Neumann, FAHRBEREITSCHAFT during Art Week 2017

HACKER ON THE RUN, video installation @Bilderrahmen Neumann, FAHRBEREITSCHAFT during Art Week 2017

LIGHT YEAR 25 @N.Y. Manhattan bridge

Curated by coGalleries, "LIGHT YEAR 25: coGalleries Presents" brings work from three emerging artists all dealing with political and social issues through various aesthetics. Objectify Me, Annique Delphine’s first short film articulated around the deconstruction of social norms regarding desire and objectification. In her performances and installations, Brazilian artist Berna Reale's Palomo engages both her own body and those of willing participants to reflect on the contemporary socio-political climate.

Nina E. Schönefeld’s The Rise Of Black Wolf offers the viewer an escape from the typical viewpoint of an observer. As she consistently focuses on radically different types of personas, she unveils the truth about the current political and social climate in an innovative way.

prepper coat @manifesta zurich

Some Demonstrations by Charlie Stein, performance series

Some demonstrations is a performance project constructed out of individual instructions given by a set of contemporary artists. This work by Charlie Stein proposes parallels between a demonstration and a performance in the public sphere.

MOVie trailer

Directed, shot and edited by
NINA E. SCHÖNEFELD

additional editing
LUISA RODRIGUEZ

sound design
CARLOS PABLO VILLAMIZAR

Directed, shot and edited by
NINA E. SCHÖNEFELD

additional editing
LUISA RODRIGUEZ

sound design
CARLOS PABLO VILLAMIZAR

Starring
SUSAN SASS

sound installations

U.a. FESTIVAL FÜR ZEITGENÖSSISCHE SKULPTUR 2018 @Atelierhof Kreuzberg with Nik Nowak, Michael Just, Alexander Skorobogatov, Osama Zatar, Ann Schomburg, Michael Koch, Jonny Star, Nina E. Schönefeld, Hannu Prinz, Sascha Boldt, Ina Sangenstedt, Sofia Hulten, Martina Goldbeck, Andreas Helfer, Eva Maria Salvador, David Adamo, Immanuel Rohringer, Alexandra Wolframm, Reinhold Gottwald, Susanne Müller, Jonas Büßecker, Doro K. Samborski, Christopher Sage, Moritz Stumm u.a.

La Table Ronde @Diskurs berlin

Fortune Teller, Nina E. Schönefeld, 2017 Video sculpture, 30 x 150 x 30 cm

Curator: Peter Ungeheuer / Assistant Curator: Gyusik Lee

La Table Ronde will be served by: Paris Giachoustidis · Lukas Glinkowski · Peter Ungeheuer

ARTISTS: Katharina Arndt · Fritz Bornstück · Stefano Cagol · Jimok Choi · Heiner Franzen · Jay Gard · Pierre Granoux · Gregor Hildebrandt · Christian Hoischen / Oliver Mark · Kristiane Kegelmann · Zinu Kim · Timo Klöppel · Thomas Rentmeister · Stefan Rinck · Pietro Sanguineti · Nina E. Schönefeld · Sador Weinsčlucker · Li Zhenhua · Thomas Zitzwitz

The exhibition "La Table Ronde" invites the visitors to attend an idealized French banquet. The exhibition space turns into a stage for the spectacle with eight courses. The twelve invited guests sitting at the table become part of the performance with their conversations and interactions. Curator and artists hatch into the role of hosts and cooks. For a period of six hours, the guests indulge in an opulent meal and their conversations reveal the depth of Immanuel Kant's saying, "Good food and drink is the true metaphysics of life / Gut Essen und Trinken ist die wahre Metaphysik des Lebens ". Unlike the exuberant dinner in the style of La Grande Bouffe by Marco Ferreri, this dinner performance celebrates good food and above all - life.

In addition to the performance at the opening, the works of the 20 participating artists will be dealing with the various aspects of conditions of equality (La Table Ronde) via gastronomy. There are several senses addressed, one can not only hear and see the works, but also touch them, eat them and perceive the smell. They correspond dramatically to each course of the meal and components of the performance.  The exhibition presents video works, installations, as well as photo documentation of the performance

INSTAGRAM PHOTO STORY SERIES

THE RISE OF BLACK WOLF @cogalleries

Exhibition views coGalleries, THE RISE OF BLACK WOLF, 2017

“The question might be how to vanish from one moment to the other. Imagine there would be a drastic political change in your country and you want to fight for your democratic rights - you will need special advice and gear to survive. Get prepared.”
THE RISE OF BLACK WOLF - A HACKER ON THE RUN features multi-media sculptures and videos from Schönefeld’s #femalehackerontherun series, exposing the poetry between art and hacking in the digital age. The interior of the exhibition is an interdisciplinary installation fusing animal fur,fetish necklaces, tribal rituals, luxurious fabrics, furniture parts with computer screens, videos and technical objects. Through these various mediums and objects, Nina E. Schönefeld reconstructs the typical meaning of aesthetics to focus on critical disputes from avantgarde socio-political developments.

WALL OF FEAR & FAME & DIGNITY, 2017, sculpture, 187 x223 x 43 cm, exhibition coGalleries, THE RISE OF BLACK WOLF, 2017

NEW SCULPTURES

#hacker01-04, 2016

Objekte: Holz- & Keramikskulpturteile, Lampe, Kunstfelsen, Truckerfernseher, Ventilator, Totenkopfanhänger, Siemenshandy, Glasvitrine, Fell & Fuchsschwanz, Vase, Lampe, verschiedene Leuchtstofflampen und Glühbirnen, Ketten und Schmuckteile, Radio, Kabel, Kameraobjektiv, Vorhänge, Sockel, Acryl, Lack, Holzteile, Heißkleber, diverse Kunststoff- & Maschinenteile

prepper van @schaufenster

#preppervan, 2016

Rauminstallation | Objekte | Video: Keramik-Skulptur, Stoffe, Vorhänge, Mobile Phones, Whiskykaraffe, Gläser, Flachmann, Hammer, Felle & Fuchsschwanz Colt, Vase, Lampe, verschiedene Leuchtstofflampen und Glühbirnen, Ketten und Schmuckteile, Lautsprecher, Koffer, Kabel,  Bildschirm, tragbarer DVD-Player, Mac-Book, Tastaturen, Kamera, Holztheke, Sockel, Acryl, Lack, Holzteile, Heißkleber, diverse Kunststoffe, Keramikfiguren, | CAR PARK, group show, SchauFenster Gallery

PREPPER VAN, Doku 2016

Videos:  ANONYMOUS, BLACK HACKER & BLACK PREPPER | CAR PARK, group show, SchauFenster Gallery

The focus lies on social and digital changes in society... phenomena of abrupt shift... natural disasters, nuclear accidents, dictatorships, political revolutions... people who are radically different ... the lives of hackers and preppers, Wikileaks members, NSA employees, data martyrs, artists, who are are devoted to the NEW, political underdogs, hermits, cult members, extremists ... the Darknet, Julien Assange, Edward Snowden, the blackout in NY, Chernobyl and Fukushima, the control center of the CIA, the Chaos Computer Club, North Korea, the right wing movement, Children of God, Charles Manson, Suprematism, the Bauhaus, Zero, insular colonies, ‘Apocalypse Now’, ‘The Wolfpack’, digital inventions and radical social networks ...

black island white star @fata morgana gallery

BLACK ISLAND WHITE STAR, 2016

Rauminstallation | Objekte: Acryl, Lack, Holzteile, Parkett, Leinwand, Rahmen, Schrauben, Scharniere, Heißkleber, Stoffe, Vorhänge, Folien, diverse Kunststoffe, Keramikfiguren, Holzfiguren, Plastikfiguren, Vasen, Spielautomat, ausgestopftes Frettchen, Lampenteile, verschiedene Leuchtstofflampen und Glühbirnen, Ketten und Schmuckteile, Plexiglas, Lautsprecher, Koffer, Kabel, Radios, Bildschirm, Truckerfernseher, Mischpulte, Tonbandgerät, Tastaturen, Kamera, Sockel, | BLACK ISLAND WHITE STAR, solo show, Fata Morgana Gallery, Berlin, curated by Sandra Ratkovic

BLACK ISLAND WHITE STAR, 2016

Rauminstallation | Objekte: Acryl, Lack, Holzteile, Parkett, Leinwand, Rahmen, Schrauben, Scharniere, Heißkleber, Stoffe, Vorhänge, Folien, diverse Kunststoffe, Keramikfiguren, Holzfiguren, Plastikfiguren, Vasen, Spielautomat, ausgestopftes Frettchen, Lampenteile, verschiedene Leuchtstofflampen und Glühbirnen, Ketten und Schmuckteile, Plexiglas, Lautsprecher, Koffer, Kabel, Radios, Bildschirm, Truckerfernseher, Mischpulte, Tonbandgerät, Tastaturen, Kamera, Sockel, | BLACK ISLAND WHITE STAR, solo show, Fata Morgana Gallery, Berlin, curated by Sandra Ratkovic

black island white star II @LARRY ART

BLACK ISLAND WHITE STAR II, 2016

Rauminstallation | Objekte: Acryl, Lack, Holzteile, Schrauben, Heißkleber, diverse Kunststoffe, Keramikfiguren, Holzständer, verschiedene Leuchtstofflampen und Glühbirnen, Ketten und Schmuckteile, Kabel, vier Ghettoblaster, Kamera, Sockel | BLACK ISLAND WHITE STAR II, solo show, LARRY'S SHOW, curated by Hannes Gruber

BLACK ISLAND WHITE STAR II, 2016

Ghettoblasterplastik: Kunststoffklebeband, Schrauben, Kabel, Tastatur, vier Ghettoblaster, diverse Hörspielkassetten |  LARRY'S SHOW

Collages

BLACK ISLAND WHITE STAR, 2016

Collage | Serie: Zeitschriften, Fotoausdrucke, Buchbinderklebstoff | BEDSITTER ART FAIR, group show, Vienna, curated by Barbara Sturm

new sculptures

OBJECTS, 2016

Objekte: Acryl, Lack, Schrauben, Heißkleber, diverse Kunststoffteile, Kunststofffiguren, Troddeln, Ketten und Schmuckteile, Kabel

SELFIE @schaufenster

BLACK SUN @larry art

BLACK SUN, 2015

Rauminstallation | Mixed Media: Acryl, Lack, Holzteile, Parkett, Leinwand, Rahmen, Schrauben, Scharniere, Heißkleber, Stoffe, Kacheln, Folien, diverse Kunststoffe, Keramikfiguren, Lampenteile, verschiedene Leuchtstofflampen und Glühbirnen, Plexiglas, Bildschirm, Boxen, Kabel | kuratiert von Hannes Gruber, LARRY'S THURSDAY SHOW  

Video triology: BLACK HELICOPTER / BLACK SUN / BLACK SALON

Fotos: Oliver Jackel

sonne @you are the artist

SONNE, 2015, Installation / Mixed Media: Acryl, Lack, Holz, Leinwand, Leuchtstofflampen, Kabel, Schrauben, Nägel, Metall-verbindungen & -halterungen, Scharniere, Heißkleber / ca. 43 x 43 x 7 cm / Freudenreich Neukölln, YOU ARE THE ARTIST - The Shift

black light @atelierhof kreuzberg

BLACK LIGHT, 2015, Installation / Mixed Media Acryl, Lack, Holz, Leinwand, Leuchtstoffröhren, Kabel, Schrauben, Nägel, Metallverbindungen, Scharniere, Heißkleber | ca. 300 x 230 x 50 cm, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Ausstellung FÄLSCHUNG

color objects

KING, 2014, mixed media: Acryl, Lack, Holz, Leinwand, Leuchtstoffröhre, Kabel, Schrauben, Nägel, Metallverbindungen, Scharniere, Heißkleber | ca. 50 x 60 x 5 cm, Les Prochaines - Die Kunstauktion, at BETWEEN YOU AND ME

NAUNYN, 2014, mixed media: Acryl, Lack, Holz, Leinwand, Leuchtstoffröhre, Kabel, Schrauben, Nägel, Metallverbindungen, Scharniere, Heißkleber | ca. 50 x 65 x 10 cm, Kreuzberg Pavillon

WALL, 2013, mixed media: Acryl, Lack, Holz, Leinwand, Leuchtstoffröhre, Kabel, Schrauben, Nägel, Metallverbindungen, Scharniere, Heißkleber | ca. 50 x 55 x 5 cm, Les Prochaines - Die Kunstauktion 2013, at BETWEEN YOU AND ME

RITTER II @Kantine

LOOKING FOR LOST UTOPIA @acud gallery

LOOKING FOR LOST UTOPIA II 2014
Rauminstallation | Mixed Media: Acryl, Lack, Holz, Heißkleber, Stoffe, diverse Kunststoffe, Lampenteile, verschieden farbige Leuchtstofflampen und Glühbirnen, Lichterkette, Fotoprint | mehrere Teile an Wänden und auf dem Boden

THE CULT OF COLOR
Fotografie | Video
 

LOOKING FOR LOST UTOPIA
Fotocollage

destroyed light @rfdm

DESTROYED LIGHT 2014
Rauminstallation | Mixed Media: Acryl, Lack, Holzreste, Parkett, Leinwand, Rahmen, Schrauben, Scharniere, Heißkleber, Samtstoffe, Gold/Silber-Folie, Styropor, diverse z.T. antike Lampenteile, Leuchtstofflampen, Glühbirnen, Lichterkette, Plexiglas, CD-Player, Boxen, Kabel | ca. 160 x 230 x 200 cm | R. Raum für drastische Maßnahmen

„Ich denke, Widerstand kann auf viele Weisen geschehen, nicht nur im Privaten oder im Einzelnen, sondern im Ganzen. (…) Widerstehen heißt auch mitmachen. (…) Man braucht Energie, um Kunst zu schaffen, Wahrheit.“

(Stéphan Hessel, zit. nach von Borries, Friedrich: „RLF, Das richtige Leben im falschen“, suhrkamp 2013, S.232)

Licht, die Erweiterung der Helligkeit über das Tageslicht hinaus, an das sich die Menschen inzwischen überall auf der Welt, im besonderen Maße aber in unserer Luxuswelt gewöhnt haben, erscheint im Alltag unseres Lebens als etwas Selbstverständliches und bleibt daher weitgehend unbedacht. Es kann ganz schnell gehen, dass das Gewohnte zerbricht… Von einem Moment zum nächsten existiert dann auch in unserer Welt die Design-Hülle der Behausung nicht mehr… Lebenssituationen werden zerstört, zertrümmert, zerrissen, zerstückelt, zerbombt. Es ist plötzlich dunkel. Zerstörung und Hoffnung. Anstoß für die Installation war nicht Resignation, angesichts fortdauernder Kriege, zunehmender Naturkatastrophen und ihrer Folgen, eher Sehnsucht nach einer möglichen Veränderung.

video triology

THE SILENCE BEFORE 2013
Videotrilogie

the silence before @kreuzberg pavillon

THE SILENCE BEFORE 2013
Rauminstallation | Mixed Media: Acryl, Lack, Holzreste, Parkett, Leinwand, Rahmen, Schrauben, Scharniere, Heißkleber, Klebeband, Leuchtstofflampen, Glühbirnen, Lichterkette, Plexiglas, Mischpulte, CD-Player, Boxen, Kabel | ca. 150 x 140 x 15 cm | Kreuzberg Pavillon