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The director of Video Data Bank and two other staff members were removed by the administration at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where VDB is based. There are questions about the survival of this legacy institution for video art on the eve of its 50th anniversary.
November 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Pauline Curnier Jardin has two exhibitions opening this month in Belgium. The Associations of Pauline Curnier Jardin opens at M HKA in Antwerp while Dress to Kill opens at NW in Aalst. Combined, these will be her first solo presentations in the country.
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Pauline Curnier Jardin dresses to kill in Belgium
The artist has two exhibitions opening this month in Belgium, at M HKA in Antwerp and NW in Aalst.
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October 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
EAI is organizing a special presentation with Trevor Shimizu. The artist was invited to transform their office into a dynamic social environment showcasing several videos. This event is organized on the occasion of Shimizu's solo exhibition and EAI’s residency at the gallery 47 Canal in New York.
September 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong is organizing a group exhibition on 21st century art in China. The first chapter of the exhibition showcases artists whose practices reflect the integration of the internet, social media platforms, and digital technologies into all aspects of daily life.
September 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Lawrence Abu Hamdan has a solo exhibition opening at Munch Museum in Oslo. The artist has created a work which demonstrates the effect that more than 30 planned wind turbines will have upon the inhabitants of the occupied Golan Heights.
September 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
M HKA in Antwerp is organizing the first survey exhibition of Pauline Curnier Jardin. For the first time, more than twenty films directed by Curnier Jardin will be on display, allowing visitors to discover the wide variety of cinematic genres the artist explores and experiments with.
September 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
PalaisPopulaire in Berlin opened a solo exhibition by Charmaine Poh in recognition of Deutsche Bank naming her Artist of the Year for 2025. Poh's multimedia narratives center on identity and power structures, feminism, and queerness in Southeast Asia.
September 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
University Art Gallery Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo is organizing a survey of two decades of work by Gibson + Recoder. The show features their signature pieces in which the materiality of the media object itself overshadows its original use value as a mere functional “medium” for the moving image.
September 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
MC2 will feature cutting-edge artworks from both digital and real spaces. The channel will also publish regular reports and essays that chart the evolving state of digital culture.
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ArtReview and Nowness launch digital-first channel MC2
MC2 explores the impact that AI and emerging technologies have on storytelling and cultural expression.
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September 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
John Smith has a solo exhibition open at Secession Vienna. The show comprises three films by the artist.
September 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen is presenting the first solo exhibition in Switzerland for Cemile Sahin. The central work in the show is a multi-channel video installation that brings together Kurdish and Swiss landscapes.
September 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Mudam Luxembourg will dedicate the first major institutional exhibition to Ana Vaz in 2026. A modular environment designed for the occasion will host a constellation of the artist’s recent film installations.
September 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Fondazione Prada in Milan is organizing an exhibition by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. The show will mark the 25th anniversary of his breakout debut film Amores Perros with unseen vignettes from the archive.
September 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Arthur Jafa is showing a new film in the context of the theater performance Minor Music at the End of the World, written by Saidiya Hartman and directed by Sarah Benson. The show will be staged at International Theater Amsterdam.
September 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Museum Folkwang in Essen and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden are co-organizing a major retrospective on the work of William Kentridge. One focus will be on the films from the Drawings for Projection series which deal with the rise and fall of Johannesburg and the difficult legacy of apartheid.
September 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Stadel Museum in Frankfurt opened a solo exhibition by the sculptor Asta Groting. The show presents the artist's video works and a laser projection.
September 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Grazer Kunstverein is organizing a solo exhibition by Tom Burr. The show is based on an unrealized script by Pier Paolo Pasolini about the life of St Paul.
September 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Hiwa K and Anocha Suwichakornpong have won the SEMA-HANA Media Art Award 2025. The honor recognizes standout contributions to the Seoul Mediacity Biennale.
September 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Cauleen Smith has a solo show on view at University of Richmond Museums. The show is staged atop a central “space station,” where Smith draws together disparate objects with moving images.
September 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Kunstverein Gartenhaus in Vienna is organizing a solo exhibition by Anna Franceschini. The artist creates sculptures intended as moving images, redirecting the gaze toward the hypothesis of a​“machine as cinema.”
September 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM