20. – 21.01.2026 | Talk and workshop
Nina Könnemann: Talk & Workshop
TALK
In a commented screening I will show examples of my documentary film practice reflecting on the modalities of filming in public spaces and how these have changed over time. This will be followed by the presentation of a more recent project, BLOCKEN, in which I use live streaming to construct a documentary narrative in realtime. In these filmmaking performances, the audience witnesses a collaborative process unfold in a decentralised way.
WORKSHOP
The next day, during the workshop, we will analyse this recent project more closely, picking up on contemporary debates around immediacy and the desire for unmediated presence in visual culture. We will explore the working method in a simplified way, using the cameras of our mobile phones for live-streaming sessions in small groups, followed by discussions of the results and the potential for non-hierarchical forms of collaboration in film.
BIO
Nina Könnemann is a contemporary video artist. Since the 2000s, she has developed her video practice alongside installations and sculpture. The camera of Nina Könnemann borrows from realistic cinema and structural materialism. Located at the crossroads of Vertov's "Cinema-Eye"—which records a reality that the habit would prevent from seeing— and Anglo-Saxon experimental cinema, such that of Hollis Frampton and Michael Snow, where the consciousness of the medium is omnipresent, Könnemann closely examines marginal spaces, human behavior and subcultures. As an observer of public spaces, Könnemann documents in detail how social relations produced by social conditioning are manifested in the form of micro-interactions. (Joseph del Pesco)
Recent exhibitions include: BLOCKEN/Further Reductions, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Did Women make Stone Tools, Gandt, New York; Frankfurt Marathon en direct, Treize, Paris and Old Dogs, Galerie Lars Friedrich, Berlin.
Talk
20.01.2026 7 pm
Studio Widmann A 2.30