Friday, March 14th, 2014, 24:00 | midnight
BABYLON, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, big cinema hall
(Eintritt frei | admission free)
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| Marcel Odenbach 'Im Schiffbruch nicht schwimmen können' © Marcel Odenbach, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne |
Gespräch zwischen Ost und West, mit Gabor Body, 1978 schw/w Ton 3:40min
In stillen Teichen lauern Krokodile, 2002/04, Farbe, Ton 31:20 min
Disturbed Places, 2007, Farbe, Ton 34min
Im Kreise drehen, 2009, Farbe, Ton 15:50 min
Im Schiffbruch nicht Schwimmen können, 2011, Farbe, Ton 8:15min
We are very proud to welcome Marcel Odenbach, one of the pioneers and important exponents of German video art.
His works on video and video installations attest to his crucial role in promoting and shaping the international development of this genre. From the early videos, which were still conceived for presentation on monitors, to his complex installations including large projections, the screening illustrates the subtlety and formal variety with which Odenbach stages the moving picture and its acoustic accompaniment.
The selection of works combines this retrospective orientation with an attempt to cover the major thematic emphases in the artist’s oeuvre. The close critical engagement with the problem of how to deal with the past, in particular, illustrates that his art is an exemplary reflection on the German post-war era and its social situation. Yet Marcel Odenbach also worked early on to embed this thematic emphasis in a wider horizon, expanding on the specifically German issues to achieve a more universal perspective. He studied different cultures and political constellations and integrated his observations into his work, drawing connections between the German trauma of Nazi rule and the Rwandan genocide, between images of masculinity in Turkey and the role of women in Venezuela, between the familiar and the foreign, between his own biography and the history of others.
Odenbach’s videos and graphic works are complex narratives the artist creates by means of a unique collage technique out of recorded film and television footage, archival material, and pictures he has produced himself. Montaging public and private imagery, he spins stories that interweave the larger frame of history with the emotions of the individual human being and his own biography.
Quelle | source: Marcel Odenbach- Stille Bewegungen. Tranquil Motions, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart; Ostfildern 2013.
book release „Take it or leave it. Marcel Odenbach“
Friday, March 14th, 2014, 18:00 | 6 pm
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Clubraum
Buchvorstellung und Gespräch mit Marcel Odenbach, Einführung Wulf Herzogenrath, Buchvorstellung Slavko Kacunko, Gespräch Olaf Stüber
€ 5/3
