Videoart at Midnight

05/06/2026

screening #161: Alban Muja
Friday, 12 June 2026, 24:00 | midnight
BABYLON, big cinema hall, Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30, Berlin
admission free and open to the public – pick up your free ticket at the box office

In Alban Muja’s latest film, ’I Believe the Portrait Saved Me‘ (2025) – premiered at the  75th Berlinale () – painter Skender Muja recalls a pivotal moment of survival, twenty-five years after his abduction during the Kosovo War. During the war’s final months, Muja and many Albanian citizens from Mitrovica were captured while attempting to flee Kosovo. Held in a school repurposed as a detention camp, they faced confinement, fear, and an uncertain fate. One day, the Serbian police commander presented Muja with a chilling ultimatum: to draw his portrait on a blackboard. “If it’s good, you’ll be spared. If not, I can’t guarantee anything,” he warned. Under immense pressure, Muja began sketching, aware that his life depended on his skill. The film alternates between two perspectives: Muja creating the portrait and the anxious faces of his fellow detainees. When the commander approves the drawing, Muja believes it saved his life. Narrated by Muja, I Believe the Portrait Saved Me explores resilience and the profound impact of art in even the most oppressive circumstances.


     

Pic: Alban Muja, I Believe the Portrait Saved Me, 2025 (video still) © Alban Muja

08/05/2026

Screening  #160: Vika Kirchenbauer
Friday, 15 Mai 2026, 24:00 | midnight
BABYLON, main cinema hall, Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30, Berlin

admission free and open to the public

Vika Kirchenbauer examines the fundamental political and social conflicts inherent in the artistic field. Through video, performance, installation, music production and theory writing, she engages critically with historically established categories that remain central to the ways in which art relates to class, coloniality and q***rness. Core concerns of her practice are the affective and material infrastructures of contemporary art at the intersection of nation-state and economy, as well as the subjects and self-conceptions these produce. Her research has focused extensively on the early institutionalisation of contemporary art in 18th-century Britain, a setting in which moral philosophical concepts and artists’ feelings—most distinctly around compassion and inconvenience—played important parts in inserting imaginings of superiority and constellations of dominance into the core of European notions of art.

Vika Kirchenbauer, who is present, shows:

YOU ARE BORING!, 2015, 13:43
COMPASSION AND INCONVENIENCE, 2024, 30:00 min
UNTITLED SEQUENCE OF GAPS, 2020, 12:31 min
THIS SUFFOCATING NOW, 2026, 15:36 min

All works in the programme include English descriptive subtitles.

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Pic: Vika Kirchenbauer, YOU ARE BORING!, 2015 (video still) © Vika Kirchenbauer & VG Bild Kunst

13/04/2026

Screening #159: Driant Zeneli
Friday, 17 April 2026, 24:00 | midnight
BABYLON, main cinema hall, Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30, Berlin
admission free and open to the public

Driant Zeneli (b. 1983 in Shkoder, Albania) lives between Tirana and Turin. He graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata, Italy. 2001 – 2005 BA: Sculpting, and 2006 – 2008 MFA: Multimedia.

Among his solo shows are the National Gallery, Sofia, 2026; MSU, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, 2025; National Gallery of North Ma Macedonia, 2022: National Gallery of The Republic of Kosovo, Prishtina (2019); Albanian Pavilion 58th International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennale, (2019); GAMEC, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bergamo, (2019); Villa Medici, Rome (2016); GAM, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Turin (2013)

Among his group shows are the Kochi Muziris Biennale 6th, Kochi, (2026); EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens,(2025); Sharjah Biennial 16, (2025); 15th Bienal De La Habana, (2024); Ruhr Triennale, Bochum (2024); Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi, (2024); Maxxi Museum, Rome (2023); Double Feature – Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2023); Dhaka Art Summit (DAS), Dhaka (2023); 59th October Salon, Belgrade Biennale,(2022); Manifesta Biennial 14, Prishtina (2022); Teatrino Palazzo Grassi, Venice, (2021); 39th EVA International Biennial, Limerick (2020); Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga (2019); Albanian Pavilion 54th International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennale, (2019); Autostrada Biennale, Prizren, (2019); Mostyn Gallery, Wales, UK (2017); MuCEM, Marseille, (2016) Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016); ZKM, Karlsruhe (2012); MUSAC, Castilla León. Spain, (2012); Prague Biennale 5 (2011); National Gallery of Albania, Tirana (2008).


     

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Pic: Maybe the Cosmos is not so Extraordinary, 2019 (film still) © Driant Zeneli

17/03/2026

07/02/2026

#157: Young-jun Tak
Friday, 13 FEB 2026, 24:00 | Midnight
BABYLON, BIG CINEMA HALL, ROSA-LUXEMBURG-STR. 30, BERLIN
Admission free and open to the public

Young-jun Tak, who is present, shows his choreography film series, that combines elements of video art and short experimental documentary.
The series is planned to consist of seven films in total, each titled after a day of the week: from the first Sunday to the second Thursday, the third Monday, and the latest fourth Friday. Each film follows a similar structure, juxtaposing two contrasting conditions of belief. Within this framework, q***r bodies and stories and choreography disrupt conventional boundaries, exposing both their apparent dissimilarity and their strangely convincing similarities. The dominance of heteronormativity in human history and architecture has shaped societal structures, forcing sexual minorities to adapt within these constraints.

WISH YOU A LOVELY SUNDAY, 2021, HD video, sound, 18:45 min
LOVE YOUR CLEAN FEET ON THURSDAY, 2023, 4K video, color, sound, 18:53 min
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT ON MONDAY, 2024, 4K video, color, sound, 19:59 min – European Premiere!
LOVE WAS TAUGHT LAST FRIDAY, 2025, 4K video, color, sound, 20 minutes – European Premiere!

Young-jun Tak (born in 1989 in Seoul, South Korea) Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
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pic: Love Was Taught Last Friday, 2025 (film still) © Young-jun Tak, courtesy of the artist

02/02/2026

Some rainy but intense days in Istanbul. I’m coming back, soon.

19/09/2025

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Simon Dybbroe Møller
Friday, 19 September 2025, 24:00 | midnight
BABYLON, big cinema hall, Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30, Berlin
admission free and open to the public

Simon Dybbroe Møller (*1976 in Aarhus, DK) studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and at Städelschule. He is Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Sculpture in Copenhagen, co-runs the exhibition space AYE-AYE and curates the performance series Why Words Now. This fall he will present solo exhibitions at Palace Enterprise in Copenhagen and La Salle de Bain in Lyon, and participate in numerous group shows including the 1st Klaipėda Biennial and the 14th Taipei Biennial.

02/09/2025

2025 Berlin Art Week Garten’s Open Air Cinema by Videoart at Midnight

For the third time in a row, Videoart at Midnight presents selected artists' films and video works in the Berlin Art Week Garten on a large screen, in the open air. This year's host is Hamburger Bahnhof – National Gallery of Contemporary Art. 

The program showcases Videoart at Midnight's long-standing commitment to the field of artists' film and video in Berlin. It also references the artists' presence at Berlin Art Week's partner institutions in the city.

SCREENING #1, THU 11 SEP
Clément Cogitore – Elegies, 2013, 6:25 min
Cyrill Lachauer – Dodging Raindrops, A Separate Reality, 2017, 26:49 min
Moritz Stumm & Stefan Neuberger – Kontrolle, 2024, 16:29 min
Simon Dybbroe Møller – Bag of Bones, 2023, 4:40 min

SCREENING #2, FRI 12 SEP
Jordan Strafer – No S***k, 2024, 10:00 min
Raphaela Vogel – Procon, 2014, 2:46 min
Wendi Yan – Dream of Walnut Places, 2025, 10:48 min
Lucy Beech & James Richards– A Map of the Pit, 2025, 12:00 min
Raphaela Vogel – Atomtheorie, 2014, part 1 (Fuge meam propinquitatem!), till 6:42 min of 13:08 min
Dana Kavelina –Taki pejzaż (Such a Landscape), 2024, 12:00 min
Raphaela Vogel – Atomtheorie, 2014, part 2 (Des Pudels Kern), from 12:20 min of 13:08 min

SCREENING #3, SAT 13 SEP
Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz – El Cristal Es Mi Piel (Glass Is My Skin) , 2025, 12:23 min
Ari Benjamin Meyers – Marshall Allen, 99, Astronaut, 2024, 17:42 min
Azin Feizabadi – Silence of Homa, 2025,17:17 min
Marianna Simnett – Leda was a Swan, 2025, 5:00 min

SCREENING #4, SUN 14 SEP
Clemens von Wedemeyer – Bakhmut, 2023, 11:02 min
Myokla Ridnyi – The District, 2023, 20:00 min
Anna Zett – Es gibt keine Angst, 2023, 31:00 min

Detailed information on www.videoart-at-midnight.de


       

10/05/2025

upcoming  #151: Anna Zett
Friday, 16 May 2025, 24:00 | Midnight
BABYLON, BIG CINEMA HALL, ROSA-LUXEMBURG-STR. 30, BERLIN
Admission is free and open to the public

The artist and writer Anna Zett (*1983 in Leipzig) describes themself as a witness, host and performer of encounters with the unknown. Rooted in dissident and q***r perspectives and informed by cultural theory, filmmaking, dance and group analysis, Zett’s artistic practice questions structures of repression, and invites free association and recovery in the present moment. This work results in pulsating videos, experimental radio plays, analytical texts, uncanny objects, tangible installations and participatory live formats, such as the long-term artistic research ‚Postsocialist Group Improvisation‘. Through rhythmic montage and dialogical improvisation, Zett’s videos unfold a unique, non-linear narrative style, that asks the viewer to remain curious about their own thoughts and feelings. Holding on to and letting go of meaning appears to be an environmental and somatic process that can’t be controlled by human beings alone, and certainly not by a single person.

Anna Zett, who is present, shows:

This Unwieldy Object, 2014, 47 min
Es gibt keine Angst, 2023, 31 min

pic: This Unwieldy Object, 2014 (film still) @ Anna Zett

11/04/2025

See you tonight
#150: Anna Witt
Friday, 11 April 2025, 24:00 | Midnight
BABYLON, BIG CINEMA HALL, ROSA-LUXEMBURG-STR. 30, BERLIN
Admission is free and open to the public

Anna Witt, who is present, shows:

Push, 2006, 6:00 min
Rechte des Gehsteigs/ The Rights of the Pavement, 2012, 6:00 min
Money to find – Moskau, 2012, 7:32 min
Care, 2017, 6:50 min (excerpt)
Body in Progress, 2018, 19:11 min
Unboxing the Future, 2019, 24:40 min 
Bond, 2023, 20:00 min

pic: Money to find – Moskau, 2012 (film still) © Anna Witt, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Tanja Wagner
The installation represented an office in a post-Soviet administrative institution where 15,000 Rubels have been hidden. Viewers were invited to hunt for the money, without worrying about disturbing anything. They could keep whatever money they found. Viewers were thus actively engaged in the creation of a work whose development was unpredictable.

further information on https://www.videoart-at-midnight.de/150-anna-witt/


     
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