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International Theme Exhibition at Photo Beijing

Place: Millennium Monument Museum, Beijing

Date: -

Invited by: Jürgen Büssow & SHU Yang

Artists: Christoph Böll, Isabella Fürnkäs, Hedda Schattanik, Judith Samen

Works: In Ekklesia

Moving images can be found in various media and do not represent a specific medium concept. Based on China Millennium Monument, the art project is dedicated to setting up a brand-new international academic experimental platform to explore various possibilities of integration and innovation of art, philosophy and technology with “moving image” as the communication media and to drive and energize entirely new art vigor for Photo Beijing which represents a mature brand program.

Institutions invited at this exhibition are marked with great openness. China Central Academy of Fine Arts and Beijing Film Academy as higher education institutions select and present excellent works of teachers and students, of China Photographers Association and XinhuaNet select and present works collected from and appraised by the public and works from “International Video Art Unit” are jointly recommended by two curators from German institutions, SHU Yan and Jürgen Büssow.

Art Project for Moving Image is an experimental unit launched at Photo Beijing 2017. This unit is hosted by the Organizing Committee of Photo Beijing and co-organized by Photography Studio of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Film Academy of China Photographers Association, XinhuaNet, Deutsch-Chinesischer Verein zum Austausch von Kunst & Kultur e.V. (DCKD) and German 701 e.V. Kunstverein and curated by Arts Future Lab of China World Art Museum.

The title, ‘In Ekklesia,’ comes from the Greek word ‘ecclesia,’ which refers to the democratic parliament that served Athens in its halcyon days by being open to male citizens every other year. Solon, an Athenian legislator and a sage, allowed all citizens to serve the parliament regardless of their social class in BC 594. The Ecclesia made decisions about war, military strategies, and all judicial and administrative issues. This work satirizes various facets of humans and machines in the 21st century, unconsciously within a dystopian environment.

Isabella Fürnkäs introduces a method of combining and overlaying countless images in her work, providing the new experience of sensations that act in ambiguous flows, movements, interference, and interjection. The piece is about the new metaphysical and material connections appearing through digital conversations that are divorced from the general notion of time and space, as well as isolation and alienation. 

- Text by Hyun Jeung Kim


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