SCREENINGS & ARTIST TALKS IN ROME
25th June 2024
MUSEO MACRO, ROMA, Italia
6.30 pm Artist Talk/ Conversation with Lorenzo Benedetti
6th July 2024
VIDEOCITTA, GAZOMETRO,
WORLD PREMIERE _ [dramatic music continues] @ KURZFILMTAGE OBERHAUSEN
May 4th 2024, 17 UHR
DEUTSCHER WETTBEWERB/ GERMAN COMPETITION
KURZFILMTAGE OBERHAUSEN
www.kurzfilmtage.de
Performance for/at: Arnold Dreyblatt: Kill the Light – a House without ElectricityTime to Listen
Sunday, 27 Aug 2023
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Berlin
Performance as part of TOUR 3
https://www.adk.de
https://www.adk.de/en/projects/2023/time-to-listen
LOL TROLL – INAUGURATION
19th August 2023
Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen
Magdeburg, Germany
kunstmuseum-magdeburg.de
Am Seegarten
1 July – 17 September 2023
Am Seegarten 1+2, Kirchmöser, 14774 Brandenburg an der Havel
http://seegarten.art/
BJØRN MELHUS – THE CASTLE
Film & Video
24 JUNE – 30 JULY 2023
Kunstverein Rosenheim, Rosenheim
kunstverein-rosenheim.de
WORLD PREMIERE _ RESOLUTION @ KURZFILMTAGE OBERHAUSEN
APRIL 27th 2023, 17 UHR
DEUTSCHER WETTBEWERB/ GERMAN COMPETITION
KURZFILMTAGE OBERHAUSEN
www.kurzfilmtage.de
BJØRN MELHUS – [DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]
28 APRIL 2023 – 17 JUNE 2023
EBENSPERGER BERLIN
Krematorium Wedding
Plantagenstraße 30, 13347 Berlin
Wednesdays–Saturdays, 12–6 pm
www.ebensperger.net
FAST NICHTS – DIMENSIONEN VON ABWESENHEIT
GROUP SHOW
2 December 2022 – 28 January 2023
Gesellschaft für zeitgenoessische Kunst, Kunstraum Hase
Osnabrück, Germany
hase29.de
ÜberLeben – Fragen an die Zukunft
SurVival – Questions to the future
15 September 2022 – 8 January 2023
HaL – Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
hal-berlin.de
HOMESICK
4K Video, 14 min, 2022
Videokunst in den Schaufenstern der Kunsthalle
2nd February – 3 April 2022
Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany
www.kunsthalle-recklinghausen.de
Bjørn Melhus Tower to the People: SOS – Save Our Souls
Solo Show
30 April – 2 May 2021, 9-10pm
LOQI Tower, Frankfurter Tor, 10243 Berlin
ebensperger.net
LICHTPARCOURS 2020
Group Show
13th June – 9th October 2020
Art in Public Space
Braunschweig, Germany
www.braunschweig.de/lichtparcours2020
ROHKUNSTBAU 25 – tenderness
Group Show
28 June 2020 – 20 September 2020
@SCHLOSS LIEBEROSE
SCHLOSSHOF 3
LIEBEROSE SPREEWALD
www.rohkunstbau.net
Inhabitated – Online exhibition
Group Show
22 April — 26 May 2020
Ústí nad Labem House of Arts, Czech Republic
duul.cz
SUGAR
4K Video, 20:30 min, 2019
Doors of Reception
Video for Installation, 2 min, 2019
The End Time
4-Channel Video installation, 7:04 min., 2019
Tagged with: america, computer games, dorothy, hell, limbo, moon, simulation, the wizard of oz, time, vietnam, war
Brainwashed
Group Show
31 January – 28 June 2020
Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
hausderkunst.de
INSIDE – OUT. KONSTRUKTIONEN DES ICHS
Group Show
26 October 2019 – 12 January 2020
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
www.kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de
BJØRN MELHUS: FREE UPDATE
Solo Show
15 September 2019 – 16 February 2020
KINDL – Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
kindl-berlin.de
Opening: 14 September
One Way Ticket to Mars
Group Show
21 September 2019 – 12 January 2020
Kunsthal KAde, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
www.kunsthalkade.nl
Magic Media – Media Magic
Video Art since the 1970s from the Wulf-Herzogenrath-Archive
12 September – 13 October 2019
Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz
Berlin,
im Atelier Liebermann: Bjørn Melhus. HOT SET
SOLOSHOW
23 August — 20 October 2019
Max-Liebermann-Haus, Berlin
stiftungbrandenburgertor.de
MILCHSTRASSEN-VERKEHRSORDNUNG
SPACE IS THE PLACE
Groupshow
Opening: 01 August 2019, 7 pm
1 August – 15 September 2019
KÜNSTLERHAUS BETHANIEN |
FACE IT! Im Selbstgespräch mit dem Anderen
Groupshow
29 June — 29 September 2019
Opening: 28th June 2019
Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Germany
www.kunstmuseum-ravensburg.de
OSMOSCOSMOS
Group Show
19 June – 25 August 2019
CENTRE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE DE GENÈVE
Geneva, Switzerland
www.centrephotogeneve.ch
Caravaggio and Cinema – Artist films and cinema classics
KINO DER KUNST in collaboration with Alte Pinakothek München
Sunday, 02.06.2019, 11:00 am
Theatiner Filmkunst | Theatinerstr. 32 | 80333
In Person: Bjørn Melhus
SCREENINGS at VIENNA SHORTS FESTIVAL
30 May 2019: 9 pm & 1st June 2019: 7 pm
Filmmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria
BJOERN MELHUS
SPECTRAL AFTERLIVES
Exhibition on the occasion of book release
29th May – 5th January 2020
Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
www.sprengel-museum.de
LICHTPARCOURS: AUFTAKT
Preface Lichtparcours 2020
23 May – 2 June 2019 GROUPSHOW
KUNSTVEREIN BRAUNSCHWEIG, Villa Salve Hospes OG, Braunschweig, Germany
www.kunstverein-bs.de
Reliving the Wounds
Screening Project #12: Dongshisangyoung
14th May – 8th June 2019
Open Box, Seoul, Korea
dongshisy.com
INTROSPECTIONS
8 February – 4 May 2019
SCREENING PROGRAMME
McEVOY Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
www.mcevoyarts.org
UNCANNY ENCOUNTERS
Schau_Raum – Programme of Films and Videos
9 October 2018 – 24 March 2019
Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
CAN YOU SEE MY ART?
Video loop for installation, 4’53, 2018
AMBITUS
Kunst und Musik heute
8 September 2018 – 6 January 2019
Groupshow
Kunstmuseum
Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
NO WAR NO VIETNAM
25 August – 6 October 2018
Groupshow
Kunstverein Tiergarten | Galerie Nord
Berlin, Germany
www.kunstverein-tiergarten.de
OUT OF SASNAK
14 June – 15 July 2018
SOLO SHOW
HALLE267 – städtische galerie braunschweig
Braunschweig, Germany
http://www.braunschweig.de/halle267/
ELECTIVE AFFINITIES
6 May – 25 November 2018
Groupshow
SAMMLUNG FRIEDRICHSHOF
Zurndorf, Austria
sammlungfriedrichshof.at
Angry Planet 2
Operation Continued
25 April – 10 June 2018
Group Show
House of Arts, The House of the Lords of Kunštát
KAPUTT
25 March – 30 June 2018
Groupshow
Neulich an der Salzach
Membergerstraße 1, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
galerieebensperger.net
RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN
CONTEMPORARY MOVING IMAGES (Festival)
10 – 15 April 2018
Paris, France
www.art-action.org
Breaking News
Von Kelterborn Collection
17 March – 10 June 2018
Mönchehaus Museum Goslar
Goslar, Germany
www.moenchehaus.de
shaping democracy – the republic in 24 frames per century
22 March – 3 June 2018
Exhibition at frei_raum Q21 exhibition space in cooperation with VIS Vienna Shorts
frei_raum Q21
Bjørn Melhus / FREEDOM & INDEPENDENCE
NKVextra
16 March 2018 – 29 April 2018
Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden, Germany
www.kunstverein-wiesbaden.de
I-MEER
Installation for industrial buckets and TV simulators, 2017
Dimensions variable
SCHNEE VON GESTERN (yesterday’s snow)
19 November – 22 December 2017
Bjoern Melhus & Thomas Rentmeister
KUK Monschau
Monschau, Germany
kuk-monschau.de
Liberty Park
15 November – 22 December 2017
Soloshow
Ebensperger
Salzburg, Austria
galerieebensperger.net
Again & Again
Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst
15 September 2017 – 8 April 2018
Group Show
Haus der Kunst
Munich, Germany
Center of the World
25 July –31 August 2017
Groupshow
Ebensperger
Salzburg, Austria
galerieebensperger.net
Kunst.Ort.Kino.
Kunst.Ort.Kino. Historische Publizistik und aktuelle künstlerische Positionen
16 July – 17 September 2017
Erfurt, Germany
kunstmuseen.erfurt.de
DISTURBANCE
2 June – 10 September 2017
Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
www.kunsthalle-sparkasse.de
MOON OVER DA NANG
HD VIDEO, 2016, 15 min.
experimental documentary
Tagged with: apollo11, astronaut, documentary, globalisation, interview, marble, media, moon, vietnam
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL OBERHAUSEN
PROFILE: BJØRN MELHUS
11 – 16 May 2017
Oberhausen, Germany
www.kurzfilmtage.de
ANGRY PLANET (Rozhněvaná planeta)
Global conflicts – local contexts
20th April – 17th June 2017
Groupshow
Gallery NTK, National Library of Technology
Prague, Czech
elastic collisions
16th March – 29th April 2017
Groupshow
Kunsthalle Exnergasse
Vienna, Austria
www.wuk.at
Mirror Images: Reflections in Art & Medicine
11 February 2017 – 30 April 2017
Kunstmuseum Thun
Thun, Switzerland
www.kunstmuseumthun.ch
SMALL
20 January – 11 February 2017
Group Show, Exhibition Design by Jay Gard
Sexauer Galerie, Berlin
www.sexauer.eu
Larger than Life
Video loop for Miniinstallation on iphone with objects
111s, 2017
56th October Salon Belgrade: THE PLEASURE OF LOVE
23rd September – 6th November 2016
Belgrade, Serbia
Groupshow
curated by David Elliott
designed by Jonathan Barnbroo
http://oktobarskisalon.org
BELOVED ENEMIES
SYMBOLISM TODAY
23 October 2016 – 19 February 2017
Groupshow
Clemens Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany
Antenna Futura
Futurologische Übungen für das Unbekannte
15th September – 29th October 2016
Groupshow
Kunsthalle Exnergasse
Vienna, Austria
www.wuk.at
GENEALOGY – Lecture Performance
28th August 2016, 19:00 h
SILENT GREEN KULTURQUARTIER, Berlin
in conjunction with:
HEADSHOTS
Galerie Patrick Ebensperger, Berlin
13 August –
DAS HYBRIS-PROJEKT
HOCHMUT UND SYSIPHALE VERGEBLICHKEIT
5 June – 25 September 2016
ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany
Medicine in Art
22nd April – 2nd October 2016
MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow
Krakow, Poland
GESTATTEN, KÄSTNER
SPIEGELUNGEN, WIDERSPRÜCHE, DOPPELGÄNGER
11th March – 10th July 2016
motorenhalle, Projektzentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden, Germany
TeleGen
THE LANGUAGE OF TELEVISION IN THE MIRROR OF ART 1960–2015
19 February 2016 – 16 May 2016
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz,
FACE TO FACE
CHRISTOPH GIRARDET & MATTHIAS MÜLLER, BJØRN MELHUS, STEFAN PANHANS, MEG STUART
6 February — 12 March 2016
WEST DEN HAAG,
ZONA MACO SUR
BJØRN MELHUS
as part of ZONA MACO SUR curated by João Mourão and Luis Silva
3 – 7 February 2016
VON HIER AUS NOCH VIEL WEITER
Nachdenken über den Skulpturenpark
23 January 2016 – 8 May 2016
Kunstmuseum Kloster unser lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
Der Raum zwischen den Personen kann die Decke tragen
Junge Sammlungen 03/ Sammlung Ivo Wessel
5 December – 22nd May 2016
Weserburg Museum fuer Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
www.weserburg.de
Mirror Images in Art and Medicine
12 November 2015 – 3 April 2016
Museum of Medical History at Charité
Schering Foundation Project Space
THE THEORY OF FREEDOM
BJØRN MELHUS
14 October – 6 December 2015
STUK Leuven, Belgium
Opening: 14 October, 8. p.m.
TELE-GEN
THE LANGUAGE OF TELEVISION IN THE MIRROR OF ART 1960–2015
1 October 2015 – 17 January 2016
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
BERLINROMA
– REVERSE INEQUALITY (PART 1)
20 September 2015 – November 2015
Opening: 19 September 2015, 7 p.m.
Galerie Patrick Ebensperger,
REDEMPTION JOKES
16 September – 15 November 2015
Opening: 15 September 2015, 6 p.m.
NGBK,Berlin, Germany
ARCADIA UNBOUND
13 – 20 September 2015
Opening: 12 September 2015, from 4 p.m.
Funkhaus Berlin, Nalepastr 18, Germany
Ansteckend. Vorbilder des Gefühls
Passions in Cultures
29th May 2015, 7 p.m.
Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany
Lecture in the context of a symposium (in
DAS HYBRIS-PROJEKT
HOCHMUT UND SYSIPHALE VERGEBLICHKEIT
2 May – 16 August 2015
Opening 1 May 2015, 3 p.m.
HALLE 14, Leipzig, Germany
Mix: Festival Participations
48h Chrono Berlin-Marseille
La Friche est Berlin, Festival
12.06. – 14.06.2015
La Friche la Belle de Mai, 41 rue Jobin,
CREATING REALITIES
ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN ART AND CINEMA
CHAPTER 3: NEIGHBOUR’S YARD
16 April – 31 May 2015
Pinakothek der Moderne and Museum
SCREENINGS: FREEDOM & INDEPENDENCE
22/23 April 2015, 8 p.m.
KINO DER KUNST, Munich, Germany
kinoderkunst.de
2 May 2015, 5 p.m.
KURZFILMTAGE OBERHAUSEN, German Competition
THE THEORY OF FREEDOM
3 channel high definition video installation, 13 min, 2015
Tagged with: apocalypse, ayn rand, capitalism, evangelicalism, gated communities, ideologies, neoliberalism, power relations, zombies
FREEDOM & INDEPENDENCE
4K Video, 15 min., 2014
Tagged with: apocalypse, capitalism, evangelism, ghosts, globalisation, horror, musical, neoliberalism, psyche, rationalism, undead, urbanism
HEADSHOTS (1991 – 2014)
Captured from Film, Video and Production Stills
87 C-Prints, 40×30 cm, framed, 2014
Installation Views:
MAESTRA
HD Video, 3 min. loop, 2009/2014
Synopsis:
A masked rider who is armed heavily with high-tech equipment sits on the
HEADHUNTER
Video Object, (HD Video, Stand-up Figure), 2014
Synopsis:
A headless figure is holding the head of the artist who is
Pflasterspender
(Band-Aid Dispenser)
Found Object, 2014
Must have for Friday 13th.
Tagged with: wordplay
BEARSKIN
Bearskin, Fine Art Print, 80 x 120 cm, framed, 2013
LIBERTY PARK
multichannel video installation, 2013
incl. 9 sets with 13 standup figures and billboard video, neon letters, door sign and 1
Tagged with: capitalism, consumerism, exclusion/inclusion, family, globalisation, neoliberalism, norms, religion, urbanism
Heaven
HD Video for Vertical Flatscreen, 6:20 min, 2013
Demo Video:
This video was developed as part of the installation “Liberty
HAUSER
A4, Visualisation/ Concept for a Work, 2013
When investigating the phenomenon of Kaspar Hauser for a group exhibition Bjørn Melhus
SUDDEN DESTRUCTION
Video HD, 4:20 min, (Screening Format), 2012
Video HD, 4:00 min, loop (Installation), 2012
Synopsis:
A man in a hotel.
MADE ON MARS
LABEL
www.madeonmars.org
DAS BADEZIMMER
HD Video, 5’10 min, 2011, black and white
Synopsis:In reference to the trailer of Psycho (USA 1960), narrated in
THIS IS MY HOME
5 channel video installation, 2011
(On 5 flat screens, size variable, 2’00 / 3’00 / 4’00 / 5’00 / 6’00
I DO NOT BELONG IN THIS HOUSE
HD Video for projection, 24 min., 2011
Synopsis:
In “I do not belong in this House”, the figure who seemed
I’M NOT THE ENEMY
HD Video for Installation, 25 min., 2011
Screening Version: HD Video, 13:30 min, 2011, Germany
Very short synopsis:
Is it
Tagged with: claustrophobia, drama, fairy tale, family, fear, ghosts, memory, PTSD, trauma, veteran, war movies
NIGHTWATCH | NACHTWACHE
2010, 3 channel video installation (HD, SD mix): 7 tents, 1 billboard, 1 video projection
Synopsis:
The meaning of the
AFTERLIFE
HD Video, 7:10min, 2010, colour
Synopsis:
Vast desert expanses extend out in our imaginations as life after death, the white
THE CENTER OF THE WORLD
HD VIDEO, 25 min., 2010
Norwegian with English Subtitles
Synopsis:
Time flows through the bottleneck of an hourglass like grains
Tagged with: city, collective, community, documentary, found footage, identity, memory, norway, timetravel
TREEHOUSE #1, #2 & #3
TREEHOUSE #1
Video, Installation for Treehouse and 1 TV, 3:29 min, loop
Synopsis:
Lights blink in the treehouse, sounds of
HECHO EN MEXICO
HD Video for installation, 4 min. (loop), 2009
Synopsis:HECHO EN MEXICO was realized in Mexico City during a one
BEAGLE III
Video Sculpture (Driftwood Sculpture and TVs), 2009
Description:
BEAGLE 3 is an outlandish looking video sculpture the exterior of which
MARS RECOVERY
Object and Text Video, 2009, 5:37 min, loop
Description:
MARS RECOVERY includes videos, photographs and objects orbiting around the once
SLOGAN SERIES
Photo Series, ongoing
FLYING BLUE
C-Print, 30 x 40 cm, 2008
CUT & GO
C-Print, 30 x 40 cm,
Tagged with: language
SCENERY MARS
Video, 2009, 7’10, loop
(part of MARS RECOVERY)
Synopsis:
The projection which is part of the work Mars Recovery/ Mars
CRITICAL SYSTEM ALERT
12 Channel Installation on 12 Photo Frames with Video Option, 2009
(stand alone work, but often presented together with Mars
OMEN
Video, HD animation, moving image loop, 2008
Synopsis:
In OMEN five identical, muscular men march over the globe in synchronised
DEADLY STORMS 333
9 channel Video Installation for 9 vertical flat screens on 3 walls, 2008, 7 min.
Synopsis:
Deadly Storms 333, is
SCREENSAVERS
SCREENSAVERS for Osram Seven Screens
interactive media installation on LED Screens/ installation in public space
Synopsis:
Screensavers is the name
DEADLY STORMS
3 channel video installation on 3 vertical plasma or LCD screens, 42″ (minimum size)
7’00 min. loop, 2008
Synopsis:
DEADLY
MURPHY
Video, 3:45 min., 2008,
Video Installation, 3:30 min., loop, 2008
Synopsis:
The videolight sequence is based on sound snippets from
THE CITY
Ongoing video project, variable in installation size, 2007
Synopsis:In “The City” night time views of major cities around the
THE MEADOW
Video (DV), 28:38 min (loop), 2007
Screening Version: 29:40 min, 2007
Synopsis:
In order to engage an increasingly commercialized society video artist
Tagged with: angst, choice, coming of age, fear, identity, jimmy, subconscious, time structure, wood
99 FLOORS
Single Channel Video for Flat Screen, 11:35 min, loop, 2007
Summary:
Elevators form the essential travelling experiences of vertical urban
THE CASTLE
Video, 2:30 min, 2007
Synopsis:
By considering the cinematic conventions and stylizations of movie trailers, THE CASTLE manipulates visual content
POLICIA
Video, 2 frames, loop, 2007
Synopsis:
Exhibiting a paradoxically static yet active Mexican police helicopter, appearing to be simultaneously vigilant
EMOTION FIELD #1
EMOTION FIELD #1 – The Odd Couple (German)
3 channel installation (synchronized) for 16 TVs, 2007, 7’15” (loop)
Synopsis:
Such
Tagged with: amp, archive, conservation, dubbing, emotion, synchronisation, technology, translation, voice over
EASTERN WESTERN PARK
6 channel installation for 3 projections, monitors and tent, 2005, 11:15 min, loop
Demo:
Documentation:
Synopsis:
Eastern Western Park is
BEHIND THE MOON, BEYOND THE RAIN
Video, 2 channel installation, 7:50 min, loop, 2005
Screening Version (single channel), 7:50 min, 2005
Synopsis:
“Behind the Moon, Beyond
Tagged with: 10 years, ageing, depression, exhaustion, identity, miscommunication, stagnation, telephone
CAPTAIN
Video, 2 channel installation, 14 min., loop, 2005
Screening Version: HD Video, 14:20 min, 2005
Synopsis:
As a child, Bjørn
HAPPY REBIRTH
Video, 1:30 min, 2004
Synopsis:
Marilyn Monroe is a cultural sex icon, and her singing happy birthday in a sultry
FIGHTING THE FORCES OF EVIL
2 channel installation for 6 TV screens, 2003, 7’30 min
Synopsis:
Bjørn Melhus´ video installation “FIGHTING THE FORCES OF EVIL”
STILL MEN OUT THERE
6 channel (synchronized) installation for 18 TVs, 10min, loop, 2003
Synopsis:
Composed of eighteen television monitors, installed on the floor
I’M YOUR TV
Video, 0:28 min, 2003
Synopsis & Background:
In spring 2003 the US American art collector Cliff Diver, (owner of C.P.
AUTO CENTER DRIVE
16 mm film transferred to video, 28:00 min, 2003
Synopsis:
By quoting the most diverse identification models from the memory
DIE UMGEKEHRTE RÜSTUNG
(THE INVERSED ARMORY)
Video, 2002, 23:42 min, loop
In collaboration with Yves Netzhammer
Synopsis:
Die umgekehrte Rüstung (The Reversed Armory)
SOMETIMES (Fire in Zero Gravity)
Video Installation, 2002, 5 channel installation on 10 TVs and 4 projections, 8 min. loop
Description:
Ten television monitors evoke
THE ORAL THING
Single Channel Video, 2001, 8 min., loop
(for screening or installation)
Synopsis:
The Oral Thing casts the TV host as
Tagged with: believe, choir, ornament, public/private, sensationalism, spectacle, talk show, teleevangelism, truth, tv
PRIMETIME
3 channel installation for 29 consumer TVs, 1 projection, 5 video cubes and stage, 1o min., loop, 2001
Synopsis:
Primetime is
WEEPING
Video projection, 7 min. loop, 2001
Synopsis:
In Weeping (2001) Melhus assumes the role of a televangelist preaching the way
GOOD MORNING NEW WORLD
Video, 58 min., 2000
Compilation of 75 TV excerpts from year 2000 New Year’s broadcasts from all over the world
Synopsis:
SILVERCITY 1+2
Video Installation, 2 channels, 7 min., 1999,
Silver City 1 (Silver City ist weit weg/ Silver City is far away)
AGAIN AND AGAIN
Installation for 8 Monitors, Video, 8 min loop, 1998
Synopsis:
In the video installation “Again & Again” Melhus tells—not without
ARRIVAL DEPARTURE – DEPARTURE ARRIVAL
Video Projection on 2 screens / 2 LED cubes, 6:05 min, loop, 1998
OUT OF THE BLUE
Video, 6:27 min., 1997
OUT OF THE BLUE presents a subjective and informative response to being part of the first
NO SUNSHINE
Video, 1997, 6 min., loop (for installation)
6’15 min. with titles for screening
Synopsis:
Depicting pairs of infantile doppelgängers floating
Tagged with: childhood, denial, music video, ornament, pop, repetition, reproduction, twins, virus, war
BLUE MOON
Single Channel Video, 4 min., 1997
Double channel video/ installation, 4 min., 1997
Synopsis:
“Mickey went to Europe, the Smurf
WEIT WEIT WEG
(FAR FAR AWAY)
Film, 16 mm transferred to Video, 39 min., 1995
Story:
With her green bow in her hair,
Tagged with: commodification, loss of innocence, narcissism, phone, remote, tv, urbanity, virtual, white noise
REINIGUNGSKASSETTE
(CLEANING TAPE)
Video, VHS, 60 min., 1993
Synopsis:
Inside the TV lives someone … occasionally they clean their window and
JETZT (NOW)
Video, 5 min., 1993
Description:
White forms and shapes emerge and vanish against a black flickering screen. An anthem and
DAS ZAUBERGLAS (THE MAGIC GLASS)
Video, 6’00, 1991
DAS ZAUBERGLAS considers subjectivity in regards to media culture, viewing and being viewed, and the positions of
ICH WEISS NICHT, WER DAS IST
(I DON’T KNOW WHO THAT IS)
Video, 3 min, 1991
Film Synopsis:
An abstract collage from segmented videos, produced and
Tagged with: early work
AMERICA SELLS
Video, 7 min., 1990
Synopsis:
July 1st 1990 marked the day of monetary reunification between East and West Germany. The
TOAST/ CORNFLAKES
TOAST, film, 16mm, 1986, 1 min.
in collaboration with Anne Maar (Super 8 version, 1:30 min)
Toast, buttered or not,