4K Video, 18 min., 2022
Category: work
HOMESICK
4K Video, 14 min, 2022
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
CAN YOU SEE MY ART?
Video loop for installation, 4’53, 2018
I-MEER
Installation for industrial buckets and TV simulators, 2017
Dimensions variable
MOON OVER DA NANG
HD VIDEO, 2016, 15 min.
experimental documentary
Tagged with: apollo11, astronaut, documentary, globalisation, interview, marble, media, moon, vietnam
Larger than Life
Video loop for Miniinstallation on iphone with objects
111s, 2017
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,