4K Video, 18 min., 2022
Category: installation
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
DEADLY STORMS 333
9 channel Video Installation for 9 vertical flat screens on 3 walls, 2008, 7 min.
Synopsis:
Deadly Storms 333, is
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
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
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
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
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
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