Exhibitions
Das Bild zeigt einen Röhrenmonitor in einem unterirdischen Ausstellungsraum. Auf dem Fernseher läuft ein Video der Wiener Künstlerin Valie Export. Es zeigt die Künstlerin, wie sie die Kameralinse anhaucht.
Valie Export, Hauchtext: Liebesgedicht, 1970. Installationsansicht im KIT Düsseldorf, 2024. Foto: Ivo Faber.i
Videolounge
IMAI regularly organizes exhibitions in collaboration with institutions in Düsseldorf and beyond. Our curatorial interests concern the artists (under)represented in our archive, their reappraisal and contextualization, as well as their contemporary presentation and distribution. In recent years, the IMAI team has worked on historical solo exhibitions such as “Conrad Schnitzler - Manchmal artet es in Musik aus” at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2022), contemporary group exhibitions such as “long time lung time continuuum!!! (a conver-something)” with Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Valie Export and Pamela Z at KIT Düsseldorf (2024), and performative formats such as "Constance de Jong: It's Always Night" at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (2024).
Circulating Copies
In 2024, the IMAI foundation organized the exhibition format Circulating Copies for the first time in various institutional and public spaces across the city of Düsseldorf. For one month, artist videos from the IMAI archive and new site-specific commissions appeared on screens and projection surfaces throughout the city: in an ice cream parlor, in a subway station, in a Schnitzel restaurant, and in the city's main shopping street, but also in the local theater Schauspielhaus, at Kunsthalle, and at the Kunstverein. Due to the positive response, the Circulating Copies format is now being made permanent and is scheduled to take place again in 2026.
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