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Inter Media Art Institute

The Inter Media Art Institute exhibits, archives and distributes time-based media art.

MARIA VEDDER „BLUES FüR EINEN UNBEKANNTEN FOTOGRAFEN“ (1987), VIDEOSTILL © MARIA VEDDER UND VG BILD-KUNST, BONN 2017
© MARIA VEDDER UND VG BILD-KUNST, BONN 2017
Conrad Schnitzler - "Sometimes it gets out of hand and turns into music"
The Cassette Underground
Fringe of the Fringe
HITTING PUBERTY Anniversary Program
Wasting Time on the Internet
Conrad Schnitzler, 1982
© Conrad Schnitzler Estate, Foto: Gisela Schnitzleri

Date

11.06.2022 - 14.08.2022
Typ
Exhibition

Conrad Schnitzler - "Sometimes it gets out of hand and turns into music"

Exhibition with concerts and performances at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.

Detail aus 235 Vertriebskatalog, 1983
Archiv Stiftung IMAI – Inter Media Art Institute, © Ulrich Leistner, Axel Wirths, 2022i

Date

15.12.2021 - 30.06.2022
Typ
Projekt

The Cassette Underground

A research project about archiving the alternative distribution channels of the cassette underground in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Akiko Hada, The Fall of a Queen or the Taste of the Fruit to Come, 1991, Videostill (edited)
© Akiko Hada, 2021i

Date

18.11.2021, 17:00 -
20.11.2021, 18:00
Typ
Conference

Fringe of the Fringe

Conference

A conference that seeks to bring together queer-feminist and antiracist strategies for archiving and cataloging audiovisual documents of punk, postpunk, new wave, and industrial.

Ale Bachlechner, Like You Really Mean It, Ale und Mops
© Ale Bachlechner, 2021i

Date

11.09.2021,
15:00 - 20:30
Typ
Screening

HITTING PUBERTY Anniversary Program

Artist talks, screenings and zine launche with Ale Bachlechner, Ji Su Kang-Gatto, Marcel Odenbach, Róbert Olawuyi and Niels Van Tomme, among others

Schreenshot Schattanik
Wasting Time on the Internet with Hedda Schattanik, © Hedda Schattanik, 2020i

Date

11.12.2020, 18:00 -
24.12.2020, 23:59
Typ
Screening

Wasting Time on the Internet

with Hedda Schattanik & Roman Szczesny

An on-screen conversation with the IMAI artists Hedda Schattanik und Roman Szczesny

Other Events

Conrad Schnitzler, 1982
© Conrad Schnitzler Estate, Foto: Gisela Schnitzleri

Date

11.06.2022 - 14.08.2022
Typ
Exhibition

Conrad Schnitzler - "Sometimes it gets out of hand and turns into music"

Exhibition with concerts and performances at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.

ELA EIS, Miracle Whip [Befreit], 1979
© ELA EIS 2022i

Date

12.06.2022 - 17.07.2022
Typ
Exhibition

LES DÜSSELDORFS

The program reflects the rich and lively history of Düsseldorf video art, which was shaped by Nam June Paik, Nan Hoover and Marcel Odenbach, among others. In addition, there are activist, musical, sub- and countercultural positions that have written history from and about Düsseldorf with the medium of video.

Hedda Schattanik und Roman Szczesny, Amor Fati, 2021
© Hedda Schattanik und Roman Szczesny, 2021i

Date

29.10.2021 - 09.01.2022
Typ
Exhibition

Episode 5 - selected by Hedda Schattanik and Roman Szczesny

The Düsseldorf artists Hedda Schattanik and Roman Szczesny have put together a screening program with works from the IMAI archive, including works by Chris Newman and Marcel Odenbach.

Akiko Hada, The Fall of a Queen or the Taste of the Fruit to Come, 1991, Videostill (edited)
© Akiko Hada, 2021i

Date

18.11.2021, 17:00 -
20.11.2021, 18:00
Typ
Conference

Fringe of the Fringe

Conference

A conference that seeks to bring together queer-feminist and antiracist strategies for archiving and cataloging audiovisual documents of punk, postpunk, new wave, and industrial.

Ji Su Kang-Gatto, Identities and Recipes: How to cook Janchi Guksi (Korean Banquet Noodles), 2018
© Ji Su Kang-Gatto, 2021i

Date

27.08.2021 - 27.10.2021
Typ
Exhibition

Episode 4 - selected by Ji Su Kang-Gatto

Düsseldorf-based artist Ji Su Kang-Gatto has put together a screening program with works from the IMAI archive. In addition to her own videos, she is showing works by Róbert Olawuyi and Margot Zanni.

Video Still aus dem Video H1BA - Curses von Hiba Ali
© Hiba Ali, courtesy of Vtape, 2021i

Date

11.09.2021,
19:30 - 20:30
Typ
Screening

The Age of Unreason

curated by Wanda vanderStoop

To celebrate the Inter Media Art Institute's 15th anniversary, fellow video art distributor Vtape Toronto has put together a video program on the theme of HITTING PUBERTY.

Ale Bachlechner, Like You Really Mean It, Ale und Mops
© Ale Bachlechner, 2021i

Date

11.09.2021,
15:00 - 20:30
Typ
Screening

HITTING PUBERTY Anniversary Program

Artist talks, screenings and zine launche with Ale Bachlechner, Ji Su Kang-Gatto, Marcel Odenbach, Róbert Olawuyi and Niels Van Tomme, among others

Video Still der Protagonistin aus dem Video Dear Lorde von Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, 2015.
© Vey Duke & Battersby, courtesy ARGOS, 2021i

Date

11.09.2021,
16:00 - 17:00
Typ
Screening

Dear Distribution,

curated by ARGOS

For the Inter Media Art Institute's 15th anniversary, the video art distributor Argos Brussels has put together a video program on the theme of HITTING PUBERTY.

Lukas Marxt, Imperial Irrigation, Videostill IV, 2020
Videostill aus der Arbeit Imperial Irrigation von Lukas Marxt, 2020
© Lukas Marxt, 2020i

Date

21.06.2021 - 25.07.2021
Typ
Exhibition

Episode 3 - selected by Lukas Marxt

Hitting Puberty

As part of the anniversary program HITTING PUBERTY - 15 Jahre Stiftung IMAI, young artists from the Foundation's distribution program present their own work relating to historical videos from the IMAI archive, which have been groundbreaking for their personal development.

The exhibition in the NRW Forum is open to visitors again.
Norbert Meissner, Dialog, 1987, Videostill
© Norbert Meissner und VG Bild-Kunst, 2021i

Date

08.05.2021 - 30.05.2021
Typ
Exhibition

Do Videos Dream of Glitching?

The students of the Master of Arts in Art Education Curatorial Studies at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste discovered work on the subject of glitching as an aesthetic-conceptual tool and emancipatory strategy in the video art archive of the IMAI.

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