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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
AVefi plus
Circulating Copies
Monika Kerkmann joins IMAI's Board of Directors
When the World Went Out of Tune with Itself
I Don't Pay Your Price
A shelf in the IMAI Archive filled with a wide variety of video cassettes. Brand names such as Fuji and Sony are visible on some of them. All the cassettes bear labels featuring the IMAI logo and an inventory number.
Photo: Jan Buschmanni

Date

01.11.2025 - 31.10.2028
Typ
Projekt

AVefi plus

Research project on the establishment and expansion of an automated network system for audiovisual collections
The text “Circulating Copies” in black lettering on a white background. The typeface is a new, perception-oriented design.

Date

16.04.2026 - 06.05.2026
Typ
Projekt

Circulating Copies

Exhibition on screens and sound systems across the city of Düsseldorf
Ein Portrait von Monika Kerkmann mit langen dunklen Haaren und rotem Lippenstift. Sie blickt direkt in die Kamera blickt und trägt eine schwarze Bluse.
© Monika Kerkmanni

Date

12.01.2026
Typ
Announcement

Monika Kerkmann joins IMAI's Board of Directors

IMAI announces the appointment of Monika Kerkmann to the foundation's Board of Directors
When the World Went Out Key Visual

Date

18.10.2025 - 29.11.2025
Typ
Projekt

When the World Went Out of Tune with Itself

Together with Approximation Festival, we trace feminist legacies in experimental electronic soundtracks
Eine Person blickt in die Kamera und verdeckt dabei eine Gesichtshälfte mit ihrer Hand
Das Bild zeigt das Kopfporträt einer dunkelhaarigen, weiblich gelesenen Person. Mit ihrer linken, schwarz behandschuhten Hand bedeckt sie ihr linkes Auge. Rosa- und Blautöne dominieren das computerverfremdete Bild.

© unbekannti

Date

08.11.2024, 16:00 -
08.12.2024, 18:00
Typ
Exhibition

I Don't Pay Your Price

Queerfeminist Interventions with the Video Camera

An exhibition with new discoveries from the IMAI archive

Other Events

A black-and-white video still by the artist VALIE EXPORT. The artist looks into the camera and forms a sign with her hands. It is the sign for the letter “n” in the two-handed finger alphabet. However, she likely intended to represent the letter “m.”
© VALIE EXPORTi

Date

16.04.2026, 18:00 -
07.06.2026, 18:00
Typ
Exhibition

ICH SAGE DIE ZEIGE MIT DEN ZEICHEN IM ZEIGEN DER SAGE

Exhibition at the Storage Museum in collaboration with the Deaf People's City Association

Close-up of a square, worn, and dirty metal drain cover in Düsseldorf’s city center. Pale residues of old chewing gum are visible on its surface. Narrow openings reveal a pitch black space beneath, from which bright green moss grows upward.
© KMRUi

Date

16.04.2026 - 06.05.2026
Typ
Exhibition

KMRU

FOLDS (In tape fields)

Multi-sited sound installation

At a construction site, the pavement has been extensivly broken up. Several people in high-visibility clothing are working among piles of rubble. On the left, an excavator arm moves heavy pieces of concrete; further back, someone operates a mini excavator with a jackhammer. On the right, a person near a building wall leans on a shovel. Vehicles and safety barriers frame the scene on the street. At the bottom, there is a caption that says “...yes/no?...” with white font against black background.
© Seo Hye Lee, Video: Damien Robinsoni

Date

16.04.2026 - 06.05.2026
Typ
Screening

Seo Hye Lee

Deafening Silence

Videos with artistic captions on roadside screens

A surreal collage featuring the singer Hermoine Zittlau. Against violet-beige wallpaper, she is dressed as a queen in an extravagant red-gold dress and an ermine coat. To the left is a small window; to the right, the sign language poet Gunter Trube appears as her royal advisor. His positioning and pose make him seem slightly detached from the space. On the bottom left corner, part of a face can be seen with open mouth. Superimposed onto the image is the subtitle: “Her Majesty should listen in disguise.”
© Akiko Hada i

Date

16.04.2026 - 06.05.2026
Typ
Screening

Akiko Hada

The Fall of a Queen, or The Taste of the Fruit to Come

Video opera at Storage Museum with artistic captions by Carefuffle

A group of twelve young people stands side by side in a bright, minimalist room. Behind them is a large window through which daylight streams in; the upper part of the window is softly blurred. The people are wearing everyday clothes and assume various postures, some with their arms stretched upward, others with their hands clasped.
© Lucien Liebeckei

Date

16.04.2026 - 06.05.2026
Typ
Screening

Class of Prof. Danica Dakić

Videos on the LED screen of Kö-Bogen II

A flame-red animation of spiraling butterfly antennae stands out against a deep black background. The representation resembles a flower. Its glowing red-orange petals appear to pulse and move.
© Yoora Parki

Date

20.04.2026 - 03.05.2026
Typ
Screening

Yoora Park

Untitled (background activity)

Videos on subway screens

Two motifs are overlaid onto one another. The more dominant motif is a view from above of the artist’s black leather shoe, furnished with a microphone, as he walks across the asphalt. His pale pant leg is also partially visible. Slightly less visible is the overlaid, transparent image of Black children sitting in a shopping trolley as they roll playfully through the streets of Harlem, New York.
© Marcel Odenbach / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026i

Date

25.04.2026,
19:30 - 22:30
Typ
Screening

Marcel Odenbach

Auf Schritt und Tritt

Two-channel video installation with integrated artistic audio description by SoundScribe at Filmwerkstatt

Two tips of a white cane. One is cylinder-shaped, the other is spherical, and they rest on a grid-lined surface. Between them lies the mallet of a percussion instrument.
© Dirk Sorge / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026i

Date

25.04.2026,
19:30 - 21:00
Typ
Veranstaltung

Labyrinth of the Inner Ear

Siegfried Saerberg, Dirk Sorge, Juan Ruiz

Discussion with listening session at Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf

A black-and-white reenactment of a Karl Lagerfeld series from the 1980s, set in the Berlin club Kumpelnest 3000. Rafael-Evitan Grombelka assumes the role of Gunter Trube, restaging the look and pose directly within the original space. With pinned-up hair, makeup, a short skirt, a blouse, and a feather boa, he captures the visual language of the original series. Mirrors, patterned walls, and a chandelier define the space; visible in the background is a mural depicting a child leaning against a lion.
© Rafael-Evitan Grombelka, Photo: Benedikt J. Sequeira Gerardoi

Date

06.05.2026,
19:30 - 20:30
Typ
Veranstaltung

Rafael-Evitan Grombelka

Deaf Cinderella

Sign language poetry performance at the Storage Museum

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