Videolounge

Exhibitions

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 interdisciplinary programs such as "When the World Went Out of Tune with Itself" at the Approximation Festival at FFT Düsseldorf (2025).

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

Simnikiwe Buhlungu, long time lung time continuuum!!! (a conver-something), 2024, (c) the artist

Simnikiwe Buhlungu, long time lung time continuuum!!! (a conver-something), 2024, © Simnikiwe Buhlungu.

Date

24.02.2024 - 20.05.2024

Typ

Exhibition

long time lung time continuuum!!! (a conver-something)

Following Images against Darkness in 2012 and Watch Out in 2018, the upcoming project, long time lung time continuuum!!! (a conver-something) is the third collaboration between IMAI – Inter Media Art Institute and KIT – Kunst im Tunnel in Düsseldorf.

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

The text “Circulating Copies” in black lettering on a white background. The typeface is a new, perception-oriented design.

Circulating Copies is a biennial exhibition project of the IMAI - Inter Media Art Institute taking place on screens and sound systems across the city of Düsseldorf.

Audiovisual media interfaces are a ubiquitous part of everyday life here, but they are rarely perceived as structures that can be played with or changed. This second edition of the project is dedicated to how these infrastructures organize, negotiate, and reflect how we see and hear in public spaces.

Circulating Copies 2026

Past Exhibitions

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.”

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.

Date

16.04.2026 - 06.05.2026

Typ

Exhibition

KMRU

FOLDS (In tape fields)

Multi-sited sound installation

A close-up view of the Henry Moore sculpture in Düsseldorf's Hofgarten, the outlines are blurred, the eye-shaped close-up of the steel sculpture bears marks from weathering and human intervention.

Date

27.11.2025 - 29.11.2025

Typ

Exhibition

Keta Gavasheli

Untitled

Premiere of newly commissioned video installation at the Approximation Festival at FFT Düsseldorf

Black-and white image of a blurry figure changing in front of a one-person bed. Film still from Hooykaas/Stansfield, Daydreams, 1972.

Date

27.11.2025

Typ

Exhibition

Delia Derbyshire, Madelon Hooykaas, and Elsa Stansfield

When the World Went Out of Tune with Itself

Film program with soundtracks by Delia Derbyshire at the Approximation Festival at FFT Düsseldorf

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.

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

Date

18.07.2019, 18:00 -
28.07.2024, 18:00

Typ

Exhibition

From 2019 to 2024, IMAI operated a video lounge at NRW-Forum Düsseldorf.

Jill Scott, Paradise Tossed (still), 1992, 14:00 min., courtesy: Jill Scott

Date

04.06.2023 - 26.05.2024

Typ

Exhibition

Paradise Tossed

Based on the video of the same name by Jill Scott from 1992, the series brings together works that speculate about dystopian but also hopeful future scenarios from a (queer-)feminist perspective

Date

24.02.2024 - 20.05.2024

Typ

Exhibition

long time lung time continuuum!!! (a conver-something)

Date

05.04.2024 - 05.05.2024

Typ

Exhibition

Circulating Copies

For Circulating Copies, IMAI – Inter Media Art Institute will present a selection of video works from its own collection in dialog with newly commissioned works in public spaces throughout Düsseldorf and beyond from 5 April to 5 May 2024.