EMAF is the short form for the European Media Art Festival Osnabrück. It is important for the dissemination of media art in Europe. [Media art uses motifs from the mass media. So for example from films or music videos]. It always takes place once a year. The festival gives an updated overview of artistic films, installations, performances, digital formats and hybrid forms. It deals with personal and political themes. The festival is an international meeting place for the public, artists, curators and students from various disciplines.
This year, the EMAF is once again dedicated to a special theme. This year’s motto is The thing is. The artistic works and the theoretical contributions deal with our entanglement in the world of things. It is about the question: What is our reality made of? The interplay, friction and resistance between bodies, things and spaces.
Exhibition The thing is
The festival theme The thing is is also the theme of this year’s exhibition. Inga Seidler is the curator. [Curator is another word for exhibition organiser.] She deals with objects of our everyday life and speculative design. Speculative design imagines: An object comes from the future or from an artificial world. In installations, sculptures and video works, she asks: What constitutes a “thing”? What are quasi-objects and hybrids? The exhibition investigates: What are things made of? How are they made? What do they mean? What functions do they have? And how are they designed? In this way it becomes visible that we can read from things how we live with others and our environment.
Artists
Ursula Biemann & Paulo Tavares, Filipa César & Louis Henderson, Stine Deja & Marie Munk, Anna Ehrenstein, Leon Kahane, Valentina Karga, Tabita Rezaire, Anastasia Sosunova, R. A Walden, Samira Assir, Seunghoon Baek, Lisa Börgen, Lisann Greiner-Bechert, Vanessa Henning, Niklas Junker, Lukas Kappmeier, Han Kim, David Kind, Jo-Hendrik Hamann, Maxi Kling, Merlind Papke, Paul Kobert, Monika Witte, Aline Mourad, Daniela Witowski, Fritzi Wagner, Lena Köhler, Maria Frei
Opening hours
20.04.2022, 19:30, Opening at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück
21.-23.04.2022, 10:00-22:00
24.04.2022, 10:00-20:00
25.04.-29.05.2022, Tue–Sun, 11:00-18:00
You can find more information about the programme here hier.