12 Feb 2015

VKUNST FRANKFURT VII - Call for Entries

VKUNST FRANKFURT VII 'ICH BLEIBE'


Exhibition: Friday, May 8 and Saturday, May 9, 2015, 8 pm – 12 am
Opening: Friday, May 8, 8 pm
Award Presentation: Friday, May 8, 10 pm

Exhibition of selected works at Kunstverein Familie Montez e.V.: May 9 - June 14, 2015
Opening: Saturday, May 9

Submission Deadline: March 27, 2015


VKUNST FRANKFURT

In May 2015, vkunst frankfurt presents for the seventh time current tendencies of international video art in the city centre of Frankfurt am Main, from MMK Museum of Modern Art to the Main river. Showing projections, interactive installations and animated computer art by about 40 artists, the windows of 25 galleries and shops will transform Frankfurt's Fahrgasse street into a 'roofless exhibition hall' for two evenings. In 2015, selected works of the exhibition will also be presented at the premises of the Kunstverein Familie Montez e.V. (Honsellbrücke am Hafenpark, Frankfurt) for a period of one month. The works will be shown in walk-in installations by the artist duo Winter/Hoerbelt. vkunst frankfurt takes place annually and provides a constant platform for both established artists and young talents from all countries.

This call is open to all media artists. Each artist may submit one work of art. For further information, entry details and download forms in English and German please visit our website www.v-kunst.de.



MOTIVE 2015 'ich bleibe'

Defiant it may sound, but also hopeful, the headline 'ich bleibe' – 'I stay, I remain' of vkunst 2015. Two words that remind of the slogan of a rebellious youth culture. A culture, an attitude that is not prepared to be displaced – not from its quarters, not from the minds of their time, not from its position. But 'ich bleibe' is also the anxious response to transience. To the transience of ourselves and to the transience of our time. Is it not art, of all things, that stands up to transience?

'ich bleibe' may express both deep confidence and fundamental uncertainty. What aspects in this spectrum do the artists focus on? Will they take philosophical or rather political, social approaches? And can such a distinction be made at all? Investigating this is the task of vkunst frankfurt 2015.



VKUNST AWARD 2015 BY JOCHEN LATZ

As in 2013 and 2014, the media art prize 'vkunst', donated by Jochen Latz and endowed with 2,500 €, will be awarded. An independent jury of curators and art theoreticians will choose the award winner for the best exhibited work.



LINKS AND DOWNLOADS

www.v-kunst.de

www.v-kunst.de/fileadmin/download/2015/V-Kunst-2015-Ausschreibung-EN.pdf
www.v-kunst.de/fileadmin/download/2015/V-Kunst-2015-Ausschreibung-DE.pdf

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