Kino (Cinema)
2016 – 2019
The line between ‘Art’ and ‘Cinema’ is slippery. And so, Kunstverein München is spending 2016 sliding along that liminal terrain. We’re doing this primarily by focusing on its more elastic operatives — ‘artists’ and ‘filmmakers’ whose designations rest easiest in quotation marks, and whose films complicate disciplinary categorization. In other words, films that make the distinction irrelevant (if it exists at all).
Film, video, animation, slides, whatever — moving images selected from either edge of the disciplinary fence are being screened in the Kunstverein’s first-ever purpose-built Kino. This carpeted and curtained 'black box' space occupies a room on the first floor behind the staircases, and hosts a year-long program developed by Belgian film curator Vincent Stroep, in dialogue with Kunstverein director Chris Fitzpatrick.
The Kino operates in two modes:
At night, films are premiered triweekly, with the space oriented to accommodate large audiences and more discursive or performative components. During the Kunstverein’s normal daytime hours, the films are screened at set times, or on loop, from the comfort of a small array of sofas, to accommodate closer, or even repeated, viewing.
Additionally, a series of double-sided A4s hang outside the Kino, with film stills, credits, and English and German texts corresponding to each film. Freely available, they form a time-lapsed publication to be collected over the course of the year.
PROGRAM
Kino 11:
Anja Dornieden & Juan David González Monroy
The Masked Monkeys
21 October – 11 November 2016
Kino 10:
Invernomuto
Negus
1 – 21 October 2016
Kino 9:
Maxime Rossi
Real Estate Astrology
10 – 30 September 2016
Kino 8:
Deborah Stratman
The Illinois Parables
9 – 31 July 2016
Kino 7:
Rosalind Nashashibi
Electrical Gaza
18 June – 7 July 2016
Kino 6:
Corneliu Porumboiu
The Second Game
27 May – 17 June 2016
Kino 5:
Ane Hjort Guttu
Time Passes
7 – 27 May 2016
Kino 4:
Benjamin Crotty
Fort Buchanan
16 April – 6 May 2016
Kino 3:
Chick Strand
Soft Fiction
26 March – 15 April 2016
Kino 2:
Kamal Aljafari
Recollection
5 – 25 March 2016
Kino 1:
Arvo Leo
Fish Plane, Heart Clock
13 February – 4 March 2016
The Kino at Kunstverein München