Schau_Raum

A modestly sized cinema that screens a variety of film formats, including video art, often in conjunction with the current exhibition and/or contemporary events. The venue also serves as a platform for performances, readings and discussions.

Hans Richter & Walter Ruttmann

absolutely experimental!

September 10, 2024 – February 16, 2025, Tue–Sun 10 am–5 pm, Thu 10 am–7 pm

The 1920s were not only a time of upheaval and activity in the visual arts on the part of the avant-garde, but they also represented a quest for new forms of expression in the field of film.
Cinemas screened well-known silent films, such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920), Nosferatu – A Symphony of Horror (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1922) and Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Fritz Lang, 1922). They offered entertainment and a welcome break from everyday life.
At the same time, various artists came up with new ideas to break away from the erstwhile narrative structures of contemporary film and to experiment with new forms. This Schau_Raum edition is dedicated to these artistic experiments and features works by Hans Richter and Walter Ruttmann.
 
Hans Richter
Ghosts Before Breakfast, 1928, 9 min 
 
Walter Ruttmann
Lichtspiel Opus I, 1921, 13 min

Archive

2023

Deniz Eroglu – The Shipwrecked Triptych (2023) (1. August bis 27. September)

BIENNALE FÜR FREIBURG 2 – "Das Lied der Straße" (16 june – 29 july 2023) 

Dara Birnbaum | Halil Altındere | Ayo Akingbade | Samar Al Summary | Alia Farid 

curated by Paula Kommoss


"(In)Visibilities (6 april – 15 june 2023) 

Tarlan Lotfizadeh | Anahita Razmi | Maryam Tafakory 

curated by Katharina Ehrl 


“Deep Gold“ by Julian Rosefeldt (28 october 2022 – 19 february 2023)

curated by Katharina Ehrl

2022

TOUCH TOUCH TOUCH (5. Oktober 2021 – 24. März 2022)

Caitlin Craggs | Barbara Hammer | Tobias Zielony

curated by Sarah Lorbeer

2021

Anzeichen. Über suchende und widerständige Gesten
(6. Mai –  9. September 2021)

Kuratiert von Diane Hillebrand und Jandra Böttger.

Block I
Loretta Fahrenholz
Madeline Hollander
(6. Mai – 16. Juni)

Block II
Elske Rosenfeld
(17. Juni – 28. Juli)
Informal Collective on Western Sahara
(29. Juli – 9. September)

Begleitprogramm
Lives of Performers (1974) – Ein kommentierendes Screening
mit Yvonne Hardt, Professorin für Tanzwissenschaft und Choreographie, Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Köln (abgesagt)

Künstler_innengespräch mit dem informal Collective on Western Sahara und Elske Rosenfeld

The Gesture as Black Predictive Force Keynote Vortrag von Sampada Aranke, Assistenzprofessorin für Kunstgeschichte, Theorie, Kritik, School of the Art Institute, Chicago

2020

Hiding Our Faces Like a Dancing Wind
(28 May – 5 August 2020)
Forensic Architecture | Yazan Khalili | Ole-Kristian Heyer, Patrick Lohse und Marian Mayland
curated by Didem Yazıcı

Cristina Binetti
(17 February – 15 May 2020)
Frauwild (2019), Sonntag (2018), Traumsequenzen (2017)
curated by Noura Persephone Johnson

Wandernder Schatten. Der Künstler Hermann Scherer
(17 January – 15 March 2020)
A film by René Schraner and Peter Bosshart

Helden sind wieder gefragt
(28 September 2019 – 16 January 2020)
Short film by Karlheinz Scherer

2019

Scheitern
(26 March – 27 September 2019)
Amir Balaban | Nancy Holt & Robert Smithson | Ulysses Jenkins
curated by Noura Persephone Johnson

2018

Uncanny Encounters
(9 October 2018 – 24 March 2019)
Peter Tscherkassy | Bjorn Melhus | Lynn Hershman Leeson
curated by Florian Flömer

Guess who’s dropped in for a bite
(30 January – 26 April 2018)
Martina Wegener | Frédéric Ehlers

2017

Grounds for Hope
(26 September – 5 November 2017)
Marianne Fahmy | Desire Machine Collective | Maria Iorio / Raphaël Cuomo
curated by Didem Yazıcı

In this way
(7 November – 17 December 2017)
Rojda Tugrul | Şener Özmen | Savaş Boyraz| Hito Steyerl
Programme by ASA

Between us
(19. Dezember 2017 – 28. Januar 2018)
Erkan Özgen | Nilbar Güreş | Cengiz Tekin
Programme by ASA

2016

I will find my way
(11 October 2016 – 24 March 2017)

Paolo Nazareth | Isabell Heimerdinger
curated by Finn Schütt

Freundschaftsspiel (Agar Ugur Collection)
(9 July – 9. October 2016)
Anna Eriksson | Hale Tenger | Hale Tenger | CANAN | Aslı Çavuşoğlu | Zeyno Pekünlü | Aykan Safoğlu | Didem Pekün | Şener Özmen | İnci Eviner | Leyla Gediz | Nilbar Güreş | Ferhat Özgür |Erdem Taşdelen
curated by Didem Yazıcı

On how to become a real person
(19 March – 7 July 2016)
Gillian Wearing | Jeremy Shaw | Tracey Emin
curated by Jennifer Smailes

2015

Futures
(1 September – 25 October 2015)
Frances Bodomo | NeÏl Beloufa | Bedwyr Williams
curated by Jennifer Smailes

Frames
(1 July – 30 August 2015)
John Smith | Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook | Mark Wallinger
curated by Jennifer Smailes

Get Away from it all
(19 May – 30. June 2015)
Laure Prouvost | Borga Kantürk | Ani Schulze
curated by Didem Yazıcı

Middle of the Path
(14 March – 30 April 2015)
Ursula Mayer | Leylâ Gediz |Simone Fattal
curated by Didem Yazıcı

2014

Isabella Rossellini Green Porno, 2008
(21 October 2014 – 22 February 2015)

Corinna Schnitt
(27 February 2014 – 17 July 2014)
Once upon a time, (2005), Tee trinken, (2012), Ballspielen, (2013), Spielplatz, (2007), Von einer Welt, (2007)