Videoinstallation "No Future Hope"

In the organizer's words:

The video installation NO FUTURE HOPE revives a radical resistance as a response to our increasingly disillusioned times. Through a relevant visual language, the work focuses on a spirit of rebellion and a longing for change. Nina E. Schönefeld's exhibition presents three video works from the years 2020 to 2024. In her works, the Berlin-based artist closely links future scenarios with current political, ecological and social issues. She uses the alienation of post-apocalyptic cinema aesthetics to tell site-specific, fictional stories and reveal their effects. In her practice, Nina E. Schönefeld combines film projections with installation elements. The video works challenge viewing habits, combine current and historical phenomena and place them in visionary, sometimes dystopian contexts. She plays with sculptural elements, AI-generated material, uses mirror arrangements and thus repeatedly directs the viewer's gaze to their own reflection. The protagonists, who always speak from the "off", become a continuous surface for identification. The question of one's own positioning becomes unavoidable. True to the leitmotif: it is never too late to take up the fight. There is always light at the end of the tunnel.

RIDE OR DIE (2024) focuses on the moment of decision when relentless, radical rebellion begins - against the political shift to the right in Europe and the threat to the separation of powers and freedom of the press. It is about a crucial fundamental question in the private and political lives of all citizens. Ride or die? Look away or stand up?
The four-part video series THE FOURTH ESTATE (2023) questions established social, political, economic and cultural norms. The series follows investigative journalist Alex Green as she delves into the world of far-right politics in a rural area. Alex meets the underground youth group THE FOURTH ESTATE, an anonymous collective that opposes global right-wing populism.
B. T. R. (BORN TO RUN / 2020) is set in the year 2043 and revolves around the increasing strength of authoritarian autocracies, the restriction of journalists and freedom of speech. The artistic treatment is based on detailed research (e.g. on Julian Assange & Edward Snowden, Cambridge Analytica, investigative journalism and right-wing extremist movements).

Curated by DÎLAN Z. ÇAPAN & GINA PENZKOFER (HABIBI KIOSK, MÜNCHNER KAMMERSPIELE)