Meisterwerke

Director: Juliane Zelwies    → show biography   ← hide biography

Biography: Juliane Zelwies, born 1976 in Berlin, studied Sculpture and Film in Stockholm and Philadelphia and graduated with a MFA in Media Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). The artist works with various media such as video, drawing, installation and performance. Social structures and hierarchies as well as their sources of conflict are recurrent themes. Work related stays in the USA, Canada and Norway. Her work has been shown at venues such as the Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei; Derive Art Space, Taichung; KAV16 Gallery, Tel Aviv; Digital Art Lab, Holon (all 2012); Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin; Simultanhalle, Cologne (both 2011); Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, Canada (2010); 59th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale); Shedhalle Zurich (both 2009). Solo shows: Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY (2012); ZAIM Art Center, Yokohama (2008); Temple Gallery, Philadelphia (2006). www.juliane.de

Country: Germany

Year: 2009

Synopsis: Masterpieces is a five channel video installation, which caused a furore at the Berlinale. The contents, furniture and fixtures of five famous oil paintings (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe by Édouard Manet, Summer by Claude Monet, The glass wine by Jan Vermeer, Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez and Oath of the Horatii by Jacques-Louis David) are re-enacted in group therapy sessions. All protagonists of the people and things portrayed in the paintings are permitted to tell how they feel in doing so. A real tear-jerker. (Heinz Emigholz) 5 channel video installation

Language: German

Forum participation year: 2009

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Tags: Experimental film, Installation