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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
We spoke to Oliver Fuke, deputy director of Goldsmiths CCA and curator of the exhibition, about how he organized the Paper Tiger Television show and about the landscape for radical media practices today. www.kinoki.co/oliver-fuke-...
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Oliver Fuke and Goldsmiths CCA know where your brains are
Oliver Fuke from Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art discusses the exhibition of work by the video collective Paper Tiger Television.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
As we turn the calendar to 2026, the world of moving image art continues to make waves. These are the artists and exhibitions that we are eagerly anticipating in the year to come. www.kinoki.co/five-must-se...
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Five must-see moving image exhibitions in 2026
The world of moving image art is our passion! Here are five of the most exciting exhibitions we have our eyes on in 2026.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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Video Data Bank in precarious state after staff dismissals
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago dismissed multiple staff members at Video Data Bank, including the director. The positions have been permanently eliminated.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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Museo Reina Sofía opens underground cinema
The new cinema in Museo Reina Sofía was designed by Bach Arquitectes. The layout is imbued with the atmospheric spirit of the great surrealist directors.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Wonderful work by The Recovery Plan in Florence! 🔥 www.kinoki.co/sarah-maldor...
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Sarah Maldoror in focus with an exhibition in Italy
The Recovery Plan is presenting a research exhibition on the pioneering filmmaker Sarah Maldoror, with a parallel film retrospective at Festival dei Popoli in Florence.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The director of Video Data Bank and two other staff members were removed by the administration at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where VDB is based. There are questions about the survival of this legacy institution for video art on the eve of its 50th anniversary.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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William Kentridge opens major retrospective in Germany
Museum Folkwang in Essen and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden teamed up to organize the exhibition covering four decades of Kentridge's career.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
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The great adventure of Lu Yang in New York
Lu Yang has two solo exhibitions open, at Museum of the Moving Image and Amant. The exhibition at Amant is the first institutional solo show by the artist in New York.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Pauline Curnier Jardin has two exhibitions opening this month in Belgium. The Associations of Pauline Curnier Jardin opens at M HKA in Antwerp while Dress to Kill opens at NW in Aalst. Combined, these will be her first solo presentations in the country. www.kinoki.co/pauline-curn...
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Pauline Curnier Jardin dresses to kill in Belgium
The artist has two exhibitions opening this month in Belgium, at M HKA in Antwerp and NW in Aalst.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
MC2 will feature cutting-edge artworks from both digital and real spaces. The channel will also publish regular reports and essays that chart the evolving state of digital culture. www.kinoki.co/artreview-no...
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ArtReview and Nowness launch digital-first channel MC2
MC2 explores the impact that AI and emerging technologies have on storytelling and cultural expression.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
This inaugural festival will gather artists to contemplate what it means to be human in a time when life is being redefined by rapidly-evolving technologies and currents of thought. Presented under the title Life As No One Knows It, inspired by Sara Imari Walker's book. www.kinoki.co/aspen-art-mu...
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Aspen Art Museum organizes inaugural AIR Festival
AIR 2025 will open with an artists’ retreat followed by a public festival gathering artists, scientists and cultural leaders to explore what it means to be human.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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Exhibition as Séance at Seoul Mediacity Biennale with Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis - Notes - e-flux
Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis discuss their approach to curating the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
"In Shanghai, we worked with montage to organize the show, using it to structure the exhibition as a kind of cinematic space. In Seoul, we’re thinking about the exhibition as a séance – something immersive, experiential, and attuned to a different logic." www.kinoki.co/exhibition-a...
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Exhibition as séance at Seoul Mediacity Biennale
The curators of the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale discuss their concept of exhibition as séance and why there need not be a distinction between art and life.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
"Our motivation is to position moving image and time-based arts within the main historical discussion about contemporary art... You would be surprised how many people still to this day adamantly believe that film, for example, is not really art." www.kinoki.co/marking-15-y...
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Marking 15 years of Microscope Gallery with Elle Burchill and Andrea Monti
Elle Burchill and Andrea Monti, co-founders of Microscope Gallery in New York, speak about educating the art world on the value of the moving image and building systems of support for artists.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms takes visitors on a journey through the history of digital and generative art in four chapters (The Imaginary Machine, Chance and Control, Digital Materiality, Coded Nature). www.kinoki.co/toledo-museu...
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Toledo Museum of Art surveys the aesthetics of algorithms
The exhibition Infinite Images at Toledo Museum of Art will explore how rules-based systems and automation have been applied to the visual arts.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The selection of works for this year's edition of the Jarman Award covers a broad geographical expanse. Ashadu has been recognized for her video Machine Boys, a portrait of the hardships that okada [motorcycle] taxi drivers endure to earn a living in Lagos. www.kinoki.co/karimah-asha...
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Karimah Ashadu shortlisted for Jarman Award
Film London announced the shortlist for the 2025 Jarman Award, which includes Silver Lion-winning artist Karimah Ashadu.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
New Humans takes a look at the artists, creators and thinkers whose ideas and creations have fueled technological innovation and advancements. www.kinoki.co/new-museum-p...
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New Museum presents New Humans in its new building
New Humans at New Museum in New York explores what it means to be human with the advance of AI and robotics. The exhibition will inaugurate the museum's building expansion.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
With Poised Compression the gallery presents several of Barba's cinematic sculptures, including the 2009 piece One Way Out, which reimagines the film projector as a mysterious feeder that spools film into and back out from HVAC tubing. www.kinoki.co/rosa-barba-m...
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Rosa Barba makes her gallery debut in Chicago
Corbett vs Dempsey is presenting a solo exhibition of the work of Rosa Barba. This is Barba's first show with the gallery and her debut in Chicago.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Hura likewise focuses on the societal and economic tensions that tear at Indian society, such as the poetic photo reportage in which he documents daily life in the divided province of Kashmir. www.kinoki.co/sohrab-hura-...
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Sohrab Hura wins Eye Prize 2025
The Eye Art & Film Prize recognizes new developments at the intersection of visual art and film. Sohrab Hura works across film and photography, focusing on tensions in Indian society.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
By implementing genre-expanding experimental play, radical aesthetics, and the use of DIY, as well as counter-capitalist methodologies, some of the creators establish a deliberate connection to the various subcultures flourishing on the internet. www.kinoki.co/experimental...
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Experimental video games at Visual Studies Workshop
Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester has invited independent developers and artists to exhibit genre-expanding, radical video games.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"To be a writer means to be a masochist." -- Erika Balsom www.kinoki.co/the-writer-t...
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The Writer That Kills Bad People, with Erika Balsom
Erika Balsom is a writer, curator and professor at King's College London. We interviewed her on publishing pocket-sized books, secret rules for selecting films, and masochism.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The preservation of Viola's complete works at the George Eastman Museum will involve the creation of archival digital masters, to be stored in the museum's archives, and duplicate digital masters that will be held by the Viola-Perov Trust. www.kinoki.co/george-eastm...
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George Eastman Museum preserving the legacy of Bill Viola
The Viola-Perov Trust is depositing the complete set of master recordings of Bill Viola's moving image works with the George Eastman Museum for preservation and archiving.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Joyce Wieland will be given a retrospective exhibition at Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. This is the first exhibition for the artist since 1987 and will include films, drawings and textiles.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Raqs Media Collective: Cavalcade features a new film by the group, which is accompanied by a set of three prints. This presentation represents the culmination of the three-year research project Reimagining Cosmopolitanism. www.kinoki.co/raqs-media-c...
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Raqs Media Collective with non-humans at Neubauer Collegium
Raqs Media Collective: Cavalcade features a new film by the group. This exhibition is part of a research project initiated by Neubauer Collegium and Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Rosa Barba has a solo exhibition opening at Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago. The show will feature sculpture, film, and sound, marking the artist's first exhibition with the gallery and her Chicago debut.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Jafa has selected approximately 100 objects from the museum's collection. By arranging pieces from Basquiat and Twombly, Noland and Rothko, and Mondrian, DeCarava and Clark in juxtaposition, Jafa links these artists and their creations into a comprehensive whole. www.kinoki.co/arthur-jafa-...
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Arthur Jafa curates Artist's Choice at MoMA
Arthur Jafa is selecting the next Artist's Choice exhibition at Museum of Modern Art in New York. His presentation will platform Black, queer and feminine voices.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Where previously time represented the focal point of Marclay's attention, doors – which he describes as being “...replete with symbolism… commonplace, yet unfamiliar” – take center stage in this show. www.kinoki.co/christian-ma...
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Christian Marclay opens Doors at Brooklyn Museum
Christian Marclay: Doors, an exhibition featuring his film montage of scenes of doors throughout the history of cinema, will open at Brooklyn Museum.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
REPORT FROM NORI MOUNTAIN will feature the work of an international group of artists, including: Auriea Harvey, Igor Simic, Jenna Beasley and others. www.kinoki.co/smilers-cons...
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SMILERS reports on conspiracy theories in new exhibition
The exhibition REPORT FROM NORI MOUNTAIN, at the new art space SMILERS, is based on a satirical antiwar novel by Leonard C. Lewin and Victor Navasky.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Moving images, poetry and photography are combined in Hopinka's practice, where the artist draws upon personal and collective histories to contemplate the different facets of Indigenous identity. www.kinoki.co/sky-hopinka-...
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Sky Hopinka offers Bone and Light at Tanya Leighton
Sky Hopinka's solo exhibition Bone and Light in Berlin is his third with Tanya Leighton Gallery. The show debuts a new video art piece alongside recent photographs.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Sansour's installation comprises the video work As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night, an opera featuring Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish singing an aria by Lebanese composer Anthony Sahyoun, its melody expressing the loss and mourning of the Palestinian people www.kinoki.co/larissa-sans...
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Larissa Sansour shakes the ground in Extra City
Sansour's work spans video, opera and sculpture, and touches upon tragedy and environmental catastrophe. This is her first solo exhibition in Belgium.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Late May edition of the biweekly Kinoki Review incoming! Get yours, and get informed on the moving image in contemporary art → www.kinoki.co/r/9418f257?m...
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Dozier draws on her formative teenage years to analyze and deconstruct the repressive mechanisms that define ecclesiastical hierarchies, addressing the themes of submission, autonomy and self-care. www.kinoki.co/ayanna-dozie...
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Ayanna Dozier explores religion at Microscope Gallery
Ayanna Dozier's exhibition Get on Your Knees, Jesus Loves You, at Microscope Gallery in New York, explores themes of religious repression and sexuality through film and photography.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Amos Rex in Helsinki is presenting the program 24 hours with Tony Cokes to close their summer season. For one day, Cokes’ film works from nearly four decades will take over the museum’s cinema, façade, passageways, and square.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Spanning from narrative through documentary film, to more experimental and abstract forms, Bradley's work addresses themes such as race, class, familial relationships and sociopolitical histories within the United States. www.kinoki.co/garrett-brad...
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Garrett Bradley starts a revolution at Eye Filmmuseum
Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam presents an exhibition of the work of Garrett Bradley, winner of the Eye Art & Film Prize in 2023. This is the artist's first institutional solo exhibition in Europe.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
A guide to the moving image artists that move culture → #ForensicArchitecture
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
The exhibition features Des/astres (2024), the concluding film of a trilogy by Tabita Rezaire that explores the links between humankind and the cosmos. www.kinoki.co/tabita-rezai...
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Tabita Rezaire in Open Space at Fondation Louis Vuitton
Des/astres is Rezaire's first solo institutional exhibition in Paris. The show features the concluding work in a trilogy that explores the links that humankind has forged with the cosmos.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
SMILERS in New York City announced its third exhibition, Report from Nori Mountain, featuring Auriea Harvey, Igor Simic and others. The new art space is a joint initiative from Mark Beasley and Laura Tighe.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
tl;dr • Filipa Ramos organized Loop Symposium 2024. • Loop Festival gathers artists, curators and others to explore moving image art. • Loop Festival 2025, with the title Miratges Mirages, will explore the relationship between cinema, imagination and perception. www.kinoki.co/filipa-ramos...
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Filipa Ramos is artistic director of Loop Festival 2025
Filipa Ramos will lead Loop Festival 2025 as artistic director, bringing fresh vision to Barcelona's premier festival showcasing innovative film and video art.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"This reflection and refraction allows Vaz to present Paris, one of the world’s most filmed and photographed cities, in an arrestingly unfamiliar way... The Porto sequences likewise include moments of casual transcendence." www.kinoki.co/ana-vaz-mete...
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Ana Vaz, Meteoro at Vienna Secession
Read critic Neil Young's review of Ana Vaz's Meteoro at Vienna Secession, an exhibition of sublime beauty that proposes a counter-ethnography of European cities.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
belit sag at IDFA Pavillion in Amsterdam, doing what she does best! 🙌🏻 photo: @lindakopitz.bsky.social
Three individuals with microphones on stage for a post-screening discussion, sitting under a cinema screen with a graphic that says Decolonial Futures: Cinema Under Siege.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Arthur Jafa is organizing an exhibition at Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of their Artist's Choice series. Titled "Less is Morbid," Jafa selected around 100 objects from the museum collection for his presentation.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
tl;dr • Dara Birnbaum passed away at the age of 78. • In Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, Birnbaum appropriated shots from the tv series Wonder Woman. • Birnbaum's unique approach made her a guiding light for generations of artists and scholars. www.kinoki.co/dara-birnbau...
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Dara Birnbaum, pioneering video artist dies
Remembering Dara Birnbaum, a pioneering video artist and feminist, known for influential works like Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman and PM Magazine.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
tl;dr • Machine Boys is the first institutional solo exhibition in the United States for Karimah Ashadu. • The single-channel video installation Machine Boys won the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale. • Machine Boys focuses on motorcycle taxi drivers in Lagos. www.kinoki.co/karimah-asha...
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Karimah Ashadu brings Machine Boys to Canal Projects
Discover Karimah Ashadu's first US solo exhibition at Canal Projects, New York, featuring her video installation Machine Boys, winner of the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Stephanie Comilang will open her first solo institutional exhibition in the US at Center for Art, Research and Alliances in New York. The show includes film installations and virtual reality, in contemplation of migratory experiences and remnants of colonization.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
tl;dr • This is the rare occasion that Gwangju Biennale has appointed an artist to organize the exhibition. • Ho Tzu Nyen is known primarily for his moving image practice. • Ho participated as an artist at Gwangju Biennale on two other occasions, in 2018 and 2021. www.kinoki.co/ho-tzu-nyen-...
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Ho Tzu Nyen is Artistic Director of 2026 Gwangju Biennale
Artist and filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen has been appointed Artistic Director of the 2026 Gwangju Biennale, Asia's leading contemporary art event. Ho is known for his innovative work with moving images.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Ryoji Ikeda opened his first museum exhibition in the US at High Museum of Art in Atlanta. The show centers on data gram, an 18-screen video installation that dives into the data underlying his artwork.
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Performa 2025 includes eight new commissions from acclaimed artists, notably featuring Aria Dean, Camille Henrot, and Ayoung Kim, whose innovative projects prominently incorporate cinematic techniques and narratives. www.kinoki.co/performa-tur...
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Performa turns 20, explores cinema and performance art
Get ready for Performa, the premier biennial for performance art, as it presents 'If It Moves: Art and Performance After Cinema', a groundbreaking program exploring cinema's influence on live performa...
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
"We are moving collectively, and exactly for that reason we can be part of a significant change if and when we come together as art and cultural workers. That is what keeps me practicing." www.kinoki.co/position-spa...
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Position Spaces __ belit sağ
This short interview series traces lines of thought by artists and marks the trajectories of their practice. belit sağ focuses on the relationship between visual representations and political violence...
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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Wonderful piece. Let's keep our eyes open to what is happening in Sudan. 👀
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