Das Bildermuseum brennt, 2004-2005

video installation and series of 3 photographs

An actor in a series of roles: as visitor, guard and illegal tenant, he walks through an empty museum. The individual characters are aware of one another but never meet. The 27-minute loops are staggered by one-third on each of three projection screens in the installation. This makes the action seem to take place both simultaneously and in sequence at the same time. The footage was shot in 2004 in the unfinished new building of the Museum der Bildenden Künste in Leipzig.

Clemens von Wedemeyer, Das Bildermuseum brennt, 2004, digital video, 3 channel projection, stereo, film still

Clemens von Wedemeyer, Das Bildermuseum brennt, 2004, digital video, 3 channel projection, stereo, exhibition view Atelier Augarten, Vienna 2005

Digital video, DVD, stereo, 27 (3 x 9) min, video installation on three screens

Cast: Mario Mentrup
Camera: Frank Meyer
Production design: Arthur Zalewski
Costume design: Clemens von Wedemeyer, Walter Barrotta
Sound recording: René Blümel
Sound design: Thomas Wallmann, Niels Loewenhardt
Assistant director: Dirk Waldeck
Production management: Holm Taddiken
Produced by: *.*
Supported by Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig and Kulturstiftung der Hypovereinsbank

© 2005 Germany

Clemens von Wedemeyer, Camp (Das Bildermuseum brennt, 3 production shots), 2004, fine art print, 60 x 77 cm

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**Metropolis: Report from China, 2004-2006**

**Otjesd (Leaving) and the Making of Otjesd, 2005**

**Silberhöhe and die Siedlung (The New Estate), 2003-2004**

**Big Business and the making of Big Business, 2002**

**Occupation and the making of Occupation, 2002**

Biography

Clemens von Wedemeyer, born in 1974 in Göttingen, Germany, currently lives and works in Berlin and holds a professorship for media art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. The artist and filmmaker studied photography and media at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld and the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and graduated as Meisterschüler of Astrid Klein in 2005. Clemens von Wedemeyer participated in group shows such as the 1st Moscow Biennale (2005), the 4th Berlin Biennale (2006), Skulptur Projekte Münster in 2007, the 16th Biennale of Sydney (2008) and dOCUMENTA (13) (2012). He had solo shows among others at MoMA PS1, New York, ARGOS Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, the Barbican Art Centre, London, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Hamburger Kunsthalle. “ESIOD 2015” premiered at the 66. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Berlinale) in 2016.

Most recently Wendemeyer´s work has been displayed in solo exhibitions such as Im Kontext der Sammlung: Clemens von Wendemeyer (Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz 2023) and BAKHMUT (Albertinum Dresden 2023).

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