Die Probe (The Test), 2008

Video

The unedited sequence shows the backstage area of an events venue. A politician enters; he has just been elected president, to excited cheering from his supporters. After the press and the jubilant election team have left, the politician and an advisor go over his acceptance speech. They are looking for words to turn down the office he just gained: The newly elected president wants to refuse the power that has been invested in him. After a quick rehearsal he returns to the stage; the backstage area is empty once more, the film starts all over again.

HD video 16:9, stereo, 12 min, loop

Main cast: Bernhard Schütz, Mirko Böttcher, Christian Victor Keune, Anja Karmanski, Ludmila Skripkina, Holm Taddiken
Camera: Frank Meyer
Production design: Anamarie Michnevich
Costume design: Katja Kirn
Casting: Miriam Locker
Make–up Artist: Anja Heinemann
Sound recording: Rainer Gerlach, Thomas Wallmann
Sound editing: Thomas Wallmann
Assistant director: Gesa Knolle
Production Manager: Patrick Lambertz
Produced by: *.*

Supported by Deutsche Guggenheim

HD video 16:9, stereo, 12 min, loop

Main cast: Bernhard Schütz, Mirko Böttcher, Christian Victor Keune, Anja Karmanski, Ludmila Skripkina, Holm Taddiken
Camera: Frank Meyer
Production design: Anamarie Michnevich
Costume design: Katja Kirn
Casting: Miriam Locker
Make–up Artist: Anja Heinemann
Sound recording: Rainer Gerlach, Thomas Wallmann
Sound editing: Thomas Wallmann
Assistant director: Gesa Knolle
Production Manager: Patrick Lambertz
Produced by: *.*

Exhibition History (Selection)

FRANKFURTER KUNSTVEREIN (Group), 2013
MUCSARNOK KUNSTHALLE, BUDAPEST (Group), 2010
DEUTSCHE GUGGENHEIM, BERLIN (Group), 2008
KUNSTHALLE DÜSSELDORF (Group), 2008

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Clemens von Wedemeyer

**Cast Behind You The Bones of Your Mother, 2015**

**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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