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

video and series of 7 photographs

In Halle-Silberhöhe, an area of pre-fab blocks of flats in East Germany, blocks of flats are being torn down. The film addresses the mission of an urban-planning concept in the late modern era. The montage assembles the separate camera shots together to create a bleak setting, at the same time a comment on a technique used by Michelangelo Antonioni in his 1962 film “L’eclisse“.

Clemens von Wedemeyer, Silberhöhe (film Stills I - VII), 2003, 7 C-Prints on aluminium, 24 x 35 cm

Exhibition History (Selection)

MARTA, HERFORD (Group), 2013
ARTS SANTA MONICA, BARCELONA (Group), 2012
AUDAIN GALLERY, VANCOUVER (Group), 2011
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, DÜSSELDORF (Group), 2011
KUNSTVEREIN, LEIPZIG (Group), 2010
KOW (Group), 2009
MOCA, CLEVELAND (Group), 2009
SESC SAO PAOLO (Group), 2008
CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION, LISBON (Group), 2007
CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS (Group), 2007
KÖLNISCHER KUNSTVEREIN, 2006
CAC, BRETIGNY-SUR-ORGE, 2006
GFZK, LEIPZIG (Group), 2005
KW, BERLIN (Group), 2004
KUNSTRAUM B2, LEIPZIG (Group), 2004
HAUS DER KUNST, MUNICH (Group), 2004

Die Siedlung (The New Estate) 2004

Die Siedlung (The New Estate), 2004

Location research on a film: the setting is the Grünau district in Leipzig, an area of pre-fab blocks of flats surrounded by abandoned military barracks and, since the 1990’s, by housing estates of detached and terraced houses. The camera captures people whose stories are testimony to stagnation and failed utopias. The off-camera voice in this video essay comments on the conversion of the area.

Digital video/DVD, 16:9, stereo, 20 min

With: Glummie Riday, Wayra Riday and Peter Revermann Projekte
Produced by: *.*

Supported by: Sächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, „Kunst und Kommunikation der Universität Leipzig“, Ulrike Kremeier

© 2004 Germany

Exhibition History (Selection)

MARTA, HERFORD (Group), 2013
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, DÜSSELDORF (Group), 2011
SESC SAO PAOLO (Group), 2008
CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION, LISBON (Group), 2007
CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS (Group), 2007
CAC, BRETIGNY-SUR-ORGE, 2006
GFZK, LEIPZIG (Group), 2005
HAUS DER KUNST, MUNICH (Group), 2004

Film Festival Participations / Screenings (Selection)

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY, PARIS, 2012
C-SIDE FESTIVAL, JERUSALEM, 2006

Film Festival Participations / Screenings (Selection)

VIDEONALE, BONN, 2011
TRAFÓ GALERIA, BUDAPEST, 2006
C-SIDE FESTIVAL, JERUSALEM, 2006

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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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