Videonales

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The Videonale is a biennial festival for video art and time-based media in Bonn.

Development
Since its foundation in 1984, the Videonale – Festival for Video and Time-Based Art Forms has taken place regularly every two years and with its ambitious programme of video presentations, exhibitions, lectures and performances has quickly developed into one of the most important festivals for video art and time-based art forms in Germany and Europe. Among the participants are names such as Dara Birnbaum, Lynn Hershman, Klaus vom Bruch, Gary Hill, Keren Cytter, Marcel Odenbach, Bill Viola and Christian Jankowski. For many of these artists, the Videonale was the first opportunity to present their works to an international public. To this day, the Videonale is committed to its founding idea of depicting current trends in time-based art and presenting them to a broad audience. The focus remains on the promotion of a young emerging artistry, supplemented by the presentation of already established positions in video art.

Initially located in the Bonner Kunstverein, the Videonale e.V. has been using the premises of the Kunstmuseum Bonn since 2004 and forms a valuable addition to the museum’s video art collection from the donation Ingrid Oppenheim, who as an art collector and patron laid the ideal foundation stone of today’s videonale in the late 1970s.

Since moving to the museum, Videonale e.V. has been presenting a multi-week exhibition with up to 40 video art works as part of the Videonale, accompanied by an extensive festival programme of artist talks, discussions, performances, workshops and lectures. Since then, a special focus has also been on the development and research of new forms of presentation of video art in museums. For each videonale, a new team of designers and architects is invited to redevelop the exhibition architecture.

In addition to the Festival Videonale, the Videonale e.V. organizes lectures on current discourses and positions of video art as well as the Filmkunstserie Videonale.scope, an event series that once a year devotes itself to the transitions and interfaces between film and video art with retrospectives on pioneering filmmakers. Furthermore, the der Videonale e.V. tours the program of each videonale as part of Videonale on Tour.

Since 2010, Videonale e.V. has also been digitizing its extensive archive holdings from 30 years of festival history and making them available for research online via the video archive of the Videonale.

The Videonale Prize, endowed with €5,000, will be awarded at the Videonale. Since 2017, the prize has been supported by fluentum in Berlin.

Videonale on Tour Stations until 2017
The Central House of Artists (CHA)