In 2020 - the ten year anniversay of the LICHTER Art Award - the pandemic not only put a spanner in the works of the renowned Frankfurt video art exhibition. With a lot of patience and a pinch of confidence, it was nevertheless clear: We will not let the well-deserved anniversary celebration be taken away from us! After the winner of the 10th LICHTER Art Award, Florencia Levy, was already chosen in an online award ceremony in 2021, now, almost two years later, the time has finally come: On February 24, 2022, the anniversary exhibition of the 10th LICHTER Art Award will open in the exhibition rooms of basis e.V. Until April 17, 2022, not only the five nominated works from 2020 will be on display: as a small gift on top, there will also be the LAA RETRO-KINO with selected works by artists and jury members of the past LICHTER Art Award editions.

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Vanessa Gravenor // This Weapon Drags Like a Boomerang

CDN/ D, 2019, 13 Min.

In her video essay This Weapon Drags Like a Boomerang Vanessa Gravenor questions the aftermath of the business of wars and conflicts in the world stage in the last few decades. Asking questions like “what else does my body carry along with the drag of one Kalashnikov bullet?” she reveals some aspects in which ways weaponry and violence perpetuates throughout our history and its consequences in the present time. And doing so she questions what is known as the “present truth”.

Vanessa Gravenor, born in 1992 in Canada, is an artist, art critic and filmmaker. She lives in Berlin. She studied at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany, and at the Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Selected exhibitions and Filmfestivals: Park Avenue Armory, New York; nGbk, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin; VISIO Lo Schermo dell’arte, Florence, Italy; Kim?, Riga, Latvia. 

Constantin Hartenstein // NARC

D 2019, 7 Min.

The video installation NARC by Constantin Hartenstein reflects on the narcissistic phenomena of a digital society and its fitness industry, which aims at physical self-optimization. In times of Instagram & TikTok, when the physical appearance is most important, content no longer matters.

Constantin Hartenstein 1982 born, lives in Berlin. Studied at Braunschweig University of Art, University of the Arts Berlin and at the Akademie Vytvarnych Umeni, Prague. Exhibition and festival screenings selection: Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Filmfestival Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Kunst Film Fest 3, Centrum Berlin, MomA, New York, Video Art Festival Turku, Finland and Athens Digital Art Festival.

Florencia Levy // Fossil Place

ARG 2019, 15 Min. // Installation

Fossil Place is a journey into the past and a view on the probable future of humanity. The imagery and the content of this film essay - shown in a 4 channel installation - from Florencia Levy make us think what have we as civilisation accomplish and what is to come ahead sometimes in an almost dystopian view. Using documentary material and narrative sounds Fossil Place take us to more than 40 years of environmental and economic realities of different cities in China. With this work Levy proposes questions like : “How to establish an intimate relationship with a geological formation? At what point air became a relic”.

Florencia Levy 1979 born, lives in Buenos Aires. She studied at the National University of Arts (UNA), Buenos Aires and Central Saint Martins College of Arts & Design, London. Exhibitions and  Film Festivals participations includes the OSDE Foundation, Buenos Aires, Experimenta India International Film Festival, Bangalore, Visions du Reel Film Festival, Nyon, Switzerland and the BackUp Film Festival, Weimar, Germany.

Pol Merchan // Pirate Boys

E / D 2018, 13 Min. 

With the work Pirate Boys Pol Merchan produced an experimental film with a hybrid form between fiction and documentary which deals with transmasculinity. In a personal level Merchan attempts to connect to his trans and queer experience. The works of Kathy’s Acker (New York, 1947) who was associated with the anti-formalist and punk movements and the photographic works of Del LaGrace Volcano (California, 1957) who shown how intersex bodies can offer an entirely new perspective on the body plays an important rolle in the film. Pirate Boys is an experiment with the plasticity of the literary and the filmic body, the physical body itself. and a performative exploration of gender.

Pol Merchan 1980 born in Spain, lives in Berlin. He studied at the Universidad de Barcelona and at the Berlin University of Arts. Exhibitions and Film Festivals participations includes, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Kurz Filmfestival Köln, International Queer Film Festival, Lisboa) and the MIX NYC - New York Queer Experimental Film Festival. 

Maria Molina Peiró // The Sasha

E / NL, 2019, 20 Min.

In 1972 the astronaut Charles Duke landed on the moon with the Apollo XVI capsule. He was responsible for taking photos of the surface of the moon with a high-resolution camera. The Sasha by Maria Molina Peiró examines the constant human struggle with temporal and spatial restrictions and questions the narrative through the veracity of the photographic documentation. From space exploration to cyberspace, from an analog moon in 1972 to a virtual moon on Google Earth today. A story about parallel universes in which the eternity between frames and interfaces seems lost.

Maria Molina Peiró originally from Spain, lives in Amsterdam. She studied at the Universidad de Artes de Sevilla and the Netherlands Film Academy. Exhibitions and film festivals include the International Film Festival Rotterdam IFFR, Rencontres Internationales, House of World Cultures, International Film Festival Oberhausen, Louvre Museum, EYE Film Museum, ISEA Korea, London Science Museum, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei and Taiwan Video Art biennial.