CLIENT: Bill Viola Studio
February 24 to June 25, 2023
This is the first exhibition of Bill Viola’s artworks in Milan: 15 pieces spanning 30 years are on display at Palazzo Reale – installed by 235 Media.
We wish all partners, friends and customers relaxing holidays and a good start into the new year!
144 individually controllable winches make 144 chairs float in Michael Pinsky’s installation.
The large 75-year exhibition is now on the road through NRW in the MuseumMobil – with new interactive applications from 235 Media.
Congratulations to Marcel Odenbach on receiving the Wolfgang Hahn Prize of the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne!
235 Media conceived the media technology, developed the screen design of the media stations, wrote software, built sensors, produced short films, realised the hardware and set it up in the exhibition.
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235 Media created the software, delivered and set up the media technology including soft-edge projections and corona-compliant touchless interaction technology.
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235 Media successfully completed the filming of seven historical personalities for the historical exhibition at Altena Castle in the planet nippes studio.
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235 Media advised the exhibition organisers and supplied and installed the media technology. Various special constructions were used.
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Bill Viola, Night Vigil (detail), 2005/2009. Photo: Kira Perov © Bill Viola Studio
235 Media has taken over the technical planning and realization and supplied the video and audio technology – as always when the Bill Viola Studio exhibits in Europe.
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The IMAI – Inter Media Art Institute in Düsseldorf turns 15 years old. The founders and managing directors of 235 Media, Axel Wirths and Ulrich Leistner, congratulate!
235 Media co-conceived the RTL-HOLOCIRCLE appearance in cooperation with EYE SYSTEMS, created the content and provided the technical equipment and the video operator.
Photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln/Marleen Scholten © Boaz Kaizman
235 Media designed, provided and installed all the technology for the elaborate video/audio installation – 16 videos on 7 projectors, surround sound and individual audio experience via headphones.
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235 Media installed several room-sized monitor and projection works.
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235 Media provided the setup of media installations for the exhibition Diversity United in Hangar 2+3 of Tempelhof Airport in Berlin. The exhibition was opened on June 8 by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
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For the Sudetendeutsches Museum in Munich 235 Media designed and realized over 30 media installations.
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The Museum of Applied Arts Cologne is dedicating its first monographic exhibition to the collective with “Design Gruppe Pentagon”.
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In the Draiflessen Collection in Mettingen, the conceptual artist Mischa Kuball (*1959) devotes himself to the work and perception of the expressionist painter Emil Nolde (1867-1956).
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The City of Cologne’s NS Documentation Center expands its educational offerings with an interactive game for the promotion of democracy.
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For the new exhibition area “Regenwald im Netzwerk” of the Museum Alexander Koenig we realized an interactive installation about the rain forest.
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In “Video Visionen: Medienkunstagentur 235 Media als Alternative im Kunstmarkt” Renate Buschmann and Jessica Nitsche present for the first time the decisive influence of 235 Media on the development of video and media art as well as the agency’s distribution, production and mediation strategies since the 1980s. The agency was formed out of subcultures, on the basis of media utopias and in close connection with the music culture of those years. 235 Media has been an important platform for many artists and has both initiated production processes and developed curatorial concepts. For a long time, 235 Media was the only video art distributor in Germany to offer an alternative to the traditional art market.
“Video Visionen: Die Medienkunstagentur 235 Media als Alternative im Kunstmarkt” (Edition Medienwissenschaft, Vol. 62) was released by transcript publishing, April 2020, 366 pages.
In October 2019, the Brockenhaus in the middle of the Harz National Park opened the new permanent exhibition “The Brocken as part of the NATURA 2000 protected areas network”. Visitors are extensively informed about all relevant national park topics and are made aware of the rare animal and plant species that are sensitive to interference. For this purpose, 235 Media developed scenographies with complex environments and media installations.
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For the opening of the exhibition „Kein Lärm Meer“ at the OZEANEUM Stralsund, we have realized a new interactive multi-touch table. It has four interaction points, each one giving the opportunity to explore three problems the ecosystem Baltic Sea is facing.
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On the occasion of the KunstFestSpiele 2019 in Hanover, strange plants and all sorts of animals filled the Arne Jacobsen foyer. This was all part of the “Greenhouse” sound and video installation by Cologne media artist Gudrun Barenbrock, who turned the glass cube into a walk-in ‘greenhouse for pictures’. This created a complex composition of fleeting, flowing and proliferating rhythms of light and sound.
Barenbrock’s work “Greenhouse” is based on her observations of nature during numerous trips to remote areas of Central Africa, North and South America, and Asia. They are momentary snapshots documenting order and diversity in the apparent chaos of nature. Find out more on the Projectsite >>
The Alte Hafenamt (old harbour master’s office) was designed by city construction inspector and architect Friedrich Kullrich, and built in 1889. Just as it did in the past, it continues to serve as a landmark for skippers arriving in the port of Dortmund. The listed building is now home to the new “Shipping and Ports” permanent exhibition by Dortmunder Hafen AG, which provides information on shipping and modern port management. Visitors gain an insight into the history and current development of Dortmund’s port. Find out more on the Projectsite >>
For the 1000th anniversary of the St. Moritz Church in Augsburg, the american media artist Bill Viola will show four major works from March to September 2019 under the title “Infinite Journey”.
Now the time has finally come: The imai Foundation will get larger rooms at the Birkenstraße 47 in Düsseldorf, in the neighborhood of Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf and the Philara Collection and will be sharing an office floor with the Wim Wenders Foundation team.
The american artist Bill Viola uses since the 1970s personal and universal experiences to shape his work, addressing his emotional and spiritual conflict with key metaphysical topics such as life, death and transformation.
The exhibition called “Via Mistica” took place in the Spanish city of Cuenca and showed 16 pieces of his art. The works of the media artist were appropriately distributed to four “sacred” places in the historic center of Cuenca. Find out more on the Projectsite >>
Dear customers, partners and friends,
we wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year!
The 235 MEDIA team would like to thank you for the trust you have placed in us and the good cooperation.
From December 4th til 9th 2018, tanz.tausch – dance and performance festival will be offering for the seventh time a stage for contemporary dance in Cologne. The audience expects this year a diverse mix of different styles and themes. A special focus this year is on installative formats. 235 MEDIA has technically advised the work of Kristel van Issum – #Catalog of Shadows – Installation (Brabant) and realized the structure.
On September 28th and 29th, Geheimtipp Köln organizes in cooperation with Odonien, an Oudoor festival for light art – The Night Light Festival. 235 MEDIA supports the festival with technology and an interactive video mapping installation. In addition, our colleague Janno Ströcker presents his sculpture “FLUX”
The Langen Foundation on Museum Island Hombroich is displaying selected works from the Burger Collection, Hong Kong in the exhibition How to See [What Isn’t There]. 46 works will be on display, including sculptures, installations, paintings, photography, videos, VR and performances.
Burger Collection Hong Kong is a private collection of contemporary art which represents a broad spectrum of works from Euro-American, Indian and Asian art, reflecting a global approach to the collection. Find out more on the Projectsite >>
The Kaiser Wilhelm Monument in Porta Westfalica has been the region’s most significant landmark for the last 120 years. It was built from 1892 to 1896 in honour of Kaiser Wilhelm I. After a two-year renovation period, the monument reopened with a new visitor centre on 8th July 2018.
The new visitor centre is located inside the ring-shaped terrace, which has been rebuilt according to historical records. In the 270 m² exhibition area, visitors can find out more about the 88-metre-high monument at six interactive media stations. For example, there is a large interactive table dedicated to the development of the natural and cultural landscape around Porta Westfalica. Find out more on the Projectsite >>
In the Brockenhaus, on North Germany’s highest mountain, the new permanent exhibition “Restricted area – experience history” was opened on 30.06.2018.
In the roof and cupola floors of the Brocken museum the visitors are introduced to, from today’s point of view, the almost unimaginable division of Germany in an atmospheric an playful way. A wall divides the first exhibition room in East and West, and with digital and analogue observation slits and listening posts makes it possible to take the respective position. In a chronological approach the relevant subjects around the surveillance cupola “Urian” are enacted, here the valuable exhibits of the previous exhibition radio / television technology are integrated. Find out more on the Projectsite >>
Ever since its launch in the early 1980s, 235 MEDIA has had a major influence on the national and international development and distribution of video and media art. The imai foundation carried out an extensive survey over two years with the aim of systematically researching the media art agency 235 MEDIA, and consolidating it in a media-related manner. On the 8th and 9th of May, a meeting took place at the imai Foundation. The purpose was to examine the correlation between art production, the art market and exhibitions for media art at an international level. Our managing director, Axel Wirhts, who acts as a pioneer of the communication and sales of video and media art in Germany, was one of the speakers
We are pleased that the German Pavilion of the special exhibition program “Export Initiative Energy” has been awarded with the Best in Show Award for the most innovative exhibition stand this year!