THIS SUFFOCATING NOW premiering at Berlinale!

Forum Expanded 4
Sun, Feb 15, 5:30pm @ Kino Betonhalle at Silent Green
Tue, Feb 17, 6:00pm @ Kino Betonhalle at Silent Green

Teddy Short Film Programme
Thur, Feb 19, 7:00pm @ Zoo Palast 2
Sun, Feb 22, 7:00pm @ Cubix 9

www.berlinale.de/en/2026/prog...

Aww, thanks, dear!

Happy to announce that my new work will have at its world premiere at this year's Forum Expanded.

"At a time when elements of fascisation are becoming ever more apparent, ever more pervasive, artist Vika Kirchenbauer takes a personal look at what is in the air in present-day Germany."

Vika Kirchenbauer: Compassion and Inconvenience Through a 30-minute video work, Berlin-based artist Vika Kirchenbauer (born 1983) engages with the historical context of mid-18th-century London's cultural scene, a setting inextricably entangled with...

'Compassion and Inconvenience' is now finally available via Artbook, the book's distributor for North America.

www.artbook.com/978886749685...

Vika Kirchenbauer: Compassion and Inconvenience
2025
English
128 pages
Softcover, 16.5 × 22 cm
ISBN 978-88-6749-685-3
€ 25 / $ 30

Finanzminister und Westjordanland-Chef Smotrich posierte heute in der Siedlung Se Nur. Auf der Säule neben ihm steht in blau: "Tod den Arabern". Mehrere Staaten – darunter UK und Kanada – haben bereits Sanktionen gegen ihn verhängt. Deutschland blockiert solche Maßnahmen auf EU-Ebene immer noch.

If you were wondering exactly how bizarre things are in Germany: Someone is presenting a paper on Sara Ahmed's Feminist Killjoy at a conference at the University of the Armed Forces where an IDF chief instructor will speak on "Lessons Learned from Military Design in an Eight-Front War".

Vika Kirchenbauer: Compassion and Inconvenience — Mousse Magazine and Publishing Compassion and Inconvenience combines artist Vika Kirchenbauer’s 30-minute video work Compassion and Inconvenience (2024)—with its script reproduced alongside

My new publication is out now via Mousse Publishing, and it's been a great pleasure to make. The book consists of two parts: a longform essay of mine, and a second part focusing on my video work COMPASSION AND INCONVENIENCE.

It's also been a joy to work with Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart. COMPASSION AND INCONVENIENCE was already part of the first part of an exhibition series "200 Years of the Present", and is now also part of the series' second constellation. The exhibition is on view until Aug 03.

Shedhalle – ProtoZone19: Ruptures \ Reliances with Bronwyn Katz, Vika Kirchenbauer, Göksu Kunak, Layton Lachman, Omsk Social Club, Su Yu Hsin, Activist Choreographies of Care (Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi and Sunny Pfalzer) Once part of Lake Zurich, the...

It was such a great experience to work with the team of Shedhalle Zürich on an exhibition that turned out beautifully. Apart from the video work COMPASSION AND INCONVENIENCE, I show six newly produced large-scale textile prints. The exhibition runs thru Aug 03.

knotting unruly ties Property influences both power relations and our capacity for action, permeating how we view ourselves and the world. The modern concept of property emerged in bourgeois Europe as it began its colonia...

THE CAPACITY FOR ADEQUATE ANGER will be part of knotting unruly ties (sich unverfügbar verknoten) at nGbK Berlin, which promises to be a great exhibition. In case you are around, please join me for the opening on Friday, 20 June, 2025.

Wir veröffentlichen diesen (unbeantworteten) Brief an @aussenminister.diplo.de in größter Sorge um die Sicherheit der Crew der @freedomflotilla.bsky.social , mitunter der deutschen Staatsbürgerin Yasemin Acar. @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @hannapfeifer.bsky.social

Wir begrüßen ausdrücklich den Parteitagsbeschluss von @die-linke.de zur Verwendung der JDA. Diese wurde als Reaktion auf die zunehmende Kritik an der umstrittenen IHRA-Arbeitsdefinition des Antisemitismus von Wissenschaftler*innen entwickelt, um Antisemitismus zu identifizieren und konfrontieren.

Films That Fuck: re-uses of pornography in moving image practices during the HIV/AIDS crisis and the present - Open City Documentary Festival During the initial years of the HIV/AIDS crisis, homophobia from outside the queer community and a fear of infection from within led to a growing erotophobia and stigma around queer sex or pleasure. I...

PLEASE RELAX NOW will be part of @opencitydocs.bsky.social , screening on Wed 07 May, 8:30PM at Close-Up.

Ralf Michaels · Die stille Macht des Völkerrechts Wenn der Berliner Bürgermeister die UN-Beauftragte Francesca Albanese cancelt und Scholz und Merz sich offen gegen die Verfahren internationaler Gerichte zu Israel stellen, wird klar: Nicht mehr die S...

Sehr kluger Text von Ralf Michaels: "Albaneses Vortrag wurde nicht aus Angst vor Antisemitismus verboten, sondern aus Angst vor dem Völkerrecht. Denn wenn man dieses ernstnähme, müsste man anders handeln."

In den vergangenen Tagen gab es Messerangriffe in Bremen, Lübeck, Ratingen, Erfurt, mehrere in Dortmund und in Berlin. Teilweise mit Toten, mit Schusswechsel mit der Polizei. Von keinem hast du wahrscheinlich gehört. In die Trends kommen nur die Einzelfälle mit Schutzsuchenden. Rate mal, warum.

The university just decided to cancel our event. Dark times for academic freedom and international law and a very dangerous precedent

www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/franc...

Was in Gaza geschehen ist – und von Trump nun in noch extremerer Form angekündigt wird – nennt sich Zwangsvertreibung, auch bekannt als „ethnische Säuberung“. Medien, die das nicht klar benennen, untergraben ihre Glaubwürdigkeit.

Massive Kritik an Resolution zu "Antisemitismus an Hochschulen" des Bundestags | BPK 30. Januar 2025 YouTube video by Jung & Naiv

Prof. Dr. Ralf Michaels, Direktor des Max-Planck-Instituts für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht':

"Die Brandmauer zur AfD ist nicht gestern gefallen, sondern am 7. November letzten Jahres..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmIq...

COMPASSION AND INCONVENIENCE - Vika Kirchenbauer (Trailer 1) COMPASSION AND INCONVENIENCE (2024, 30 min) Everything that appears self-evident and normal today once came into being. COMPASSION AND INCONVENIENCE questions the…

COMPASSION AND INCONVENIENCE will be shown at Woche der Kritik on February 14, at 7pm, followed by a conversation about social class.
More info:
wochederkritik.de/en_US/back-t...
Tickets are available now:
www.hoefekino.de/filme/wdk-ba...
An excerpt from the work:
vimeo.com/1044106695

Es geht uns bei Berichterstattung um Amokläufe von Nichtweißen eben nie um die Toten. Wollten wir gewaltsamen Tod verhindern, würde die Gesellschaft über ganz andere Maßnahmen sprechen.

Back to the Class Issue - Woche der Kritik

COMPASSION AND INCONVENIENCE is showing at Woche der Kritik (Berlin Critics' Week) on Feb 14, 7pm at Hackesche Höfe. Followed by a talk on social class. Tickets are available now.

UnionDocs – They say there are no spirits (Preorder available Dec 2024)

I've had the great privilege of contributing an essay about the great work of @tjcuthand.bsky.social to this volume published by UnionDocs.
"Rather than exposing the brokenness of a world, his practice is concerned with how to stay moving in its brokenness..."

The Allianz für Kritische und Solidarische Wissenschaft/Alliance for Critical Scholarship in Solidarity has posted a German translation of my statement about the cancelation of our event in Leipzig.

krisol-wissenschaft.org

DEFINITIONS OF FRICTION
NIGHT 2, PROGRAM 1
NOV 22ND, 7PM
RT: 55m

THE CAPACITY FOR ADEQUATE ANGER | @vikavika.bsky.social (she/her)
Both, Instrument & Sound | Sharlene Bamboat (she/her)

Full film descriptions and content warnings available at mixnyc.org.

"This Western conception of the visible presumes that violence is something that can be seen, at the very least through images and verifiable traces of its effects. But oftentimes, violence is only felt by those affected by it." #essay #violence #visibility #image #art #theory #movingimage