Clemens von Wedemeyer Read Bio Collapse
Clemens von Wedemeyer (b. 1974, Göttingen, Germany) is a filmmaker and artist who lives in Berlin. He studied photography and media in Bielefeld and fine arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, where he now holds a professorship for media art (expanded cinema). His films and complex video installations embrace several storylines and points of view, exploring the personal and collective history of the twentieth century as well as the power and control structures of the present. He has 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 has had solo shows 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; among other venues. His film Esiod-2015 premiered at the 66th edition of the Berlinale in 2016.
Screening and discussion: Clemens Von Wedemeyer
Clemens von Wedemeyer and Cerith Wyn Evans