Crossing Bridges: Reinventing Your Art Form
Crossing Bridges: Reinventing Your Art Form
- Date
- Feb 21st 2018
- With
- Mischa Leinkauf moderated by Maike Mia Höhne
In their new, space-filling video installation, 4. Halbzeit, Wermke /Leinkauf investigate the central role played by organised football fans in recent social movements from the Occupy actions to Maidan Square in Kiev. Invited for the Berlinale 2015 with their short film Symbolic Threats, the artist duo plays fluidly between the worlds of film, performance and art exhibition. Like many artists with a strong brand, they are now often expected to reproduce their signature: an unruly post-grafitti and street art aesthetic that thematises notions of freedom and stages subversive and risky interventions in public space. In conversation with Berlinale Shorts curator Maike Mia Höhne, Talents alumnus Mischa Leinkauf discusses why artists need to keep reinventing themselves and how the duo develops and finances each new piece with the help of museums, galleries – and lots of perseverance.
Mischa Leinkauf
Mischa Leinkauf is an artist and filmmaker from Berlin. As part of the artist duo Wermke/Leinkauf, he creates video installations based on subversive interventions. His works have been shown at film festivals worldwide and at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Kunstmuseum Bonn, ZKM Karlsruhe, Manifesta 11, Moderna Museet Stockholm and the Helsinki Art Museum. He has received numerous grants and prizes, and his work has been nominated for the German Short Film Award and the European Film Awards.
Maike Mia Höhne
Maike Mia Höhne is a filmmaker, curator, mother. From 2007 to 2019 she was the curator and head of Berlinale Shorts. Now she is the artistic director the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg. She works as a curator and jury member for film funds and festivals around the world. As a professor of film, she teaches at the University of Applied Sciences Europe in Hamburg. Her curatorial focus is on politics, sex and feminism.