Ana Baumgart and Ina Schoof grapple with culture and tradition in their collaborative work. In their series „I guess you don’t know me“ they approach unknown places, unfamiliar persons and their traditions. The video art was created in Spain, Italy, Morocco, Turkey and Japan. The contact Baumgart and Schoof seek and make with other people, becomes the subject of their work and in-between spaces are created: a hive of perception, experience and memory. The slow black-and-white works moves between meticulous staging and permitted ephemerality. Their recent works shift the focus to the dimensions of national belonging. Using the contemporary medium of video, they question the current state of society whilst remaining in abstraction, encouraging the beholder to turn their gaze upon themselves.
Ana Baumgart (born 1986) and Ina Schoof (born 1982) have been working together on conceptual video projects since 2009. Their works have been exhibited in Berlin, Frankfurt, Casablanca, Kanazawa and Venice. After completing their Bachelor of Photography at the University of Applies Sciences of Bielefeld, they studied together under Korpys/Löffler at the University of the Arts in Bremen and graduated as a Master’s student under Jean-Francois Guiton in 2017.
videography
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2009
„I guess you don’t know me 01”, videoprojection, Spain, 15’15’’, HD-video, 16:9, split screen, with sound
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2010
„I guess you don’t know me 02”, installation, Mozambique and Thailand, Fotografien und Objekte
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2010
„I guess you don’t know me 03”, videoprojection, former Yugoslavia, 8’01’’, HD-video, 16:9, with sound
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2011
„I guess you don’t know me 04”, videoinstallation, Italy, 8’31’’, 2-channel HD-video, 16:9, split screen, with sound
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2012
„I guess you don’t know me 05”, videoinstallation, Marocco, 4’16’’, 2-channel HD-video, 16:9, split screen, with sound
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2013
„I guess you don’t know me 06”, videoinstallation, Turkey, 8’24’’, 3-channel HD-video, 16:9, with sound
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2015
„I guess you don’t know me 07”, videoinstallation, Japan, 15’25’’, HD-video, 16:9, with sound
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2016
„I love Greece and Greece loves me”, videoinstallation, Greece, 6’39’’, 5-channel HD-video, 16:9, with sound
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2017
„no identities”, videoinstallation, Germany, 7’48’’, 7-channel HD-video, 16:9, with sound
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2021
„on the fragilities of boarders“, videoprojection, Germany, 10’04’’, HD-video, 16:9, with sound
Edition: 250
Price: 20 €
Graphic Design:
studio lindhorst-emme
Print and Binding:
Europrint medien GmbH, Berlin
Texts:
05-09 Prof. Martin Roman Deppner, 12-15 Prof. Suse Wiegand, 30-31 Barbara Proschak, 56-59 Prof. Dr. Anna Zicka, 74-75 Dr. Lori Waxmann
