The programme presents a curated selection of outstanding artistic films, video works, short films and music videos that engage with ruptures, upheavals, new beginnings or the literal boom or bang.

The works shown are by internationally renowned artists including Ed Atkins, Dara Birnbaum, Eli Cortiñas, Cyprien Gaillard, Camille Henrot, Arthur Jafa, Kristina Paustian, Mika Rottenberg, Hito Steyerl and Sung Tieu. Many of these works are usually only accessible in museum or biennials contexts. Katharina Wendler, curator of the University Gallery, emphasises: »That these works can be experienced together here as a curated screening is a rare opportunity. I am all the more pleased that this evening can now take place in Weimar.«

The publication »BOOM! 7 Years of nova space« will be released by the renowned publishing house Dr Cantz’sche Verlagsgesellschaft (DCV). The book documents and brings together all of the gallery’s activities between 2019 and 2025 and includes, as its 21st project, an exhibition in book form.

Running order:
07:00 p.m.: Introduction
07:15 p.m.: Hito Steyerl, In Free Fall, 2010, 32:00 min
07:55 p.m.: Cyprien Gaillard, Ocean II Ocean, 2019, 10:56 min
08:15 p.m.: Eli Cortiñas, Walls Have Feelings, 2019, 13:12 min
08:35 p.m.: Sung Tieu, One Thousand Times, 2023, 08:51 min
08:50 p.m.: Dara Birnbaum, Technology / Transformation: Wonder Woman, 1978–1979, 5:55 min
09:00 p.m.: Ed Atkins, Even Pricks, 2013, 07:32 min
09:30 p.m.: Mika Rottenberg, Cosmic Generator, 2017/2018, 26:36 min
10:05 p.m.: Kristina Paustian, Positions, 2016, 08:22 min
10:20 p.m.: Arthur Jafa, Love is the Message, The Message is Death, 2016, 07:25 min
10:35 p.m.: Camille Henrot, Grosse Fatigue, 2013, 13:00 min

»nova space« is the University Gallery of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. As a platform for contemporary exhibition practice, it presents student work from the fields of art, design, architecture and research in dialogue with established positions.

https://www.uni-weimar.de/unigalerie 

BOOM! – Shifts, upheaval and new beginnings in art
A screening evening hosted by nova space in collaboration with Kino mon ami
Time:
Monday, February 2, 2026, 7 – 11 p.m.

Location:
Kommunales Kino mon ami
Goetheplatz 11
99423 Weimar

www.instagram.com/nova_artspace 

The event is open to members of the university. Admission is free. Entry requires a valid thoska card.

Courtesy of the artists and Galerie Esther Schipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul, Julia Stoschek Foundation Düsseldorf/Berlin, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich/London/Paris/New York/Los Angeles/Hong Kong, Sammlung Video-Forum, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)