The video installation NO FUTURE HOPE revives a radical resistance as a response to our increasingly disillusioned times. Through a specific visual language, the work focuses on a spirit of rebellion and a longing for change. Nina E. Schönefeld’s exhibition presents three video works from the years 2020 to 2024. In her works, the Berlin-based artist closely links future scenarios with current political, ecological and social issues. She uses the alienation of post-apocalyptic cinema aesthetics to tell site-specific, fictional stories and reveal their effects. In her practice, Nina E. Schönefeld combines film projections with installative elements. The video works challenge viewing habits, combine current and historical phenomena and place them in visionary, sometimes dystopian contexts. She plays with sculptural elements, AI-generated material, uses mirror arrangements and thus repeatedly directs the viewer’s gaze to their own reflection. The protagonists, who always speak from the “off”, become a continuous surface for identification. The question of one’s own positioning becomes unavoidable. True to the leitmotif: it is never too late to take up the fight. There is always light at the end of the tunnel.
Curated by DÎLAN Z. ÇAPAN & GINA PENZKOFER (HABIBI KIOSK, Münchner Kammerspiele)
A Cooperation between Habibi Kiosk (Münchner Kammerspiele) and Lothringer 13 Halle. Ein Kunstraum der Stadt München