With works by Karim Ainouz

02.02.–24.03.2024
Tue–Sun, 12–7 pm
Opening: 01.02.2024, 6 pm

A journey into the photographic and visual archive of the internationally renowned filmmaker and artist Karim Aïnouz, who came to Berlin in 2004 as a fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.

Karim Aïnouz’s unique vision traverses formal boundaries ranging from experimental queer cinema to complex character studies and poetic explorations of his own Brazilian-Algerian origins. BLAST! is a project that brings Aïnouz’s film work into dialogue with his lesser-known photographic and installation practice. It takes a deep dive into Aïnouz’s color saturated image archive, developed over decades of his engaged visual practice. Based on Aïnouz’s very personal visual cosmology, BLAST! heightens our awareness of the images surrounding us every day.

On four consecutive Sundays in February, fsk cinema, located near the daadgalerie, will present a selection of Aïnouz’s feature and essay films. Distanz Verlag is releasing an eponymous publication to accompany the exhibition.

Supported by medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH, art/beats and the Brazilian Embassy in Berlin

daadgalerie
Oranienstraße 161
10969 Berlin

Program

16.02.2024, 7 pm
Book Launch BLAST!
Artist Talk with Karim Aïnouz

Screenings at fsk Kino

04.02.2024, 3 pm
I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You (2009)

11.02.2024, 3 pm
Zentralflughafen THF (2018)

18.02.2024, 3 pm
Mariner of the Mountains (2021)

25.02.2024, 3 pm
Praia do Futuro (2014)