With works by Radu Jude

30 April  – 16 May 2026

CCA Berlin presents Sleep #2 (2024), an one-hour video installation by award-winning Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude. The presentation runs from 30 April to 16 May 2026 and is realized in collaboration with DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.

In 2023, Radu Jude made Sleep #2 during his residency in Berlin as a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellow. Radu Jude’s one-hour desktop film Sleep #2 consists of live-streaming webcam footage of Andy Warhol’s grave in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, recorded day and night, across shifting light and climate throughout the course of a year.

Paying tribute to Andy Warhol’s landmark film Sleep (1963), which captured Warhol’s lover John Giorno slumbering for more than five hours, Sleep #2 is both an homage and a voyeuristic study of death, immortality, and posthumous celebrity.

Rather than a silent, dead object, the gravestone becomes a living, mesmerizing site—visited by devoted pilgrims who leave flowers, flags, and Campbell’s soup cans, a wandering family of deer, and self-aware fans who pose for photos and wave at the camera. On one occasion, a visitor briefly bares his bottom to the lens—less an act of subversion than a knowing wink at Warhol’s own film Taylor Mead’s Ass (1964).

Premiered at the 2024 Locarno Film Festival and now shown at CCA Berlin for two weeks, Sleep #2 offers captivating glimpses into fame’s afterlife, mediated through found footage — a ubiquitous genre in which authorship and dramatic closure dissolve into an endless stream of images, untethered from narrative or time. 

Curated by Mathias Zeiske with Fabian Schöneich
Assistant Curator: Nan Xi

CCA Berlin – Center for Contemporary Arts
Breitscheidplatz
10789 Berlin

Opening hours: Tue-Sat, 11am-6pm

Open for all
Free entry