From animism to today’s digital fetishism: the essay film »Europium« tells a different story of the fluorescent rare earth used in smartphone displays.
As part of his project »The Europeans,« Damaso Reyes explored the experiences of people of African descent in Germany and Poland. You can listen to the radio feature online now.
American artist Lindsay Foster won lost luggage at an auction from Lufthansa and documented the strange mix of private items found in the bag.
Pictures from Damaso Reyes’ long term photographic documentary project, »The Europeans,« that explores how Europe and its people are changing.
The funniest Google Street View parasite game ever by the Berlin internet agency NETRO, who will be Solitude fellows in the field of web development in 2016.
Someone is leading a life parallel to your own. This person looks like you, answers to your name, lives in your house. But they are not you.
»People are unable to welcome that place of contradiction, of paradox, of failure, of fall.« José Carlos Teixeira in conversation about his participatory project »The Fall.«
Danish artist Maj Hasager shows the seemingly invisible life of the Filipino migrant workers in Mussolini’s utopian »Third Rome.«
Film maker Philip Widmann is sometimes lost in translation working on his new project at the artist residency Villa Kamogawa, Japan.
The »slow art« of Maj Hasager’s film project »We Will Meet in the Blind Spot.« In conversation with poet and critic Thom Donovan
»Six chronicles about an enigmatic place called Solitude« – A talk with Manuel Ferrari, director of the new Solitude film »Chronicles of Solitude,« and film maker Andreas Bolm.
In his short film, Bulgarian director Javor Gardev focuses on the oneiric daily life at the Akademie.
A talk between American artist Lindsay Foster and Greek curator Marina Fokidis on shared weaknesses, the possibility of new orders, and love letters to strangers.
German artist Lisa Rave made a film about the ethnographic filmmaker Hermann Schlenker, shown at Solitude for the first time.
Danish artist Maj Hasager about her film project »We Will Meet in the Blind Spot.«
American artist Lindsay Foster on her video work »A Proper Hidden Frenzy.«
»I’m something special.« A graceful lady in court dress declaims this sentence in the late Baroque interior of Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.
Astrid Schult and Gunther Merz talk about their film »The Last Chapter,« which deals with investigations against the last Nazi war criminals.
Pan and the goat talk about their performance in Louis-Philippe Scoufaras’s film »Panic« shot on Mount Sodom/Israel.
Activists Tomislav Medak and Marcell Mars about the crisis of a social institution and the dream of Public Library in the age of Internet.
…imagining a different future. – A talk between Palestinian film maker and visual artist Nida Sinnokrot and Jean-Baptiste Joly, director of Akademie Schloss Solitude.
The films by Achille Brice and Eka Christa Assam from Cameroon deal with gender issues and the problems in their country in a unique and humorous way.
»I was struck by the intensity of the chess room, with the clock ticking, and everyone intensely, but calmly, thinking…« Japanese artist Hanae Utamura about her film installation »Across the Grid.«
Two years after the website was launched, Zvonimir Marčić, a web-designer and former Solitude fellow, and Angela Butterstein, public relations coordinator of the Akademie, finish the last edition.