The video work 'Disorderly' by Clemens Wittkowski explores the human longing for security in life while simultaneously subverting the already ambivalent relationship between order and disorder from a deliberately inverted perspective. This new perspective creates different structures and impulses. We seek orientation, explanation, and plausibility...
The video work 'Smoke + Mirrors' by Clemens Wittkowski explores the theme of our transience. Deep within the soul lie the hidden and the unfathomable, and both instinctively resist the inevitable – the fact that one day we will no longer be. Like breathing, the...
The video work 'Delta' by Clemens Wittkowski combines the feeling of strong attachment with that of a divisive, vulnerable otherness. The setting appears ambivalent: we find ourselves in a cold, musty basement room. On the one hand, it seems like a haven, empty and swept...
The video work 'I wasn't very close to anyone. Although, I guess I wanted to be.' by Clemens Wittkowski visually shows us a massive and rugged mountain landscape. We gaze distantly at cloud-covered, snow-capped, and sharp-edged peaks. The sublimity of the scenery, which has a...
The video work 'Kollusion' (Collusion) by Clemens Wittkowski characterizes the mostly unconscious interplay of different interests in forming relationships: Love, family, friendship, social, and above all the relationship with oneself. After a while, some of them become very negative, polarizing, sometimes toxic, and narcissistic. A...
The video work 'Synkope' (Syncope) by Clemens Wittkowski follows the movements of a key, staged in a negative shot, which supposedly unlocks a door, accompanied by repetitive piano playing and deep rolling noises from inside the door lock. Options to open something, to open up,...
The video work 'Dauerhaft' (Permanent) by Clemens Wittkowski captures the feeling of permanent tension in a very symbolic way. We see a brightly lit metronome (a metronome, from the Greek metron “measure“ and nomos “law“ sets a constant tempo through acoustic impulses at regular time...
The video work 'Bonkers' by Clemens Wittkowski is crazy in the truest sense of the word. Haunting. Powerful. Counteracting. We are close to the silhouette of a long- haired person who, without fear, moves his head with maximum impetuosity to a death metal sequence. Headbanging...
The video work 'Beaten' by Clemens Wittkowski stages the soul and the heart – and the inner conflict in dealing with both. How do I think and how do I feel? How do I get mixed up by influences and resistance, including from outside, and...
The video work 'Tränen. Vergehen.' (Tears. Passing By.) by Clemens Wittkowski stages the ambivalence of melancholy and pleasure in an effective way. In it, we become part of a one-shot video sequence guided by a haunting music loop. 'Tränen. Vergehen.' provides an exclusive and familiar...