In 2024, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen is organising the Oberhausen Seminar for the tenth time.
Young and upcoming professionals can apply now for the five-day seminar as part of the 70th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. The Oberhausen Seminar is an experimental course designed to explore contemporary artists' moving image practice in the context of a renowned international film festival.
The seminar is addressing primarily international artists, filmmakers, curators and researchers and will be held in English. Only 25 applicants will be selected to meet daily during the festival to discuss the programmes they have seen with each other and with guests.
The Oberhausen Seminar 2024 will be lead by Leon Kahane.
The Oberhausen Seminar is an experimental course designed to explore contemporary artists' moving image practice in the context of a renowned international film festival. International practitioners from various fields - artists and filmmakers, curators and researchers - will use our Festival as a laboratory to discuss ideas in the curation of contemporary moving image media, the infrastructures which allow them to circulate, and the critical frames used to analyse them.
Born in Berlin in 1985, Leon Kahane first trained as a photographer and then studied fine art at the Berlin University of the Arts. Central points of reference in his video works, photographs and installations are themes such as migration and identity and the examination of majorities and minorities in a globalised society. He is often interested in the cultural and artistic representation of political developments in the recent past. Time and again, he draws attention to events and institutions in which the contradictions inherent in history are expressed. They reflect historical, political and economic, but also biographical aspects, which he takes up and processes in his works. Above all, the socio-cultural localisation of current political discourses and dynamics is of central importance to his artistic approach, which represents a form of cultural criticism.
Most recently, his works were on display at the Kunsthalle Wien and at the 6th Moscow Biennale. In 2015 he won the Future of Europe Art Prize and in 2016 the ars viva Prize. His work is represented by Galerie Nagel Draxler.
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