Renée Green: Inevitable Distances
Artist talk with Renée Green and Karim Aïnouz

 

10 December 21, 7:30 pm

in English

Venue: Online

Registration via Zoom

 

<p style="background: white;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial;">Renée Green, Sites of Genealogy (Loophole of Retreat), 1990. Installationsansicht der Ausstellung Renée Green: Inevitable Distances in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Köln/München; Photo: Frank Sperling <br />
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Renée Green, Sites of Genealogy (Loophole of Retreat), 1990. Installationsansicht der Ausstellung Renée Green: Inevitable Distances in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021. Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Köln/München; Photo: Frank Sperling

 

As filmmakers and friends, Karim Aïnouz and Renée Green have moved through overlapping social spaces and places together. For this public dialogue, the pair meet to reflect on shared times and individual works, and present excerpts of their moving image work—including Aïnouz film Seams, which used Green’s installation Sites of Genealogy (currently restaged at KW) as a film set; and Green’s film Come Closer featuring Aïnouz—as context of how their ongoing interests continue to inform their work in intimate and open ways.

 

Karim Aïnouz is an award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter and visual artist. He debuted as a director with MADAME SATÃ (Cannes Un Certain, Regard 2002). His other works include MARINER OF THE MOUNTAINS (Official Selection Cannes, 2021),  NARDJES A. (Berlin Panorama, 2020), CENTRAL AIRPORT THF (Berlin Amnesty Prize, 2018), FUTURO BEACH (Berlin Competition, 2014), THE SILVER CLIFF (Cannes Directors Fortnight, 2011), I TRAVEL BECAUSE I HAVE TO, I COME BACK BECAUSE I LOVE YOU (Venice, Orizontti, 2009) and LOVE FOR SALE (Venice, Orizontti, 2006). INVISIBLE LIFE, Aïnouz’s latest feature film, won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and has been the recipient of several prizes worldwide. Aïnouz is a screenwriter tutor and member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

 

Renée Green (b. 1959, Cleveland) is an artist, filmmaker and writer. Solo exhibitions of her work have been mounted at the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne; Portikus, Frankfurt; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Vienna Secession; Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam; Dallas Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Jeu de Paume, Paris, among many others. Green is also a Professor at the MIT Program of Art, Culture, and Technology, School of Architecture and Planning.