Julia Höner (Project Director KAI 10),
Markus Mascher (Curator, Leopold-Hösch-Museum
and Papiermuseum Düren)

Ludwig Seyfarth (Curator of the exhibition),
Doris Krystof (Curator, K21 Kunststammlung NRW)

Düsseldorf’ photographer Kathrin Ahlt and Swiss artist Rémy Markowitsch talk about their art work. Following the discussion hosted by the curator Zdenek Felix the audience is invited to ask questions.
The talk will be in German.

El Sani will show and comment on some of their video works which are not included in the shows permanent installation. Presentation will be in German.

Prelude::
Pablo Wendel, Terracotta Warrior (dv | color | 8:38 min | Germany / China | 2006)
Peter Jap Lim, Over the Sofa (DVD | color | 2:30 min | Germany  | 2010)
Julia Oschatz, Between C. D. F. (Video and Animation on DVD |  1:17 min |  Germany | 2006)

Main Screening:
Ken Russel, Mahler (color | 115 min | GB | 1974)

As an epiloge to our exhibition The Fate of Irony (Exhibition ends: 24 July) KAI 10 | Raum für Kunst presents on the opening night of the hafenlichtspiele videoworks by three artists of the exhibition as well as the movie Mahler by Ken Russel. 

During a train ride to Vienna, the deathly sick composer Gustav Mahler reflects his life: the unhappy childhood, his first compositional attempts, including his breakthrough to success. And as a recurring motif: his excessive self-centeredness. Ken Russell ("Tommy") created a bright, ironic, exaggerated movie-biography of the composer born 150 years ago. In an extravagant, symbolic imagery, he also shows the dark side of Mahler. From the early to mid seventies, the eccentric director Russell focuses in his works extensively on well-known composer. His films "Tchaikovsky" (1970), "Lisztomania" (1975) and "Mahler" are a visual power, grotesque film trilogy.
The screening is a cooperation on the occasion of the exhibition The Fate of Irony in KAI 10, which looked into the many uses of ironic strategies in today's art.

Julia Oschatz and Ming Wong comment and explain their work.

8 p.m., 9.30 p.m., 11 p.m.: Program with films by the artists of the exhibition, commented by curator Ludwig Seyfarth.

All night: The Team of KAI 10 will answer visitor questions as “Talking Labels”.

Till midnight: Music by a DJ in the lounge.

Guillaume Bijl talks to Ludwig Seyfarth about his art. Tracing Bijls beginning in the 1980 different stages up to his recent work will be discussed.

with a Polish accent and with a tour guided by the curator

Adam Szymczyk, director Kunsthalle Basel, Noemi Smolik, author and art critic, Zdenek Felix, curator