Ann Messner: subway stories and other shorts

Urban Art Biennale 2026 at the Völklinger Hütte
UNESCO World Heritage Site, Völklinger, Germany

Robert Kaltenhaeuser text: Ann Messner >

all works in exhibition:

subway stories 1978-79 / edit 2023-4
digital transfer from Super 8;
full version 13:33 min

slalom 1978 / edit 2023-4
digital transfer from Super 8; 10:00 min

stealing 1978 / two camera single screen edit 2024

summer end sale C&A, Köln, Germany
digital transfer from Super 8; 7:23 min

small fires 1977 / edit 2024

16mm b&w digital transfer; 6:30 min

traffic 1978 / edit 2024
digital transfer from Super 8; 7:17 min
two camera single screen

subway story ad dis-placement 1978-9 / edit 2024

digital transfer 35mm b&w images; 4:11 min
All advertisements in the subway car were exchanged with photographs taken over time mirroring the experience of the subway underground. The photographs were left in place and what happened to this mobile exhibition remains unknown.

blind me! LIGHT 2023
collaboration with Katharina Gruzei
live traffic cam onscreen capture New York and Vienna; 16:11 min