2026 Urban Art Biennale at the Völklinger Hütte
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 35 mm b&w images to digital video; 4:11 min
note: All of the advertisements in one subway car were exchanged with photographs taken over time in the NY subway system. The photographs were left in place, 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