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Museum Exhibitions

WORLDBUILDING Gaming and Art in the Digital Age

4 Juin 2022—10 Décembre 2023
Julia Stoschek Collection

Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, the group exhibition WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age opens in Düsseldorf this June.

WORLDBUILDING examines the relationship between gaming and time-based media art with a journey through various ways in which artists have interacted with video games and made them into an art form. In the words of the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist: “In 2021 2.8 billion people—almost a third of the world’s population—played video games, making a niche pastime into the biggest mass phenomenon of our time. Many people spend hours every day in a parallel world and live a multitude of different lives. Video games are to the twenty-first century what movies were to the twentieth century and novels to the nineteenth century.”

 

Harun Farocki, Serious Games I: Watson is Down, 2009–2010, video, 8′, color, sound. Video still. Courtesy of Harun Farocki Filmproduction,...
Sturtevant, Pacman, 2012, HD video, 1′15″, color, sound. Video still. © Estate Sturtevant, Paris.
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