Vika Kirchenbauer

Compassion and Inconvenience (2024)

The Capacity For Adequate Anger (2021)

The Capacity For Adequate Anger constitutes an attempt at a personal and self-reflexive form of artistic critique that considers contemporary art, in its production as well as its presentation, from a perspective of class. Alongside questions around the in ...

Special Works School (2018)

'Special Works School' was the codename used by the British War Office between 1917-1919 for a group of artists tasked with the job of 'camoufleur' - painters, textile artists, scenographers, designers, sculptors and scenic painters who were employed by th ...

She Whose Blood Is Clotting in My Underwear (2016)

Made for the performance project Cool For You, this video follows an artist's research on thermal vision and the enhanced gazes of modern warfare. She uses these technical means to discuss intimacy and the body. ...

You Are Boring! (2015)

YOU ARE BORING! discusses the troublesome nature of "looking" and "being looked at" in larger contexts including labour within the new economy, performer/spectator relations, participatory culture, contemporary art display and queer representational politi ...

Kingdom Comes: Rituals (2014)

This is a large projection of aerial footage that has been shot by pigeons equipped with lightweight digital cameras. With heavy wind and the nervous flapping of wings the viewer gets only a fractured impression, though immediately identifiable, of a polit ...

Like Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship (2012)

Rats are glorious deserters and we must admire them. Rats don't want to be captains trying to keep the cause afloat. But swim on open water. ...

Please Relax Now (2012)

PLEASE RELAX NOW uses the screen as a source of light and darkness drawing attention to the issue of art consumption as individual vs. collective experience and extending it into physical space. Motivational language is interwoven with metaphysical gesture ...

The Capacity For Adequate Anger (2021)

The Capacity For Adequate Anger constitutes an attempt at a personal and self-reflexive form of artistic critique that considers contemporary art, in its production as well as its presentation, from a perspective of class. Alongside questions around the in ...

M/M (2018)

Wayward Canadian, Matthew, crushed by the isolation of being new to Berlin, turns his sexual desires toward Matthias that spiral into a dark fixation of assumed identity. Soon, this obsessive power struggle between the two, careens toward brutal passion an ...

She Whose Blood Is Clotting in My Underwear (2016)

Made for the performance project Cool For You, this video follows an artist's research on thermal vision and the enhanced gazes of modern warfare. She uses these technical means to discuss intimacy and the body. ...

You Are Boring! (2015)

YOU ARE BORING! discusses the troublesome nature of "looking" and "being looked at" in larger contexts including labour within the new economy, performer/spectator relations, participatory culture, contemporary art display and queer representational politi ...

Like Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship (2012)

Rats are glorious deserters and we must admire them. Rats don't want to be captains trying to keep the cause afloat. But swim on open water. ...

Twins (2010)

On the eve of his wedding Daniel meets again with his true love-his identical twin brother Jan. For the last five years he's been running away from his feelings. Now, on his stag night he is being tested once more. ...