VANO-G3MS1S-23
Hermetic objects traverse empty spaces. Formations that keep their contexts, origins, relationships, and meanings hidden behind sterile surfaces. Stoically, they perform actions in synthetic landscapes. It is unclear which parameters or routines they follow. The localization of reference points to a singular moment in space and time becomes difficult and merges into a simultaneity of past, present, and future. They oscillate between component and cult object, between micro and macro, between monumentality and silence. Daniel Kuge’s short film VANO-G3MS1-23 explores the enigmatic nature of the world. What are the civilizational remnants of humanity, and how are these anthropogenic traces interpreted? Kuge simulates the perspective of a post-human future. It’s unclear which time, unclear which knowledge, unclear whether humanoid.
Daniel Kuge | DE
Daniel Kuge is a German artist of South Korean descent whose practice reflects on civilizational legacies and perspectives of a distant future. Working across film, painting, sculpture, sound, and photography, Kuge has presented his work at renowned film festivals and international exhibition venues, including Vorspiel (CTM × transmediale), Braunschweig International Film Festival, Shoot the Lobster (New York City), The Wrong Biennale, Kunsthalle Kohta Helsinki, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Temporary Gallery Cologne, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, and the Mönchehaus Museum Goslar. Kuge’s work has received multiple honors and recognitions. He is a NEUSTART KULTUR fellow of the Stiftung Kunstfonds, was nominated for the Kunstpreis Junger Westen and Preis der Nordwestkunst, and is a recipient of a Förderpreis from the GROSSE Kunstausstellung NRW. He completed his studies in Visual Communication and Fine Art in Düsseldorf and Braunschweig, Germany.