4 May 2007

Guy Ben-Ner's deceptively simple and often very humorous video works always play with the cliché of the untamed artist who rebels against his role in the family - a portrait of the artist as a family man. In the process, he draws on diverse literary and cinematic models such as Moby Dick or Truffaut's L'Enfant sauvage, George Méliès or Buster Keaton.

The video artist experienced his breakthrough when he represented Israel at the Venice Biennial in 2005, the same year in which he won one of the main prizes in the International Competition at Oberhausen for Wild Boy. Guy Ben-Ner will also take part in the 4th skulptur projekte muenster in the summer of 2007.

The programme:

Berkeley's Island, 1999, 17 min

Moby Dick, 2000, 12:30 min

HouseHold, 2001, 22:30 min

Elia, a Story of an Ostrich Chick, 2003, 22:30 min

Wild Boy, 2004, 17 min (Main Prize in the Oberhausen International Competition 2005)

4 May 2007 at the Lichtburg Filmpalast

Contact: Carsten Spicher