Filmscreening: Ghosts, Icons, Clouds, Dreams

As part of the accompanying program for the exhibition The China Moment. Contextualizing Individualism in Chinese Contemporary Art, which runs until March 22, 2026, at the Kasseler Kunstverein, the documenta Institut invites you to a film screening at the BALi Kinos.

The moving-image works of four Chinese artists, Bo Wang, Tang Han, He Zike, and Zheng Yuan, navigate between history and the present, reality and dream, attentively capturing the rapid transformations of contemporary China.
From Hong Kong’s wig industry and its haunting memories of Asia’s late-20th-century modernization, to Mao’s portrait on banknotes and its crisis of representation in the digital age; from “data center clusters” in Southwest China, where sky clouds and digital clouds converge, to the dreams of laborers within a tech-driven society obsessed with speed and efficiency.

Curated by Mi You, Su Wei, and Anna-Lisa Scherfose, The China Moment marks the first research exhibition by the documenta Institut.

Imagecredits:
ZHENG Yuan: Dream Delivery, still, 2018