Post Eden

Contemporary video art with a critical gaze.

Presented by Gallery Art Claims Impulse, Markgrafenstraße 86, 10969 Berlin
Friday 02.05, Saturday 03.05, Sunday 04.05 from 12:00-20:00.
then Wed. - Sat. 12:00 - 18:00.

At a time when screens have become the dominant lens through which we experience both intimacy and crisis, Post Eden—a contemporary video art exhibition—brings together a selection of powerful new works that question, reframe, and reimagine the current state of human progress. Curated by Gallery Art Claims Impulse, this exhibition presents works by renowned contemporary video artists Anna Anders, Mihai Grecu, Kathrin Hunze, Nadja Verena Marcin, and Jörg Piringer. Rather than prescribing dystopia, Post Eden positions itself in the aftermath of an ideal that never fully materialised. These video works are less concerned with declaring decline than with exploring what emerges in its wake—spaces of friction, beauty, resistance, and transformation.

Anna Anders’ Old Days Clip reflects on the transition from professional identity to a less defined role in later life, questioning the societal invisibility and latent potential of aging through a quiet, poetic lens. Mihai Grecu’s Shockwave renders digital space as both spectacular and unstable—an aesthetic of echo and collapse.

The contributions by Kathrin Hunze, wellNet and Two legs or six: dec-ANT-structing social behavior, dissect patterns of control, cooperation and surveillance through immersive digital choreography. Nadja Verena Marcin's Orphelia and Zero Gravity engage in a kind of feminist myth-making, combining art and philosophy to question the cultural systems that shape identity and desire.

Finally, Jörg Piringer’s Klangfarben des Zufalls explores the intersection of language, algorithm, and chance—creating audiovisual compositions where randomness becomes structure, and structure becomes open to chance.

Together, these works inhabit a liminal space between critique and imagination. They do not simply ask what went wrong, but how contemporary video art can render the complexity of our condition both visible and audible.

Post Eden offers a space of resonance for those seeking not just commentary, but the kind of abstraction and articulation that only art can create.

 Old Days Clip, Anna Anders, 2025, 4,25min

Shockwave, Mihai Grecu, 2022, 4,45 mins.

wellNet, Kathrin Hunze, 2025, 7,06 mins.

Ophelia, Nadja Verena Marcin,  Live Performance (Docu) Minnesota Street Projekt San Fransico, 2018, 4,51 mins.

Klangfarbe des Zufalls, Jörg Piringer, 2025, 3,15 mins

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Cult. Illusion. Tyranny. by Mihai Grecu
15.03.25-26.04.25, Wed-Sat 12:00-18:00
Markgrafenstraße 86, 13355 Berlin.

The exhibition presents haunting works that deconstruct the iconization attempts of autocratic rulers such as Kim Il-sung and Nicolae Ceaușescu.  Mihai Grecu takes up propagandistic imagery and transform it by alienating and restaging it. This critical examination enables visitors to question the control mechanisms of propaganda systems in the post-truth era.
The artworks presented confront the audience with an aesthetic that aims to manipulate the masses. This sharpens understanding of the dangers of simplistic promises of solutions and the quasi-religious exaltation of political leaders
This exhibition invites visitors to sharpen their critical eye for visual propaganda and to see through the mechanisms of personality cults in authoritarian systems.