Juliane Jaschnow: Rekapitulieren

Videostill from Juliane Jaschnow, Rekapitulieren, 2019, 15 Min., QHD video, colour, sound. Courtesy of the artist

- selected by Inke Arns (HMKV)–

On 23 April 2017, hundreds of extras on a field near Moscow reconstruct the iconic key scene of Russian war commemoration – the storming of the German Reichstag and the raising of the Soviet flag atop the building. A copy of the Reichstag erected for this purpose as part of a Russian military-patriotic leisure park initiated by the Russian Ministry of Defense is the starting point for the multi-part installation work.
Rekapitulieren investigates the modelling of collective monuments of memory, the role of image-political practices and processes of staging and (re)constructing history. It asks about the ghostly switching points of the past and the ‘identitarian' intentions through which historical images can be reanimated and used in the present. The core of the work is a video installation based on the montage of found footage and self-shot material. Together with sculptural and other filmic elements, the iconic symbol Reichstag becomes legible as a hybrid media setting.

(Text: Juliane Jaschnow)

Juliane Jaschnow is an artist and filmmaker. Her work focuses on collective narratives and memory processes, their identity-creating dimension and the role of image-political practices. Her works have been shown at international festivals and in exhibitions such as transmediale, the Berlinale, the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, the National Gallery in Prague, the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig, and steirischer herbst in Graz. She studied fine arts in the Expanded Cinema and Photography department at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. Juliane Jaschnow is a graduate of the PMMC Professional Media Master Class for Artistic Documentary Film and the PMMC Lab at the werkleitz Center for Media Art in Halle/Saale. She is part of the collective Filmic Initiative Leipzig (FILZ) and a member of the Initiative Kino in Bewegung. She was a fellow in the residency programmes at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris and the Akademie Schloss Solitude.