Short presentation of KORPORAL MAZE-A-MAZE, or Railway Flower Labyrinth, an interactive installation by Maria Korporal. This video presents some moments during the first exhibition Im bewegten Labyrinth, September 2020 in Galerie LortzingART, Hannover.
Homage to Joseph Beuys. During a walk in the streets of Beuys’ city Düsseldorf, I photographed a piece of rubbish sitting on the asphalt. Later I anthropomorphised and animated it, using charcoal drawing. It changed into a spontaneously created microcosm....
Video art and other actions by Maria Korporal. Works from 2008 to 2020. Exhibition September 5-27, 2020. LortzingART – Lortzingstraße 1 – 30177 Hannover, Germany
The work includes a video of the world map with all airplanes that are currently flying, generated from a real-time radar. In front of the monitor there is a small tree trunk. When you move it, you fill the world with growing trees, while the airplanes slowly disappear.
The full version is now available as pay-per-view on www.visualcontainer.tv! In this video I try to show the human experience of loneliness and impotence during their „meetings“ in cyberspace. Even if the light image accurately depicts the person, eye contact is imp…
The very first kiss captured on film was between two naked women. It was recorded by Eadweard Muybridge in his remarkable studies of the human figure in motion in the 1880s. I have animated several of his photographic sequences in my video works, but The Kiss remains...
Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing of a male figure perfectly inscribed in a circle and square, known as the “Vitruvian Man”, illustrates what he believed to be a divine connection between the human form and the universe. Beloved for its beauty and symbolic...
“Breath-Earth Beth-El” is a new installation which is part of the The Breathearth Project. The work was installed in the exhibition 100% FEMALE, organized by Stichting White Cube, from the 24th to the 27th of October 2019 in the Grand or St Laurens Church,...
Extreme weather events, floods, droughts and fractured lands: signals the Earth keeps sending us. They are not only environmental emergencies, but also calls to care for one another. My hope is that humanity will answer this call — protecting the fundamental rights of...
BREATHEARTHEATRE is part of The Breathearth Project and was created in June 2019 during the 36. Neuenburger Kunstwoche, the 36th Neuenburg Art Week. As artist in residence Maria Korporal had the occasion to first develop and then present her installation on the stage...
NEW: The project will be presented on February 4, 2025, at INSEL Film, INSELGALERIE Berlin, as part of the exhibition MeeresStern. The screening of all Korporal Zoo videos will begin at 19:30h and last approximately one hour. This will be followed by a discussion with...
Korporal Zoo X: “Reynard the Fox”. Video installation with 12 triangular canvases (digital prints with manual intervention), and a video projection playing with all elements. Reynard (Dutch: Reinaert; French: Renard; German: Reineke or Reinicke; Latin:...
For 48 Stunden Neukölln Maria Korporal created a special version of her interactive project Breathearth: Breathearth Rebuilding. As a background for the vegetation projection, various photos of construction sites in Neukölln have been used. At each session a different...
The video above is a 3-minutes trailer*teaser. The whole video is more than 13 minutes long and has been shown in the events 17 Days Videos Series (USA), Lines in Between the Maze (Berlin), and in loop at the exhibitions “Under Another Roof” in IA&A at...
Short film about the project Breathearth, with the two versions “Breathearth Building” (for large projection) and Breathearth (for monitor). “Breathearth” is an interactive installation made with a Raspberry Pi, a small earth globe with...
Maria Korporal’s contribution to the collective installation “Under the Same Roof” The video wall “Walkabout” is Maria Korporal’s contribution to the collective installation “Under the Same Roof”, created with artists Marina Buening, Kristien de Neve...
Korporal Labyrinth is a work in progress, an account of a visceral journey in different stadia, expressed in a series of short videos. The artist’s drawing of the labyrinth was the starting point for the project, together with a bunch of footage taken mainly from July...
Screenings: Mostra Strangloscope 2019, Mitte Media Festival, Lines in Between the Maze, Video Art Miden 2018, Maria Korporal: 6×5 video, MADATAC 2018 In May 2017, having to recover from an eye retina operation, I took long walks in Berlin, meditating about the...