The video above is a short trailer. The full video “WANDEL” is 3:38 long and is shown in screenings and exhibitions, or upon request.
WANDEL, translated CHANGE, concerns climate change, and the social and cultural changes we have to undertake to avoid the crisis caused by climate change.
The Austrian poet Erich Fried wrote in 1981: „Wer will, dass die Welt bleibt, wie sie ist, will nicht, dass sie bleibt.“ (Those who want the world to remain as it is, do not want it to remain). This timeless statement is written at my feet on an infinite asphalt planet, and I stand there with my bicycle. When I begin cycling, a transformation is taking place. Animated images emerge, which suggest alternative energies and evolve into breathing life forms. The world is revitalized, the asphalted planet begins blooming again!
title: Wandel
technique: Experimental video, charcoal animation and digital animation
length: 3’38”
year: 2022
music in the first scene: “más preguntas” (excerpt) by Hernán Samá & Marcelo von Schultz (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) – link to source
music in the last scene: “The Spring” by Chad Crouch (CC BY-NC 3.0) – link to source
concept, camera, drawing, animation, effects and montage: Maria Korporal
© Maria Korporal 2022
WANDEL got first-place ranking in the 10° Festiverd Venezuela: Somos Verdes, Festival Internacional de Cine y Vídeo Verde de Venezuela!
Screenings and selections:
• October 2-31, 2026: In Bewegung – Moving Matters, Galerie KungerKiez, Berlin.
• September 17-18, 2026: Videograma @ Fotoseptiembre 2026, 32 del Festival de la Imagen en Sonora, Cineteca Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico.
• February 27-28, 2026: Videograma 2026, Main Park of Choachí, Cundinamarca, Colombia.
• November 22-23, 2025: 8th Balkan Can Kino Film Symposium, Athens, Greece.
• July 21 and 24, 2025: Indonesia UFO Festival 2025, video screening program curated by Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques in collaboration with LTK4 · Klangbasierte Künste, French Institute in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
• May 21–24, 2025: 15th Strangloscope Festival, Itajaí, Brazil.
• February 28 – March 28, 2025: „Ich bin Venus“, artists’ collective FEMMESPHERES, BEGiNE – Treffpunkt & Kultur für Frauen, Berlin. Mural print adapted from the video.
• December 14, 2024: Sunset Screening & Performance, Bootshaus on Spreeuferweg, Berlin.
• November 15-17, 2024: GJON MILI IVAF, GAD Gallery, Korça, Albania.
• November 2-17, 2024: Art Video, gallery L’esTRAde – Photographie & Vidéo & Art Visuel, Athis de l’Orne, Normandie, France.
• September 6-8, 2024: Experimentelle Filme in den Studios ID as part of the Lange Nacht der Bilder in Berlin-Lichtenberg, curated by GISELA – Freier Kunstraum Lichtenberg, ID-Studios, Berlin.
• August 29 – September 25, 2024: Seoul Metro International subway Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea.
• July 19 – August 16, 2024: Qlimate Qronobot. Prompting for the Future of our Planet. Solo exhibition by Maria Korporal in GG3 / Group Global 3000, Berlin.
• July 3-7, 2024: Marin County Fair, San Rafael, California, USA.
• July 1-31, 2024: Canyon Flats Video Wall, City of Reno, Nevada, USA.
• June 30, 2024: VideoArt “Abgründe des Seins” with video artists Merit Fakler and Maria Korporal, Achim Freyer Kunsthaus, Berlin.
• June 1-21, 2024: Is anybody in?, screening program of Video Art Miden at the Open-Air Water Power Museum in Dimitsana, Greece.
• May 19, 2024: Frome International Climate Film Festival, Frome, UK.
• Semi-Finalist in AniMate – Australia Animation Film Festival, Season 4 – 2024
• April 26-28, 2024: Repair. Miami New Media Festival, WG Kunst, Amsterdam.
• December 2-16, 2023: Festival Nuvola Creativa, curated by Antonietta Campilongo, Villa di Massenzio, Rome.
• October 26, 2023: Pinus Sessions, São Paulo, Brazil.
• October 18 – November 10, 2023: Instants Vidéo, Marseille, France.
• October 7-29, 2023: Opening exhibition of Miami New Media Festival, IDART Lab, Miami, USA.
• June 24-25, 2023: Re:Think GAIA Festival, Video Art Miden screening with Re:Think Project at FarmaFifaPermaculture, Iroon Politechniou, Kalamata, Greece.
• April 21 – May 21, 2023: UPDATE 23, Galerie VBK Berlin.
• February 23 – March 12, 2023: T-Short Animated Film Online Festival 2023, Bizarre Competition
• February 23, 2023: Screening of 12 videos by Maria Korporal in the context of Premio Borgo Video, curated by gallery La scala d’oro, Sala Dionigi (Chiesa Valdese), Rome, Italy.
• November 10, 2022 – January 7, 2023: außer ich – inner ich / part 2, INSELGALERIE Berlin.
• November 3-18, 2022: IMAGE PLAY ► International Video Art Festival 2022 (PT), curated by Hernando Urrutia.
• October 7-9, 2022: Videomedeja 26th International New Media Art Festival, KS Svilara, Novi Sad, Serbia.
• October 3-5, 2022: 10° Festiverd Venezuela: Somos Verdes, Festival Internacional de Cine y Vídeo Verde de Venezuela.
• September 10, 2022: Under the Subway Video Art Night, St. Nicholas Park, New York City, USA.
• June 25 – July 9, 2022: FONLAD 2022, International Video Art & Performance Festival, Coimbra (PT) and online.
• June 4 – 25, 2022: Peace Letters to Ukraine 7, curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles.
• May 15, 2022: M3:G3 ~ Cross encounters. Sphere, New Delhi.
• April 1 – May 20, 2022: Transformation, GG3 / Group Global 3000, Berlin.
Keep in touch to be informed about screenings!
Screening of WANDEL, September 10, 2022: Under the Subway Video Art Night, St. Nicholas Park, New York City, USA, video by curator Antonio Ortuño.