Chamäleon’s Anniversary: Video Installation at Hackesche Höfe

To mark the 20th anniversary of the Chamäleon Theater since its reopening in 2004, visitors to Hackesche Höfe can enjoy a special highlight from early September: in a public call for entries, the Chamäleon invited video artists to submit concepts for a large-format video installation in the windows of the theater auditorium, which is located in the first courtyard and thus on one of the most famous and most photographed facades in Germany.

Numerous creative ideas were submitted with the brief of making the theme of contemporary circus visible at Hackesche Höfe. In the end, the video artist and motion designer Flo Stanger was chosen to realize the project with an original mix of real and graphic video elements. The installation was opened on September 5th as part of the official world premiere of Wolf by Circa Contemporary Circus and will be on display until the end of November.

Flo Stanger lives and works in Berlin. Since completing his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Audiovisual Media and Electronic Media at Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart, he has worked as a freelance director and mixed media artist for organizations such as Seebrücke, WWF and TEDx. Flo Stanger himself describes his work as “playful, clonky or even bizarre – but always with technical finesse and a great love of detail”. For the installation in the Chamäleon windows, Stanger uses excerpts from circus pieces that were presented in the Chamäleon, alienates them and combines them with comic-like graphics and playful animations that form a dynamic total work of art in dialog with the unique architectural conditions.

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