Sinkholes awarded best Narrative Film at Ann Arbor Film Festival 01.04.2025 Karen Russo's latest film 'Sinkholes' was awarded the Lawrence Kasdan Award for Best Narrative Film at the 63rd Ann Arbor Film Festival.From AAFF: "This distinction goes to the narrative film... Read more Sinkholes world premiere at Ann Arbor Film Festival 25-20 March, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan 13.02.2025 ‘Sinkholes’ will have its world premiere at the 63rd Ann Arbor Film Festival on 29 March where it will be screened as part of the “Parable of the Now” programme.SAT 29 March, 7:30pm, Michigan... Read more Sinkholes Solo exhibition at Way Out East, UEL, September 2024 13.09.2024 Karen Russo’s exhibition at Way Out East Gallery is a culmination of a yearlong research and collaboration with University of East London.At the heart of the exhibition is Sinkholes, a new 16mm film shot... Read more Jarman Now! The Film London Jarman Award’s new pioneers Whitechapel Gallery, Sat 11 Nov, 11:30am - 6pm 01.11.2023 Celebrating the work of the artists shortlisted for Film London’s Jarman Award 2023, we present a day of encounters across the gallery with the shortlisted artists – Ayo Akingbade, Andrew Black, Julianknxx, Sophie Koko Gate,... Read more B3 Festival of Moving Image, Frankfurt Screenings and Panel discussion 19.10.2023 Personal Experiences and Stories as the Foundation for Creating Moving Images and as a Catalyst for Change. A Conversation About the Positive and Negative Impacts of Art of All KindsConcurrently, they serve as a catalyst for significant discussions... Read more Film London Jarman Award tour live Q&A with Karen Russo hosted by Towner Eastbourne Sep 21, 6pm 22.09.2023 Film London Jarman Award 2023: Karen Russo21 September 6pm | Towner Eastbourne (online)The Film London Jarman Award tour begins with a live in-conversation and Q&A with Karen Russo hosted by Towner Eastbourne. Read more Karen Russo shortlisted for the Jarman Award 2023 Film London Jarman Award 12.06.2023 Now in its sixteenth year, the Film London Jarman Award celebrates the pioneering work of the UK’s foremost artist filmmakers. Inspired by the visionary filmmaker Derek Jarman, the award celebrates the spirit of experimentation, imagination... Read more Sinkholes currently filming in the Dead Sea 12.07.2023 Karen Russo’s new short film Sinkholes currently filming in the Dead Sea.Sinkholes is set in a bleak world threatened by climate change. The dumping of industrial waste has created a layer over the... Read more Dancing on Tec(h)tonic Plates Artis 12.06.2023 Karen Russo's film will be screened as part of Sifting Through the Structures, a new, curated selection of video artworks screening on the Artis website from June 9–July 10 as part of Dancing on Tec(h)tonic Plates. The videos screening in... Read more Strange Attractor Journal IV Book launch Camden Arts Centre 27 April 2023, 7-9 PM 26.04.2023 Strange Attractor Journal IV Book Launch eventCamden Arts Centre27 April 2023 7-9PMBook Launch: Strange Attractor Journal IVRead more Salon for a Speculative Future: Women Artists’ Print Portfolio MOCA, London 03.03.2023 For Women's History Month MOCA London WE is pleased to present Salon for a Speculative Future: Women Artists’ Print PortfolioHow to be in the Future? Salon for a Speculative Future: Women Artists’ Print Portfolioco-curated... Read more Changing & Growing 10 Years KM Gallery, Berlin 05.09.2022 Changing & Growing10 Years KM, BerlinKM Gallery, Berlin17.09 – 29.10 2022Opening reception: Sat 17th... Read more Strange Attractor Journal Five Strange Attractor Press 05.09.2022 Karen Russo’s Essay “Haus Atlantis” is included in Strange Attractor Journal Five by Strange Attractor Press.Edited by Mark Pilkington and Jamie Sutcliffe, the acclaimed Strange Attractor Journal returns... Read more Brewers Towner International 2022 Towner Eastbourne 15 October 2022 - 22 January 2023 20.05.2022 Brewers Towner International will take place at Towner Eastbourne from 15 October 2022 to 22 January 2023. A short list of artists have been selected by an esteemed panel including Turner Prize winning artist Elizabeth Price, Sepake Angiama (Artistic... Read more Karen Russo Retrospective on Cryptofiction 1-30 June 2022 31.05.2022 A RETROSPECTIVEOn on-demand CRYPTOFICTIONKAREN RUSSO Junkerhaus (2019) Haus Atlantis (2016) TET-Stadt (2016) Externsteine (2012) Target: 090313 977... Read more MACHINALIVE Nomadica at LABA 2022 25.03.2022 MACHINALIVENomadica at LABA 2022Artist film labscreenings, performances & exhibitionsApril 21-25, 2022 Read more Disasters P8 Contemporary Art Gallery 25.03.2022 DisastersSeries of Screenings at P8 Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv.Participating artists: Karen Russo, Roy Menachem Markovich, Alexandra Ben-Abba, Maya Smira, Gil... Read more Junkerhaus at the Swedenborg Film Festival December 11th, Swedenborg House, London 01.12.2021 Junkerhaus (2019) will be screened as part of the Swedenborg Film Festival, London which will take place on December 11th with a special programme of screenings, installations and performance at the grade-II-listed Swedenborg House.Read more Junkerhaus at Marseille Underground Film & Music Festival Nov 20th, 5pm 28.10.2021 Junkerhaus (2019) will be screened at Marseille Underground Film & Music Festival (MUFF) on Nov 20th, 5pm, as part of Programme 1 - Sous Influence. MUFF 2021 Read more Junkerhaus North American premiere at Ann Arbor Film Festival 24.02.2021 Junkerhaus (2019) will have its US premiere at the 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival, March 23-28, 2021.Junkerhaus will be screened as part of Films in Competition 13 on Sat., Mar 27, 2021, at 3:00... Read more Experimental Film Award for Junkerhaus Jerusalem Film Festival 17.12.2020 Karen Russo's film Junkerhaus was awarded the Ostrovsky Family Fund Award for an experimental film at the Jerusalem Film Festival.Members of the Jury: Mira Lapidot, Talia Hoffman and Udi Edelman. Read more News From Home Dvir Gallery 09.12.2020 Dvir Gallery / Tel Aviv is pleased to invite you to its home to discover a selection of works by Nelly Agassi, Yossi Breger, Mircea Cantor, Karen Russo, Dor Guez, Jonathan Monk & Ariel Schlesinger, Vered Nachmani, Moshe Ninio, Elham Rokni... Read more Jerusalem Film Festival 27.11.2020 Karen Russo's film Junkerhaus will be screened at the 37th Jerusalem Film Festival. The film will be screened as part of Intersections programme. Jerusalem Film Festival10-20.12.2020... Read more Ben Shields review of Karen Russo's work in Hyperallergic Karen Russo’s Films Explore the Manipulative Power of Nazi Imagery 27.11.2020 Read Ben Shield piece in Hyperallergic about Karen Russo's films and recent exhibition Myths of the Near Future at the Tel-Aviv Museum.Karen Russo’s Films Explore the Manipulative Power of Nazi Imagery Read more 37th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival 02.11.2020 Junkerhaus will be screened at the 37th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival which will take place on November 17-22. Junkerhaus will be screened as part of "Kammerspiele - Domestic Imagination"... Read more 39th Uppsala Short Film Festival 10.10.2020 Karen Russo's film Junkerhaus (2019) will be screened at the 39th Uppsala Film Festival which will take place on 19-25 October 2020. Junkerhaus will be screened at part of "The House We... Read more Online exhibition | Works on paper Dvir Gallery 30.09.2020 Dvir Gallery is pleased to present a selection of works on paper by Adel Abdessemed, Miroslaw Balka, Latifa Echakhch, Thomas Hirschhorn, Sarah Ortmeyer, Karen Russo and Ariel Schlesinger.With its invention in China in the II... Read more Limited edition print available through Vide Atelier 28.08.2020 “Untitled” (2020) is now available to buy as a limited edition print on Vide Atelier.Vide Atelier is an online shop of limited edition prints, by contemporary artists, established by DACS, Verisart and Marcel... Read more The City & The City & The City Frestonian Gallery, London 24.08.2020 The City & The City & The CityFrestonian Gallery, London Artists: Karen Russo, Charles Avery, Dana LixenbergRead more Haus Atlantis screening at The Crown Cinema, Jerusalem Screening Halls for Single Viewers 24.08.2020 The Crown CinemaScreening Halls for Single Viewers13 Aug at 15:00 – 27 Aug at 15:00Curator:... Read more Special Mention Award for Junkerhaus at Oberhausen Film Festival 19.05.2020 Junkerhaus (2019) wins the Special Mention Award of the the Ministry for Culture and Science Jury at Oberhausen Film Festival.The award ceremony took place on Monday 18th May.Jury's... Read more International premiere of Junkerhaus at Oberhausen Film Festival 66th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 13-18 May 14.03.2020 The international premiere of Junkerhaus (2019) will take place at the 66th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen which takes place on 13-18th May 2020 as an online event due to Covid-19.Junkerhaus... Read more Alchemy Film Festival 30 April – 4 May 2020 14.03.2020 Junkerhaus (2019) will be screened as part of Alchemy Film Festival, Hewick, which will take place on 30 April– 4 May 2020. The 2020 festival takes place 1 – 3 May as an exclusively online event due to Covid-19 restrictions. Read more Marseille Underground Film & Music Festival 14.03.2020 Karen Russo's film Junkerhaus will be screened as part of the 4th edition of MUFF - Marseille Underground Film and Music Festival which will take place on 15th-19th April 2020. Junkerhaus will be screened on:Thursday 16th April 19:00 Sunday... Read more Ministry of Culture Awards 2017-2018 Ashdod Museum 18.01.2020 26.12.2019 Ministry of Culture Awards 2017-2018Opening: 18.1.2020Curators: Yuval Beaton, Roni Cohen-Binyamini, Dafna GazitRead more Haus Atlantis - new publication 06.10.2019 Haus Atlantis documents Karen Russo’s recent film projects and research into the mystical Nordic architecture of German Expressionist Bernhard Hoetger.Circling the controversial architect and Nazi sympathiser,... Read more Solo show at the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art Myths of the Near Future 26.9.19 - 18.4.20 11.09.2019 Karen Russo’s solo exhibition presents three new video works and large-scale charcoal drawings. The works reflect on German cultural history and the link between irrationality and nationalism through the legacy of Expressionism.Read more Sacred Rituals, Screening Parallel, Toronto 19.12.2019 Nov - Dec 2019Curated by: Alma MikulinskiScared rituals are at the heart of this new cycle of video art. The theme of rituals take us to habitual... Read more Drawing Biennial, The Drawing Room 20 February – 26 March 12.02.2019 An exhibition and auction of over 200 unique drawings, showcasing the most exciting artists working today. Including works using every imaginable technique, Drawing Biennial 2019 affirms the centrality of drawing to all spheres of artistic production.... Read more Karen Russo has been awarded the Established Video Artist Award 12.02.2019 Karen Russo has been awarded the 2018 Israeli Ministry of Culture award for an Established Video artist . The prize, of £10,000 was awarded to Russo for her work in film and video in the last 20 years.An... Read more Dioramas Mycelia Publication Launch, Glasgow 16.10.2018 Mycelia Publication Launch, The Glad Café, Glasgow, 26 October 2018, 7.30pm, £3 (suggested), tickets on the doorDioramas is a screening programme which features the re-enactment of mythologised landscapes... Read more November Film Festival, London Close-Up Film Centre, 24 October 2018, 8pm 25.09.2018 TET-Stadt will be screened as part of November Film FestivalSat 24.09.18, 8pmClose-Up Film Centre,... Read more Nightfall, Tel-Aviv Artists' Studios 22 Sep - 20 Oct 2018 25.09.2018 Link to the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/264562580851282/ Read more Jerusalem Film Festival Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards 2018 09.07.2018 Jerusalem Film FestivalExperimental Cinema and Video Art Awards 2018Sunday, 29.07.18, 8:15 PM, Cinematheque 2For more info:Read more TET-Stadt screening at Close-Up cinema, London March 22nd 2018, 7:30pm 09.03.2018 TET-Stadt will be screened at Close-Up cinema on Thursday 22 March 7.30pm as part of “Emplacing”, curated by Sharone Lifschitz. The screening will be followed by a Q&A.UEL Moving Image Research Centre presents a programme looking at the relation of artist-filmmakers... Read more Die Externsteine. Zwischen wissenschaftlicher Forschung und völkischer Deutung New publication 28.02.2018 I had the pleasure contributing an entry to this new fantastic publication about the "Externsteine" edited by Larissa Eikermann, StefanieHaupt, Roland Linde and Michael Zelle.“Die Externsteine.... Read more More Love Hours than Can Ever Be Repaid Raw Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv 08.05.2017 More Love Hours than Can Ever Be Repaid | Group exhibitionRaw Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv 13.5.17 - 10.6.17 Curators: Leah Abir and Tali Ben Nun Boaz Kadman, Eitan Ben Moshe, Gabi Kricheli, Gil... Read more Drawing Biennial 2018 Drawing Room, London 16.03.2017 Drawing Biennial 2018 offers insights into how artists contend with a world in rapid and disorienting flux. A snapshot of contemporary drawing practices, the exhibition includes more than 200 new and recent works on paper by leading international artists.Exhibition:... Read more Screening and Panel Discussion at QUAD 29.12.2016 Artist Film Screening & Panel Discussion:Karen Russo: Haus Atlantis & TET-StadtWednesday 18 January 2017 at 6pmQUAD Gallery FREESpecial screenings of Israeli filmmaker Karen Russo’s recent works Haus Atlantis and TET-Stadt. By looking at... Read more Interview for Studio International by Lilly Wei 05.12.2016 Karen Russo: ‘I’ve always liked the idea of making films that were somehow outside of time’The artists talks about her two most recent films, Haus Atlantis and TET-Stadt, which centre on the buildings and ideas of the German expressionist architect and Nazi... Read more 'Haus Atlantis' Visual Essay Tohu Magazine 06.12.2016 Following Karen Russo’s recent video work “Haus Atlantis,” which blends the genres of documentary, historical essay, and science fiction, the artist readdresses her work’s visual and textual elements in the form of a visual essay.Built in 1931, Haus Atlantis... Read more Haus Atlantis at Große Kunstschau, Worpswede June 19th - October 23rd 2016 16.06.2016 The Israeli filmmaker and artist Karen Russo (b. 1974) lives in London. For her exhibition Haus Atlantis at Große Kunstschau, she has produced a series of works engaging with the mystical Nordic architecture of Bernard Hoetger, which will be shown here for the first... Read more "Things to Come" at Petach-Tikva Museum 02.04.2016 Curator: Doreet LeVitte Harten14/04/2016 - 20/08/2016 Science fiction is a relatively new field that deals with the impact of imagined science and technology upon society and individuals. It is a controlled way to think and dream about the future, which at... Read more Externsteine at Lippischen Landesmuseum Detmold 19.02.2015 My film Externsteine (2012) will be screened as part of the symposium "Die Externsteine –Ein Denkmal als Objekt wissenschaftlicher Forschung und Projektionsfläche völkischer Vorstellungen" at the Lippischen Landesmuseum in Detmold.Screening: March 6th,... Read more Into the Underworld Iain Sinclair on the excavation of London 21.01.2015 Iain Siclaire's wonderful new piece in the latest issue of London Review of Books about digging in Hackney and my encounters with the Mole Man. Read more "We Are Golden" - Solo show, Circle 1, Berlin Sep 19th - 18th Oct, Private View: Friday Sep 19th, 19:00 26.08.2014 Press release Karen Russo (b.1974) is an Israeli-born artist living and working in London. In her exhibition at... Read more Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Germany Residency 05.07.2014 I will be spending a month at Künstlerhäuser Worpswede in Germany, developing and researching a new film project around Bernhard Hoetger’s Atlantis Haus in Bremen. Künstlerhäusern Worpswede Read more Externsteine at Cinema South Festival 14.05.2014 Cinema South Festival, Israel. June 9th, 2014, 16:30 hrs. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion. Cinema South Festival Read more Externsteine at Museum Bärengasse, Zurich "Culture Loops” 10.03.2014 Museum Bärengasse, Zurich. 25 April 2014Part of "Curating Your Context": Curatorial projects for the temporary use of the MuseumBärengasse. Programme curated by: Dina Yakerson and Gili Zaidman.Culture Loops-Museum BärengasseTales... Read more No Man's Land at Jerusalem Artists House 02.04.2014 Adrian Paci, Ariane Littman, Assaf Shoshsan, Dina Shenhav, Karen Russo, Lihi Turgeman, Ohad Matalon, Sagit Mezamer, Tsahi HachmonCurator: Marie Shek7 June – 9 August 2014No Man's Land Read more "Urban Wandering" at the Barbican Art Centre September - October 2013 31.07.2013 Karen Russo at the Barbican Art Centre Karen Russo: The Mole Man The Mole Man, 2008, by London-based Israeli artist Karen Russo is a fascinating photographic record stemming from her research into the psycho-geography of underground environments... Read more ‹ Your order 0 items Empty cart €0.00 Close Your order You're watching accesibility note, click ESC to closeAccessibility Statement Go to main content Go to navigation Go to cart Turn off high contrast Turn on high contrast
