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Clemens von Wedemeyer

Clemens von Wedemeyerwas born in Göttingen, Germany, in 1974. He studied Fine Arts at the HGB, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. He received numerous international awards for his films, including the Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse in Bremen, Germany (2005), the VG Bildkunst Award for Experimental Film and Video–art, Munich Film Festival, Germany (2002), the Marion Ermer Prize, Leipzig (2002). 
Clemens von Wedemeyer does frequently work with cinematic strategies and motifs, but tends to thrust such references into the context of art, cross-cutting them with art’s viewing and image traditions. “Art and cinema are different languages, but they are related,” von Wedemeyer once said. “I am interested in both languages. Taken together, they make it possible to devise a practice that opens up space for new investigations.” Von Wedemeyer does not just bring film memories to light by linking art and cinema, but creates new access to reality (from an interview by Jens Asthoff).

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