Curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen

Since the mid-’70s, Marcel Odenbach has been working in the now all too familiar vein of video installation. The Cologne-based artist typically intercuts archival footage, scenes from the movies (e.g., Hitchcock, D.W. Griffith), and material he has shot himself to create layered, ambiguous, yet always politically pointed montages. Frankfurter Kunstverein director Nicolaus Schafhausen has assembled ten video installations from all periods of the artist’s career, but the emphasis is on works from the ’70s and ’90s. In addition to the video program, work in other media from the late ’60s and early ’70s is also included. The catalogue features essays by Jörg Heiser, Astrid Wege, Vanessa Joan Müller, and the New Museum in New York’s Dan Cameron.

— David Rimanelli