Clemens Von Wedemeyer, The Making of Otjesd, 2005, video still 2006. Courtesy Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris.
Clemens von Wedemeyer’s film installations explore the blurring of lines between fact and fiction as well as societal development and power structures. He uses cinematic techniques often referencing famous films from cinema’s history. For his work Otjesd, Wedemeyer mediates on migration by staging a surreal re -enactment of a scene he witnessed whilst in Moscow outside the German Embassy.
Clemens von Wedemeyer was born in Gottingen, Germany. He now lives and works in Berlin. He has received numerous international awards including the Art Award of Bottcher Strasse, Bremen, Germany (2005), the VG Bild Kunst Award for Experimental Film and Video Art, Munich Film Festival, Germany (2002) and the Marion Ermer Prize, Leipzig (2002). He has exhibited in group shows and solo exhibitions internationally, including Skulptur Projekte Münster, Germany 2007, the 4th Berlin Biennial, Germany 2006, the 1st Moscow Biennial, Russia 2005 and the Turin Triennial, Italy 2005, MOMA, New York, 2008 and recently at The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery, London (2009).