Video Art uses moving images as a medium for artistic experimentation outside conventional film and television. It includes single-channel works, projections, installations, manipulated footage and pieces that combine image, sound, space and performance.
Molly Soda has been uploading herself to the internet since before “content creator” became a normal job description. Her archive contains webcam performances, makeup videos, singing, dancing, crying, fragments lasting only seconds and projects developed explicitly as artworks. Instead of separating these categories neatly, she has largely allowed them to accumulate together. On 28 September…
Hito Steyerl’s The Island, currently at Fondazione Prada’s Osservatorio in Milan until 30 October 2026, refuses to stay inside one period of history. The project combines a newly produced film with installation, objects and video interviews. Its stories move from microorganisms and Neolithic time to war, contemporary technology and imagined futures. Flooding keeps returning as…
Yuyan Wang’s new Boring Billion is a 2026 single-channel video made from the kind of image material digital culture produces almost without noticing. Wang has long worked with images recycled from industrial and online image systems. She edits, repeats and recontextualises them until their original purpose becomes unstable. Boring Billion, commissioned for 2026 and now…
Jasper Marsalis has made a contemporary landscape exhibition without travelling to photograph the landscapes himself. In Still Life, currently at Chisenhale Gallery in London until 6 September 2026, a large screen displays live images drawn from unsecured internet-connected cameras around the world. Lakes appear. Roads. Hills. Parking lots. Agricultural spaces. Occasionally animals or people pass…
In 1831 an underwater volcanic eruption created a temporary island between Sicily and Tunisia. Britain, France, Spain and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies quickly became interested in claiming it. Then the island disappeared beneath the Mediterranean again. Elisa Giardina Papa turns this strange historical episode into She Flickered In and Out of History, a…
Panu Johansson’s Wherever Street Piece begins with anonymous 16mm footage he rescued from being thrown away in the early 2000s. Nobody appears to know exactly who filmed it. The material seems to have been recorded in several countries between roughly 1965 and 1975. Johansson transferred the footage onto high-contrast Kodak 3378 sound-recording film and then…
Carolyn Lazard’s current exhibition Long Take, at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center until 13 December 2026, begins with dance but quickly moves beyond the idea that a video simply records a performance. The central work Leans, Reverses was developed with dancer Jerron Herman and poet and artist Joselia Rebekah Hughes. The project exists through a dance…
Cao Fei’s work has repeatedly used moving image, virtual worlds and digital culture to examine the speed of social change in China. Her major current exhibition Testimonies to the Near Future opened at Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart on 28 August 2026. The museum describes it as her first solo exhibition in Switzerland and her largest…
Rebecca Belmore’s Fountain, created for the Canadian Pavilion at the 2005 Venice Biennale, does something deceptively simple with video: the image is projected onto falling water rather than a conventional screen. The work moves between fire, water and blood, placing elemental imagery against an industrial North American landscape. The physical projection surface changes everything for…
Chen Chieh-Jen made Factory in 2003 after meeting former workers from Taiwan’s Lien Fu garment factory, which had closed in 1996 without paying workers compensation and pension claims. The women had spent years protesting. Chen invited them back into the abandoned workplace and filmed them quietly performing the labour they once carried out there. The…
