Filmscreening: Ghosts, Icons, Clouds, Dreams

As part of the accompanying program for the exhibition The China Moment. Contextualizing Individualism in Chinese Contemporary Art, which runs until March 22, 2026, at the Kasseler Kunstverein, we invite you to the film screening of "Ghosts, Icons, Clouds, Dreams" at the BALi Kinos.

Date: Saturday, February 7, 2026
Time: 3 pm
Venue: BALi Kinos, Rainer-Dierichs-Platz 1, 34117 Kassel

The moving-image works of four Chinese artists, Bo Wang, Tang Han, He Zike, and Zheng Yuan, navigate between history and the present, reality and dream, attentively capturing the rapid transformations of contemporary China.
From Hong Kong’s wig industry and its haunting memories of Asia’s late-20th-century modernization, to Mao’s portrait on banknotes and its crisis of representation in the digital age; from “data center clusters” in Southwest China, where sky clouds and digital clouds converge, to the dreams of laborers within a tech-driven society obsessed with speed and efficiency.
The program accompanies the exhibition The China Moment at Kasseler Kunstverein, the first research exhibition by documenta Institut Kassel.

Curated by Mi You, Su Wei, and Anna-Lisa Scherfose, The China Moment marks the first research exhibition by the documenta Institut.

Imagecredits:
ZHENG Yuan: Dream Delivery, still, 2018