About Me
Valentina Besegher (1976, Milan - Italy) is an avant-garde filmmaker, live video performer and visual artist.
She lives and works in Berlin.
Selected Screenings / Performances / Exhibitions
2016 - Arctic Moving Image and Film Festival- Harstadt Kino - Northen Norway
2016 - Isadora Werkstatt, festival curated by Mark Coniglio - Ufer Studio, Berlin
2016 - Scope - Spektrum, Berlin, Germany
2016 - Transmediale Vorspiel - Acud Macht Neu, Berlin, Germany
2013 - Memories, Exhibition - Agorà, Berlin, Germany
2013 - C.A.R. Contemporary Art Ruhr - Essen, Germany
2013 - Berlin International Directors Lounge - Berlin, Germany
2012 - Occulto Fest, West Germany, Berlin, Germany
2012 - ContemporaryArt Torino Piemonte, Bunker, Turin, Italy
2010 - Mir Festival, Performance / Live Media / Image Adventures, Athens, Greece
2010 - One Minute Suite, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
2010 - Visual Berlin Festival, Berlin, Germany
2010 - MUV FESTIVAL , Music and Digital Art Festival, Anfiteatro delle Cascine, Florence, Italy
2010 - Laptopsrus, Stattbad Wedding, Contemporary Culture Center, Berlin, Germany
2009 - Flussi Digital Transitions, Tenuta Carlo Gesualdo / Avellino / Italy
2009 - Alternative Film Video, New Film and Video Festival, Novi Beograd, Serbia
2009 - 7th Tabor Film Festival, International Short Film Festival, Zabok, Croatia
2009 - ISFF Detmold, International Short Film Festival, Hangar 21 Detmold, Germany
2009 - Platforma Video, International Film Festival, Athens Technopolis, Greece
2008 - 13 Canarias Media Festival 2008, Gran Canaria Espacio Digital, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
2008 - Oslo Screen Festival, Oslo, Norway
2008 - Mir Festival, Performance / Live Media / Image Adventures, Athens, Greece
2008 - Open Ear, ATRIuM Theatre at the University of Glamorgan’s Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, Cardiff, UK
2008 - Cartes Flux Vol.3, Cartes Centre of Art and Technology, Espoo, Finland
2008 - Loop Festival, International Festival & Fair for Videoart, Barcelona, Spain
2008 - EMAF / European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany
2007 - LIVE! IXEM / Electronic Music and Art Festival, Palermo, Italy
2007 - Optica International Festival of Video Art, Gijon, Spain
2007 - Festival della creatività, Florence, Italy
2007 - VAD - Video and Digital Arts International Festivals, Casa de Cultura, Girona, Spain
2007 - Videominuto PopTV, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
2007 - Simultan3, video and new media art festival, Timisoara, Romania
2007 - Loop Festival, International Festival & Fair for Videoart, Barcelona, Spain
2007 - OFFF / International festival for the post-digital creation culture, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain
2007 - GeneraComunicAzioni, Casa Masaccio Arte Contemporanea, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
2006 - Atrium, video installation, Torino, Italy
2006 - LIVE! IXEM / Electronic Music and Art Festival, RialtoSantambrogio, Roma, Italy
2006 - Videominuto PopTV, (New Italian Wave) Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
2006 - What's next? Intersezioni audio video, Pistoia, Italy
2006 - MUV FESTIVAL , Music and Digital Art Festival, Limonaia di Villa Strozzi, Florence, Italy
2005 - VISUALIZERS, live performance in remixing video, Basilica di Superga, Turin, Italy
2004 - CLUB TO CLUB 2004, International Festival of Electronic Music and Arts, Turin, Italy
Catalogues / Release dvd
2015 - Beyond The Surface - Berlin / catalogue
2012 - Hunt me Tender, Fabio Orsi & Valentina Besegher, released on Silentes / dvd
2010 - One Minute Suite, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy / catalogue
2009 - 7th Tabor Film Festival, International Short Film Festival, Zabok, Croatia / catalogue
2009 - ISFF Detmold, International Short Film Festival, Detmold, Germany / catalogue
2008 - 13 Canarias Media Festival 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain / catalogue
2008 - NMD, New Media Design – Le nuove frontiere dell’ arte / curated by Alberto Cecchi from the University of Perugia / Editrice Sometti / Book
2008 - Simultan, Video and Media Arts Festival Timisoara, Romania / dvd release
2008 - Cartes Flux vol. 3, Festival of new media art. Cartes Centre of Art and Technology, Espoo, Finland / catalogue
2008 - EMAF / European Media Art Festival. Osnabrück, Germany / catalogue
2007 - VAD - Video and Digital Arts International Festivals, Casa de Cultura, Girona, Spain / catalogue
2007 - MarryKlein / Femele Electonica. Harryklein Club, Munich, Germany / catalogue
2007 - Videominuto PopTV, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy / catalogue
2007 - OFFF / International festival for the post-digital creation culture. CCCB, Barcelona, Spain / catalogue
2007 - Pig Magazine n.49 / Focus on Zerofeedback dvd release / review
2007 - Zerofeedback video label experimental / dvd release
2006 - MarryKlein / Femele Electonica. Harryklein Club, Munich, Germany / catalogue
2006 - MakeSomeNoise Magazine / Donne Post Moderne / Interview
2006 - Videominuto PopTV, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy / catalogue
2006 - Mixing Identities a/v dvd curated with Vjcentral.it (Antonio Zavagli, Silvia Bianchi, Mattia Casalegno, Claudio Sinatti, Valentina Besegher) in collaboration with Elettrowave Festival / dvd release
Curatorial projects
2016 - Cluster #2 - music series - Labor Neunzehn, Berlin, Germany
2016 - Cluster #1 - music series - Project Space Festival and Labor Neunzehn, Berlin, Germany
2016 - BYOD – Bring Your Own Data - Workshop - Labor Neunzehn, Berlin, Germany
2015 - Beyond the Surface - Film Screening Programme for Occulto Magazine - West Germany - Berlin
2015 - Beyond the Surface - Film screening Programme - Labor Neunzehn, Berlin, Germany
2015 - From Field Recording to Data Sonification in Late Capitalism - Exhibition - Labor Neunzehn, Berlin, Germany