Monitoring – Exhibition of media installations.
As part of the 43rd Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, the annual Monitoring – Exhibition of Media Installations will open in Kassel on 18 November 2026.
Curated by an eight-member selection committee from around 225 recent submissions, the exhibition once again shines a spotlight on the present and asks: has exhaustion become a collective experience, or even the status quo? Recent headlines would suggest so. Climate fatigue, crisis fatigue, news fatigue – in a year of tipping points, the 14 media installations under the title *Freaking Caring Tired Still* cannot hide the fact that a sense of impending collapse is driving the zeitgeist. But they also demonstrate that whilst fatigue may be contagious, commitment, care and a genuine interest in humanity are even more so.
Artists: Veneta Androva, Magali Dougoud, Ileana Farabani, Zeno Gries, Binha Haase, Malin Kuht, Ledermann & Marschner, Jiayi Li, Sarah Reva Mohr, Maria Nalbantova, Celia Pym, Antje Seeger, Andrea Winkler & Stefan Panhans, Shirley Daria Nchang Zama
Opening:
18 November 26, 8.00 pm
KulturBahnhof Kassel, South
Wing, Rainer-Dierichs-Platz 1
Accompanying events:
20 November 26, 8–9.30 pm
Kasseler Kunstverein, with the support of the documenta archive
‘Gaps in Memory – Artistic Practice on Forgotten Entanglements’:
Malin Kuht and Antje Seeger in conversation with Johanna Brummack and Defne Kızılöz.
21 November 2026 | 4–5 pm
KulturBahnhof Kassel, South Wing
Q&A with Objects – A Q&A session with Ileana Farabani, Ledermann & Marschner, Mützen and Verhütungsringe
Moderated by Marlene Denningmann.
Opening hours
Wed, 8 pm–11 pm
Thu–Fri, 11 am–8 pm
Sat, 3 pm–8 pm
Sun, 12 noon–8 pm
Free admission
Venues
Kasseler Kunstverein
Friedrichsplatz 18
KulturBahnhof Kassel, Südflügel
Rainer-Dierichs-Platz 1
Further information:
www.kasselerdokfest.de