This exhibition examines the tensions between what the moving image discloses and what it refuses to unveil.
This exhibition examines the tensions between what the moving image discloses and what it refuses to unveil.
This year we have a new home for Moscow International Video Art Exhibition at ZIL Cultural Centre (Vostochnaya Ulitsa, 4, bldg. 1, Moscow) in November 2025.
More information about the exhibition will start appearing soon so be sure to check back here.
More information about the exhibition will start appearing soon so be sure to check back here.
The Moscow International Video Art Exhibition is an annual platform for contemporary moving image works of video art, experimental film, and filmed performance.
The exhibition is dedicated to showcasing work that challenges visual norms, disrupts narrative conventions, and interrogates this year what is seen and unseen.
This year we have a new home for Moscow International Video Art Exhibition at ZIL Cultural Centre (Vostochnaya Ulitsa, 4, bldg. 1, Moscow) in November 2025.
More information about the exhibition will start appearing soon so be sure to check back here.
More information about the exhibition will start appearing soon so be sure to check back here.
The Moscow International Video Art Exhibition is an annual platform for contemporary moving image works of video art, experimental film, and filmed performance.
The exhibition is dedicated to showcasing work that challenges visual norms, disrupts narrative conventions, and interrogates this year what is seen and unseen.
Meet the selection team
Dan Smith
Artist & Educator
Filmmaker & Artist
Alex Sharp
Alyona Pimanova
Educator & Artist
Marketing Specialist & Educator
Madina Gafurova
Yejeong Kim
Illustrator
Giles Whitehead
Artist, Filmmaker & Educator
Elena Kuzovenkova
Film Student
Zil Curator & Filmmaker
Misha Sapunov
Artist & Educator
Bella Pokrova
Together, our selection team brings a mix of curatorial vision, critical sensitivity, and deep technical knowledge. We are excited to shape a program that pushes the limits of the visible.
Meet the selection team
Dan Smith
Artist & Educator
Filmmaker & Artist
Alex Sharp
Alyona Pimanova
Educator & Artist
Marketing Specialist & Educator
Madina Gafurova
Yejeong Kim
Illustrator
Giles Whitehead
Artist, Filmmaker & Educator
Elena Kuzovenkova
Film Student
Zil Curator & Filmmaker
Misha Sapunov
Artist & Educator
Bella Pokrova
Together, our selection team brings a mix of curatorial vision, critical sensitivity, and deep technical knowledge. We are excited to shape a program that pushes the limits of the visible.
In an era defined by image saturation, CCTV surveillance, and performative self-display, what does it mean to be seen? Who decides what becomes visible and what remains obscured, forgotten or ignored? Visible / Invisible gathers moving image works that engage with this tension: between what is made perceptible and what resists capture.
Drawing from the fields of video art, experimental cinema, and filmed performance, this exhibition explores visibility not just as a condition, but as a strategy, a site of struggle, and a space of transformation. These works investigate the politics of the gaze, the poetics of absence, and the mechanics of looking - challenging the viewer to consider what lies outside the frame, behind the screen, or beneath the surface.
Drawing from the fields of video art, experimental cinema, and filmed performance, this exhibition explores visibility not just as a condition, but as a strategy, a site of struggle, and a space of transformation. These works investigate the politics of the gaze, the poetics of absence, and the mechanics of looking - challenging the viewer to consider what lies outside the frame, behind the screen, or beneath the surface.
Artists in this exhibition employ diverse tactics: blurring, distorting, or glitching film. Here, the moving image does not only show - but it also conceals, resists, withholds, and haunts.
Whether through the surveillance lens, personal archive or found footage, Visible / Invisible asks: what does it mean to become visible today - and at what cost?
Whether through the surveillance lens, personal archive or found footage, Visible / Invisible asks: what does it mean to become visible today - and at what cost?
Curatorial Statement
In an era defined by image saturation, CCTV surveillance, and performative self-display, what does it mean to be seen? Who decides what becomes visible and what remains obscured, forgotten or ignored? Visible / Invisible gathers moving image works that engage with this tension: between what is made perceptible and what resists capture.
Drawing from the fields of video art, experimental cinema, and filmed performance, this exhibition explores visibility not just as a condition, but as a strategy, a site of struggle, and a space of transformation. These works investigate the politics of the gaze, the poetics of absence, and the mechanics of looking - challenging the viewer to consider what lies outside the frame, behind the screen, or beneath the surface.
Drawing from the fields of video art, experimental cinema, and filmed performance, this exhibition explores visibility not just as a condition, but as a strategy, a site of struggle, and a space of transformation. These works investigate the politics of the gaze, the poetics of absence, and the mechanics of looking - challenging the viewer to consider what lies outside the frame, behind the screen, or beneath the surface.
Artists in this exhibition employ diverse tactics: blurring, distorting, or glitching film. Here, the moving image does not only show - but it also conceals, resists, withholds, and haunts.
Whether through the surveillance lens, personal archive or found footage, Visible / Invisible asks: what does it mean to become visible today - and at what cost?
Whether through the surveillance lens, personal archive or found footage, Visible / Invisible asks: what does it mean to become visible today - and at what cost?
Curatorial Statement
VISIBLE // INVISIBLE
VISIBLE // INVISIBLE
VISIBLE // INVISIBLE
VISIBLE // INVISIBLE
VISIBLE // INVISIBLE
VISIBLE // INVISIBLE
VISIBLE // INVISIBLE
VISIBLE // INVISIBLE
VISIBLE // INVISIBLE
VISIBLE // INVISIBLE
VISIBLE // INVISIBLE