In November 2025, ZIL Culture Center was home to the second Moscow International Video Art Exhibition titled VISIBLE / INVISIBLE.
This exhibition featured 24 works within the exhibition and 12 films screened at the parallel program from artist from all corners of the globe. The exhibition also showcased 6 films made students of our Introduction to Experimental Moving Images course.
In an age of image saturation and constant visibility, Visible / Invisible asks what it means to be seen - and who decides what remains hidden. Bringing together works in video art, experimental film, and performance, the exhibition explores the tension between presence and absence, revealing how visibility can function as both exposure and control.
Through strategies of distortion, concealment, and fragmentation, the artists challenge viewers to look beyond the surface to consider what lies outside the frame, behind the image, or deliberately withheld. Visible / Invisible ultimately questions what it means to become visible today, and at what cost.
This exhibition featured 24 works within the exhibition and 12 films screened at the parallel program from artist from all corners of the globe. The exhibition also showcased 6 films made students of our Introduction to Experimental Moving Images course.
In an age of image saturation and constant visibility, Visible / Invisible asks what it means to be seen - and who decides what remains hidden. Bringing together works in video art, experimental film, and performance, the exhibition explores the tension between presence and absence, revealing how visibility can function as both exposure and control.
Through strategies of distortion, concealment, and fragmentation, the artists challenge viewers to look beyond the surface to consider what lies outside the frame, behind the image, or deliberately withheld. Visible / Invisible ultimately questions what it means to become visible today, and at what cost.
VISIBLE / INVISIBLE
Artists for 2025 VISIBLE / INVISIBLE were:
How Now, House?
Netherlands - 2025
Tess Martin
Levent Çetin
Türkiye
Coast
Ate Von Hes
Italy
Tony P. of Found Family
Jacques Sorrentini Zibjan
France - 2023
7:59 pm
Saman Haghighivand
Iran
untimeline
Campfire Stories
Canada - 2023
David Hunter
Marko Ubović
Serbia - 2023
3X3X3
Nayra Sanz Fuentes
Spain - 2017
Sub Terrae
Maria Gost
Russia
Tales From The Roof
Mikhail Zheleznikov
Russia - 2025
The Mysterious Case of Mr. Benning
Aqueous
Canada - 2024
Kirk Tougas
Irena Paskali
Germany
Unfassbare Zeit
Wout Biesmans
Belgium - 2023
The One Close to the Sea
Tessa Garland
United Kingdom - 2022
Creep East
Valentín Caso Rosendi
Argentina
Goodbye for now
It Will Come Back One Way or Another
United States - 2025
Mahda Purmehdi
Roland Cartagena
Philippines - 2025
0xC00D36C4
Jorge Moneo Quintana
Spain - 2024
Phantasia
David de Rozas
United States - 2024
Allrecipes (Stuffed Manifesto)
Aleksei Martyniuk
Russia / China - 2025
O. D. C.
Traces with Ellikem
United States
Ariana Gerstein
Caharin Caparó
Perú - 2024
g(:a:)llery
Darya Panova
Russia - 2025
Biosemiotics: thought · motive · intention
Curators for 2025 VISIBLE / INVISIBLE were:
Selection Team for 2025 VISIBLE / INVISIBLE were:
Dan Smith - Mikhail Sapunov
Dan Smith - Mikhail Sapunov - Alyona Pimanova - Alex Sharp - Bella Pokrova
Giles Whitehead - Madina Gafurova - Yejeong Kim - Elena Kuzovenkova
Giles Whitehead - Madina Gafurova - Yejeong Kim - Elena Kuzovenkova