Lillevan is a well known Berlin based video artist, who co-founded the visual audio group Rechenzentrum (1997-2008). Rechenzentrum's performances and DVD releases, as well as Lillevan's collaborations and solo works have been acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, taking visual music, animation, bricolage and film manipulation to new levels.
Lillevan has been involved in film, animation and music since early childhood, and has been performing and releasing work for over 15 years, his work is often described as an exploration of the history of cinema, searching for new relationships between viewer and screen, between reality and the projected image.
After studying politics, film and film theory, writing scripts and being very active in the film & animation scene in the late eighties and early nineties, Lillevan grew disillusioned with the whole idea of re-telling same stories and the lack of adventure in the film world. He took a break from film and found himself running clubs in Berlin, excited by the influx of artists from Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin wall. Soon these new impulses, coupled with new and affordable technologies, pushed him back into the world of moving imagery, this time with a new perspective and motivation, deciding to make the moving imagery he found missing in the cinema, the art world and popular culture.
Lillevan recontextualizes, combines and politicizes existing film images and fragments. 'The aesthetics of the image are not to be found in its beauty, density and completeness, but in its transparencies and potentials.' Since the mid-nineties he has mainly investigated non-narrative facets of film, this has lead to completely abstract works, but also to collage explorations of film history, to interactive works for dance groups and much more.
Inspired by live film performance, Lillevan has introduced innovative approaches to the genre, combining new and old technologies, creating installations and projection techniques, always focusing on taking film in experimental directions. Performances are sometimes combined with lectures, talks and workshops. Often invited to collaborate, Lillevan has worked with an array of acclaimed artists from other genres: music - both club culture and classical, dance, theatre and opera, and has enjoyed challenging projects in performance and installation, and academic settings.
He has performed and lectured all over the world, at festivals and events in Europe, Asia, North & South America.. At Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Mutek, Dis-Patch and many other events.
31.10 / PATHERNS exhibiton with Incredible Bob / Progres Gallery
01.11 / PATHERNS exhibiton with Incredible Bob / Progres Gallery
01.11 / Vladislav Delay & Lillevan / Cultural Center Rex
05.11 / Kinovida (with Sasu Ripatti) / Cultural Center Rex