In 2004, Hermann Vaske shot the official opening film for the “VIDEO” Exhibition “25 Years of Video Aesthetics,” featuring the inventor of punk Malcolm McLaren. The exhibition took place at the NRW Forum in Düsseldorf and was curated by Ulf Poschardt. The section on advertising was curated by Hermann Vaske.

The exhibition was presented on more than a hundred plasma screens in the NRW Forum. As part of the exhibition, NRW Forum also showed also films by Matthew Barney, Chris Cunningham, and a retrospective of Andy Warhol, as well as Hermann Vaske’s “Directors That Do Both: Features and Commercials.”

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