What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem

Marina Abramović, Doug Aitken, Ant Farm & T.R. Uthco, Kader Attia, Dara Birnbaum, Monica Bonvicini, Robert Boyd, Luis Buñuel, Chris Burden, Paul Chan, George Cowl & Travers Vale, Thomas Demand, Maya Deren, Walt Disney, Cyprien Gaillard, Douglas Gordon, Alice Guy-Blaché, Anne Imhof, Arthur Jafa, Ulysses Jenkins, Jesper Just, Sigalit Landau, Mark Leckey, Klara Lidén, Paul McCarthy, Winsor McCay, Alex McQuilkin, Georges Méliès, Ana Mendieta, Precious Okoyomon, Jon Rafman, Charles Reisner, Bunny Rogers, Jacolby Satterwhite, Christoph Schlingensief, Jeremy Shaw, Nina Simone, Max Skladanowsky, P. Staff, Sturtevant, Wolfgang Tillmans, Wu Tsang, Jordan Wolfson, Lu Yang

Edited by Udo Kittelmann

The Julia Stoschek Foundation presents What a Wonderful World, featuring 45 artists and 45 time-based artworks, offering a sweeping odyssey into the depth of human experience, unfolding across 100 years of visual storytelling.

For its six-week run, What a Wonderful World transforms the iconic Variety Arts Theater, a historic Venetian-style landmark in downtown Los Angeles, into a soul-stirring experience, a cinematic journey through the trajectories, secrets and fragilities of humanity.

What a Wonderful World experiments with time-based media by placing contemporary video works in dialogue with silent films and early cinema classics. For the first time, a large-scale exhibition bridges these two universes, creating an unprecedented encounter across more than a century of visual storytelling.