The Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf is currently devoting an entire exhibition to video games, showing how they are increasingly becoming part of contemporary visual culture
The late American journalist Roger Ebert once said that video games can never be art. But the Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf disagrees. The German cultural institution is currently devoting an entire exhibition to video games, showing how they are increasingly becoming part of contemporary visual culture.
For Hans Ulrich Obrist, the curator of "WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age," video games "are to the 21st century what movies were to the 20th century and novels to the 19th century." To support this assertion, he has selected around 30 multimedia works that elevate the world of gaming to the level of art. Some are from the Julia Stoschek Collection and have been specially adapted for the exhibition, while others have been commissioned for the occasion.