Brigitte Valobra , Wald
Art performance - Video art
Working together since 1988 through different art structures, their path is a desire, an every day attempt, a fact. In mind of a Poor Theatre of movement. Notably inspired by the worlds of Samuel Beckett, Josef Nadj, Tadeusz Kantor, Maguy marin, Kazuo Ohno, Joseph Beuys, Tom Waits... Performing all along the year on street and making theatrical videos as a suspension of the time. Moreover they follow their personal art way.
Videos duo in exhibitions - Click on the picture to see the video and related data
SUSPENSION
. Culturehub ReFest 2024 New York-USA
. Wrong Biennale 6 2024 Sao Polo-Brazil
. L' Alternativa Hall 2023 Barcelona-Spain
URBAN MANTRA 8
. RarteAparte . 2024 Caceres-Spain
. Lake Ivan review 2024 Review USA
. Tryst Tam-Torrance 2023 Los Angeles-USA
. Les Instants Vidéo 2023 Marseille-France
. SoMe Festival 2023 Bucharest-Romania
. Goes :Art TV 2023 Vienna-Austria
. Tam-Torrance Art Museum 2023 Los Angeles-USA
FOUR VARIATIONS
. Poeman 2025 Arequipa, Cusco, Puno-Peru
. ArteAparte 2025 Caceres-Spain
. Lake Ivan review 2024 Review USA
. Shodo Nidart 2024 Santa Maria de Palautordera-Spain
. Videodance festival 2023 Brazil
NO LONGER SEEING THE WORLD
. New Museum of Networked Art 2025 Cologne-Germany
. TAM Torrance Art Museum 2025 Los Angeles-USA
. Goes :Art TV 2022 Vienna-Austria
CAMILLE
. Les Instants vidéo 2021 Marseille-France
. This Gallery 2021 Vancouver-Canada
. Viridiana TV 2021 USA-Spain
CANDLEMATE!
. Millennium Film Workshop 2025 New York-USA
. Videobardo 2023 Buenos Aires-Argentina
. Vidéo Particules 2023 Bagnols sur Cèze-France
. L' Alternativa Hall 2022 Barcelona-Spain
. Wide Shot 2022 Algiers-Algeria
. Les Instants Vidéo 2022 Marseille-France
Videos solo Brigitte Valobra in exhibitions - Click on the picture to see the video and related data
Videos solo Wald in exhibitions - Click on the picture to see the video and related data
Bio duo
They work together since 1988 in personal art structures with dancers, comedians, performers, music composers, light creators, photographers, students of beaux-arts school.
First based in France:
Paris 1988-1989, Blois 1990-1994, Strasbourg 1995-1997, Lorient 1998-2004, roaming southwest 2005-2017,
then in Spain:
Barcelona 2018-2023, Valencia since 2024.
---Brigitte Valobra , Wald since 2022, as performers & video makers.
---Anem De Nit 2017-2021, as performers & video makers.
---Margo Theatre 2004-2016, as performers & video makers.
---La Porte Bleue contemporary dance company 1995-2004, as choreographers and dancers.
---Brigitte Valobra contemporary dance company 1990-1994, Brigitte Valobra as choreographer and dancer. Wald in art team.
---Tchaïka contemporary dance company 1988-1989, Brigitte Valobra as choreographer and dancer. Wald in art team.
Exhibitions News
2026
TRAVERSE VIDEO Centre culturel Bellegarde screening March 14
2025
POEMAN FESTIVAL December 05-19 Arequipa, Cusco, Puno-Peru
THE WRONG BIENNALE 2025-2026 with 60 SECONDS FESTIVAL Copenhaguen-Danemark (screened at Copenhagen Business School Library)
FILMS FOR FREEDOM 2025 Filmmakers' Cooperative New-York USA
ARTEAPARTE Espacio BelleArtes Caceres-Spain November 01-30
HANGARFEST-VIDEOBOX INTERFACCIADIGITALE Pesaro-Italy 8-12 October
MANTRA MUSLAB 2025-2026 Mexico City-Mexico. Quito-Ecuador November 24-28.
FIVRS FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE VIDEODANÇA do Rio Grande do Sul-Brazil 28 August-21 September
MILLENNIUM FILM WORKSHOP Brooklyn NYC-USA 30 August
NEW MUSEUM OF NETWORKED ART Cologne-Germany 4-25 July
NEW MUSEUM OF NETWORKED ART Cologne-Germany 17-23 March
MILLENNIUM FILM WORKSHOP Brooklyn NYC-USA January 31st
TAM-TORRANCE museum Los Angeles-USA end January
STUTTGARTER FILMWINTER STUTTGART-Germany January 18
Last years
AVAF (guest Les Instants Video) Addis Abeba-Ethiopie 2024
CENTRE COURT Cologne-Germany 2023
CULTUREHUB RE-FEST USA 2024
FERIA PARTE APARTE X Caceres-Spain 2024
FONLAD Coimbra-Portugal 2024
FRIDAY NIGHT 3 Gallatin-USA 2024
GOES :Art TV Vienna-Austria 2022-2023
JOURNEES D'ART VIDEO D'ALGER Algiers-Algeria 2022
L'ALTERNATIVA free, microcurts Barcelona-Spain 2021-2022-2023
LES INSTANTS VIDEO Marseille-France 2021-2022-2023-2024
NEMONA Cologne-Germany 2023
POEMAN Arequipa-Peru 2023
SHODO-Nidart Catalonia-Spain 2024
SOME FESTIVAL Bucharest-Romania 2023
/SI:N/ 8 Palestine in exil Marseille-France 2024
TAM-TORRANCE museum + TRYST Los Angeles 2023
THE WRONG BIENNALE-KAMÎM TUHUT Brazil 2024
VIDEOBARDO Buenos Aires-Argentina 2023
VIDEODANCE FESTIVAL Brazil 2023
VIDEOFENSTER Ehrenfeld-Germany 2021
VIDEO PARTICULES Bagnols sur Cèze-France 2023
Agenda street or indoors all along the year
- duo performances THE OBSERVERS (30mn), METALOGOS (30mn), SIN MÁS (15mn)
- solos ADENTRO Y FUERA Brigitte Valobra (10mn), INTROSPECTION Wald (15mn)
Gestural dialogues, theatrical and almost danced, a part improvised,, evolutionary.
2025 - To date 39 realizations: Valencia (Spain) 31 - Avignon (France) 6 - Caceres-Spain 2 2024 - 36 realizations: Valencia (Spain) 26 - Barcelona (Spain) 9 - Marseille (France) 1 2023 - 39 relizations: Barcelona (Spain) 37 - Marseille (France) 2 2022 - 44 realizations: Barcelona (Spain) 38 - Málaga (Spain) 3 - Cordoba (Spain) 1 / Florencia (Italy) 2 2021 - 44 realizations: Barcelona (Spain) 41 - Valencia (Spain) 3 2020 - 36 realizations in Barcelona (Spain) 2019 - 44 realizations: Barcelona (Spain) 39, Madrid (Spain) 2, Málaga (Spain) 3 2018 - 51 realizations: Barcelona (Spain) 43, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) 8 2017 - 32 realizations: Barcelona (Spain) 30, Perpignan (France) 2 1995 to 2016 - La Porte Bleue company then Margo Théâtre: filed.
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Press
2024 november in THE MARKAZ REVIEW 'Des artistes palestiniens réfléchissent au rôle de l’art en période de catastrophe', 'Résister par la danse' par Nina Hubinet: passage about video Adentro y fuera de Brigitte Valobra.
2024 may 13 LAKE IVAN FILM JOURNAL review by David Filkenstein. 'Creating Space: Recent short films by Brigitte Valobra and Wald'. About 'Urban manta 8' and 'Four Variations'.
2023 january in RevueTURBULENCES VIDEO n°118 'Impressions soleil couchant...sur les 35èmes Instants Vidéo ...' par Jean-Paul Fargier. About 'Candlemate' and 'Alger / Casablanca Le Grand Sud des arts video' by Marc Mercier. About 'Candlemate!'.
2023 january in CONSTELLASSO 'Visite de l'exposition des instants video - 3ème édition' by Ines and Susanne Guilhem. About 'Candlemate!'.
2022 june in Revue 24 IMAGES Québec by Marc Mercier 'Semeurs d'yeux, semeurs d'ouïes'. About 'Camille'.
2022 january in Revue TURBULENCES VIDEO n°114 by Jean-Paul Fargier 'Le temps d’un sein nu... ou 34 ans d’Instants Vidéo'. About 'Camille'.