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# 5 must-see moving image exhibitions in 2025
- URL: https://www.kinoki.co/5-must-see-moving-image-exhibitions-2025/
- Published: 2025-01-10T12:52:09.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-26T00:32:52.000Z
- Description: The world of moving image art is positioned to shine! Here are five of the most exciting exhibitions in the first half of 2025.
- Author: Team Kinoki
- Tags: News, Asia, exhibition, gallery, installation, museum, retrospective, Venice, Middle East, LGBTQ+

As we step into 2025, the world of moving image art is positioned to shine! With a multitude of innovative and thought-provoking exhibitions on the horizon, this year promises to be a defining moment for artists working with film, video and digital forms. From immersive installations, experiments with celluloid to online interventions, a number of upcoming projects are set to captivate viewers and push the boundaries of the discipline. Here are five of the most exciting exhibitions that we are eagerly anticipating in the first half of 2025.  
  
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### Sin Wai Kin, Man's World  
Kunsthall Trondheim  
January 23 – March 16, 2025

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Sin Wai Kin, **The Time of Our Lives*, 2024, two-channel video, film still. Colour, sound, 27’58’’. Initiated by Accelerator and co-produced with Kunsthall Trondheim, Canal Projects, and Blindspot Gallery, supported by Vince Guo. Courtesy the artist and Blindspot Gallery.

In Sin Wai Kin's first Norwegian solo presentation, audiences are challenged to consider how reality is shaped by storytelling. Through three interconnected film installations, [the exhibition reveals narrative-making as a constructive world-building force that is never neutral](https://kunsthalltrondheim.no/en/utstillinger/man-s-world-sin-wai-kin?ref=kinoki.co). Sin Wai Kin’s new video work *The Time of Our Lives* (2024) is initiated by Accelerator and co-produced with Kunsthall Trondheim, Canal Projects, and Blindspot Gallery, and supported by Vince Guo.

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### Ho Tzu Nyen, Time & the Tiger  
Mudam Luxembourg  
February 14 – August 24, 2025

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/98/98986ef2-474e-4f7c-82a5-62d592178e78/content/images/2025/01/Ho-Tzu-Nyen-_time-and-the-tiger.jpg)

Ho Tzu Nyen, **T for Time,* 2023–ongoing. Courtesy of Mudam Luxembourg and the artist.

Time & the Tiger is [the most significant exhibition of the work of Ho Tzu Nyen presented to date in Europe](https://www.mudam.com/exhibitions/time-the-tiger?ref=kinoki.co). The exhibition gathers several of Ho’s major installations, among them the important new production *T for Time* (2023–ongoing). Programmed through an algorithm, this two-channel projection brings together references and anecdotes from various cultural contexts, both European and Asian, to offer a profound meditation on the notion of time. Organised by Singapore Art Museum and Art Sonje Center, Seoul, in collaboration with the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean and the Hamburger Kunsthalle.

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### Laure Prouvost, We Felt a Star Dying  
Kraftwerk Berlin  
February 21 – May 4, 2025

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/98/98986ef2-474e-4f7c-82a5-62d592178e78/content/images/2025/01/Laure-Prouvost_we-felt-a-star-dying_LAS.jpg)

Laure Prouvost, **WE FELT A STAR DYING*, 2024, video still. Commissioned by LAS Art Foundation. Courtesy of the artist; LAS Art Foundation, Berlin, 2024.

In a new commission, Laure Prouvost explores quantum phenomena and their sensitivity to cosmic and planetary forces. [Prouvost draws video, sound, scent, sculpture and scenography together into a fluid installation](https://www.las-art.foundation/programme/we-felt-a-star-dying?ref=kinoki.co) tuned to the highly sensitive and unpredictable characteristics of quantum computers. The commission launches LAS Art Foundation’s Quantum programme.

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### Yoko Ono, Music of the Mind  
Gropius Bau, Berlin  
April 11 – August 31, 2025

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/98/98986ef2-474e-4f7c-82a5-62d592178e78/content/images/2025/01/Yoko-Ono_Half_a_Room_image_updated_resolution.width-1200.jpg)

Yoko Ono in HALF-A-ROOM, 1967, installation view, HALF-A-WIND SHOW, Lisson Gallery, London, 1967, Photo © Clay Perry / Artwork © Yoko Ono.

Gropius Bau will present [a comprehensive solo exhibition celebrating the groundbreaking and influential work of artist and activist Yoko Ono](https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/gropius-bau/programm/2025/ausstellungen/yoko-ono?ref=kinoki.co). Spanning seven decades of the artist’s powerful, multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1950s to now. Organised by Tate Modern, London, in collaboration with Gropius Bau, Berlin, and Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.

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### Wael Shawky  
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh  
June 28 – September 28, 2025

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/98/98986ef2-474e-4f7c-82a5-62d592178e78/content/images/2025/01/Wael-Shawky_Drama-1882_WSHA240001_Install-Venice-2024_001.3.jpeg)

Wael Shawky, **Drama 1882*, 2024\. Installation view, Egyptian Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, 2024 © Wael Shawky. Courtesy of Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Lisson Gallery, Lia Rumma, and Barakat Contemporary.

Wael Shawky’s solo exhibition will expand across all of Talbot Rice Gallery’s contemporary and neoclassical galleries. Shawky’s penetrating historical analysis will be explored through dramatic retellings of the past, including *Drama 1882,* which was created for the Egyptian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024\. W[eaving together a number of Shawky’s large-scale film productions, sculptures (many of which have featured in his films) and drawings, the exhibition will celebrate an extraordinary artist](https://www.trg.ed.ac.uk/exhibition/wael-shawky?ref=kinoki.co), and through extended academic research, honour the Byzantine and Islamic Art Historian who gave the gallery its name 50 years ago – David Talbot Rice.