Lu Yang @Julia Stoschek Foundation, LA

"What A Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem"
BANK is thrilled to share that Lu Yang’s work DOKU-The Flow (2024) was featured at the Julia Stoschek Foundation’s Los Angeles exhibition What A Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem, as part of its inaugural exhibition.
 
Edited by Udo Kittelmann, What a Wonderful World (February 6–March 20, 2026) transforms the iconic Venetian-style Variety Arts Theater in downtown Los Angeles into a soul-stirring experience, a cinematic journey through the trajectories, secrets and fragilities of humanity.
 

Bringing silent cinema and time-based art together for the first time in a city defined by film, this experimental presentation initiates a rare cross-disciplinary dialogue, dismantling hierarchies between art forms and dissolving the boundaries between visual art and cinema, museum and theater, white cube and black box. In doing so, it traces the evolution of visual storytelling over the past century, revealing how our ways of seeing and of being seen, continue to shift, refract, and renew.

 

Unfolding across six floors, What a Wonderful World presents groundbreaking works by artists such as Marina Abramović, Cyprien Gaillard, Arthur Jafa, or Lu Yang, alongside cinematic milestones by Luis Buñuel, Walt Disney, Alice Guy-Blaché, Winsor McCay, and Georges Méliès. Together, these works form a panoramic and layered portrait of humanity across 120 years; altogether ironic, sincere, critical and compassionate.

 

The Julia Stoschek Foundation is a nonprofit arts and culture organization dedicated to the public presentation, advancement, conservation, and scholarship of time-based art. Across two publicly accessible exhibition spaces in Berlin and Düsseldorf, the Julia Stoschek Foundation presents pioneering media and performance art in large-scale exhibitions and discursive events. 

 

As a  Venetian Renaissance–style landmark, The Variety Arts Theater, though abandoned, is deeply rooted in the city’s cultural history. Originally opened in 1924 as the Friday Morning Club, the building served as a social and cultural hub for women’s organizations before becoming a premier venue for vaudeville, live theater, and film. 

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