How can an artist discover abstraction by the beginning of the 20th century and nobody is noticing? A woman, misjudged and concealed, rocks the art world with her mind-blowing oeuvre. Hilma af Klint was a pioneer creating her first abstract painting in 1906, four years before Vassily Kandinsky. But why was she ignored? Why are her paintings not available on the market? This first film on her is about her life and work, the role of women in art history and the discovery of an art scandal.

Her quest for meaning in life and a boundless thinking led into a timeless, outstanding oeuvre. The film had its premiere at the Göteborg Filmfestival in January 2019 and has since been travelling the world (screenings at the Guggenheim New York during their Hilma-af-Klint-exhibition [the most frequented exhibition in the museum’s history], Hot Docs Toronto, Doc Aviv, i.a.). It is shown in theaters in Sweden (October 2019), Germany (March 2020) and US (April 2020).
(R: Halina Dyrschka)

In this documentary about Joseph Beuys, Andres Veiel lets us get close to the artist – we see how all the different aspects of his life are related. The wounds of war and the will to make art that would influence the society. Glenn Kenny from the New York Times called it “an exhilerating portrait of a unique truth-teller”.

I did the music in cooperation with Ulrich Reuter. The film was first shown at the Berlinale 2017 where it was selected in the main competition to compete for the Golden Bear. It won Deutscher Filmpreis for Best Documentary in 2018. The music was nominated for Deutscher Filmpreis and won Deutscher Dokumentarfilmmusikpreis at DokFest München (both in 2018).