Dora Budor:
Inner Vampire

“Inner Vampire” features a selection of existing works of photography and moving image, as well as a newly produced video by the artist Dora Budor. Made with a range of contemporary consumer tools and materials, the works reference or transpose historical media formats—from 1920s cinema and early television broadcasting to structural film and digital video; and from Polaroid to its contemporary incarnation, Instax. 

In the videos, subjectivity itself is taken to be a spatiotemporal form. Technique and process structure each piece, while distortion, repetition, and vibration occur as results of the physical effects on the camera and the lens. These effects disrupt the smooth consumption of images from a world designed to invite their capture. Urban sites developed with the screen in mind, recognizable or not, register a psychogeographic layer to the subjectifying forces of each mediation.

The exhibition is curated by Lisa Long and presented by DFI e.V. and Companion Culture as part of the series Towards Photography.

Dora Budor (b. Zagreb, Croatia) is an artist and writer who lives and works in New York. She has presented solo exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary, UK (2024); Galerie Molitor, Berlin (2023); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2022), GAMeC Bergamo (2022), Progetto (2021) and Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2019). Recent group exhibitions include Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz; Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, and MoMA PS1, New York. Her work has been featured in major international exhibitions, most recently in the Whitney Biennial (2024), the 15th Gwangju Biennale (2024), and the 59th Venice Biennale (2022).

Lisa Long (b. California, US) is a curator specializing in contemporary and time-based art. She is the founder of Companion Culture, a curatorial agency that fosters arts programming by connecting companies, foundations, entrepreneurs, and patrons with artists and institutions. From 2018 to 2025, Long was the Curator and Artistic Director of the Julia Stoschek Foundation, where she oversaw and curated the program across both locations. Long has written catalog essays and articles for institutions and magazines and has taught Curatorial Studies at Folkwang University, Essen.

In cooperation with Companion Culture

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung:
With the kind support of the Cultural Office of the City of Düsseldorf