Formation of the work and previous
presentations

The question HOW LONG IS NOW was for the first time presented as an artwork in 1997 in the Tacheles Werkschau, from the Globalodromia FILOART. This work was conceived and realized as a light installation. A black cube from which letters of light were emerging. Light is a temporary and immaterial medium, and the sentence in light was transporting the question into space and time. 

Three years later, HOW LONG IS NOW was shown in the FILOART groups show Implosion at the Art House Tacheles (2000). This work took a central place in this exhibition. It shone out of the dark space of the Blauer Salon and drew visitors to sink into the question of NOW, to think about and discuss it. 

In 2001, at the Kosova Art Gallery in Prishtina, HOW LONG IS NOW took part in an exhibition titled NOW. Here was the work presented as a mural. It was placed immediately on the front wall of the entrance hall. The first thing that the visitors of this exhibition had to be faced with was: the question.

 In 2004, this work was shown as a light installation at Galerie  35 in Simon-Dach-Street in Berlin (link to the video). The visual presentation of the work was extended from the interior of the gallery over the very busy nightlife street to the opposite residential building. On the one hand, the work was visible from different perspectives thus in several layers and higher complexity, and on the other it was related to the outer space and a broader public. From the back wall opening of the completely dark and empty gallery space, the rays of a light projection where hitting the front glass of the gallery and the light was splitting over three levels:

Level 1. The direct projection onto the window glass pane of the gallery. Part of the light remained visible on the glass pane.
Level 2. From the glass pane of the gallery one part of the light was reflected into the inner wall of the gallery.
Level 3. The rays of light that continued through the glass pane to the facade of the opposite building.
On all three levels the viewer could read the sentence HOW LONG IS NOW in light letters. But where is Now? If we add the slide projection as one plane of the work and the lens of the projector as another plane, then we have five different levels. The work was thus to be perceived on five different levels. Nevertheless, none of the observers could experience the true Now.

HOW LONG IS NOW, 2006-2019 Globalodromia, East Facade of Tacheles, Berlin  

HOW LONG IS NOW, 2006-2019,  Globalodromia, East Facade of Tacheles, View from Oranienburger Straße, Berlin  

NOW over NOW, HOW LONG IS NOW, 2019, Installation,  Berlin Wall over the Wall of Prishtina, 
National Gallery of Kosova, Prishtina, 
Exhibition: Metaxyum
"Gruoping-Moving-Spreading"

HOW LONG IS NOW, 2019, 
Parallel NOW´s. At the same time two "same" works could be seen in Berlin, at Oranienburger Straße and at the Friedenstraße, Berlin 

Covering HOW LONG IS NOW, 2019, East Facade of Tacheles, Berlin  

HOW LONG IS NOW - Behind the Wall, 2019, view from the August Strasse to the Oranienburger Strasse

HOW LONG IS NOW, 1997, Reflexion of NOW, Globalodromia, 2022, Prishtinë