BERLIN.- Once Upon a Time focuses on how fantastic stories and modern fairytales are represented in video art today. Based on important video artworks from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum collection, the exhibition Once Upon a Time investigates how contemporary artists adapt motives and narrative techniques from myths, fables, and fairy tales to mirror current social phenomena and events in recent history. Aleksandra Mir and Francis Alÿs manipulate belief in similar ways, imagining tales of collective emancipation. In First Woman on the Moon (1999 – ), Mir reenacts the historic 1969 lunar landing with female astronauts on a beach in the Netherlands. The event is a feminist sequel to the original mission, extending