Posted on Wednesday September 08, 2010


Claudia Wieser: Poems of the Right Angle, on view in the Drawing Room, will be the first solo museum exhibition in North America of work by Berlin-based artist Claudia Wieser (b. 1973, Freilassing, Germany). The exhibition presents a site-specific installation of glazed ceramic tiles and prismatic mirrored facets against a background of geometrically-patterned wallpaper. In addition to the tile and mirror wall relief, Wieser will show a new series of colorful line drawings that play on the installation's optical and spatial illusions and serve to foreground her distinctive approach to abstraction. Together, the works mark the experiential and the intangible through precise geometries imbued with layers of spiritual, psychic, and phenomenal meaning that lead the viewer into contemplative spaces where the primacy of mark-making and viewing become fused.

Curated by Joanna Kleinberg, Assistant Curator at The Drawing Center.

The Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street
New York, NY 10013-5399, United States
(212) 219-2166
www.drawingcenter.org


Posted on Saturday July 17, 2010


10.07.2010 – 04.09.2011

Parallel zur Wiedereröffnung der Kunstsammlung am Grabbeplatz eröffnet im K21 Ständehaus die Ausstellung «Intensif-Station» – 26 Künstlerräume im K21. In den 26 Räumen werden bestehende Rauminstallationen und Werkgruppen in einen Dialog mit neuen, eigens vor Ort entwickelten und eingerichteten Räumen treten. «Intensif-Station» stellt die Partizipation des Einzelnen in den Vordergrund und weckt die Lust an der Begegnung mit dem künstlerischen Werk.

Künstlerräume und Rauminstallationen stellen einen Sammlungsschwerpunkt dar, der seit einigen Jahren kontinuierlich ausgebaut wird.

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K21 STÄNDEHAUS
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
Ständehausstraße 1, 40217 Düsseldorf


Posted on Saturday July 17, 2010


Exhibition from July 17 to August 28, 2010

Figge von Rosen Galerie presents 18 photoworks shot between 1973 and 2010, that have found their way from the Walter Dahn's "archive" to the situation of being an exhibited artwork. All the works have been printed recently and for the exhibition on bamboo-paper in a pigment ink print-process, each in a different format.

Aachener Straße 65, 50674 Cologne, Germany

website


Posted on Friday June 18, 2010


False Recognition
Curated by Evaldas Stankevičius, with advice from Anders Kreuger and Magda Kardasz
Organized by Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius and Lithuanian Artists' Union

Many of the problems contemporary painters are facing are not new. Shall painting be used to make images, or shall it by-pass any quest for illusion and express itself through gesture and tactility? Shall painting stay on the surface or shall it create depth? Shall it visualise ideas or attract attention to its own materiality?

So, can painting articulate any new thoughts? Newness in painting might be something that at first looks very small, even insignificant. It might be a change of tone rather than a change of programme. It might be a shift in confidence or craftsmanship, a dexterity or an awkwardness that we have not seen before in this precise constellation. It might be ‘a new way of seeing’ that manifests itself as painting.

The 14th Vilnius Painting Triennial takes a broad look at what ‘new thoughts in painting’ might mean, and also at some ‘new names in painting’: artists who exemplify the tension between tradition and newness and whose work embodies different attitudes towards the image, the gesture, time and subjectivity.

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Posted on Tuesday June 01, 2010


Vernissage am 14. Juni, Messehallen Basel

Der Eidgenössische Wettbewerb für Kunst wird vom Bundesamt für Kultur (BAK) organisiert; über die 25 bis 30 Gewinner entscheidet die Eidgenössische Kunstkommission. Der Wettbewerb wird in zwei Runden durchgeführt. In einer ersten Runde legen die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer der Kunstkommission ein Dossier vor. Ausgewählte Bewerberinnen und Bewerber werden zu einer zweiten Runde eingeladen, bei der sie im Rahmen der Ausstellung «Swiss Art Awards» ihre Arbeiten vorstellen können.

Keeping our fingers crossed, Simone!


Posted on Wednesday May 19, 2010


REPULSION

The artist Keren Cytter (*1977 in Tel Aviv, lives and works in Berlin) is by now familiar in Switzerland. For years she has been represented by Elisabeth Kaufmann Gallery (now in co-operation with Christiane Büntgen), and her first Swiss solo exhibition in 2005 took place at Kunsthalle Zurich. The following year Cytter won the Art Statement Award. In addition, her works were shown in solo exhibitions at Frankfurter Kunstverein (2005), Kunst-Werke Berlin (2006), MUMOK Vienna (2007), Witte de With, Rotterdam (2008) and at Le Plateau Paris (2009), as well as in numerous group exhibitions worldwide. Last year, the artist was nominated for the prestigious Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst in Berlin. Cytter studied art in Tel Aviv and Amsterdam. She is best known for her experimental video works that illuminate the interpersonal and the private, works that are often based on templates of literary or cinematic classics, simultaneously reflecting the influence of the media. The artist is also concerned with drawing, theater production, performance, dance, and even writes screenplays and novels. The exhibition Repulsion at Kunsthaus Baselland, named after one of her works, presents a selection of videos that have not yet been seen in the Swiss institutional framework.

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Kunsthaus Baselland
St. Jakob-Strasse 170
CH-4132 Muttenz/Basel
+41 (0)61 312 83 88
Di, Do – So 11 – 17 H, Mi 14 – 20 H


Posted on Wednesday May 19, 2010


Curator: Magnus af Petersens

Keren Cytter has rapidly established herself internationally as one of the most interesting and unique artists on the contemporary art scene. At the mere age of 33 (born 1977 in Tel Aviv, currently living and working in Berlin), in the last eight years Keren Cytter has produced more than 50 video works, written three novels and an opera libretto, started the dance and theatre company D.I.E. Now, won awards and is the darling of the art press. Last summer, she exhibited at the New Museum's group show Younger Than Jesus and participated in the Venice Biennale. Moderna Museet’s exhibition of Keren Cytter, her first in a Nordic art institution, opens on 8 May. A selection of the artist’s best films and several drawings will be featured, including a new suite made especially for the exhibition, along with text-based works.

READ MORE HERE

Moderna Museet
Skeppsholmen, Stockholm
Information desk: +46 8 5195 5289


Posted on Tuesday April 13, 2010


Back to Jakarta
(Kembali ke Jakarta)

Hadassah Emmerich’s surreal drawings and mural paintings are immersive dreams of the exotic. Their sheer scale is overwhelming and like a dream they haunt the viewer. Cliché fantasies of foreign beauties, ornaments, tropical plants and flowers are expressions of the artist’s exploration of her own nationality: Emmerich is Dutch, born to mixed race parents of German, Chinese and Indonesian origin. Following Sigmund Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams we can read Emmerich’s naïve and powerful fantasies about a place ‘elsewhere’ as an expression of the desire to reconnect with the repressed, as longings for Indonesia, her father’s country, which she visited for the first time in her early twenties. Yet, the paintings are no one-toone translations of the artist’s subconscious, but they are inquiries into the idea of the exotic. For the artist, dreams are the starting point, never the end product. Emmerich’s hypersensitive environments turn exaggeration and over-amplification into critical strategies of analysis. The references to woodcut, the traditional craft of so-called primitive art, and to the work of Paul Gauguin and Henri Rousseau are sometimes critical, often ironic and always celebratory comments on the representation of the exotic in art history.

A new catalogue will be presented, with texts by Mella Jaarsma, the artist and a foreword by Ambassador Dr. Nikolaos van Dam

Visit website of Erasmushuis


Posted on Thursday April 01, 2010


Line up
Shahryar Nashat solo exhibition at Kunstverein Nürnberg, Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, opens on Friday, April 16th, 2010.

Kunstverein Nürnberg
Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft
Kressengartenstraße 2, D - 90402 Nürnberg
T +49 (0)911 24 15 62, F +49 (0)911 24 15 63

Website


Posted on Tuesday March 23, 2010


Mein Gedächtnis beobachtet mich 
Film by Eva Meyer and Eran Schaerf
will be screened at: Ambulante - Travelling Film Festival
curator: Eduardo Thomas
February 12th - May 6th 2010
Mexico

Twice upon a time
Installation at the group exhibitiont: `Make the Most of Now´ 
Kunsthalle Exnergasse Wien
curator: Max Benkendorff
March 24th - April 25th, 2010
 
Die Stimme des Hörers (BR 2002)
Installation in: r e s o n a n z e n 2010, Festival fuer Hoerkunst
15. - 17. April, 2010, Leipzig
 
Nichts wie jetzt (BR 2009)
Radio play in BR2
April 9th, 2010

Die Stimme des Hörers (BR 2002)
Radio play in SWR2
March 12th, 2010
 
Nacktscanner
artist insert in: Du – Das Kulturmagazin
Kurator: Roman Kurzmeyer
issue 804, March 2010
 
Die Stimme des Hörers
Radio play in: "Sounds. Radio – Kunst – Neue Musik"
Concept team: Marius Babias, Gaby Hartel, Frank Kaspar, Katrin Klingan

Neue Berliner Kunstverein
13. Februar - 28. März 2010
 
Out now:

Umgekehrte Assimilation. Das bis dahin und weiterhin nicht Gesehene
Text-Bild-Beitrag in: Beatrice von Bismarck (Hrsg.), Kunst, Sichtbarkeit, Ökonomie
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
 
Polizei-Feedback. Ein Interview mit René Magritte 
Audiobeitrag in: Herbert Kapfer / Margit Rosen (Hrsgg.), der künstler als jünger hund peter weibl tribute album
internedium rec. 044
 


Posted on Tuesday March 23, 2010


Opening March 25, 7pm.

Keren and Eran are part of the group exhibition MAKE THE MOST OF NOW, curated by Max Benkendorff.

The exhibition Make the Most of Now departs from the questions: What leeway do contemporary artistic practices provide, and whether to assertively avoid this imperative of immediacy, to performatively shift it or to critically circumvent the expectations?
At the same time, the focus of the collected works is placed equally upon the investigation of other possible and imaginable forms and narrative methods of “grand emotions”, other ties between affect, desire and wishes (thereby also other forms of subjectivity, memory and the present) beyond the widely understood bipolar contradiction between “authenticity” and its alleged inverse in the media.
On the border between representation and immediate experience, between life and fiction, dramatization and reality, intensity and efficiency, it is about the interpretation and the definition of that which one might call “the now”, “life” or also “the present”, or at least what one is able to make of it.

Visit the website.


Posted on Saturday February 27, 2010


La Charmeuse de Serpents
Solo exhibition featuring works on paper and linocuts.
Opening reception: March 3rd, 6 - 8 p.m.

Hendershot Gallery
547 West 27th Street
New York, NY 10001

Visit gallery website.


Posted on Tuesday February 23, 2010


Le Cercle Infernal curated by Hadassh Emmerich

Hadassah Emmerich, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Veronica Brovall

Hadassah Emmerich (Heerlen, The Netherlands, 1974, lives and works in Berlin) shows her own piece Le Cercle Infernal (2009). The work is a reference to the movie ‘2001, A Space Odyssey’ this movie takes the viewer along on a journey from the beginning of times to a world ruled by computers. The second reference is the 1946 work Le Cercle Infernal by Picabia. His work takes the viewer on a different journey; trough the styles of painting. Emmerich wants to take the onlooker of her own Le Cercle Infernal a visual journey in time, her work show the primitive as well as the cultured, the raw and the refined. These concepts are the two points between which all the works exist. Hadassah Emmerich graduated at Goldsmiths College, London in 2005. This year she contributes to the group show Global Design at Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich. Her works can also be seen during the Amory Show at Hendershot Gallery, New York, and by the end of 2010 at Palais für Aktuelle Kunst in Glückstadt, Germany.

Visit gallery website.


Posted on Saturday February 13, 2010


For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there

Participating artists e.g.:
Anonymous, Dave Hullfish Bailey (US), Marcel Broodthaers (BE), Bryssinck en Peeters (BE), Patrick van Caeckenbergh (BE), Sarah Crowner (US), Mariana Castillo Deball (MX), Eric Duyckaerts (BE), Ger van Elk (NL), Ayse Erkmen (TU), Hans-Peter Feldmann (DE), Peter Fischli & David Weiss (CH), gerlach en koop (NL), Rachel Harrison (US), Matt Mullican (US), Bruno Munari (IT), Nashashibi/Skaer (UK), Falke Pisano (NL), Jimmy Raskin (US), Frances Stark (US), Rosemarie Trockel (DE) and David William (US/UK)

Curated by Anthony Huberman, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (US), i.c.w. Ann Demeester 

On the occasion of the inauguration of the new exhibition venue ‘de Appel Boys’ School’ on the Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat 59 in Amsterdam, de Appel presents “For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there”. This group exhibition celebrates the experience of curiosity and speculation as a form of knowledge. In that spirit, the contributing artists each pursue a better understanding of the world, but also insist that an artwork isn't an explanation and that art is not a code that has to be unlocked. 


Posted on Thursday February 11, 2010


In On Gaps and Silent Documents international artists question the absence of documents and data in archives, data banks and memory. What is missing? Has it never been there or has it been removed? Does available information exist that is not looked at, read or used? Archives and data banks are primarily determined by these gaps and silent documents. As Sven Spieker notes, "Archives are less concerned with memory than with the necessity to discard, erase, eliminate." Creating archives is continual selection. As such, it reveals the priorities and blind spots of the keeper of the archives, his world and his time.

Read more on the website.

STUK Onthaal
Naamsestraat 96
3000 Leuven, Belgium
info@artefact-festival.be


Posted on Tuesday February 09, 2010


„Georges Adéagbo: La Culture et les Cultures – La Chine à Hambourg“
Opening Saturday February 13th, 4-8 pm

During the past two years, Adeagbo was invited twice by major Chinese institutions to their events- the Guangzouh Triennial 2008 and the Beijing Biennial 2010. In collaboration with Stephan Köhler-jointadventures.org Adeagbo developed concepts and studies, which as of today were never shown. Final agreements with the organizers failed not only concerning production and travel costs, parameters of lending and returning the work; above all the thematic freedom could not be guaranteed. Adeagbo and Köhler realized that elements relating to Tibet and the recent sentence of Liu Xiaobo could not be removed without turning from being a critical artist into a decorator.

The objects bought and commissioned in West Africa and Hamburg for a possible project in China, as well as excerpts from the correspondence, will be on view in this exhibition at Gallery Holzhauer in Hamburg.

In cooperation with Stephan Köhler – jointadventures.org

For more information, please visit the gallery's website.


Posted on Wednesday February 03, 2010


Opening Feb 11, 2010

Globalization, along with all its implications and repercussions in highly diverse areas of society, is a much discussed theme. One aspect which has so far been neglected is the relationship of globalization and design. This exhibition now shows the effects that the globalized world has had on design since the 1970s and how design is developed for the globalized world. It is based on a concept of design which includes architecture, graphics, media, fashion, product and industrial design just as much as the design of spheres of life or product processes. Beginning with global networking in the fields of communication, mobility, production, trade and capital, the focal themes are the presentation of globalization in relationship to regionalism, the container as the primary element of globalization, cultural transfer and global trends. Contributions from artists such as Thomas Demand, Fischli/Weiss, Armin Linke or Allan Sekula illustrate special phenomena of globalization.

Visit museum website for discussion schedule and more information.

Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Designsammlung, Grafiksammlung
Förrlibuckstr. 62
CH-8005 Zürich

Tue - Sun: 10am–5pm
Wed: 10am–8pm


Posted on Saturday January 30, 2010


See a selection of works by Keren Cytter at Hammer Projects! Exhibition running until April 4, 2010:

Untitled, 2009 (video shown at Vennice Biennial 2009)
Four Seasons, 2009
Les Ruissellements du Diable, 2008

HAMMER
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Phone: 310.443.7000

Please click herefor more information on the show.


Posted on Thursday January 07, 2010


Silberkuppe
Old Ideas

Silberkuppe is not only one of Berlin’s most vibrant independent spaces for contemporary art and culture, but also an artist’s meeting place. Since their inaugural all-night opening just over a year ago, Silberkuppe has initiated a colorful array of convention-challenging presentations, exhibitions, talks, screenings, music and performances. At the Museum für Gegenwartskunst they will present a selection of new, site-oriented productions from a diverse group of artists under the banner “Old Ideas”. For Silberkuppe, some “old ideas” are new again and the notion of the “cutting-edge” or “contemporary” rests on cushions called “yesterday” with its feet up on a stool called “tomorrow”. Throughout the course of the exhibition, Silberkuppe will host a variety of social evenings and events in their own unique and inclusive style.

Kunstmuseum Basel
St. Alban-Graben 16
CH-4010 Basel
0041 (0)61 206 62 62
Tue - Sun 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Visit museum website for further information.


Posted on Saturday December 19, 2009


Von Anita di Bianco bietet der Kunstverein Braunschweig in diesem Jahr eine Serie von 5 Unikaten mit Zertifikat an: Letters from the Unsuspecting, 2009, 3 Lagen Transparentpapier, handbeschrieben mit Tinte, 42 x 59.4 cm.

Weite Informationen und Bestellmöglichkeiten hier.


Posted on Saturday October 31, 2009


We are very proud to announce that Keren Cytter has been listed as number 2 in the Flash Art list of the "Top 100 Emerging Artists", published in the October issue.

The list was compiled from answers to a questionnaire sent to over 100 museum directors, curators and critics.

Congratulations, Keren!


Posted on Tuesday October 27, 2009


"
"Reformation"
Vernissage Oct 29, 2009 from 6 - 9pm

“Is a picture ever material?”, James Hyde asks (us? himself?) in a nineteen-part questionnaire dating from 1998 that can be viewed on the artist’s website. Many questions are of course really meant (i.e. posed) to remain unanswered forever, and their ceaseless rephrasing and reformulating is essentially what drives the very idea of “artistic research”: how shall I put this so as to avoid a definitive response that will forever put me out of business? Hyde’s practice is motivated (obviously) by many queries, and although the above question may not necessarily be the final or even most important one, it is certainly one that has gained in pertinence and urgency over the years – years, that is, that have seen the dizzying acceleration of the dematerialization of pretty much everything in the sphere of human activity (whether cultural, economic, political or plainly social). Asking of anything that has historically been viewed as immaterial whether it is really material after all, therefore, is fundamentally a critical question, reminding us of the basic fact of the world’s irreducible materiality and physicality."

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Satellite FDC, Brussels
Boulevard Barthélémy 20, 1000 Brussel
tél. : +32 (0)2 511 63 20 - fax : +32 (0)2 511 45 16
bruxelles@fillesducalvaire.com
Open from wednesday to saturday from 11am to 6:30pm


Posted on Tuesday October 27, 2009


Works by Keren Cytter are presented at this year's KunstFilmBiennale in Cologne.

To visit the website for more information and the program, please click here.


Posted on Friday October 09, 2009


EXPOSITION 10.10-13.12.09
Silvie Defraoui
Sombras eléctricas

Vernissage 10.10.09 17h - 21h

"Silvie Defraoui est une grande figure de l’art contemporain en Suisse. D’abord avec son partenaire Chérif Defraoui, puis seule après le décès de celui-ci en 1994, elle a développé un travail de vidéos, photos, installations, objets, publications, qui intègre des références aux cultures orientales et occidentales, analyse les mécanismes de la mémoire tout en jouant sur une multitude d’éléments décoratifs. Elle a aussi été une enseignante très importante pour plusieurs générations d’artistes, au sein de l’Ecole des beaux-arts de Genève...."

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Posted on Friday September 18, 2009


On the occasion of the Art Forum Berlin 2009 and in honor of the artist Keren Cytter, Julia Stoschek invites to a reception from 12 - 4 pm at the Tower Apartment at the Ritz-Carlton on Saturday, 26 September 2009 - with screening of videos!

Tower Apartment
15th Floor at Ritz-Carlton
Potsdamer Platz 4
10785 Berlin


Posted on Wednesday September 09, 2009


Galerie Kamm Berlin will present Pavel Pepperstein in a solo-exhibition from 31 Ocotber until 19 December, 2009.

Visit Galerie Kamm website here!


Posted on Wednesday September 09, 2009


Zwinger Galerie Berlin presents Eran Schaerf in a solo-exhibition titled "Twice upon a time" from 12 September to 7 November, 2009.

Visit Zwinger Galerie website here!


Posted on Tuesday August 18, 2009


There is still time to visit Jan Fabre's exhibition at Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Croatia, until 23 August 2009:

The Borrowed Time

Le temps emprunté or Borrowed Time is the second part of the unscheduled Dubrovnik ”exhibition diptych” of Jan Fabre. The first part, Umbraculum for Dubrovnik, as it is known, took place three years ago in the same place, the Museum of Modern Art in Dubrovnik.

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Posted on Tuesday August 18, 2009


Jan Fabre will receive the "International Art Award" for his work as a visual artist. The Cristobal Gabarron Foundation (Valladolid) will present this prestigious prize to Fabre on 9 October 2009. From the jury's report: "Due to his versatile character, open to diverse artistic disciplines ranging from scenic to visual arts. The trajectory of this Belgian artist won him international recognition because of his innovating spirit, while at the same time demonstrating his control of different technique, materials and expressions."

Le Syndicat de la Critique Professionnelle has awarded the "Prix du Jury" to Fabre (which has been presented to him on 15 June 2009). This organization groups all French professional art critics (performance arts). Fabre will receive this award for his most recent work for the stage, "Orgy of Tolerance".

http://www.premiosinternacionalesfcg.org/
http://www.syndicat-critique-tmd.fr


Posted on Tuesday August 18, 2009


We are proud to announce Keren Cytter's first solo exhibition in France!

"Now living and working in Berlin, this young Israeli artist works mainly in video, mingling genres and styles in short narratives that involve the viewer in the often tragic destinies of characters trapped in violent relationships. In a mix of cinéma-vérité and sitcom, home movie and reality TV, filmed performance and auteur cinema, Cytter offers works marked by a seemingly constant conflict between reality and fiction."

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Posted on Monday August 17, 2009


Glasstress
06.06.2009 - 22.11.2009
Instituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti
Scuola Grande di San Teodoro San Marco, Venice

Glasstress revolves around the experiences of several contemporary international artists who regularly use glass as a medium. The exhibition seeks out new perspectives that working with glass may offer. The artists taking part include Louise Bourgeois, Daniel Buren, Tony Cragg, Jan Fabre, Roni Horn, Man Ray, Kiki Smith, Koen Vanmechelen en Chen Zen.

Organization: Mjellby Konstmuseum Halmstadgruppens Museum

Information:
Instituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Campo Santo Stefano - San Marco 2842, Scuola Grande di San Teodoro, San Marco, 4811

http://www.labiennale.org


Posted on Thursday August 13, 2009


We are proud that three of our artists were selected to be part of this year's Venice Biennial:
Keren Cytter, Jan Fabre, and Pavel Pepperstein .

Following his nomination, the director Daniel Birnbaum declared:

“My recent exhibitions have all been close collaborations with artists, often individually, sometimes in larger contexts. The Venice Biennale is a new kind of challenge, but the principle remains the same: the artist's vision is at the center. How does one steer clear of the hierarchies dictated by commercial interests and fashion? As the director of an art academy, my interest has long been directed towards another kind of influence and another kind of significance. There are artists who inspire entire generations and these key artists are not always the most visibile in the world of museums and fairs. I would like to explore strings of inspiration that involve several generations and to display the roots as well as the branches that grow into a future not yet defined. The geography of the art world has been expanding rapidly with new centers emerging: China, India, the Middle East... It will be my ambition to create a show that, although articulated into individual zones of intensity, remains one exhibition.”
Jan Fabre
From the Feet to the Brain
Arsenale Novissimo

Jan Fabre Homepage


Posted on Thursday August 13, 2009


In autumn 2009 the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst (the Nationalgalerie Prize for Young Art) will be awarded for the fifth time. Massimiliano Gioni (Artistic Director of the Nicola Trussardi Foundation, Milan and Director for Special Exhibitions at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York), Jessica Morgan (Curator Tate Modern, London), Beatrix Ruf (Director Kunsthalle Zürich), Janneke de Vries (Director of the Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, Bremen) as well as Bernhart Schwenk (Curator Pinakothek der Moderne, München) were nominated for the first jury. The nomination of the first jury is the starting shot for this international competition. During the Art Forum in autumn 2008 the four candidates who compete for the Preis will be announced and form the short-list. All four artists will present their individual work during a group exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin in the following year.


Posted on Thursday August 13, 2009


Dance International Europe Now is a dance theatre group formed in 2008 by artist Keren Cytter. The evolving ensemble is composed of an increasingly intricate inter-play of theatrical genres and visual mediums.


D.I.E. Now Tourplan


Posted on Wednesday August 12, 2009


Nashashibi / Skaer, still from Our Magnolia, 2009, 16 mm film
doggerfisher
11 Gayfield Square
Edinburgh EH1 3NT
t + 44 (0) 131 558 7110
f + 44 (0) 131 558 7179

mail@doggerfisher.com
www.doggerfisher.com


Posted on Wednesday August 12, 2009


The four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2009 are Enrico David, Roger Hiorns, Lucy Skaer and Richard Wright.

Lucy Skaer
For her solo exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and A Boat Used as a Vessel at the Kunsthalle Basel. Skaer makes drawings, sculptures and films which often take found photographic sources as their starting point. Rooted in reality, yet subjected to a process of elaborate transformation, Skaer's images hover in the space between recognition and ambiguity, figuration and abstraction.

The Turner Prize award is £40,000 with £25,000 going to the winner and £5,000 each for the other shortlisted artists. The Prize, established in 1984, is awarded to a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding 21 April 2009. It is intended to promote public discussion of new developments in contemporary British art and is widely recognised as one of the most important and prestigious awards for the visual arts in Europe.

Work by the shortlisted artists will be shown in an exhibition at Tate Britain opening on 7 October 2009. The winner will be announced at Tate Britain on 7 December 2009 during a live broadcast by Channel 4.

The members of the Turner Prize 2009 jury are:

* Charles Esche, Director Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
* Mariella Frostrup, writer and broadcaster
* Jonathan Jones, art critic, The Guardian
* Dr Andrea Schlieker, Director Folkestone Triennial, and curator
* Stephen Deuchar, Director, Tate Britain and Chair of the Jury

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Posted on Wednesday August 12, 2009


Standstill is a Particular Form of Movement

Eran Schaerf and Simon Wachsmuth focus on issues to do with the borderline between idea and reality, narration and fact, perception and forms of museum presentation. Typical for both of them is the integration of the spatio-contextual situation into the presentation of their installations. Their use of the tools of film, drawing and object is extremely multifaceted and their installations give rise to a complex mesh which draws the viewer into an open narrative and opens new contexts of meaning.

Eran Schaerf (*1962 in Tel Aviv) often works with components of images and words that he separates out of their original context and combines to form something new. For him, language is an essentially three-dimensional element that supports narrative and poetic energy and permits the layering of different time and narration levels. Schaerf’s works indicate how things, events and ideas are linked in a highly complex way. The airy, transparent installation is also imbued with a gentle and sensitive humour.

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Posted on Tuesday August 11, 2009


The Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts is the world's biggest and one of the most renowned events of the kind. Its beginnings date back to 1955 and during its more than 50-year history it has received huge acclaim from artists, experts and public alike.

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Posted on Tuesday August 11, 2009


Images et (re)présentations. The 1980s – part two

At the end of 2008, Le Magasin presented the first instalment of a two-part exhibition devoted to the art of the 1980s. Accompanied by a book, this first project was organised around groups of works that shed light on the notions of private space, public space and community.

Now, the second part focuses on the central question of the image. Whether in the “pattern painting” of the artists grouped under that title in the early years of the decade, or in its different iconographic and stylistic registers, the art of this period drew on the culture industry and media as well as the history of art, both ancient and modern.

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Posted on Tuesday August 11, 2009


We are delighted to announce Keren Cytter's upcoming solo-exhibition at Galeria Estrany-de la Mota in Barcelona.

Opening: 18 September 2009

Galeria Estrany-de la Mota
Passatge Mercader 18
08008 Barcelona, Spain
galeria@estranydelamota.com
T 93 215 70 51 / F 93 487 35 52
www.estranydelamota.com


Posted on Tuesday August 11, 2009


A project by Christoph Doswald and Sabine Schaschl

Although the exhibition Golden Agers & Silver Surfers focuses on a certain age group and target population, it develops a dialogue that involves all age groups. Aging is a phenomenon of societal relevance that is given pictorial reflection in the visual arts. While the art of our time mirrors the yearnings and desires of humankind, it also has something else to propose, something proprietary and, perhaps, strange, which stands in juxtaposition to our societal reality. ...

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Kunsthaus Baselland
St. Jakob-Strasse 170
CH-4132 Muttenz/Basel
+41 (0)61 312 83 88
+41 (0)61 312 83 89
www.kunsthausbaselland.ch

Opening Hours
Di, Do – So 11 – 17 H
Mi 14 – 20 H


Posted on Tuesday August 11, 2009


For its summer phase opening on July 9th, X is pleased to present solo shows by Tris Vonna-Michell, Luke Fowler, and Keren Cytter.
Installation view at X INITIATIVE, New York

On the second floor, X will host Keren Cytter’s first major survey in the United States. Born in Tel Aviv andcurrently living in Berlin, Cytter creates movies that appropriate and transform different cinematic genres, suchas film noir, melodrama, documentary, and soap opera. Often set in cheap domestic interiors, Cytter’s filmsdepict dysfunctional families and alienated friends on the verge of nervous breakdown. The exhibition willinclude the US premiere of her new movie Four Seasons, 2009, presented alongside a selection of her videosand a group of drawings never exhibited in America. Cytter conceived the project as an immersive experience inwhich synchronized videos will alternate on different screens and lights will suddenly illuminate her drawings,creating a theater of images in the exhibition space. Keren Cytter has had solo exhibitions at CCA Center forContemporary Art, Kitakyushu (2009), Witte de With, Rotterdam (2008), and MUMOK, Vienna (2007). Her workwas included in The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, and will be featured in the upcoming 53rd VeniceBiennale. Keren Cytter’s exhibition is supported by Artis – Contemporary Israeli Art Fund, New York and Tel Aviv.

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X INITIATIVE
548 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
T: 917-697-4886
E: info@x-initiative.org


Posted on Tuesday August 11, 2009


Die amerikanische Künstlerin Anita di Bianco arbeitet mit Film, Video und Printmedien. Ihre Kurzfilme verfolgen Strategien der Neu-Inszenierung von Werken bekannter Schriftsteller wie Winfried Georg Sebald oder Gertrude Stein und entstabilisieren so die Vorstellung einer unantastbaren Autorschaft. Analytisch die Textauswahl, puristisch die Bilder: Di Biancos Remakes machen verborgene Strukturen sichtbar und eröffnen neue Lesarten.

In der Ausstellung in der Remise des Kunstvereins werden die aktuellsten Arbeiten der Künstlerin, Com Viet (2008) sowie die 2 Kanal-Videoinstallation der Filme Du rêve et des drogues und Ballad in Plain D mit dem Titel Der Versteller (2007) gezeigt.

Com Viet re-inszeniert ein Interview mit der französischen Schriftstellerin Marguerite Yourcenar aus dem Jahr 1980. Yourcenar, die alle denkbaren Formen der unkonventionellen Liebe in der Literatur aufgespürt und auch experimentell geprüft hatte, forschte lebenslang nach Alternativen zum „großen inszenierten Gefühl“, das sie für einen Wesenszug der französischen Kultur hielt. Die entsprechenden Passagen aus dem Interview werden als Off-Stimme vor dem Hintergrund eines vietnamesischen Restaurants eingespielt und zum Teil von einem Schauspieler monologisch in den Räumlichkeiten des Berliner Münzsalons vorgetragen.

Anita di Biancos filmtechnische Methoden, die Einstellungen und Schnittwechsel widersprechen den gewohnten, kurz getakteten Bildern der Medien. Durch die langen, nüchternen Kamera-Einstellungen gewinnt das Gesprochene eine suggestive Eindringlichkeit, das Bild eine geradezu fordernde Intensität.

Kunstverein Braunschweig (Remise)
Lessingplatz 12
38100 Braunschweig
Tel.: 0049 (0) 5 31 4 95 56
Fax: 0049 (0) 5 31 12 47 37
Web: http://www.kunstverein-bs.de
E-Mail: info@kunstverein-bs.de


Posted on Monday August 10, 2009


FRAGILE - Terres d'empathie

L'exposition FRAGILE présente une sélection d'une quarantaine d'artistes internationaux, dont les oeuvres témoignent d'une vision à la fois intime et anthropologique de l'expérience de vie contemporaine. A travers l'utilisation de divers médias (peinture, sculpture, dessin, vidéo, installation), ils célèbrent la vie dans ce qu'elle a de plus banal et d'essentiel. Négligeant l'absolutisme rigoureux des structures formelles, les différentes méthodologies plastiques de ces artistes reflètent un intérêt pour des événements subtils et des micro-récits, au sein de la complexité illimitée de notre quotidien. ...

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Posted on Monday August 10, 2009


H-Box
Curated by Benjamin Weil

H BOX is an innovative, roaming screening room for presenting major new video commissions by international artists. Designed by Portuguese artist/architect Didier Fiuza Faustino, this state-of-the-art collapsible video gallery travels to exhibition spaces around the world showcasing newly commissioned work by emerging artists. First unveiled at the Pompidou Centre in Paris in November 2007, since then H BOX has traveled to Spain, Luxembourg, the Tate Modern in London and to the Yokohama Triennale in Yokohama, Japan. H BOX makes its U.S. premiere at OCMA. ...

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Orange County Museum of Art
850 San Clemente Drive
Newport Beach, California 92660
Phone 949-759-1122
Fax 949-759-5623
info@ocma.net
www.ocma.net


Posted on Monday August 10, 2009


James Hyde, Clearing, 2009, Acrylic on digital print on stretched linen, 68 x 86 1/2 inches
Blue
curated by John Zinsser

"Blue, here is a shell for you…/
Inside you'll hear a sigh."
--Joni Mitchell, 1971

James Graham & Sons is pleased to present Blue, a group painting exhibition curated by John Zinsser. The show will take place at 32 East 67th Street from June 17th through August 28th, 2009.

The exhibition will include the work of: Richmond Burton, Rudolf De Crignis, Joe Fyfe, Wayne Gonzales, James Hyde, Daniel Levine, Nancy Lorenz, Olivier Mosset, James Nares, R.H. Quaytman, Kate Shepherd, Amy Sillman, Kimber Smith, Philip Taaffe, and Dan Walsh.

As much as the color blue is purely color, chroma, it has also been considered as an emotional state.

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Posted on Sunday August 02, 2009


Keren Cytter, still from: Something Happened, 2007, 7 min, digital video, color/sound
Augarten Contemporary will present works by the four prize winners in the Ars Viva Prize for the Visual Arts 2008/09, a sponsorship award donated by the Cultural Circle of German Business and Industries. The theme of this year’s call for entries was “mise en scène”. The prize winners Keren Cytter (*1977), Manuel Graf (*1978), Simon Dybbroe Møller (*1976), and Tris Vonna-Michell (*1982) have been selected among 50 artists whose works focus on the reflection of theatrical themes and different forms of expression and stagings.

Belvedere


Posted on Sunday July 12, 2009


The Amazing True Story of Moseh Klinberg - A Media Star.
Read it to believe it!

That’s it. This is the story. When I told it to the stupid waitress that works with me she said it looks like an American movie to her despite the moral of the story. I asked her what the moral of the story was and she said, “That we all die in the end”. It seemed silly, I told her it’s not a moral but a simple fact of life that any idiot knows. After a few days I went to work once more and this time another waitress was on duty - Ruty. While working in the kitchen and cutting vegetables for a salad I told her the story and then I told her about the moral from the stupid waitress. Ruty said it’s nonsense and that it’s not the moral of the story and asked me to add olives to the salad, I told her, “The moral of the story is that it’s better to mind your own business, and to always look at things as a bystander, otherwise you get hurt” and surprisingly, Ruty said, “No. That’s not the moral of the story. The moral of the story is that life is ironic and that life stinks”, to me it sounded like my own moral, only more generally put. So I had nothing to argue about. I sat next to her at the bar with a bowl and two forks and in the end we ate salad.
(From the last page of the book.)

ONESTARPRESS

35 € + packing and postage. Please order at Elisabeth Kaufmann Gallery, Müllerstrasse 57, CH-8004 Zürich or via Mail.



The seven most exciting hours of Mr. Trier’s life in twenty-four chapters
20 €packing and postage. Please order at Elisabeth Kaufmann Gallery, Müllerstrasse 57, CH-8004 Zürich or via Mail.

An adventure novel based on a true story told in a televised interview by the Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier, describing seven hours in the life of Tibor Klaus Trier—Lars von Trier's father—from the moment that his wife goes into labor early in the morning until Lars is born.

The setting is Copenhagen, dominated by a hospital that recalls von Trier's television series “The Kingdom.” The plot is thick: Tibor arrives with his wife Margaret at the Maternity Ward of Mercy General Hospital, only to realize that he must return home to retrieve a forgotten mobile—his only link to a sister in distress. On the way, he stops to get gas and gets involved in a car robbery. A cancer takes root in his body. Back at home, he sneaks a peak at Margaret's e-mail and a great secret is revealed that makes him rush back to the hospital to kill her and her son. En route he crashes his new car and his body breaks into pieces and he loses his memory. Mercy General is haunted by a great ghost and the day is Armageddon when the ghost needs to challenge the living with an army of zombie children—all born within its walls. Who is this great ghost? What does Margaret hold in her body? Will Tibor survive his one day old cancer? All and more will be revealed…

Witte de With (Hg), 2008.
Translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Roman.





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