Archive for August 28th, 2006

Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien presents How to Do Things? – In the Middle of (No)where . . .

Monday, August 28th, 2006

 Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
How to Do Things? – In the Middle of (No)where . . .

September 2 – October 8, 2006
Opening: September 1, 7 p.m.
Associated events: September 2 – 3, Casino/Bethanien
http://www.howtodothings.net

Artists:
Bik Van der Pol (NL), Pavel Braila (MD), Alexandra Croitoru (RO), Roman
Dziadkiewicz (PL), Andreas Fogarasi (AT), Lise Harlev (DK), Kristina
Inciuraite (LT), Alevtina Kakhidze (UA), Johanna & Helmut Kandl
(AT), Aleksander Komarov (BY), Little Warsaw (HU), Michal Moravcik
(SK), Wiebke Loeper (DE), Tanja Nellemann Poulsen (DK), Katya Sander
(DK), Jiri Skála (CZ), Sean Snyder (USA), Société Réaliste (HU/F),
Laura Stasiulyte (LT), Mona Vatamanu & Florian Tudor (RO), Julita
Wójcik (PL), Florian Zeyfang (DE), Moira Zoitl (AT)

Curators: Dorothee Bienert & Antje Weitzel

From September 2 until October 8, 2006, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien will present the results of the exhibition series How to Do Things? – In the Middle of (No)where… that were produced during the residencies of twenty-eight artists in Budapest, Kiev, Bucharest, Copenhagen, and Berlin.

Initiated by Dorothee Bienert and Antje Weitzel, the project took
artists and cultural producers from fourteen countries of an imaginary
“Central Europe”, arbitrarily created by a finger on the map, and
brought them together at various locations over the course of a year.
The circle includes the old EU, the new EU, EU aspirants, and non-EU
countries: The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, White
Russia, the Ukraine, Moldavia, Romania, Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, the
Czech Republic, and Slovakia. How to Do Things? – In the Middle of (No)where… playfully
defies real and mental borders and raises questions regarding the
geographical-territorial notion of present-day Europe and its
underlying identity constructs.

Within the broad thematic scope of social utopias, the artists were
invited to develop new projects during a month-long residency at a
location unfamiliar to them and to present them in an exhibition at the
partner institutions. The term social utopias serves
as an impetus to reflect on diverse European realities and contexts and
to discuss collective visions and goals as well as questions about
participation and the power of agency.
All of the artistic projects can be viewed together for the first time
at the exhibition at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. The works range
from personal observations of cultural traditions and heterogeneous
European realities of life to examinations of local situations to
abstracter reflections on identity, public sphere, and representation.

The artists will be present at the opening on the 1st of September and,
on the 2nd and 3rd of September from 3:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the
Casino/Bethanien, will present their works and recount their
experiences in Budapest, Kiev, Bucharest, Copenhagen, and Berlin. An
exhibition catalogue will be available.

Special Event: Ponzi’s 360° Pararsite, September 2, 2006, 9 p.m., General Public, Schönhauser Allee 167c, 10435 Berlin

A project of uqbar – Gesellschaft fuer Repraesentationsforschung e.V.
The project was realized with the support of the European Commission –
Culture 2000, the Hauptstadtkulturfonds, the European Cultural
Foundation, the Allianz Kulturstiftung, the Institut für
Auslandsbeziehungen ifa, the Danish Arts Council, the Minstry of
Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.

Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
Opening hours: daily 12 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Tel.: +49(30)90298-1455, Fax: 90298-1453
bethanien@kunstraumkreuzberg.de

Everybody Dance Now at EFA Gallery - New York

Monday, August 28th, 2006


Everybody Dance Now
Curated by Kathleen Goncharov
September 8 – October 22, 2006

Opening, Sept. 8, 6 – 8 PM
Dance Party, Sept. 30, 8 PM – midnight

EFA Gallery / EFA Studio Center
323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10018
Wed. through Sat., 12-6 PM

For further information:
Elaine Tin Nyo, Director
T. 212-563-5855 x203,
F. 212-563-1875
elaine@efa1.org

http://efa1.org

EFA Gallery opens its fall season with a first video only exhibition curated by Kathleen Goncharov.

Artists: Jake Borndal, Sanford Biggers, caraballo-farman, Maureen
Connor, Ben Coonley, Daily Dancer, Kan Xua, Kaoru Katayama, Mike
Kelley, Rodney McMillian,Trine Lise Nedreaas, Christodoulos Panayiotou,
Laura Parnes, Barbara Pollack, Ron Rocheleau’s ConcreteTV, Valeska
Soares, Michael Smith, Jennifer Sullivan, William Wegman, Wild Record
Collection, and Michael Zansky

Everybody Dance Now takes its title from the opening line
of the 1990 C&C Music Factory song. This exhibition, curated by
Kathleen Goncharov, showcases work by an international cast of
contemporary artists as well as excerpts from popular culture venues
such as public access television, You Tube, and Google Video. The show
celebrates the universal human urge to move to the beat (although dogs,
frogs, bears, ponies, ghosts, and alligators sometimes act as
surrogates for people). The title of the exhibition is literal…everyone
dances when all these characters move to the groove and show off their
collective talent (or lack there of).

Although many of the works in the exhibition are amusing, they often
have a dark humor and address such serious issues as gender and racial
stereotypes, war, violence, media manipulation, globalization, and
cultural conflict. Other videos deal with more personal matters that
concern us all, such as aging, mortality, the dilemmas of adolescence,
and the sexual insecurities that follow us through life.

Dog Duet, by video pioneer William Wegman, features the artist’s famous weimaraners who perform in perfect synch. Trine Lise Nedreaas’ poetic
work is a life size projection that depicts an 87 year-old man dancing
the tango with an invisible partner in an abandoned ballroom. Valeska Soares’ subject
is similar but her dancers perform with imaginary partners on a
mirrored floor in a Brazilian nightclub designed by Oscar Niemeyer.

Performance artist Michael Smith’s character “Mike” is a
parody of the “everyman” who craves social acceptance but like most of
us ultimately ends up a loser. Smith contributes excerpts of his
dancing alter ego from videos he’s made over the past twenty-five
years. Another everyman, an unabashed nerd, the Daily Dancer, who posts on the Internet, trips over his vacuum cleaner while dancing to Aretha Franklin’s Respect. TV personality Stephen Colbert dances to the hymn King of Glory in an Internet clip and another found video teaches black people how to “dance like a white guy.”

Mike Kelley’s contributes two short videos from his Day is Done project in which adults reenact the “extracurricular” activities depicted in photographs from old high school yearbooks. Laura Parnes and Jennifer Sullivan also look at adolescents, in particular participants in amateur talent shows. Rodney McMillian dances to a Prince song in a disturbing blue mask and Sanford Biggers makes the connection between Hip Hop and Kung Fu. Maureen Connor’s video installation recalls 1950s insecurities and gender stereotypes in a children’s dance class. Barbara Pollack collaborates
with her 18 year old son on a two-channel video where he and his
friends dance in a simulated mosh pit and perform a tableaux of an
infamous photograph from Abu Ghraib. Michael Zansky also deals
with failed US policies and asks whether we are dancing our way back
into the primordial slime led by Godzilla, who bears a striking
resemblance to Rona
ld Reagan.

Kaoru Katayama, a Japanese artist living in Spain explores
cultural confusion in a video of traditional dancers from Salamanca who
try to use their native steps while dancing to techno music. Christodoulos Panayiotou’s video
is documentation of Slow Dance Marathon, a performance in which total
strangers slow dance over a twenty-four hour period to sentimental pop
love songs. Kan Xua has a hilarious and surprising take on Chinese revolutionary opera and caraballo-farman’s floor projection is a ballet of vibrators. Ben Coonley’s mechanical ponies talk and do The Pony to a Chubby Checker song as well as teach themselves the Texas two-step.

Continuing with the animal theme, the collaborators responsible for Manhattan Neighborhood Network’s Wild Record Collection feature
their toy polar bear Snuffles and his stuffed animal friends who dance
to cuts from their collection of thousands of LPs. Another MNN
favorite, Ron Rocheleau’s Concrete TV, features brilliantly edited clips of strip club dancers, car crashes and brief scenes from popular movies. Jake Borndal creates a special TV and Internet lounge for viewing these programs and found footage.

Everybody Dance Now presents work that ranges from the
ridiculous to the sublime; some are profound and others are downright
silly, but they all reflect the human condition through the urge to
dance.

Artists in the exhibition include Jake Borndal, Sanford Biggers,
caraballo-farman, Maureen Connor, Ben Coonley, Daily Dancer, Kan Xua,
Kaoru Katayama, Mike Kelley, Rodney McMillian, Trine Lise Nedreaas,
Christodoulos Panayiotou, Nam June Paik, Laura Parnes, Barbara Pollack,
Ron Rocheleau’s Concrete TV, Valeska Soares, Michael Smith, Jennifer
Sullivan, William Wegman, The Wild Record Collection, and Michael
Zansky.
***

Kathleen Goncharov is an independent curator and critic. She has served
as Adjunct Curator at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, US
Commissioner to the 50th Venice Biennale, Public Art Curator at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Curator of the Collection at
The New School. She lives and works in New York City.

This exhibition is presented by The EFA Gallery, a program of the
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. With additional support from The
Milton and Sally Avery Foundation, The Helen Keeler Burke Charitable
Foundation, Peter C. Gould, Materials for the Arts, and Carnegie
Corporation Inc.

The EFA Gallery is a curatorial project space. Through the gallery, The
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts supports the creative work of
independent curators. Curators build the framework in which we
understand artists and the art they make. At their best, they redefine
how we look at culture. The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts believes
in the essential importance of art in a civil society. The value of the
artist’s creative spirit is not limited by age, race, nationality or
acceptance by others.

Two Exhibitions opening Thursday Aug.31st Mercer Union

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Mercer Union is pleased to announce the opening of two new exhibitions

on Thursday August 31st, 2006, at 8pm.

Front Gallery: Michelle Allard (Toronto/Vancouver) Flourish

“With reams of fluorescent office paper, glue sticks and expended

fluorescent light tubes, Allard creates her work by shaping the sheets

of paper around the tubes and then installing the resulting forms

upright and at varying heights. Like information, there are spikes and

recesses with contour contingent upon the space. It is elegant and

efficient. ”

– excerpted from the brochure essay by Brian Joseph Davis

Michelle Allard is an artist based in Toronto and Vancouver. Recent

exhibitions include Transformation/Metamorphosis at Aomori

Contemporary Art Centre, Japan, In the Pink at Association Pollen,

France, 2005; Extruded Expanded at YYZ Artists Outlet, 2004, and will

be exhibiting at Eye Level gallery in Halifax in early September, and

will be showing solo work at Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, in November.

She has taken part in several residencies; Association Pollen, France,

2005; Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Japan, 2005, and Aceartinc in

Winnipeg, 2004. Michelle Allard is represented by Diaz Contemporary,

Toronto.

Back Gallery: Maïder Fortuné (Paris, France) Everything is Going to be All Right

“Everything is Going to be All Right reveals Maïder Fortuné’s double

passion, her double practice of media arts and performance. Producing

such a piece requires both the ability to feel and understand the

sensation of a body moving or still, as well as the ability to capture

the expressive intensity of these states through the image - the eye.

Therefore, her experience and knowledge of two different ways to

approach space combine for a unique exploration of space.”

- excerpted from the brochure essay by Catherine Sicot

Maïder Fortuné lives and works in Paris. After study in the Jacques

Lecoq International School of Physical Theatre in 1998, Fortuné

created her own theatre company where she produced several happenings

and pieces involving her own body. Her exploration of body, movement

and space led her to work in video and sound, explorations begun

during her studies at Le Fresnoy National Studio for Contemporary Art,

based in Tourcoing, France. Fortunés work has evolved toward the

realization of performance-based multimedia installations.

Exhibition Dates: August 31st to October 7th, 2006

Opening: August 31st, 7PM

Artist Talks: Maïder Fortuné, Michelle Allard at 7PM August 31st, 2006

Mercer Union

37 Lisgar Street

Toronto ON M6J 3T3

www.mercerunion.org

info@mercerunion.org

Brochure essays are available at www.mercerunion.org. Catherine

Sicot’s text on Maïder Fortuné is available in French and its English

translation.

Minerva Cuevas,The Economy of the Imaginary

Monday, August 28th, 2006

outpost-art.org

MINERVA CUEVAS

The Economy of the Imaginary: Pirates and Heroes

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 26, 6-8:00 p.m.

August 26 −October 14, 2006

Luckman Gallery, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal State L.A.

Co-produced by Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, Calif. − For her first U.S. solo exhibition Minerva

Cuevas presents The Economy of the Imaginary: Pirates and Heroes, a

new, 5-channel video installation that uses cinematic projections to

play with the formal conventions of popular comics. Cuevas researched

the history of the Hollywood film industry, particularly its

superheroes, social heroism, piracy dynamics, and the public domain to

create this piece, which features Salvia, Capital, Imperio, Oscar and

Liberdade: five characters who speak about Thomas Alva Edison, the

economy, heroism, defeat and human fantasies.

Actors playing these characters were selected from those who responded

to calls for auditions reading “Se buscan superheroes (Looking for

superheroes)” that were published in newspaper ads and distributed in

fliers throughout various parts of Mexico City. Actors attending the

audition dressed in superhero costumes were interviewed about their

superpowers, and asked to respond hypothetically to the idea of a

Mexican superhero.

Born in 1975 and working in Mexico City, Minerva Cuevas is interested

in informal economies and is known for projects that are based on

context-specific social research and an adept use of a wide array of

media and artistic approaches. As such her work leads the viewer

freely into the social sphere and its surrounding aesthetics. Her past

exhibitions include: Sharjah Biennial 7 (2005); Not Impressed by

Civilization, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre (2005);

Populism, Contemporary Art Centre. Vilnius, Frankfurter Kunstverein,

Stedelijk Museum (2005); Biennale of Sydney (2004); Hardcore, Palais

de Tokyo (2003); 8th Istanbul Biennial (2003); MVC-Biotec, Secession

(2001). Many of her projects are documented on her website:

www.minervacuevas.org

Gallery Talk: Wednesday, October 4, 7:00 p.m.

Bull## and Truth: Superhero Mythology and the Manufacturing of

Identity, an illustrated lecture regarding the connections between

comics and contemporary art by Amy Pederson, Ph.D., UCLA and Assoc.

Professor, Woodbury University

Outpost for Contemporary Art is a Los Angeles-based non-profit

organization devoted to international cultural exchange and a social

setting conducive to lively discussion in contemporary art.

Generous support for the exhibition is provided by La Colección Jumex.

Additional support is provided by the Peter Norton Family Foundation;

Epson America, Inc.; Celuloide Films, The Millennium Biltmore Hotel,

Los Angeles, and Villa Sorriso, Pasadena.

For further information contact:

Luckman Gallery

The Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex

California State University, Los Angeles

5151 State University Drive

Los Angeles, CA 90032-8116

Tel. (323) 343-6604 Fax (323) 343-6423

luckmangallery@luckmanarts.org

Outpost for Contemporary Art

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 50780, Los Angeles, CA 90050

Office Address: 6375 North Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90042

Tel. (323) 982.9461

info@outpost-art.org

__________________________________________________

Outpost for Contemporary Art´s Board of Directors are

Julie Deamer (Founding Director), Corrina Peipon (President), Maureen

Branley (Treasurer), Kendra Stanifer (Secretary), Jordan Biren, Gary

Cannone, Kristina Kite, and Corinne Weitzman.

Invitation to CARMADA : Saturday, August 26

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Invitation to CARMADA : Saturday, August 26

Please join us for the party of the CARMADA performance

Place: 1168 E. 5th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

Time: August, 26; 7-10 pm

CARMADA

Driving art modules

www.carmada.org

15 local and international artists transform cars into small

exhibition units and scatter into Los Angeles neighborhoods and

traffic.

The Convoy will merge at specific points and end the day at downtown

parking lot party for celebration and film screenings.

For further information  please visit www.carmada.org

Participating artists:

Eva Castringius

Erik Frydenborg

Gustavo Godoy

Hugo Hopping

Dawn Kasper

John Knuth

Kelly Lycan & Jinhan Ko ı Instant_Coffee

Michael Markowsky

Miguel Nelson

Kiersten Puusemp

Nicole C. Russell

Pascual Sisto

Allyson Spellacy

Bettina Camilla Vestergaard

Sonja Vordermaier

New Art Bank Opens - South Africa

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Art
Bank Joburg opens in South Africa, credits Canada Council Art Bank for the
inspiration and advice.

 
This
initiative began with a visit from the then Minister of Arts and Culture,
Science and Technology, Mr. Ben Ngubane to Ottawa in 2000 when Victoria Henry,
the Director of the Art Bank, introduced the Art Bank concept to him during a
formal lunch. He was immediately taken with the value of this kind of support
for artists. Discussions continued and in 2002 during a visit to South Africa as
a member of  an African Trade Mission, Ms Henry met with the Minister and
the Director of the National Arts Council of South Africa, and with the promise
of one million rand  to the National Arts Council of South Africa as seed
money for the project, planning began. Two years later, on the invitation of the
National Arts Council of South Africa, Ms Henry returned to
South
Africa
to help move the
project forward. During visits to several museums and galleries and government
offices, the practical considerations were explored. The City of
Johannesburg has taken the
initiative and funded the new Art Bank which opened in July.

Click
on the link below to read the complete bulletin, including the Art Bank Joburg
press release:

http://www.artbank.ca/News+and+Events/Activities/bulletin29.htm

Please feel free
to forward this bulletin to a colleague! If you do not wish to receive these
announcements, please email artbank@canadacouncil.ca

Ouverture
d’une nouvelle banque d’œuvres d’art

La
Art Bank Joburg ouvre ses portes en Afrique du Sud et reconnaît le rôle de
l’instigatrice et inspiratrice du projet, la Banque
d’œuvres

d’art du Conseil
des arts du Canada.

 
Le
projet de mise sur pied de la banque d’œuvres d’art a pris naissance lors d’une
visite à Ottawa effectuée en 2000 par le ministre des arts, de la culture, de la
science et de la technologie de l’époque, M. Ben Ngubane; au cours d’un dîner
officiel donné dans le cadre de cette visite, la directrice de la Banque
d’œuvres d’art, Victoria Henry, a présenté le concept de banque d’œuvres d’art
au ministre, qui a tout de suite été séduit par cette forme de soutien aux
artistes. Les discussions se sont poursuivies et, en 2002, pendant une visite en
Afrique du Sud qu’elle effectuait en tant que membre d’une mission commerciale
en Afrique, Mme Henry a rencontré le ministre et le directeur du conseil
national des arts d’Afrique du Sud; suite à la promesse de la directrice de la
Banque d’œuvres d’art de verser au conseil des arts d’Afrique du Sud un million
de rands qui serviraient de fonds de démarrage au projet, la planification a
débuté. Deux ans plus tard, à l’invitation du conseil national des arts
d’Afrique du Sud, Mme Henry s’est rendue à nouveau en Afrique du Sud pour aider
à la mise en œuvre du projet. Les visites effectuées dans plusieurs musées et
galeries et auprès des hauts fonctionnaires de l’État ont été l’occasion
d’examiner les questions d’ordre pratique. La ville de Johannesburg a pris
l’initiative du projet et a financé la mise sur pied de la nouvelle banque
d’œuvres d’art, qui a ouvert ses portes en juillet.

Cliquez
sur le lien ci-dessous pour lire la version complète du bulletin, y compris le
communiqué de presse de la Art Bank Joburg :

http://www.artbank.ca/Nouvelles+et+activites/Activites/bulletin29

N’hésitez pas à
partager ce bulletin avec vos collègues! Si vous ne désirez pas recevoir ces
informations, prière de nous en aviser par courriel au
bda@conseildesarts.ca

Pierre
Schnubb,
Senior Art Consultant, Conseiller Principal en Arts visuels, 1-800 263-5588  (5608), (613) 566-4414 (5608)

Maipú 327: Pigment Piano Marble, Opening on Friday, September 1, 2006, 8 pm

Monday, August 28th, 2006



Maipú 327
Maipú 327 1006 Buenos Aires
http//www.maipu327.org

Pigment Piano Marble
Opening on Friday, September 1, 2006, 8 pm

With works by:
Nevin Aladag, Michael Beutler, Wolfgang Breuer, Kerstin Cmelka, Eduardo
Costa, Manuel Gorkiewicz, Rodney Graham, Gregor Hildebrandt, Sergej
Jensen, Alfred Johansen, Michael Krebber, David Lamelas, Mark Leckey,
Maria M. Loboda, Christian Mayer, Yves Mettler, Ariane Müller, Kim
Nekarda, Michael Pfrommer, Kirsten Pieroth, Jay Chung & Q Takeki
Maeda, Bernd Ribbeck, Claus Richter, Cecilia Szalkowicz, Jan Timme,
Alexander Wolff, X and the Living End live on stage, Haegue Yang, Heimo Zobernig

Curated by Mandla Reuter

Catalogue available at Revolver, Frankfurt
http//www.revolver-books.de

aMAZElab summer 2006

Monday, August 28th, 2006


Urban interventions, workshops, films, debates, cultural exchanges, publications

aMAZElab is a non-profit cultural lab based in Milano, which works for
the diffusion and knowledge of contemporary cultures. Founded and
directed by Claudia Zanfi and Gianmaria Conti, promotes projects and
events on social-territorial research, cultural interchanges and
micro-geographies.

Activities:
At its 5° birthday, aMAZElab develops over 2006 summer/autumn a series
of activities and appointments for reflection and research, such as:

4/10 September 2006
Alexandria, Egypt
A garden for all.
(workshop)
Partecipation with Gudran Association for Art and Development to
implement a rural area near Alexandria, an old fisherman village. The
artistic workshop will encourage local people to produce art and crafts
and renew their own village. The project will implement the
construction of green areas: a public garden for all.

20 September/10 October 2006
Nicosia, Cyprus
Transcrossing memories.
(urban installations)
The Memory Box
is a mobile device to collect popular history from the common people.
This bilateral intervention will serve as a travelling public space
open to everyone, and will host various presentations, artistic
projects, readings, video, debates, performances etc… The project is
held in collaboration with Artos Foundation Nicosia, Ashik Mene Studio, Art schools, theoreticians, architects and artists in Cyprus, from both sides.

The “Memory Box” is a concept by Gianmaria Conti, designed in collaboration with Bauhaus University, Weimar (Germany).

Publications:
During the event in Nicosia, aMAZElab will present its publications,
produced during the first 5 years of activities, with contributions by:
Carlos Basualdo, Reinaldo Laddaga, Michel de Certeau, Hou Hanrou,
Marietjca Potrc, Angela Vettese, Marti Peran, Zizis Kotionis, Pablo
Leon de la Barra, Filippo Fabbrica, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Stefano
Boeri, Franco Farinelli, Paul Domela, Zygmunt Bauman, Slawek
Sierakowski, Michael Wilson, Paolo Virno, Socrates Stratis, Sebastian
Cichocki, Stefan Tiron, Bart Lootsma, Liviana Dan, Mihnea Mircan, Lev
Manovich, Mihai Oroveanu, Lilia Dragneva, Cosmin Costinas, Eyal
Wiezman, Kamal Boullata, Jean-Francois Chevrier, Heriberto Yepez, Raul
Zamudio, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Yorgos
Tzirtzilakis (others).

- GOING PUBLIC ’03. Politics, subject and places, produced
during “International Philosophical Meeting” in Modena (Italy) on
sociological concepts of mobility and moltitude. Artists invited for
projects in situ: Gianni Motti (I/CH), Maria Papadimitriou (Gr), Los
Carpinteros (Cuba), Multiplicity (I) (others…).
- DOVE VAI?, newspaper on the platform, free press by Raimond Chavez + Gilda Mantilla (Colombia/Perù)
- GOING PUBLIC ’04. Maps, confines and new geografies,
artists and geographers from Gibraltar to Middle East, on concept of
borders and its flexibility. Special presentation by: Torolab
(Tijuana), Thomas Hirschhorn (F), A12 (I), Chantal Akerman (B), Ofri
Cannani,(IL), Hassan Khan (Egypt)
Socrates Stratis (Cyprus), (others…).
- POSTACARDS FROM THE BORDER,
a book as collection of postcards, chosen by different immigrants in
Modena (Italy), during a workshop on the territory by aMAZElab.
- GOING PUBLIC’05 (1° section). Communities and Territories,
a long term project on peripheries, communities and territories, held
in Larissa (Greece). Workshop and projects by: Rirkrit Tiravanija,
Personal Cinema, Pablo Leon de la Barra, Nikos Charalambidis, Maja
Bajevic, Adrian Paci, Fabiana de Barros, (others….).
- ARGONAUT NEWS, special press project by Hariklia Hari (Gr) on the Farkadona community.
- GOING PUBLIC’05 (2° section). From Balkans to the Baltic,
public art project with artists architects and writers from East
Europe: Pawel Althamer, Calin Dan, Dan Perjovschi, Stefan Rusu, Medusa
Group, Pavel Braila (others…)
- VERSION MAGAZINE n.8, by
Mircea Cantor, Cirpian Muresan, Gabriela Vanga, production of a special
project, printed in italian/romanian, on different aspect of culture
and visuals.

Photos (from left to wright):
n.1 Ofri Cnaani, Both members of this club, video 2004 (courtesy galleria Pack, Milano)
n.2 Torolab, SOS Tijuana project, 2004
n.3 Rirkrit Tiravanija, Video Demo Station, 2001-2005 (installation for Going Public ’05, Larissa)
n.4 Zaphos Xagoraris, Silent Cities, sound installation Cyprus 2004
n.5 Dan Perjovschi, East/West, 2005 (logo for Going Public ’05, Modena)
n.6 Ursula Biemann, Balck Sea Files, 2005 video installation
n.7 Maria Papadimitirou, Ground Hotel, special project for Going Public ’05, Larissa
n.8 aMAZElab, Postcards from the border, workshop at railway station, Modena
n.9 Pawel Althamer, Clay Soil, 2005, workshop and perfomance with polish ladies, Modena.

aMAZElab, Via Cola Montano 8 20159 Milano, ph-fax 02 6071623 info@amaze.it - http://www.amaze.it
 

ART COLOGNE: 1 – 5 November 2006: 40th International Fair for Modern and Contemporary Art

Monday, August 28th, 2006



Photo: Koelnmesse

ART COLOGNE: 1 – 5 November 2006
40th International Fair for Modern and Contemporary Art

Open daily 12 noon – 8 p.m.
AXA Art Professional Preview:
31 Oct 2006, 12 noon – 5 p.m.
Vernissage: 31 Oct 2006, 5 – 9 p.m.

For further details go to: http://www.artcologne.com


ART COLOGNE celebrates its fortieth anniversary in 2006, but the
anniversary event will be the last edition of the Fair to be held in
the autumn. From 2007, the Fair will be held in the spring. The 40th
International Fair for Modern and Contemporary Art runs from 1 to 5
November 2006. Its format will be slimmer, with the number of
exhibitors in the traditional sections reduced to 190. Over 400
applications were submitted for this year’s ART COLOGNE. The successful
applicants were chosen by the ART COLOGNE Selection Committee.
Stringent selection criteria were applied. The following international
galleries have been chosen:

Galerie Altair, Palma de Mallorca; Galeria Altxerri, San Sebastian; ART
AFFAIRS Gallery, Amsterdam; Art Seasons, Singapore; Aussereuropäische
Kunst Dierking, Cologne; Galerie Baer, Dresden; Gallery N. von Bartha,
London; Baukunst Galerie, Cologne; Samuelis Baumgarte, Bielefeld; Beck
& Eggeling, Düsseldorf; Galerie Benden & Klimczak, Viersen /
Cologne; Galerie Renate Bender, Munich; Galerie Bergner + Job, Mainz;
Gallery Bhak, Seoul; Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich; Galleri Bo
Bjerggaard, Copenhagen; Galerie Boisserée, Cologne; Galerie Peter
Borchardt, Hamburg; Ben Brown Fine Arts, London; Projektraum Viktor
Bucher, Vienna; Buchmann Galerie, Berlin; Galerie Bugdahn + Kaimer,
Düsseldorf; Luis Campana Galerie, Cologne; Galeria Ferran Cano, Palma
de Mallorca; Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne; Charim Galerie, Vienna;
Chosun Gallery, Seoul; Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam; Galerie Conrads,
Düsseldorf; Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf; Galerie Crone, Berlin;
Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem; Die G
alerie, Frankfurt/Main; Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney; D N A,
Berlin; Galerie Elke Dröscher, Hamburg; Galeria Heinrich Ehrhardt,
Madrid; Elahe Gallery, Tehran; Galerie Johannes Faber, Vienna; Galerie
Fahnemann, Berlin; Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen; lukasfeichtner
galerie, Vienna; Fiebach & Minninger Galerie, Cologne; Galeria
Xavier Fiol, Palma de Mallorca; Fischer Kunsthandel & Edition,
Berlin; Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki; Galerie SixFriedrichLisaUngar,
Munich; Galerie Moderne – Silkeborg, Silkeborg; Klemens Gasser &
Tanja Grunert, New York; Galeria Gentili, Montecatini Terme; Galerie
Annie Gentils, Antwerp; Galerie Wolfgang Gmyrek GmbH, Düsseldorf;
Galeria Pablo Goebel Fine Arts, Mexico; Bärbel Grässlin,
Frankfurt/Main; Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne; van der grinten
galerie, Cologne; Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich; Grossetti Arte
Contemporanea, Milan; Galerie Haas, Zürich / Berlin; Hachmeister
Galerie, Münster; Hammelehle + Ahrens, Cologne; Häusler Contemporary,
Munich; Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart; Galerie Rolf Hengesbach,
Cologne; Galerie Marianne Hennemann, Bonn; Galerie Henze &
Ketterer, Wichtrach/Berne; Herrmann + Wagner, Berlin; Galerie Kai
Hilgemann, Berlin; Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna; Galerie Hoffmann,
Friedberg; Galerie Hohenlohe, Vienna; Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne;
Galerie Hübner, Frankfurt/Main; Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna; Galerie
Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne; Juliana Gallery, Seoul; Galleri K,
Oslo; mike karstens graphics, Münster; Galerie Jule Kewenig, Palma de
Mallorca; Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Mannheim; Galerie Koch, Hanover;
Galerie Dorothea v. d. Koelen, Mainz; Christine König Galerie, Vienna;
Leo Koenig, Inc., New York; Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne; Galerie
Kugler, Innsbruck; Galerie Kusseneers, Antwerp; L.A. Galerie,
Frankfurt/Main / Beijing; Galerie Lahumière, Paris; Galerie Löhrl,
Mönchengladbach; Galerie Marie-José van de Loo, Munich; Diana
Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami; Galerie Ludorff, Düsseldorf; Galeria
Maior, Pollenca; manus presse, Stuttgart; Galerie Brigitte March,
Stuttgart;Galeria Miguel Marcos, Barcelona; Galerie Maulberger, Munich;
Mario Mauroner, Vienna; Galeria Max Estrella, Madrid; Galerie Hans
Mayer, Düsseldorf; Mirko Mayer Galerie/m-projects, Cologne; Hubertus
Melsheimer, Cologne; Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe; Galerie
Mezzanin, Vienna; Galerie Mueller-Roth, Stuttgart; Galerie nächst St.
Stephan, Vienna; Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne / Berlin; Galerie
Neher, Essen; Galeria Nieves Fernandez, Madrid; Galerie Georg
Nothelfer, Berlin; Nusser & Baumgart Contemporary, Munich;
Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin / Beijing; Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam;
Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Cologne; Oriol Galeria d’Art, Barcelona; The
Paragon Press, London; Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul; Pilar Parra &
Romero, Madrid; Galeria Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca; Galerie Karl
Pfefferle, Munich; photonet, Wiesbaden; Galerij Guy Pieters,
Knokke-Heist; POLIGRAFA Obra Grafica, Barcelona; Pyo Gallery, Seoul;
Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Cologne; Galerie Michel Rein, Paris; Galerie
Remmert & Barth, Düsseldorf; Galerie J.-L. + T. Richard, Paris;
Galerie Rieder, Munich; Felix Ringel Galerie, Düsseldorf; J.P.
Ritsch-Fisch Galerie, Strasbourg; Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York;
Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne / Madrid; Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt /
Frankfurt/Main; Galerie Rothe, Frankfurt/Main; Kenny Schachter ROVE,
London; Rubicon Gallery, Dublin; Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem;
Ruzicska – Galerie, Salzburg; RUZICSKA / WEISS, Düsseldorf; Galerie RX,
Paris; Sala Maior, Porto; Galerie Salis + Vertes, Salzburg; Galerie
Scheffel, Bad Homburg v.d.H.; Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin; Galerie
Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau; Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf; Schönewald Fine
Arts, Düsseldorf; Galerie Willy Schoots, Eindhoven; Galerie Schübbe
Projekt, Düsseldorf; Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin; Galerie
Schwarzer, Düsseldorf; Sejul Gallery, Seoul; Galerie Sfeir-Semler,
Hamburg / Beirut; Gallery Shilla, Daegu; Galerie Sho Contemporary Art,
Tokyo; Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf; Galerie Simonis, Düsseldorf;
Galerie Sollertis, Toulouse; Springer + Winckler Galerie, Berlin;
Galerie Springmann, Freiburg; Sprüth / Magers, Cologne / Munich;
Edition Staeck, Heidelberg; Galerie Steinek, Vienna; Stills Gallery,
Paddington; Storms Galerie, Munich; Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf;
Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart; Galerie Jiri Svestka, Prague; Galerie
Peter Tedden, Düsseldorf; Galerie Terminus, Munich; Galerie E. & K.
Thoman, Innsbruck; Galerie Thomas, Munich; Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf,
Frankfurt / Berlin; Galleria Torbandena, Trieste; Torch Gallery,
Amsterdam; TZR Galerie für Bildende Kunst, Bochum; Galerie Utermann,
Dortmund; Vanguardia, Bilbao; Völcker + Freunde Galerie, Berlin;
Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf; VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam; edith wahlandt
galerie, Stuttgart; Galerie Ursula Walbröl, Düsseldorf; Galerie
Heinz-Martin Weigand, Ettlingen/Karlsruhe; Wetterling Gallery,
Stockholm; Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris; Galerie Susanne Zander,
Cologne; Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne.

An independent panel of experts has selected twenty-five promising young galleries for the ’New Contemporaries’ programme.
Sponsored by SK Stiftung Kultur der Sparkasse Köln/Bonn, the programme
supports young galleries and helps to ease their entry into the art
market. The galleries selected are:

Allsopp Contemporary, London; Aschenbach + Hofland Galleries,
Amsterdam; Galeria Jean Brolly, Paris; Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin;
Galerie Asim Chughtai, Berlin; Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim;
Figge / von Rosen Galerie, Cologne; Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle;
Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna; Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt/Main;
Knäpper + Baumgarten, Stockholm; layr:wuestenhagen, Vienna; Motive
Gallery, Amsterdam; Véronique Nosbaum Galerie, Contern; Galerie Rupert
Pfab, Düsseldorf; Program - Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw; Galerie Schleicher
+ Lange, Paris; Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne; Sixtyseven Gallery,
New York; Galerie Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt/Main, Galerie Olaf Stüber,
Berlin; VAN HORN, Düsseldorf; Vartai Gallery, Vilnius; Wandergalerie,
Munich; Galerie Eva Winkeler, Frankfurt/Main.

‘New Talents’, the ART COLOGNE sponsorship programme for young
artists, was set up in 1980. This year, twenty-three young artists have
been selected. ART COLOGNE 2006 also sees the launch of a new programme
titled ‘Hidden Treasures’. This introduces five artists in solo
shows on 40 square metre stands. The programme offers a platform to
artists who have their niche in art history but are currently neglected
or undervalued by the market, despite the fact that their work is held
in museums and private collections. The artists selected should be aged
over forty, if still alive. Their work should demonstrate that it has
had a major influence on younger generations of artists. ‘Hidden
Treasures’ is designed to attract the interest of collectors, curators,
museum experts and art-market newcomers. The programme offers
opportunities for collectors to buy works of solid value at reasonable
prices. It is a totally new concept unrivalled in the international art
fair world
. The ART COLOGNE Selection Committee will be launching the ‘Hidden
Treasures’ programme with the work of the following artists:

William N. Copley (Schönewald Fine Arts), Klaus vom Bruch (Galerie
nächst St. Stephan), Valie Export (Charim Galerie), Fred Sandback
(Margarete Roeder Gallery), Auguste Herbin (Galerie Lahumière), and
Paco Knöller (Galerie Karsten Greve).

‘Open Space’, the innovative exhibition programme launched in
2005, is – like the ‘Hidden Treasures’ programme – another unique
feature of ART COLOGNE. In an open-plan exhibition area, leading
international galleries will be showing work by forty artists. ‘Open
Space’ is a curated project with all the features of a sales
exhibition. The list of exhibitors will be published in early October.

ART COLOGNE and the City of Cologne will be hosting a wide range of
special shows. In addition, an exciting programme of major museum
exhibitions in the cities of Aachen, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Duisburg,
Frankfurt/Main, Krefeld, Leverkusen, Mönchengladbach, Neuss and
Wuppertal will add to the ART COLOGNE experience.
For further details go to: http://www.artcologne.com

ART COLOGNE:
1 – 5 November 2006
Open daily 12 noon – 8 p.m.
AXA Art Professional Preview: 31 October 2006, 12 noon – 5 p.m.
Vernissage: 31 October 2006, 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Sanja Ivekovic at Kölnischer Kunstverein

Monday, August 28th, 2006


Sanja Ivekovic
General Alert
Selected Works 1974-2006

September 1 – October 15, 2006
Opening August 31, 2006

Kölnischer Kunstverein
Die Brücke
Hahnenstraße 6
50667 Köln

http://www.koelnischerkunstverein.de


Sanja Ivekovic is regarded as one of the most important artists of a
“middle” generation. In addition to an extensive retrospective
selection of her work, the exhibition at the Kölnischer Kunstverein
also show her recent works. At first glance the photographs, videos,
objects and performances that Sanja Ivekovic has created since the
mid-seventies seem to follow the laws of a glamorous pop culture. For
instance, in “Double Life” from 1975 Sanja Ivekovic contrasted
conventional icon-like magazine and advertising photos of women with
private pictures of herself, in which the related gesture compels a
comparative and reflexive reading. Inscribing herself as a person and
thus the private into public discourse, in her work Sanja Ivekovic
pursues the question of how the routines of everyday life are
influenced by the dictate of fashion, advertising and the star cult. At
the same time, for the artist the body is always only the body in the
representation – an image surface domin
ated by the gaze. Sanja Ivekovic purposely exposes herself to the male
gaze, emphatically placing the body, sexuality and gender in the
context of the political. In her most recent works she also refers to
the collapse of former Yugoslavia, the ethnic cleansings, the living
conditions of refugees and women’s anti-fascist resistance.

The exhibition has been realized in cooperation with the Galerie im
Taxispalais, Innsbruck, where Sanja Ivekovic’s first comprehensive solo
exhibition was shown in 2001.

Kölnischer Kunstverein
Die Brücke
Hahnenstraße 6
50667 Köln

http://www.koelnischerkunstverein.de